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BLENMAN, WILLIAM, elder son of Jonathan Blenman, Attorney-Gen. and Judge of the Admiralty, Barbados, and Mary ---; bapt. St. Michael, Barbados 28 Jan 1721 (IGI); adm. (aged 11) Oct 1733; left 1739; Trin. Hall, Camb., adm. pens. 12 Apr 1740; adm. Middle Temple 29 Sep 1739, called to bar 6 Feb 1746/7; Clerk to Clerks Comptroller, Board of Green Cloth Jul 1761 - retired 1 Jul 1782; Watchman at St. James’s Palace; m. 1748 Elizabeth, dau. of Joseph Dottin, Barbados; living 17 Jan 1798 (dead by 13 Jul 1800). [presumably William Blenman, Bath, Somerset, will proved PCC 13 Aug 1800]
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Owner of Mesopotamia estate in St George, Tobago. Specifics of slave-ownership not available on Legacies of British Slave-ownership database.
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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
Revised by Bethany Duck, Archives Assistant, September 2020
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Supplementary information drawn from UCL's Legacies of British Slave-ownership database. Entry URL: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146632226
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.