ABACRUMA, —– ; at school c.1660.
ABBOT, CHARLES, 1ST BARON COLCHESTER, younger brother of John Farr Abbot (qv) ; b. 14 Oct 1757 ; adm. Mar 1763 ; KS (Capt) 1770 ; both “acted and looked Thais extremely well in the Eunuchus” of 1772 (Random Recollections of George Colman the Younger, 1830, i, 74) ; Captain of the School 1774 ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1775, matr. 14 June 1775, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1775 – 20 Oct 1783, Faculty Student 20 Oct 1783 – res 17 Dec 1796 ; Chancellor’s Prize for Latin Verse 1777 ; Vinerian Scholar 1781, Fellow 1786-92 ; BCL 1783 ; DCL 1793 ; Geneva Univ. 1778-9 ; adm. Middle Temple 14 Oct 1768, called to bar 9 May 1783, Bencher 12 Feb 1802 ; in brother’s chambers at 11 Kings Bench Walk, Temple, Nov 1779 ; adm. Inner Temple 25 Nov 1784, tenant of chambers there Nov 1784 – May 1788 ; adm Lincoln’s Inn 26 May 1785 ; FSA 13 Dec 1792 ; FRS 14 Feb 1793 ; Clerk of the Rules, Court of King’s Bench Oct 1794 – Feb 1801 ; MP Helston 19 Jun 1795-1802, Woodstock 1802-6, Oxford University 1806 – Jun 1817 ; made his parliamentary reputation as chairman, Select Committee on Finance 1797-8 ; introduced first Census Act into House of Commons Dec 1800 ; Chief Secretary for Ireland Feb 1801-Feb 1802, also Secretary of State for Ireland Jun 1801 – Feb 1802 ; Privy Councillor 21 May 1801 ; Recorder of Oxford May 1801-Oct 1806 ; Keeper of Privy Seal (I) from May 1801 ; hon.LLD Trinity Coll.Dublin 6 Jun 1801 ; Speaker of the House of Commons 10 Feb 1802 – 28 May 1817, when he resigned because of ill-health ; cr. Baron Colchester 3 Jun 1817 ; travelled on European Continent 1819-22 ; on return took active part in politics until death ; Trustee, British Museum, from 1818 ; a Busby Trustee from 18 May 1802 ; his Diary and Correspondence were edited for publication by his son Charles Abbot, 2nd Baron Colchester (qv), in 1861 ; m. 29 Dec 1796 Elizabeth, eldest dau. of Sir Philip Gibbes, Bart., Spring Head, Barbados, West Indies ; d. 8 May 1829 ; buried in North Transept, Westminster Abbey. Arms up School. ODNB.
ABBOT, CHARLES, 2ND BARON COLCHESTER, elder son of Charles Abbot, 1st Baron Colchester (qv) ; b. 12 Mar 1798 ; adm 16 Sep 1806 (Glover) ; left 1811 ; entered Royal Navy as 1st class volunteer on board HMS Revenge 8 Apr 1811 ; Lieut. 15 Sep 1817 ; Cdr. 27 Jan 1821 ; Capt. 26 Jan 1826 ; half pay Jan 1833 ; Rear-Adm. 1 Apr 1854 ; Vice-Adm. 2 May 1860 ; Adm. 11 Jan 1864 ; succ. as 2nd Baron Colchester 8 May 1829 ; took Conservative whip in House of Lords ; Vice-Pres. Board of Trade and Paymaster-General Feb -Dec 1852 ; Privy Councillor 27 Feb 1852 ; Postmaster-General Feb 1858 – Jun 1859 ; DCL Oxford 7 Jun 1853 ; a Busby Trustee from 23 May 1840 ; editor of The Diary and Correspondence of Charles Abbot, Lord Colchester, 1861 ; m. 3 Feb 1836 Hon.Elizabeth Susan Law, second dau. of Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough PC, Lord Chief Justice of the King’s Bench ; d. 18 Oct 1867.
ABBOT, CHARLES HENRY PHILIP, only son of Hon.Philip Henry Abbot (qv) ; b. 21 Mar 1832 ; adm. 7 Feb 1842 ; QS 1846 ; left 1846 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 31 May 1849, Canoneer Student 1850-65 ; BA 1853 ; MA 1856 ; ordained deacon 1866, priest 1867 (both Bath & Wells) ; Rector of Withington, Herefs., from 1868 ; m. 3 Aug 1865 Maria Lear, younger dau. of Rev.John Comyns, Vicar of Bishopsteignton, Devon ; d. 28 Dec 1878.
ABBOT, GEORGE ; b. ; adm. (aged 11) June 1747 ; left 1747. [Perhaps George Abbot(t), son of George Abbot(t), bapt. St.Luke, Chelsea 20 Dec 1734 (IGI), an elder brother of Mordecai Abbot (qv) ?]
ABBOT, JOHN, son of Thomas Abbot, London ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Aug 1715 (“paid no fees”) ; KS (aged 14) 1721; left 1723. [Perhaps John Abbot, son of Thomas Abbot, and Mary (Lewis?), bapt.Christ Church, Newgate Street, London 4 Apr 1708 (IGI)] [perhaps therefore John Abbot, son of Thomas Abbot, Christ Church, London ; New Coll.Oxford, matr. 15 Feb 1725/6, aged 20 ; ordained ; Priest, Chapel Royal, from 1 Apr 1730 ; Lay Vicar, Westminster Abbey 1 Dec 1731, Minor Canon from 20 Jan 1738/9 ; Minor Canon of St.Paul’s from 4 Nov 1730 ; “well known in the musical world for his vocal performances” ; Vicar of Mucking, Essex, from Nov 1737 ; m. 1st , 1 Mar 1734/5 Elizabeth, dau. of Henry Turner, Little Cleveland Court, St.James’s Place, Westminster ; m. 2nd(?), Sarah — (his widow at death) ; d. 18 Feb 1743/4, in 39th year. Buried Westminster Abbey]
ABBOT, JOHN FARR, eldest son of Rev.John Abbot DD, Rector of All Saints, Colchester, Essex, and Sarah, dau. of Jonathan Farr, Moorfields, London, citizen and draper ; b. 24 Jan 1756 ; adm. Mar 1763 ; in sch.list Feb 1770 ; left 1770 ; adm. Inner Temple 8 May 1778 ; tenant of chambers there May 1778 – Nov 1784 ; a Clerk, Court of King’s Bench, by 4 May 1780 ; Clerk of the Rules, Court of King’s Bench, from Nov 1784 ; FSA 9 May 1793 ; FRS 20 Jun 1793 ; travelling in Italy 1793-4 ; m. 13 Jul 1786 Mary, dau. of Thomas Pearce, Abingdon Street, Westminster, and great-niece of Zachary Pearce (qv) ; d. 22 Sep 1794.
ABBOT, MORDECAI ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1747/8 ; left 1748 ; 2nd Lieut., 9th Co. of Marines 12 Feb 1755 ; 1st Lieut., 97thCo. 23 Jun 1756 ; Capt. 29 Jul 1762 ; Brevet Maj. 29 Aug 1777 ; retd. 1780. [Supplement describes him as probably a son of Maj.Mordecai Abbot, 20th Foot, Town Major of Gibraltar, but IGI gives a Mordecai Abbot, son of George Abbot, bapt.St.Luke, Chelsea 18 Jun 1737 : see George Abbot (adm.1747, qv)].
ABBOT, HON.PHILIP HENRY, second son of Charles Abbot, 1st Baron Colchester (qv) ; b. 10 Jun 1802 ; adm 5 Feb 1817 ; left 12 Jul 1817 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 22 Dec 1818, Canoneer Student [check], Faculty Student 1827-9 ; Vinerian Scholar 17 Feb 1821, Fellow 1828 ; 1st cl. Classics and 1st cl. Mathematics 1822 ; BA 1822 ; MA 1825 ; BCL 1828 ; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 5 Jun 1822, called to bar 2 May 1826 ; Recorder of Monmouth ; m. 31 Dec 1829 Frances Cecil, third dau. of Very Rev. Charles Talbot DD, Dean of Salisbury ; d. 8 Jan 1835.
ABBOT, SLOPER, son of Gilbert Abbot, and Elizabeth — (IGI) ; bapt.St.Martin in the Fields, London 28 Jul 1709 (IGI) ; adm. (aged 8) Jan 1717/8 ; left 1719.
ABBOTT, CHARLES FREDERICK, son of Capt.Charles Abbott, Royal Artillery, Dublin ; b. ; adm. 16 Jul 1770 ; KS (aged 13) 1772 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1777, adm.pens. 28 May 1777, scholar 15 May 1778, matr.Mich. 1777; Ensign 68th Foot 4 May 1785, Lieut. 11 Aug 1789 ; retd. 3 Aug 1793 ; inherited landed property in Co.Cork, Ireland ; living in Church Lane, Chelsea, Middlesex, at death ; m. Mary Anne — ; d. 6 Jan 1811. [perhps m. 1800 Mary Ann Miller]
ABBOTT, HENRY BETHUNE, eldest son of William Abbott, Parliament Street,Westminster, and Eliza — (IGI) ; b. 5 Sep 1816 ; adm. 18 Jan 1830 ; name up school 1832 ; adm. Gray’s Inn 12 Jun 1833 ; Clerk, Secretary’s Office, Post Office (occurs 1837) ; Clerk to Surveyors, Post Office (occurs as such 1840, 1853, 18 years service in Post Office in all, superannuated before death) ; drowned in fall from boat on river Exe, Devon 5 Aug 1859.
A BECKETT, GILBERT ABBOTT, brother of Sir William à Beckett (qv) ; b. 17 Feb 1811 ; adm. 10 Jan 1820 ; left Aug 1828 ; adm. Gray’s Inn 25 Apr 1828, called to bar 27 Jan 1841 ; a Metropolitan Police Magistrate from Feb 1849, sitting first at Greenwich and Woolwich, but at Southwark from 31 Dec 1849 ; while at school he started, with his brother William, The Censor and The Literary Beacon, two papers which attracted much attention ; founder and first editor of Figaro in London, the immediate precursor of Punch; subsequently one of the original staff of Punch, and for many years leader writer for the Times and Morning Herald ; author of The Comic History of England, 1848, some fifty or sixty plays, and numerous other works ; m. 21 Jan 1835 Mary Anne, eldest dau. of Joseph Glossop, Royal Coburg Theatre, Clerk of the Cheque to the Hon.Corps of Gentlemen at Arms ; d. at Boulogne 30 Aug 1856. ODNB.
A BECKETT, GILBERT ARTHUR, eldest son of Gilbert Abbott à Beckett (qv) ; b.7 Apr 1837 ; adm. 6 Jun 1849 (G) ; QS 1851 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1855, matr. 7 Jun 1855, Westminster Student ; BA 1860 ; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 15 Oct 1857 ; clerk in office of the Examiners of Criminal Law Accounts 1862-5 ; became a journalist and playwright ; one of the principal contributors to Punch, and author of numerous libretti and dramatic pieces ; joint author with W.S.Gilbert of the famous burlesque The Happy Land, performed at the Court Theatre 3 Mar 1873 ; Roman Catholic convert 1869 ; m. 24 Nov 1863 Elizabeth Emily, sister of William Thorley Gignac Hunt (qv) ; d. 15 Oct 1891. ODNB.
A BECKETT, THOMAS TURNER, brother of Sir William à Beckett (qv) ; b. 13 Sep 1808 ; adm. 10 Jul 1818 ; articled to his father 1824-9 ; adm. solicitor 1829, practising in Golden Square, London 1829-50 ; emigrated to Australia 1850 ; practised as a solicitor in Melbourne from Jan 1851 ; Registrar, Diocese of Melbourne 1854-87 ; nominated member, legislative council, Victoria 14 Jul 1852-6 ; elected member for Central Province 1858-78 ; Minister without Portfolio, Victoria Nov 1860- Nov 1861 ; member, Executive Council, sworn 7 Jan 1861 ; Commissioner for Trade and Customs, Victoria Apr 1870- Jan 1871 ; author, Remarks on the present State of the Law of Debtor and Creditor, 1844, and other works ; m. 28 Aug 1834 Eliza, dau. of William Stuckey, Bloomsbury Square, London ; m.2nd, 17 Nov 1855 Laura Jane, eldest dau. of Richard Stuckey, Brighton, Sussex (cousin of his first wife) ; d. at Brighton, near Melbourne, Australia 1 Jul 1892.
A BECKETT, SIR WILLIAM, eldest son of William à Beckett, Golden Square, London, attorney, and his second wife Sarah Abbott, St.George’s, Hanover Square, London [dau. of William Abbott, witness at her wedding ?] [her father was “proprietor of a glass and china warehouse”] ; b. 2 Jul 1806 ; adm. 22 Jan 1816 ; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 15 Nov 1822, called to bar 30 Jun 1829 ; emigrated to New South Wales 1837 ; acting Solicitor-General, New South Wales Mar 1841, confirmed Mar 1843 ; acting Judge of Supreme Court, New South Wales Jul 1844-5 ; Judge of Supreme Court for district of Port Philip (Melbourne) Feb 1846 – Jan 1852 ; Chief Justice of Victoria 24 Jan 1852 ; knighted by patent 19 Nov 1852 ; retd. 1857 ; returned to England 1863 ; helped to found the Melbourne Punch ; wrote a great number of the biographies in The Georgian Era, 1832-4 ; author, Out of Harness, 1854, and other works ; m. 1st, 1 Oct 1832 his cousin Emily, dau. of Edward Hayley, London [perhaps of Long Acre, London, lace manufacturer] ; m. 2nd, at Port Philip, Australia, 30 Oct 1849 Matilda, sister of his deceased wife ; d. 27 Jun 1869. ODNB.
ABERCORN, JAMES, 6TH EARL OF, see HAMILTON, JAMES, 6th EARL OF ABERCORN.
ABERCROMBY, ALEXANDER, eldest son of Gen.James Abercromby MP, Glassaugh, Banffshire, and Mary, widow of Capt.George Morison, Haddo, and dau. of William Duff, Dipple, Morayshire ; bapt.Fordyce, Banffshire (IGI) 5 Jul 1736 ; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1747/8 (as Abercrombie) ; in school list 1752 (surname mostly given as Abercromby in school lists) ; Lieut., Jul 1753 [check regiment] ; Capt. , 52nd Foot 10 Jan 1756 ; d. 6 May 1756. [Not the individual of this name apprenticed to John Syme, Writer to the Signet, 18 Jun 1755, as suggested by Russell Barker and Stenning]
ABERCROMBY, JAMES, third son of Alexander Abercromby MP, Tullibody, Clackmannanshire, and Mary, dau. of Alexander Duff, Braco, Banffshire ; bapt. Alloa, Clackmannanshire 24 Aug 1708 ; adm. (aged 13) Jan 1719/20 ; in under school list 1721 ; Leiden Univ. 1724-5 ; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 29 Jan 1725/6, called to bar 2 May 1738 ; resident in South Carolina 1730-44 ; Attorney-General, South Carolina 30 Nov 1730-45 ; member, South Carolina Assembly 1739-45 ; returned to England 1744 ; agent, North Carolina 1748-57 ; agent, North Carolina Assembly 1758-60 ; agent, Virginia 1752-61 ; agent, Virginia government and council 1761-74 ; Deputy Auditor-General for Plantations 1757-65 ; purchased Brucefield estate, Clackmannan, c.1758-9 ; MP Clackmannanshire 1761-8 ; author of publications on the American colonies ; dead by Nov.1775 (will proved PCC 20 Dec 1775). ODNB. [Perhaps kin to William Duff (adm.Jan.1719/20, qv), adm. same month]
ABERDOUR, LORD, see DOUGLAS, SHOLTO CHARLES, 14TH EARL OF MORTON.
ABERGAVENNY, BARON AND EARLS OF, see NEVILL.
ABERNETHY, HAROLD WILLIAM, third son of James Abernethy FRS (Ed), Delahay Street, Westminster, President Institute of Civil Engineers, and Ann, eldest dau. of John Neill, Wakefield, Yorks. ; b. 22 Oct 1858 ; adm. 26 Jan 1872 (R) ; left Dec 1877 ; Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester 1877-9 ; entered father’s office ; a civil engineer ; AMICE 14 April 1885 ; MICE 14 Nov 1893 ; assistant resident engineer, Alexandra Docks, Hull 1883-5 ; resident engineer on Runcorn section of Manchester Ship Canal 1885-94 ; d. unm. 9 Jul 1895 on board the Union S.S.Scot, during his voyage home from the Cape of Good Hope.
ABERNETHY, JOHN, son of John Abernethy ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) May 1720 ; Christ’s Coll.Cambridge (adm. pens. 1 Jul 1725, scholar 4 May 1727), matr.1726, resided to 1732 ; LLB 1730.
ABERNETHY, JOHN SCOTT, brother of Harold William Abernethy (qv) ; b. 31 May 1860 ; adm. 26 Jan 1872 (R) ; left Aug 1878 ; Worcester Coll. Oxford, matr. 21 Oct 1880 ; BA 1886 ; MA 1888 ; adm. Middle Temple 26 Jan 1883, called to bar 26 Jan 1887 ; author, The life and works of James Abernethy, C.E., 1897 ; m. 1st, 20 Apr 1899 Mary Helen, second dau. of Rev.John Richardson, Rector of Sandy, Beds. ; m. 2nd, 8 Jun 1915 Madeleine Philippa, widow of Alexander Edmund Coutts Trotter, The Bush and Dryden, Midlothian, and dau. of Richard William Selby-Lowndes, Elmers, Bletchley, Bucks. ; d. 22 Aug 1940.
ABINGDON, WILLOUGHBY, 4TH EARL OF, see BERTIE, WILLOUGHBY, 4TH EARL OF ABINGDON.
ABRAHAM, JONATHAN ; b. ; in school lists 1731, 1732/3, 1733-6 (in fifth form, Dec 1736). [Christian name not necessarily correct if only given in school list for Dec 1736]
ACCUM, FRIEDRICH ERNST, only surviving son of Friedrich Christian Accum, chemist, food scientist and pioneer of gas lighting, and Mary Anne Simpson [dau. of Joseph Simpson ?] ; b. 3 Apr 1801 ; adm. 20 Sep 1813 (as Frederick Ernest Accum) ; left Christmas 1813 ; m. Charlotte Wilhelmina Johanna Henkel ; d. 28 Jan 1869.
ACKLAND, CHARLES, eldest son of Charles Ackland, Leadenhall Market, London, [provision merchant ?], and Harriet Grove, widow of Robert Tabor, and dau. of — Taylor ; bapt. St.Peter, Cornhill 30 Oct 1797 (IGI) ; adm. Christmas 1812 ; BB 1812-5 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm. pens. 4 May 1815, aged 18, matr. Mich.1815 ; adm. Middle Temple 29 Oct 1814. [note will of Charles Ackland, proved PCC 28 Jan 1819] [perhaps Surveyor to County Fire Office, living 1824]
ACKLAND, CHARLES RICHARD ; b. ; at school in 1804 ; left 1806. [presumably Charles Richard Dyke Acland, third son of Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, Bart., Holnicote, Devon, and Henrietta Ann, only dau. of Sir Richard Hoare, Bart. (qv), b. 4 Aug 1793 ; adm. Harrow School Sep 1803 ; Lieut, Royal Navy 1 Jan 1814 ; Cdr., 29 Jan 1822 ; Capt., 30 Jan 1828 ; m. 8 Jul 1819 Charlotte Frances, widow of Capt. Richard Dalling Dunn, Royal Navy, and sister of George Templer (in school list 1797, qv) ; d. at Cape of Good Hope 23 Apr 1828].
ACKWORTH, —– ; b. ; in school list 1764 ; left Christmas 1764. [presumably “Master” Buckeridge Ball Acworth, a subscriber to Pierson Lloyd’s Sermons, 1765 (and to Robert Lloyd’s Poems, 1764) ; only surviving son of Abraham Acworth, Clerk in Exchequer, and Margaretta Mabella, sister of Lewis Buckeridge (qv) ; b. 16 Oct 1747 (IGI) ; of Great Queen Street, Westminster ; d. unm. 15 Aug 1818, aged 71. Buried Westminster Abbey.]
ACKWORTH, THOMAS, see ACWORTH, THOMAS
ACTON, CHARLES JAMES, brother of John Acton (qv) ; b. 3 Aug 1863 ; adm. 27 Sep 1877 (R) ; left May 1880 ; Univ.Coll.Hospital ; MRCS 1888 ; LRCP 1888 ; DPH 1891 ; a general medical practitioner at Wangford, Suffolk ; d. 1 Sep 1927.
ACTON, CHARLES JANUARIUS EDWARD, brother of Sir Ferdinand Richard Edward Dalberg-Acton, Bart. (qv) ; b. 6 Mar 1803 ; adm. 30 Sep 1813 ; left the same year on religious grounds, and went to a private tutor ; Magdalene Coll.Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 18 Jul 1819, matr. Lent 1820, resided to 1823 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 29 Jun 1822 ; entered Pontifica Accademia dei Nobili Ecclesiastici, Rome ; Chamberlain to Pope Leo XII ; attaché to Papal Nuncio in Paris 1828 ; Vice-Legate, Bologna to 1830 ; Secretary to Congregation for Regular Discipline ; Auditor, Apostolic Chamber Jan 1837 – Jan 1842 ; Cardinal Priest from 24 Jan 1842, with titular church of Sta Maria della Pace ; all English affairs of consequence were referred to Acton by Pope Gregory XVI and it was owing to his zeal that England was divided into eight instead of four Catholic districts in 1840 ; d. unm. at Naples 23 Jun 1847. ODNB.
ACTON, SIR FERDINAND RICHARD EDWARD, BART., see DALBERG-ACTON, SIR FERDINAND RICHARD EDWARD, BART.
ACTON, JOHN, eldest son of James Acton, Southport, Lancs., cotton spinner, and Ann, only dau. of John Brown, Hoghton Street, Southport, Lancs. ; b. 24 Sep 1860 ; adm. 4 Jun 1874 ; left Dec 1878 ; adm. solicitor Feb 1884 ; practised at Liverpool ; d. unm. in South Africa 4 Nov 1896.
ACTON, SIR RICHARD, BART., son of Sir Whitmore Acton, Bart., MP, and Elizabeth, dau. of Matthew Gibbon, Westcliffe, Kent ; b. 1 Jan 1711/2 ; adm. Mar 1722/3 ; in school list 1727/8 ; Emmanuel Coll.Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 15 Mar 1728/9 ; succ. father as 5th baronet 8 Jan 1731/2 ; adm. Inner Temple 23 Dec 1732 ; of Aldenham Hall, Shropshire ; contested Bridgnorth 1734 and 1741 ; High Sheriff of Shropshire 1751 ; a Roman Catholic convert (by 1758) ; m. 21 Sep 1744 Lady Anne Grey, sister of Harry Grey, 4th Earl of Stamford (qv) ; d. 20 Nov 1791.
ACWORTH, THOMAS, son of William Acworth, Storekeeper at Woolwich Dockyard, and his first wife Avice, dau. of Thomas Cole, Woodbridge Ufford, Suffolk ; b. ; adm. 1656 ; Min.Can. (aged 15) 1658 ; Magdalen Hall, Oxford, matr. 8 Dec 1658 ; migrated to Christ Church, Oxford, adm.commoner 28 Mar 1661, Canoneer Student 4 July 1661-83 (void), tutor 1663-72, Junior Censor 1670, Senior Censor 1671 ; BA 1662 ; MA 1665 ; BD 1683 ; ordained deacon 9 Jun 1666 [check], priest 22 Aug 1668 (both Oxford) ; Curate, Sunningwell, Berks. ; Vicar of Pyrton, Oxfordshire 7 Apr 1682 – Jul 1702, and Perpetual Curate of Shirburn, Oxfordshire (occurs 1685, 1697) ; deprived as non-juror 13 Jul 1702 ; m. 1st, Susan, dau. of Rev.Francis Gooddiar, Rector of Courteenhall, Northants. ; m. 2nd, Mary Sudwell ; d. 12 Oct 1719.
[ADAIR, ROBERT, natural son of Robert Adair, Serjeant-Surgeon to George III and Surgeon-Gen. to the Forces, and Mrs Mary Fenwick ; half-brother of Sir Robert Adair (qv) ; b. ; adm. ; EICS Bengal ; Writer 1769 ; arrived in India 4 Jun 1770 ; later Senior Merchant ; present at OW dinner at Calcutta c.July – Oct 1784 (Hickey, Memoirs, iii, 245-6, not otherwise evidenced as a OW) ; Collector, Bhagalpur 1787 ; still in India 1789 ; living in England 1802 ; of Harley Place, Devonshire Place, Marylebone, at death ; d. 13 Oct 1834, aged 82].
ADAIR, SIR ROBERT, only son of Robert Adair, Stratford Place, Marylebone, London, Serjeant-Surgeon to George III and Surgeon-Gen. to the Forces, and Lady Caroline Keppel, sister of George Keppel, 3rd Earl of Albemarle (qv) ; b. 24 May 1763 ; adm. 7 Jul 1773 ; left 1778 ; Göttingen Univ ; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 16 Feb 1780, called to bar 27 Apr 1785 ; MP Appleby 18 Jun 1799-1802, Camelford 1802-12 ; Minister Plenipotentiary to Austria 7 May 1806-8 and to Turkey 5 Jul 1808, Ambassador Extraordinary Apr 1809-10 ; on special mission to Belgium 3 Aug 1831-5, and Prussia 28 Jul 1835-6 ; Privy Councillor 23 Jul 1828 ; GCB 3 Aug 1831 ; a consistent Whig and intimate friend of Charles James Fox ; author, Historical Memoir of a Mission to the Court of Vienna in 1806, with a selection of dispatches, 1844, and other works ; m. 27 Jul 1805 Gabrielle Angélique, dau. of Charles Joseph, Marquis de L’Escuyer, Seigneur de Hagnicourt, Maréchal de Camp in the French army ; d. 3 Oct 1855. ODNB.
ADAM, SAMUEL, see ADLAM, SAMUEL.
ADAM, WALTER, only son of Alexander Adam LLD, Rector of Edinburgh High School and writer on Roman history, and his second wife Jane, dau. of Walter Cosser, Collector of Excise, Edinburgh ; b. 6 Jan 1792 (IGI) ; adm. Sep 1806 ; left 1807 ; Edinburgh Univ. 1813-6 ; MD (Ed) 1816 ; LRCP (Lond) 1818 ; FRCP (Ed) 1819 ; living in Edinburgh when a signatory of Play Protest 1847 ; author, The Osteological Symmetry of the Camel, 1832 ; d. unm. 9 Oct 1857.
ADAMS, – – – ; b. ; adm. 27 Apr 1655 (boarder) ; in school lists 1656.
ADAMS, ARTHUR JOHN, brother of William Frederick Adams (qv) ; b. 9 Jul 1853 ; adm. from King’s Coll.Sch. 1 Oct 1866 ; left Dec 1869 ; Gonville and Caius Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 9 Oct 1871, matr. Mich.1871, but resided only five terms ; entered army from militia as Lieut., Royal West Surrey Regt. 20 Nov 1875 ; Capt. 15 Feb 1886 ; half-pay 24 Dec 1890 ; retd. 24 Dec 1895 ; latterly living at Bridgmans, Thorverton, Devon ; d. 19 Oct 1929.
ADAMS, DACRES, brother of William Pitt Adams (qv) ; b. 26 Jul 1806 ; adm. 14 Apr 1819 ; KS 1820 ; left Christmas 1820 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 30 Mar 1824 ; BA 1827 ; MA 1832 ; ordained deacon 2 Aug 1829, priest 28 Aug 1830 (both Exeter) ; Vicar of Pinhoe, Devon, 20 Jul 1832-7 ; Vicar of Bampton, Oxfordshire (second portion), from 12 May 1837 ; JP Oxfordshire ; m. 15 Aug 1832 his cousin Anna Maria, eldest dau. of Baldwin Fulford, Fulford, Devon ; d. 8 Dec 1871.
ADAMS, HENRY CADWALLADER, only son of John Adams, Serjeant-at-law and Assistant Judge of Middlesex Quarter Sessions, and his second wife Jane, dau. of Thomas Martin, Nottingham ; b. 4 Nov 1817 ; adm. 16 Jun 1830 ; left 1831 ; went to Winchester Coll. ; Balliol Coll.Oxford, matr. 30 Nov 1835 ; migrated to Magdalen Coll., demy 1836-43, fellow 1843-52 ; BA 1840 ; MA 1842 ; Master of Magdalen Coll.School Mar-May 1844 ; assistant master, Winchester Coll., 1844-51 ; ordained deacon 20 Dec 1846, priest 7 Mar 1852 (both Oxford) ; Curate, Greinton, Somerset 1853-4 ; Chaplain, Bromley Coll., Kent 25 Jun 1855-67 ; Vicar of Dry Sandford, with Cothill, Berks., 21 Sep 1867-78 ; Vicar of Old Shoreham, Sussex 15 Jul 1878-96 ; author, Wykehamica, 1878, and of numerous books for boys ; m. 6 Jul 1852 Esther Pell, second dau. of Rev.Richard Edmonds, Rector of Woodleigh, Devon ; d. 17 Oct 1899. ODNB.
ADAMS, HENRY POWYS, eldest son of Richard Leonard Adams (qv) ; b. 10 Jun 1862 ; adm. 5 Apr 1877 ; left Aug 1880 ; Clare Coll.Cambridge, adm. pens. 6 Oct 1880, matr. Mich.1882, resided to 1882 ; partner, ecclesiastical agents, London, to 1898 ; spent many years abroad, living in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1906 ; re-enlisted in 1st batt. Honourable Artillery Company Aug 1914, which he had previously joined in 1893 ; served on Western Front Sep 1914 – Jul 1915, invalided home, discharged 7 Apr 1916 ; m. 1st, 5 Oct 1893 Edith Anne Jackson, third dau. of Robert Turner Bywater LRCP MRCS LSA, Coniston, Lancs. ; m. 2nd, 29 Sep 1915 Nellie, dau. of Richmond Keele, Imber Cross, Thames Ditton, Surrey, “manager Colonial Meal [Meat ?] Co.” (1881 Census) ; d. 30 Oct 1938.
ADAMS, HERBERT GEORGE, brother of William Pitt Adams (qv) ; b. 27 Jan 1814 ; adm. 15 Jan 1827 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 7 Jun 1832 ; BA 1836 ; MA 1839 ; ordained deacon 28 Oct 1838 (Exeter) ; Vicar of Dunsford, Devon, 18 Apr 1839, and of Cornwood, Devon, from 1844 ; m. 3 Aug 1842 his cousin Eleanor, dau. of Baldwin Fulford, Fulford, Devon ; d. 25 Nov 1851.
ADAMS, JOHN, son of John Adams, Holyland, Pembrokeshire, and Sophia, dau. of Ven.George Holcombe, Archdeacon of Carmarthen ; b. May 1796 ; at school 1805 ; left 1814 ; Brasenose Coll.Oxford, matr. 27 Apr 1814, aged 17 ; of Holyland, Pembrokeshire ; JP Pembrokeshire, High Sheriff 1837 ; m. 24 Jul 1828 Anne, eldest dau. of Henry Gibbons, Oswestry, Shropshire ; d. 23 Mar 1874.
ADAMS, JOSEPH ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Jun 1720 ; in under school list 1721.
ADAMS, RICHARD LEONARD, youngest son of Rev.Richard Leonard Adams, Rector of Shere, Surrey, and Hon.Elizabeth Atherton Powys, fourth dau. of Thomas Powys, 2nd Baron Lilford ; b. 29 Mar 1838 ; adm. (G) 30 May 1850 ; Christ’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 29 Jun 1858, matr.Mich.1858 ; BA 1862; MA 1865 ; ordained deacon 31 May 1863 (Norwich), priest 22 May 1864 ; Vicar of Framfield, Sussex 7 Aug 1866-76 ; Rector of Shere, Surrey 1876-93 ; m. 11 Jul 1861 Florence Emma, dau. of William Vizard, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, and Ewell, Surrey, solicitor ; d. 11 Apr 1897.
[ADAMS, SAMUEL ; b.Wiltshire c.1760 ; adm. ; Lieut., Leics. Militia 27 Apr 1778 ; Cadet EICS Bengal 1780 ; Ensign, 22 Mar 1781 ; sailed for India 13 Mar 1781, arrived 23 Oct 1781 ; Lieut., 3rd Native Infantry 2 Jun 1781 ; present at OW dinner at Calcutta c.Jul – Oct 1784 (Hickey, Memoirs, iii, 246), but not otherwise recorded as educated at Westminster : Record confuses him with Samuel Adlam (qv) ; Capt.-Lieut., 7 Jan 1796 ; Capt., 5th Native Infantry 1798 ; d. at Ambur, Madras 20 Mar 1799. Not in Dr.Smith’s admission book and not particularly likely to have been an OW]
ADAMS, THOMAS, son of William Adams, Yorkshire ; b. ; adm. ; KS ; contributor to Lachrymae Musarum, 1649, p.97 ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1651, adm. pens. 13 May 1651, scholar 1651, matr. Mich. 1651 ; a copy of English verses written by him is prefixed to the Amanda of Nicholas Hookes (elected to Trinity Coll.cambridge, 1649, qv), published 1653. [Probably Thomas Adams, second son of William Adams, Owston, Yorks., and Margaret, dau. of Sir Thomas Ellis, Kt, Grantham, Lincs., adm. Gray’s Inn 12 Apr 1654, d.unm.]
ADAMS, WILLIAM, son of John Adams, Shropshire, barrister, surveyor and map-maker, compiler of the Index Villaris, and Jane, fifth dau. of Sir Walter Wrottesley, Bart. ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1686 ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1691, matr. 4 Jul 1691, aged 18, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1691 – void 30 Jul 1713 (expiry year of grace as R.Staunton-upon-Wye), Tutor 1700-5 ; BA 1695 ; MA 1698 ; ordained deacon 4 Jun 1699, priest 26 May 1700 (aged 25) (both Oxford) ; Curate, St Thomas’s, Oxford, 1700 (still 1709) ; admonished by college for scandalous words about William Lloyd, Bishop of Worcester, 20 Dec 1706 ; Rector of Staunton-upon-Wye, Herefs., from 26 Jul 1712 ; a highly esteemed preacher ; published an edition of Cornelius Nepos, 1697 ; a volume containing his Fifteen Discourses occasionally deliver’d before the University of Oxford was edited for publication by Dr Sacheverell in 1716 ; dead at 6 Aug 1714.
