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SPARROW, ROBERT BERNARD, only son of Robert Sparrow, Worlingham, Suffolk, and his first wife Mary, sister of Sir Robert Bernard, Bart. (qv); b. 15 Feb 1773; adm. 30 Mar 1785; while still at school inherited an estate of £14, 000 per annum on death of his uncle; Lieut., Independent Co. Foot 20 Sep 1793; 2nd Maj., New South Wales Corps 6 Oct 1794; Lieut. -Col., Essex Fencible Infantry 25 Oct 1794; Brevet Col., 1 Jan 1801; Lieut. -Col., half-pay, 111th Foot 1801; Brig. -Gen. in West Indies Sep 1804; m. 14 May 1797 Lady Olivia Acheson, eldest dau. of Arthur Acheson, 1st Earl of Gosford (I); d. of yellow fever on board ship Severn during his passage home from Barbados 25 Aug 1805.
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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.