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Nathaniel Cholier, or Collier, buried at Banstead, Surrey, 1669.

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Ruth, buried at Banstead, 1692.

Rev. Nathaniel Collier, Clerk in Holy Orders, eldest son, administered to his father’s and mother’s Wills in 1692.

Daniel Collier of Cripplegate, Citizen of London, and fishmonger, born about 1660, died 1717, buried in a vault, St. Mary’s, Milk Street.

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Abigail, buried beside her husband.

Daniel Collyer, merchant in London, purchased the Norfolk estates of the Earl of Chesterfield; was styled “of Wroxham Hall and Necton Lodge”.

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Anne Leeds.

Rev. Charles

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Sarah, daughter of Edward Roger Pratt, Esq., of Ryston Hall.

Rev. Daniel Collyer of Wroxham and Necton, died in 1819, aged 69.

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Catherine, daughter of John Bedingfield, Esq., married in 1774.

Lady Sarah Duff, daughter of the 3rd Earl of Fife, died 1812.

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Daniel Collyer of Necton Lodge, died 1824, aged 48.

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Elizabeth, daughter of John Chancellor, Esq., of Shieldhill.

The Venerable John Beddingfield Collyer, Archdeacon of Norwich, “of Hackford Hall,” born 1777, died 1857.

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Catherine, daughter of Wm. Alexander, brother of the 1st Earl of Caledon.

James Duff Collyer, died 1811.

George Chancellor Collyer of Hill House, Norfolk, Col. R.E., born 1814. [Married 2dly Rose Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Dillon, Esq.]

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Mary Forbes, dau. of Alex. Chancellor, Esq., of Shieldhill, died in 1848.

John Collyer of Hackford Hall, Norfolk, born 1800.

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Georgina Frances Amy, dau. of Sir Wm. Johnston, Bart.

Mary Catherine Bedingfield Collyer, wife of Col. John Heron Maxwell Shaw Stewart, R.E.

John Monsey Collyer, of Hackford Hall, born 1840.

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Helen Jane dau. of Geo. Falconer of Carlowrie.

*⁎* A British officer, named Collyer, was killed at the battle of the Boyne in 1690. From him descended the late rector of Gislingham in Suffolk, of which parish his son, Rev. Thomas Collyer, is the present rector, admitted in 1851. He believes himself to be descended from Protestant refugees, and acknowledges Colonel Collyer as the head of his family.

Crespion.

Stephen Crespion, born in 1649, was the son of Germain Crespion, of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Middlesex, gentleman, by Cornelia, eldest daughter of Stephen and Cornelia Nau. He was sent to Westminster School in the year 1663, and was elected Captain of the school. He was elected to Oxford University in 1666, where he matriculated on 13th July 1666 as an undergraduate of Christ Church. He recited a lyrical poem at the opening of the new Theatre, or Great Hall, of the University in 1668; he took his degree of B.A. on 17th May 1670, and proceeded to M.A. 22d March 1673 (n.s.). His fine voice, and, probably, his musical accomplishments, marked him out for the King’s Chapel at Whitehall, “the most ancient choir in England, served on the same grand scale as the cathedrals.” This choir were desig-