Family and Education
s. of Robert Colhoun, treasurer of St. Kitts 1754, by Frances, da. of John Mills of St. Kitts. m. a da. of one Parson of St. Kitts, 1 (poss. 2) s. 1da. (who m. 1792 Edward Coke).For the Colhoun or Colquhoun family of St. Kitts see Oliver, Hist. Antigua, iii. 258 and 418; see also Austen-Leigh, Eton Coll. Reg. for the sons of W. MacDowall Colhoun. John Horne Tooke, in an undated letter of March 1784, refers to William Parson, who in 1784 contested Thetford, as Colhoun’s brother-in-law.
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Main residences: Thorpe and Wretham, nr. Thetford, Norf.; St. Kitts, W.I.
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Commons 1754-1790
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COLHOUN, William MacDowall (fl.1773-1807)
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Oxford 1644
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