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Robert Laurence Atkin

1870–1913

Australian-born planter. Son of Mary Elizabeth and Robert Travers Atkin. Returned with his mother and brothers to Wales in 1871. In Ceylon (Sri Lanka), 1896–1911. Died in Selangor, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Sources

Carney 2005, p. 11

Census returns of England and Wales 1871 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG10/5603/54/17)

Y clorianydd, 7 January 1914, p. 2

Bibliography

Carney, Gerard. 2005. Lord Atkin—his Queensland origins and legacy. https://media.sclqld.org.au/documents/lectures-and-exhibitions/2015/gerard-carney-lord-atkin.pdf (accessed 21 December 2017).

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