IT WAS DEFINITELY about Frederick (1868-1926)
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Angela Allison, Coventry UK
"I know the one thing we did right,
was the day we started to fight.
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---- Marika Sherwood <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> A son of the Maharajah Duleep Singh? Rozina Visram (Asians in Britain
> [2002], p. 102: Victor (1866-1918) educated at Eton and Cambridge and
> married to lady Anne, the daughter of the Earl of Coventry, became a capt.
> In the Royal Dragoons..... Frederick (1868-1926) also educated at Eton and
> Cambridge, reached the rank of Major in the army, lived at Blo' Norton, was
> a popular Norfolk Squire, a local historian and benefactor of the Ancient
> House Museum.' No mention of marriage, but if he was a 'popular squire'..?
> But which Duleep Singh was she talking about? Victor of Frederick?
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> I watched (on BBC iplayer) the programme presented by Meera Syal.
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> In it she states that art collector Frederick Victor Duleep Singh
> (1868-1926) never married.
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> Is this correct? My notes on him stated that "He and his wife lived at Blo
> Norton, Norfolk. He also purchased a house on White Hart Street, Thetford,
> for use as the town's museum."
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> Can anyone confirm?
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> Angela Allison, Coventry UK
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