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Mayne, William, ca. 1775-1843
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ca. 1775-1843
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MAYNE, WILLIAM, eldest son of Robert Mayne MP, Upper Gatton, Surrey, banker and merchant, and his second wife Sarah, second dau. of Francis Otway (qv); b.; adm. 27 Jun 1787; Ensign, Queen’s Rangers 21 Mar 1792; Lieut., Independent Co., 3 Feb 1795; Capt. -Lieut. and Capt., Queen’s Rangers 4 Feb 1795; Capt., 14 Apr 1798; Maj., 21st Light Dragoons 17 May 1798; retd. 29 Jul 1802; served in North America 1797; Lieut. -Col., Loyal Lusitanian Legion, Portugal Dec 1808 – Oct 1809, under command of Sir Robert Thomas Wilson (qv); Commandant, Almeida 1809; re-entered Army as Cornet, 12th Light Dragoons 27 Jun 1811; Lieut., 1st Life Guards 26 Sep 1811; Capt., 14 Dec 1815; 7th Light Dragoons 8 Mar 1820; retd. 29 Mar 1820; present at battle of Waterloo; m. 17 Jan 1805 Elizabeth, dau. of Sir John Taylor, Bart., Lysson Hall, Jamaica; d. at Brussels 11 Dec 1843, aged 68.
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Filed a counterclaim on Lysson's Estate in Jamaica (449 enslaved people, £9167 5s 9d).
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GB 2014
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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
Revised by Bethany Duck, Archive Assistant, September 2020
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Supplementary information drawn from UCL's Legacies of British Slave-ownership database. Entry URL: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146630695
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.