CABBELL, BENJAMIN BOND, fourth son of George Cabbell, Wigmore Street, Cavendish Square, apothecary, and Mary, dau. of Thomas Bliss, and niece of Rev.Nathaniel Bliss FRS, Astronomer Royal ; b. ; at school under Vincent (Steward, Anniversary Dinner, 1852) ; Oriel Coll.Oxford, matr. 19 Jun 1800 ; migr. to Exeter Coll. 25 Feb 1801, resided to 1803 ; adm.Middle Temple 4 Apr 1803, called to bar 9 Feb 1816, Bencher 13 Jun 1850, Reader Lent 1853 ; FRS 19 Jan 1837 ; MP (Cons) St.Albans Aug 1846-7, Boston 1847-57 ; of Cromer Hall, Norfolk ; DL JP Middlesex, JP Norfolk, High Sheriff 1854 ; Provincial Grand Master, Freemasons, Norfolk ; a well-known patron of art ; d. unm. 9 Dec 1874, aged 93. ODNB.
CACOT, JOHN ; b. ; adm. ; QS ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1592, adm.scholar 1593, matr. c.1593.
CADDAN, KAPPEL ; b. ; adm. (aged 8) May 1743 ; chorister ; left 1744. [note will James Caddan, St.James, Westminster, breeches maker, proved PCC 4 Dec 1758]
CADE, SALUSBURY, son of Philip Cade, Croom’s Hill, Greenwich, Kent, Paymaster, Band of Gentlemen Pensioners, and his first wife Catherine, dau. of Sir Charles Whitworth (qv) ; grandson of Salusbury Cade (qv) ; bapt.Greenwich, Kent 27 Mar 1767 (IGI) ; adm. 27 Jan 1777 ; KS (aged 11) 1779 ; Ensign, 10th Foot 9 May 1787 (still in Army List 1792, not 1793) ; d. in Jamaica [check]. [His father Philip Cade, son of Salusbury Cade (QS 1709, qv), and Elizabeth, dau. of Richard Perry, London, merchant, was a subscriber to Peirson Lloyd’s Sermons, 1765, and may perhaps have been an OW ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 12 Mar 1762, aged 17, Canoneer Student 28 Jun 1762 – 26 Nov 1765, resigned ; Paymaster, Band of Gentlemen Pensioners, from Jul 1765 ; of Greenwich, Kent ; m. 1st, 7 Feb 1766 Catherine (who he divorced in 1773 for adultery with Lord Aylmer), dau. of Sir Charles Whitworth (qv) ; m.2nd, Mar 1781, Elizabeth, dau. of Charles Petley (qv) ; d. Jan 1799]
CADE, SALUSBURY, son of Salusbury Cade MD FRCP, Greenwich, Kent, Physician to St.Bartholomew’s Hospital, and Christian Hodgkin ; bapt.Greenwich, Kent 2 Aug 1696 (IGI); adm. ; QS (aged 14) 1709 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1714, matr. 12 May 1715, Westminster Student 20 Dec 1714 – void 3 Jul 1728 ; BA 1718 ; MA 1721 ; Paymaster, Band of Gentlemen Pensioners 1 May 1735 – 12 Mar 1761, when appointment revoked ; m. Jan 1732/3 Elizabeth, dau. of Richard Perry, London, merchant ; d.1773 (will Salusbury Cade, East Greenwich, Kent, proved PCC 5 Jun 1773).
CADOGAN, HON.EDWARD, brother of Hon.William Bromley Cadogan (qv) ; b. 12 Dec 1758 ; adm. 1 Jul 1772 ; KS 1773 ; Lieut., 7th Foot, 24 Nov 1775 ; Capt., 49th Foot, 18 Jun 1778 ; d.unm. of fever at St.Lucia, West Indies 1779.
CADOGAN, HON.FREDERICK WILLIAM, youngest son of George Cadogan, 3rd Earl Cadogan CB, Admiral Royal Navy, and Louisa Honoria, dau. of Joseph Blake, Ardfry, co.Galway ; b. 16 Dec 1821 ; adm. 1 Feb 1836 ; Oriel Coll. Oxford, matr. 3 Dec 1840 ; adm. Inner Temple 11 Nov 1841, called to bar 11 Jun 1847 ; MP Cricklade (Liberal) 1868-74 ; DL JP Middlesex ; m. 29 Nov 1851 Lady Adelaide Paget, dau. of Henry William Paget, 1st Marquis of Anglesey (qv) ; d. 30 Nov 1904.
[CADOGAN, HON.HENRY, son of Charles Sloane Cadogan, 1st Earl Cadogan, and his second wife Mary, dau. of Charles Churchill (adm.1730, qv) ; half-brother of Hon.William Bromley Cadogan (qv) ; b. 26 Feb 1780 ; at Charterhouse Sch. 1788-90 ; at school under Vincent (no authority cited in Record, but see evidence by Thomas William Weare (qv) to Public Schools Commission, 21 Jun 1862, followed by Forshall, p.vi, note) ; Ensign, 18th Foot, 9 Aug 1797 ; Lieut., 1798 ; Capt., 60th Foot, 1799 ; Lieut. and Capt., 2nd Foot Guards, 9 Dec 1799 ; Maj., 53rd Foot, 8 Dec 1804 ; Lieut.-Col., 18th Foot, 22 Aug 1805 ; Lieut.-Col., 71st Foot, 7 Jan.1808 ; ADC to Sir Arthur Wellesley (Duke of Wellington) in early stages of Peninsular War ; commanded 71st Foot in Portugal and Spain 1810-3 ; killed at battle of Vittoria unm. 21 Jun 1813. ODNB] [ODNB records him as having been educated at Eton College, and the statement as to his Westminster School education by Weare is not conclusive]
CADOGAN, WILLIAM, 1ST EARL CADOGAN, eldest son of Henry Cadogan, Liscarton, co.Meath, barrister, and Bridget, dau. of Sir Hardress Waller, Kt MP (I), Castletown, co.Limerick, Major-General in the Parliamentary Army ; b. ; at school under Busby (Al.Dub.) ; Trinity Coll.Dublin, adm.pens. 28 Mar 1686/7, aged 15 ; said to have fought in William III’s army at the battle of the Boyne, Jul 1690 ; Capt., 19th Foot, 4 Mar 1694 ; Maj., 6th Dragoons, 1 Aug 1698 ; Brevet Col. of Foot, 1 Jun 1701 ; Quarter Master General of British Army in Flanders and Germany under Duke of Marlborough, 1 Jul 1701 – 22 Dec 1712 ; Col., 6th Horse (“Cadogan’s Horse”), 2 Mar 1703 – 20 Dec 1712 ; Brig.-Gen., 25 Aug 1704 ; Maj.-Gen., 1 Jan 1707 ; Lieut.-Gen., 1 Jan 1709 – Dec 1712 ; present at battles of Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenarde and Malplaquet ; dangerously wounded at siege of Mons, but returned to take part in siege of Douai and capture of Bouchain ; served as QMG under Duke of Ormonde in campaign of 1712, but subsequently retired to Netherlands, and, sharing Marlborough’s unpopularity, was ejected from all his offices and employments in Dec 1712 ; MP Woodstock 1705 – 16 Mar 1714, 24 Mar 1714- 21 Jun 1716 ; Special Envoy to Hanover and Vienna, 1706 ; Lieut. of the Tower of London, 2 Jan 1707 – 11 Jan 1712 ; Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to The Hague and Brussels, Nov 1707 – Jan 1711 ; reinstated as Lieut.-Gen. Aug 1714 on accession of George I ; Master of the Robes from 1 Aug 1714 (formal date of appointment 12 Oct 1714) ; Col., 2nd Foot Guards 15 Oct 1714 – Jun 1722 ; Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to The Hague, 22 Oct 1714 – Nov 1721 (with gaps) ; Governor of the Isle of Wight from 16 Sep 1715 ; served in Scotland during Jacobite rebellion of 1715-6, initially as second-in-command to Duke of Argyll, in chief command 15 Feb – 12 May 1716 ; KT 29 Jun 1716 ; cr.Baron Cadogan, 30 Jun 1716 ; signed treaty of defensive alliance between Great Britain, France and Holland as Ambassador Extraordinary at The Hague, 15 Sep 1716 ; PC 17 Mar 1717 ; General of all the Foot, 12 Jul 1717 ; cr. Earl Cadogan 7 Apr 1718 ; Commander-in-Chief of the Forces and Col. 1st Foot Guards from 18 Jun 1722 ; Master-Gen. of the Ordnance, 30 Jun 1722 – Jun 1725 ; a Lord Justice of Great Britain during George I’s absence in Hannover 3 Jun – 28 Dec 1723 ; as a diplomat Cadogan was somewhat rough and rash, but as a soldier he must be ranked as one of the ablest staff officers the British Army has produced ; m. 1704 [check] Margaretha Cecilia, dau. of Jan Munter, Heer van Zanen en Raaphorst, Counsellor of the Court of Holland ; d. 17 Jul 1726 ; buried in Duke of Ormonde’s vault in Henry VII’s Chapel, Westminster Abbey. ODNB.
