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Macleay, William Sharp, 1792-1865
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1792-1865
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MACLEAY, WILLIAM SHARP, eldest son of Alexander Macleay FRS, Speaker, Legislative Council, New South Wales, and Elizabeth, dau. of James Barclay of Urie [county]; b. 30 Jul 1792; adm. 19 Apr 1806; left 1810; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 7 Jun 1810; BA 1814; MA 1818; attaché, British Embassy, Paris; Secretary to Board for liquidating British claims in France 1815; attached to Mixed British and Spanish Court for abolition of Slave Trade, Havana 1825-37, successively as Commissioner of Arbitration 1825, Commissary Judge 1830, and Judge 1836 – ret 1 Feb 1837; went to live in New South Wales, Australia 1839; a distinguished zoologist; author, Horae Entomologicae, 1819-21, and other works; d. unm. at Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 26 Jan 1865. 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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http://schoolgateway.westminster.org.uk/
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.