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FAWCETT, WALKER DAWSON, younger son of Gen. Right Hon. Sir William Fawcett PC KB, Adjutant-General, also Governor of Chelsea Hospital, and his first wife Susanna, dau. of John Brooke, Hampstead, Middlesex; b.; at school under Markham (statement solely based on his presence at OWW dinner at Calcutta 1783, as recorded by Hickey, Memoirs, iii, 245-6); RMA Woolwich, cadet there aged 10 in Sep 1764; Page of Honour to Queen Charlotte Sep 1765 – Nov 1772; Ensign, 3rd Foot Guards 30 Oct 1772; Cadet, EICS Bengal 1778; Ensign, Native Infantry 7 Jun 1779; Lieut., 1 Feb 1781; Capt. -Lieut., 25 Apr 1797; Capt., 1 Nov 1798; Maj., 6th Native Cavalry 29 May 1800; Lieut. -Col, 5th Native Infantry 17 Jul 1801; Col., 27 Feb 1812; Maj. -Gen., 4 Jun 1813; served in Second Mahratta War; d. 12 Dec 1823].
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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.