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Cleland, John, 1710-1789
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1710-1789
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CLELAND, JOHN, son of [Col. ?] William Cleland, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, Commissioner of Taxes, and Lucy du Pass; bapt. Kingston upon Thames 24 Sep 1710; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1720/1; KS 1722; left 1723; Consul at Smyrna, “very early in life” [but check : this seems unlikely]; in Bombay as soldier 1728; Writer, EICS Bombay 1731; Secretary to Council, Bombay, 1738; left EICS 1740; left India in a destitute condition, and for many years wandered round Europe; author, Fanny Hill, or the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, 1750; summoned before the Privy Council for writing it, but escaped punishment on pleading his poverty as an excuse; subsequently pensioned by Government, and took to writing for newspapers and the stage; d. 23 Jan 1789. DNB.
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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.