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PURLING, GEORGE. Russell Barker & Stenning record him as at school under Smith, on the evidence of his presence at OWW dinner at Calcutta 1783 (Memoirs of William Hickey, iii, 245-6), but Hickey is not invariably a reliable souce. Supplement states that Purling was educated under Dr. Williams 1773 and at Harrow 1774, and does not appear in any school records. He was third son of Matthew Purling, and Frances Wrangham; b. St. Helena 1764; Writer, EICS Bengal 1780, arrived in India 1 Aug 1780, factor, Assistant to Collector, Midnapur 1785, Assistant to Collector and Register, Dinajpur 1787, Collector, Birbhum 1796, and resigned in India 1801; inherited Bradford Peveril estate, Dorset, from uncle John Purling MP; d. unm. 28 Apr 1840].
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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.