CADOGAN, HON.WILLIAM BROMLEY, second son of Charles Sloane Cadogan, 1st Earl Cadogan, and his first wife Hon.Frances Bromley, dau. of Henry Bromley, 1st Baron Montfort ; great-nephew of William Cadogan, 1st Earl Cadogan (qv) ; b. 22 Jan 1750/1 ; adm. 7 Jul 1757 ; KS 1763 ; Capt. of the School 1768 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1769, matr. 24 May 1769, Westminster Student 23 Dec 1769 – res. 11 Dec 1775 (year of grace for St.Giles’s, Reading, from 30 Jan 1775) ; BA 1773 ; MA 1776 ; ordained deacon 29 May 1774 (Oxford), priest 24 Jan 1775 (Chester) ; Domestic Chaplain to Charles, Baron Cadogan 30 Aug 1774 ; Vicar of St.Giles’s, Reading, Berks., from 27 Jan 1775 ; Vicar of St.Luke’s, Chelsea, from 27 May 1775 ; an earnest man of extreme Calvinist opinions ; m. 4 Dec 1782 Jane, widow of Capt.— Bradshaw, 78th Foot, Private Secretary and Aide-de-Camp to Major-Gen. Hon. John Vaughan MP, Commander in Chief, Leeward Islands, and dau. of Thomas Graham, Ballagan, Stirlingshire ; d. 18 Jan 1797. ODNB.
CADWELL, see also CALDWELL.
CADWELL, — ; b. ; in school lists 1656.
CAESAR, JULIUS, second son of Charles Adelmare Caesar MP, Bennington Place, Herts., and Mary, second dau. of Ralph Freman MP, Aspenden Hall, Herts. ; b. ; adm. (aged 14) Jun 1718 ; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, matr. Jul 1722, adm.scholar 13 Jan 1723/4 ; perhaps Julius Caesar, lit., ordained deacon 25 Sep 1726 (Rochester), to curacy of Hayes, Kent ; Ensign, 2nd Foot Guards, 18 Jan 1730/1 ; Lieut. and Capt., 24 May 1739 ; Capt.-Lieut., 27 May 1745 ; Capt. and Lieut.-Col., 17 Sep 1746 ; Second Maj., 12 May 1753 ; First Maj., 25 Dec 1755 ; Lieut.-Col., 12 Apr 1762 ; Brevet Col., 12 May 1753 ; Maj.-Gen., 24 Jun 1759 ; wounded at battle of Fontenoy 11 May 1745 ; d. unm. in Germany 7 Aug 1762, from the effects of a fall from his horse.
CAGE, — ; b. ; adm. ; a pensioner in 1613 (tutor, Mr.Dawson) (Chapter Muniments 33667).
CAGE, ROBERT, brother of Thomas Cage (qv) ; bapt.Bearsted, Kent 1 Feb 1639 (IGI); adm. ; KS ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1657, adm.pens. 30 May 1657, scholar 1658 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 17 Nov 1659, called to bar 13 Nov 1666 ; fined for not discharging duty as Reader, Nov 1677 ; m.19 Apr 1666 (IGI) his cousin Eleanor, dau. of John Cage, Maidstone, Kent ; d. 23 Dec 1701.
CAGE, THOMAS, elder son of William Cage, Milgate, Bearsted, Kent, and his second wife Joan, dau. of Sir Thomas Culpepper, Kt ; b. ; adm. ; a boarder ; left 19 Dec 1656 (school lists, 1656) ; Oriel Coll.Oxford, matr. 29 Oct 1657.
CAIGER, FREDERICK FOORD, only son of Frederick Henry Caiger FRIBA, St.Mark’s Road, North Kensington, London, architect, and Emma Elizabeth, third dau. of Lancelot Lipscomb, Winchester, Hampshire, solicitor ; b. 14 Dec 1860 ; adm. 27 Jan 1873 (H) ; left Dec 1877 ; St.Thomas’s Hospital ; MB BS London, and Gold Medal in Surgery 1883 ; MD 1886 ; MRCS 1882 ; LRCP 1883 ; MRCP 1891 ; FRCP 1900 ; DPH (Camb.) 1888 ; medical superintendent, South Western Fever Hospital, Stockwell, 1890-1926 ; Chief Medical Officer, Infectious Hospitals Service, Metropolitan Asylums Board, 1921-6 ; Physician Emeritus, St.Thomas’s Hospital, 1922 ; m. 9 Jan 1895 Madeline Orr, nurse, youngest dau. of Alexander Orr, Melbourne, Australia, merchant ; d. 5 Sep 1929.
CALAMY, — ; b. ; in under school lists 1715, 1716.
CALAMY, EDMUND, eldest son of Rev.Edmund Calamy DD, Presbyterian minister and biographical historian of nonconformity, and his first wife Mary, dau. of Michael Watts, cloth merchant and haberdasher ; b.17 Aug 1698 ; at school under Knipe and Freind (E.Calamy, Historical Account of my own Life, 1829, ii, 144-5) ; Edinburgh Univ., matr.1714 ; MA 1717 ; Leiden Univ., adm. 29 Sep 1717 ; BD Aberdeen 16 Feb 1738 ; assisted his father as Presbyterian minister, Tothill Street, Westminster ; assistant to Rev.Benjamin Grosvenor DD, Crosby Square, 1726-49 ; a member of the Presbyterian Board 1739-48 ; Trustee, Dr.Williams’s foundations, from 1740 ; m. 11 Mar 1739/40 Bethia, sister of Elisha Biscoe (qv) ; d. 13 Jun 1755. ODNB.
CALCRAFT, HENRY FOX, illegitimate son of John Calcraft MP, army contractor, and George Anne Bellamy, actress, illegitimate dau. of James O’Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawley (I), Field Marshal in the Army ; b. (presumably Henry Calcraft, son of John Calcraft, bapt.Keston, Kent 4 Nov 1756) ; adm. ; at school under Markham (An Apology for the Life of George Anne Bellamy, 1785, iv, 187, and Hickey, Memoirs, iii, 204); 2nd Lieut., 21st Foot, 10 Dec 1776 – 31 May 1777 ; Cadet, EICS Bengal 1778 ; Ensign 1778 ; Lieut., 10 Oct 1778 ; Capt., 7 Jan 1796 ; Maj., 1st European Regt., 29 May 1800 ; Lieut.-Col., 2nd Native Infantry, 13 Jul 1803 ; Col., 1 Jan 1812 ; Col., 29th Native Infantry, 16 Dec 1814 ; Maj.-Gen., 4 Jun 1814 ; Lieut.-Gen., 22 Jul 1830 ; Judge Advocate General, Bengal 7 Nov 1793 – 26 Jun 1813 ; Fort Maj., Fort William, Calcutta, 1798 – 1 May 1813 ; m. 19 Feb 1795 Marianne Elizabeth, only dau. of Capt.James Bremer, Royal Navy ; d. 3 Apr 1834.
