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- 1850-1-2 (Creation)
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CLAVERING, HENRY MORDAUNT, second son of Maj. -Gen. Sir John Clavering KB, Commander-in-Chief, Bengal, and his first wife Lady Diana West, dau. of John West, 1st Earl De La Warr KB, General in the Army; b. 16 Dec 1766; adm. 20 Sep 1779 (Clapham); University Coll. Oxford, matr. 15 Jun 1782; Grand Tour (Italy) 1789-90; Ensign, Capt. O’Connor’s Independent Co., 7 Feb 1794; Lieut., Capt. Wolfe’s Independent Co., 12 Feb 1794; Capt., 13 Feb 1794; Maj., 98th Foot, 30 Jul 1794; Lieut. -Col., Argyll Fencibles, 19 Aug 1795; Brevet Col., 29 Apr 1802; Brig. -Gen. (local rank in S. America) 22 Apr 1807; retd., 11 Nov 1824; some interesting extracts from his letters to his old schoolfellow John Benn (qv), relating to their school-days, are printed in Elizabethan xi, 175-6, 185-7; m. 1st, 5 Feb 1788 Lady Augusta Campbell, elder dau. of John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll (S), Field-Marshal in the Army; m. 2nd, ---; d. 18 May 1850.
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Follows the method of the Duke of Wellington to avoid bad colds - being rubbed down with hair gloves or a stiff brush in the morning. Advice on kit for JB's sons, one of whom is being posted to Newfoundland, and the other to Corfu. HMC himself has gone from England to America to Africa to Portugal to France and finally back to England. HMC's sons Douglas and Rawdon are both dead, so HMC mainly interested in his grandson, son of Rawdon, now cruising in HMS Leander off the coast of Portugal. On the Frenchman Alexis Soyer, chef at the Reform Club, falling through some ice (while skating), being rescued by some members of the Humane Society, and setting up an annual fund to its benefit. Recalls dropping an Ainsworth Latin Dictionary over a staircase on the head of a French master Tavalle or Savalle - there was one of each name) coming up. Brought before Dr. Smith the next morning by a monitor bearing a birch rod, on being questioned about the circumstances, he replied that it was only a Frenchman; on hearing this, the Head Master dismissed him. Smith was too lenient in those days, having become indifferent through having long been passed over for meaningful preferment.
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- English
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- Latin
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- Smith, Samuel, 1731-1808 (Subject)
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- English
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- Latin