ADAMS, WILLIAM, eldest son of William Adams, Charwelton, Northants., and Catherine, dau. of Rev.Thomas Knightley, Rector of Byfield, Northants. ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1689 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1693, matr. 30 Jun 1693, aged 18, Westminster Student 14 Dec 1693-8 (void) ; BA 1697 ; MA 20 Mar 1699/1700 ; elected the first Catechetical Lecturer at Ch.Ch. on Dr Busby’s foundation ; adm. Middle Temple 9 Jul 1694 ; ordained deacon and priest 30 May 1697 (Oxford) ; Rector of Charwelton, Northants., from 11 Aug 1697 ; an intimate friend of Browne Willis (qv) ; m. 13 Nov 1700 Mary, dau. of John Smith, Welton, Northants. ; d. 7 Sep 1731.
ADAMS, WILLIAM FREDERICK, elder son of William Adams FRCS, Henrietta Street, Cavendish Square, London, orthopaedic surgeon, and Mary Anne, dau. of John Mills ; b. 27 Aug 1851 ; adm. from King’s Coll.Sch. 26 Jan 1867 ; left 1868 ; adm. member London Stock Exchange 1875, still 1917 ; d. 30 May 1922.
ADAMS, WILLIAM HENRY, see HYETT, WILLIAM HENRY.
ADAMS, WILLIAM PITT, eldest son of William Dacres Adams, Bowdon, Devon, Commissioner of Woods and Forests, previously private secretary to William Pitt the younger and to Duke of Portland when Prime Ministers, and Elizabeth, second dau. of Mayow Wynell-Mayow, Sydenham, Kent, Solicitor of Excise ; b. 11 Dec 1804 ; adm. 16 Apr 1817 ; KS 1819 ; left 1820 ; Oriel Coll.Oxford, matr. 21 Feb 1823 ; Assistant Junior Clerk, Foreign Office Apr 1826- Jul 1830, Junior Clerk Jul 1830 – Nov 1834 ; Secretary of Legation, Bogota, 31 Dec 1834, Mexico 31 Jul 1841 ; Chargé d’Affaires and Consul-General, Peru, from 30 Nov 1842 ; m. 16 Sep 1847 Georgiana Emily, dau. of Robert Lukin, Felbrigg, Norfolk ; d. at Lima, Peru, 6 Sep 1852.
ADAMSON, — ; b. ; in school lists 1732/3-34. [probably same individual as next : neither paid fees]
ADAMSON, RICHARD, son of Richard Adamson, Westminster ; b. ; adm. ; Min.Can. 1737 (aged 13), 1738 (aged 14) ; left 1739.
ADDENBROOKE, JOHN, son of John Addenbrooke, Newport, Shropshire, and Dorcas, dau. of Walter Story, Sheriffhales, Staffs. ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1698 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1702, matr. 12 Jun 1702, aged 19, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1702 – 4 Jul 1706 (deprived, having been degraded one year for misbehaviour, 13 Dec 1705) ; migrated to St.Mary Hall ; BA 10 Mar 1706/7 ; MA Cambridge (from St.Catherine’s Hall) 1710 ; ordained deacon 21 Sep 1707 (Peterborough), priest 16 Jun 1717 (Ely) ; Curate, Pilton, Northants 1707 ; Rector of Sutton, Shropshire, from 10 Aug 1724 ; Rector of Upper Sapey, Herefordshire, from 10 Aug 1724 [check] ; Vicar of Wolferlow, Herefs., 29 May 1725 – Feb 1728 ; d. by 23 Sep 1733. [perhaps m. 8 Aug 1710 Anne Jobber (or Sobber)]
ADDERLEY, EDWARD HALE, eldest son of Thomas Adderley MP (I), Rutland Square, Dublin, and Innishannon, co.Cork, and his second wife Margaretta, only dau. of Edmund Bourke, Urrey, co.Mayo ; b. 14 May 1771 ; adm. 5 Oct 1784 ; he or one of his younger brothers played cricket for Town Boys v. KSS 28 Jul 1789 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 4 Feb 1790 ; Writer, EICS Bengal 19 Feb 1794 ; private secretary to his stepfather Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire (qv), when Governor of Madras ; of Innishannon, co.Cork ; fell into debt and disposed of his estate in Co.Cork ; Librarian, Board of Trade Jan 1842 – Jan 1845 ; d. unm. 31 Oct 1870, aged 99.
ADDERLEY, GEORGE AUGUSTUS, brother of Edward Hale Adderley (qv) ; b. ; adm. 26 Oct 1785 ; Provost Marshal, Trinidad 1802- pensioned 1836 [check] ; Junior Clerk, Board of Trade Jan 1842 – c.1843 ; Colonial Secretary, Gibraltar (by c.1832, pensioned 23 Nov 1858) ; m. ; living 1862.
ADDERLEY, RICHARD BOYLE, brother of Edward Hale Adderley (qv) ; b. ; adm. 26 Oct 1785 ; Glasgow Univ. (in 1793) ; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 29 Jan 1794 ; private secretary to his stepfather Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire (qv), when Colonial Secretary, Mar – Sep 1801 ; Assistant Secretary and Sealer to Chancellor of Exchequer Aug 1823 ; held post in Seal Office, Court of Exchequer [by c.1837 – office abolished 1849 ?] ; m. 6 Sep 1849 Catherine Matts ; death registered Chelsea fourth quarter 1857.
ADDINGTON, WILLIAM LEONARD, 2ND VISCOUNT SIDMOUTH, second son of Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth PC, Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury, and his first wife Ursula Mary, dau. of Leonard Hammond, Cheam House, Cheam, Surrey ; b. 13 Nov 1794 ; adm. Christmas 1806 ; left 1810 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 28 Oct 1812 ; private secretary to father when Home Secretary, Jan 1815 – Jan 1819 ; ordained deacon 9 Apr 1820 (Salisbury), priest 24 Dec 1820 (London) ; Rector of Poole Keynes, Wilts., 22 Feb 1821-44 ; succ. father as 2nd Viscount Sidmouth 15 Feb 1844 ; m. 20 Apr 1820 Mary, eldest dau. of Rev.John Young, Rector of Thorpe Malsor, Northants. ; d. 25 Mar 1864.
ADDISON, JOSEPH ; b. ; adm. (aged 9) Nov 1720 ; in school list 1729. [Presumably Joseph Addison, son of Daniel Addison, Hatfield, Herts., mealman, and Mary, sister of Thomas Huntman (qv), bapt.Hatfield, Herts., 8 Jul 1711 (IGI)] [Note Joseph Addison, St.James, Westminster, will proved PCC 6 Jul 1787]
ADDISON, JOSEPH FOUNTAINE, youngest son of Rev.William Fountaine Addison (otherwise William Addison Fountaine), Rector of Middleton St.George, co.Durham, and Lucy, youngest dau. of David Rattray MD, Coventry, Warwickshire ; b. 8 Dec 1829 ; adm. 11 Jan 1841 ; Magdalene Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 22 May 1848, matr. Mich.1848, but did not graduate ; operatic manager, known as ‘Signor Fountaine” ; lived in Italy for many years ; d. unm. 23 Jan 1884.
ADDISON, ROBERT BRYDGES, brother of William Grylls Addison (qv) ; b. 16 Aug 1854 ; adm. 6 Feb 1868, BB ; left Dec 1868 ; Royal Academy of Music ; ARAM 1882 ; Professor of Harmony and Composition, Royal Academy of Music ; Professor of Music, Trinity Coll.London ; a composer ; d. unm. 8 Jul 1920.
ADDISON, WILLIAM GRYLLS, son of Rev.William Fountaine Addison, Vicar of Ossett, Yorks., and Sarah Ellen Elizabeth, fourth dau. of Rev.Thomas Grylls, Rector of Cardynham, Cornwall, and Prebendary of Exeter ; nephew of Joseph Fountaine Addison (qv) ; b. 5 Nov 1852 ; adm. 6 Jun 1866 ; QS Jan 1868 ; left May 1869 ; an artist, specialising in landscapes ; m. 16 Dec 1880 Alice, dau. of William Knight, Sevenoaks, Kent, artist ; d. 30 Sep 1904.
ADEANE, JAMES WHORWOOD, only son of Simon Adeane, Chalgrove, Oxfordshire, and Mary, dau. of Hon.Henry Brydges (qv) ; bapt. 14 Dec 1740 ; adm. (aged 9) Jun 1750 ; in school list 1754 ; entered army 1755 ; Lieut., 71st Foot 29 Sep 1757 ; Capt., 67th Foot 22 Feb 1761 ; Lieut. & Capt., 1st Troop Horse, Grenadier Guards 21 Dec 1763 ; Maj., 8 Jun 1768 ; Capt. & Lieut.-Col., 1 Aug 1770 ; Col., 19 Feb 1779 ; ADC to King George III 27 Feb 1779 ; Maj-Gen., 20 Nov 1782 ; Col., 45th Foot, from 11 Sep 1788 ; Lieut.-Gen., 3 May 1796 ; Gen., 1 Jan 1801 ; an Extra Groom of the Bedchamber 20 Aug 1784 – Jan 1788, Groom of the Bedchamber from 20 Jan 1788 ; MP Cambridge 1780 – May 1789, Cambridgeshire from 19 May 1789 ; of Babraham, Cambs. ; m. 5 Mar 1763 Anne, dau. of Robert Jones MP, Babraham, Cambs. ; d. 15 Apr 1802.
ADLAM, SAMUEL ; b. ; adm. 18 Sep 1775 (surname printed by Russell Barker and Stenning as Adam) ; in school lists 1775,1780 ; in Upper Third Form 1779 ; left Dec 1780 ; Ensign, 62nd Foot 18 Mar 1782 ; retired 4 Mar 1791. [Note Samuel Adlam who m. at Warminster, Wilts. 5 Aug 1793 Sarah Turner (IGI)]. [Samuel Adlam (younger), Devizes, Wilts., gentleman, will proved PCC 19 Feb 1798] [Samuel Adlam m. at Devizes 13 May 1759 Ann Mortimer : maybe this individual’s parents]
ADYE, —- ; b. ; in school list 1764 ; left Dec 1764.
AFFLECK, GILBERT, brother of John Affleck (qv) ; b. 15 Nov 1711 ; adm. from Rugby Sch. (where adm. 3 Jun 1719) Jan 1721/2 ; KS 1726 ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1731, adm. pens. 22 Jun 1731, scholar 15 Jul 1731 ; BA 1734/5 ; MA 1738 ; ordained deacon 21 Mar 1735/6 (Lincoln), priest 18 Jul 1736 (Norwich) ; Rector of Dalham, Suffolk, from 19 Jul 1736 ; Rector of Lidgate, Suffolk, from 12 Feb 1740/1 ; m. 22 Sep 1746 Elizabeth, dau. of William Clopton, Liston Hall, Essex ; committed suicide 24 Apr 1763 (for his suicide see William Cole, A journal of my journey to Paris in the year 1765, ed.F.G.Stokes, 1931, 387).
AFFLECK, GILBERT, eldest son of Rev.William Affleck BD, Rector of North Luffenham, Rutland, and Vicar of Potton, Beds., and Catherine, only dau. of Richard Daston, Burwell, Cambs. ; nephew of John Affleck (qv) ; bapt. 21 May 1756 ; adm. 1 Jun 1774 ; left 1776 ; Emmanuel Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 12 Feb 1776, matr. Lent 1777 ; 2nd Lieut. 23rd Foot 5 Nov 1778 ; Lieut. 7th Foot 20 Sep 1779 ; Capt. 63rd Foot 30 Apr 1781 ; 98th Foot, half-pay, 1795 ; unattached on half-pay, from 26 Jan 1797 ; of Cavendish Hall, Suffolk ; Lieut.-Col., Suffolk Militia, 1 May 1812 ; m. 1st, Mary Smith, Stamford, Lincs. [dau. of Henry Smith ?] ; m. 2nd, Feb 1814 Jane, dau. of Francis Smythies, Colchester, Essex, Town Clerk of Colchester ; d. 26 Apr 1831.
AFFLECK, JAMES, brother of John Affleck (qv) ; b. 18 Aug 1716 ; adm. Oct 1728 ; KS 1731 ; elected to Ch.Ch.Oxford 1735, matr. 9 Jun 1735, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1735 – void 9 Feb 1758 (expiry year of grace as PC Daventry) ; BA 1739 ; MA 1742 ; ordained deacon 1 Jun 1740, priest 28 Dec 1740 (both Oxford) ; Perpetual Curate, Daventry, Northants., from 1750 ; Domestic Chaplain to James, Earl of Northampton 5 Apr 1753 ; Vicar of Finedon, Northants., from 1 Feb 1757 ; Prebendary of York from 20 May 1783 ; m. 1757 Mary Proctor, Clay Coton, Northants. ; d. 21 Nov.1784.
AFFLECK, SIR JAMES, BART., eldest son of James Affleck (qv) ; b. 29 Apr 1759 ; adm. 20 Sep 1773 ; KS 1774 ; left 1776 ; Ensign 43rd Foot 29 Feb 1776 ; Lieut. 9 Dec 1778 ; Capt. 26th Foot 15 Sept 1779 ; Capt.-Lieut. and Capt., 23rd Light Dragoons 16 Jan 1782 ; Maj. 19th Light 12 St IvesAylesbury 1774-90Dragoons 6 Dec 1786 ; Lieut.-Col. (brevet) 1 Mar 1794 ; Lieut.-Col. 16th Light Dragoons 25 Mar 1795 ; Col. (brevet) 1 Jan 1798 ; Brig.-Gen. in Ireland May 1803 ; Maj.-Gen. 1 Jan 1805 ; Lieut.-Gen. 4 Jun 1811 ; Gen. 27 May 1825 ; served in American War, wounded at Rhode Island ; succ. his cousin Gilbert as 3rd baronet 17 Jul 1808 ; d. unm. 10 Aug 1833.
AFFLECK, JOHN, second son of Gilbert Affleck MP, Dalham Hall, Suffolk, and Anne, dau. of John Dolben (at school in 1676, qv) ; b. 12 Feb 1710 ; adm. Jan.1721/2 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 31 Oct 1727 ; adm. Inner Temple 26 Oct 1728 ; MP Suffolk 23 Mar 1743-61, Amersham 4 Dec 1767-8 ; Lieut.-Col., 1st battalion, Suffolk Militia ; m. Aug 1736 Sarah, only dau. of James Metcalfe MP, Roxton, Beds. ; d. 17 Feb 1776.
AFFLECK, SIR ROBERT, BART., fourth son of James Affleck (qv) ; b. 27 Jan 1765 ; adm. 10 Mar 1778 ; KS (Capt.) 1779 ; Captain of the School 1782 ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1783, matr. 26 Jun 1783, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1783 – void 14 Oct 1797 (expiry year of grace as V.Westow from 17 Aug 1796) ; BA 1787 ; MA 1790 ; ordained deacon 23 Sep 1792, priest 24 Feb 1793 (both Norwich) ; Chaplain, Royal Navy 1793 ; Curate, Headon, Notts. 1794-1803 ; Master, Hemsworth GS Apr 1796 – Aug 1796 ; Vicar of Westow, Yorks., 5 Aug 1796 – Nov 1833 ; Rector of Treswell, Notts., 5 Aug 1796- May 1837 ; Prebendary of York from 8 May 1802 ; Vicar of Doncaster, Yorks., 4 Aug 1807 – May 1817 ; Rector of Silkstone, Yorks., 17 May 1817 – Feb 1835 ; succ. his brother James as 4th baronet 10 Aug 1833 ; m. 17 May 1800 Maria, second dau. of Sir Elijah Impey (qv) ; d. 7 May 1851.
AGAR, —- ; b. ; adm. ; in school lists 1656, first three quarters ; left 1656.
AGAR, CHARLES, 1ST EARL OF NORMANTON (I), brother of James Agar, 1st Viscount Clifden (qv) ; b. 22 Dec 1736 ; adm. Jun 1747 ; KS 1751 ; elected to Trin.Coll.Camb. 1755, but went to Ch.Ch.Oxford, matr. 31 May 1755, commoner 1755-6, Canoneer Student 9 Jul 1756 – void 7 Nov 1764 (expiry year of grace as D.Kilmore (sic, in error) from 4 Nov 1763), Tutor 1763 ; BA 1759 ; MA 1762 ; DCL 31 Dec 1765 ; ordained deacon 2 Mar 1760, priest 17 May 1761 (both Oxford) ; Chaplain to 1st Duke of Northumberland when Lord Lieut. Ireland, 22 Sep 1763 ; Rector of Ballymagarvey and Skryne, co.Meath Sep 1763 ; Dean of Kilmore 22 May 1765 – Mar 1768 ; Rector of Annagh, co.Cavan 1765-6 ; consecrated Bishop of Cloyne 20 Mar 1768 ; enthroned Archbishop of Cashel 19 Aug 1779 ; translated to Dublin 7 Dec 1801 ; Privy Councillor (I) 15 Nov 1779 ; created Baron Somerton (I) 12 Jun 1795 ; Viscount Somerton (I) 30 Dec 1800 ; Earl of Normanton (I) 4 Feb 1806 ; an Irish Representative Peer in UK Parliament from 1800 ; amassed a considerable fortune, and completed the destruction of the mediaeval cathedral on the Rock of Cashel ; m. 22 Nov 1776 Jane, eldest dau. of William Benson, Downpatrick, co.Down, merchant in Dublin ; d. 14 Jul 1809 ; buried in North Transept, Westminster Abbey, with monument in North Aisle of Choir. ODNB.
AGAR, HON.CHARLES BAGENAL, third son of James Agar, 1st Viscount Clifden (qv) ; b. 13 Aug 1769 ; adm. 18 May 1778 ; KS 1784 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1788, matr. 22 May 1788, Westminster Student 23 Dec 1788 – void 25 Jun 1800 ; BA 1792 ; MA 1795 ; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 14 Jul 1788, called to bar 9 Jun 1796 ; a Commissioner of Bankrupts 1799 (occurs in annual lists 1801-4) ; Commissioner of Appeals of Excise 10 Mar 1800 – 7 Jul 1806 ; Deputy Recorder of Oxford 1801 ; High Sheriff of Cornwall 1809 ; m. 2 Nov 1804 Anna Maria, only dau. of Thomas Hunt MP, Mollington, Cheshire, and Lanhydrock, Cornwall, and sole heiress of her great-uncle Henry, 3rd Earl of Radnor ; d. 16 Jun 1811.
AGAR, HON.GEORGE CHARLES, second son of Charles Agar, 1st Earl of Normanton (qv) ; b. 1 Aug 1780 ; in school list 1795 ; KS 1796 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1800, matr. 12 Jun 1800, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1800 – void 2 Jul 1810 ; BA 1804 ; MA 1807 ; Ensign, 3rd Foot Guards 21 Jan 1804 ; Lieut. 6 Jun 1809 ; retd. 5 Nov 1811 ; served in Peninsular War ; FRS 9 Jun 1832 ; d. unm. 24 Jan 1856.
AGAR, HENRY, brother of James Agar, 1st Viscount Clifden (qv) ; b. ; adm. (aged 8) Dec 1750 ; KS 1757 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1761, matr. 21 May 1761, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1761 – void by marriage 12 Jun 1765 ; BA 1765 ; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 27 May 1761 ; ordained deacon 21 Dec 1766 (Lincoln), priest 4 Jan 1767 (Norwich, lit.dim. from Lincoln) ; Prebendary of Cloyne from 30 Jul 1768 ; Vicar of Templebodane, co.Cork 30 Jul 1768 – Oct 1769 ; Rector of Agabulloge, co.Cork, from 4 Jul 1770 ; m. c.1765 Mary, dau. of Benjamin Tyrrell, Oxford ; d. 14 May 1798.
AGAR, HENRY WELBORE, see AGAR-ELLIS, HENRY WELBORE
AGAR, JAMES, 1ST VISCOUNT CLIFDEN (I), eldest son of Henry Agar MP (I), Gowran Castle, co.Kilkenny, by Anne, only surviving dau. of Welbore Ellis (KS 1676, qv) ; b. 25 Mar 1734 ; adm. Nov.1746 ; left 1752 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 20 Apr 1752 ; MP (I) Gowran 1753-60, Co.Kilkenny 1761-76, Gowran 1776 ; a Commissioner of the Irish Revenue 3 Feb 1772-85, and of the Irish Excise 13 Jul 1776-85 ; created Baron Clifden (I) 27 Jan 1776 ; Viscount Clifden (I) 12 Jan 1781 ; joint Postmaster-General, Ireland 16 Jul 1784-9 ; Privy Councillor (I) 16 Oct 1784 ; m. 20 Mar 1760 Lucy, widow of Hon. Henry Boyle Walsingham MP (I), and eldest dau. of John Martin, Dublin, Ireland, also landowner in Virginia, North America ; d. 1 Jan 1789.
AGAR, HON.JAMES, third son of Charles Agar, 1st Earl of Normanton (qv) ; b. 10 Jul 1782 [or 1781 ?] ; adm. ; KS 1797 ; played cricket against Eton 8 Aug 1799, 31 Jul 1800 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1801, matr. 15 May 1801, Westminster Student ; BA 1805 ; MA 1808 ; ordained deacon 9 Jun 1805 (Oxford), priest 3 Oct 1805 (York) ; Prebendary of St.Patrick’s, Dublin 16 Nov 1805-9 ; Rector of St.Nicholas Without, Dublin, 1806, and of Carrig Allen, co.Leitrim 1809 ; Rector of Hollywood, co.Down, from 1806 [check] ; Archdeacon of Kilmore from 1810 ; m. 7 Jul 1829 Louisa, youngest dau. of Samuel Thompson, Greenmount, co.Antrim ; d. 6 Sep 1866.
AGAR, JAMES CHARLES HERBERT WELBORE ELLIS, 3RD EARL OF NORMANTON (I), eldest son of Welbore Ellis Agar, 2nd Earl of Normanton (qv) ; b. 18 Sep 1818 ; adm. 9 Jul 1832 ; cox of eight in race against Eton 4 May 1837 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.nob.29 Jan 1838, matr.1838 ; MA 1842 ; styled Lord Somerton to 1868 ; MP (Conservative/Peelite) Wilton 1841-52 ; succeeded as 3rd Earl of Normanton (I) 26 Aug 1868 ; created Baron Somerton (UK) 9 Apr 1873 ; took Liberal whip in House of Lords ; a Liberal Unionist from 1886 ; DL Hampshire, Wiltshire ; m. 9 Apr 1856 Hon. Caroline Susan Augusta Barrington, dau. of William Keppel Barrington, 6th Viscount Barrington (I) (qv) ; d. 19 Dec 1896.
AGAR, JOHN, son of Benjamin Agar (formerly Preston), Brockfield Hall , Warthill, Yorks., and Beatrice Susanna, dau. of Lewis Francis Irwin, Tarragoe, co.Sligo ; b. 30 December 1797 (IGI) ; adm. 12 Jun 1811 ; left 1814 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm. pens. 23 Jan 1817, aged 19, matr. Mich.1817 ; of Brockfield Hall, Warthill, Yorks. ; DL JP Yorkshire ; m. 25 Jun 1829 Harriet Maria, dau. of Thomas Swann, York ; d. 28 Nov 1871.
AGAR, HON.JOHN ELLIS, second son of James Agar, 1st Viscount Clifden (qv) ; b. 31 Dec 1764 ; adm. 14 Sep 1773 ; KS 1780 ; elected head to Ch.Ch.Oxford 1784, matr. 9 Jun 1784, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1784 – void 5 Jul 1790 (expiry year of grace as R.Duntrileague from 20 Jul 1789) ; BA 1788 ; MA 1791 ; ordained deacon 7 Jun 1789, priest 20 Jun 1789 (both Oxford) ; Rector of Duntrileague, co.Limerick 1789 ; Prebendary of Emly from 4 Jul 1789 ; Rector of St.George’s, Dublin, from 1793 ; Precentor of Christ Church, Dublin from 27 Feb 1796 ; m. 11 Mar 1792 Hon.Harriet Flower, dau. of William Flower, 2nd Viscount Ashbrook (I) ; d. 3 Jan 1797.
AGAR, WELBORE ELLIS, brother of James Agar, 1st Viscount Clifden (qv) ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Jun 1747 ; in school list 1754 ; Deputy Commissary-Gen. of Musters, England, from Nov 1763 ; a Commissioner of Customs from 31 Oct 1776 ; a well-known picture collector ; FRS 22 Mar 1781 ; m. 21 Oct 1769 Gertrude, sister of Sir Charles Hotham (adm.1745, qv) ; d. 30 Oct 1805.
AGAR, WELBORE ELLIS, 2ND EARL OF NORMANTON (I), eldest son of Charles Agar, 1st Earl of Normanton (qv) ; adm. ; KS 1794 ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1798, matr. 6 Jun 1798, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1798 – res 20 Nov 1803 ; BA 1802 ; succ. as 2nd Earl of Normanton (I) 14 Jul 1809 ; assembled a fine collection of pictures at his residence at Somerley, Hampshire, still preserved in the family ; m. 17 May 1816 Lady Diana Herbert, dau. of George Augustus Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke KG, Gen. in the Army ; d. 26 Aug 1868.
AGAR-ELLIS, GEORGE JAMES WELBORE, 1ST BARON DOVER, only son of Henry Welbore Agar-Ellis, 2nd Viscount Clifden (qv) ; b. 14 Jan 1797 ; adm. Lady Day 1811 ; left 1811 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 27 Jan 1814 ; BA 1816 ; MA 1819 ; MP Heytesbury 1818-20, Seaford 1820-6, Ludgershall 1826-30, Okehampton 1830-1 ; Privy Councillor 22 Nov 1830 ; Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests Dec 1830 – Feb 1831 ; created Baron Dover 20 Jun 1831 ; a Whig politician, and a connoisseur of pictures who suggested the purchase of the Angerstein collection and the formation of a National Gallery in 1823 ; member, Society of Dilettanti 1821 ; FSA (by 1831) ; Harley family Trustee, British Museum, from 1829 ; Trustee, National Gallery, from 1827 ; edited The Ellis Correspondence, 1829 ; author, The true History of the State Prisoner, commonly called the Iron Mask, 1826, and other works ; m. 7 Mar 1822 Lady Georgiana Howard, dau. of George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle KG PC, Lord Privy Seal ; d. 10 Jul 1833. ODNB.
AGAR-ELLIS, HENRY WELBORE, 2ND VISCOUNT CLIFDEN (I), eldest son of James Agar, 1st Viscount Clifden (qv) ; b. 22 Jan 1761 ; adm. 12 Jun 1770 ; KS (Capt.) 1774 ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1778, matr. 19 Jun 1778 ; BA 1782 ; Grand Tour (Italy) 1783 ; MP (I) Co.Kilkenny 1783-9 ; Recorder of Gowran 1783 ; Clerk of the Privy Council, Ireland Sep 1785-1817 ; succ. as 2nd Viscount Clifden (I) 1 Jan 1789 ; MP Heytesbury 28 May 1793 – 2 Feb 1802, when he succeeded his great-uncle Welbore Ellis (qv) as 2nd Baron Mendip (GB) ; assumed additional surname of Ellis 4 Feb 1804 ; supported Whig party in House of Lords ; FSA (by 1831) ; m. 10 Mar 1792 Lady Caroline Spencer Churchill, eldest dau. of George Spencer Churchill, 4th Duke of Marlborough KG PC, Lord President of the Council ; d. 13 Jul 1836.
AGLIONBY, see also EGLIONBY.
AGLIONBY, ; b. ; in under school lists 1715,1716.
AGLIONBY, GEORGE, son of Rev.John Aglionby DD, Principal of St.Edmund Hall, Oxford, Prebendary of Bath and Wells, and Rector of Islip, Oxfordshire, and Katherine, dau. of Richard Foxcroft ; bapt. Bletchingdon, Oxfordshire 1 May 1603 ; adm. ; KS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1619, matr. 9 Dec 1619, aged 16, Westminster Student to (?) 1636 ; BA 1623 (incorp. at Cambridge 1624) ; MA 1626 ; BD 1633 : DD 1635 (incorp. at Cambridge 1641/2) ; an Usher at the School ; tutor to George, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, and subsequently to William, 3rd Earl of Devonshire (occurs at tutor to Devonshire in Nov 1629) ; ordained deacon 9 Mar 1627/8 (London) ; Vicar of Cassington, Oxfordshire 18 May 1632 – May 1639 ; Prebendary of Westminster from 28 Sep 1638, and of Chichester from 1 Apr 1639 ; Proctor in Convocation for chapter of Westminster Abbey 1640-1 ; Dean of Chichester from c. Jun 1642 ; Dean of Canterbury from 6 May 1643, but never installed ; lic. to m. 3 Jul 1635 Sibella Smith, St.Martin in the Fields, London ; buried Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford 11 Nov 1643.
AIKENHEAD, JOHN LAWRENCE, only son of William Aikenhead, St.Thomas in the Vale, Jamaica, plantation owner ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Jun 1745 ; left 1752 ; Trinity Coll.Oxford, matr. 14 May 1752, aged 17 ; BCL 1759 ; DCL 8 Jul 1773 ; adm. Middle Temple 8 May 1752, called to bar 24 Nov 1758 ; plantation owner in Jamaica ; also of Grosvenor Place, London ; m. (by 1764) Mary —- ; d. Feb 1780 (will proved PCC 30 Mar 1780, as of Grosvenor Place).
AILSA, ARCHIBALD, 2ND MARQUIS OF, see KENNEDY, ARCHIBALD, 2nd MARQUIS OF AILSA.
AILWORTH, RICHARD, see AYLWORTH, RICHARD.
AINSLIE, SIR PHILIP, eldest son of George Ainslie, Bordeaux, France, merchant, and Jane, dau. of Sir Philip Anstruther, Bart., Anstrutherfield, Fife ; b. ; adm. (aged 13) Sep 1742 (“boarded with … a lady of the name of Douglas”, (Ainslie), Reminiscences of a Scottish Gentleman, 1861, 4) ; left 1745 ; Adjt. and Sub-Lieut., 2nd Troop Horse Grenadier Guards 23 Mar 1754 ; Guidon and Capt. 7 Feb 1759 ; Lieut. and Capt. 17 Jan 1763 ; Maj. 24 Jun 1768 ; Brevet Lieut.-Col. 11 Sep 1775 ; Lieut.-Col., 4th Horse (Ireland) 12 Dec 1777, still 1781 ; also served as ADC to Prince Charles of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, including a period during 1762 as Lieut-Col. in Portuguese Cavalry while Prince Charles held a command in the Portuguese Army ; knighted 25 Feb 1778 ; of Pilton, Midlothian ; m. 1771 Hon.Elizabeth Gray, dau. of John, 11th Baron Gray (S) ; d. 19 May 1802.
AISKEW, JOHN, son of Michael Aiskew, Westminster, Clerk Assistant, House of Commons, and Elizabeth Horsley (IGI) ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1728/9 ; in school list 1729 (as Askey) ; left 1729 ; Brasenose Coll. Oxford, matr. 27 Mar 1735/6 ; BA 1738 ; ordained deacon 19 Jul 1741, priest 25 Jul 1741 (both Rochester) ; Rector of Blendworth, Hampshire, from 8 Aug 1741 ; Vicar of Catherington, Hampshire, from 11 Jun 1778 ; m. 19 Jul 1750 Elizabeth, dau. of John Paffard, Rowner, Hampshire, farmer ; d. 1789 (will proved PCC 9 Dec 1789). [possibly Chaplain, Royal Navy 1777]
AISLABIE, WILLIAM, eldest son of Robert Aislabie, Rotherham, Yorks., solicitor, and Martha, dau. of Timothy Kiplin, Badsworth, Yorks. ; b. ; adm. (aged 9) May 1735 ; KS (aged 14) 1738 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1742, adm. pens. 9 Jul 1742, did not matr. ; ordained deacon 18 Dec 1748 (London), priest 5 Mar 1748/9 (Rochester) ; Curate, Foots Cray, Kent 1748, Borden and Halston, Kent 1749/50 ; Chaplain Royal Navy 1758, HMS Winchester ; d. unm. 2 Oct 1759.
AISLABIE, WILLIAM, eldest son of Rev.William Aislabie, Rector of Birkin, Yorks., and Anne Huton, Cotton, Woodchurch, Yorks. ; b. ; adm. (aged 9) Jun 1738 ; left 1743 ; m. Mary — ; d. 2 Nov 1754, aged 24 (M.I. Selby Abbey). [mother’s surname presumably Hutton, since this William Aislabie’s younger brother Rawson Aislabie is described as being a nephew of Charles Hutton, Seething Hall, Norfolk]
AKERS, GEORGE ; b. ; adm. 5 Dec 1774. [Evidently brother of, or close kin to, next] [presumably George Alexander Akers, third son of Aretas Akers, St Kitts, plantation owner and Speaker, House of Assembly, St Kitts, and Jean, dau. of Rev Alexander Douglas, East Calder, Midlothian, Church of Scotland minister ; b.1761 ; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 15 Dec 1778, called to bar 5 Feb 1784 ; d. unm. 9 Jan 1799]
AKERS, JOHN ; b. ; adm. 5 Dec 1774. [presumably John Houstoun Akers, brother of George Alexander Akers (qv), b. 1765 ; Ensign, 55th Foot 7 Feb 1781 ; Lieut., 12 Nov 1782 ; Capt., 82nd Foot 6 Jul 1784, half-pay, sold out 12 Aug 1825 ; living at Fulford, Yorks. ; m. 17 Aug 1786 Anne Whitehead, Antigua ; d. 1826, aged 62]
AKERS, THOMAS ; son of Richard Akers, St.Margaret, Westminster, and Ann Jackson ; bapt. 19 Jan 1596/7 ; adm. ; KS in 1612 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1614, adm. scholar 1615, matr. Easter 1615 ; BA 1618/9 ; MA 1622 (received £8 from vestry of St.Margaret’s, Westminster, to cost of proceeding MA) ; ordained ; Headmaster, Paston School, North Walsham, Norfolk 1625-40 ; Vicar of Paston, Norfolk 22 Apr 1636 (subscription on appointment, as Thomas Acres MA)-40.
