Magistrate William Buchanan Chalmers

Magistrate William Buchanan Chalmers
Birthdate:	March 18, 1833
Birthplace:	Victoria East, Cape Colony, South Africa
Death:	November 17, 1910 (77) Holmes Branding House, Elden St, Queenstown, Cape Colony
Immediate Family:	Son of Rev. William Chalmers and Mary Chalmers Husband of Clara Sophia Chalmers Father of Charles Rawstorne Chalmers; Private; Private and Private Brother of Elizabeth "Eliza" Mary Stewart; Janet Ewing Brown; Mary Munsie Chalmers; Rev. John Aitken Chalmers; Alexander McNair Chalmers and 2 others
Occupation:	Magistrate of Transkei, Cradock, and Hopetown

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He was the magistrate at Hopetown who advised John Robert O'Reilly to take the stone entrusted to him by Schalk Jacobus van Niekerk, d11e9 to Colesberg for further analysis. It later became known as the Eureka diamond, the first big diamond discovered in South Africa, starting the Kimberley Diamond Rush.

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1833	March 18, 1833	Birth of Magistrate William Buchanan Chalmers Victoria East, Cape Colony, South Africa
1863	1863	Birth of Charles Rawstorne Chalmers Fort Beaufort, Cape Colony, South Africa
1910	November 17, 1910 Age 77	Death of Magistrate William Buchanan Chalmers at Hol... Holmes Branding House, Elden St, Queenstown, Cape Colony

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