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CATOR, SIR WILLIAM, brother of John Barwell Cator (qv); b. 14 Apr 1785; adm.; in school list 1797; still at school 1799; Gent. Cadet, Royal Artillery, 13 May 1800; 2nd Lieut., 7 May 1803; 1st Lieut., 12 Sep 1803; 2nd Captain, 1 May 1809; Brevet Maj., 12 Apr 1814; Capt., 29 Jul 1825; Brevet Lieut. -Col., 22 Jul 1830; Lieut. -Col., 10 Jan 1837; Col., 9 Nov 1846; Director of the Royal Laboratory, Woolwich, Apr - Aug 1852; Director-Gen. of Artillery, 19 Aug 1852 - Dec 1858; Brig. -Gen., 21 Feb 1854; Maj. -Gen., 20 Jun 1854; Lieut. -Gen., 25 Sep 1859; Col. commandant, Royal Artillery, 1 Apr 1860; Gen., 5 Apr 1866; served in Walcheren Expedition and Peninsular War; wounded at Barossa; appointed to command Artillery at beginning of Crimean War, and went out to Varna, but was obliged to relinquish command on account of ill health just as expedition was starting for the Crimea; CB 5 Jul 1855; distinguished service reward, 1 Apr 1856; KCB 28 Mar 1865; m. 1st, 30 Mar 1815 Penelope Anne, only dau. of Sir John Farnaby, Bart.; m. 2nd, 18 Nov 1837 Mary, widow of William Nettleship, Cheltenham, Gloucs., and niece of William Draper Best, 1st Baron Wynford PC, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas; d. 11 May 1866. [The references cited above for him having been at the School in 1797 and 1799 may perhaps relate to his elder brother John Barwell Cator (qv), but William Cator was undoubtedly educated at the School, as he was a signatory of the Play Protest, 1847].
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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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.