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- [S1] MWS, Andries William De Villiers, (University of Witwatersrand).
Educated: Westminster School. Career: Headmaster of a school near Exeter, circa 1785-1797. Appointed Naval Chaplain, 1797 (served aboard HMS La Pompêe, 1797-1798; conducted a training school in Scotland Yard; spent two years in the Hague, in Holland, 1802-1803; Chaplain and Secretary to Rear Admiral the Earl of Northesk, 1803-1806; present at the battle of Trafalgar aboard HMS Britannia, October 1805). Awarded an honorary Doctorate in Divinity by diploma by King's College, Aberdeen, 26 July 1800. Lived in Bath, Wiltshire, 1806-1807. Appointed Chaplain to His Majesty's Military And Naval Forces at the Cape, 24 June 1807. Arrived at the Cape aboard the ship Fyne, 7 December 1807. Opened a private school in his home, January 1808. Appointed Chaplain, HMS Leopard, while she remained on the Cape station, December 1809. Rector Gymnasii, Latin School, Cape Town, from 24 May 1810. Resigned his Chaplaincy, June 1810. Tried for "writing, composing, and publishing infamous libels against the Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony" (his Cap-Abilities, or South African Characteristics). Found guilty, and sentenced to be banished from the Cape. His appeal having failed, he was taken into custody, 30 January, and put aboard the ship La Manche for England on 6 March, 1811. `It later transpired that his (letters] of ordination had been forged, and this could have meant that the marriages he had solemnized in Cape Town were invalid. They were, however, declared valid by the Cape government. Back in England ... under aliases, [he] continued his career of deception, appearing in various places as a clergyman, but eventually confessed all his impostures to the Bishop of London" (Giliomee). Found guilty of defrauding the Post Office of ten pence, and sentenced to seven years' transportation to New South Wales in Australia, 1818. Schoolmaster and newspaper proprietor of Sydney, New South Wales. Died: Sydney, on 8 March 1831. [JA Hewitt, Sketches of English Church History in South Africa from 1795-1848 (1887), pp. 13-25, 128. S Lee (editor), Dictionary of National
Biography, Index and Epitome (second edition, 1906), p. 558. HB Giliomee, "Halloran (O'Halloran), Laurence Hynes" in Dictionary of South African Biography, vol. I (1968), pp. 348-349. P Philip, British Residents at the Cape 1795-1819 (1981), p. 162.]
- [S4] Ancestors South Africa, https://www.ancestors.co.za/laurence-hynes-halloran/.
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1765 - 1831 (65 years)
