Identity area
Type of entity
Authorized form of name
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
History
Weekes, Harold Ernest, son of John Ernest Weekes, of Kensington, by Angelina, daughter of Sidney Pope, of Melbourne, Australia; b. Sept. 27, 1881; adm. Sept. 28, 1893 (A); left Dec. 1896; in C.I.V. Jan. 20, 1900; 2nd Lieut. West Indian Regt. Aug. 18, 1900; Lieut. June 19, 1901; Indian Army May 22, 1904; Capt. 10th Gurkha Rifles Aug. 18, 1909; Major Sept. 1, 1915; Brevet Lieut.-Col. Dec. 29, 1923; Lieut.-Col. 5th Gurkha Rifles April 11, 1924; Brevet Col. Jan. 1, 1927; served in South Africa 1900 and in Egypt, Gallipoli, France, and India in Great War I; mentioned in despatches L.G. June 21, 1916, and June 11, 1920; O.B.E. Sept. 12, 1919; m. 1st Dec. 17, 1904, Helen Dorothy, second daughter of Andrew McGeoch, of Glasgow; 2nd Madeleine, daughter of W. A. T. Pettigrew; d. May 6, 1941; bequeathed £2,000 to the school to found a Harold and Madeleine Weekes' Scholarship or Exhibition.
Places
Legal status
Functions, occupations and activities
Mandates/sources of authority
Internal structures/genealogy
General context
Relationships area
Access points area
Subject access points
Place access points
Occupations
Control area
Authority record identifier
Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
Language(s)
Script(s)
Sources
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from Play 1883 to Election 1960, Volume 3, compiled by J.B. Whitmore, G.R.Y. Radcliffe and D.C. Simpson, Barnet, 1963