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ROSS, SIR PATRICK, eldest son of Major-Gen. Patrick Ross, Chief Engineer EICS Madras, later MP, and Mary Clara, dau. of John Maule, Clerk of the Cheque, Greenwich Hospital; b. 26 Jan 1778; at school under Vincent (ex rel. his son Maj. Patrick William Sydenham Ross); left 1794; Capt., 101st Foot 14 May 1794; 25th Light Dragoons 15 Mar 1798; Maj., 25 Sep 1803; Lieut. -Col., 23rd Light Dragoons 9 Apr 1807; 48th Foot 28 Jun 1810; Brevet Col., 4 Jun 1814; Lieut. -Col., 75th Foot 12 Oct 1815; Major-Gen., 19 Jul 1821; retd. Jan 1826; served in India and in the Peninsular War; Governor of Antigua 23 May 1825-32, St. Helena from 27 Jun 1846; CMG 27 Apr 1818; KCMG 9 Nov 1819; GCMG 10 May 1837; KCH 1834; m. 1st, 14 Apr 1805 Amelia, younger dau. of Col. William Sydenham, EICS Madras; m. 2nd, 27 Dec 1849 Eliza, eldest dau. of Capt. James Bennett, EICS St. Helena; d. at St. Helena 28 Aug 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.