skip to content

Darwin Correspondence Project

William Horatio Meteyard

1806–51

Lawyer. Brother of Eliza Meteyard; changed his name to Horace William Meteyard. LLB Cambridge 1833. Special pleader on the Oxford circuit and Shrewsbury and Stafford sessions; tithe commissioner in East Anglia.

Sources

Alum. Cantab.

England & Wales christening records, 1530–1906 (Ancestry.com, accessed 17 January 2014)

Meteyard 1970, unpaginated introduction

Bibliography

Alum. Cantab.: Alumni Cantabrigienses. A biographical list of all known students, graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900. Compiled by John Venn and J. A. Venn. 10 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1922–54.

Meteyard, Eliza. 1970. The life of Josiah Wedgwood from his private correspondence and family papers … with an introductory sketch of the art of pottery in England. Reprint edition, with an introduction by R. W. Lightbown. 2 vols. London: Cornmarket Press.

letter