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4 unusual facts about Christian Ignatius Borissow


Christian Ignatius Borissow

The family soon moved to Ruokolahti, a small Finnish-speaking rural parish in Russian-governed Southeastern Finland, where the father held the vicar’s office from 1790 until his death in 1803.

One of Christian Ignatius Borissow’s grandsons, Charles Kirby Borissow (1873–1939), was a Commander in the Royal Naval Reserve and a Chief Salvage Officer of the Royal Navy in the Mediterranean during the First World War.

Christian Ignatius Borissow died in 1867 and is buried in the family grave at Undercliffe Cemetery in Bradford.

He was the Master and Headteacher of The Royal Latin School in Buckingham, England from 1869 to 1871 and after that a long-time (1871–1901) Chaplain and Precentor of Trinity College at Cambridge University.



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