Sir Robert John Wilmot-Horton, 3rd Baronet, GCH, PC, FRS (21 December 1784 – 31 May 1841), born Robert John Wilmot, was a British politician, sociopolitical...
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Anne Beatrix Wilmot-Horton (née Horton, 1788 – 1871) was an English amateur botanist who was the dedicatee of the plant genus Hortonia and of Lord Byron’s...
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hydrologist Robert Forman Horton (1855–1934), British Nonconformist divine Robert Wilmot-Horton (1784–1841), British politician This disambiguation page lists articles...
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Charles Wilmot (born 1999). Sir Robert Wilmot, 1st Baronet (c. 1708–1772) Sir Robert Wilmot, 2nd Baronet (c. 1752–1834) Sir Robert John Wilmot-Horton, 3rd...
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Street to discuss economics. Moody's other friends included Sir Robert Wilmot Horton (with whom he had an extensive correspondence, and after whom he...
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Lieutenant of Ireland Robert Wilmot-Horton (1784–1841), Governor of Ceylon Sir Robert Wilmot, 4th Baronet of the Wilmot baronets Robert Wilmot (playwright) (c...
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The Wilmot-Horton executive council was first executive council of British Ceylon. The government was led by Governor Robert Wilmot-Horton. Cabinet of...
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plain"). But in the British period the plains were renamed after Sir Robert Wilmot-Horton, the British governor of Ceylon from 1831 to 1837, who travelled...
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Marsh in 1835, it was established as the Colombo Academy by Sir Robert Wilmot-Horton in January 1836, as part of the implementation of the recommendations...
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settlement, and by 1830, it had a population of 21. It was named after Robert Wilmot-Horton, a British member of Parliament who advocated immigration to Canada...
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Jeremy Bentham supported the ideas of the society. Colonel Robert Torrens and Robert Wilmot-Horton were on the committee of the society. The society published...
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in Smith, Robert (ed.) Richmond History: Journal of the Richmond Local History Society 42: 50–59 ISSN 0263-0958 "Horton, Sir Robert Wilmot (1784–1841)"...
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from Ceylon in 1831 it was rented to his successor as Governor, Sir Robert Wilmot-Horton. It was subsequently purchased by Reginald Beauchamp Downall (1843–1888)...
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in 1820 under the orders of the British Governor of Ceylon, Sir Robert Wilmot-Horton, 3rd Baronet. Construction was carried out by Captain William Francis...
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Army hostel into a hotel was undertaken by the then Governor Sir Robert Wilmot-Horton, engaging the architect of Public Works Department, James George...
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with Sir R. J. Wilmot-Horton (Cotton) Papers LPL, corresp. with Bishop Howley · Mitchell L., NSW, letters to Sir Robert Wilmot Horton · Mount Stuart Trust...
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the Colonial Office, Robert Wilmot Horton, would remove them permanently from the parish poor rolls. The roots of Wilmot-Horton's "assisted emigration"...
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Sir Samuel Hulse (1746–1837) The Hon. James Abercromby (1776–1858) Robert Wilmot-Horton (1784–1841) Stephen Lushington (1776–1868) Lord William Bentinck...
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1814) by Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey Harriet Louise Wilmot Horton (d. 1831) Sir Robert Wilmot-Horton, 3rd Baronet (d. 1841) by Denman Margaret Prinsep (d...
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philanthropy and social reform, also showed an interest in proposals by Robert Wilmot-Horton, Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies for state-assisted...
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who had been an aide-de-camp to the former governor of Ceylon, Sir Robert Wilmot-Horton, and was serving as a staff officer at Kandy. Sophia's father Alfred...
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newspaper had the support of the government and Governor Robert Wilmot-Horton. Apart from Horton and Lee other senior government officials who wrote for...
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of the Doric Race into English. He was appointed secretary to Sir Robert Wilmot-Horton when the latter was Governor of Ceylon and from 1835 to 1839 was...
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was appointed as Commander in-Chief in India. His successor Sir Robert Wilmot-Horton chose not to reside at Mount Lavinia and it was therefore recommended...
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Olivia Serres (redirect from Olivia Wilmot)
Olivia Wilmot, the daughter of Robert Wilmot, a house painter, in Warwick. At the age of ten she was sent to board with her uncle, James Wilmot, rector...
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been an illegitimate member of the Wilmot family, related to Sir Robert Wilmot-Horton and Sir John Eardley-Wilmot, 1st Baronet. He claimed to have been...
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General in Ireland (1879–1882) Sir Robert Wilmot-Horton, 3rd Baronet (1784–1841), Governor of Ceylon Alex Wilmot-Sitwell, British banker, partner at...
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Sir Robert Wilmot, 1st Baronet (1708–1772) was an English servant of the Crown, Secretary to successive Viceroys of Ireland from 1740 to 1772, and after...
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Ceylon (1833–1838) 8 William Ogle Carr England 2 April 1833 1838 Robert Wilmot-Horton Queen's Advocate of Ceylon (1838–1884) 9 John Stark 10 December 1838...
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grounds. The Wilmot family were based at this house until the marriage of Sir Robert Wilmot-Horton, 3rd Baronet to Anne Beatrix Horton, the heiress of...
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