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Authorised form of nameFletcher; Thomas William (1808 - 1893)
Dates1808 - 1893
Date of birth25 or 29 May 1808
Date of death01 February 1893
ActivityCareer:
Barrister at law of the Inner Temple; Colonel of First King's Own Staffordshire Militia; Earl Marshall's Gold Staff Officer at the coronation of Queen Victoria 28 June 1838, and at the funeral of the Duke of Wellington;
Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant for the counties of Staffordshire and Worcestershire
Memberships:
FSA; FGS;
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election21/03/1839
RelationshipsMarried at Walsall 13 September 1831 Jane Maria, (born 18 March and baptized 12 April 1812 at Great Barr) daughter of James Russell, JP, of Bescot Hall and Endwood Court by Sarah his wife and daughter of the Reverend John Best, MA, vicar of Bilston and Sedgeley, and sub-dean and prebendary of Wolverhampton. Had one daughter Eliza-Jane and one son Thomas Howard Keeling
OtherInfoCollection of fossils deposited at Cambridge
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Notes:
Boase gives birth date as 29 May 1808
Baptised 26 May 1808 at Darlaston
CodeNA6627
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
NLB/7/399Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons7 February 1893
EC/1839/18Fletcher, Thomas William: certificate of election to the Royal Society
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