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ROBERTSON, WILLIAM HENRY; b.; in school list 1801; left Easter 1803. [Apparently = SEWELL, SIR WILLIAM HENRY; said to have been educated at Westminster and Eton (in Eton school lists 1805, as Robertson), and to have changed his surname to Sewell from Robertson when he entered the army; Ensign, 60th Foot 27 Mar 1806; 16th Light Dragoons 1806; Lieut., 20 Feb 1807; Capt., 12 Mar 1812; Capt., 60th Foot 1813; brevet Maj., 3 Mar 1814; Lieut. -Col., 21 Jun 1817; half-pay 25 Oct 1821; served in Peninsular War; ADC and Staff Officer to Lord Beresford; re-employed as Deputy Quartermaster-General, Madras 24 Feb 1828 – 18 Jun 1841; Capt., 49th Foot 29 May 1828; Maj., 31st Foot 11 Aug 1829; Col. in Army 10 Jan 1837; CB 19 Jul 1838; Lieut. -Col., 6th Foot 17 Sep 1839; 94th Foot 30 Mar 1841; commanding British troops, Bangalore 1841-6; Major-Gen., 9 Mar 1846; commanding Central Division, Madras Presidency 1849-51, Mysore Division 1851-4; Col., 26th Foot 24 Mar 1852; Col., 79th Foot, from 24 Mar 1854; Lieut. -Gen., 20 Nov 1854; acting Commander in Chief, Madras 1855; retd. 1856; KCB 28 Jun 1861; Gen., 10 Nov 1861; m. at Madras 1831 Georgina Hacking, dau. of Major-Gen. Sir John Dalrymple, Bart.; d. at Florence, Italy 13 Mar 1862, aged 72]
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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.