from La Grange, IL
… The reason given was "Lieutenant Swails' African descent." Colonel William Gurney, the post commander, ordered Swails to remove his officer's uniform and reassume duties as an enlisted man. However, Colonel Hallowell obtained a furlough for Swails and sent him, along with all the necessary ...
Sir William Gurney Benham Kt, JP, FSA, FRHistS, was a newspaper editor, published author and three times Mayor of Colchester. Gurney Benham was born on 16
Author
William Brodie Gurney
ISBN #
0837116597
1777
Died:1855
Treasurer • Judge • Author • Missionary • President
who died at Walworth, Surrey, in 1815, by a daughter of William Brodie of Mansfield.
He reported the impeachment of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville in 1806, the proceedings against the Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany in 1809, the trials of Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald in 1814 and of Arthur Thistlewood in 1820, and the proceedings against Caroline of Brunswick....
English philanthropist
Preference:Baptist • Liberalism
Sport:Vault