Family and Education
s. of Robert Colhoun, treasurer of St. Kitts 1754, by Frances, da. of Matthew Mills, c.j. of St. Kitts.Caribbeana, vi. 38, which corrects the pedigree in V. L. Oliver, Antigua, iii. 258. m. c.1770, Grace, da. of Edward Parson of Little Parndon, Essex and St. Kitts, 2s. 1da. (who m. 1792 Edward Coke).M. I. in St. Mary’s, Little Parndon, where Grace Colhoun’s death, 6 July 1803, aged 61, is recorded. For the Parson pedigree see Oliver, iii. 257-8, 261. See Eton Coll. Reg. 1753-90 for his sons, the elder of whom died at school of a fever, aged 12, in 1787. The younger was probably the Mr Colhoun jnr. who was elected to Brook’s on 7 May 1801.
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Main residences: Wretham, nr. Thetford, Norf.; St. Kitts, W.I.
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Commons 1790-1820
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COLHOUN, William MacDowall (fl.1758-1821)
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