ALABASTER, WILLIAM, son of Roger Alabaster, Hadleigh, Suffolk, merchant, and Bridget, dau. of Adam Winthrop, Groton, Suffolk, Master of Clothworkers’ Company ; nephew of Right Rev.John Still DD, Bishop of Bath and Wells ; bapt. 28 Feb 1567/8 ; adm. ; QS ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1583, adm. scholar 1584, matr. Easter 1584 ; BA 1587/8 ; MA 1591 (incorp. Oxford 11 Jul 1592) : DD 1614 ; Fellow of Trinity Coll. 1589 – c.1597 ; ordained ; Rector of Landulph, Cornwall 21 Aug 1596 – deprived 1598 ; Chaplain to Earl of Essex on expedition to Cadiz Jun 1596 ; Roman Catholic convert ; imprisoned in Tower of London for recusancy 1597-8 ; deprived of orders and benefices 20 Feb 1597/8 ; went abroad ; again in prison in England 1599-1603, 1604 ; when at English College at Rome in 1609-10 quarrelled with Father Robert Parsons and was brought before the Inquisition, which condemned his Apparatus in Revelationem Jesu Christi, published in 1607 ; fled to Amsterdam and thence to England ; rejoined Church of England after his return to England in 1611 ; Rector of Therfield, Herts., from 27 Jun 1614 ; Rector of Little Shelford, Cambs. 1622 – Nov 1626 ; author of English sonnets and Latin verses ; his Latin tragedy Roxana, acted in the hall of Trinity Coll.Cambridge around 1592, was published in 1632; m. 22 Aug 1618 Catherine, widow of Thomas Fludd, Milgate, Kent, (and mother of Thomas Fludd (qv)), and dau. of Levin Buffkin, Gore Court, Otham, Kent ; d. Apr 1640. ODNB.
ALBEMARLE, EARLS OF, see KEPPEL.
ALCOCK, ALFRED WILLIAM, son of John Alcock, Blackheath, Kent, Captain in Merchant Navy, and Elizabeth Ann, dau. of Christopher Puddicombe ; b. Bombay, India 23 Jun 1859 ; adm. 27 May 1875 (H), having previously been at Mill Hill and Blackheath Schools ; left May 1876 ; working in India 1876-80 ; Aberdeen Univ. ; MB and CM 1885 ; LLD 1901 ; Assistant Professor Zoology, Aberdeen 1883-5 ; entered Indian Medical Service 1 Oct 1885 ; Surgeon Mar 1886 ; Surgeon-Maj. Oct 1897 ; Lieut.-Col. Oct 1905 ; retd. Dec 1907 ; served with Punjab Frontier Force May 1886 – Oct 1888 ; Surgeon-Naturalist to Marine Survey of India on board R.I.M.S.Investigator 1888-92, and to Pamir Boundary Commission 1895 ; Deputy Sanitary Commissioner, Bengal Sep 1892 ; Superintendent, Indian Museum, and Professor of Zoology, Medical Coll. of Bengal May 1903 – Dec 1907 ; on return to Britain joined London Sch. of Tropical Medicine ; Professor of Medical Zoology, Univ. London 1919-24 ; FRS 6 Jun 1901 ; CIE 1 Jan 1903 ; Barclay Medal, Asiatic Society of Bengal 1907 ; author, A Naturalist in Indian Seas, 1902, and Entomology for Medical Officers, 1911 ; m. 29 Jul 1897 Margaret Forbes, third dau. of Joseph Rothery Cornwall, Aberdeen, master printer ; d. 24 Mar 1933.
ALDERTON, AMOS ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Sep 1718 ; in under school list 1719 ; apprenticed to Edmund Raynham, attorney, Colchester, Essex 20 Jan 1723/4 ; adm. solicitor 4 Jul 1731 ; practised at Maldon, Essex.
ALDERTONE, THOMAS ; b. ; adm. ; Min.Can.1576. [maybe Aldersone, Thomas ?]
ALDRICH, CHARLES, son of Edward Aldrich, London, and Hannah Bannister (IGI) ; nephew of Henry Aldrich (qv) ; b. 8 Oct 1681 (or 1680 (IGI)) ; adm. ; KS (Capt.) 1694 ; Capt. of the School 1698 ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1699, matr. 21 Jun 1699, Westminster Student 23 Dec 1699 – void 1713, Tutor 1706-8, Librarian 1710 ; BA 1703 ; MA 12 Mar 1705/6 ; BD 1715 ; DD 1722 ; ordained priest 2 Jun 1709 (Rochester) ; Rector of Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, from 2 Sep 1709 (year of grace as from 4 Nov 1709) ; Chaplain to Frederick, Prince of Wales 1737 ; edited Theophrasti Characteres Ethici, 1707, and The Epistles of Ignatius with Polycarp’s Epistle to the Philippians, 1708 ; m. summer 1713 a widow (described by Hearne, Remarks and Collections viii, 75, as “a bad, vexatious, furious wife”) ; d. 8 Nov 1737, bequeathing his library to Henley Parish Church. [Presumably Charles Aldrick (sic) , who m. 6 Aug 1713 Jane Hobson (IGI)]
ALDRICH, GEORGE, a native of London ; b. ; adm. ; KS in 1619 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1622, adm. scholar 1623 ; BA 1626/7 ; MA 1630 ; ordained ; Curate, Cheam, Surrey 23 Dec 1633 ; Curate, St.Andrew, Holborn 10 Dec 1636 (still 1640) ; Curate, Crowhurst, Surrey 1644-52 ; a zealous minister of the Church of England until silenced by the Puritans ; Head Master of Cheam School from c.1645 ; Prebendary of Lichfield 13 Jun 1662 – Aug 1668 ; m. 1st, Mary — ; m.2nd, Isabel — ; m.3rd, Margaret — ; d. 13 Jun 1685, aged 83.
ALDRICH, HENRY, son of Henry Aldrich, Westminster, member of household of Lord Berkeley of Stratton, and Judith Francis ; b. 15 Jan 1647/8 ; in school lists 1656 ; KS (aged 10) 1658 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1662, matr. 19 Jul 1662, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1662 – void 1682 (Canon), Tutor 1670-81, Catechist 1681 ; BA 1666 ; MA 1669 ; BD and DD 2 Mar 1681/2 ; perhaps Henry Aldrich adm. Inner Temple 21 Feb 1670/1 ; ordained deacon 21 May 1676, priest 26 May 1678 (both Oxford) ; Rector of Wem, Shropshire, from 17 Jun 1689 ; Canon of Christ Church 13 Feb 1681/2 – Jun 1689, Dean from 17 Jun 1689 ; Vice-Chancellor 1692-5 ; Prolocutor, Lower House of Convocation Feb 1701/2 ; Chaplain in Ordinary to William and Mary, and to Anne, from c.1691 ; a Busby Trustee from 21 Dec 1704 ; at his request in 1693 Charles Boyle edited the Epistles of Phalaris, which led to the famous controversy between Richard Bentley and the Christ Church wits ; an amateur architect who designed Peckwater Quadrangle, Christ Church, and perhaps also All Saints Church, Oxford, and made a good collection of architectural and other books and prints, bequeathed by him to Christ Church ; composed or adapted numerous anthems, services and catches ; author, Artis LogicaeCompendium, 1691, and one of the editors of Clarendon’s History of the Rebellion, 1702-4 ; d. unm. 14 Dec 1710. Buried Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. ODNB.
ALEXANDER, —- ; b. ; adm. ; a pensr. in 1613 (tutor, Mr Law).
ALEXANDER, BENNETT, see BENNETT, BENNETT ALEXANDER.
ALEXANDER, GODFREY EDWARD, only son of Rev.Charles Alexander, Rector of Drumcree, co.Armagh, and Elizabeth Anne, dau. of Edward Smith Godfrey, Newark, Notts., banker and solicitor ; b. 10 Jul 1818 ; adm. 3 Jun 1830 ; Trinity Coll.Oxford, matr. 28 Apr 1836 ; BA 1840 ; MA 1843 ; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 12 Jan 1839 ; ordained deacon and priest 1842 (Armagh) ; Perpetual Curate, Bantry, co.Cork 1844-8 ; Incumbent, Caledon, co.Tyrone 1848-55 ; Vicar of Woodford-cum-Membris, Northants., 20 Apr 1855-65 ; Rector of Stoke Bliss, Herefs., 1865-95 ; JP Herefordshire ; Domestic Chaplain to James, 4th Earl of Caledon ; m. 10 Oct 1850 his cousin Henrietta, eldest dau. of William John Alexander-Shaw (formerly Alexander), Caledon, co.Tyrone ; d. 28 Dec 1901.
ALEXANDER, ROBERT ; b. 13 Oct 1792 ; adm. 4 Oct 1808 ; left Bartholomewtide 1809 ; Midshipman, Royal Navy 1810-8, serving in Mediterranean ; Cadet, EICS Madras 26 Mar 1819 ; Ensign, 24th Madras Native Infantry 12 Jun 1819 ; Lieut. 13 Jun 1819 ; Capt. 11 Oct 1826 ; Maj. 5 Mar 1836 ; Judge Advocate General, Madras Army 23 Feb 1838 ; Adjutant General, Madras Army 24 Sep 1839 ; Lieut.-Col. 23 Jan 1841 ; Lieut.-Col., 2nd Madras Native Infantry 3 Sep 1847 ; Brevet Col. 17 Mar 1851 ; Col. 16 Aug 1851 ; Maj.-Gen. 28 Nov 1854 ; Lieut.-Gen. 22 Aug 1865 ; Gen. 25 Jun 1870 ; author, The Rise and Progress of British Opium Smuggling, 1856 ; m. 27 Apr 1831 Charlotte, eldest dau. of Maj. Josiah Stewart, EICS Madras, Resident at the court of the Nizam of Hyderabad ; d. 16 May 1879.
ALEXANDER, ROBERT QUIN, only surviving son of William James Alexander, Maj. County Dublin Militia, and Gertrude, eldest dau. of Gustavus Handcock-Temple, Waterstown, co.Westmeath ; b. 3 May 1816 ; adm. 26 Sep 1827 ; Trinity Coll.Dublin, adm.pens. 3 Nov 1834 ; agent for Earl of Caledon in Tyrone and Armagh ; High Sheriff, co.Dublin 1850 ; of Garristown, Ashbourne, co.Dublin, and of Acton House, Poyntspass, co.Armagh ; JP co.Armagh, co.Tyrone ; m. 17 Feb 1840 Gertrude Harriet, fourth dau. of John Lushington Reilly, Scarvagh House, co.Down ; d. 13 Aug 1887.
ALFORD, MELCHIZEDEK, son of William Alford, Lyme Regis, Dorset ; b. ; adm. ; KS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1641, matr. 10 Dec 1641, aged 18, Westminster Student ; BA 1648 ; expelled from his studentship by the Parliamentary Visitors 9 Nov 1648 for being “absent divers yeares and never appearinge to do any exercise” (Burrows, ed., The Register of the Visitors of the University of Oxford from A.D.1647 to A.D.1658, 1881, 212) ; treasurer to the Royalist garrison at Exeter during its siege by Parliament, and was “imployed in carrying letters and other messages to the King at Oxford and elsewhere” (Walker, Sufferings, pt.ii, 109) ; ordained deacon 26 Oct 1645 (Exeter, described as BA), priest 1653 [check] ; Curate, Dunsford, Devon 1656 ; Curate, Culmstock, Devon 16 Mar 1658/9 ; Vicar of Ottery St.Mary, Devon, from 20 Mar 1661 ; m. 18 Dec 1650 Elizabeth, only child of Richard Channon, Escot, Ottery St.Mary, Devon ; buried Ottery St.Mary, Devon 10 Aug 1689.
ALINGTON, EDWARD HUGH, eighth son of Rev.John Alington, Rector of Candlesby, Lincs., and Charlotte Sophia, youngest dau. of Sir Alan Bellingham, Bart., Castle Bellingham, co.Louth, Ireland ; nephew of George Marmaduke Alington (qv) ; b. 9 Apr 1857 ; adm. from Uppingham School 16 Jun 1870 ; BB 25 Jul 1870 ; QS (Capt.) 1872 ; Capt. of the School 1875 ; left May 1876 ; Hertford Coll. Oxford, matr. 14 Oct 1876 ; played Association Football against Cambridge 1877, 1878 ; BA 1880 ; MA 1883 ; ordained deacon 1884, priest 1885 (Bishop Mitchinson for Peterborough) ; Curate, St.Mark’s, Leicester 1884-7 ; Curate, St.John the Baptist, Summertown, Oxford 1887-98 ; Assistant Master, Summerfields Preparatory School, Oxford 1879-84, 1887-1918, Head Master 1918-28 ; m. 30 Jul 1885 Margaret, youngest dau. of Archibald Maclaren, Head Master, Summerfields Preparatory Sch., Oxford ; d. 11 Sep 1938.
ALINGTON, GEORGE MARMADUKE, eldest son of Rev.Marmaduke Alington, Swinhope, Lincs., and Anne, eldest dau. of Rev.John Emeris, Rector of Tetford, Lincs. ; grandson of Henry Alington (adm.1728, qv) ; b. 17 Feb 1798 ; adm. Christmas 1812 ; left 15 May 1816 ; “Head Town Boy” at Feb 1816 ; St.John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm.pens. 14 Mar 1816, matr.Mich.1816 ; BA 1820 ; succeeded to Swinhope House estate, Lincs. 1840 ; DL JP Lincs. ; m. 17 May 1825 Mary, sister of Matthew Henry Lister (qv) ; d. 18 Feb 1890.
ALINGTON, HENRY, see PYE, HENRY ALINGTON.
ALINGTON, HENRY, brother of Hildebrand Alington (qv) ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Jun 1728 ; in under school list 1731 ; Lincoln Coll. Oxford, matr. 22 May 1735, aged 17 ; BA 18 Jan 1738/9 ; MA 1742 ; ordained deacon 23 Dec 1739, priest 20 Sep 1741 (both Lincoln) ; Curate, Swinhope, Lincs., Dec 1739 ; Rector of Swinhope with Stenigot, Lincs., from 21 Sep 1741 ; Rector of Aston, Herts., from 4 Aug 1743 ; m. 5 Jun 1758 [or 1759 ?] Frances, dau. of Robert Baron, Letchworth, Herts. ; d. 16 Sep 1781.
ALINGTON, HENRY, younger brother of John Alington (qv) ; b. ; adm. 16 Jan 1811 ; left 1814 ; Peterhouse, Cambridge, adm. pens. 19 Feb 1820, matr. Mich.1820 ; BA 1826 ; ordained deacon 19 Feb 1826 (Lincoln) ; Curate, Little Barford, Beds., 19 Feb 1826 ; d. 7 Sep 1826.
ALINGTON, HILDEBRAND, elder son of William Alington, Lincoln’s Inn, barrister, and Elizabeth, dau. of Henry Winford and niece of Sir Thomas Cookes Winford, Kt, Glasshampton, Worcs., founder of Worcester Coll.Oxford ; bapt.St.Andrew, Holborn 15 Feb 1708 (IGI) ; adm. (aged 10) Apr 1719 ; in under school list 1722 ; Queen’s Coll.Oxford, matr. 8 Jun 1727 ; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 9 Apr 1720, called to bar 4 May 1732 ; d. unm. 12 Sep 1755.
ALINGTON, JOHN, elder son of Rev.William Alington, Rector of Twywell, Northants., and his first wife Sarah, dau. of John Williamson, Baldock, Herts., banker ; grandson of Henry Alington (adm.1728, qv) ; b. 4 May 1795 ; at school in 1804 ; left 1813 ; Balliol Coll. Oxford, matr. 9 Jun 1813 ; BA 1817 ; MA 1822 ; ordained deacon 7 Mar 1819, priest 17 Jun 1821 (both Lincoln) ; Rector of Little Barford, Beds. , from 30 Aug 1822 ; JP Lincolnshire ; m. 3 Oct 1822 Eliza Frances, second dau. of Right Hon. Sir Thomas Plumer PC, Canons, Little Stanmore, Middlesex, Master of the Rolls ; d. 11 Dec 1863.
ALINGTON, JULIUS, fifth son of John Alington (qv) ; b. 6 Dec 1836 ; adm. (R) 18 Oct 1851 ; went out to Natal with Edward Lingen Burton (qv) and became a noted hunter (Markham, Recollections of a Town Boy, 37) ; of Little Barford House, Beds. ; High Sheriff Bedfordshire 1883 ; JP Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire ; m. 5 Jan 1871 Catherine Mary, second dau. of Edmund Wright, Halston Hall, Shropshire ; d. 16 Nov 1905.
ALLAN, EDWIN FRANCIS, eldest son of Frank Allan, Clapham, Surrey, tea dealer, and Eliza, dau. of Joel Stoodley ; b. 10 Nov 1867 ; adm. 5 Jun 1883 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1885, matr. 16 Oct 1885 ; entered Diplomatic Service ; student interpreter in China 26 Aug 1891, serving at Hankow 1891-6, when he retired on grounds of health ; went to New Zealand ; on editorial staff The Wellington Post ; moved to Australia 1903 ; on staff The Argus, Melbourne, until 1919 ; m. 1900 Stella Mary Allan, journalist, dau. of Daniel Henderson, Kaiapoi, South Island, New Zealand, clerk ; d. at Armadale, New South Wales, Australia 2 Feb 1922.
ALLANSON, GEORGE, second son of George Allanson, Adlington, Lancs., and Dorothy, dau. of John Sudell, Langton, Lancs. ; bapt.St.Bride, Fleet Street, London 21 Sep 1693 (IGI) ; adm. ; QS (aged 15) 1708 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1713, matr. 23 Jun 1713, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1713 – void 27 Jul 1728 (expiry year of grace as R.St.Tudy) ; BA 1717 ; MA 1720 ; adm. Middle Temple 11 Jun 1713 ; ordained deacon 20 Sep 1724, priest 19 Sep 1725 (both Oxford) ; Rector of St.Tudy, Cornwall, from 1727 ; Vicar of St.Gluvias, Cornwall, from 1730 ; Domestic Chaplain to Stephen Weston, Bishop of Exeter ; Prebendary of Exeter 23 Apr 1730 ; Archdeacon of Cornwall from 14 Sep 1737 ; m. 22 Feb 1732 Mary, sister of Charles Trelawny (qv) ; d. 20 Aug 1741.
ALLANSON-WINN, ROWLAND GEORGE ALLANSON, 5TH BARON HEADLEY (I), only son of Hon.Rowland Allanson-Winn, Glenbeigh, co.Kerry, Ireland, and Margaretta Stephana, second dau. of George Walker, Overhall, Essex ; b. 19 Jan 1855 ; adm. 24 Jan 1868 ; left 1868 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 24 Feb 1874, matr. Mich.1874 ; won middle and heavy weights in University boxing competition ; BA 1878 ; adm. Middle Temple 21 Nov 1879 ; editor, Salisbury Journal ; private secretary to Sir Frederic Seager Hunt, Bart. (qv) for 7 years ; became a civil engineer, engaged in foreshore protection works in England and Ireland ; MICE (I) ; Fellow, Society of Engineers of England, President 1921 ; succ. cousin as 5th Baron Headley (I) 13 Jan 1913 ; convert to Islam Nov 1913 ; President, British Muslim Society ; made pilgrimage to Mecca Jul 1922, entitling him to the prefix Hadji ; JP Co.Kerry ; author, Boxing, 1920, and other works ; m. 1st, 27 Oct 1899 Teresa St.Josephine, youngest dau. of William Henry Johnson, Wazir of Ladakh, a pioneer surveyor and mountaineer in the Himalayas ; m. 2nd, 11 Feb 1921 Barbara Jane Baynton, writer and adventurer (see Australian Dictionary of National Biography), widow of Thomas Baynton, Woolahra, New South Wales, Australia, surgeon, previously wife of Alexander Frater, Merrylong Park, New South Wales, Australia, and youngest dau. of John Lawrence, Murrurundi, New South Wales, Australia, carpenter ; m. 3rd, 28 Jul 1929 Catharine, widow of Maj. Lindsay Bashford OBE, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, journalist, and dau. of Joseph William Lovibond, Lake House, Wilts., brewer ; d. 22 Jun 1935. ODNB.
ALLATT, see also ALLETT and ALLOTT.
ALLATT, CHAMBERLAINE (or CHAMBERLAYNE), son of Thomas Allatt, St Martin’s in the Fields, London, coachmaker, and Mary [probably Chamberlaine], niece of Rev.Nicholas Chamberlain, Rector of Bedworth, Warwicks. ; b. ; adm. ; Min.Can. (aged 16) 1713 ; St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 31 Oct 1713 ; BA 1717/8 ; member Band of Gentlemen Pensioners from 24 Feb 1722/3 ; d. 1740 (will proved PCC 16 Oct 1740, as of Mortlake, Surrey).
ALLATT, CHRISTOPHER JOHN ROBERT, son of Christopher Allatt, London, and Sarah Coxall ; bapt. St.James, Piccadilly 26 Sep 1794 (IGI, sic) ; adm. 15 Jan 1810 ; left 1813 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 8 Nov 1816, aged 19, fellow commoner 30 Oct 1817, matr. Mich.1817 ; MB 1822 ; Lic.Med. 1825 ; MD 1827 ; FRCP 30 Sept 1828 ; practised for many years at Boulogne, but returned to England before death, practising at Dover, Kent ; m. 18 Oct 1843 Mary Elizabeth, eldest dau. of Thomas Henry Buckle, Mecklenburgh Square, London, merchant and shipowner ; d. 14 May 1883, aged 88. [father of Spring Gardens, army agent ?]
ALLEN, see also ALLEYNE and ALLIN.
ALLEN, —- ; b. ; adm. ; a pensr. in 1563 (tutor, The Dean).
ALLEN, —- ; b. ; adm. ; KS in 1645.
ALLEN, —- ; b. ; adm. ; in under school list 1715. [“a payment by Fifield Allen”]
ALLEN, —- ; b. ; in school list 1813 (fourth form).
ALLEN, BERNARD ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Oct 1731 ; left 1732. [Perhaps Bernard Allen, son of Robert Allen, and Butler Hewetson (IGI), bapt.Christ Church, Barbados 6 Jul 1721 (IGI)]
ALLEN, CHARLES, brother of William Allen (adm.1814, qv) ; b. 29 Jul 1808 ; adm. 4 Oct 1823 ; at Haileybury Coll. 1825-7 ; Writer EICS Bengal 30 Apr 1827 ; Assistant to Magistrate and Collector of Land Revenue, Agra 1830 ; Officiating Magistrate and Collector, North Division of Murshidabad 1837, Hamirpur 1841 ; Settlement Officer, Bundelkund ; Judge at Agra 1843-9, and at Fatehghar ; Financial Secretary to Government of India 1854 ; member Legislative Council of India 1855 ; retd. 1857 ; High Sheriff, Pembrokeshire 1876 ; JP Pembrokeshire ; author, A Few Words anent the “Red” Pamphlet, 1857 (defending Lord Dalhousie’s tenure of office as Governor-General of India) ; m. 11 Aug 1840 Mary, youngest dau. of James Allen, Freestone Hall, Pembrokeshire ; d. 5 Nov 1884.
ALLEN, CHARLES HOLT BRACEBRIDGE (BAKEWELL), son of George Charles Allen LLD, Long Buckby, Northamptonshire, barrister, and Georgiana Flora, only child of Capt.George Hemming, EI Maritime Service ; b. 11 Aug 1843 ; adm. 30 Sep 1859 ; left Aug 1861 ; Univ.London, matr. Jul 1863 ; student of medicine, King’s Coll. Hospital, London (as Charles B.Allen, 1881 Census) ; Medical Staff Corps ; author, London Medical Specialists, 1890 ; m. Annie Jalfon, dau. of William Bowles Green, Boston, Lincs., solicitor (marriage registered St.Pancras third quarter 1879) ; d. 28 Nov 1916.
ALLEN, EDMUND EDWARD, second son of Lancelot Baugh Allen (qv), and his first wife ; b. 3 Feb 1824 ; adm. 1 Jul 1835 ; KS 1837 ; left 1839 ; King’s Coll. London 1840 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens.13 Apr 1842, matr. Mich.1842 ; BA 1846 ; MA 1860 ; ordained deacon 1847, priest 1848 (both Lichfield) ; Curate, St.Mary’s, Shrewsbury 1847-50 ; Curate, Yerbeston, Pembrokeshire 1850-4 ; Vicar of Millom, Cumberland 1854-65 ; Rector of Porthkerry with Barry, Glamorgan, from 1865 ; Hon.Canon Llandaff from 1887 ; m. 2 Feb 1848 Bertha, fourth dau. of Roger Eaton, Parcglas, Pembrokeshire ; d. 3 Apr 1898.
ALLEN, EVANS MYNDE, only son of Richard Allen FSA, Crawley, Sussex, Serjeant at Law, and Lydia, dau. of Richard Evans MD, Ross, Herefs. ; b. 6 Jul 1839 ; adm. 28 Feb 1853 ; Ensign, 21st Foot 25 Jun 1861 ; Lieut. 11 Sep 1863 ; Capt. 21 May 1871 ; retd. Sep 1871 ; of The Manor House, Upton Bishop, Herefs. ; High Sheriff Herefordshire 1910 ; DL JP Herefordshire ; m. 4 Jul 1872 Frances Maria, elder dau. of Rev.William Hulme, Rector of Brampton Abbots, Herefs. ; d. 10 May 1912.
ALLEN, FIFIELD, son of Ralph Allen, St.Mary’s parish, Oxford, mercer ; b. 12 Jan 1699 ; adm. ; KS (aged 15) 1715 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1718, matr. 17 Jun 1718, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1718 – void 9 Nov 1737 (expiry year of grace as R. of St.Anne & St.Agnes, London), Tutor 1725-35 ; BA 1722 ; MA 29 Jan 1724/5 ; BD 17 Jan 1733/4 ; DD 18 Jan 1736/7 ; tutor to son of Sir William Trumbull, Kt, in Mar 1722/3 ; ordained ; Whitehall Preacher 1727 (by 15 Oct)-36 ; Curate, Drayton, Oxfordshire, 1730 ; Chaplain to Edmund Gibson, Bishop of London 7 May 1733 ; Prebendary of St.Paul’s from 11 Oct 1734 ; Rector of St.Anne and St.Agnes, Aldersgate, London, from 18 Oct 1736 ; Archdeacon of St.Albans 14 Oct 1738-41, Archdeacon of Middlesex from 6 May 1741 ; Perpetual Curate, St.Paul’s, Hammersmith, 19 May 1740-51 ; Rector of Gelston, Herts., 23 May 1743 – May 1747 ; Vicar of Chigwell, Essex from 9 Mar 1746/7 ; Sub-Dean of Chapel Royal from 2 Dec 1751 ; editor Treis Tragodiai Aischylou Choephoroi Sophokleous Elektra Euripidou Elektra (“the Three Electras”), 1729, used as a text-book at the School ; also assisted Robert Freind (qv) in providing the text for the Clarendon Press edition of Anthologia, 1724 (Hearne, Remarks and Collections, viii, 56, entry for 21 Mar 1722/3) ; lic. to m.1st, 14 Oct 1738 Ann, sister of Charles Toll (qv) ; m.2nd, 4 [or 6 (IGI)] Feb 1755 Frances, dau. of Thomas Grainger, St.Bride, Fleet Street, London, pawnbroker ; d. 26 Apr 1764.
ALLEN, GEORGE BAUGH, eldest son of Lancelot Baugh Allen (qv) and his first wife ; b. 23 Apr 1821 ; adm. 3 Jul 1833 ; KS 1834 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1838, adm.pens. 28 May 1838, scholar 1839, matr. Mich.1838 ; BA 1842 ; MA 1845 ; adm. Inner Temple 4 Nov 1842 ; a certificated special pleader 1846 ; the last of the great special pleaders ; practised in the Temple 1846-96 ; author with W.B.Allen of Forms of Endorsements, 1883 ; of Cilrhiw, Pembrokeshire ; DL Haverfordwest, JP Pembrokeshire ; m. 19 May 1846 Dorothea Hannah, dau. of Roger Eaton, Parcglas, Pembrokeshire ; d. 19 Sep 1898.
ALLEN, HENRY ; b. ; adm. ; BB Mich 1638 – Mich.1640 (WAM 34165). [perhaps Henry Allen, son of Bartholomew Allen, bapt.Westminster Abbey 9 May 1627]
ALLEN, JAMES ; b. ; adm. (aged 11) Apr 1725 ; in school list 1727/8 ; left 1728.
ALLEN, JAMES, brother of William Allen (adm.1814, qv) ; b. 15 Jul 1802 ; adm. 4 Oct 1815 ; left 1816 ; went to Charterhouse School, foundation scholar 2 May 1816-21 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm. pens. 24 Jun 1819, matr. Mich.1821 ; BA 1825 ; MA 1829 ; ordained deacon 20 Dec 1834, priest 20 Dec 1835 (both Gloucester & Bristol) ; Curate, Miserden, Gloucs., 1834-9 ; Vicar of Castlemartin, Pembrokeshire 10 Sep 1839- May 1872 ; Second Cursal Canon, St.David’s 23 Oct 1847 – Jul 1875, Chancellor and Canon Residentiary 5 Jan 1871 – Dec 1878, Dean 28 Dec 1878 – Nov 1895, Third Cursal Canon from 19 Nov 1895 ; JP Pembrokeshire ; m. 28 Apr 1852 Isabella Dorothea, dau. of Peter Richard Hoare (adm.1781, qv) ; d. 25 Jun 1897.
ALLEN, JOHN, brother of William Allen (adm.1814, qv) ; b. 25 May 1810 ; adm. 4 Oct 1823 ; KS 1824 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1828, adm. pens. 16 May 1828, scholar 1829, matr. Mich.1828 ; BA 1832 ; MA 1835 ; ordained deacon 22 Dec 1833, priest 21 Dec 1834 (both London) ; mathematical lecturer, King’s Coll.London 1832-9, chaplain 1833-46 ; one of the three original Inspectors of Schools 1839-46 ; Vicar of Prees, Shropshire 28 May 1846-83 ; Prebendary of Lichfield 1848-59 ; Archdeacon of Shropshire 1847-86 ; Master of St.John’s Hospital, Lichfield, from 8 July 1883 ; edited Cudworth’s Treatise of Freewill, 1838 ; m. 31 Jul 1834 Harriet, dau. of James White Higgins, Hormead Bury, Herts., land surveyor ; d. 13 Dec 1886.
ALLEN, JOHN HENSLEIGH, elder son of John Bartlett Allen, Cresselly, Pembrokeshire, and his first wife Elizabeth, dau. of John Hensleigh, Pant-teg, Pembrokeshire, attorney ; b. 29 Aug 1769 ; adm. 31 May 1779 ; KS 1784 ; one of the contributors to the Trifler, 1788-9 ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1789, adm. pens. 10 Jun 1789, scholar 23 Apr 1790, matr. Mich.1789 ; BA 1793 ; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 15 Jun 1789, called to bar 22 Jun 1797 ; Oxford and South Wales circuit ; of Cresselly, Pembrokeshire ; High Sheriff Pembrokeshire 1808 ; MP Pembroke 1818-26 ; Chairman, Pembrokeshire Quarter Sessions (at death) ; DL JP Pembrokeshire ; m. 12 Nov 1812 Gertrude, youngest dau. of Lord Robert Seymour MP ; d. 12 Apr 1843.
ALLEN, JOSHUA WILLIAM, 6TH VISCOUNT ALLEN (I), only son of Joshua Allen, 5th Viscount Allen (I) MP, Lieut.-Col. 1stFoot Guards, and Frances, eldest dau. of Gaynor Barry, Doomstown, co.Meath ; b. ; adm. 19 Jan 1798 (Clapham) ; left Lady Day 1800 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 22 Oct 1801, aged 18 ; MA 1804 ; Ensign, 3rd Foot Guards 6 Feb 1805 ; Lieut. and Capt. 31 May 1810 ; Capt. 69th Foot 9 Apr 1812 ; 7th Garrison Batt. 1814 ; retd. Sep 1825 ; served in Peninsular War ; succ. father as 6th Viscount Allen (I) 1 Feb 1816 ; d. unm. at Gibraltar 21 Sep 1845.
ALLEN, LANCELOT BAUGH, brother of John Hensleigh Allen (qv) ; b. 1 Jan 1774 ; adm. 9 Jun 1784 ; KS 1789 ; Capt. of the School 1793 ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1794, adm. pens. 17 Jun 1794 ; not admitted scholar as refused to take statutable oath, and did not matr. ; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 9 May 1798, called to bar 12 May 1803 ; adm. Inner Temple 21 Jun 1819 ; Warden of Dulwich Coll. 1805-11, Master 1811-20 ; secured Desenfans collection of pictures for Dulwich Coll. ; Police Magistrate, Union Hall, Southwark 1819-25 ; a Clerk of the Petty Bag, Chancery, from 11 Dec 1824 ; one of the Six Clerks in Chancery 19 Aug 1825-42, when the office was abolished ; Savoy Steward for Duchy of Lancaster from 6 May 1834 ; m. 1st, 22 May 1820 Caroline Jane, eldest dau. of Thomas Peter Romilly, Dulwich ; m.2nd, 29 Jul 1841 Georgiana Sarah, eldest dau. of Charles Nathaniel Bayly (qv) ; d. 28 Oct 1845.
ALLEN, LANCELOT LLOYD, youngest son of Charles John Allen, Hampstead, Middlesex, solicitor, and his first wife Augusta Maria, dau. of Eusebius Arthur Lloyd FRCS, Surgeon to St.Bartholomew’s Hospital, London ; b. 20 May 1870 ; adm. 31 May 1883 ; left Dec 1886 ; St.Bartholomew’s Hospital ; MRCS LRCP 1898 ; house physician, Royal Hampshire County Hospital ; senior house surgeon, West Ham Hospital ; junior house surgeon, Lincoln Hospital ; emigrated to Australia ; medical officer, Parramatta Hospital for the Insane, New South Wales ; m. Ella Mary Peirce, Pine Hill, Bondi, New South Wales ; d. at North Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia 24 Jun 1914.
ALLEN, PETER ; b. ; adm. ; KS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1656, matr. 31 Jul 1658, Westminster Student, Tutor ; BA 17 Jan 1659/60 ; MA 1662 ; ordained ; Rector of Stoke Talmage, Oxfordshire, from 9 Jul 1666 ; lic. to m. 10 Aug 1666 Frances Barker, Oxford ; d. 15 Sep 1667.
ALLEN, RICHARD, see ALLETT, RICHARD.