CALDECOT, PHILIP ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Mar 1718/9 ; in under school list 1720. [will of Philip Caldecot, Lincoln’s Inn, proved PCC 12 May 1738] [note Philip Caldecot, son of Charles Caldecot, Holton Beckering, Lincs., and Elizabeth, dau. of Humphrey Browne, Lincoln ; b. 5 Jun 1707 (IGI)] [presumably Philip Caldecott, Berkeway, Lincs., adm. Lincoln’s Inn 21 Feb 1723/4]
CALDERWOOD, WILLIAM, elder son of Thomas Calderwood, Polton, Midlothian, and Margaret, eldest dau. of Sir James Steuart, Bart., MP, Solicitor-General for Scotland ; b. 1745 ; adm. ; “sent to Westminster School after the return of his family from the continent [in 1757]” (Coltness Collections, 1842, 402) (and therefore at school under Markham) ; Sub-Brigadier and Cornet, 1stTroop, Horse Guards 15 Apr 1761 ; Brigadier and Lieut., 21 Nov 1763 ; ; Exempt and Capt., 6 Apr 1770 ; Guidon and Maj., 15 Aug 1778 ; Second Lieut. and Lieut.-Col. 24 Mar 1781 ; of Polton House, Midlothian, and Linhouse, Midlothian ; FRS 6 Jun 1776 ; m. 22 Feb 1780 Anne, widow of George Oliphant Kinloch, of Kinloch, and dau. of John Balneaves, Carnbadie, Aberdeenshire, Col. in Dutch service ; d. at Lausanne, Switzerland 2 Jul 1787.
CALDICOTT, JOHN, probably son of Rev.Jonah Caldicott, Minor Canon, Westminster Abbey ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1675 ; buried in the Cloisters, Westminster Abbey 26 Jun 1675.
CALDWELL, THOMAS, son of Thomas Caldwell, Wandsworth, Surrey ; b. ; at school under Osbaldeston six years ; Min.Can. (aged 13) 1629 ; KS 1630 (Bodleian Library, Tanner MSS, lxix, f.137, 224) ; St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 19 May 1634, aged 17, matr. Easter 1634 ; migr. to Magdalen Hall, Oxford ; BA 6 Mar 1640/1.
CALFHILL (or CALFIELD), JOHN, son of Ven.James Calfhill DD, Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, and Archdeacon of Colchester, and Margaret — ; bapt.Bocking, Essex 28 Sep 1567 (IGI); adm. ; Min.Can. 1580 (aged 13) ; QS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1585, matr. 23 Apr 1586, aged 18 (as Calfield), Westminster Student to 1599 ; BA 1589 ; MA 1592 ; ordained ; ; Chaplain to Dr Tobias Matthew, Bishop of Durham ; Rector of Wold Newton, Lincs., 14 Mar 1597 (no longer Jul 1615) ; Rector of Redmarshall, co.Durham, from 13 Jul 1599 ; Prebendary of Durham from Aug 1603 ; m. 2 Oct 1603 Elizabeth Nauton ; buried Redmarshall, co.Durham 6 Aug 1619.
CALLAND, AUGUSTUS, brother of Charles Calland (qv) ; b. 23 Apr 1773 ; adm. 12 Jan 1784 ; of Goring, Sussex ; m. Jul 1808 Mary Amelia, dau. of Edward Hunt, Ewell, Surrey ; d. 15 Dec 1811, aged 38.
CALLAND, CHARLES, son of John Calland, Alverstoke, Hants., and Sloane Street, Chelsea, previously Senior Merchant, EICS Madras, and Elizabeth, widow of James Wilson and previously of John Des Voeux, and eldest dau. of Capt.John De Morgan, EICS Madras, Governor of Fort St.George ; b. 12 Nov 1771 ; adm. 12 Jan 1784 ; in school list 1788 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 3 Apr 1788, aged 16 ; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 21 Mar 1789 ; of Upper Forest, nr.Swansea, Glamorgan ; Capt, Royal Glamorgan Militia 19 Jul 1803 (still Army List 1808) ; readmitted as an attorney in 1818, not having been in practice for fifteen years ; in practice at New Square, Lincoln’s Inn (Law List, 1822) ; m. 1807 Catherine, dau. of Thomas Forbes, Clifton, Somerset ; d. 31 Jan 1837.
CALLAND, GEORGE, brother of Charles Calland (qv) ; b. 23 Apr 1772 ; adm. 12 Jan 1784 ; Min.Can.1787 (aged 15) ; in school list 1788 ; Cornet, 2nd Life Guards, 2 Aug 1789 ; Sub-Lieut., 18 Nov 1790 ; Lieut., 12 Jan 1791 ; Capt., 13 Dec 1792 ; Brevet Maj., 1 Jan 1800 ; retd. 1805 ; [presumably Capt., Yorkshire West Riding Militia 20 Dec 1807] ; d. Jun 1820.
CALLEY, WILLIAM, son of Oliver Calley, Burderop, Wilts., and Isabella, dau. of Robert Codrington, Codrington, Gloucs. ; b. 24 Feb 1708/9 ; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1719/20 ; in under school list 1722 ; Magdalen Coll.Oxford, matr. 26 Apr 1726 ; of Burderop Park, Chiseldon, Wilts. ; m. 30 Oct 1743 Arabella, dau. of Thomas Browne, Minety, Gloucs. ; d. 17 Jan 1768.
CALLEY, WILLIAM, son of Wiliam Calley (qv) ; b. 24 Feb 1746/7 ; adm. ; KS (aged 13) 1760 ; left 1760 ; Oriel Coll.Oxford, matr. 18 Jan 1765 ; d. unm. 30 May 1775.
CALMEL (or CALMELL), PETER, son of Charles Calmel (or Calmell), St.James’s, Westminster [successively Groom, Yeoman, and Gentleman of the Ewry, Royal Household ?] ; b. ; adm. (aged 9) May 1731 ; left 1733 ; evidently the protagonist in a ghost story told by Lord Brougham in which a Mr.Calmel, an intimate friend of Brougham’s father, accepted a wager to drive a nail into the coffin of Mrs Nightingale on the night of her burial in Westminster Abbey in August 1734 ; apprenticed to Joseph Biscoe, Inner Temple 29 Dec 1737 ; Deputy Commissary of Musters, Army Aug 1746 (still Chamberlayne 1748) ; Clerk of the Proclamations in Custos Brevium Office, Court of Common Pleas (Chamberlayne 1755) ; resident Park Place, Westminster, from 1750 ; m. 26 Feb 1756 Mary, widow of Capt.Matthew Floyer, 40th Foot, and only dau. of John Wightwick, Farewell, Staffs. ; buried St.Martin’s in the Fields 30 Mar 1790. [mother presumably Jane Crohare]
CALVERLEY (or CALVERLYE), EDMUND ; b. ; adm. ; Min.Can. 1576 (as Calverlye) ; QS ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1580, adm.scholar 1581, matr. Lent 1580/1 ; BA 1584/5 ; MA 1588. [Perhaps adm. Grays Inn 16 Oct 1587]
CALVERLEY, WALTER, see CALVERLEY-BLACKETT, SIR WALTER, BART.
