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Excerpt from A Servant of John Company: Being the Recollections of an Indian Official
Clock in the Quadrangle of the (then) E. I. College at Haileybury, where my father was Professor of Arabic and Persian, in addition to being Registrar of the College. An account of his varied career will be found in the Dictionary of National Biography, vol. Xxx. His mother was sister to the first Lord Harris, and his wife was daughter of a New England Tory gentleman, who had emigrated to London after the evacuation of Boston in 1776. He was named Charles Apthorp Wheelwright, his wife (a first cousin) being daughter of Mr. John Apthorp, and the family is still well known in the State of Massachusetts. Mrs. Wheelwright was great-niece of Sir Horace Mann, Walpole's correspondent, and was also first cousin to the Marquess of Cornwallis. There were five of these young ladies, my mother being one; a second.
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