ALLEN, THOMAS EDWARD, son of William Allen, White Cottage, Brompton Road, Middlesex, and Maria Arabella, dau. of William Shuter, London ; b. 21 Sept 1804 ; adm. 5 Feb 1818 ; BB ; left 8 Aug 1823 ; St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.sizar 9 Jul 1824, matr. Mich.1824, but did not graduate ; ordained deacon 22 Jun 1828, priest 14 Jun 1829 (both Exeter) ; Curate, Heavitree, Devon 1828 ; Priest Vicar, Exeter Cathedral 1829-30 ; Curate, Tawstock, Devon 1831 ; Chaplain, EICS Bengal (appointment approved by Bishop of London 26 Jul 1833, described as BA) ; m. 22 Feb 1832 Laura Elizabeth, dau. of Lieut.-Col. Sir Henry Maturin Farrington, Bart., Royal Artillery ; d. at Hazareeburg, Bengal, India 28 Mar 1841.
ALLEN, WILLIAM, son of William Allen, Hubberston and Dale Castle, Pembrokeshire, and Martha, dau. of John Fowler, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, merchant ; b. ; adm. (aged 13) Jul 1736 ; left 1739 ; Jesus Coll.Oxford, matr. 13 Nov 1739, aged 16 ; d. before 1744.
ALLEN, WILLIAM (adm.1775), see ALLEN, WILLIAMS
ALLEN, WILLIAM, son of Mundeford Allen, London, wine merchant, and (his second wife ?) Frances, dau. of Robert Weston, Norfolk Street, London ; b. Dec 1773 ; adm. 3 Jun 1785 ; KS (aged 15) 1789 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1793, adm. pens. 23 May 1793, scholar 2 May 1794, matr. Mich.1793 ; BA 1797 ; MA 1800 ; ordained deacon 12 Mar 1797, priest 1 Apr 1798 (both Norwich) ; Vicar of Narburgh with Narford, Norfolk, from 31 Oct 1799 ; d. 31 May 1864. [note will Mundeford Allen, Queen Square, Middlesex, merchant, proved PCC 27 Jun 1775]
ALLEN, WILLIAM, second son of Rev.David Bird Allen, Rector of Burton, Pembrokeshire, Prebendary of St.David’s, and Mary Anne Harriet, dau. of Peter Bartholomew Jullian, London, merchant ; b. 27 Sep 1800 ; adm. Christmas 1814, still at school 1816 ; at Charterhouse School Jan – Dec 1817 ; Jesus Coll. Oxford, matr. 18 Apr 1817 ; BA 1820 ; MA 1823 ; ordained deacon 21 Dec 1823 (Oxford), priest 17 Oct 1824 (St.David’s) ; Rector of St.Brides, Pembrokeshire, 22 Feb 1825-31 ; Rector of Bosherston, Pembrokeshire, from 6 Aug 1831 ; m. 5 Jul 1831 Frances Margaret, dau. of James Allen, Freestone Hall, Pembrokeshire ; d. 9 Apr 1872.
ALLEN, WILLIAMS, son of Edward Allen, Hay on Wye, Breconshire, and Joanna — ; b. ; adm. 31 Jan 1775 (Christian name incorrectly given as William by Russell Barker and Stenning) ; left 1777 ; Worcester Coll.Oxford, matr. 14 May 1777, aged 18 ; BA 1781 ; migr. to Oriel Coll. ; MA 1784 ; ordained deacon 22 May 1785 (Hereford), priest 8 Apr 1786 (St Davids) ; Vicar of Hay on Wye, Breconshire, from 8 Apr 1786 ; Rector of Llanfihangel Ystern Llewern, Monmouthshire, from 25 Jun 1800 ; m. ; d. Feb 1831.
ALLESTRY, JAMES, son of James Allestry, bookseller, London ; b.1653 ; adm. ; KS (Capt.) 1667 ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1672, matr. 3 Jul 1672, aged 18, Westminster Student from 24 Dec 1672 ; BA 1676 ; MA 1679 (incorp. at Camb.1680) ; Music Reader 1679 ; Terrae Filius 1682 ; philologist and poet ; principal contributor to Verses and Pastoral spoken before James, Duke of York, 21 May 1681, and published in Examen Poeticum, 1693 ; d. 15 Oct 1686, “of the French pox”. ODNB, s.v.Jacob Allestry. [Perhaps bapt.St.Augustine, Watling Street 13 Apr 1654, son of James Allistraw (sic), and Ruth — (IGI)]
ALLETT (or ALLEN), RICHARD, a native of Staffordshire ; b. ; adm. ; QS ; elected to Ch.Ch.Oxford 1564, aged 18, Westminster Student to 1571 ; BA 18 Feb 1568/9 ; adm. Gray’s Inn 1571.
ALLEYNE, ABEL, second son of Abel Alleyne, Mount Steadfast Plantation, Barbados, and Boston, New England, by Mary, sister of Dudley Woodbridge (qv) ; nephew of Thomas Alleyne (qv) ; bapt. St.James, Barbados 22 Sep 1722 (IGI) ; adm. (aged 8) Oct.1730 ; left 1732 ; d. young.
ALLEYNE (alias GRAY), CHARLES, son of Walter Alleyne, Westminster, and Ann Gray ; b. ; adm. ; Min.Can. (aged 13) 1629 ; KS 1630 (Tanner MSS lxix, f.224, Bodleian Library, Oxford) ; adm. English College, Douai 28 Oct 1632.
ALLEYNE, JOHN, brother of Reynold Alleyne (qv) ; b. 1 Jan 1701/2 [check] ; adm. (aged 13) Sept 1715 ; in under school list 1716 ; Queen’s Coll.Oxford, matr. 10 Oct 1718, aged 16 ; of Rock Hill Plantation, Barbados ; m. 1st, Mary, sister of Henry Peers (qv) ; m. 2nd15 Jan 1736/7 (IGI : check) Mary, sister of Abel Alleyne (qv) ; d. Oct 1737.
ALLEYNE, JOHN, brother of Abel Alleyne (qv) ; b. 22 Jan 1730 [sic, check] ; adm. (aged 16) Jul 1749 ; in school list 1752 ; m. (by 1752 ?) Elizabeth, dau. of Bowden Fercharson (or Ferguson), Barbados.
ALLEYNE, SIR JOHN GAY, BART., second son of John Alleyne, Four Hills, Barbados, barrister, and Mary, dau. of William Terrill, Cabbage Tree Hall, Barbados ; nephew of Thomas Alleyne (qv) ; b. 24 Apr 1724 ; adm. Jan 1735/6 ; left 1736 ; succeeded his elder brother Reynold in family estates on Barbados ; member House of Assembly, Barbados 1757-70, 1772-97, Speaker 1767-70, 1772-97 ; created baronet 6 Apr 1769 ; author, A defence of the conduct of Barbadoes, 1760 ; m. 1st, 19 Oct 1746 Christian, fourth dau. of Joseph Dottin, Black Rocks, Barbados ; m. 2nd, 29 Jun 1786 his cousin Jane Abel, dau. of Abel Alleyne MD, Mount Steadfast, Barbados ; buried St.James’s, Barbados 7 Dec 1801. ODNB.
ALLEYNE, REYNOLD, fifth son of Thomas Alleyne, Mount Alleyne plantation, Barbados, member of Barbados House of Assembly, and Judith, dau. of Col.Timothy Thornhill, Barbados ; b. 23 Jan 1699 [check] ; adm. (aged 15) Sept 1715 ; in under school list 1716 ; inherited Mount Alleyne Plantation, Barbados ; member, Barbados House of Assembly ; m. 12 Nov 1721 Elizabeth, dau. of Lawrence Price, Barbados ; d. in Barbados 30 Jun 1749.
ALLEYNE, THOMAS, fourth son of Reynold Alleyne, Four Hills, Barbados, member Barbados House of Assembly, and Elizabeth Isabella, dau. of John Gay ; b. ; adm. (aged 13) Jul 1723 ; Queen’s Coll.Oxford, matr. 2 Nov 1725, aged 18 (sic) ; adm. Middle Temple 6 Apr 1726 ; of Dymocks plantation, Barbados ; m.1st, Lucy, dau. of William Dottin, Grenade Hall, Barbados ; m. 2nd, Susanna, widow of — Walker, and dau. of William Gibbes, Black Rock, Barbados ; will dated 4 Feb 1753.
ALLFREY, WILLIAM, fourth son of George Allfrey, Friston Place, Sussex, and Kitty, dau. of Steyning Beard, Seaford, Sussex ; b. 25 Sep 1802 ; adm. 13 Jan 1817 ; left 1821 ; Head Town Boy at Christmas 1820 ; Exeter Coll.Oxford, matr. 19 Jun 1821 ; BA 1826 ; MA 1829 ; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 15 Oct 1824, called to bar 7 Jul 1829 ; equity draughtsman and conveyancer ; d. unm. 1 Jul 1855.
ALLIN, RICHARD ; b. ; adm. ; KS in 1619 (Chapter Muniments 32451).
ALLISON, —– ; b. ; adm. ; in school lists 1656, first two quarters ; left 1656.
ALLOTT, —– ; b. ; adm. ; in school list 1656, first quarter ; left 1656.
ALLWAY, PLOMER, son of Samuel Plomer Allway, North Nibley, Gloucs., solicitor, and Jessie Violet Matilda, youngest dau. of Lieut. James Veitch, EICS Bengal [check] ; b. 8 Oct 1835 ; adm. 20 Jan 1845. [marriages of Plomer Allway registered Woolwich fourth quarter 1871 and fourth quarter 1872, to Emma Christian] [presumably Plomer Allway, a Pay Sergeant, Depot Brigade, Royal Artillery, Woolwich, in 1875] [living in New Zealand in 1881, having emigrated there with wife Emma Jul 1880] [Plomer Allway, late Royal Artillery, d. at Narrabri, Australia 10 Feb 1892]
ALMACK, —- ; b. ; in school lists 1764,1765,1767 ; left Whitsun 1767. [perhaps William Almack, only son of William Almack, King Street, St.James’s, Westminster, and Hanworth, Middlesex, wine merchant and founder Almack’s Club, and Elizabeth, dau. of William Cullen, Sanches, Lancs. ; b. ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 8 Jul 1772, aged 18 ; adm.Middle Temple 12 Mar 1770, called to bar 7 Nov 1777 ; d. 27 Oct 1806]
ALNWICK (or ALNEWICKE), AMON, a native of London ; kin to Susan (dau. of John Alnwicke), wife of Christopher Toldervey MP ; b. ; adm. ; QS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1586, matr. 17 Dec 1586, aged 18, Westminster Student to 1598 ; BA 1590 ; MA 1594 ; ordained deacon and priest 3 Jul 1597 (unrecorded bishop, for Oxford) ; Rector of Didcot, Berks., from 1597 ; Prebendary of Lincoln from 31 Dec 1612 ; m. (son bapt. 3 Apr 1614, IGI] ; buried Didcot 29 Sep 1621.
ALPRESS, —– ; b. ; adm. 19 Apr 1765 ; d. 1765.
ALSOP, ANTHONY, son of Anthony Alsop, Darley, Derbs., by Anne Lowe ; bapt. Darley, Derbs. 4 Jan 1669/70 ; adm. ; KS 1686 ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1690, matr. 12 Jul 1690, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1690 – void 12 Aug 1713 (expiry year of grace as R.Nursling), Tutor 1698-1709, Junior Censor 1701-2, Senior Censor 1703-5, Catechist 1706-7,1711 ; BA 29 Jan 1694/5 ; MA 23 Mar 1696/7 ; BD 1706 (incorp. Cambridge 1707) ; ordained deacon 25 Jan 1703/4, priest 2 Jun 1709 (both Rochester) ; Rector of Nursling, Hants. 31 Jul 1712-5 ; Rector of Alverstoke, Hants. 25 Mar 1715 (dispensation to hold with Nursling, 1715) ; Rector of Brightwell, Berks., from 21 Dec 1715 ; Prebendary of Winchester from 21 May 1715 ; left England in 1718 on losing an action brought against him for breach of promise of marriage, but returned in 1720 ; is alluded to in the Dunciad ; with Francis Atterbury (KS 1674 (qv)) and George Smalridge (qv) assisted Charles Boyle in the production of Dr.Bentley’s Dissertations on the Epistles of Phalaris, 1698 ; editor, Fabularum Aesopicarum Delectus, 1698, in the preface to which he attacked Bentley ; his Odarum Libri Duowere published posthumously by Sir Francis Bernard (qv) in 1752 ; m. 31 Dec 1716 Margaret, widow of Rev.Francis Bernard, Rector of Brightwell, Berks. (and mother of Sir Francis Bernard (qv)), and dau. of Richard Winlowe, Lewknor, Oxfordshire ; accidentally drowned 16 Jun 1726. ODNB.
ALSOP, RICHARD ; b. ; adm. ; Min.Can.1576.
ALSOPP, GEORGE ; b. ; adm. 25 Feb 1782 ; left 1784. [note George Allsop, bapt. St.Andrew, Holborn 31 Oct 1773, son of Thomas Allsop, and Elizabeth — (IGI)]
ALSTON, SIR ROWLAND, BART., brother of Sir Thomas Alston, Bart. (qv) ; b. ; adm. (aged 8) Jan. 1735/6 ; left 1743 ; Clare Coll.Cambridge, adm. pens. 28 Sep 1743, matr. 1743 ; Ensign, 1st Foot Guards 11 Apr 1745 ; Lieut. and Capt. 26 Feb 1748 ; Capt. and Lieut.-Col. 2 May 1758 ; retd. 30 Jul 1762, after reprimand by court martial ; succeeded his brother Thomas as 6th baronet 18 Jul 1774 ; of Odell, Beds. ; High Sheriff Bedfordshire 1779 ; m. 2 Oct 1753 Gertrude, dau. of Rev.Thomas Durnford, Rector of Rockbourne and Vicar of Whitsbury, Hampshire ; d. 29 Jun 1791.
ALSTON, SIR THOMAS, BART., elder son of Sir Rowland Alston, Bart., MP, Odell, Beds., and Elizabeth, dau. of Capt.Thomas Reynes ; b. ; adm. (aged 11) Jan 1735/6 ; left 1739 ; Queen’s Coll.Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 21 Apr 1740 ; Ensign, 1st Foot Guards 16 Apr 1741 ; Lieut. and Capt. 23 Apr 1743 ; retd. 11 Apr 1745 ; MP Bedfordshire 1747-61 ; intermittently insane from 1750s ; succ. as 5th baronet 2 Jan 1759 ; of Odell, Beds. ; m. 30 Aug 1750 Catherine, dau. of Rev.Thomas Davies Bovey (formerly Davies), Longstowe, Cambridgeshire ; d. 18 Jul 1774.
ALT, HENRY, son of Jost Heinrich Alt, Minister for Landgraf of Hesse Kassel in London, by Jeanetta, only child of Sir John Preston, Bart., Prestonhall, Cupar, Fifeshire ; b. ; adm. (aged 11) Oct 1741 ; left 1746 ; Lieut. 51st Foot 21 Oct 1754 ; 22nd Foot 8 Mar 1757 ; Capt. 12 Sep 1760 ; 44th Foot 19 Sep 1761 ; 93rd Foot ; granted 5000 acres in Nova Scotia in 1767 ; of Finmere, Oxfordshire, at death ; m. Ann — ; buried 12 Jul 1768. [perhaps m. 5 Feb 1768 Ann Wilsher]
ALT, JUST, brother of Henry Alt (qv) ; b. ; adm. (aged 9) Oct 1741 (as Justinian Alt) ; KS 1747 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1751, adm. pens. 5 Jun 1751, scholar 24 Apr 1752, matr.1751 ; BA 1755 ; MA 1758 ; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1756, Major Fellow 5 Jul 1758 ; ordained deacon 24 Apr 1758, priest 21 May 1758 (both Lincoln) ; Rector of Mixbury, Oxfordshire, from 20 Nov 1759 ; Domestic Chaplain to George Bussy, Earl of Jersey 8 Nov 1769 ; Prebendary of York from 19 May 1797 ; m. 30 May 1763 Elizabeth, dau. of Rev.Thomas Bowles DD, Vicar of Brackley, Northants. ; buried Mixbury, Oxfordshire 21 Jun 1801.
ALT, WILLIAM GERARD, brother of Henry Alt (qv) ; b. ; adm. (aged 11) Jan 1747/8 (as Gerard Alt) ; in school list 1752 ; Ensign, 8th Foot 29 Aug 1756 ; Lieut., 22nd Foot 4 Oct 1757 ; d. in the West Indies c.1759. [Not in Army List 1759]
ALTHAM, —- ; at school in 1664 (Busby’s Account Book) ; a boarder.
ALTHAM, JAMES, son of James Altham, Epping, Essex ; nephew of Roger Altham (KS 1675, qv) ; b. ; adm. ; QS (aged 14) 1713 ; left 1716. [Presumably James Altham, bapt.Epping, Essex 1 Mar 1697, son of James Altham, and Anne — (IGI)] [but was he a son of James Altham, Mark Hall, Latton, Essex, and Mary, dau. of Adm.John Tinker, Master Attendant at Deptford ?]
ALTHAM, ROGER, son of Roger Altham, Settle, Yorks., yeoman [and his second wife Agnes — ?] ; b. ; apparently adm. to Christ’s Coll., Cambridge, from Giggleswick School 6 Jun 1663, aged 15, but if so he was at Westminster subsequently ; KS (Capt.) 1664 ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1668, matr. 17 Dec 1668, aged 19, Westminster Student 26 Dec 1668 – void 1690, Tutor 1675-82, Junior Censor 1681 ; BA 1672 ; MA 1675 ; BD 1683 ; DD 1694 ; Proctor 1682 ; ordained deacon 17 Dec 1681, priest 12 Mar 1681/2 (both Oxford) ; Chaplain to John Dolben, Archbishop of York (qv) ; Prebendary of York from 19 Oct 1683, of Southwell from 1 Aug 1685, and of Ripon from 1688/9 ; Rector of Nunburnholme, Yorks., 1685-7 ; Vicar of Finedon, Northants., from 7 Jun 1688 ; Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, and Regius Professor of Hebrew 6 Nov 1691 – 20 Apr 1697 (when deprived for not subscribing to Act of 7 and 8 William and Mary), and again from 12 Mar 1702/3 ; m. Frances, dau. of Christopher Hodgson, New Hall, Beeston, Yorks. ; d. 15 Aug 1714. Buried Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.
ALTHAM, ROGER, second son of Rev.Michael Altham DD, Rector of Eastwick, Herts., and of Latton, Essex, and Elizabeth — ; nephew of Roger Altham (KS 1664, qv) ; bapt. Over Kellet, Lancs. 7 Dec 1657 ; adm. ; KS 1675 ; elected to Ch.Ch.Oxford 1677, matr. 4 Dec 1677, aged 19, Westminster Student 17 Dec 1677 – void 1698, Tutor 1690-3, Junior Censor 1689, Senior Censor 1690-1 ; one of the students who plucked “old Lady Lovelace” out of her coach 6 Jun 1681 (Wood, Athenae Oxonienses, i, xci) ; BA 1681 ; MA 1684 ; BD 1694 ; DD 1701 ; Proctor 1693 ; Whyte’s Professor of Moral Philosophy, Oxford University 1693-8 ; ordained deacon 23 Dec 1683 (Oxford), priest 15 Mar 1684/5 (London) ; Chaplain to Bishop of London ; Prebendary of St.Paul’s from 30 Aug 1695 ; Rector of St.Andrew Undershaft, with St.Mary Axe, London 23 Oct 1697-1701 ; Rector of St.Botolph, Bishopsgate, from 7 Oct 1701 ; Vicar of Latton, Essex, from 14 Jul 1705 ; Archdeacon of Middlesex from 9 Feb 1716/7 ; m. 31 May 1705 Mary, dau. of James Altham, Mark Hall, Essex ; d. 28 Feb 1729/30.
ALVANLEY, BARONS, see ARDEN.
ALVEY, —- ; probably a son of Rev.Richard Alvey BD, Prebendary of Westminster and Master of the Temple, and Emma Goodlad ; b. ; adm. ; charged for commons Christmas quarter 1564 to Christmas quarter 1567 (Chapter Muniments 54004-16) ; not mentioned in his putative father’s will, under which Alvey senior left all his “humanitie” books to the scholars of Westminster School.
ALWORTH, ST.LEGER ; b. ; adm. 21 Jul 1766 (in Record, incorrectly, under St.Leger, Alworth) ; left Whitsun 1767. [Presumably St.Leger Aldworth, eldest son of Boyle Aldworth, Newmarket, co.Cork, and his second wife Martha, dau. of Col.Christopher Rogers, Lota, co.Cork ; b.Cork ; Trinity Coll.Dublin, adm. pens. 3 Nov 1773, aged 17 (Mr.Jessop) : BA 1778 ; of Old Sunday’s Wells, Cork ; d. 12 Nov 1823]
AMBROSE, JOHN, son of John Ambrose, London, and Carolina – – – ; bapt. 30 Mar 1768 ; adm. 16 Jan 1776 ; went to Charterhouse Sch., foundation scholar Jun 1778-84 ; Univ.Coll.Oxford, matr. 26 Apr 1784, aged 16 ; BA 14 Jan 1791 ; MA 23 Jun 1791 ; ordained deacon 25 Sep 1791 (Salisbury), priest 22 Apr 1792 (London) ; Curate, Swindon, Wilts., 1791 ; Rector of Blisworth, Northants, from 9 Apr 1797 ; left England c.1808 to escape creditors, settling in Nantes, France, but returned to England before death ; m. at British Embassy, Paris 15 Jul 1834 Juliana Catherine, illegitimate dau. of Thomas Charles Colyear, 4th Earl of Portmore (I) ; d. 2 Jun 1839.
AMCOTTS, JOHN, b. ; adm. (aged 11) Jul 1727 ; left 1729.
AMCOTTS, VINCENT, b. ; adm. (aged 10) Jul 1727 ; left 1729. [Evidently brother of, or close kin to, last] [note Vincent Amcotts, St.Sepulchre’s, London, vintner, in prison for debt at Wood Street Compter Jul 1743]
AMHERST, HON.FREDERICK CAMPBELL, son of William Pitt Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst (qv), and his first wife ; b. 10 Mar 1807 ; adm. 1 Apr 1818 ; left Whitsun 1824 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 28 May 1824 ; 1st cl.Classics 1827 ; BA 1828 ; d. unm. 12 Oct 1829.
AMHERST, HON.JEFFERY, eldest son of William Pitt Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst (qv), and his first wife ; b. 29 Aug 1802 ; adm. 23 Sep 1813 ; left 1814 ; absent from school while acting as page to his father as Ambassador to China ; re-adm. 15 Sep 1817 ; left Whitsun 1818 ; Ensign, Rifle Brigade 4 May 1820 ; Ensign and Lieut., 1st Foot Guards 24 Oct 1821 ; Lieut., 59th Foot 21 Nov 1822 ; Capt., unattached 8 Apr 1826 ; ADC to father when Governor-Gen.Bengal, 20 Aug 1823, Military Secretary to father from 29 Aug 1823 ; d. at Barrackpore, Bengal, India 2 Aug 1826.
AMHERST, WILLIAM PITT, 1ST EARL AMHERST, only son of Lieut.-Gen.William Amherst MP, and Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Paterson, Conduit Street, London ; b. 14 Jan 1773 ; adm. 19 Feb 1781 (Ottey/Farren/Hayes/Clough) ; in school lists 1786, Christmas 1788 ; played cricket for Town Boys v KSS 28 Jul 1789 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 13 Oct 1789, commoner, Canoneer Student 23 Dec 1789 – 5 Aug 1800 (void, by marriage) ; BA 1793 ; MA 1797 ; Grand Tour (Switzerland, Italy) 1793-6 ; succ. uncle by special remainder as 2nd Baron Amherst 3 Aug 1797 ; a Lord of the Bedchamber 27 Apr 1802 – May 1804, Jun 1804- Mar 1812 ; Envoy to Court of Sicily 1809-11 ; again a Lord of the Bedchamber 18 Apr 1815- Mar 1823 ; Privy Councillor 30 Dec 1815 ; appointed Ambassador to China 20 Jan 1816, but was unable to obtain audience of the Chinese Emperor, and returned to England 1817 ; appointed Governor-General of Bengal 23 Oct 1822, taking office 1 Aug 1823 ; declared war against Burma 24 Feb 1824 ; supported claims of Rajah of Bhurtpore against Doorjan Sal ; created Earl Amherst 19 Dec 1826 ; returned to England 1828 ; again a Lord of the Bedchamber 20 Nov 1829 – May 1835, supporting Whig Government of 1830-4 but remaining in office under their Tory successors in 1834-5 ; GCH 1834 ; nominated Governor of Canada by Sir Robert Peel when leaving office in 1835, but the appointment was cancelled by the new Whig ministry ; LLD Cambridge 1835 ; Busby Trustee 11 May 1819 ; m.1st, 24 Jul 1800 Sarah, Countess of Plymouth, widow of Other Windsor, 5th Earl of Plymouth, and eldest dau. of Andrew Archer, 2nd Baron Archer ; m.2nd, 25 May 1839 Mary, Countess of Plymouth, widow of Other Windsor, 6th Earl of Plymouth, and eldest dau. of John Frederick Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset (qv) ; d. 13 Mar 1857. ODNB.
AMHERST, WILLIAM PITT, 2ND EARL AMHERST, son of William Pitt Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst (qv) and his first wife ; b. 3 Sep 1805 ; adm. 1 Apr 1818 ; KS 1820 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1824, matr. 28 May 1824, Westminster Student ; BA 1828 ; styled Viscount Holmesdale 1826-57 ; MP East Grinstead 11 Feb 1829-32 ; succ. his father as 2nd Earl Amherst 13 Mar 1857 ; Busby Trustee 18 May 1869 ; DL JP Kent ; his notable collection of coins was sold by Sotheby’s 8-15 July 1850 ; m. 12 Jul 1834 Gertrude, sixth dau. of Hon. and Right Rev.Hugh Percy DD, Bishop of Carlisle ; d. 26 Mar 1886.
AMIS, EDWARD, brother of Richard Amis (qv) ; b. 26 Sep 1779 ; in school lists 1795,1797 ; a farmer at Catfield, Norfolk ; d.unm. 26 Oct 1852.
AMIS, RICHARD, eldest son of John Amis MD, Acle and Catfield, Norfolk, and Mary, dau. of Rev.Richard Fayerman, Rector of Oby, Norfolk ; b. 16 Feb 1778 ; in school lists 1795, 1797 ; d. 25 Aug 1842.
AMORY, ROBERT, son of Thomas Amory, Brunalty, co.Clare, Millbank, Westminster, and Newton Hall, Wakefield, Yorks., author, and his first wife Elizabeth, dau. of Rev.John Vandeleur, Rector of Kilrush, co.Clare ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Jan 1741/2 ; KS 1745 ; St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, adm. pens. 23 Mar 1746/7, matr.1747 ; MB 1757 ; practised as a physician in Wakefield, Yorks. ; Governor of Wakefield Grammar School 18 Apr 1768 – 4 Feb 1793 ; m. Anna Maria —- ; d. 15 Feb 1805.
AMORY, THOMAS, only surviving son of Jonathan Amory, Dublin, Ireland, and subsequently of Charleston, South Carolina, Treasurer of South Carolina, and Rebecca, widow of David Houston, Dublin, mariner ; b. May 1682 ; adm. (see New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1856, 61) ; apprenticed in 1699 to Nicolas Oursel, French merchant in London, who on the conclusion of his apprenticeship sent him as his factor to Terceira in the Azores in 1706 ; became merchant in the Azores ; Dutch and English Consul in the Azores ; returned to North America in 1719 ; settled at Boston, Massachusetts ; m. May 1721 Rebecca, dau. of Francis Holmes, Boston, Massachusetts, tavern owner ; d. 20 Jun 1728.
AMSON, JOHN ; b. ; adm. (aged 16) Sep 1730 (surname misread by Russell Barker & Stenning as Anson) ; in school list Jan 1732/3 (as Amson) ; left 1733.
AMYAND, CLAUDIUS, eldest son of Claudius Amyand FRS, Serjeant-Surgeon to George II, also Surgeon to 1stDragoon Guards, and Mary, dau. of Daniel Rabache, St.Peter le Poer, London, merchant ; b. 25 Aug 1718 ; adm. Jun 1726 ; KS 1732 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1736, matr. 25 Jun 1736, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1736 – res 26 Jun 1744 ; BA 1740 ; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 23 Jan 1733/4, called to bar 2 Jul 1742 ; Keeper of the King’s Libraries from 8 Nov 1745 ; “1749, Oct.5, Whitehall. Treasury order for payment to Claudius Amyand, Keeper of his Majesty’s Libraries of £50 as half a year’s allowance for house rent or accommodation of the Libraries, and which allowance is to be continued until he shall be provided with the like accommodations when the said Libraries, which are now lying in the old Dormitory at Westminster, shall be removed from thence” (HMC Laing, ii, 402) ; MP Tregony 1747-54, Sandwich 1754 – 11 Dec 1756 ; Under-Secretary of State, Southern Department Apr 1750 – Nov 1756 ; a Commissioner of Customs Dec 1756-Jan 1765 ; Receiver-General of the Land Tax for Middlesex from Jan 1765 ; m. 26 Nov 1761 Frances, widow of George Compton, 6th Earl of Northampton, and dau. of Rev.Thomas Payne, Vicar of Holme Lacy, Herefs. ; d. 1 Apr 1774.
AMYAND, SIR GEORGE, BART., brother of Claudius Amyand (qv) ; b. 26 Sep 1720 ; adm. Feb 1728/9 ; left 1735 ; apprenticed to John Seale 26 May 1736 ; a London merchant and banker ; MP Barnstaple from 1754 ; one of the assistants of the Russia Company 1756 ; a Director of the East India Company 1760, 1763-4 ; created a baronet 4 Aug 1764 ; m. 9 Apr 1746 Anna Maria, dau. of John Abraham Korten, Hamburg, merchant ; d. 16 Aug 1766.
AMYAND, THOMAS HANS, brother of Claudius Amyand (qv) ; bapt.St.Anne, Soho 15 May 1728 (IGI) ; adm. (aged 8) Feb 1736/7 ; Min.Can.1743 ; left 1745 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 17 Mar 1745/6 ; BA 1749 ; MA 1752 ; ordained deacon 24 May 1752, priest 21 Dec 1752 (both Oxford) ; Rector of Hambleden, Bucks. 23 May 1753 – May 1760 ; Rector of Fawley, Bucks., from 29 Apr 1758 ; m. 17 Aug 1758 Frances, third dau. of Thomas Ryder, director, EI Company ; d. May 1762 (will proved PCC 22 Jun 1762).
AMYOT, THOMAS EDWARD, eldest son of Thomas Amyot FRS FSA, James Street, Buckingham Gate, Westminster, sometime Private Secretary to Right Hon.William Windham, and Jane, dau. of Edward Colman, Norwich, surgeon ; b. 28 Jan 1817 ; adm. 12 Jan 1829 ; St.Thomas’s Hospital ; MRCS LSA 1839 ; FRCS 1866 ; practised at Diss, Norfolk ; m. 20 Oct 1847 Elizabeth, dau. of Rev.Francis Howes, Minor Canon of Norwich ; d. 15 Dec 1895.
AMYOT, WILLIAM HENRY, brother of Thomas Edward Amyot (qv) ; b. 27 May 1820 ; adm. 1 Jul 1830 ; adm. Middle Temple 10 Jan 1839, called to bar 12 Jan 1844 ; equity draughtsman and conveyancer ; practised at Newcastle-on-Tyne ; m. 27 Dec 1849 Alicia Honora, sister of Denman Adams Dwarris (qv) ; d. 10 May 1906.
AMYRANT, MAURICE ABBOT, son of Moses Amyrant (qv) ; b. 31 Jul 1721 ; adm. (aged 8) Feb 1729/30 ; left 1732.
AMYRANT, MOSES, son of Moses Amyrant LLD, Paris, France, advocate in Parlement of Paris ; b. ; adm. ; KS (aged 15) 1698 ; Queen’s Coll.Oxford, matr. 7 May 1700 ; adm.Inner Temple 7 Oct 1699, called to bar 9 Jun 1706 ; lic.to m. 5 Jan 1719/20 Gertrude Abbot, St Dunstan in the West, London ; d. shortly before 7 Feb 1751.
AMYRANT, ROBERT, son of Moses Amyrant (qv) ; b. ; adm. (aged 7) Feb 1729/30 ; left 1732 ; apprenticed to Ann Addison, painter stainer 1 Aug 1739 ; living 1760 ; m. Mary —.
ANCASTER AND KESTEVEN, DUKES OF, see BERTIE.
ANCRAM, WILLIAM, EARL OF, see KER, WILLIAM, 6TH MARQUIS OF LOTHIAN.
ANDERSON, — (in school list Oct 1770, left Dec 1770), see HENDERSON.
ANDERSON, EDMUND, elder son of Sir Edmund Anderson, Bart., and his first wife Mary, dau. of William Harvey MP, Rolls, Chigwell, Essex ; bapt.St.Anne, Soho 17 Oct 1715 (IGI) ; adm. (aged 14) Dec 1730 ; in school list Jan 1732/3 (sixth form) ; Ensign, 3rdFoot Guards c.1735 ; “a volunteer captain under General Hawley” ; killed unm. in duel “with a Scots Officer” at Maastricht, Netherlands Sep 1747. [presumably Edmund Anderson, Capt., 58th Foot, a prisoner of the Jacobites held in detention at Perth in 1745]
ANDERSON, GEORGE ; b. ; adm. Christmas 1812 ; left 1814.
ANDERSON, SIR WILLIAM, BART., brother of Edmund Anderson (qv) ; bapt. St.Giles in the Fields 31 Mar 1721/2 ; adm. Jan 1731/2 ; left 1738 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 2 Mar 1737/8, matr. 1738, readm. as fellow commoner 21 Apr 1742 ; BA 1741/2 ; MA 1745 ; ordained deacon 29 May 1743 (Lincoln), priest 12 Apr 1745 (York) ; Rector of Gonalston, Notts., from 12 Apr 1745 ; Rector of Lea, Lincs. from 16 Jul 1745 ; Rector of Epworth, Lincs., 1 Jun 1757 – Nov 1784 ; succ. his father as 6th baronet 3 May 1765 ; m. 7 Aug 1747 Anne, dau. of John Maddison, Stainton-le-Vale, Lincs. ; d. 9 Mar 1785, aged 63.