CALVERLEY-BLACKETT, SIR WALTER, BART., only son of Sir Walter Calverley, Bart., and Julia, eldest dau. of Sir William Blackett, Bart., MP, Wallington Hall, Northumberland ; b. 18 Dec 1707 ; adm. Oct 1717 ; in under school list 1720 ; Balliol Coll.Oxford, matr. 28 Feb 1723/4 ; assumed additional surname of Blackett on his marriage in 1729 ; his marriage brought him the Wallington estate, together with the business and coal trade interests of the Blackett family ; Alderman, Newcastle upon Tyne, from 1729, Mayor 1735, 1748, 1756, 1764, 1771 ; High Sheriff of Northumberland 1731 ; MP Newcastle upon Tyne from 1734 ; succ. father as 2nd baronet 15 Oct 1749 ; m. 29 Sep 1729 Elizabeth Orde, illegitimate dau. of Sir William Blackett, Bart., MP (his uncle), Wallington Hall, Northumberland ; d. 14 Feb 1777.
CALVERT, — ; b. ; in under school lists 1715, 1716.
CALVERT, HON.BENEDICT LEONARD, second son of Benedict Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore (I), and Lady Charlotte Lee, eldest dau. of Edward Lee, 1st Earl of Lichfield ; b. 21 Sep 1700 ; at school under Freind, having previously been at St.Omer (Hearne, Remarks and Collections, vi, 96) ; converted from Roman Catholicism by Philip Bisse, Bishop of Hereford, and the Head Master ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 3 Jul 1716, residing to Apr 1720 ; adm.Inner Temple 29 May 1719 ; travelled in Italy and France to 1726 ; Governor of Maryland 1727-32 ; FRS 25 Mar 1731 ; when at Oxford, the “dear excellent friend” of the antiquary Thomas Hearne, and himself much interested in antiquarian pursuits ; d. unm. on his passage home from America 1 Jun 1732. ODNB.
CALVERT, EDWARD, brother of Peter Calvert (qv) ; b. 20 Mar 1709 ; adm. Sep 1720 ; in under school list 1722 ; buried Albury, Herts., 1 Aug 1727.
CALVERT, GEORGE, brother of Peter Calvert (qv) ; b. ; adm. (aged 9) Jun 1724 ; left 1727 ; apprenticed to James Field, Odiham, Hampshire, attorney, 14 Jul 1731 ; adm.attorney, Common Pleas, 14 Jul 1736 ; buried Albury, Herts., 8 Sep 1740.
CALVERT, JOHN, brother of Peter Calvert (qv) ; bapt.Hunsdon, Herts., 5 Jun 1711 (IGI); adm. (aged 10) Sep 1720 ; in under school list 1721 ; Emmanuel Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 12 May 1727 ; BA 1730/1 ; MA 1734 ; ordained [check] ; d. 22 Sep 1739.
CALVERT, PETER, son of Felix Calvert MP, Albury Hall, Herts., and Marsham, Berks., brewer, and Mary, youngest dau. of Sir Francis Winnington, Kt MP, Solicitor-General ; b. ; adm. (aged 13) Sep 1720 ; of Red Lion Square, London ; m. 5 Sep 1745 (IGI) Anne Nicholas ; d. 28 May 1782.
CALVERT, RICHARD, brother of Peter Calvert (qv) ; b. 30 Jul 1713 ; adm. Sep 1720 ; in under school list 1722 ; d. 1 Nov 1722.
CALVERT, WILLIAM, third son of William Calvert, Greta Bank, Keswick, Cumberland, landowner, and Mary, dau. of John Mitchinson, Carlisle, Cumberland ; b. 15 Jan 1810 ; adm. 1 Oct 1824 ; left 1825 ; MRCS 1832 ; Assistant Surgeon, EICS Bombay 24 Oct 1832 ; d. Ahmednagar, Bombay 9 Aug 1841.
CALYCE, — ; b. ; adm. ; QS 1553-4.
CAMERON, DONALD, son of Charles Cameron of Lochiel, Capt.30th Foot, and Martha, dau. of Robert Marshall, Quartermaster 30th Foot ; b. Gibraltar 22 Oct 1769; adm. 5 Feb 1783 ; left Christmas 1786 (letter dated 22 May 1787, Cameron of Fassifern MSS, National Library of Scotland) ; of Lochiel (estates restored to him by Act of Parliament 1784) ; m. 21 Apr 1795 Anne, dau. of Lieut.-Gen. Sir Ralph Abercromby, Bart., KB PC(I) MP ; d. at Toulouse, France 14 Sep 1832.
CAMERON, PHILLIPS, eldest son of Lieut-Gen.Sir Alan Cameron KCB, Col.79th Foot, and Ann, dau. of Nathaniel Phillips, Jamaica, and Slebech, Pembrokeshire ; b. 29 Oct 1782 ; adm. 3 Feb 1795 (Smedley) ; in school list 1795 ; Capt., 79th Foot 6 Jun 1794 ; Maj., 3 Sep 1801 ; Lieut.-Col., 19 Apr 1804 ; served in West Indies and in Peninsular War ; severely wounded at battle of Fuentes d’Onoro 5 May 1811 ; mentioned by Sir Walter Scott in his Vision of Don Roderick ; m. 31 Jan 1803 Catherine Leaper ; d. of his wounds at Villa Formosa, Spain 13 May 1811.
CAMM, REGINALD PERCY JOHN (afterwards CAMM, REGINALD BEDE), eldest son of Rev.John Brooke Maher Camm, Rector of Monkton Wyld, Dorset, and formerly Cornet, 12th Lancers, and Caroline, dau. of Richard Edward Arden, Sunbury Park, Middlesex, barrister ; b. 26 Dec 1864 ; adm. (H) 26 Jan 1881 ; left Aug 1883 ; Keble Coll.Oxford, matr.16 Oct 1883; BA 1887 ; MA Cambridge (from Christ’s Coll.) 1920 ; ordained deacon 1888 (Rochester) ; Curate, St.Agnes, Kennington, Surrey 1888-90 ; received into Roman Catholic church 1890 ; clothed with Benedictine habit at Maredsous, Belgium, 1890, and professed 1891 ; St.Anselm’s Coll., Rome ; ordained 1895 ; stationed at Erdington, Warwicks., 1895-1912 ; novice master, Caldey Abbey 1913 ; affiliated to St.Gregory’s Abbey, Downside, 1913 ; Chaplain to Forces (4th class) 1915-9, serving in Egypt ; Master of Downside House of Studies, Cambridge, 1919-31 ; FSA 1 Jun 1922 ; author, The Lives of the Blessed English Martyrs, 1904-5, and other works ; d. unm. 8 Sep 1942.
[CAMPBELL, — ; b. ; in school lists 1733, 1734. Presumably Alexander Campbell (qv)]
CAMPBELL, — ; b. ; in school list 1754.
CAMPBELL, — ; b. ; at school for a short time in 1789.
CAMPBELL, — ; b. ; in school list 1801.
CAMPBELL, ALEXANDER ; b. ; adm. (aged 13) Sep 1731 ; presumably in school list Jan 1732/3, Aug 1733 (surname given only, both times in third form).
CAMPBELL, ALEXANDER, only son of Colin Campbell, The Copse Estate, Hanover, Jamaica, West Indies ; b. c.1771 ; adm. 16 Feb 1784 ; in school list 1786 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 30 Dec 1788, called to bar 14 May 1794 ; in Paris at outbreak of French Revolution, and assisted refugees to escape to England ; resident in Jamaica 1795-1832 ; proprietor of Copse estate ; assistant judge, Hanover, Jamaica, 1804-32 ; Col., Hanover Militia ; returned to England and settled at Tunbridge Wells ; d. 11 Feb 1858.
