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Robert Nicholas Hamond

1809–83

Naval officer. Lieutenant, 1827. Midshipman on HMS Beagle, 1832–3. Bank manager in Falmouth, Cornwall.

Sources

Burke’s landed gentry 1952

Census returns of England and Wales 1881 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG11/2316/137/17)

Correspondence vol. 1, Appendix III

O’Byrne 1849.

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.

Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.

O’Byrne, William R. 1849. A naval biographical dictionary: comprising the life and services of every living officer in Her Majesty’s Navy, from the rank of admiral of the fleet to that of lieutenant, inclusive. London: John Murray.

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