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Dupont, Jean Baptiste Onesime; b. ; teacher at Collège Henri IV, Paris, to 1848 ; Commandant of a battalion of the Garde Nationale in Paris during 1848 revolution ; friend of the French radical politician Ledru-Rollin ; fled to England and sentenced in his absence to 10 years forced labour for his actions during the revolution ; a paragraph in the Standard newspaper for 19 Mar 1852 records that “M.Dupont, professor of the University of France, having been proscribed by the French government, and decided upon establishing himself in this country, has arrived in London for the purpose, and has since his arrival been engaged as professor at Westminster School” (but Dupont’s appointment to the Westminster School staff had taken place in 1850) ; French Master 1850 (Town Boy Ledger) – Aug 1868 ; Examiner in French, St.Paul’s School 1857-70 ; Examiner in French for the Civil Service (by 1858, still 1870) ; living in Cavendish Square, Marylebone, in 1861 (1861 Census, as Jean Baptiste Dupont), then aged 49 ; returned to France on fall of Napoleon III ; Conseiller Municipal, Paris, under Third Republic ; d. while playing billiards in Paris 24 Feb 1888, aged 77 (death reported in English-speaking press as that of “Octave” Dupont, wrongly).
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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, 2022
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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.