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ESCOMBE, WILLIAM, son of William Escombe, Little Abingdon Street, Westminster, coal merchant; b. 11 Dec 1808; adm. 13 Jan 1817; BB; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. sizar 16 May 1825, but did not matr.; obtained the Writership offered to the School for competition by Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn (adm. 1784, qv) in 1826, and entered EICS Bombay; Third Assistant to Collector and Magistrate, Northern Concan 1828; after holding a number of official posts he became Secretary to the General and Persian Departments, Government of Bombay 1843; Secretary, Judicial Department, and member Mint Committee, Bombay 1844; m.; d. at Marseilles on his way home from India 23 Oct 1847. [perhaps m. 26 Jul 1831 Jane Chapman (IGI)]
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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.