CAMPBELL, ARCHIBALD JAMES, only son of Maj.-Gen.Archibald Campbell CB, Inverneill, Argyllshire, Lieut.-Gov. Jersey, and Martha Elizabeth, sister of Alexander Higginson (qv) ; b. 29 Jan 1819 ; adm. 14 Sep 1829 ; Ensign, 23rd Foot, 28 Apr 1837 ; Lieut., Royal Canadian Rifle Regt., 3 Aug 1841 ; Capt., 31 Dec 1844 ; 2nd Foot, 27 Mar 1846 ; 44th Foot, 11 Jun 1847 ; retd. 10 Dec 1847 ; latterly living at Wilton Terrace, Belgrave Square, Westminster ; m. 15 Feb 1849 Eleanor Anne, only surviving dau. of Abel Ram (qv) ; d. 8 Mar 1883.
CAMPBELL, CHARLES ; b. ; adm. 13 Jun 1774.
CAMPBELL, CHARLES ; b. ; adm. 4 Mar 1776. [Doubtless brother of, or close kin to, Donald Campbell, adm.same day]
CAMPBELL, HON.COLIN, only son of John Campbell, 1st Earl of Breadalbane and Holland (S), and his second wife Lady Mary Campbell, widow of George Sinclair, 6th Earl of Caithness (S), and third dau. of Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquis of Argyll (S) ; b. ; adm. 10 Sep 1690 ; three of his mother’s letters about his progress at school are printed in The Elizabethan, viii, pp 99-100, 107-8 ; of Armaddie, Argyllshire ; d. 31 Mar 1708, in his 29th year.
CAMPBELL, HON.COLIN, brother of John Campbell, 1st Marquis of Breadalbane (qv) ; b. 12 Dec 1763 ; adm. 3 Apr 1771 ; left 1778 ; Capt., 99th Foot, latterly half-pay ; of Carwhin, Perthshire ; contested Perth Burghs 1790 ; d. unm. 27 Jun 1792.
CAMPBELL, COLIN, only son of Rev.Thomas Campbell, Vicar of Brothertoft, Lincs., and Matilda, dau. of Robert Cattley, Brandsby, Yorks. ; b. 15 Jun 1862 ; adm. (G) 23 Sep 1875 ; left May 1880 ; farmer and grazier at Stapleford, Lincs. ; founder and first President, National Farmers Union, 1909-18 ; Alderman, Kesteven County Council ; JP (1912) Kesteven ; m. 24 Aug 1892 Frances Ellen, dau. of George Jackson, Seamer, Yorks ; d. 23 Jun 1932.
CAMPBELL, DONALD ; b. ; adm. 4 Mar 1776. [Doubtless brother of, or close kin to, Charles Campbell, adm.same day]
CAMPBELL, DUNCAN, son of John Campbell, Falmouth, Jamaica ; b. ; adm. 30 Sep 1814 ; left 1820 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 20 May 1820, matr. Mich.1820 ; BA 1824 ; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 7 Jun 1822, called to bar 1827 ; will proved PCC 10 Dec 1828.
CAMPBELL, F. ; b. ; in school list 1795. [perhaps “Major F.B.Campbell”, a subscriber to Smedley’s Erin ; this was Francis Brown Campbell, younger brother of John Bassett Campbell (qv) ; b. 15 Aug 1781 ; Ensign, 71st Foot 28 Aug 1794 ; Lieut., 58th Foot 30 Dec 1795 ; Capt., 3 Sep 1801 ; Maj., 29 Mar 1810 ; brevet Lieut.-Col., 26 Aug 1813 ; served in Peninsular War ; distinguished himself at battle of Orthes and severely wounded in Pyrenees 2 Aug 1813 ; d. in Jersey 1827]
CAMPBELL, LORD FREDERICK, third son of John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll (S) KT, Gen. in the Army, and Hon.Mary Bellenden, Maid of Honour to Caroline, Princess of Wales, third dau. of John Bellenden, 2nd Baron Bellenden (S) ; b. 20 Jun 1729 ; adm. (aged 13) Feb 1742/3 ; left 1746 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 31 May 1747 ; BCL 1753 ; adm.Middle Temple 19 Jan 1750/1, called to bar 24 Jan 1754, Bencher 1789, Lent Reader 1796, Treasurer 1803 ; MP Glasgow Burghs 1761-80, Argyllshire 1780 – Oct 1799 ; Privy Councillor 29 May 1765 ; Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal (S), 8 Jun 1765 ; Chief Secretary to Lord Lieut.Ireland (Viscount Townshend), Aug 1767 – Dec 1768 ; Privy Councillor (I) 14 Aug 1767 ; MP (I) Thomastown 1767-8, St.Canice 1768-76 ; Lord Clerk Register (S) from Nov 1768 ; member, Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Foreign Plantations, 23 Aug 1786 ; Vice-Treasurer of Ireland, 20 Jul 1787-93 ; member, Board of Control, 20 Mar 1790 – Jun 1793 ; LLD St Andrews Univ 13 Sep 1779 ; FSA 15 Nov 1792 ; FRS 7 Nov 1793 ; m. 28 Mar 1769 Mary, widow of Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers (qv), and sister of Sir William Meredith, Bart. (qv) ; d. 8 Jun 1816. ODNB.
CAMPBELL, HENRY ; b. ; adm. 15 Jan 1787. [Probably Henry Campbell, son of Henry Campbell, St.Marylebone, Middlesex, and Mary Ann — (but in fact natural son of Henry Temple, 2nd Viscount Palmerston (I) FRS MP); b. 2 Oct 1774 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 17 Oct 1792, aged 18 ; BA 1796 ; MA 1801 ; ordained deacon 12 Mar 1797, priest 23 Dec 1798 (both Winchester) ; Curate, Exbury, Hampshire 1797 ; in 1801 “on his way to Antigua to take a living of one thousand a year” (St.John’s, Antigua) (Curry, ed., New Letters of Robert Southey, i, 47, note), but returned to England in 1802 on inheritance of £10,000 from his father ; subsequently Curate, Bicton, Shropshire ; Curate of Nailsworth, Gloucs. ; Minister of St.John’s Chapel, Uxbridge, Middlesex ; of Cowley, Middlesex (at death) ; m. 21 May 1805 Anne, third dau. of Thomas Rose, Chipping Wycombe, Bucks. ; d.11 Feb 1846, aged 71] [perhaps Perpetual Curate of St.Chad, Shrewsbury 20 Jul 1807 – Jun 1817, described as MA]
CAMPBELL, J. ; b. ; in school lists May and Oct 1803 (also name up school 1803).
CAMPBELL, JOHN, 1ST MARQUIS OF BREADALBANE, eldest son of Colin Campbell, Carwhin, Perthshire, and Elizabeth, dau. of Archibald Campbell, Stonefield, Argyllshire, advocate ; b. 30 Mar 1762 ; adm. 3 Apr 1771 ; his private tutor, Rev.Dr.George Campbell, the father of Lord Chancellor Campbell, “accompanied him to Westminster School, and lived several years with him in a house in Smith Street, Westminster” (Life of John, Lord Campbell, 1881, i, 5) ; Grand Tour (Italy) 1782-3 ; succeeded his cousin as 4th Earl of Breadalbane (S) 26 Jan 1782 ; a Scottish Representative Peer 1784-1806 ; FRS 19 Feb 1784 ; raised a number of men at the beginning of the war with France ; Col, Breadalbane Regt. Fencible Infantry 1 Mar 1793 ; Ensign, Independent Co.Foot, 10 Jan 1795 ; Lieut., 24 Jan 1795 ; Capt., 116th Foot, 27 Jan 1795 ; Maj., 78th Foot, Apr 1795 ; Lieut.-Col. in the Army, and Col., 3rd bn., Breadalbane Regt.Fencibles, 17 Apr 1795 ; Col. in the Army 29 Apr 1802 ; Maj.-Gen., 25 Oct 1809 ; Lieut.-Gen., 4 Jun 1814 ; created Baron Breadalbane (UK) 13 Nov 1806, and Marquis of Breadalbane (UK) 12 Sep 1831 ; m. 3 Sep 1793 Mary Turner, eldest dau. of David Gavin, Langton, Berwickshire ; d. 29 Mar 1834.
