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Cannon, John (1684–1743), excise official and autobiographer  

Tim Hitchcock

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Published in print:
23 September 2004
Published online:
23 September 2004

Cannon, John (1684–1743), excise official and autobiographer, was born on 28 March 1684, the third but eldest surviving child of John Cannon (b. 1648), smallholder and butcher, and his wife, Elizabeth Hooper (b. 1644), in the small central Somerset village of ...

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Duncan, William Augustine (1811–1885), newspaper editor and customs official in Australia  

Gordon Goodwin

revised by H. C. G. Matthew

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Published in print:
23 September 2004
Published online:
23 September 2004

Duncan, William Augustine (1811–1885), newspaper editor and customs official in Australia, was born on 12 March 1811 at Bluefield, Towie, Aberdeenshire, the son of Peter Duncan and his wife, Mary, née Macdougal. He was educated with a view to being ordained in the ...

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Murdoch, John (1818–1903), journalist and customs and excise official  

Charles W. J. Withers

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Published in print:
23 September 2004
Published online:
23 September 2004

Murdoch, John (1818–1903), journalist and customs and excise official, was born on 15 January 1818 at Lynemore Farm, Ardclach, Nairnshire, Scotland, the second child and eldest son of the nine children of John Murdoch, farm manager, and Mary McPherson, daughter of an Inverness-shire...