ANDERSON, WILLIAM, son of John Anderson, Philpot Lane, London, banker, and Susanna, dau. of Thomas Fraser, Nicholas Lane, London, banker ; b. 14 Dec 1796 ; adm. Midsummer 1811 ; left 1813 ; Exeter Coll.Oxford, matr. 25 Oct 1813, aged 16 ; migrated to St.Mary Hall, Oxford ; BA 1817 ; MA 1821. [possibly Cadet, EICS 1818, bond given by Alexander Anderson, Philpot Lane, but this may have been a younger relative of the same name]
ANDESLEY, JAMES, see AUDSLEY, JAMES
ANDESLEY, JOSEPH, see AUDSLEY, JOSEPH
ANDRÉ, DAVID, eldest son of David André, New Broad Street, London, merchant, and Jane Mary, dau. of Andrew Girardot de Bussière, Broad Street, London, merchant ; b. 1752 ; adm. 21 Mar 1766 ; left 1768 ; a Director of the French Protestant Hospital 10 Jul 1782 ; of firm David André and Son, Lothbury, London, merchants ; bankrupt 1796 ; latterly living in Oxford Street, London ; d. 14 Dec 1819.
ANDREWES, CHARLES GERRARD, third son of Gerrard Thomas Andrewes (qv) ; b. 27 Mar 1828 ; adm. 29 Mar 1841 ; Magdalen Hall, Oxford, matr. 3 Dec 1846 ; BA 1851 ; MA 1864 ; ordained deacon 1853, priest 1854 (both Peterborough) ; Curate, St.Margaret’s, Leicester 1853-4 ; Curate, Ickleford, Herts. 1860-6 ; Rector of Wouldham, Kent, from 1866 ; m. 30 Aug 1860 Elizabeth Catherine, youngest dau. of Walker King (adm.1811, qv) ; d. 23 Jan 1892.
ANDREWES, GERRARD, second son of John Andrewes, Basinghall Street, London, attorney, and Frances, dau. of Roger Gray, Bread Street, London ; b. 27 Jun 1704 ; at Merchant Taylors Sch. 1714-6 ; adm. Jun 1718 ; in under school lists 1718-9 (as Andrews) ; KS 1720 ; Capt. of the School 1724 ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1725, but went to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 10 May 1725 ; migrated to Balliol Coll. ; BA 21 Jan 1730/1 ; MA 1738 ; Fellow of Balliol ; ordained deacon 4 Jun 1732, priest 24 Sep 1732 (both Lincoln) ; Rector of Elmsthorp, Leics., 5 Feb 1735/6 ; Rector of Kirkby Mallory, Leics., 16 Sep 1736 – Jun 1741 ; Master of Leicester Free School 1739-62 ; Vicar of Syston, Leics., from 21 Dec 1744 ; Rector of St.Nicholas, Leicester, from 1757 ; m. Isabella, dau. of John Ludlam, Leicester, Mayor and Alderman Leicester City Council ; d. 29 Feb 1764.
ANDREWES, GERRARD, son of Gerrard Andrewes (qv) ; b. 14 Apr 1750 ; adm. Jan 1764 ; KS 1764 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge (with Titley gratuity) 1769, adm. pens. 23 May 1769, scholar 4 May 1770, matr. Mich.1769 ; BA 1773 ; MA 1776 ; DD 1807 ; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 4 Sep 1774, Major Fellow 4 Jul 1775 ; Usher at the School 1771 [check] – 84 ; ordained deacon 15 Dec 1776 (Peterborough), priest 25 Mar 1778 (Rochester) ; Domestic Chaplain to Edward Southwell, Baron De Clifford 19 Jun 1779, to John, Earl of Breadalbane 15 Feb 1784 ; occasional preacher at St.Bride’s Fleet Street, and later at St.James’s Chapel, Hampstead Road ; Rector of Zeal Monachorum, Devon 1788 [no longer 1801] ; preacher at The Magdalene Hospital 1791, at The Foundling Hospital 1799 ; Rector of Mickleham, Surrey 1800 – Mar 1813 ; Rector of St.James’s, Piccadilly, London, from 10 Aug 1802 ; Dean of Canterbury from 8 Nov 1809 ; declined Bishopric of Chester on account of his age 1812 ; Vicar of Great Bookham, Surrey, from 1820 ; composed a school song entitled “Dean’s Yard and Queen Eliza” recited at the Anniversary Dinner of 1836 (Forshall, 255-7) ; among his cherished possessions was the jawbone of King Richard II, given to him by a schoolfellow who had fished it out of Richard’s tomb in 1766 (Archaeologia xlv, 304, note, and Elizabethan xvii, 99-100) ; four of his letters written while he was at school were published in The Treasury, ix, 131-6 ; m. 1 Dec 1788 Elizabeth Maria, dau. of Rev.Thomas Ball, Rector of Wymondham, Leics., and Prebendary of Brecon ; d. 2 Jun 1825. ODNB.
ANDREWES, GERRARD HEBERDEN, eldest son of Gerrard Thomas Andrewes (qv) ; b. 3 Oct 1820 ; adm. 23 Jan 1833 ; KS 1834 ; left 1838 ; Magdalen Hall, Oxford, matr. 2 Jun 1838 ; of Biggleswade, Beds. ; d. unm. 26 Nov 1876.
ANDREWES, GERRARD THOMAS, only son of Gerrard Andrewes (adm 1764, qv) ; b. 27 Dec 1794 ; adm. Christmas 1808 ; KS 1809 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1813, adm.pens. 29 May 1813, scholar 1814, matr.Mich.1813 ; BA 1817 ; MA 1820 ; ordained deacon 20 Sep 1818 (Canterbury), priest 14 May 1819 (Ely, lit.dim. from Canterbury) ; Rector of All Hallows, Bread Street, London, with St.John the Evangelist, from 24 Apr 1819 ; Clerk in Orders at St.James’s, Piccadilly, London, from 1819 ; Six Preacher, Canterbury Cathedral 1821-32 ; Chaplain to Speaker of House of Commons 1839-49 ; m. 10 Jun 1819 Elizabeth Catherine, sister of William Heberden (adm.1810, qv) ; d. 22 Jun 1851.
ANDREWES, THEOPHILUS, son of John Andrewes, Greenwich, Kent, a servant of James I ; b. ; adm. ; recommended for admission into College by Sir Edward Conway, Secretary of State, 18 May 1624 (CSP Dom 1623-5, 249) ; KS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1631, matr. 24 Feb 1631/2, aged 20, Westminster Student to 1641. [perhaps m. (by 1653) Mary —, and perhaps Theophilus Andrewes, will proved PCC 28 Jan 1656]
ANDREWES, WILLIAM GERRARD, second son of Gerrard Thomas Andrewes (qv) ; b. 5 Nov 1824 ; adm. 29 Mar 1837 ; Magdalen Hall, Oxford, matr. 14 May 1842 ; BA 1846 ; MA 1848 ; ordained deacon 1847, priest 1848 (both London) ; Curate, All Hallows, Bread Street, London 1847-50 ; Curate, Morden, Surrey 1850-68 ; Master of St.Cross Hospital, Winchester 1868-1901 ; m. 6 Jul 1850 Georgiana Elizabeth, only child of George Heberden (qv) ; d. 29 Nov 1903.
ANDREWS, —- ; b. ; in under school lists 1715,1716.
ANDREWS, —- ; b. ; in under school list 1721.
ANDREWS, HENRY, see UTHWATT, HENRY UTHWATT.
ANDREWS, JOHN, son of William Andrews (KS 1693, qv) ; b. ; adm. from Kilkenny School (aged 11) Jun 1718 ; in under school list 1719 ; Trinity Coll.Dublin, adm. pens. 13 Oct 1722 : BA 1727 ; MA 1731 ; ordained ; Curate, Burnchurch, co.Kilkenny, from 1731 ; m. Elizabeth, dau. of Joseph Mathews, Bonnettstown, co.Kilkenny ; buried Kilkenny 23 Dec 1746.
ANDREWS, JOHN LUCKHAM WILLIAMS, fourth son of George James Williams Andrews, Dorchester, Dorset, solicitor, and Elizabeth Anne, dau. of Thomas Cockeram, Frome St Quintin, Dorset ; b. 31 Jan 1854 ; adm. 17 Apr 1868 ; Min.Can. 1869 ; left May 1871 ; Hertford Coll.Oxford, matr. 19 Oct 1874 ; migrated to St.Alban Hall ; BA 1878 ; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 8 Nov 1873, called to bar 25 Jun 1879 ; m. his cousin Florence Theresa (born Agra, India), dau. of Lieut.-Col. William Davis, Bengal Staff Corps (marriage registered St.George Hanover Square first quarter 1889) ; d. at Angol, Chile 20 Jun 1895, from the results of an accident.
ANDREWS, ROBERT, son of Robert Andrews, Grosvenor Street, London, attorney, agent for the Grosvenor estate in Mayfair, and his cousin Margaret, second dau. of Robert Pigot, Eaton, Cheshire ; b. 1 Sep 1732 ; adm. (aged 9) Apr 1742 (Morel) ; KS 1747 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1751, matr. 5 Jun 1751, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1751 – void 12 Apr 1759 (expiry year of grace as V.Hooe) ; BA 1755 ; MA 1758 ; ordained deacon 13 Jun 1756, priest 5 Jun 1757 (both Oxford); Domestic Chaplain to John, 5th Baron Berkeley of Stratton, 24 Jul 1756 (still 1771) ; Vicar of Wartling, Sussex, from 6 May 1758 ; Vicar of Hooe, Sussex 3 Jun 1758-71 ; Vicar of Westham, Sussex from 20 May 1771 ; Rector of Broadwater, Sussex ; Domestic Chaplain to Charles Compton, 7th Earl of Northampton (qv) 27 Apr 1759 ; m. 25 Apr 1758 (IGI) Sarah, sister of George Hawkins (KS 1759, qv) ; d. 25 Mar 1793.
ANDREWS, ROBERT, eldest son of Robert Andrews (qv) ; b. 3 Nov 1762 ; adm. 24 Jan 1774 ; left Whitsun 1775 ; Writer, EICS Madras 1778 ; Senior Merchant 1790 ; Second in Council, Cuddalore 1791 ; Collector, Trichinopoly District 1792 ; Acting Judge, Provincial Court of Appeal and Circuit for the Southern Division 1810 ; Postmaster General 1813 ; First Judge, Provincial Court of Appeal for the Southern Division 1815 ; d.unm. at Trichinopoly 13 Nov 1821.
ANDREWS, SEPTIMUS, seventh son of William Andrews, Homington, Wilts., and Mary — (IGI) ; b. 21 Sep 1832 ; adm. 15 Feb 1847 ; QS 1847 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1851, matr. 12 Jun 1851, Westminster Student to 1869 ; BA 1855 ; MA 1858 ; ordained deacon 1857 (London), priest 1862 (Oxford) ; Fellow of St.Peter’s Coll. Radley 1857-60 ; Assistant Master at the School Sep 1860 – Dec 1865 ; Perpetual Curate of Market Harborough, Leics. 1865-9 ; received into Roman Catholic church 1869 ; ordained sub-deacon 1871, deacon 1872, priest 1873 ; oblate of St.Charles, Bayswater, from 1871 ; author, My reasons for leaving the Church ofEngland, 1870 ; d. unm.19 Sep 1914.
ANDREWS, WILLIAM, son of James Andrews, Westminster ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1693 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1695, matr. 18 Jun 1695, aged 17, Westminster Student 6 Jul 1696 – void 1702 ; BA 1699 ; MA 19 Mar 1701/2 ; ordained deacon 22 Sep 1700 (aged 23) (Oxford), priest 31 May 1702 (Rochester) ; described as an “old Westminster man”, brought over to Ireland by the Duke of Ormonde (D.F.Markham, History of the Markham family, 1854, 51) ; Head Master, Kilkenny School 1702-14 ; LLB and LLD Trinity College, Dublin 1704 ; Chaplain in Ordinary to Duke of Ormonde as Lord Lieut.Ireland (occurs 1705) ; Prebendary of Ossory 1 Nov 1710-13 ; Archdeacon of Ossory from 3 Sep 1713 ; m. (by 1703) ; d. 1 Nov 1736, in 55th year (age given sic on MI St.Mary’s Church, Kilkenny). [presumably William Andrews, son of James Andrews, and Elizabeth —, b. 23 Mar 1677/8, bapt.St.Martin’s in the Fields 5 Apr 1678]
ANDREWS, WILLIAM, son of William Andrews, St.Peter in the East, Oxford, “doctor” (presumably KS 1693, qv) ; b. ; adm. (aged 16) Jun 1718 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 9 Jun 1718, aged 16.
ANECK, —- (in school list 1733), see ANSELL, THOMAS.
ANGELO, EDWARD ANTHONY, third son of Henry Angelo (otherwise Henry Charles William Malevolti), Bolton Row, Piccadilly, London, the famous swordsman, and Mary Bowman Swindon, West Auckland, co.Durham ; b. 14 Dec 1784 ; at school 1794 ; in school lists 1795,1797 ; KS 1799 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1803, adm. pens. 21 May 1803, but did not matr. ; Ensign, 28th Foot 9 Jul 1803 ; Lieut., 52nd Foot 28 Aug 1804 ; Capt., 4th Garrison Batt. 1 Dec 1806 ; 21st Foot 18 May 1807 ; Maj. 2 Jun 1814 ; Capt., Newfoundland Fencibles (half-pay) 9 Sep 1819 ; Brevet Lieut.-Col. 22 Jul 1832 ; 30th Foot 9 Aug 1831 ; half-pay, unattached 12 Dec 1834 ; Col. 9 Nov 1846 ; 30th Foot, 22 Dec 1846, retiring same day ; served Egypt 1807, Calabria 1808 and Walcheren 1809 ; Assist.Adj.-Gen., Catalonia 1812-3 ; ADC to Maj.-Gen.Count Nugent in Austro-Italian campaign ; KH 1827 ; Chief Commissioner of Police for Bolton, Lancs. 1839 ; a Military Knight of Windsor from 1854 ; m. 11 Jul 1816 Marie Louise Mélanie Pauline, dau. of Charles Antoine Etienne, Marquis de Choiseul-Beaupré ; d. 26 Aug 1869.
ANGIER, see also AUNGIER.
ANGIER, BURRAGE, eldest surviving son of Burrage Angier, St.James’s, Westminster, and Anna Maria, dau. of Edward Christian, East Barnet, Herts. ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1715/6 ; in under school list 1720 ; one of the searchers at the Custom House (employee there by Jul 1742) ; of Woodford, Essex ; m. Elizabeth, dau. of Samuel Buckley, Hornsey, Middlesex ; d. 20 Nov 1792, aged 87.
ANGIER, CHARLES ; b. ; adm. (aged 9) Jan 1723/4 ; left 1726. [note will Charles Angier, St.Martin’s in the Fields, carver, PCC 4 Dec 1764 : premises apparently in Long Acre]
ANGIER, EDWARD, brother of Burrage Angier (qv) ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Jan 1720/1 ; left 1722 ; apprenticed to Christopher Marshall, apothecary 4 Feb 1723/4 ; an apothecary ; living Feb 1735/6.
ANGIER, GEORGE, brother of Burrage Angier (qv) ; b. ; in under school list 1726 ; living 1735.
ANGIER, JOHN, brother of Burrage Angier (qv) ; b. ; adm. (aged 8) Jan 1724/5 ; left 1726.
ANGIER, SAMUEL, son of Bezaleel Angier, Dedham, Essex, clothier, and nephew of Rev.John Angier, nonconformist minister, Ringley Chapel and Denton, Lancs. ; b. 28 Aug 1639 ; adm. ; KS 1656 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1658, subscribed 8 Dec 1658, Westminster Student ; ejected Easter 1661, under the Act of Uniformity ; ordained a Presbyterian minister 29 Oct 1672 ; assisted his uncle at Denton chapel ; minister at Dukinfield, Cheshire 1689 ; m. Anne, dau. of Oswald Mosley, Manchester ; d. 8 Nov 1713, aged 74. DNB, s.v. John Angier (no entry for him in ODNB).
ANGLESEY, JAMES, 2ND EARL OF, see ANNESLEY, JAMES, 2nd EARL OF ANGLESEY.
ANGLESEY, MARQUISES OF, see PAGET.
ANGUISH, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. ; Min.Can.1576.
ANKETELL, MATTHEW DAVID, eldest son of Matthew John Anketell, Anketell Grove, co.Monaghan, and Catherine Anne Frances, eldest dau. of David Ker MP, Portavo and Montalto, co.Down ; b. 5 Jan 1841 ; adm. 18 Oct 1851 (G) ; of Anketell Grove, co.Monaghan ; killed by a fall from his horse, unm., 17 Jul 1872.
ANNESLEY, ARTHUR, brother of Francis Annesley (QS 1714, qv) ; b. ; adm. (aged 15) Jul 1726 ; Queen’s Coll.Oxford, matr. 5 Jul 1727, aged 16 ; Leiden Univ., adm. 26 Jul 1729 ; adm. Inner Temple 10 Nov 1724, called to bar 29 Jun 1734, tenant chambers there 1730-45, Bencher 10 Jun 1763, Treasurer 1774/5 ; d. unm. 10 Jan 1786.
ANNESLEY, FRANCIS, eldest son of Francis Annesley MP, Thorganby, Yorkshire, barrister, Bencher and Treasurer Inner Temple, and his first wife Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Joseph Martin Kt MP, London, Baltic merchant and naval contractor ; bapt.St.Andrew, Holborn 4 Sep 1699 (as Francis Ansley) (IGI) ; adm. ; QS (aged 13) 1714 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1718, matr. 17 Jun 1718, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1718 – void 21 May 1719 ; migrated to St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 21 May 1719 ; Trinity Coll.Dublin, LLD 1725 [check] ; adm. Inner Temple 6 Feb 1714/5 ; ordained (in Ireland, 1725) ; Rector of Winwick, Lancs., from 10 Sep 1725 ; gave £50 to building of New Dormitory ; m. 1st, Sep 1721 (marriage dissolved by Act of Parliament 1725, for her adultery with a Spanish diplomat) Elizabeth Sutton ; m. 2nd, 1728 Anne, dau. of Sir Robert Gayer KB, Stoke Poges, Bucks. ; d. 1 May 1740.
ANNESLEY, FRANCIS, son of Francis Annesley (qv) and his second wife ; b. ; adm. (aged 13) Jan 1746/7 ; left 1751 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 13 Sep 1751 ; BCL 1758 ; adm. Inner Temple 30 Mar 1753 ; ordained deacon 5 Jun 1757, priest 1 Jun 1760 (both Oxford) ; Vicar of Bisham, Berks., 13 May 1763 – Sep 1764 ; Rector of Chedzoy, Somerset, from 14 Jul 1763 ; FSA 1 Feb 1759 ; Cotton family Trustee, British Museum, from 1772 ; m. 6 Nov 1760 (IGI) Mary, dau. of John Walker, Bicester, Oxfordshire ; d. 28 Feb 1811.
ANNESLEY, HON.GEORGE, son of Francis Annesley, 1st Viscount Valentia (I) PC (I) MP, Principal Secretary of State for Ireland, and his second wife Jane, widow of Sir Peter Courteen, Bart., Aldington, Worcs., and dau. of Sir John Stanhope Kt, Shelford, Notts. ; b. 28 Oct 1632 ; adm. ; KS in 1645 ; mentioned in The Diaries and Letters of Philip Henry, ed. M.H.Lee, 1882, p.11 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1647, but he had been detained at school “through the exigence of warre” and was granted seniority at Christ Church as from 1 May 1646 (Burrows, ed., 1881, 268), Westminster Student ; BA 1650 ; MA 24 Mar 1652/3 ; admonished by Dean and Chapter of Christ Church in Sep 1653 for being “at a tippling house in this city of Oxon on the Lord’s Day” and also for publicly affronting “the Dean and Chapter in the Hall and at their coming out” (Thompson, Christ Church, 77-8) ; became a Maj. in the Army ; drowned in the Thames as he was stepping into a packet-boat with letters for Charles II from his brother Arthur ; buried St.Margaret’s, Westminster 18 Apr 1660.
ANNESLEY, JAMES, 2ND EARL OF ANGLESEY, son of Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey PC, Lord Privy Seal, and Elizabeth, dau. of Sir James Altham, Kt, Oxhey, Herts., Baron of the Exchequer ; nephew of Hon.George Annesley (qv) ; b. ; at school 1658-60 (Busby’s Account Book) ; left Dec 1661 ; styled Lord Annesley 1661-86 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 4 Dec 1661, aged 16 ; Capt. of Horse, Ireland 1663-70 ; FRS 7 Jan 1662/3 (original fellow) – 1682 ; MP (I) Co.Waterford 1666 ; JP Hampshire and Surrey 1674-81, DL Hampshire 1680-1 ; Col. Militia Foot, Hampshire, c.1675-81 ; Custos Rotulorum, Hampshire 1676-81 ; MP Winchester Mar 1678/9- Mar 1680/1 ; succ. his father as 2nd Earl of Anglesey 6 Apr 1686 ; joined the Bishops in their celebrated petition to James II 17 Nov 1688 ; m. 1669 Lady Elizabeth Manners, fourth dau. of John Manners, 8th Earl of Rutland ; d. 1 Apr 1690.
ANNESLEY, JAMES, son of Francis Annesley (QS 1714, qv), and his second wife ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1746/7 ; left 1751 ; Brasenose Coll.Oxford, matr. 30 May 1753 ; buried Bletchingdon, Oxfordshire 9 Dec 1777.
ANNESLEY, WILLIAM, 1ST VISCOUNT GLERAWLY (I), brother of Francis Annesley (QS 1714, qv) ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Jan 1720/1 ; adm. Inner Temple 12 Feb 1721/2, called to bar 3 Jul 1731, sold tenancy of chambers there Jun 1741 ; called to bar, King’s Inns, Dublin 1738 ; MP (I) Midleton 1741-58 ; inherited father’s estate of Castlewellan, Co.Down 1750 ; created Baron Annesley (I) 20 Sep 1758 ; created Viscount Glerawly (I) 14 Nov 1766 ; m. 16 Aug 1738 Lady Anne Beresford, eldest dau. of Marcus Beresford, 1st Earl of Tyrone (I) ; d. 12 Sep 1770.
ANSELL, —- ; b. ; adm. ; a pensioner 1568-9 ; QS 1570 (Chapter Muniments 54017-8).
ANSELL, JOHN, only surviving son of Rev.Reginald Ansell, Rector of Stowting, Kent, and Magdalen — ; b. ; at school under Busby (Al.Cant. pt.3, i, 33) ; afterwards went to Canterbury School ; Sidney Sussex Coll.Cambridge, adm. pens. 9 May 1663, aged 15, matr.1663 ; BA 1666/7 ; MA 1670 ; signed for deacon’s orders 18 Sep 1669 (London, lit.dim. from Canterbury), ordained priest 22 Sep 1672 (London) ; Rector of Brooke, Kent 16 Nov 1672 – Mar 1681/2 ; Rector of Stowting, Kent, from 8 Jan 1679/80 ; m. 9 May 1685 Jane Morris ; d. 23 Dec 1725.
ANSELL, JOHN, eldest son of John Ansell, Twickenham, Middlesex, apothecary, and his first wife Elinor Halsey ; b. ; adm. (aged 9) Jan 1724/5 ; in under school list 1729 ; apothecary, Twickenham, Middlesex ; m. Jane, dau. of Rev.Henry Jodrell, Rector of Ickenham, Middlesex ; will proved PCC 14 Jan 1757.
ANSELL, ROBERT, brother of John Ansell (qv) ; b. ; adm. (aged 7) Jan 1731/2 ; left 1739 ; apprenticed to Gilbert Jodrell, Lincoln’s Inn, attorney 17 Aug 1743 ; “Mr.Robert Ansell”, subscriber to Francklin, ed., The Epistles of Phalaris, 1749.
ANSELL, THOMAS, brother of John Ansell (qv) ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Oct 1730 ; in school lists Jan 1732/3 and Aug 1733 (name given in latter as Aneck) ; left 1738 ; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm. scholar 28 Feb 1738/9, matr.1739 ; LLB 1744 ; Fellow, Trinity Hall, from 31 Oct 1747 ; reprimanded by the Vice-Chancellor for interfering with the Senior Proctor in the exercise of his duties on the occasion of the Westminster Club dinner, at which Thomas Francklyn (qv) presided, 17 Nov 1750, and on account of his unseemly behaviour in his defence in court, was suspended “ab omni gradu suscepto et suscipiendo” ; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 13 Apr 1738, called to bar 17 Nov 1748 ; his chambers at 10 New Square were destroyed by fire 27 Jun 1752 (Lincoln’s Inn Black Books iii, 359, 473) ; two volumes of manuscript poems by him survive in the library of Trinity Hall, Cambridge ; d. 1766 (will proved PCC 15 Oct 1766).
ANSLETTE, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. ; QS in 1572 (Minutes of Chapter).
ANSON, JOHN, see AMSON, JOHN
ANSTEY, —- ; b. ; adm. Midsummer 1809 ; left 1810.
ANSTICE, JOSEPH, second son of William Anstice, Madeley, Shropshire, ironmaster, by Penelope, youngest dau. of John Poole, Marshmill, Over Stowey, Somerset ; b. 21 Dec 1808 ; adm. 30 Sep 1822 ; KS (Capt.) 1823 ; Capt. of the School 1826 ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1827, Westminster Student, matr. 30 May 1827 ; Newdigate Prize 1828 ; 1st cl. Classics and Mathematics 1830 ; Chancellor’s English Essay Prize 1834 ; BA 1831 ; MA 1835 ; Professor of Classical Literature, King’s Coll. London 1831-5 ; classical scholar and hymn writer ; author, Selections from the Choric Poetry of the Greek Dramatic Writers, 1832, and other works ; m. 10 Jul 1832 Elizabeth Spencer, dau. of Joseph Ruscombe Poole, Bridgewater, Somerset, solicitor ; d. 29 Feb 1836. ODNB.
ANSTICE, ROBERT RICHARD, brother of Joseph Anstice (qv) ; b. 9 Apr 1813 ; adm. 20 Sep 1826 ; KS 1827 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1831, Westminster Student, matr. 21 May 1831 ; 1st cl.Mathematics 1834 ; Mathematical Scholar 1835 ; BA 1835 ; MA 1837 ; ordained deacon 31 May 1846 (Rochester) ; Perpetual Curate of Wigginton, Herts., from 1 May 1847 ; d. 17 Dec 1853.
ANSTIS, GEORGE, brother of John Anstis (qv) ; bapt. 7 Apr 1712 ; adm. (aged 8) Jan 1720/1 ; in under school list 1724 ; adm. Middle Temple 2 Jul 1723 ; under private tuition of Michael Maittaire (qv) before going up to university ; Balliol Coll. Oxford, matr. 23 Oct 1728 ; BCL 1735 ; like his brother John he was unsuccessful in his claim for a Fellowship of All Souls as founder’s kin ; ordained deacon 19 Sep 1736, priest 29 Sep 1736 (both London) ; Rector of Bradwell, Essex 8 Nov 1736 – Mar 1737/8 ; Vicar of Colyton, Devon, from 30 Sep 1737, and Vicar of Axmouth, Devon, from 5 Feb 1747/8 ; m. 16 Jul 1749 Elizabeth, only dau. of Sir William Pole, Bart., MP ; d. 23 May 1764.
ANSTIS, JOHN, son of John Anstis MP, West North, Duloe, Cornwall, barrister, Garter King of Arms and Bencher, Middle Temple, and Elizabeth, dau. of Richard Cudlipp, Tavistock, Devon ; b. 17 Nov 1708 ; adm. (aged 10) Sep 1719 ; in under school list 1721 ; under private tuition of Michael Maittaire (qv) for about two years before going up to university (Hearne, Remarks and Collections, ix, 383) ; Corpus Christi Coll.Oxford, matr. 8 Sept 1725 ; claimed a fellowship at All Souls Coll. as founder’s kin without success ; DCL 13 Apr 1749 ; Genealogist, Order of the Bath, from 1725 ; Blanc Coursier Herald 14 Jan 1726 ; Joint Garter King of Arms with his father 8 Jun 1727-45, sole Garter King of Arms from 4 Mar 1744/5 ; adm. Inner Temple 13 Nov 1724 ; adm. Middle Temple 16 Oct 1730, called to bar 29 Oct 1737, Bencher 14 Apr 1749 ; FSA 21 Jul 1736 ; d. unm. 5 Dec 1754. ODNB.
ANSTRUTHER, SIR ALEXANDER, brother of Robert Anstruther (adm.1782, qv) ; b. 10 Sep 1769 ; adm. 27 May 1782 ; left 1785 ; Wadham Coll.Oxford, matr. 29 Nov 1785 ; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 15 Nov 1783, called to bar 17 Nov 1792 ; went out to India to practise 1798 ; Advocate General, Madras 16 Jun 1802 ; Recorder of Bombay from Mar 1813 ; knighted by patent 9 Apr 1813 ; author, Reports of Cases argued and determined in the Court of Exchequer, 1796-7 ; m. 14 Jan 1803 Sarah, widow of Capt. William Selby, EI Maritime Service, and dau. of Thomas Prendergast, Croane, co.Limerick ; d. at Mauritius 16 Jul 1819. ODNB.
ANSTRUTHER, PHILIP, second son of Sir Alexander Anstruther (qv) ; b. 11 Sep 1807 ; adm. 12 Jan 1818 ; Addiscombe Coll. 1822-4 ; Cadet EICS Madras 1824 ; 2nd Lieut., Madras Horse Artillery 17 Jun 1824 ; Lieut. 19 Jun 1824 ; Brevet Capt. 17 Jun 1839 ; Capt. 10 Nov 1839 ; Brevet Maj. 26 May 1841 ; Brevet Lieut.-Col. 11 Nov 1851 ; Maj. 13 Aug 1853 ; Brevet Col. 1 May 1855 ; retd. 4 Nov 1858 ; Maj.-Gen. 18 Mar 1859 ; served in China, where he was taken prisoner in 1840, the Punjab in 1849, the Kaffir war in 1851, and on the expedition to Burma 1852 ; CB 24 Dec 1842 ; d. 18 Feb 1884.
ANSTRUTHER, ROBERT, elder son of Sir Robert Anstruther, Bart., advocate, Clerk of the Bills (S), and Lady Jane Erskine, youngest dau. of Alexander Erskine, 5th Earl of Kellie (S) ; b. 3 Mar 1768 ; adm. 27 May 1782 ; left 1784 ; Ensign, 3rd Foot Guards 21 Sep 1785 ; Lieut. and Capt. 16 May 1792 ; Brevet Maj. 1 Apr 1797 ; Maj., 66th Foot 17 Aug 1797 ; Lieut.-Col., 68th Foot 31 Aug 1797 ; Capt. and Lieut.-Col., 3rd Foot Guards 16 Aug 1799 ; Brevet Col. 1 Jan 1805 ; Brig.-Gen. in 1808 ; served Flanders 1793-4, Helder expedition 1799, Egyptian campaign 1800-1, and Peninsular War 1808-9 ; took part in battle of Vimiera and commanded the brigade which closed Sir John Moore’s retreat from Toro to Corunna ; m. 16 Mar 1799 Charlotte Lucy, dau. of Lieut.-Col. James Hamilton, 2nd Foot Guards ; d. from fatigue and exhaustion at Corunna 14 Jan 1809, the day before the battle. ODNB.
ANSTRUTHER, ROBERT, eldest son of Sir Alexander Anstruther (qv) ; b. 18 May 1805 ; adm. 15 Jan 1817 ; 2nd Lieut., 21st Foot 12 Sep 1822 ; Lieut., 83rd Foot 29 Dec 1825 ; Capt., half pay, unattached 7 Nov 1826 ; 73rd Foot, 22 Mar 1827 ; Maj. 12 Jul 1831 ; half pay 25 Dec 1832 ; employed on special service 1 Jan 1838 ; half pay, unattached 12 Feb 1839 ; 20th Foot, 5 Apr 1839 ; retd. 12 Apr 1839 ; m. 1 Oct 1832 Louisa, youngest dau. of Lieut.-Gen. Sir Howard Elphinstone, Bart., CB, late Royal Engineers ; d. 16 Feb 1856.
ANSTRUTHER, THOMAS ANDREW, youngest son of Sir Alexander Anstruther (qv) ; b. 3 Feb 1810 ; adm. 10 Jan 1820 ; left 1825 ; Writer EICS Madras 21 May 1828 ; head assistant to Principal Collector and Magistrate, N.Division of Arcot 1832 ; acting Head Assistant to Principal Collector and Magistrate, Madura 1832 ; acting Sub-Collector, Coimbatore 1835 ; Sub-Collector and Joint Masgistrate, Southern Division, Arcot 1837 ; acting Judge and Criminal Judge, Madura 1838 ; Judge and Criminal Judge, Rajahmundry 1842 ; Civil and Sessions Judge, Honore 1844 ; Civil and Sessions Judge, Rajahmundry 1845 ; resigned in England 2 Apr 1856 ; m. Jan 1840 Sophia, youngest dau. of Arthur Vansittart MP, Shottesbrooke Park, Berks. ; d. 14 Apr 1876.
ANTROBUS, —- ; in school lists 1764, 1765 ; left Apr 1765.
ANTROBUS, JOHN ; b. ; adm. ; BB 1670-2 (Chapter Muniments 33704-5). [Perhaps bapt.St.Botolph without Aldgate 12 Feb 1659, son of Benjamin Antrobus, and Susanna — (IGI)]
APPLEBY, THOMAS ; b. ; Min.Can.1632 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, matr.sizar Easter 1634 ; BA 1637/8 ; MA 1641 ; BD 1661 ; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1640-4, ejected ; ordained deacon 19 Oct 1646, priest 6 Nov 1646 (both Lincoln) ; Rector of Quarrington, Lincs., from 31 Oct 1646 ; d. 6 Mar 1683/4.
APPLETON, THOMAS ; b. 9 Jan 1819 ; adm. (G) 23 Sep 1828.
APPLEYARD, MATTHEW, son of Jonathan Appleyard, St.Margaret’s, Westminster ; b. ; adm. ; Min.Can. (aged 15) 1709 ; St.John’s Coll.Oxford, matr. 3 Jul 1711 ; BCL 27 Jan 1717/8. [Perhaps m. 13 Aug 1717 Agnes Strickland (IGI)]
APPLIN, —- ; b. ; in school list 1801.
APPOWELL, ROBERT ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1540-4 (Chapter Muniments 6478).
