Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Alston, Rowland, d. 1791
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
d. 1791
History
ALSTON, SIR ROWLAND, BART., brother of Sir Thomas Alston, Bart. (qv); b.; adm. (aged 8) Jan. 1735/6 (Hawkins'); left 1743; Clare Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 28 Sep 1743, matr. 1743; Ensign, 1st Foot Guards 11 Apr 1745; Lieut. and Capt. 26 Feb 1748; Capt. and Lieut. -Col. 2 May 1758; retd. 30 Jul 1762, after reprimand by court martial; succeeded his brother Thomas as 6th baronet 18 Jul 1774; of Odell, Beds.; High Sheriff Bedfordshire 1779; m. 2 Oct 1753 Gertrude, dau. of Rev. Thomas Durnford, Rector of Rockbourne and Whitsbury, Hampshire [DD ?] [sister of Stillingfleet Durnford, Tower of London]; d. 29 Jun 1791.
Places
Legal status
Functions, occupations and activities
Mandates/sources of authority
Internal structures/genealogy
General context
Relationships area
Related entity
Identifier of related entity
Category of relationship
Type of relationship
Dates of relationship
Description of relationship
Access points area
Place access points
Occupations
Control area
Authority record identifier
Institution identifier
GB 2014
Rules and/or conventions used
International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
Status
Final
Level of detail
Full
Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
Language(s)
Script(s)
Sources
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.