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RAVENSCROFT, HERBERT VALENTINE, eldest son of Enoch Valentine Ravenscroft, Wimbledon, Surrey, plate glass merchant, and Myra Elizabeth Mildred, dau. of John Evans, Pendeford Hall, Staffs.; b. 16 May 1868; adm. 22 Sep 1881 (G); left Dec 1885; 2nd Lieut., Manchester Regt., 28 Jun 1890; Lieut., 19 May 1892; Capt., 9 Feb 1898; Brevet Maj., 10 Feb 1898; retd. 15 Oct 1904; re-employed as Hon. Lieut. -Col., 3rd batt. Border Regt.; retd. 31 Oct 1916; served in expedition to Dongola 1896, mentioned in despatches LG 3 Nov 1896, and in Nile expeditions 1897, 1898, mentioned in despatches LG 25 Jan and 24 May 1898; JP Sussex 1926; m. 12 Jun 1913 Helen, eldest dau. of James McLean, New York, USA.
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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.