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Colquhoun, Patrick Macchombaich, 1815-1891
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1815-1891
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COLQUHOUN, SIR PATRICK MACCHOMBAICH, eldest son of Chevalier James Colquhoun, Consul-General for the Hanse Towns in London (but parents were Thomas Colquhoun, and Katharine --- (IGI)); b. 13 Apr 1815; adm. 25 May 1826; left Aug 1832; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 27 Feb 1833, scholar 8 Nov 1836, hon. fellow 5 Mar 1886, matr. Mich. 1833; BA 1837; MA 1844; LLD 1851; adm. Inner Temple 1 May 1834, called to bar 4 May 1838, Bencher 1869, Treasurer 1888; Home Circuit; QC 4 Dec 1868; Plenipotentiary for Hanse Towns in Turkey, Persia and Greece, 1840-4; Aulic Counsellor to King of Saxony, and Standing Counsel to Saxon Legation in London, 1857-66; member, Supreme Court of Justice, Corfu, 1858-61, Chief Justice of Ionian Islands 1861-4; knighted 14 Nov 1861; a well-known oarsman; won Wingfield Sculls and became amateur champion of the Thames, 1837; Secretary, Leander Club, President from 24 Apr 1882; joint donor to the School of the Silver Sculls, with Edmund Charles Burton (qv); Vice-Pres., Elizabethan Club, from 1885; author, A Summary of the Roman Law, 1849-54, and other works; m. 1843 (or 23 Nov 1858, IGI) Katherine, dau. of M. de St. Vitalis; d. 18 May 1891. 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.