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CURRIE, Haileybury College, 1873-1921

December, 2007

Janella Horne (janella @t thehedges.wanadoo.co.uk) of Balscote, Oxon, writes: I am trying to find out about William MacGregor b.June 6th 1873, son of the late Major-General Augustus Arthur Currie. He attended Haileybury College. Source: Haileybury Register, 1862-1910 by Haileybury College - 1910 - Page 351.

As I am sure you realised when you looked up William Macgregor Currie's entry in the 1910 edition of  Haileybury College register, few of the boys who went to Haileybury had any connection with Hertfordshire, apart from being at the school. Only one of the 47 pupils joining in the same term as he did is listed as coming from Hertfordshire (Samuel Lucas, eldest son  of Samuel Lucus of Tile House, Hitchin) and only one is listed as living in the county in 1910 (Julian Frederick Wetherall was at The Palace, Much Hadham). The limited links with Hertfordshire and the non-specific nature of your request for information means that normally your question would lie outside the scope of this web site (see Ask Chris FAQ). However it does allow me to demonstrate the value of the college registers in charting someone's career. Much of the information below will already be known to you, although you may not have seen the 8th edition register.  The only other source of information I have consulted is the 1881 census (in italics).

1873 William Macgregor Currie was born in the East Indies, as were his elder brother, and two sisters.
1877-1880 William's elder brother, Arthur Cecil Currie,  son of Col (later Major-General) A. A. Currie, C.B. of Bengal S. C., was a pupil at Haileybury.
1881 The family had obviously returned to England as William was living at Pevensey Road, St Leonards, Hastings with his father (Retired Major General), his mother, and two sisters.
1881 William's younger brother, Thomas Charles Currie, is born.
  [His father died]
1886-1890 William attended Haileybury, son of the late Major-Gen. A. A. Curie, C.B., Pevensey Road, St Leonards-on-Sea.
  William studies at School of Mines, Kensington and Freiberg, A.R.S.M., Mining Eng.
1894-1900 William's younger brother, Thomas Charles Currie, attended Haileybury, from Pevensey Road, St Leonards.
1896-1900 In Chile, Peru and Bolivia
1900-1904 In Australia and Tasmania
1902 Married Anna Ethel, d. of W. G. Palmer, Esq., M.L.A., in Victoria, Australia
1904 --- In Federated Malay States
1910 Postal Address: W. M. Currie, Esq., Batu Gajah, Federated Malay States
[1914-1918 war] Major, Northumberland Fusiliers and Trench Mortars
1921 Died at Lyme Regis, 8 June 1921

To find out more about him I suggest you consider the following sources:

There is a web page for Haileybury College

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