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MEREWETHER, EDWARD CHRISTOPHER, fifth son of Henry Alworth Merewether KC DCL, Castlefield, near Calne, Wilts, Serjeant at Law and Town Clerk of London, and Eliza Maria, dau. of Thomas Lockyer, Wembury House, Devon; b. 20 Feb 1820; at Charterhouse Sch. 1831-2; adm. 15 Jan 1834; Min. Can. 1835; left Dec 1837; University Coll. Oxford, matr. 14 Jun 1838; emigrated to Australia 1841; ADC to successive Governors of New South Wales 1841-6; Colonial Secretary, Port Curtis colony 1846-7; a Commissioner of Crown Lands, New South Wales 1847-54, 1856-7; General Superintendent, Australian Agricultural Co. 1861 – 31 Dec 1875; living in Sydney, New South Wales, from 1876; m. 1860 Augusta Maria, dau. of James Mitchell LRCS (Ed), Surgeon, Colonial Medical Dept., and Physician, Sydney Hospital; d. at Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 30 Oct 1893.
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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.