CAMPBELL, JOHN ALEXANDER LANGFORD, son of Charles Louis Campbell, Mark Lane, London, sherry shipper, and Mary Ann, dau. of John Nunn, Garstang, Lancs. ; b. 22 Aug 1867 ; adm. 22 Sep 1882 (R) ; left Dec 1883 ; Westminster Hospital ; MRCS, LRCP 1892 ; MD (Brussels) 1893 ; Surgeon-Cdr., Royal Navy, 14 Nov 1908 ; retd. with rank Surgeon-Capt., 1 Jan 1921 ; OBE 22 Aug 1919 ; m. 12 Sep 1916 Constance Mary, dau. of Frederick Stephen Palmer MD FRCP, Wimpole Street, St.Marylebone ; d. 16 Feb 1952.
CAMPBELL, JOHN BASSETT, eldest son of John Campbell, Marsham Street, Westminster, and Chichester, Sussex, and Sarah — (IGI) ; bapt. St.Peter, Chichester 9 Nov 1776 ; adm. 11 Jul 1788 ; KS (Capt.) 1794 ; Capt. of the School 1797 ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1798, adm.pens. 29 Jun 1798, aged 19, scholar 12 Apr 1799, matr. Mich.1800 ; BA 1802 ; MA 1805 ; adm. Middle Temple 12 Mar 1791 ; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll., 1803, Major Fellow 1805, Senior Fellow from 1826 ; an Usher at the School 1804- Christmas 1818 ; resident Usher up Best’s ; ordained deacon 3 Jun 1811, priest 27 Jun 1812 (both Bristol) ; d.unm. 18 Nov 1853. [father perhaps Col., Royal Engineers] [maybe John Basset Campbell, Ensign, 40th Foot 24 Jun 1783, half-pay – 13 Nov 1827, “when allowed to dispose of [his] half-pay”]
CAMPBELL, JOHN LIVINGTON, son of Patrick Campbell, Adam Street, Adelphi, London, and Achalader, Auchlyne, Perthshire, army agent, and Anne, dau. of Patrick Livington, Middfield, Edinburgh ; bapt.St.Martin in the Fields, London 15 Jun 1782 (IGI) ; at school 1793 ; in school list 1795 ; Ensign, Breadalbane Regt. of Fencibles 1796 ; 2nd Foot Guards 6 Jun 1799; Lieut. and Capt. (in Army) 9 May 1800 ; half-pay 25 Dec 1802 ; Lieut. and Capt., 2nd Foot Guards 30 Jan 1803 ; Capt., 21st Foot 1 Dec 1804 ; retd 1810 ; of Achalader, Auchclyne, Perthshire (estate inherited from father 1811) ; served in Egypt ; m. 1 Oct 1814 Ann, dau. of Roderick MacNeill, Barra, Inverness-shire; d. 16 Aug 1820.
CAMPBELL, THOMAS, son of Colin Campbell, St.James’s, Westminster, “arm.” ; b. ; adm. (aged 11) Jun 1736 ; left 1742 ; Worcester Coll.Oxford, matr. 15 Oct 1742.
CAMPBELL-JOHNSTONE, JOHN, son of David Graham Campbell-Johnstone, South Street, Park Lane, London, Clerk of the Patents, and Elisabeth, dau. of Pearson Thompson, Hatherley Court, Cheltenham, Gloucs., solicitor ; b. 21 Oct 1854 ; adm. 22 Jan 1869 ; left Mar 1873 ; chairman, Campbell-Johnstone & Co., Phoenix Brewery, Notting Hill, London ; m. 26 Jul 1886 Belinda Anne, dau. of Col.Augustus Russell, Indian Army (previously EICS Madras), Sussex Square, Brighton, Sussex ; d. 15 Jun 1940.
CAMPION, EDWARD, son of Edward Campion, Witham, Essex, and St.James, Clerkenwell, and Barbara, dau. of Thomas Chowne, Place House, Alfriston, Sussex ; b. ; adm. ; KS (aged 14) 1648 ; contributed Latin verses on death of Lord Hastings to Lachrymae Musarum, 1649, 95-6 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1651, matr. 10 May 1651, Westminster Student ; BA 24 Feb 1654/5 ; buried St.James, Clerkenwell 26 Sep 1656, unm.
CAMPION, HENRY, brother of Peter Campion (qv) ; bapt. Hurstpierpoint, Sussex 26 [or 25] Jul 1711 (IGI) ; adm. (aged 10) Sep 1721 ; apprenticed to Abraham Crop, London, merchant, 11 Jan 1727/8.
CAMPION, HENRY COURTHOPE, eldest son of William Campion (qv) ; bapt. 25 Jun 1734 ; adm. (aged 13) Jun 1747 ; left 1751 ; Corpus Christi Coll.Oxford, matr. 24 Oct 1751 ; of Danny Place, Sussex ; m. 11 Aug 1768 Henrietta, eldest dau. of Sir John Heathcote, Bart., MP ; d. 27 Jul 1811.
CAMPION, PETER, third son of Henry Campion, Combwell Manor, Goudhurst, Kent, and Barbara, dau. and heiress of Peter Courthope FRS, Danny Place, Sussex ; bapt. Hurstpierpoint, Sussex 3 Oct 1706 ; adm. (aged 14) Oct 1720 ; in under school list 1722 ; d. 8 May 1723.
CAMPION, WILLIAM, brother of Peter Campion (qv) ; b. 21 Dec 1707 ; adm. Oct 1720 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.fellow commoner 29 Nov 1724, matr. 1725 ; of Danny Place, Sussex, and Combwell Manor, Goudhurst, Kent ; m. 1 Jun 1727 (IGI) Elizabeth, sister of John Parthericke (qv); d. 1 Aug 1778.
CANDLER, see CHANDLER.
CANE, — ; b. ; adm. 15 Sep 1766 ; left Dec 1770.
CANE, WILLIAM, eldest son of James Cane, Dublin city ; b. 8 Jul 1742 ; adm. ; KS (aged 13) 1756 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1760, adm.pens. 5 Jun 1760, fellow commoner 28 Dec 1760, matr. Easter 1760 ; adm.Middle Temple 13 Oct 1757 ; of Erith, Kent ; fled to France from his creditors in Aug 1777 and took up residence at Tours ; m. 3 Jun 1771 Henrietta Dorothea, dau. of Henry Johnson, Great Berkhamsted, Herts. ; d. Tours 30 Apr 1818.
CANHAM, — ; b. ; in under school list 1724.
CANHAM, SPARKE, son of Rev.Paul Canham, one of the Brethren of St.Katherine’s Hospital, London, and Isabella, youngest dau. of Gabriel Sparke, one of Brethren of St.Katherine’s Hospital ; b. ; adm. (aged 11) Jul 1724 ; in school list 1729 ; at the School for six years, having previously been at St.Paul’s Sch. three months ; Gonville and Caius Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 30 May 1730, scholar Mich 1730 – Lady Day 1734, matr.1731 ; BA 1733/4 ; MA 1737 ; ordained deacon 20 Jun 1736, to curacy of St.Margaret Pattens, London, priest 24 Dec 1738 (both London) ; Curate, St.Dunstan’s in the East, London, by 1751 (still 1754) ; Domestic Chaplain to Earl of Plymouth 22 Mar 1743/4 (still 1751) ; m. 1st, 19 Jul 1755 Sarah Parker, St.Botolph’s, Bishopsgate, London ; m. 2nd, 11 Sep 1764 Mary Parry, Petersham, Surrey ; buried Petersham 11 Jun 1777. [perhaps “Issacke” Canham, bapt. St.Katherine by the Tower 23 Jul 1713, son of Paul and Isabella]
CANN, — ; b. ; in under school lists 1726-8, school lists 1729 and 1731. [Two Canns in third form, school list Feb 1727/8]
CANN, EDGAR ROBERT, see EDGAR, ROBERT CANN
CANN, GEORGE ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) 1726.
