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Date transcribed2011-08-00
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Morehead    
First Name(s)  William Ambrose    
Birth Year  1805    
Death Year  1863    
Entry  Of the LC.S. : son of Rev. R. Morehead, D.D. : and brother of Dr. C. Morehead (q.v.) ; born 1805 : arrived at Madras, 1825 : dealt well and strongly with a native outbreak connected with the murder of Macdonald of the Civil Service at Cuddapah in 1832 : was made a Judge of the Sadr Court in 1846, and in 1850 was deputed to hold an inquiry in Ceylon relating to Lord Torrington's administration : while Member of Council, Madras, from 1857 to 1862, he acted twice as Governor, for a month in 1860 on Sir C. E. Trevelyan's recall, and for 6 months in 1860-61 after Sir H. G. Ward's death. He was Vice-Chancellor of the Madras University. But for ill-health he might have been a Member of the Governor- General's Supreme Council in 1862 : retired in Oct. 1862 : died at Edinburgh, his native city, Dec. 1, 1863.     
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