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MASTER, WILLIAM CHESTER, eldest son of Maj. Richard Master MP, 24th Foot, subsequently a London banker and Governor of Tobago, and Isabella Frances, dau. of Lieut. - Col. William Egerton MP, 2nd Troop, Royal Horse Guards; nephew of Thomas Master (b. 1744, qv); b. 4 Jan 1785; adm. 11 Feb 1799; left Mich. 1799; Ensign, 3rd Foot Guards 5 Feb 1801; Lieut. and Capt., 25 Jul 1805; Capt. and Lieut. -Col., 9 Dec 1813; retd. 28 Dec 1820; served in Peninsular War and at battle of Waterloo; a Gentleman Usher of the Privy Chamber from 31 Oct 1808; of Knole Park, Gloucs.; JP Gloucestershire; m. 20 Aug 1814 Isabella Margaret, dau. of Hon. Stephen Digby (qv); d. 20 Nov 1868.
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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.