CANN, ROBERT ; b. ; adm. (aged 8) Jul 1724 ; in under school list 1726. [Perhaps Robert Cann, son of William Cann, Bristol, who was adm. Middle Temple 30 Dec 1734, and if so probably Sir Robert Cann, Bart., son of Sir William Cann, Bart., Town Clerk of Bristol, and his first wife ; b. ; succ. father as 6th baronet 29 Mar 1753 ; of Aust, Gloucs. ; m. 12 Jun 1744 (IGI) Anne, dau. of Henry Churchman, Aust, Gloucs.; d. 27 Jul 1765]
CANNEY, WILLIAM ; b. 27 Dec 1845 ; adm. 12 Jun 1857 ; left 1859. [probably William Canney, son of George Canney MD FRCS, Bishop Auckland, co.Durham, surgeon, and Lydia, dau. of George Maw, Auckland St.Andrew, co.Durham, tanner ; bapt. Auckland Saint Andrew, co.Durham 24 Oct 1845 (sic), birth registered Auckland fourth quarter 1845 ; of Bondgate House, Bishop Auckland, co.Durham ; d. 18 Jun 1882].
CANNING, ERNEST, son of Sir Samuel Canning, Kt, MICE, Inverness Gardens, London, civil engineer, and Elizabeth Anne, dau. of William Henry Gale, Grateley, Hampshire, farmer ; b. 11 Oct 1865 ; adm. (H) 23 Sep 1879 ; left Dec 1883 ; student ICE ; with Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Co. ; d. Cannes, France 15 Mar 1892.
CANNING, RICHARD, son of Capt.Richard Canning, Royal Navy, Ipswich, Suffolk, and Margaret — ; b. (at Plymouth, Devon) 30 Sep 1708 ; adm. Feb 1718/9 ; Min.Can.1722 ; KS 1723 ; left 1723 ; St.Catherine’s Hall, Cambridge, adm.pens. 13 Aug 1724, matr.1725 ; BA 1728/9 ; MA (from Peterhouse) 1735 ; ordained deacon 20 Dec 1730 (Lincoln), to curacy of Normanton, Leics., priest 17 Jun 1733 (Norwich) ; Vicar of Rushmere St.Andrew, Suffolk 12 Mar 1734/5 – Oct 1755 ; Perpetual Curate of St.Lawrence’s, Ipswich, from Apr 1737 ; Rector of Harkstead, Suffolk, 1738 – Jan 1769 ; Rector of Freston, Suffolk, from 23 Oct 1755 ; edited Kirby’s Suffolk Traveller, 1764, and author, several tracts and pamphlets ; m. 25 Jul 1739 Cordelia Westhorp ; d. 8 Jan 1775. ODNB.
CANTILLON, THOMAS ; b. ; adm. (aged 13) Jan 1733/4 ; left 1736. [maybe son of Richard Cantillon, and Bridget, dau. of David Cantillon, Kilgobbin, co.Limerick ; a legatee under will of Richard Cantillon, the economist, dated 12 Jul 1732, in which he is described as Cantillon’s nephew, although he seems in fact to have been Cantillon’s cousin ; d. 1736]
CAPEL (in school list 1733), see KEPPEL, AUGUSTUS, 1st VISCOUNT KEPPEL (qv).
CAPEL, WILLIAM ANNE HOLLES, 4TH EARL OF ESSEX, only son of William Capel, 3rd Earl of Essex KG, and his second wife Lady Elizabeth Russell, dau. of Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford KG ; b. 7 Oct 1732 ; adm. Apr 1742 (Morel) ; succ. as 4th Earl of Essex 8 Jan 1742/3 ; left 1749 ; Grand Tour (France, Italy) 1750-4 ; a Lord of the Bedchamber 17 Mar 1755- Oct 1760 ; Master of the Staghounds 5 Jul 1770- 11 Jul 1782, when office abolished ; a Lord of the Bedchamber from 23 May 1782 ; Lord Lieut., Hertfordshire 12 Nov 1764 – 13 Mar 1771, JP Herts from 1765 ; m. 1st, 1 Aug 1754 Frances, eldest dau. of Sir Charles Hanbury Williams KB MP, diplomat ; m.2nd, 2 Mar 1767 Harriet, dau. of Thomas Bladen (qv) ; d. 5 Mar 1799.
CAPEL-CONINGSBY, GEORGE, 5TH EARL OF ESSEX, only son of William Anne Holles Capel, 4th Earl of Essex (qv), and his first wife ; b. 14 Nov 1757 ; styled Viscount Malden 1757-99 ; adm. 21 Jan 1766 ; left Dec 1774 ; Corpus Christi Coll. Cambridge, adm.fellow commoner 14 Feb 1775 ; MA 1777 ; MP Westminster 20 Apr 1779-80, Lostwithiel 4 Jun 1781-4, Okehampton 27 Apr 1785-90, Radnor Boroughs 21 May 1794 – 4 Mar 1799 ; assumed surname of Coningsby in addition to that of Capel on the death of his grandmother Frances, Countess Coningsby, in 1782 ; travelling in Italy 1791-2 ; succ. as 5th Earl of Essex 4 Mar 1799 ; Lord Lieut., Herefordshire, 20 Mar 1802 – 28 Oct 1817 ; Recorder of Leominster 1802-5 ; DCL Oxford 3 Jul 1810 ; FSA by 1831 ; a friend of the Prince Regent and one of the leading men of fashion at the end of the 18th century ; m. 1st, 6 Jun 1786 Sarah, widow of Edward Stephenson, EICS Bengal, and dau. of Henry Bazett, EICS St.Helena; m.2nd, 19 Apr 1838, Catherine Stephens, vocalist and actress (ODNB), dau. of Edward Stephens, Park Street, Grosvenor Square, London, carver and gilder ; d. 23 Apr 1839.
CAPES, JOHN MOORE, eldest son of John Capes, Newington, Surrey, and Doctors’ Commons, London, Clerk and Auditor, Prerogative Court of Canterbury, and his first wife Harriet — (IGI) [perhaps Phillips (IGI)] ; b. 19 Aug 1812 ; adm. 15 Oct 1827 ; left 1830 ; Balliol Coll. Oxford, matr. 6 Jul 1832 ; BA 1836 ; MA 1840 ; ordained deacon 29 May 1836 (Salisbury) ; Curate, Shipton-le-Moyne, Gloucs. ; Minister of St.John the Baptist, Eastover, Bridgwater, Somerset (where he built and endowed the church in 1845); Roman Catholic convert 1845 ; editor and proprietor, The Rambler (Roman Catholic periodical) 1848-57 ; rejoined Church of England in 1870, but became Roman Catholic again before his death ; composer, The Druid (tragic opera), performed at St.George’s Hall, Liverpool, 22 Feb 1879 ; author, To Rome and back, 1873, and other works ; m. 13 Apr 1839 Bertha, second dau. of Alfred Wyatt, Wargrave, Berks. ; d. 14 Jan 1889.
CAPON, — ; b. ; in school lists 1737-41.
