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Hotham, Beaumont, 1737-1814
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1737-1814
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HOTHAM, BEAUMONT, 2ND BARON HOTHAM (I), brother of Sir Charles Hotham, Bart. (adm. 1741, qv); b. 5 Aug 1737; adm. Apr 1745; became Head Town Boy before he was sixteen; an interesting interview which he had in that capacity with the Head Master is recorded in The Hothams, 1918, ii, 331-2; in school list 1752; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm. pens. 1 Feb 1753, matr. Easter 1754; adm. Middle Temple 20 Jan 1753, called to bar 26 May 1758; practised in Chancery; a Commissioner of Bankrupts (occurs in annual lists 1767-9); Auditor to estates of Duke of Devonshire and Duke of Portland; MP Wigan 1768 – May 1775; declined lucrative official appointments in India 1773, 1774; a Baron of the Exchequer 10 May 1775 – Hilary term 1805; knighted and made Serjeant-at-Law 17 May 1775; a Commissioner of the Great Seal 9 Apr – 23 Dec 1783; succeeded his brother William by special remainder as 2nd Baron Hotham (I) 2 May 1813; m. 6 Jun 1767 Susannah, widow of James Norman, East Molesey, Surrey, and second dau. of Sir Thomas Hankey, Kt, Alderman of London; d. 3 Mar 1814. DNB.
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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.