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DRINKWATER-BETHUNE, JOHN ELLIOT, eldest son of Lieut-Col. John Drinkwater-Bethune CB, Comptroller of Army Accounts, and Eleanor, dau. of Charles Congalton, Congalton, Midlothian; b. 12 Jul 1801; adm. Midsummer 1814; KS (aged 14) 1816; left 31 Oct 1816; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 25 Jan 1819, scholar 1821, matr. Mich. 1819; 4th Wrangler and BA 1823; MA 1826; adm. Middle Temple 12 Jan 1821, called to bar 4 May 1827; Parliamentary Counsel, Home Office 28 Sep 1835 - 10 Feb 1848; drafted Municipal Reform Act, Tithe Commutation Act and County Courts Act; assumed with his father the additional surname of Bethune 1836; legislative member, Supreme Council of India, from 11 Apr 1848; President, Council of Education, Calcutta 1848; founder of Bethune’s Girls’ School, Calcutta, endowed by his will; d. at Calcutta 12 Aug 1851. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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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.