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Henry Needham Scrope Shrapnel [textual record]

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Date:

1846-1892.

Reference:

MG24-F113

Type of material:

Textual material

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Item ID number:

115635

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Henry Shrapnel and family collection

Henry Needham Scrope Shrapnel
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Date(s):

1846-1892.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1.5 cm of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Series consists of the correspondence of Henry Needham Scrope Shrapnel as Barrack Master and later as an Immigrant Agent. Also included are his petition for consideration of his father's services; his several militia commissions, 1846 and 1853; and miscellaneous correspondence.

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Shrapnel, Henry Needham Scrope, 1812-1896

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Shrapnel, Henry Needham Scrope, 1812-1896 : Henry Needham Scrope Shrapnel (1812-1896) was the son of Lt. Gen. Shrapnel. He held a commission as cornet in the 3rd Dragoon Guards from 1834 to 1836 and was later a captain in the militia of Great Britain. He entered the Barracks Branch of the Commissariat Department in 1853 and was posted, variously, to Cape Town, India, Bermuda and to several stations in Canada, including Quebec. He retired to Canada in 1871 and served as an immigrant agent for the Canadian government. Showing something of the inventive nature of his father, he developed and published a Stradometrical Survey of London and its Environs (London; 1851-2) and proposed designs for lifeboats in Canada. He was also a practised artist. He died almost penniless in Orillia, Ontario.

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MG24-F113
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