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MURRAY, ROBERT WILLIAM FELTON LATHROP, supposed son of Robert Lathrop, West Felton, Shropshire, and Ann Williams, but understood to be a natural son of George III; bapt. St. Marylebone parish church 12 Mar 1780; adm. 13 Mar 1786 (as Robert Lathrop); left 1793; assumed additional surname of Murray; served with Royal Manx Fencibles 1797; assumed surname of Brown-Clarke 31 Mar 1802, but change of name cancelled by royal command 13 Apr 1802; banker, Portland Place, London Jun 1802; entered Army; Lieut., unattached 4 Feb 1807; 1st Foot 12 Feb 1807; Capt., 15 Mar 1810; Royal Waggon Train 15 Aug 1811; served in Peninsular War; convicted of bigamy Jan 1815 and sentenced to transportation (Parliamentary Debates xx, 317, 464, 653); arrived at Sydney, New South Wales 1816; living in Hobart, Tasmania, by 1821; editor, Hobart Town Gazette 8 Jul 1825, Colonial Times 19 Aug 1825 – 4 Aug 1826, Murray’s Anglo-Australian Review (later Tasmanian and Anglo-Australian Review) 6 Feb 1829 – 26 Jun 1845; returned to England Nov 1847, settling at West Felton Hall, near Shrewsbury; m. 1st, 1797 Alicia Marshall, Londonderry, Ireland; m. 2nd (bigamously) 1801 Katherine, only child of Thomas Clarke, Hailsham, Sussex, and sister of Richard Brown Clarke (qv); m. 3rd, 1806 Lydia, widow of William Marriott, EICS Madras, and dau. of Rev. John Mogridge, Vicar of Pershore, Worcs.; m. 4th, 1 Dec 1827 Eleanor, dau. of Thomas Dixon, Ralph’s Bay, Tasmania; d. 2 Nov 1850.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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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.