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- 1847-7-8 (Creation)
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CLAVERING, HENRY MORDAUNT, second son of Maj. -Gen. Sir John Clavering KB, Commander-in-Chief, Bengal, and his first wife Lady Diana West, dau. of John West, 1st Earl De La Warr KB, General in the Army; b. 16 Dec 1766; adm. 20 Sep 1779 (Clapham); University Coll. Oxford, matr. 15 Jun 1782; Grand Tour (Italy) 1789-90; Ensign, Capt. O’Connor’s Independent Co., 7 Feb 1794; Lieut., Capt. Wolfe’s Independent Co., 12 Feb 1794; Capt., 13 Feb 1794; Maj., 98th Foot, 30 Jul 1794; Lieut. -Col., Argyll Fencibles, 19 Aug 1795; Brevet Col., 29 Apr 1802; Brig. -Gen. (local rank in S. America) 22 Apr 1807; retd., 11 Nov 1824; some interesting extracts from his letters to his old schoolfellow John Benn (qv), relating to their school-days, are printed in Elizabethan xi, 175-6, 185-7; m. 1st, 5 Feb 1788 Lady Augusta Campbell, elder dau. of John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll (S), Field-Marshal in the Army; m. 2nd, ---; d. 18 May 1850.
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Adding his name to JB's in the petition to the Dean of Westminster (Buckland) not to cancel the Latin Play, appreciated as much by town boys as by the scholars (who did the actual acting). (Both HMC and JB appear in the petition A0019/D3FK7.) Quote from Terence Eunuchus. In relation to this asks for address of Thomas Trebeck. Desirable for schools to employ only old boys, in order that frivolous but harmless traditions can be maintained - e.g. Liddell, educated at Charterhouse, has been trying to stop or at least control the Greaze. Pulteney (see 24) visits often, but this will stop for a while as he is visiting a son who has a rich living in Lincolnshire and hunts and shoots - quote from The Chase by William Somerville. Has been reading a Life of Watson, Bishop of LLandaff, father of a KS of 1777 (not so, according to the Record), and also the reminiscences of their fencing coach, Henry Angelo (in a room in Dean's Yard rented from William Pierce, teacher of book-keeping and arithmetic).
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- English
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- Latin
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- Trebeck, Thomas, 1765-1851 (Subject)
- Liddell, Henry George, 1811-1898 (Subject)
- Pulteney, John, 1766-1849 (Subject)
- Pierce, William, fl. 1790 (Subject)
- Angelo, Henry, 1756-1835 (Subject)
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- English
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- Latin