Whitcombe, William |
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BORN 3 Mar 1806 - DIED 6 Oct 1832, Corsham GRAVE LOCATION Magna Sherston (near Corsham): church (South Aisle) |
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Youngest child of the lawyer Sir Samuel Whitcombe. At a young
age he joined the East India Company's Navy and in 1824 he offered
his services to the London Greek Committee. In 1825 he arrived
in Greece. Put on to it by Captain J.W. Fenton he attacked E.J. Trelawny, who was a member of the clan around the chief Odysseus that lived in a cave in the mountains. Trelawny was hit in the back by two bullets but he survived and spared Whitcombe's live. Whitcombe's name was defiled and little is known about him until he joined the British Armt on 25 Jun 1830. He left for the East Indies, but in 1832 he was back in England. A few months later he was found dead in an inn, but there were no signs of a crime. He was buried in the church of in Magna Sherston where his brother was the vicar. The anonymously published 'novel' "Sketches of the War in Greece" is almost certainly written by Whitcombe. Related persons • attacked Trelawny, Edward John Sources • Crane, David, Lord Byron's Jackal, The life of Edward John Trelawny, Harper Collins Publishers, London, 1998 |