ARBROUGH, THOMAS ; b. ; adm. (aged 9) Jan 1715/6 ; in under school list 1717. [note will John Arbrough, St.Martins in the Fields, victualler, proved PCC 4 Apr 1720] [presumably Thomas Arbrough, son of John Arbrough, vintner, apprenticed 14 Apr 1720 to Josias Paul, citizen and barber surgeon]
ARBUTHNOT, CHARLES, brother of George Arbuthnot (Min.Can.1719, qv) ; bapt. St.Martin in the Fields 26 Mar 1704 (IGI) ; in under school list 1715 ; Min.Can. (aged 14) 1719 ; KS (Capt.) 1720 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1724, matr. 5 Jun 1724, Westminster Student from 24 Dec 1724 ; BA 1728 ; MA 1731 ; adm.Inner Temple 10 Nov 1725 ; severely wounded in a duel at Oxford by Michael Ferrebee (qv), his rival in a love affair ; they were both made to ask pardon publicly in Hall, and were admonished by their college not to offend again, 20 Jun 1726 ; alluded to in Pope’s Essay on Man, 4th Epistle, lines 105-6 ; ordained 1730 (Dublin) ; contributed some verses of his own to a new edition of his father’s Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures, 1727 ; d. 1 Dec 1731.
ARBUTHNOT, CHARLES, brother of George Arbuthnot (adm.1774, qv) ; b. Mar 1767 ; adm. 13 Jan 1780 ; left 1784 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 11 Jun 1784 ; BA 1788 ; DCL 1834 ; brought up by his great-uncle Andrew Stone (qv) ; Grand Tour 1788-9 ; precis writer, Foreign Office Sep 1793 – Mar 1795 ; MP East Looe 27 Mar 1795 – 1796 ; Secretary to Embassy, Sweden 1795-9, chargé d’affaires Jul 1795 – Jan 1797 ; on extraordinary mission to Wurttemberg Feb – May 1798 ; Consul-General, Portugal 1800-1 ; Envoy Extraordinary to Sweden Sep 1802 – Oct 1803 ; Under-Secretary, Foreign Office Nov 1803 – Jun 1804 ; Ambassador Extraordinary at Constantinople 1804-7 ; Privy Councillor 27 Jun 1804 ; MP Eye 18 Apr 1809 – 1812, Orford 1812-8, St.Germans 1818 – Jun 1827, St.Ives 10 Jun 1828 – 1830, Ashburton 1830 – 12 Feb 1831 ; Joint Secretary to the Treasury Apr 1809- Feb 1823, managing parliamentary business and patronage ; First Commissioner of Woods and Forests Feb 1823- Apr 1827, Feb – Jun 1828 ; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Jun 1828- Nov 1830 ; the Duke of Wellington’s partiality for his second wife drew him into the Duke’s inner circle of friends, and after his wife’s death he took up residence with the Duke as his confidential friend and adviser ; m. 1st, 23 Feb 1799 Marcia Mary Ann, dau. of William Clapcott Lisle, Upway, Dorset ; m. 2nd, 31 Jan 1814 Harriet, diarist (ODNB), third dau. of Hon.Henry Fane MP, Fulbeck, Lincs. ; d. 18 Aug 1850. ODNB.
ARBUTHNOT, CHARLES GEORGE JAMES, eldest son of Charles Arbuthnot (adm.1780, qv) and his first wife ; b. at sea on board frigate HMS Juno 1801 ; adm. 9 Sep 1811 ; in school list Apr 1815 ; Page of Honour to Prince Regent 13 Mar 1812 – Jan 1817 ; Ensign and Lieut., 1st Foot Guards 26 Dec 1816 ; Lieut., 11th Light Dragoons 3 Dec 1818 ; Capt., 28th Foot 16 Mar 1820 ; Maj., half pay, unattached 3 Jul 1823 ; 63rd Foot 26 Feb 1824 ; Lieut.-Col., half pay, unattached 1 Oct 1825 ; 72nd Foot 25 Sep 1826 ; 90th Foot 17 May 1831 ; 72nd Foot 23 Feb 1838 ; Col. in the Army 28 Jun 1838 ; Equerry in Ordinary Sep 1841- Jul 1846 ; half-pay, unattached 14 Apr 1843 ; Maj.-Gen. 11 Nov 1851 ; Lieut.-Gen. 13 Mar 1858 ; Gen. 25 Nov 1864 ; Col., 91st Foot 4 Jul 1864 ; Col., 72nd Foot 27 Aug 1870 ; MP Tregony 1831 – Feb 1832 ; of Woodford House, Thrapstone, Northamptonshire ; JP Northamptonshire ; m. 14 Aug 1833 Hon.Charlotte Eliza Vivian, dau. of Richard Vivian, 1st Baron Vivian GCB GCH, Lieut.-Gen. in the Army ; d. 21 Oct 1870.
ARBUTHNOT, GEORGE, elder son of John Arbuthnot MD FRS FRCP, London, Physician in Ordinary to Queen Anne, and Margaret (Wemyss ?) ; b. 1703 ; in under school list 1715 ; Min.Can. (aged 15) 1719 ; apprenticed to Matthew Hutton, Remembrancer in the Court of Exchequer 20 May 1720 ; an attorney, or sworn clerk, in the Exchequer from 1726 ; Second Secondary, Remembrancer’s Office, by 1748 (Chamberlayne 1748), First Secondary from 1751 ; one of the executors of the will of Alexander Pope ; his melancholy temperament is contrasted with his father’s cheerfulness by Erasmus Lewis (qv) in a letter to Swift (W.Elwin, ed., Pope’s Works, vii, 486, n.2) ; d. 8 Sep 1779.
ARBUTHNOT, GEORGE, son of John Arbuthnot, Rockfleet Castle, Co.Mayo, Inspector under the Irish Linen Board, and his third wife Anne, sister of George Stone (at school under Markham, qv) ; b. 24 Jul 1764 ; adm. 27 Sep 1774 ; left 1777 ; Writer EICS Bengal 1 Oct 1781 ; present at OWW dinner at Calcutta c.Jul – Oct 1784 (Hickey, Memoirs, iii, 245) ; Collector of Tirhoot 1793 ; Judge and Magistrate, Tirhoot 1795, Benares 1803 ; resigned 1805 ; one of the donors of the Warren Hastings Cup ; m. 20 Feb 1796 Elizabeth Millicent, third dau. of Maj.-Gen. Horton Briscoe, EICS Bengal ; d. during his passage to England in the Lady Jane Dundas 5 Sep 1805.
ARBUTHNOT, GEORGE, son of Lieut.-Gen. Sir Robert Arbuthnot KCB, and his first wife Susan, only child of William Vesey, Farmhill, Co.Mayo ; b. 20 Nov 1802 ; adm. 16 Sep 1816 ; left 1820 ; Junior Clerk, Treasury 18 Jul 1820 -32 ; Assistant Clerk 12 Oct 1832-50 ; Senior Clerk 22 Mar – 12 Nov 1850 ; Private Secretary to successive Parliamentary Secretaries to Treasury Mar 1823 – Feb 1838, to Assistant Secretary of Treasury Feb 1838 – Feb 1843, to Sir Robert Peel as Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury Feb 1843 – Jul 1846, and to Sir Charles Wood as Chancellor of the Exchequer Jul 1846 – Feb 1850 ; Auditor of the Civil List from 12 Nov 1850 ; Secretary to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners ; m. 1st, 29 Apr 1829 Augusta Amelia Adolphina, youngest dau. of Christopher Papendiek, Kew, Surrey, musician and Page in Royal Household ; m. 2nd, 28 Sep 1857 Louisa Anne, second dau. of Lieut.-Gen.Sir Richard Jones KCB ; d. 28 Jul 1865. ODNB.
ARBUTHNOT, HENRY, second son of Charles Arbuthnot (adm.1780, qv), and his first wife ; b. 18 Oct 1803 ; adm. 10 Jan 1815 ; left 1820 ; Oriel Coll.Oxford, matr. 13 Dec 1821 ; Cornet, Royal Horse Guards 22 Jun 1820, retd. 14 Oct 1824 ; a Commissioner for Auditing the Public Accounts 7 Dec 1826 – May 1865 ; m. 30 Apr 1830 Lady Charlotte Rachel Scott, dau. of Thomas Scott, 2nd Earl of Clonmell (I) ; d. 24 Jun 1875.
ARBUTHNOTT, DAVID, third son of Hon.David Arbuthnott CSI, EICS Madras, Paignton, Devon, and Eliza, second dau. of Thomas Forbes Reynolds MD, Wallington, Surrey ; b. 20 Mar 1856 ; adm. 21 Jan 1870 (G) ; left Dec 1873 ; RMC Sandhurst ; Lieut., 77th Foot 10 Mar 1875 ; 67th Foot 11 Oct 1876 ; d. of cholera at Cumbrun, Karnool district, Madras, while out tiger shooting 6 Sep 1878.
ARCHDALE, HUGH JAMES ARCHDALE MONTGOMERY, second son of Capt. Mervyn Edward Archdale MP, 6th Dragoons, Castle Archdale, Co.Fermanagh, and Emma Inez, dau. of Jacob Goulding, Kensington, Middlesex ; b. 15 Jan 1854 ; adm. 19 Feb 1867 ; left Aug 1867 ; went to Cheltenham Coll. ; Lieut., Royal Welch Fusiliers 11 Feb 1875 ; Capt. 20 Mar 1885 ; Maj. 13 Jul 1892 ; Lieut.-Col. 24 Feb – Apr 1900 ; Lincolnshire Regt. 6 Oct 1900 ; Brevet Col. 10 Feb 1904 ; half pay 6 Aug 1904 ; Col. 7 Jan 1907 ; Brig.-gen. commanding N.Midland Division, Territorial Army 1908-11 ; retd. 15 Jan 1911, with hon.rank of Brig.-Gen. 10 Feb 1912 ; served Sudan 1884-5, Burma 1886-7, South African War 1899-1902 ; despatches 8 Feb 1901 ; CB 26 Jun 1902 ; CMG 1 Jan 1918 ; m. 1st, 2 Sep 1885 Minnie, eldest dau. of Capt. Hugh Montgomery Archdale, 52nd Light Infantry, Drumadravy, Co.Fermanagh ; m. 2nd, 28 Aug 1894 Helen Evelyn Trevor, elder dau. of Boscawen Trevor Griffith-Boscawen, Trevalyn Hall, Rossett, Denbighshire ; d. 31 Aug 1921.
ARCHER, GILBERT EDWARD, son of Rev.Benjamin Archer, Rector of Quainton, Bucks., and Anne, widow of Rev.Nathaniel Ingelo DD, Fellow of Eton College, and dau. of Rev. George Evans DD, Rector of Hitcham, Bucks., and Canon of Windsor ; bapt.Quainton, Bucks. 12 Feb 1699 (IGI) ; at school under Freind one year (R.F.Scott, ed, Admissions to St.John’s Coll.Camb., pt iii, 8) ; St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 26 Oct 1716, aged 16, matr.1717 ; MB 1722 ; MD 1734 ; a medical practitioner at Dorchester, Dorset ; d. 22 May 1747.
ARDEN, RICHARD PEPPER, 3RD BARON ALVANLEY, brother of William Arden, 2nd Baron Alvanley (qv) ; b. 8 Dec 1792 ; in school list 1803 ; left 1806 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 1 Feb 1810 ; Cornet, 15th Light Dragoons 14 Mar 1811 ; Lieut. 3 Oct 1811 ; Capt., 2nd Garrison Batt. 26 Apr 1815 ; half pay 25 Dec 1816 ; 32nd Foot 8 Jul 1819 ; Maj., 84th Foot 26 Sep 1822 ; Lieut.-Col., half pay, unattached 30 Oct 1823 ; retd. 4 Jun 1829 ; served in Peninsular War ; succ. his brother as 3rd Baron Alvanley 16 Nov 1849 ; m. 30 Apr 1831 Lady Arabella Vane, youngest dau. of William Vane, 1st Duke of Cleveland KG ; d. 24 Jun 1857.
ARDEN, WILLIAM, 2ND BARON ALVANLEY, second son of Richard Arden, 1st Baron Alvanley PC, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and Anne Dorothea, sister of Randle Wilbraham (adm.1784, qv) ; b. 8 Jan 1789 ; adm. 22 Jun 1800 (Clapham) ; in school lists 1801, 1803 ; succ. father as 2nd Baron Alvanley 19 Mar 1804 ; Ensign, 2nd Foot Guards 31 Mar 1804 ; Lieut. and Capt. 22 Dec 1808 ; Capt., 50th Foot 16 Aug 1810 ; 100th Foot, half pay 20 Aug 1812 ; retd. with rank of Lieut.-Col. Jun 1826 ; served on Walcheren expedition, 1809 ; fought a duel with Morgan O’Connell 4 May 1835 ; a wit and well-known figure in fashionable society (Greville, Memoirs, entry under 23 Jan 1850) ; d. unm. 16 Nov 1849.
ARDERN, HENRY, son of Richard Ardern(e), Chester, and Elizabeth — (WAM 32477b) ; b. ; adm. ; at school by Jun 1654, aged 13 (WAM 43112) ; KS 1656 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1659, aged 18, adm.pens. 19 May 1659, scholar 1659, matr. 1660 ; BA 1662/3 ; migrated to Peterhouse, adm.pens. 19 Dec 1663, Fellow from 1664 ; MA 1666 ; ordained deacon 18 Feb 1664/5 (Ely) (as Arden), priest Dec 1666 (London) ; Vicar of Holy Trinity, Cambridge, from 5 Apr 1671 ; buried Little St.Mary’s, Cambridge 23 Dec 1683.
ARIS, JOHN WHITTON, eldest son of John Aris, Weedon Lois, Northants., farmer, and Elizabeth, dau. of William Whitton, Green’s Norton, Northants. ; b. 11 Apr 1867 ; adm. QS 16 Jun 1881 ; left (with Triplett) Jul 1886 ; Hertford Coll.Oxford, scholar 1886, matr. 22 Oct 1886 ; BA 1890 ; MA 1897 ; a land agent and surveyor at Richmond, Surrey ; FSI 1896 ; Daniel Watney Prize (Forestry) 1910 ; d. unm. 18 Jun 1937.
ARKYNSTALL, —- ; b. ; adm. ; QS 1553-4 ; left by Jun 1554 (Chapter Muniments 54001, and Acts of Chapter).
ARKYNSTALL (or ARKENSTALL), RICHARD, son of Thomas Arkynstall, Kingston, Cambs., and Joane, dau. of — Cox ; nephew of Right Rev. Richard Cox DD, Bishop of Ely ; b. ; adm. ; QS in 1553 (Chapter Muniments 54001) ; left 1554 ; of Wilburton, Cambs. ; JP Isle of Ely ; lic.to m. 1st, 1 Jan 1568/9 Elizabeth, dau. of William Radclif, Manchester ; m.2nd, Mary, dau. of John Boteler, Sharnbrook, Beds. ; d. c.1606. [note will Richard Arkenstall, Haddenham, Cambs., dated 1 Dec 1605, proved PCC 3 Feb 1608]
ARLINGTON, HENRY, 1ST EARL OF, see BENNET, HENRY, 1st EARL OF ARLINGTON.
ARMITAGE, ALFRED, brother of Robert Armitage (qv) ; b. 17 Mar 1867 ; adm. 23 Sep 1880 (G) ; left May 1884 ; Clare Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 16 Jun 1885, matr. Mich.1885 ; BA 1888 ; MA 1892 ; ordained deacon 1890, priest 1891 (both St Albans) ; Curate, West Ham, Essex 1891-7, Vicar 1897-1901 ; resigned holy orders 14 Aug 1903 under provisions of Clerical Disabilities Relief Act ; JP (1906) Somerset ; m. 4 Nov 1890 Mary Frances, dau. of Samuel Thompson, Muckamore Abbey, Co.Antrim ; d. 28 Oct 1941.
ARMITAGE, PHILIP, brother of Robert Armitage (qv) ; b. 24 Aug 1870 ; adm. 22 Sep 1882 (G) ; left July 1889 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 27 May 1889, matr. Mich.1889 ; won all three bicycle races against Oxford 1893 ; BA 1892 ; MA 1899 ; Ridley Hall, Cambridge 1893 ; ordained deacon 1895, priest 1896 (both Ely) ; Curate, Holy Trinity, Cambridge 1895-1900, 1901-4 ; Missioner at Allahabad 1900-1 ; Vicar of Birling, Kent 1904-8 ; Vicar of Nettlebed, Oxfordshire 1908-20 ; m. 18 Mar 1902 Elizabeth Christina, third dau. of Lieut.-Col.Anthony Marshall, Northumberland Fusiliers, Annstead, Northumberland ; d. 12 May 1960.
ARMITAGE, ROBERT, eldest son of William James Armitage, Farnley Lodge, Leeds, iron manufacturer, and Emily, dau. of William Nicholson Nicholson (formerly Phillips), Roundhay Park, Leeds, and sister of William Gustavus Nicholson, 1st Baron Nicholson GCB, Field Marshal in the Army ; b. 22 Feb 1866 ; adm. 22 Jan 1880 (G) ; left Nov 1883 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 23 May 1884, matr. Mich.1884 ; BA 1888 ; adm. Inner Temple 12 Jan 1887, called to bar 1 Nov 1889, but did not practise ; entered family firm ; chairman Farnley Iron Co.Ltd, Brown Bayleys Steel Works Ltd, and other companies ; Lord Mayor of Leeds 1904-5 ; MP (Liberal/Coalition Liberal) Leeds Central 1906-22 ; m.1st, 8 Jan 1891 Caroline Katharine, dau. of Dudley Henry Ryder, Westbrook Hay, Hemel Hempstead, Herts. ; m.2nd, 24 Jul 1936, Mary Dorothea, widow of Rev. Edward Bacheler Russell, Vicar of Leyton, Essex, and dau. of Robert Barclay, Hoddesdon, Herts., banker ; d. 10 Feb 1944.
ARMITAGE, WILLIAM JAMES, brother of Robert Armitage (qv) ; b. 7 Dec 1868 ; adm. 22 Sep 1881 (G); left Jul 1886 ; Emmanuel Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 11 Oct 1886, matr. Mich.1886 ; BA 1890 ; MA 1896 ; adm. solicitor Oct 1896 ; practised at Sheffield, Yorks. ; served 1914-8 war ; Maj., 4th Batt. York and Lancaster Regt. 5 Oct 1914 ; TD ; m. 29 Jul 1897 Marian Eva, only dau. of Maurice Henry Berkeley, Finchley, Middlesex, member Lloyds’ ; d. 5 Jul 1940.
ARMITSTEAD, JOHN HORNBY, eldest son of John Richard Armitstead (qv) ; b. 31 Aug 1868 ; adm. 26 Jan 1882 (R) ; left Aug 1884 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 3 Jun 1887 ; BA 1891 ; MA 1896 ; ordained 1892 ; Curate, Sandbach, Cheshire 1892-9 ; Vicar of Holmes Chapel, Cheshire 1899-1919 ; Vicar of Sandbach from 1919 ; Hon.Canon Chester 1925 ; Archdeacon of Macclesfield from 1932 ; member Cheshire County Council, Alderman from 1932 ; JP (1918) Cheshire ; d. unm. 26 Oct 1941.
ARMITSTEAD, JOHN RICHARD, eldest son of Rev.John Armitstead, Vicar of Sandbach, Cheshire, and Susan Hester, second dau. of Rev.Richard Massie, Rector of Eccleston, Cheshire ; b. 11 May 1829 ; adm. 15 Jan 1841 ; QS 1844 ; rowed bow in race against Eton 29 Jul 1847 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1848, matr. 28 Jun 1848, Westminster Student 1849-63 ; BA 1852 ; MA 1855 ; ordained deacon May 1853, priest 1854 (both Chester) ; Perpetual Curate of Goostrey, Cheshire 1858-61 ; Vicar of Wendlebury, Oxfordshire 1862-5 ; Vicar of Sandbach, Cheshire, from 1865 ; Hon.Canon Chester 1898 ; member Cheshire County Council 1895-1912, Alderman from 1912 ; for many years a familiar figure in the hunting field ; m. 9 May 1866 Frances Mary, eldest dau. of William Henry Hornby MP, Poole Hall, Nantwich, Cheshire ; d. 16 Sep 1918.
ARMITSTEAD, ROBERT, brother of John Richard Armitstead (qv) ; b. 25 Mar 1840 ; adm. 8 Jun 1853 ; QS Jun 1855 ; left 1857 ; Cadet, EICS Bombay 1857 ; 2nd Lieut., 1st Bombay European Fusiliers 13 Jun 1857 ; Lieut. 3 Nov 1859 ; 103rd Foot (formerly 1st Bombay European Fusiliers) 1 Jul 1860 ; half pay 8 Feb 1868 ; served in Indian Mutiny ; d. unm. 31 Jul 1871.
ARMITSTEAD, WILLIAM GEORGE, brother of John Richard Armitstead (qv) ; b. 22 Mar 1833 ; adm. 1 Oct 1846 ; QS 1847 ; Capt. of the School 1851 ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1852, matr. 3 Jun 1852, Westminster Student to 1856 [check] ; played cricket against Cambridge 1853-4, 1856-7 ; BA 1857 ; MA 1865 ; ordained deacon 1859, priest 1860 (both Chester) ; Curate, Sandbach Heath, Cheshire 1859-62 ; Vicar of Goostrey, Cheshire, from 1862 ; m. May 1865 Mary Susan, dau. of Rev.William Currie, Boughton Hall, Cheshire ; d. 12 Mar 1907.
ARMSTRONG, — ; in school list Jun 1764 ; left 13 Aug 1764.
ARNOL, — ; at school c.1660
ARNOLD, —- ; b. ; at school in 1665 (Busby’s Account Book) ; a boarder.
ARNOLD, BRANSBY ; b. 13 Oct 1826 ; adm. 28 Jan 1839 ; left Aug 1844 ; a teacher in New York, USA ; d. Manhattan, New York, USA 9 Oct 1878. [Evidently Bransby Arnold, bapt.St.Mark, Kennington, London 3 Nov 1830 (sic), son of William Arnold, and Sarah — (IGI)]
ARNOLD, CECIL NORTH, brother of Henry Edgeworth Bicknell Arnold (qv) ; b. 23 Sep 1858 ; adm. 22 Sep 1870 (H) ; left May 1876 ; Clare Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 17 Jun 1878, matr.Mich.1878 ; BA 1882 ; MA 1888 ; ordained deacon 1882 (Salisbury), priest 1883 (Bishop Kelly for Salisbury) ; Curate, Stour Provost, Dorset 1882-7 ; Vicar of Bulsford, Wilts. 1887-1909 ; Vicar of Ebbesbourne Wake cum Fifield Bavant, Wilts. 1908-35 ; m. 23 Oct 1889 Sarah Alice, dau. of John Seary, Walton Crescent, Oxford, clothier ; d. 24 Aug 1958.
ARNOLD, EDWARD VERNON, brother of Henry Edgeworth Bicknell Arnold (qv) ; b. 18 Jul 1857 ; adm. 8 Feb 1867 ; exhibitioner 1869 ; QS (Capt.) 1871 ; Capt. of the School 1874 ; one of the founders, and editor-in-chief, The Elizabethan, the first number of which appeared July 1874 ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge (with Triplett) 1875, having previously obtained an open scholarship there, adm.pens. 10 Apr 1875, scholar 1875, matr. Mich.1875 ; 1st Bell Univ.Scholar 1876 ; 15th Wrangler and Senior Classic 1879 ; 2nd Chancellor’s Classical Medal 1879 ; founded the Cambridge Review ; BA 1879 ; MA 1882 ; LittD 1898 ; Fellow of Trinity Coll. 1880 ; Professor of Latin, University Coll. of North Wales, Bangor 1884-1924 ; author, Historical Vedic Grammar, 1897, and other works ; m. 12 Jul 1894 Violet, dau. of Lieut.-Col. Robert Durie Osborn, Bengal Staff Corps ; d. 19 Sep 1926.
ARNOLD, ERNEST CHARLES, brother of Henry Edgeworth Bicknell Arnold (qv) ; b. 25 Mar 1860 ; adm. 22 Sep 1870 ; left Aug 1872 ; went to Whitgift School ; returned Easter 1873 ; left Dec 1875 ; St.George’s Hospital (W.Brown exhibitioner) ; MRCS 1883 ; MB Durham and LSS 1886 ; LRCP 1886 ; FRCS 1888 ; in practice at Forest Hill, Kent ; served 1915-20 as eye specialist at Dartford, Woolwich and Aldershot, with rank Capt. RAMC 7 Jul 1916 ; m. 28 Aug 1888 Annette Frederike Wedel, only dau. of Baron Christian August Wedel-Jarlsberg, Trondhjem, Norway ; d. 10 Feb 1938.
ARNOLD, HENRY, son of Michael Arnold MP, King’s Brewer, Great Peter Street, Westminster, and Dorothy, dau. of John Gough, Oldfallings, Staffs. ; b. ; adm. ; Min.Can.1693 ; KS (aged 11) 1694 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1698, adm.pens. 27 Jun 1698, scholar 28 Apr 1699 ; 7th in ordo 1701/2 ; BA 1701/2 ; MA 1705.
ARNOLD, HENRY ; b. ; adm. (aged 14) Jun 1729 ; in school list 1731.
ARNOLD, HENRY EDGEWORTH BICKNELL, eldest son of Rev.Charles Maddock Arnold, Minor Canon of Westminster and Vicar of St.Mark’s, South Norwood, Surrey, and Jane, dau. of John Hayward MD, Chippenham, Wilts. ; b. 25 Jun 1853 ; adm. 16 Mar 1864 ; QS 1868 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1872, matr. 23 May 1872 ; BA 1876 ; MA 1879 ; ordained deacon 1877, priest 1878 (both St.Albans) ; Curate, Tring, Herts. 1877-81 ; Curate, St.Edmund’s, Northampton 1881-3 ; Curate Watford, Herts. 1884-6 ; Curate, Horsham, Sussex 1886-8 ; Vicar of St.Matthew’s, Oakley Square, London 18 May 1888-1902 ; Curate Bramber, Sussex 1902-5 ; m. 1st, 14 Nov 1893 Georgiana Isabella, widow of Francis Henry Wilson Iles MD, Watford, Herts. (and mother of John Hyde Iles (qv, vol.III), and dau. of John Hyde Pidcock, civil engineer, Borough Surveyor, Northampton ; m. 2nd, 1 May 1907 Mary Hamilton Tucker, Burston Road, Putney, Surrey ; d. 2 Sep 1944.
ARNOLD, JOHN, of Westminster ; b. ; adm. ; KS ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1628, Westminster Student from before 25 Mar 1628/9 to 1641 [but not in Foster].
ARNOLD, WILLIAM, son of William Arnold, Middlesex ; b. ; at school 2 Jul 1582, aged 13 (Chapter Muniments).
ARNOT, JOHN ; b. ; adm. (aged 7) Jun 1721 ; left 1722.
ARNOTT, CHARLES, son of David Arnott, Westminster ; b. ; adm. (aged 9) Jan 1738/9 ; BB 1741 ; KS 1745 ; left 1746. [note will David Arnott, St.Margaret’s, Westminster, plumber, proved PCC 8 Aug 1757 ; he was “Plumber to Westminster Abbey” and lived in Tothill Street]
ARPWOOD, —- ; in under school lists 1715-9.
ARPWOOD, RICHARD ; b. ; adm. (aged 9) Jan 1716/7 ; left 1717. [Note Richard Arpwood, son of Henry Arpwood (and Grace Searle ?), bapt.St.Edmund, Exeter, Devon 21 Mar 1710 (IGI)]
ARROW, JAMES, son of James Arrow, St.John the Evangelist, Westminster, carpenter and joiner, and Elizabeth Jordan ; bapt.St.John, Smith Square 18 Dec 1730 (IGI) ; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1741/2 ; left 1744 ; carpenter and joiner, Tothill Fields, Westminster ; Surveyor to Victualling Office and Inspector of Repairs, Admiralty 8 Aug 1774 – Sep 1785 ; designed new buildings at Royal Victualling Yard, Deptford, in 1783 ; m. ; d. 28 Aug 1791.
ARROW, (JORDAN) JAMES, eldest son of John Arrow (qv) ; bapt. Lowestoft, Suffolk 18 Apr 1762 ; adm. 14 Jul 1772 ; left 1775 ; Joiner to Board of Works ; Adjutant, Westminster Volunteer Cavalry ; m. 15 Jul 1784 Elizabeth Langdon, St.George the Martyr, Queen Square ; d. 1 Mar 1801.
ARROW, JOHN, brother of James Arrow (adm.1741/2, qv) ; b. 3 Mar 1733 ; adm. Jan 1743/4 ; BB ; KS 1749 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1752, adm.pens. 27 May 1752, scholar 18 May 1753, matr. Easter 1753 ; BA 1756 ; MA 1759 ; ordained deacon 13 Jun 1756 (London), priest 26 Oct 1760 (Oxford) ; Chaplain, Royal Navy 1757 ; Chaplain, 65th Foot 23 May 1758 [successor appointed 4 May 1761] ; Vicar of Lowestoft and Kessingland, Suffolk, from 11 Nov 1760 ; Head Master, Lowestoft GS ; m. 19 Jul 1759 Rebecca Whitehead, Smith Street, Westminster ; d. 22 Jun 1789.
ARROWSMITH, —- ; b. ; in school list 1745.
ARROWSMYTH (or ARROWSMITH), JOSEPH, son of Rev.Joseph Arrowsmyth, Master of St.John the Baptist’s Hospital, Bedford, and Rector of Papworth Everard, Cambs., and Christian, widow of Matthew Denton, Ampthill, Beds., and dau. of Anne Robinson, St.Vedast, Foster Lane ; bapt. 5 Nov 1689 ; at school under Knipe (Admissions toTrin.Coll.Camb., ed.W.W.R.Ball & J.A.Venn, iii, 18) ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm. pens. 22 May 1706, aged 17, but did not matr.
ARSLETT, THOMAS, son of Thomas Arslett, Chelsea, Middlesex, grocer ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Oct 1727 ; in under school list 1730 ; apprenticed to Brian Ayliffe, attorney, Inner Temple, 19 Jul 1731 ; lic.to m. Feb 1738/9 Anne Barber, dau. of William Barwell, St.Botolph’s, Aldgate ; d. Jul 1742 (will proved PCC 13 Jul 1742, as of Southampton Buildings, Middlesex).
ARTHINGTON, CYRIL, son of Cyril Arthington, Arthington, Yorks., and Ann, dau. of — Brown MD, London ; b. 20 Dec 1729 ; adm. (aged 15) Jun 1745 ; left 1748 ; Univ.Coll.Oxford, matr. 16 Feb 1748/9 ; d. 28 May 1750, as a result of breaking his leg in the “overturning of a chaise”.
ARUNDELL, FRANCIS ; b. ; adm. ; KS ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1631, adm.scholar 1631, matr. Easter 1632 ; BA 1635/6 ; MA 1639 ; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1637, Major Fellow 1639 ; expelled from his fellowship for non-residence etc. by Parliamentary Visitors 8 Apr 1644.
ARUNDELL, GEORGE, son of Rev.Francis Arundell, Vicar of Cheddar, Somerset ; b. ; adm. ; KS 16 Nov 1610 ; Gonville and Caius Coll.Cambridge, adm. to scholar’s table 12 Oct 1614, aged 18, scholar Mich.1614, matr. Mich.1614 ; buried St.Michael’s, Cambridge Jan 1614/5.
ARUNDELL, JOHN, b. ; adm. ; KS in 1619 (Chapter Muniments 324511) ; Christ Church, Oxford, adm.1620, but did not matric.
ASCOUGH, THOMAS ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1641.
ASCHAM (or ASKHAM), GILES, eldest son of Roger Ascham, tutor to Queen Elizabeth I, and Margaret Howe, dau. of Sir Clement Harleston, Kt, South Ockenden, Essex ; b. ; adm. ; QS 1573 ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1578, adm.scholar 1579, matr. Easter 1579 ; BA 1582/3 ; MA 1586 (incorp. Oxford 11 Jul 1586) ; BD 1593 (incorp. Oxford 10 Jul 1593) ; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll., 2 Oct 1583, Major Fellow 1585 ; ordained ; Vicar of Trumpington, Cambs., 7 Oct 1590 – Feb 1591/2 ; Rector of Stoke Fleming, Devon, from 4 May 1595 ; Rector of Duxford St.Peter, Cambs., from 10 Apr 1596 ; d. Apr 1600.
ASGILL, SIR CHARLES, BART., third son of Henry Asgill, St Clement Danes, London, silkman, and Annabella, dau. of John Jordan ; bapt.St.Mary, Whitechapel 27 Mar 1713/4 (IGI) ; adm. (aged 12) Jun 1726 ; in school list 1729 ; a clerk in the banking house of William Pepys & Co. ; became a partner in firm Vere and Asgill, bankers, Lombard Street, 1740 ; member Common Council, Langbourn Ward 1744-9 ; Alderman, Candlewick Ward 7 Apr 1749 – 1 Jul 1777 ; Sheriff 1752-3 ; Lord Mayor of London 1757-8 ; Master, Skinners’ Company 1748 ; knighted 22 Nov 1752 ; created baronet 16 Apr 1761 ; m. 1st, 16 Jun 1752 Hannah, dau. of Henry Vanderstegen, London, merchant ; m.2nd, 12 Dec 1755 Sarah, dau. of David Pratviel, London, merchant, sometime secretary to Sir Benjamin Harris, British Ambassador at Madrid ; d. 15 Sep 1788.
ASGILL, SIR CHARLES, BART., only son of Sir Charles Asgill (qv), and his second wife ; b. 7 Apr 1762 ; adm. 29 Mar 1769 ; in school list Oct 1775 ; left 1777 ; Ensign, 1st Foot Guards 27 Feb 1778 ; Lieut. and Capt. 3 Feb 1781 ; Capt. and Lieut.-Col. 3 Mar 1790 ; Col. in the Army 26 Feb 1795 ; Brig.-Gen. on the staff in Ireland 1797 ; Maj.-Gen. 1 Jan 1798 ; 3rd Maj., 1st Foot Guards 25 Nov 1799 ; Col. 46th Foot 9 May 1800 ; Lieut.-Gen. 1 Feb 1805 ; Col., 5th West India Regt. 8 Feb 1806 ; Col., 85th Foot 30 Oct 1806 – Feb 1807, 11th Foot from 25 Feb 1807 ; Gen. 4 Jun 1814 ; served in America and taken prisoner at capitulation of Yorktown 1781 ; chosen by lot to suffer death in retaliation for execution of Capt.Huddy by American loyalists, but through French intervention was released on parole by Act of Congress 7 Nov 1781 ; served in Flanders 1794 and in Ireland during rebellion of 1798 ; succ.father as 2nd baronet 15 Sep 1788 ; m. 28 Aug 1790 Jemima Sophia, youngest dau. of Admiral Sir Chaloner Ogle, Bart. ; d. 23 Jul 1823. ODNB.
