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Chetwynd, Hon. William, 1753-1778
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1753-1778
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CHETWYND, HON. WILLIAM, eldest son of William Chetwynd, 4th Viscount Chetwynd (qv); b. 26 Jan 1753; in school list 1764; KS 1767; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1771, adm. pens. 29 May 1771, but did not matr. ; Ensign, 52nd Foot, 2 Mar 1772; Lieut. , 18 Jun 1775; Capt. , 46th Foot, 3 Dec 1776; served in North America 1777-8; probably the Chetwynd who, says Edward Nares, “us’d often to wait for me at the bottom of the school steps, and carry me up in his teeth, with my satchel of books at my back” (A Versatile Professor, 1903, 11); d. of fatigue after capture of St. Lucia, West Indies, Aug 1778.
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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.