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From: Charles Ellson <>
Subject: Re: Elder brethren Trinity House
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 98 02:08:05 GMT


In article <6frpaj$rj4$1@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca>
"Harry W. Duckworth" writes:

> In the Gentleman's Magazine, 1808 Part 1, page 461, I find under Deaths,
> April 7, "At Lower Tooting, Surrey, James Strachan, esq. one of the elder
> brethren of the Trinity-house." I'm hoping that this is the James
> Strachan, merchant of London, who marketed the deer skins traded by the
> West Florida firm of Panton, Leslie & Co. in the 1780s and 90s, but I'm
> puzzled by the expression "elder brethren of the Trinity-house." What
> does it mean?
>
Trinity House is the organisation which maintains lighthouses and lightships
around England and Wales.
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