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William Lacon Childe

1786–1880

Of Kinlet Hall, Shropshire, and Kyre House, Worcestershire. MP for Wenlock, 1820–6. Sheriff of Shropshire, 1828.

Sources

Burke’s landed gentry 1879

Modern English biography

Bibliography

Burke’s landed gentry: A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank but unvisited with heritable honours. Burke’s genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry. By John Burke et al. 1st–18th edition. London: Henry Colburn [and others]. 1833–1969.

Modern English biography: Modern English biography, containing many thousand concise memoirs of persons who have died since the year 1850. By Frederick Boase. 3 vols. and supplement (3 vols.). Truro, Cornwall: the author. 1892–1921.

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