Admiralty
5655 Hong Kong
To the Right Honble Earl Grey
DOV 8 1850
Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies
The Memorial of
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Joseph George Comelate Chief Clerk to the Colonial Treasury of Hong Kong
humbly Sheweth,
That the Grand Father of Memorialist
Claude Campbell of Aberdeen towards the middle of the last Century left Scotland for Italy where he altered the name of Campbells into Comelate.
This Son Alexander Comelate,
the Memorialist's father, at a subsequent
period having acquired the confidence of
the