When Francis Harcourt Anson was born on 2 April 1804, his father, Lieut Gen Sir George Anson MP GCB, was 34 and his mother, Frances Constance Hamilton, was 30. He died on 20 July 1831, at the age of 27, and was buried in Falmouth, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
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The British West Africa Squadron was formed in 1808 to suppress illegal slave trading on the African coastline. The British West Africa Squadron had freed approximately 150,000 people by 1865.
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.
English (mainly Yorkshire and Lancashire): variant of Hanson with loss of initial H-.
Spanish: habitational name from the town of Ansó in Aragon.
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