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Morrah, James Arthur, 1832-1893
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1832-1893
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MORRAH, JAMES ARTHUR, son of James Morrah, Sloane Street, Chelsea, surgeon, President, Associated Surgeon-Apothecaries of England and Wales, and Elizabeth, dau. of Rev. John Pasmore, Rector of St. Just in Roseland, Cornwall; b. 20 Mar 1832; adm. 26 Jan 1842 (Scott's); QS 1846; left Whitsun 1848; Ensign, 3rd West India Regt., 8 Sep 1854; Cape Mounted Rifles 17 Nov 1854; 60th Rifles 22 Dec 1854; Lieut., 11 May 1855; Capt., 28 Apr 1863; Staff Officer of Pensioners 21 Jul 1870; retd. as hon. Colonel 20 Mar 1887; served in China War 1860; Mayor, Winchester 1890-1; m. 1st, Emma Maria, third dau. of Charles Boulton; m. 2nd, 24 Aug 1869 Mary Elizabeth, eldest dau. of John Lister, Greenhill Hall, Yorkshire, civil engineer; d. 14 May 1893.
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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.