Comrie, James

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1.7.1808 call on Comrie / 2.7.1808 write to Comrie / 30.8.1813 seek Comrie & W Morgan / 31.8.1813 seek Comrie / 1.9.1813 / 2.9.1813 seek Comrie: call on Walkden / 3.9.1813 call on Comrie

Perhaps son of William Comrie of Greenwich his will PCC 1778 left one shilling to wife Susanna residue to children James & Elizabeth / James Comrie of Fleet-st articled to George Coombe of Carey-st 1780 / James Comrie married by license 22.3.1788 Mary dau. of Christopher Hill at Holborn / James Comrie & John Fowler Dyson, attornies, 3, Staple Inn (1791) / Henry Hill apprenticed to James Comrie attorney of Fleet-st 1793 / James Comrie, attorney, 42 Fleet-st (1802 & 1805) / George Sawyer apprenticed to James Comrie attorney of Fleet-st / James Comrie was solicitor for Mary Ann Clarke DNB 1776?-1852, mistress of the Duke of York, and as such gave evidence to the House of Commons in 1809. In 1812 he was prosecuted at Clerkenwell Petty Sessions for defrauding Mary Ann Clarke of £600 but the prosecution was dropped at once. In 1810 James Comrie Esq paid Land Tax on a property in Shepperton, Surrey, and in 1815 the lease of Wormholt Farm, Shepherds Bush was auctioned "late in the occupation of Mr James Comrie". Not found his death record, but I reckon this is a good identification.