Richard Colonna-Close

Richard Colonna Close (1836-1905) was a teacher, clergyman, lawyer and politician in England and Australia. He was born in 1836 as Richard Close, the son of Richard Backhouse Close of Hexham, Northumberland. A condition of an inheritance led to him adopting, from 1879, the maiden name of his maternal grandmother, in addition to his own surname. He thereafter styled himself “Richard Colonna-Close”. In 1870 he married Prudence Elizabeth Gray Isaac at St Margaret, Plumstead, Greenwich. Between 1871 and 1878 they had five children: four girls and one boy.

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