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Biscoe, Elisha, ca. 1707-1776
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ca. 1707-1776
History
BISCOE, ELISHA, elder son of Joseph Biscoe, Norwood, Middlesex, barrister, Inner Temple, and Chirographer, Court of Common Pleas, and Elizabeth, dau. of Benjamin Alsop; b.; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1717/8; in under school list 1719; adm. solicitor 2 Dec 1730; clerk in Fine Office at Feb 1744/5; clerk in Chirographer’s Office, Court of Common Pleas (Chamberlayne 1748), subsequently Deputy Chirographer; tenant chambers in Inner Temple from 30 Apr 1751; adm. Inner Temple, called to bar 7 Feb 1766; of Holton Park, Oxfordshire, Bedford Row, London, and Spring Grove, Middlesex; m. 1st, 27 Apr 1746 Elizabeth, dau. of Humphrey Ambler, Stubbings, Berks,; m. 2nd, 27 Nov 1767 Frances, dau. of Thomas Western, Cambridgeshire; d. 29 Jan 1776.
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GB 2014
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.