COLBY

Thomas Frederick ( eld. child of Thomas Colby, major R.M. who d. 1813 ). b. St. Margaret’s-next-Rochester 1 Sep. 1784; ed. at North fleet school and R.M.A. Woolwich; second lieut. R.E. 2 July 1801; lost his left hand by explosion of a pistol, Dec. 1803; F.R.S. 13 April 1820; surveyed Ireland 1824–46; col. R.E. 10 Jany. 1837 to 9 Nov. 1846; M.G. 9 Nov. 1846. ( m. 1828 Elizabeth Hester 2 dau. of Archibald Boyd, treasurer of London derry, she was granted a civil list pension of £100, 10 Feb. 1853). d. New Brighton near Liverpool 9 Oct. 1852. J. E. Port lock’s Life of General Colby 1869; Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xii , 132–7 (1853).