Alfred Domett, 1811–1887
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Alfred Domett was born in Camberwell, near London in 1811. His father was a ship owner and had been in the merchant service. Domett went to St John’s College, Cambridge though he left without a degree. As a young man he travelled widely in the United States, in the West Indies and in Canada, keeping a journal of his time in Canada where he worked as a surveyor. In 1835 he returned to Britain and joined the Middle Temple to read law, being called to the bar in 1841.
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