Rough

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HCR diary 1.8.1824 see Raymond (QV*)

                 15.4.1828 shorthand passage Masquerier Rough

                 26.4.1828 to Masqueriers "where were Rough and his daughters"

               29.11.1828 call on Mrs Kay "a chat about Rough - she seemed to have no recollection of what had passed between her father and me on Rough's leaving England"

                 17.1.1829 Rough going to Tobago

                 7.10.1836 letter to Mrs Masquerier about "Rough's not being Chief Justice"

                 2.11.1836 with Masquerier "we talked about poor Rough and his disappointment"

                 31.8.1843 "a letter from Aders about Miss Rough's going to live with them as Miss Lawrence does - but Miss R: does not go"

William Rough (DNB 1772/3-1838). Given that Rough was appointed Chief Justice of Ceylon in March 1836 and knighted in 1837 it is difficult to see, without looking closer at Crabb Robinson's diary again, what his disappointment about not being Chief Justice was in October 1836. Mrs Kay's father was William Porden (DNB 1755-1822) and Rough had left England for 5 years in 1816. Miss Rough may have been one of his daughters Helena Hester born 1804 (married as spinster St Marylebone 4.10.1849 David Anderson Blair), Harriet Joanna born 1808(?), or Amelia Mary born 1812, or perhaps a sister of his