ASH, ROWLAND, son of Capt.Rowland Ash, Antigua, West Indies ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1720/1 ; left 1728 ; Clare Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 1 Sep 1729, matr. 1729 ; Member of Assembly, Antigua, to 1756 ; m. 22 May 1735 Elizabeth Gunthorpe.
ASHBURNHAM, —- ; b. ; at school 1660-2 (Busby’s Account Book).
ASHBURNHAM, BERTRAM, 4TH EARL OF ASHBURNHAM, eldest son of George Ashburnham, 3rd Earl of Ashburnham (qv), and his second wife ; b. 23 Nov 1797 ; adm. Midsummer 1811 ; left 1814 ; styled Viscount St Asaph 1813-30 ; succ. father as 4th Earl of Ashburnham 27 Oct 1830 ; DL JP Sussex ; a famous collector of rare books and manuscripts ; he is said to have started his collection in 1814 while a boy at the School, by the purchase of a rare copy of the Secrets of Albertus Magnus for eighteen pence at Ginger’s shop in Great College Street, and to have continued buying with unwavering judgment and success until a few months before his death ; m. 8 Jan 1840 Katherine Charlotte, dau. of George Baillie MP, Jerviswood, Lanarkshire, and sister of George Baillie-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Haddington ; d. 22 Jun 1878.
ASHBURNHAM, BERTRAM, 5TH EARL OF ASHBURNHAM, eldest son of Bertram Ashburnham, 4th Earl of Ashburnham (qv) ; b. 28 Oct 1840 ; adm. Jun 1854 ; left 1857 ; went to school at Fontainebleau, France ; styled Viscount St Asaph until 1878 ; accompanied Marquis of Bath on Garter mission to Vienna Jul 1867 ; Roman Catholic convert 1872 ; succ. father as 5th Earl of Ashburnham 22 Jun 1878 ; a Knight of Malta and Knight Grand Cross of Pontifical Order of Pope Pius ; as a peer initially took Conservative whip, but joined Liberal Party over Irish Home Rule ; chairman, British Home Rule Association 1886 ; the representative in Britain of Don Carlos and the legitimate restoration party of Spain ; FSA 3 Jun 1880, resigned 1893 ; declined household office in Liberal government 1893 ; DL JP Breconshire, JP Sussex, Carmarthenshire ; m. 25 Feb 1888 Emily, dau. of Richard Chaplin ; d. in Paris 15 Jan 1913.
ASHBURNHAM, HON.CHARLES, third son of George Ashburnham, 3rd Earl of Ashburnham (qv), and his second wife ; b. 23 Mar 1803 ; adm. 17 Jun 1811 ; left 1811 ; re-adm. 24 Apr 1815 ; left 16 Mar 1818 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 21 Apr 1820, fellow commoner 15 Apr 1821, matr. Lent 1822 ; MA 1824 ; precis writer, Foreign Office Aug 1828 – Aug 1829 ; Secretary to Legation, Mexico 1835-41 ; Secretary to Legation, Constantinople 29 Feb 1848 ; m. 6 Feb 1832 Sarah Joanna, second dau. of William Murray, Latium, Jamaica, plantation owner ; d. 22 Dec 1848.
ASHBURNHAM, GEORGE, 3RD EARL OF ASHBURNHAM, son of John Ashburnham, 2nd Earl of Ashburnham (qv) ; b. 25 Dec 1760 ; adm. 21 Apr 1771 ; in school list Oct 1775 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.nob. 13 Mar 1778, matr.1778 ; MA 1780 ; styled Viscount St.Asaph until 1812 ; Grand Tour 1781-3 (Italy) ; Lord of the Bedchamber to Prince of Wales 1784-95 ; called up to House of Lords in his father’s barony 23 Mar 1803 ; succ. his father as 3rd Earl of Ashburnham 8 Apr 1812 ; GCH 1827 ; KG 10 Jun 1829 ; FSA 13 Jan 1785 ; Trustee, British Museum, from 1810 ; Busby Trustee from 8 Jun 1816 ; m. 1st, 28 Aug 1784 Lady Sophia Thynne, third dau. of Thomas Thynne, 1st Marquis of Bath KG PC ; m. 2nd, 25 Jul 1795 Lady Charlotte Percy, eldest dau. of Algernon Percy, 1st Earl of Beverley, and sister of George Percy, 5th Duke of Northumberland PC ; d. 27 Oct 1830.
ASHBURNHAM, JOHN, 2ND EARL OF ASHBURNHAM, only son of John Ashburnham, 1st Earl of Ashburnham, Captain Yeomen of the Guard, and his third wife Lady Jemima Grey, second dau. of Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent KG ; b. 30 Oct 1724 ; adm. Jun 1736 ; left 1741 ; Clare Coll.Cambridge, adm.nob. 28 May 1741, matr.1741 ; LLD 1749 ; succ. as 2nd Earl of Ashburnham 10 Mar 1736/7 ; Grand Tour (in Italy 1745) ; a Lord of the Bedchamber 18 Mar 1748- Nov 1762 ; Keeper of Hyde Park and of St.James’s Park Jul 1753- Nov 1762 ; Lord Lieut., Sussex 18 Mar 1754 – 20 Sep 1757 ; Master of the Great Wardrobe 23 Jul 1765- Nov 1775 ; Privy Councillor 12 Jul 1765 ; First Lord of the Bedchamber and Groom of the Stole 10 Nov 1775- May 1782 ; member Society of Dilettanti 1745 ; m. 28 Jun 1756 Elizabeth, dau. of John Crowley MP, Alderman of London, of Barking, Suffolk ; d. 8 Apr 1812.
ASHBURNHAM, HON.JOHN, second son of Bertram Ashburnham, 4th Earl of Ashburnham (qv) ; b. 6 Mar 1845 ; adm. 21 Jan 1858 ; left 1858 ; entered Diplomatic Service 1866 ; attaché at Lisbon 1867, Madrid 1869 ; Third Secretary 1870 ; transferred Constantinople 1872 ; Second Secretary 1875 ; transferred Vienna 1879 ; acting Agent and Consul-General, Bulgaria 1879-80 ; retired 7 Apr 1883 ; JP Sussex ; m. 21 Mar 1907 Maud Mary, eldest dau. of Charles Royal-Dawson, South East Wynaad, Madras Presidency, India, coffee planter ; d. 12 Apr 1912.
ASHBURNHAM, HON.WILLIAM, third son of Bertram Ashburnham, 4th Earl of Ashburnham (qv) ; b. 29 Mar 1847 ; adm. 21 Jan 1858 ; left 1858 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 8 Nov 1864, fellow commoner same day, matr. Mich.1866 ; BA 1869 ; adm. Inner Temple 11 Jan 1869, called to bar 26 Jan 1874 ; d. 27 May 1897.
ASHBURTON, RICHARD, 2ND BARON, see DUNNING, RICHARD BARRÉ, 2nd BARON ASHBURTON.
ASHBY, GEORGE, only son of Edmund Ashby, London, citizen and merchant taylor, and Elizabeth Judith, dau. of Robert Lock, Dinton, Wilts. ; b. 5 Dec 1724 ; adm. Jun 1737 ; BB 1739 ; left 1740 ; St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.sizar 1 Nov 1740, matr.1740/1 ; BA 1744/5 ; MA 1748 ; BD 1756 ; Fellow of St.John’s 29 Mar 1748, Senior Fellow 12 Jul 1766 – Mar 1776, Steward 28 Feb 1766 – Jan 1767, President 29 Jan 1767 – 24 Mar 1775 ; ordained deacon 25 Dec 1746 (Norwich) to curacy of Halesworth, Suffolk, priest 24 May 1752 (Ely) ; Rector of Hungarton, Leics., 7 Nov 1757-69 ; Rector of Twyford, Leics., 7 Nov 1757 – Jan 1767 ; Rector of Barrow, Suffolk, from 3 Aug 1774 ; Rector of Stansfield, Suffolk, from 11 Oct 1780 ; FSA 10 Mar 1774 ; described by Cole as “a very good antiquary, learned critic, and much conversant in medals and pictures” (Cole’s MSS, xvi, 309) ; aided Nichols in his History of Leicestershire, and Daines Barrington in his Observations on the Statutes, and was a contributor to the Gentleman’s Magazine and to Nichols’s Literary Anecdotes ; d. unm. 12 Jun 1808. ODNB.
ASHBY-ASHBY, SHUKBURGH, eldest son of William Ashby-Ashby FRS (formerly Latham), Quenby, Leics., and Mary, dau. of Michael Miller, Bristol ; b. 29 Dec 1798 ; adm. 17 Jan 1810 ; left Whitsun 1816 ; Merton Coll.Oxford, matr. 18 May 1819 ; of Quenby Hall, Leics. ; d. unm. 21 Aug 1857.
ASHENHURST, FRANCIS, son of Edmund Ashenhurst, Old Park, Sedgley, Staffs., and Mary — ; b. ; adm. ; Min.Can. (aged 16) 1661 ; St.Mary Hall, Oxford, matr. 22 Mar 1661/2 ; MA 1670 ; ordained deacon and priest 27 Jan 1668/9 (Lichfield) ; Rector of Kingswinford, Staffs., from 28 Jan 1668/9 (dispensation to hold with Wootton Wawen, 1669) ; Chaplain Extraordinary to Charles II 24 May 1671 ; Master, Hospital of St.John the Baptist, Lichfield, from 4 Mar 1672 [or 1672/3 ?] ; Prebendary of Lichfield from 19 Apr 1689 ; Archdeacon of Derby from 7 Aug 1689 ; Prebendary of Lincoln from 1 Nov 1689 ; m. 3 Nov 1675 Anne, second dau. of John Whitehall, Parkhall, Staffs. ; d. by 30 Nov 1704 (will proved PCC 14 Feb 1705).
[ASHETON, THOMAS ; b. ; in school list Dec 1736. Probably an error for Ralph Assheton (qv)]
ASHFIELD, CHARLES ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1691 ; left 1694 ; presumably Charles Ashfield, adm.pens. St.Catharine’s Coll.Cambridge, 20 Aug 1694. [Perhaps bapt.St.Dunstan, Stepney 9 Jun 1678, son of John Ashfield, and Rose — (IGI)]
ASHLY, LORD ; b. ; at school Michaelmas 1664 – Jun 1665 (Busby’s Account Book) ; a boarder. [Russell Barker and Stenning conjecture that this entry may possibly have been intended to refer to ANTHONY ASHLEY COOPER, 2ND EARL OF SHAFTESBURY, b. 16 Jan 1652, whose father of the same name had been created Baron Ashley on 20 Apr 1661 and who was to be created Earl of Shaftesbury on 23 Apr 1672].
ASHTON, see also ASHETON and ASSHETON.
ASHTON, — ; b. ; in school list 1740.
ASHTON, — ; b. ; in school list 1744.
[ASHTON, DAVID ; b. ; in school lists Dec 1736, 1737. Christian name probably an error]
[ASHTON, EDWARD ; b. ; in school list Dec 1736. Christian name probably an error]
ASHTON, JAMES ; b. ; adm. (aged 11) Sep 1733 ; left 1737.
ASHTON, JAMES, son of Aaron Ashton, London, wigmaker ; b. ; adm. (aged 9) Feb 1736/7 ; BB 1741-5 ; St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.sizar 30 Oct 1744, matr.1745 ; found dead in his rooms at Cambridge on the evening of 9 Mar 1745/6, under circumstances which seemed to point to foul play ; is described in the register of All Saints, Cambridge, where he was buried, as “James Ashton, scholar, murdered”.
ASHTON, JAMES, son of James Ashton, Woodford, Essex ; b. ; adm. ; Min.Can. (aged 13) 1739.
ASHTON, JOHN, second son of Sir Richard Ashton, Kt, Middleton, Lancs., and his first wife Mary, dau. of Sir John Byron, Kt., Ryton, Yorks. ; b. ; at school under Nowell (a draft letter from Nowell recommending him to the Master of Trinity Coll.Cambridge is among the Brasenose MSS (31, f.36a), now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford) ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens., matr.1547 ; BA 1549/50 ; MA 1553 ; Fellow of Trinity Coll.1551, Major Fellow 1560 – c.1561 ; ordained deacon 7 Jul 1560 (Ely), priest 24 Aug 1560 (London), aged 36 ; Rector of Middleton, Lancs., from 1559 ; m. ; buried 8 Oct 1584.
ASHTON, THOMAS ; b. ; adm. (aged 9) May 1720 ; in school list 1727/8.
ASHTON, THOMAS ; b. ; adm. (aged 9) Jan 1734/5 ; left 1738.
ASHTON, WILLIAM, a native of Middlesex ; b. ; adm. ; KS in 1619 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1621, matr. 9 Nov 1621, aged 16 (but no record of him as Westminster Student) ; BA 6 Feb 1623/4.
ASKEY, see AISKEW.
ASPINWALL, —- ; b. ; in school list 1754.
ASPINWALL, STANHOPE, son of Richard Aspinwall, Liverpool, Lancs., and Elizabeth, dau. of Charles Stanhope, Mansfield Woodhouse, Notts. ; bapt.St.Nicholas, Liverpool 15 Jul 1713 (IGI) ; adm. (aged 8) Jun 1722 ; in under school list 1725 ; Chancellor, British Embassy at Constantinople Mar 1739 – Nov 1742, chargé d’affaires there Nov 1742 – Sep 1747 ; a Clerk in Secretary of State’s Office May 1748 – Aug 1752 ; Agent and Consul-General at Algiers Aug 1752 (arrived 29 Jul 1754) – 1761 ; subsequently private secretary to Simon Harcourt, 1st Earl Harcourt (qv), British Ambassador at Paris (still at death) ; author of a translation of Corneille’s Rodogune, 1765 ; m. (by 1747) Magdalena Baptistina — ; d. 17 Jan 1771.
ASSEY, CHARLES WILLIAM LESLIE ; b. 15 Aug 1812 ; adm. (G) 20 Sep 1826 ; still at school Jul 1827 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 19 Feb 1831, but did not matr. [perhaps kin to Charles Chaston Assey, Surgeon, EICS Bengal, subsequently Secretary to Government of Java, d. unm. 21 Mar 1821, aged 41]
ASSHE, —– ; b. ; at school in 1596 (Chapter Muniments 405671).
ASSHETON, RALPH, elder son of Ralph Assheton, Downham, near Clitheroe, Lancs., and Mary, dau. of Thomas Lister MP, Gisburn Park, Yorks. ; b. 25 Jan 1719 ; adm. Feb 1735/6 ; carved his name on the Coronation Chair in the Abbey ; Balliol Coll.Oxford, matr. 11 Aug 1738 ; of Downham, Lancs. ; m. 8 Aug 1752 Rebecca, elder dau. of William Hulls, Freelands, Kent, and Popes, Herts. ; d. 27 Dec 1758.
ASSHETON, RICHARD, younger brother of Ralph Assheton (qv) ; b. 19 Aug 1727 ; adm. (aged 13) May 1741 ; carved his name on the Coronation Chair in the Abbey ; left 1745 ; Brasenose Coll.Oxford, matr. 24 Nov 1744 ; BA 1748 ; MA 1751 ; BD and DD 1782 ; Fellow of Brasenose Coll. 5 Jun 1749 – 31 May 1757 ; ordained deacon 10 Mar 1754, priest 7 Jun 1754 (both Oxford) ; Rector of Radcliffe, Lancs., 6 Apr 1757 – Jul 1757 ; Rector of Middleton, Lancs., 26 Jul 1757 ; Chaplain, Manchester Collegiate Church 18 Jul 1760 ; Warden of Manchester Collegiate Church from 2 Mar 1782 ; m. 1757 Mary, younger dau. of William Hulls, Freelands, Kent, and Popes, Herts. ; d. 6 Jun 1800.
ASSHETON, WILLIAM, only son of Ralph Assheton (qv) ; b. 19 Jun 1758 ; adm. 28 Jan 1774 ; left Aug 1775 ; Brasenose Coll.Oxford, matr. 29 Nov 1775 ; MA (from Balliol Coll.) 1779 ; adm. Middle Temple 27 Jan 1779 ; Grand Tour (Italy) 1783-4 ; of Downham and Cuerdale, Lancs. ; High Sheriff Lancashire 1792 ; m. 20 Nov 1786 Lettice, dau. of Sir Richard Brooke, Bart., Norton Priory, Cheshire ; d. 29 Jan 1833.
ASTLEY, BENJAMIN BUCKLER GIFFORD, see LUDFORD-ASTLEY, BENJAMIN BUCKLER GIFFORD.
ASTLEY, FRANCIS, brother of Sir Jacob Henry Astley, Bart. (qv) ; b. ; adm. 25 Feb 1765 ; in school list Oct 1767 ; entered Royal Navy ; Midshipman ; killed on board HMS Arethusa in an engagement with La Belle Poule in the Channel 17 Jun 1778.
ASTLEY, HENRY NICHOLAS, third son of Sir Edward Astley, Bart., MP, and his second wife Anne, sister of Richard Milles (qv) ; b. 5 Jan 1767 ; adm. 18 Nov 1782 ; left 1784 ; Christ’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 26 Jun 1785, scholar 1785, matr. Easter 1786 ; BA 1789 ; MA 1792 ; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 15 Feb 1785 ; travelling in Netherlands and Italy 1789-90 ; ordained deacon 21 Sep 1791, priest 25 Sep 1791 (both Norwich) ; Rector of Little Snoring, Norfolk, from 28 Sep 1791 ; Rector of East Barsham, Norfolk, from 1791 ; Rector of Bintree with Themelthorpe, Norfolk 25 Apr 1799 – Apr 1804 ; Rector of Foulsham, Norfolk 24 Oct 1803 – Jan 1833 ; m. 20 Feb 1798 Sarah, dau. of Samuel Pitman, Exeter ; d. 14 Aug 1854.
ASTLEY, JACOB, 16TH BARON HASTINGS, eldest son of Sir Jacob Henry Astley, Bart. (qv) ; b. 13 Nov 1797 ; adm. Midsummer 1812 ; in school list Apr 1815 ; Magdalen Coll.Oxford, matr. 18 Feb 1817 ; DCL 1820 ; succ. father as 6th baronet 28 Apr 1817 ; MP (Whig) Norfolk West 1832-7 ; summoned to parliament by writ as Baron Hastings 18 May 1841, the abeyance of the barony being terminated in his favour ; FSA 24 Feb 1848 ; his fine collection of coins and medals was sold at Sotheby’s in 1880 as “the property of a nobleman” ; Master, West Norfolk Foxhounds 1823-30, Joint Master 1830-43 ; m. 22 Mar 1819 Georgiana Caroline, second dau. of Sir Henry Watkin Dashwood, Bart., MP ; d. 27 Dec 1859.
ASTLEY, SIR JACOB HENRY, BART., eldest son of Sir Edward Astley, Bart., FSA MP, Melton Constable, Norfolk, and his first wife Rhoda, eldest dau. of Sir Francis Blake Delaval (qv) ; b. 12 Sep 1756 ; adm. 25 Feb 1765 ; left Dec 1774 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 26 Feb 1776, did not matr. ; Lieut.-Col, Norfolk Fencible Cavalry 10 Apr 1794 (with rank of Lieut.-Col. in Army) ; MP Norfolk 15 Nov 1797 -1806, and from 4 Mar 1807 ; succ. his father as 5th baronet 27 Mar 1802 ; inherited the Seaton Delaval estates on the death of his uncle Edward Hussey Delaval (qv) ; m. 14 Jan 1789 Hester, dau. of Samuel Brown, King’s Lynn, Norfolk, merchant ; d. 28 Apr 1817.
ASTLEY, JOHN ; b. ; adm. (aged 11) Jul 1737 ; left 1738.
ASTLEY, JOHN NEWDIGATE FRANCIS, see LUDFORD-ASTLEY, JOHN NEWDIGATE FRANCIS.
ASTLEY, SAMUEL, son of John Astley, Worcester ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1672 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1676, matr. 14 Jul 1676, aged 18, Westminster Student 3 Jul 1677-89 (void) ; BA 25 Feb 1680/1 ; MA 1683 ; ordained priest 21 Dec 1684 (Worcester, as Asteley) ; Vicar of Whiteladies Aston, Worcs., from 28 Sep 1687 ; Rector of Peopleton, Worcs., 13 Aug 1705-17 ; Rector of Bredicot, Worcs., from 3 Nov 1711 ; m. Merriel — ; buried White Ladies Aston, Worcs. 7 Apr 1719.
ASTON, —- ; b. ; in school list 1656, first quarter ; left 1656. [Whitmore identifies him as William Aston, elder brother of Francis Aston (qv) : on what grounds ?] [If so, of Mablethorpe, Lincs., apparently agent to John Harrington]
ASTON, SIR ARTHUR INGRAM, younger son of Col.Henry Hervey Aston, Aston, Cheshire, 12th Foot, by Hon.Harriet Ingram-Shepheard, fourth dau. of Charles Ingram, 9th Viscount Irvine (S) (qv) ; b. 23 Dec 1798 ; adm. 2 Mar 1810 ; left 1811 ; Brasenose Coll.Oxford, gent.commoner, matr. 2 May 1814 ; MA 1817 ; entered Diplomatic Service ; attaché, Vienna Apr 1819 ; Secretary of Legation, Rio de Janeiro Apr 1826 ; Secretary of Embassy, Paris Jan 1833 ; Minister Plenipotentiary there 17 Jul 1838 – Jul 1839 ; Minister Plenipotentiary, Madrid 13 Feb 1840 – Nov 1843 ; GCB 10 Nov 1843 ; of Aston Hall, Cheshire ; d. unm. 5 May 1859.
ASTON, FRANCIS, younger son of Francis Aston, St.Mary Le Strand, London, and Margaret, dau. of Joan Chatwell, St.Mary le Strand, London, widow ; bapt. 1 Feb 1644/5 ; in school lists 1656 ; KS (aged 16) 1660 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1661, adm.pens. 22 May 1661, scholar 1662, matr. 1664/5 ; MA 1668 ; Fellow of Trinity Coll. 1667-c.1675 ; Grand Tour (France) 1669 ; FRS 30 Nov 1678 ; Secretary, Royal Society 1681-5, member Council (with gaps) 1680-1714 ; Gentleman Usher Quarterly Waiter, Royal Household 7 Mar 1689-92, Gentleman Usher Daily Waiter from 2 Mar 1692 ; a friend of Sir Isaac Newton ; bequeathed his estate at Mablethorpe, Lincs., to the Royal Society ; d. by 14 Jun 1715 (will proved 22 Jul 1715, as of Whitehall, Middlesex).
ASTON, SIR GEORGE GREY, son of Lieut.-Col. Henry Aston, EICS Bombay, by Katherine, dau. of Rev.Abraham Faure, Cape Town, South Africa, Minister in Dutch Reformed Church ; b. 2 Dec 1861 ; adm. QS 9 Oct 1876 ; left Aug 1879 ; RNC Greenwich 1879-81 ; 1st Lieut., Royal Marine Artillery 1 Sep 1879 ; Capt. 25 Jan 1888 ; Professor of Fortification, RNC Greenwich 1896-9 ; Maj. 2 Mar 1898 ; Brevet Lieut.-Col. 29 Nov 1900 ; Brevet Col. 24 May 1905 ; Lieut.-Col., Royal Marine Artillery 6 Feb 1908 ; Brig.-Gen. 4 Apr 1908 – 20 Jan 1913, 25 Aug 1914-7 ; Col., 2nd Commandant, Royal Marine Artillery 7 May 1913, Col.Commandant 24 Sep 1914 ; retd. with hon.rank Maj.-Gen. 24 Sep 1917 ; served Egyptian expedition 1884 and South African War 1900-1, despatches LG 10 Sep 1901 ; commanded expeditions to Ostend and Dunkirk 1914 ; served in War Cabinet Secretariat 1918-9 ; CB 26 Jun 1902 ; KCB 3 Jun 1913 ; ADC to King 26 Jun 1911-7 ; Busby Trustee from May 1919 ; author, Letters on Amphibious Wars, 1911, and other works ; m. 1 Jun 1909 Dorothy Ellen, youngest dau. of Vice-Adm. William Wilson, Clyffe Manor, Swindon, Wilts. ; d. 2 Dec 1938. ODNB.
ASTON, HON.HENRY HERVEY, brother of John Hervey, Baron Hervey of Ickworth (qv) ; b. 5 Jan 1700/1 ; adm. 27 Jan 1711/2 (Beresford) ; KS (Capt.) 1716 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1719, matr. 8 Jun 1719, Westminster Student 23 Dec 1719 – void 18 Dec 1723 ; Cornet, 11th Dragoons 25 Mar 1724 ; Capt., 11th Foot 13 May 1735 ; 1st Dragoon Guards 21 Dec 1738 ; retd. 8 Jul 1742 ; ordained priest Sep 1743 (Ely) ; Rector of Shotley, Suffolk, from 30 Sep 1743 ; Gonville and Caius Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 31 Oct 1743 ; MA 1744 ; assumed additional surname of Aston by private Act of Parliament (17 Geo.II, c. xxii), on inheriting Aston family estate in Cheshire ; earned the gratitude of Dr.Johnson, who in speaking of Hervey to Boswell said “he was a vicious Man, but very kind to me : if you call a dog Hervey, I shall love it” (Boswell’s Johnson, ed.G.B.Hill, i, 106) ; a charity sermon preached by him in May 1745 and published under his name was written by Dr.Johnson ; m. 2 Mar 1730 Catherine, eldest dau. of Sir Thomas Aston, Bart., Aston, Cheshire ; d. 16 Nov 1748. ODNB.
ASTON, RANDOLPH LITTLETON, brother of William Clifford Aston (qv) ; b. 6 Sep 1869 ; adm. as exhibitioner (G) 31 May 1883, having previously been at Cheltenham Coll. ; left May 1884 ; at Berkhamsted Sch. 1884-5, Tonbridge Sch. 1885-8, Smythe exhibitioner 1888 ; Gonville and Caius Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 1 Oct 1888, matr. Mich.1888 ; BA 1891 ; MA 1905 ; played Rugby football for Cambridge Dec 1889, Mar 1891, for England v.Scotland and England v.Ireland 1890, and for English team in South Africa 1891-2 ; member of committee, Rugby Football Union 1906-10 ; assistant master, Blairlodge Sch., Perthshire 1891-2 ; assistant master, Tonbridge Sch. 1892-23, house master there 1910-23 ; 2nd Lieut. Tonbridge Sch. OTC 22 May 1915, temp. Lieut. 2 Oct 1915 ; d. unm. 3 Nov 1930.
ASTON, WALTER HUTCHINSON, 8TH BARON ASTON (S), eldest son of Walter Aston, 7th Baron Aston (S), and Anne, dau. of Peter Hutchinson, Gales, Yorks. ; b. 15 Sep 1769 ‘; adm. 31 May 1780 ; KS 1785 ; one of the contributors to The Trifler, 1788-9 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1789, matr. 12 Jun 1789, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1789 – 10 Jun 1803 (void, on expiry year of grace as PC Caversham) ; BA 1793 ; MA 1796 ; ordained deacon 31 May 1795 (Oxford), priest 3 Jul 1796 (York) ; Curate, Barton in Farbis, Notts., 1796 ; Perpetual Curate, Caversham, Oxfordshire 26 Mar 1802 (year of grace as from 10 Jun 1802) ; succ. father as 8th Baron Aston (S) 29 Jul 1805 ; Rector and Vicar of Hartfield, Sussex, 6 Apr 1807 – Apr 1815 ; presented petition to Crown claiming barony of Aston of Forfar (S) Feb 1819 ; Vicar of Tardebigg, Worcs., from 10 Oct 1821 ; Vicar of Tanworth, Warwickshire 12 Aug 1829 – May 1832 ; author, Select Psalms in Verse, 1811 ; m. 14 Jun 1802 Elizabeth, dau. of Rev.Nathan Haines DD, Vicar of St.Mary’s, Nottingham ; d. 21 Jan 1845.
ASTON, WILLIAM CLIFFORD, fourth son of Rev.John Astbury Aston, Vicar of St.Luke’s, Cheltenham, and Emily Laura, dau. of William Hinkes Cox, Wimbledon, Surrey, partner in firm of tanners and dyers ; b. 10 Oct 1858 ; adm. (G) 22 Jan 1869 ; exhibitioner 1872 ; QS 1873 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1877, matr. 24 May 1877 ; BA 1879 ; MA 1884 ; played Association Football for Oxford 1881 ; ordained deacon 18 Dec 1881, priest 21 Dec 1882 (both Gloucester & Bristol) ; Curate, St.Luke’s, Cheltenham 1881-3 ; Curate, Holy Trinity, Chelsea 1883 ; Perpetual Curate of St.George’s, Brighton 24 Jan 1884-8 ; Curate, Holy Trinity, Richmond, Surrey 1888-90 ; Curate, Ross, Herefs. 1890-3 ; Curate in charge, St.John’s, Polegate, Sussex 22 Aug 1893-5 ; Curate, Leckhampton, Gloucs., from 1895 ; also Rector of Beeston St.Andrew, Norfolk (sinecure), from 1886 ; m. 17 Apr 1884 Annie Nevile, youngest dau. of George Nevile Wyatt, Cheltenham, Gloucs., landowner ; d. 13 Feb 1904.
ASTON, WILLIAM GERALD, brother of William Clifford Aston (qv) ; b. 7 Apr 1860 ; adm. 8 Apr 1869 ; left Christmas 1870 ; at Cheltenham Coll. 1871-5, subsequently at Rossall Sch. ; St.Catharine’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 1879, matr. Mich.1879 ; BA 1890 ; divinity student, Trinity Coll.Toronto, Canada ; ordained deacon 1886 (Toronto), priest 1888 ; Curate, St.John’s, Bowmanville, Ontario 1886-7 ; Curate, Teddington, Middlesex 1889-90 ; Curate, Eastnor, Herefs., 1891-3 ; Curate, Little Wymondley, Herts. 1893-6 ; Rector of Ellingham, Norfolk, from 1897 ; m. 11 Aug 1897 Caroline, fourth dau. of William Boyle Glenny, Newry, Co.Armagh, and of Belfast, Co.Antrim, estate agent ; d. 12 Oct 1915.
ATHERLEY, EDWARD GAMBIER ELIOT, third son of Rev.Arthur Atherley, Vicar of Heavitree, Devon, and Prebendary of Chichester, and Amelia Elizabeth, dau. of Richard Dawkins, Commissioner of Excise ; b. 18 Dec 1834 ; adm. 4 Oct 1849 ; Ensign, 45th Foot 3 Nov 1852 ; Lieut., 13 Oct 1854 ; Capt., 6 Nov 1860 ; 60th Rifles 2 Dec 1862 ; retd. 25 Oct 1864 ; d. 10 Oct 1898.
ATHERLEY, SIDNEY KERR BULLER, brother of Edward Gambier Eliot Atherley (qv) ; b. 22 Oct 1837 ; adm. 4 Oct 1849 ; went to Eton ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 4 Apr 1854, readm. 23 Feb 1855, matr. Mich.1855, but did not graduate ; clerk, Legacy and Succession Duty Dept., Inland Revenue ; m. 3 Apr 1877 Georgiana Louise, youngest dau. of Grenville Charles Lennox Berkeley, Commissioner of Customs ; d. 27 Feb 1878.
ATHOLL, 4TH DUKE OF, see MURRAY, JOHN, 4TH DUKE OF ATHOLL.
ATKIN (or ATKYN), THOMAS, son of Thomas Atkin, Windsor, Berks. ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1678 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1680, adm.pens. 19 Jun 1680, aged 17, scholar 22 Apr 1681, matr. 1681 ; 9th in ordo 1683/4 ; BA 1683/4 ; MA 1687 ; Head Master, King’s School, Canterbury, from 1689 ; ordained deacon 1699/1700 (Canterbury), to curacy Littlebourne, Kent ; lic. to m. 21 May 1694 Mary Moore, St.Andrew’s parish, Canterbury ; d. 27 Sep 1700 (M.I.Canterbury Cathedral, where he is described as “of the county of Norfolk”).
ATKINS, see also ATKYNS.
ATKINS, — ; b. ; in school lists 1656.
ATKINS, —- ; b. ; at school 1658-60 (Busby’s Account Book) ; a boarder.
ATKINSON, —- ; b. ; in under school lists 1729-32 and school list Jan 1732/3 (third form).
ATKINSON, GILBERT ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1670 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1672, adm.pens. 4 Jun 1672, scholar 1673 ; BA 1675/6 ; MA 1679 ; ordained deacon 31 Jul 1686, priest 7 Aug 1686 (both London) ; Rector of Methley, Yorks., from 6 Oct 1687 ; Prebendary of York from 10 May 1708 ; m. ; d. in a shooting accident 5 Jan 1708/9.
ATKINSON, JOHN ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Oct 1720 ; in under school list 1724.
ATKINSON, PHILIP, son of Anthony Atkinson, London ; b. ; at school under Busby (Admissions toTrin.Coll.Camb., ii, 518) ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 22 May 1676, aged 16, scholar 1677, matr.1679 ; BA 1679/80 ; MA 1683 (incorp.Oxford 6 Jun 1687) ; DD 1697 ; ordained deacon 26 Mar 1682 [or 1682/3 ?] (London) ; Vicar of Paddington, Middlesex, 29 May 1688-98 ; Rector of St.Peter’s, Northampton, from 26 Dec 1698 ; m. 16 Apr 1695 (IGI) Hon.Catharine Bulkeley, second dau. of Robert Bulkeley, 2nd Viscount Bulkeley (I) ; d. 1702.
ATKINSON, RICHARD ; b. ; adm. ; KS 16 Nov 1610 (Chapter Lease Book 1605-10, f.326).
ATKINSON, ROBERT ; b. ; adm. 7 Feb 1786.
ATKYNS, EDWARD, brother of Sir Robert Atkyns (qv) ; bapt.St.Andrew, Holborn 6 Jun 1654 (IGI) ; adm. 11 Apr 1665 ; a boarder ; at school 1667 (Busby’s Account Book) ; Queen’s Coll.Oxford, matr. 15 Apr 1670, aged 15 ; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 27 Aug 1669, called to bar 2 Nov 1676 ; lic. to m. 8 Feb 1676/7 Annabella (or Agnes), dau. of Sir Richard Atkins, Bart., Clapham, Surrey ; buried 28 Dec 1682 [or 1683 ?].
