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ONSLOW, SIR ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, brother of Guildford Macleay Onslow (qv); b. 17 Jul 1842; adm. 5 Feb 1856; QS 1857; rowed v. Eton 3 Aug 1860; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1861 (with Triplett), adm. pens. 25 May 1861, matr. 1862; ran in hurdle race for Cambridge v. Oxford at first inter-university sports 1864; BA 1866; adm. Inner Temple 15 Jan 1862, called to bar 17 Nov 1868; Home Circuit; Attorney-Gen., Honduras 1877-80, Western Australia 1880-1; Chief Justice of Western Australia 1883-1901; acting Governor 11 Nov 1884 – 15 Jun 1885; knighted 15 Jul 1895; returned to England 1900; m. 4 Feb 1878 Madeleine Emma, dau. of Rev. Robert Loftus Tottenham, Chaplain at Florence; d. 20 Oct 1908.
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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.