ATKYNS, SIR ROBERT, eldest son of Right Hon.Sir Robert Atkyns PC KB FRS, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and his first wife Mary, dau. of Sir George Clarke, Kt., Watford, Northamptonshire, Alderman of London, grocer ; bapt. Monken Hadley, Middlesex 26 Aug 1647 ; adm. Nov 1657 ; a boarder ; left 1662 (Busby’s Account Book) ; St.Edmund Hall, Oxford, matr. 14 Mar 1662/3, aged 15 ; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 23 Feb 1660/1, called to bar 14 Apr 1668 ; knighted 5 Sep 1663 ; Deputy Receiver-General, Law Duties 1671-2, Receiver-General 1672-3, Comptroller 1673-9 ; of Pinbury Park, Gloucs. ; MP Cirencester Mar 1678/9 – Mar 1680/1, Gloucestershire 1685-7 ; JP Gloucestershire 1673- Mar 1688, Oct 1688 onwards ; DL Gloucestershire 1683 – Feb 1688 ; author, The Ancient and Present State of Gloucestershire, 1712 ; lic. to m. 5 Jul 1669 Louise, dau. of Sir George Carteret, Bart. MP, Hawnes, Beds. ; d. 29 Nov 1711 (M.I.Sapperton, Gloucs.). ODNB.
ATTERBURY, CHARLES LEWIS, son of Francis Atterbury (adm.1749/50, qv) ; b. 31 Mar 1778 ; adm. ; Min.Can.1791 ; KS 1792 ; played cricket for the School v. Charterhouse 1794 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1796, matr. 26 May 1796, Westminster Student from 24 Dec 1796 ; BA 1800 ; MA 1803 ; ordained deacon 5 Jun 1803 (Oxford), priest 24 Aug 1803 (Cloyne) ; Perpetual Curate, St.Thomas, Oxford 29 Aug 1809 – Nov 1815 ; Vicar of St.Mary Magdalene, Oxford, from 5 Jun 1815 ; killed by the overturning of the Sovereign coach, near Leamington, 26 Jul 1823, unm.
ATTERBURY, FRANCIS, brother of Lewis Atterbury (qv) ; b. 6 Mar 1662/3 ; adm. ; KS 1674 ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1680, matr. 17 Dec 1680, aged 17, Westminster Student 18 Dec 1680-94 (void, perhaps on marriage), Tutor 1687-90 ; BA 1684 ; MA 1687 ; BD and DD 5 May 1701 ; replied to Obadiah Walker’s attack upon the Reformation 1687 ; assisted his pupil Hon.Charles Boyle in his defence of the genuineness of the Epistles of Phalarisagainst Bentley ; ordained deacon 18 Dec 1687, priest 8 Mar 1690/1 (both Oxford) ; Lecturer, St.Bride’s, Fleet Street, London Oct 1691-8 ; Chaplain, Bridewell and Bethlehem Hospitals 4 Oct 1693 –Jun 1713 ; Chaplain in Ordinary to William III and Queen Mary by 6 Dec 1691, subsequently to Queen Anne to 1713 ; Preacher at Rolls Chapel 1698 (still 1711 ?) ; warmly opposed Erastianism and protested against the suppression of Convocation ; Archdeacon of Totnes 11 Jun 1701-13 ; Prebendary of Exeter 6 May 1704 ; Dean of Carlisle 2 Oct 1704-11 ; Prolocutor of Lower House of Convocation Nov 1710 – Jun 1713 ; Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, 28 Sep 1711-3 ; installed Dean of Westminster 16 Jun 1713 and consecrated Bishop of Rochester 15 Jul 1713 ; although he took part officially in the coronation of George I, he refused to sign the declaration of confidence in the government after the rebellion of 1715, and subsequently was in direct communication with the Jacobites ; arrested and imprisoned in the Tower 24 Aug 1722, for his alleged connection with an attempt to restore the Stuarts ; a bill of pains and penalties was passed through the House of Commons, and carried in the House of Lords by 83 votes to 43 ; deprived of all his ecclesiastical preferments 1 Jun 1723, and banished from the kingdom ; visited in the Tower by some of the senior King’s Scholars before his departure ; resided first at Brussels and afterwards in France as general adviser to the Old Pretender ; a man of marked attainments, but cursed with an imperious and aggressive temper, and possessed of “a rare talent for fomenting discord” ; his old friend George Smalridge (qv), who succeeded him both at Carlisle and at Christ Church, used to say that “Atterbury comes first and sets everything on fire, and I follow with a bucket of water” ; regarded as one of the leading preachers of his day, and in Addison’s opinion was “one of the greatest geniuses of his age” ; much to the annoyance of Old Westminsters, Atterbury removed the Election in 1718 from the School to the Jerusalem Chamber, and put down the Election Dinner (HMC Portland MSS, v, 561, vii, 275) ; owing to his insistence the new Dormitory was built on its present site, the first stone being laid 24 Apr 1722 ; Busby Trustee from 27 Feb 1705/6 ; m. c.1695 Catherine Osborne, “daughter of a country parson near Oxford” (Bennett, 1975, p.35) ; d. in exile in Paris 22 Feb 1731/2 and buried privately in the south aisle of the nave of Westminster Abbey 12 May 1732. ODNB.
ATTERBURY, FRANCIS, son of Osborne Atterbury (qv) ; b. 15 Jun 1734 ; adm. Jan 1749/50 ; KS 1750 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1755, matr. 28 May 1755, Westminster Student 5 Jan 1756 – 1 Oct 1770 (void, on expiry year of grace as P Cloyne), Tutor 1764-9, Junior Censor 1763, Senior Censor 1764-8 ; BA 1759 ; MA 1763 ; DCL 1768 ; Proctor 1767 ; rebuked before the Chapter of Christ Church by William Markham (qv) for a speech delivered by him as Senior Censor in Christ Church Hall 12 Dec 1768 (Thompson, Christ Church, 162-3) ; ordained deacon 18 Dec 1763 (Norwich), priest 23 Dec 1764 (Exeter) ; Prebendary of Cloyne 3 Oct 1769 – Dec 1770, Precentor of Cloyne from 1 Dec 1770 ; various incumbencies in Co.Cork 1769-77 ; Vicar of Clonmel and Templerobin, Co.Cork, from 1777 ; m.1st, 21 Jan 1771 Mary, sister of Robert Berkeley (qv) ; m.2nd, at Cork, Ireland, 23 Jan 1800 Anne Arabella Ingram, widow ; d. 22 Jan 1822.
ATTERBURY, LEWIS, elder son of Rev.Lewis Atterbury DD, Prebendary of Lincoln and Rector of Milton Keynes, Bucks., and Elizabeth, dau. of Francis Giffard, North Crawley, Bucks. ; b. 2 May 1656 ; at school under Busby (Memoirs and Correspondence of Francis Atterbury, 1864, i, 8) ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 10 Apr 1674 ; BA 1677 ; MA 1680 (incorp.Camb. 1681) ; BCL and DCL 1687 ; ordained deacon 21 Sep 1679 (Oxford), priest 25 Sep 1681 (Lincoln) ; Chaplain to Lord Mayor of London 1683 ; Rector of Sywell, Northants., 2 Feb 1684/5 – 1707 ; Lecturer, St.Mary at Hill, London 1691 ; Preacher, Highgate Chapel from 16 Jun 1695 ; Rector of Shepperton, Middlesex, from 30 Sep 1707 ; Rector of Hornsey, Middlesex, from 3 Mar 1719/20 ; Preaching Chaplain, St.James’s Palace c.1694 – c.1723 ; was refused the post of Archdeacon of Rochester in 1720 by his brother Francis, who considered that such an appointment would have been “the most unseemly indecent thing in the world” ; author, several volumes of sermons, and two translations from the French ; lic.to m. 24 Dec 1688 Penelope, dau. of John Bedingfeld, Isleworth, Middlesex ; d. 20 Oct 1731. ODNB.
ATTERBURY, OSBORNE, son of Francis Atterbury (KS 1674, qv) ; b. 30 Mar 1705 ; adm. ; in under school list 1716 (paid no fees) ; KS (Capt) 1718 ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1722, matr. 19 Jun 1722, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1722 – 11 Dec 1725 (void, he having been admonished for neglect of duty and exercises 4 Sep 1725) ; got into financial difficulties, and went into merchant navy ; 5th Mate, E.I.Maritime Service 1728 ; 3rd Mate 1730 ; ordained deacon 21 Dec 1744 (Winchester) ; Rector of Oxhill, Warwicks., from 1746 ; m. 10 Aug 1732 (IGI) Sarah, dau. of John Ashley, Isleworth, Middlesex ; d. 3 Sep 1752.
ATWOOD, GEORGE, eldest son of Rev.Thomas Atwood, Curate, St.Clement’s Danes, London, subsequently Curate and Lecturer, St.Margaret’s, Westminster, and Isabella, dau. of J[ohn ?] Sells, Inglesham, Wilts. ; bapt. 15 Oct 1745 ; in school list 1754 ; KS (aged 13) 1759 ; Capt. of the School 1764 ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1765, adm.pens. 5 Jun 1765, scholar 2 May 1766, matr. Lent 1766 ; 3rd Wrangler and 1st Smith’s Prizeman 1769 ; BA 1769 ; Member’s (second) prize for Middle Bachelors 1770 ; MA 1772 ; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1770, Major Fellow 8 Jul 1772, Assistant Tutor 1773-9 ; FRS 13 June 1776 ; Copley Medal 1796 ; one of the patent Searchers of the Customs from 1784 ; Inspector of Tontine Certificates 21 Jun 1790 ; a distinguished mathematician to whom Pitt was indebted for services of great value ; author, A treatise on the rectilinear motion and rotation of bodies, 1784, and other works ; d. unm. Jul 1807. ODNB.
ATWOOD, GEORGE, eldest son of Rev.George Atwood, Vicar of Milverton, Somerset, and Sarah, dau. of Henry Gresley, Bristol, and first cousin of George Atwood (qv) ; b. ; in school lists 1764 ; KS (aged 13) 1765 ; d. from the results of an accident 5 Sep 1768.
ATWOOD, JAMES ESTCOURT, brother of George Atwood (KS 1759, qv) ; b. 24 Jul 1758 ; adm. 30 May 1768 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 17 Jan 1775, but did not matr. ; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 24 May 1775 ; Ensign, 99th Foot 5 Jun 1780 ; retd. Aug 1781 ; ordained deacon 21 Dec 1783, priest 2 Jan 1785 (both Winchester) ; Domestic Chaplain to George, Duke of St Albans 25 Feb 1786 ; Rector of Saxlingham with Sharington, Norfolk, from 6 Feb 1787 ; Chaplain, Royal Navy 1795 ; readm. Trinity Coll.Cambridge, 10 Feb 1798 ; went out to India ; Chaplain EICS Madras, appointed 1799 to serve St.Thomas’s Mount and Poonamallee ; buried unm. at St.Thomas’s Mount, Fort St.George, Madras 24 Jul 1810.
ATWOOD, THOMAS ALEXANDER, brother of George Atwood (KS 1759, qv) ; b. 29 Mar 1764 ; adm. 26 Jun 1775 ; ordained deacon 4 Mar 1787 (Winchester) to curacy of Mickleham, Surrey, priest 18 May 1788 (Norwich) ; Curate and Lecturer, St.Margaret’s, Westminster, from 3 Feb 1802 ; m. 8 May 1798 Grace, dau. of H.Burtenshaw [Henry Burtenshaw, Lewes, Sussex ? : if so, sister of Samuel Burtenshaw (qv) ; she described as of Lindfield, Sussex, on marriage] ; d. 19 Jul 1805.
AUBER, CHARLES BRANSBY, younger son of Henry Peter Auber, London, Secretary to Directors of East India Co., and Jane, dau. of Rev.John Auber, Rector of Blaisdon, Gloucs. ; b. 6 Apr 1820 ; adm. 30 Sep 1833 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 18 Aug 1840, matr. Mich.1840 ; BA 1845 ; ordained deacon 1845, priest 1846 ; Curate of Moreton Pinkney, Northants., in 1848 ; Rector of Clannaborough, Devon, from 1853 ; m. 16 Nov 1847 Zoe Adelaide, only dau. of Charles Henry Barber QC, Bencher Grays’ Inn ; d. 18 Jan 1867.
AUBIN, JOHN, son of J.Aubin ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1694 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1699, matr. 21 Jun 1699, aged 22 [sic : check], Westminster Student 23 Dec 1699-1740 (void), Tutor 1707 ; BA 1703 ; MA 12 Mar 1705/6 ; ordained deacon 19 Dec 1709, priest 24 Sep 1710 (both Oxford). [note will of John Aubin, surgeon, Marenne, St.Anne’s, Soho, proved PCC 4 Dec 1704 : father of this individual ?]
AUBREY, SIR JOHN, BART., eldest son of Sir Thomas Aubrey, Bart., Boarstall, Bucks., and Llantriddyd, Glamorgan, and Martha, sister of Thomas Richard Carter (qv) ; b. 4 Jun 1739 ; adm. May 1752 ; KS 1754 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1758, matr. 24 May 1758, but not adm. as Westminster Student ; DCL 8 Jul 1763 ; Grand Tour (France, Italy) 1764-5 ; MP Wallingford 1768-74, Aylesbury 1774-80, Wallingford 1780-4, Buckinghamshire 1784-90, Clitheroe 1790-6, Aldeburgh 1796-1812, Steyning 1812-20, Horsham from 1820 ; a Lord of the Admiralty Jul 1782 – Apr 1783 ; a Lord of the Treasury Dec 1783 – Apr 1789 ; succ. father as 6th baronet 4 Sep 1786 ; of Boarstall and Dorton, Bucks. ; “father” of the House of Commons ; m. 1st, 9 Mar 1771 Mary, dau. of Sir James Colebrooke, Bart., MP ; m. 2nd, 26 May 1783 his cousin Martha Catherine, dau. of George Richard Carter, Chilton, Bucks., and niece of Thomas Richard Carter (qv) ; d. 14 Mar 1826. ODNB.
AUBREY, RICHARD, brother of Sir John Aubrey, Bart. (qv) ; b. 26 May 1744 ; adm. ; KS 1759 ; Exeter Coll.Oxford, matr. 23 May 1765 ; migrated to All Souls Coll. ; BA 1771 ; MA 1775 ; Fellow of All Souls 1768-80 ; of Ashill, Glamorgan ; Lieut.-Col., Royal Glamorgan Militia 21 Apr 1794, Col. from 19 May 1797 ; m. 20 Feb 1780 Frances, third dau. of Hon.Wriothesley Digby, Meriden Hall, Warwickshire ; d. 31 Mar 1808.
AUBREY, THOMAS, brother of Sir John Aubrey, Bart. (qv) ; b. 17 Jul 1740 ; adm. (aged 11) May 1752 ; in school list 1754 ; Jesus Coll.Oxford, matr. 15 Nov 1756 ; BA 1760 ; Ensign, 9th Foot 26 Oct 1762 ; Lieut., 62nd Foot 27 Mar 1765 ; 4th Foot 17 May 1766 ; Capt., 47th Foot 30 Apr 1771 ; Brevet Maj. 7 Jun 1782 ; half pay as Capt. from 28 Feb 1788 ; Inspecting Field Officer of Yeomanry with rank of Lieut.-Col. from 7 Jan 1804 ; served in American War, distinguishing himself when in command on Diamond Island ; MP Wallingford 1784-90 ; m. at Detroit, North America 1780 Elizabeth Irving (previously “his housekeeper or mistress”) ; d. 15 Jan 1814.
AUBREY, SIR THOMAS DIGBY, BART., only son of Richard Aubrey (qv) ; bapt. 2 Dec 1782 ; adm. 6 Jun 1795 (Clapham) ; left Bartholomewtide 1801 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.fellow commoner 24 Jul 1801, matr. Mich.1801 ; BA 1806 ; MA 1809 ; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 24 Jun 1805, called to bar 11 Feb 1811 ; High Sheriff Buckinghamshire 1815 ; succ. uncle as 7th baronet 14 Mar 1826 ; Chairman, Buckinghamshire Quarter Sessions for twenty years to Jan 1851 ; m. 9 Dec 1813 Mary, dau. of Thomas Wright, London ; d. 5 Sep 1856.
AUBREY, WILLIAM AUBREY LLOYD PHILLIPS, son of Rev.John Evans, Rector of Crickhowell, Breconshire, and his first wife Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Smith Philipps, Jeffreyston House, Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire ; b. 28 Aug 1855 ; adm. 3 Feb 1869 ; BB 10 Feb 1869 ; QS 1870 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1874, matr. 28 May 1874 ; BA 1878 ; assumed surname of Aubrey in lieu of Evans 1879 ; a journalist ; on staff Westminster Gazette ; living Llanwnda, Pembrokeshire, in 1881 (1881 Census) ; death registered London Central second quarter 1935, aged 79.
AUBREY, WYNNE FREDERICK DOTT STAPLES ; b. 30 Aug 1830 ; adm. 5 Oct 1842 ; left Aug 1845. [probably son of Frederick Wynne Aubrey, Clehonger Court, Herefordshire, barrister, Inner Temple, and Louisa, dau. of Capt.John Moore, 3rd Dragoon Guards, Grimstone Hall, York – she was a niece of James Dott, Bitterne Grove, Hampshire, formerly surgeon to Nawab of Arcot] [will of Frederick Dott Staples Wynne Aubrey, USA, proved 1897 ?]
AUDELEY (alias SAMPSON), HUMPHREY, brother of John Audeley (alias Sampson) (qv) ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1542-4 ; appears in the accounts as Humphrey Sampson and once, at Mich.1543, as Humphrey Audeley (Chapter Muniments) ; buried St.Margaret’s, Westminster 16 May 1550.
AUDELEY (alias SAMPSON), JOHN, son of Sampson Audeley, Verger of the Abbey, and his first wife ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1542-4 ; appears in the accounts as John Sampson and once, at Mich.1543, as John Audeley ; printer and miscellaneous writer ; made free of Stationers’ Co. 1556 ; produced ballads, news sheets and religious tracts at his printing house in Little Britain, Aldersgate, London ; fined several times for printing “other men’s copy” ; author and printer, The Fraternitye of Vagabondes, 1565 ; m. Elizabeth — ; d. Aug (?) 1575. ODNB s.v.Awdely.
AUDSLEY (or AUDESLEY), JAMES, brother of Joseph Audsley (qv) ; bapt. St.Martin in the Fields 22 Mar 1722 ; adm. (aged 11) Jan 1733/4 (as Audesley, surname read by Russell Barker and Stenning as Andesley) ; left 1736 ; bricklayer, Vine Street, Westminster ; m. Letitia, dau. of John Rogers, Coventry, Warwicks. ; buried 2 Aug 1756 (will proved PCC 3 Aug 1756).
AUDSLEY (or AUDESLEY), JOSEPH, elder surviving son of David Audsley, St.Paul’s, Covent Garden, London, plasterer, and Elizabeth Clarke, St.Paul’s, Covent Garden ; bapt. St.Paul’s, Covent Garden 16 Aug 1719 ; adm. (aged 14) Jan 1733/4 (as Audesley, surname read by Russell Barker and Stenning as Andesley) ; left 1736 ; Trinity Coll.Oxford, matr. 30 Mar 1736 ; adm.Middle Temple 20 Jul 1739 ; probably dead by 1746.
AUFRÈRE, ANTHONY, elder son of Rev.Israel Antoine Aufrère (Marquis de Corville), Preacher at the French Savoy Chapel and Minister of the French Chapel at St.James’s, and Sarah, dau. of André Amsincq, Amsterdam, Netherlands, merchant ; b. 25 Jun 1704 ; adm. Jan 1718/9 ; Oriel Coll.Oxford, matr. 24 Mar 1719/20 ; BA 1723 ; MA 1726 ; ordained deacon 28 May 1727, priest 24 May 1730 (both London) ; Rector of Heigham, Norfolk, from 12 Jan 1731/2 ; lived at Hoveton Hall, Norfolk ; m. 1st, 21 Jul 1727 (IGI) Suzanne, dau. of Maj. Mathieu Hullin De Gastine, officer in Dutch Army, Huguenot refugee ; 2nd, 1740, Mary, widow of James Smith, Alderman of Norwich, and dau. of Giles Cutting, Hoveton St.Peter, Norfolk ; d. 22 May 1781.
AUNGIER, HON.AMBROSE, son of Francis Aungier, 1st Baron Aungier of Longford (qv), and his first wife ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1609 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1613, adm. scholar 1614 ; BA 1617/8 ; MA 1621 ; Fellow of Clare Coll. 8 Jun 1620 ; ordained deacon 15 Aug 1624, priest 16 Aug 1624 (both Peterborough) ; Prebendary of St.Patrick’s, Dublin, 1629, Treasurer 23 Jul 1628-32, Chancellor from 1636 ; m. Griselda, dau. of Most Rev.Lancelot Bulkeley DD, Archbishop of Dublin ; d. 1654.
AUNGIER, EDWARD, son of Edward Aungier, Cambridge, and Gray’s Inn, London, barrister, and his second wife Catherine — ; nephew of Francis Aungier, 1st Baron Aungier of Longford (qv) ; b. ; adm. ; KS in 1619 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1621, adm.scholar 1622, matr.1622 ; BA 1625/6 ; MA 1629 ; ordained deacon 9 Mar 1627/8, priest 10 Mar 1627/8 (both Peterborough) ; Rector of Dry Drayton, Cambs., from 16 Sep 1633 ; m. Margaret, dau. of John Partenson, Ashbourne, Derbs. ; buried Dry Drayton, Cambs. 3 Sep 1665.
AUNGIER, FRANCIS, 1ST BARON AUNGIER OF LONGFORD (I), son of Richard Aungier, Cambridge, and Gray’s Inn, London, barrister, and Anne, dau. of William Steward, Cambridge ; bapt. 14 May 1558 ; adm. ; QS in 1570 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1573, adm. scholar 1574, matr. Easter 1574 ; adm. Gray’s Inn 25 Nov 1577, called to bar 17 Jun 1583 ; QC ; Bencher, Gray’s Inn 1602 ; MP Newcastle-under-Lyme 1588-9, Haslemere Sep 1597 – Feb 1597/8 ; knighted 28 May 1609 ; Master of the Rolls (I) from 5 Oct 1609 ; Privy Councillor (I) by 1611 ; Joint Lord Keeper (I) Apr – May 1619 ; created Baron Aungier of Longford (I) 29 Jun 1621 ; m. 1st, by 1589, Douglas, youngest dau. of Hon.Edward Fitzgerald, and sister of Gerald Fitzgerald, 16th Earl of Kildare (I) ; m. 2nd, Anne, widow of Walter Marler, and dau. of Sir George Barne, Kt, MP ; m. 3rd, Margaret, widow of Sir John Wynn, Kt, Gwydir, Caernarvonshire, and dau. of Sir Thomas Cave, Kt, Stanford, Northants. ; d. 8 Oct 1632.
AUNGIER, JOHN, brother of Francis Aungier, 1st Baron Aungier of Longford (qv) ; b. ; adm. ; Min.Can.1580 (aged 15) ; QS ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1583, adm.scholar 1584 ; BA 1587/8 ; MA 1591 ; LLD 1616 ; Fellow Trinity Coll. 1589-1614, Junior Bursar 1603-5, Senior Fellow 1611-4 ; Taxor 1607 ; Proctor 1610 ; ordained ; Prebendary of Peterborough from 8 Jun 1615 ; m. Anne, dau. of Giles Cotton, Trumpington and Harston, Cambs. ; buried Peterborough Cathedral 17 Aug 1630.
AURIOL, CHARLES JAMES, second son of James Peter Auriol FRS, Park Lane, London, formerly EICS Bengal, and [his second wife ?] Emmeline, dau. of Andrews Jelfe (qv) ; b. ; adm. 21 Jan 1811 ; left 1814 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 25 Oct 1816, aged 18 ; living at Brussels, Belgium, by 1850 ; d. at Brussels, Belgium 26 Jun 1881.
AURIOL, EDWARD, brother of Charles James Auriol (qv) ; b. 27 Feb 1805 ; adm. (G) 12 Jan 1818 ; left 20 Mar 1822 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 4 Jun 1823 ; BA 1828 ; MA 1832 ; ordained deacon 14 Jun 1829, priest 6 Jun 1830 (both London) ; Rector of Newton Valence, Hants., 4 May 1838 ; Vicar of St.Dunstan in the West, Fleet Street, London, 7 Jan 1842-80 ; Prebendary of St.Paul’s from 17 Feb 1865 ; m. 28 Sep 1829 Georgiana Barbara, third dau. of Edward Morris (qv) ; d. 10 Aug 1880.
AUSTEN, EDWARD ; b. ; adm. 10 Jun 1663 ; a boarder ; left 1665 (Busby’s Account Book).
AUSTEN, GREAVES ; b. ; adm. ; KS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1657, subscribed 23 Oct 1657, Westminster Student ; BA 16 Jan 1660/1 ; Master of Ottery St.Mary GS from 1662 ; under his mastership the school seems to have reached the height of its prosperity, “he having for many years together near 200 scholars under his care” ; buried Ottery St.Mary, Devon 22 Jun 1699.
AUSTIN, RICHARD, fifth son of Rev.Wiltshire Stanton Austin, Rector of All Hallows, Lombard Street, London, and Dunkin, dau. of Francis Webster, Barbados, West Indies (IGI) ; b. 2 Dec 1833 ; adm. from King’s Coll.Sch. as BB 25 Sep 1847 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 18 Jan 1856 ; emigrated to Melbourne, Australia, by 1862, where he became a schoolteacher and was on the staff of Melbourne Public Library ; m.1858 Julia Mary Rogers, Dublin, Ireland (but marriage registered Hackney second quarter 1859) ; d. at Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia 20 Aug 1870.
AUTERAC, JOSEPH ; b. ; adm. 1 Jun 1774. [presumably Joseph Auterac, son of Charles Auterac, and Mary — ; b. Cripplegate, London 14 Jun 1768] [Joseph Auterac was an Assistant, Society of Apothecaries of London, in 1832] [Charles Auterac, Kensington, surgeon, at 27 May 1767, and apothecary, at 7 May 1772 (will proved 22 Feb 1810, as of St Mary Abbots, Kensington, Middlesex)] [Joseph Auterac and Mary – were parents of a daughter Louisa b. Kensington 1 Dec 1792] [note will Joseph Auterac, Kensington, Middlesex, surgeon and apothecary, d. May 1836, proved PCC 16 Aug 1836]
AVELAND, GILBERT, 1ST BARON, see HEATHCOTE, GILBERT JOHN, 1st BARON AVELAND.
AVELING, CLAUDE LINDSAY CLIFFORD, second son of Stephen Thomas Aveling, Boveney, near Windsor, Berks., mechanical engineer, and Mary Phebe, dau. of Rev.Richard Samuel Clifford, Vicar of Teynham, Kent ; b. 26 Oct 1869 ; adm. from King’s School, Rochester 31 May 1883 (R) ; QS Jan 1884 ; elected to an exhibition at Christ Church, Oxford Jul 1888, matr. 12 Oct 1888 ; BA 1893 ; MA 1921 ; Assistant to Director, Royal Coll. of Music 1894 ; Assistant Registrar, Royal Coll. of Music, Registrar 1913-35 ; author, libretti and songs ; m. 16 Apr 1903 Marguerite Mary Theodora, only dau. of Rev.William Henry Robins DD, Vicar of Gillingham, Kent, and Hon.Canon of Rochester ; d. 28 Dec 1943.
AWSE, ROBERT, son of James Awse, Great Torrington, Devon, attorney ; b. ; adm. (aged 15) Oct 1726 ; in school list 1727/8 ; adm. Middle Temple 9 Nov 1727 (as Awes) ; a Sworn Clerk, Six Clerks’ Office (by 1748) ; of Horwood House, Frithelstock, Devon ; m.1st, 24 Jan 1754 Elizabeth, dau. of William Paige, Exeter, Devon ; m. 2nd, Elizabeth, dau. of Richard Stevens MP, Moortown and Winscott, Devon ; buried 21 Mar 1764.
AYLESBURY, SIR THOMAS, BART., second son of William Aylesbury, St.Andrew’s, Holborn, London, and his first wife Anne, dau. of John Poole, Sapperton, Gloucs. ; b. ; adm. ; QS in 1596 ; elected head to Ch.Ch.Oxford 1598, matr. 24 Nov 1598, aged 18, Westminster Student to 1612 ; BA 1602 ; MA 1605 ; MA Camb. (lit.reg.) 1635/6 ; Secretary to Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, and George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham as successive Lord High Admirals ; Surveyor-Gen. of Navy Feb 1628 – Oct 1632 ; created baronet 19 Apr 1627 ; one of the Masters of Requests 1625 – c.1641 (paid to 25 Mar 1641) ; Master of the Mint Aug 1635-42, holding post jointly with Sir Ralph Freeman until their suspension by Parliament as Royalist supporters ; retired to the Low Countries after the death of Charles I ; a learned mathematician, and a great “encourager of learning and learned men” ; lic.to m. 3 Oct 1611 Anne, widow of William Darell, and eldest dau. of Rev.Francis Denman, Rector of West Retford, Notts. ; d. at Breda, Netherlands 29 Jun 1658. ODNB.
AYLESFORD, EARLS OF, see FINCH.
AYLETT, GEORGE ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Jul 1728 ; in school list 1731. [Perhaps George Aylet, son of George Aylet, bapt.Romford, Essex 1 Nov 1717 (IGI)] [Note George Aylett, surgeon, Romford, Essex, widower (will PCC 18 Jun 1772), d. 10 May 1772 ; but there was also a George Aylett, surgeon and apothecary, Windsor, Berks., who d.1782]
AYLOFFE, JOSEPH, son of Sir William Ayloffe, Bart., MP, Brittains, Hornchurch, Essex, and Westminster, and his third wife Alice, dau. of James Stokes, Stoke, near Coventry, Warwicks. ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1636 ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1640, adm. pens. 18 May 1640, scholar 1641, matr.1640 ; BA 1643/4 ; MA 1647 ; adm. Gray’s Inn 31 Oct 1646, called to bar 1653, ancient 18 May 1667 ; Savoy Manor Steward, Duchy of Lancaster 8 Aug 1660 – successor appointed Apr 1673 ; of Brittains, Hornchurch, Essex ; m. Frances, dau. of Henry Ayscough, Yorkshire ; d. at Montpellier, France. (will proved PCC 29 Jul 1674, as of Gray’s Inn).
AYLOFFE, SIR JOSEPH, BART., son of Joseph Ayloffe, barrister, Gray’s Inn, Recorder of Kingston-upon-Thames, and Mary, dau. of Brian Ayliffe, London, citizen and merchant ; grandson of Joseph Ayloffe (qv) ; b.1709 ; adm. Jun 1719 ; in under school list 1723 ; St.John’s Coll.Oxford, matr. 23 Apr 1726 ; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 24 Oct 1724, called to bar 29 Oct 1730 ; succ. cousin as 6th baronet 10 Dec 1730 ; clerk to Commissioners for building Westminster Bridge 1736-50 ; Methodiser of State Papers, Secretary of State’s Office, from 16 Jul 1764 ; FSA 10 Feb 1731/2, Vice-Pres. ; FRS 27 May 1731 ; an eminent antiquary ; employed William Blake to copy paintings in Westminster Abbey presbytery ; author, Calendars of the Ancient Charters … now remaining in the Tower, 1772, and other works ; m. Jan 1734 Margaret, widow of Thomas Railton, Westminster, and dau. of Charles Railton, Carlisle, Cumberland ; d. 19 Apr 1781. ODNB.
AYLOFFE, WILLIAM, son of Thomas Ayloffe, Bassingbourn, Cambs. ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1674 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1680, adm.pens. 19 Jun 1680, aged 18, scholar 22 Apr 1681, matr. [check] ; 3rd in ordo 1683/4 ; MA 1687 ; LLD 1705 ; Minor Fellow, Trinity 19 Apr 1687, Major Fellow from 22 Jul 1687, Tutor 1693-8, Senior Fellow 1714, Senior Bursar 1716-9, 1722-6 ; supported John Colbatch (qv) in his prolonged struggle against Bentley ; Public Orator, Univ.Cambridge, 19 Feb 1695/6-1726 ; d. 1728.
AYLWORTH, RICHARD, eldest son of Richard Aylworth, Aylworth, Naunton, Gloucs., and Mary, dau. of Sir Thomas Sackville, Kt, Bibury, Gloucs. ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1671 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1673, adm.pens. 28 Jun 1673, scholar 1674 ; adm.Middle Temple 23 Jun 1675 ; buried 3 Apr 1677, aged 23.
AYNSEWORTH, see HEANSWORTH.
AYRE, — ; b. ; at school 1554.
AYRES, PHILIP, of Cottingham, Northants. ; b. 1638 ; at school under Busby (M.I. records fact of his education at Westminster) ; attached as majordomo to Sir Richard Fanshawe’s embassy to Spain and Portugal Jan 1666 ; lived for some years in Spain ; tutor in the family of Montagu Garrard Drake, Amersham, Bucks., where he lived until his death ; resident at St.John’s Coll.Oxford as tutor to Drake’s son when an undergraduate there ; author, Lyric Poems made in imitation of the Italians, 1687, and other works ; dedicated his Mythologia Ethica, or Three Centuries of Aesopian Fables in English, 1689, to his “kinsman” Lewis Maidwell (qv) ; d. 1 Dec 1712 (M.I. Amersham). ODNB. [perhaps Yeoman of the Larder, Royal Household 28 May 1685 – Dec 1688]
AYSCOUGH, SIR EDWARD, eldest son of Sir Edward Ayscough, Kt MP, South Kelsey, Lincs., and Frances, dau. of Sir Nicholas Clifford, Kt., MP ; bapt. South Kelsey St.Mary, Lincs. 29 Sep 1618 ; at school under Osbaldeston (Al.Cant.) ; Sidney Sussex Coll.Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 16 Sep 1635, aged 17 ; MP Grimsby 1659 ; knighted 2 Jun 1660 ; JP Lincolnshire 1657, High Sheriff 1665 ; m. 11 Sep 1645 Isabel, dau. of Sir John Bolles, Bart., Scampton, Lincs. ; d. 13 Aug 1668.