CAPPER, BENJAMIN, eldest son of Benjamin Capper, St.Martin’s in the Fields, London, [proprietor, Hungerford coffee house, The Strand, Westminster ?] and Jane Rawlinson (IGI) ; bapt. St.Martin in the Fields 25 Jan 1785 (IGI) ; adm. ; at school 1798 ; in school list 1801 ; adm. Inner Temple 3 Jul 1801, called to bar 20 May 1808 ; insolvent debtor in 1813 ; Attorney-General of Tobago May – 2 Aug 1819, when he resigned after disputes with the Chief Justice and other colleagues, and returned to England ; m. ; d. 24 Apr 1853.
CAPPER, FRANCIS, son of Francis Capper, Bushey, Herts., barrister, Bencher Lincoln’s Inn, and Mary, dau. of Thomas Bennet, St.Paul’s Churchyard, London, bookseller ; nephew of Richard Capper (qv) ; b. 24 Aug 1735 ; adm. Sep 1742 ; KS 1749 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1753, matr. 27 Jun 1753, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1753 – void 2 Oct 1760, expiry year of grace as R.Monk Soham from 2 Nov 1759 ; BA 1757 ; MA 1760 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 25 Feb 1746/7 ; ordained deacon 24 Dec 1758 (Rochester), priest 23 Sep 1759 (Oxford) ; Rector of Monk Soham, Suffolk, from 1 Oct 1759 ; Rector of Earl Soham, Suffolk, from 22 Dec 1759 ; Domestic Chaplain to Dowager Baroness Walpole 15 Nov 1759 – Feb 1761 ; author, The Faith and Belief of every sincere Christian ; m. 6 Nov 1759 Elizabeth, dau. of Peter Peirson (qv) ; d. 13 Nov 1818. ODNB.
[CAPPER, FRANCIS, son of Francis Capper (qv) ; b. 14 Jan 1761 ; at school under Smith (not in admission register and this entry is founded on Hickey’s record of his presence at OW dinner at Calcutta c Jul – Oct 1784 (Hickey, Memoirs iii, 245-6, but Hickey’s recollection may have been inaccurate) ; Cadet, EICS Madras ; Ensign, Madras Native Infantry 17 Apr 1778 ; Lieut., 11 Jan 1782 ; Capt., 6 Aug 1794 ; Maj., 4 Oct 1798 ; Lieut.-Col., 4th Native Infantry, 17 Jun 1800 ; served with distinction in India ; Adjutant-Gen., Madras ; implicated in disputes between Commander-in-Chief, Madras, and the civil authorities there ; m. 23 Nov 1791 Elizabeth Emily, sister of Pasley Weir Fraser (qv) ; drowned in wreck of the Lady Jane Dundas off Madagascar, on his return from India, 14 Mar 1809]. [But note that Misc.Gen. et Her., 4th series, ii, 81, also states that he was educated at Westminster, so the identification of him as an OW does not rest solely on Hickey]
CAPPER, J. ; b. ; in school lists 1801, May and Oct 1803 ; left Nov 1803.
CAPPER, JOSEPH, brother of Benjamin Capper (qv) ; bapt.St.Martin in the Fields 1 Oct 1786 (IGI) ; in school list 1801 ; probably left 1801.
CAPPER, RICHARD, second son of Richard Capper, Bushey, Herts., and of Lincoln’s Inn, and his first wife Elizabeth, dau. of John Hyde, Falmouth, Jamaica, and Finchley, Middlesex ; bapt. St.Andrew, Holborn 27 Oct 1701 (sic, IGI); adm. (aged 12) May 1715 ; in under school list 1716 ; apprenticed to Edward Gee, Six Clerks Office, 4 Oct 1716 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn, 5 May 1720 ; adm. solicitor 14 Nov 1730. [Richard Capper was a Commissioner of Bankrupts (occurs in annual lists 1755-64), but this Richard Capper was apparently a barrister] [he or his father Secretary of the Decrees and Injunctions, and Clerk of the Docquets, Court of Chancery, to Feb 1736/7 ?]
CARD, HENRY, son of John Card, Egham, Surrey, and Mary — (IGI) ; b. 6 May 1779 ; adm. 10 Sep 1792 (Clapham) ; in sixth form list 1796 ; Pembroke Coll.Oxford, matr.10 May 1796 ; BA 1800 ; MA 1805 ; BD and DD 1823 ; ordained deacon 24 May 1812 (Winchester, lit.dim. from Hereford), priest 31 May 1812 (Salisbury, lit.dim. from Hereford) ; Vicar of Wolferton and Rector of Upper Sapey, Herefs., 1 Jun 1812 – Jan 1816 ; Vicar of Great Malvern, Worcs., from 27 Jun 1815 ; Vicar of Donington, Herefs., 1 Jun 1832 ; FRS 2 Mar 1820 ; FSA 1821 ; author, The Reign of Charlemagne, 1807, and other works ; m.1st, 16 Sep 1799 Mary Anne, dau. of Philip Buckley, The Lawn, South Lambeth, Surrey ; m.2nd, 6 Jun 1806 Christian, second dau. of Joseph Fletcher, Great George Square, Liverpool ; d. from the effects of an accident 4 Aug 1844. ODNB.
CARDEN, EUSTACE, third son of Charles Wilson Carden, Brixworth, Northants, late Capt., 35th Foot, and Jane, dau. of Edward Bolton King MP, Chadshunt, Warwicks. ; b. 29 Dec 1863 ; adm. (G) 24 Sep 1875 ; left Aug 1877 ; entered Naval School at New Cross ; became an officer in P. & O. Co. service ; m. 6 Feb 1893 Lillias Agatha Mary Rocester, younger dau. of Henry Philip Markham, Sedgebrooke, Northants, solicitor, Clerk of the Peace for Northamptonshire ; drowned in wreck of SS Aden off Socotra, 9 Jun 1897.
CARDEN, ROBERT AUGUSTUS, second son of Sir Robert Walter Carden, Bart., MP, Lord Mayor of London, stockbroker, and Pamela Elizabeth Edith, dau. of William Smith Andrews MD, Richmond, Surrey ; b. 2 Jan 1836 ; adm. (G) 30 May 1850 ; Exeter Coll.Oxford, matr. 7 Jun 1854 ; BA 1859 ; MA 1862 ; ordained deacon 1859, priest 1860 (Oxford) ; Curate, Shiplake, Oxfordshire, 1859-61 ; Chaplain of Mission to Seamen, Sunderland ; Curate, St.Peter, Plymouth, Devon 1868 ; m. 21 Sep 1859 Caroline Gertrude, dau. of John Arnold Mello, Leinster Gardens, London, banker ; d. 25 Jun 1873.
CARDONEL, see DE CARDONNEL.
CAREW, EDWARD ; b. ; adm. ; QS ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1575, Westminster Student to 1577 ; Carew and Thomas Ravis (qv) were at first refused admittance to their studentships, but they both appealed to Lord Treasurer Burghley and were ultimately admitted (CSP DomAddit, 1566-79, 487 ; Strype, Annals, ii, pt i, 553-6 ; Thompson, Christ Church, 25).
CAREW, JOHN, second son of Thomas Carew, Camerton, Somerset, and Elizabeth, fourth dau. of John Sanford MP, Nynehead, Somerset ; b. ; adm. (aged 14) Mar 1719/20 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr.11 Nov 1723 ; adm.Middle Temple 21 Nov 1722, called to bar 22 Nov 1728 ; m.19 Dec 1728 Elizabeth, dau. of John Billing, Alderman and Mayor of Bath ; d. 12 Dec 1750.
CAREW, SIR MATTHEW, younger son of Sir Wymond Carew, Kt MP, Antony, Cornwall, Treasurer of the First Fruits and the Tenths, and High Steward of Westminster, and Martha, dau. of Sir Edmund Denny, Kt, Chief Baron of the Exchequer ; b. ; at school under Nowell (Coll.Top. et Gen., v, 206-7, note, quoting British Library, Harleian MS 1196, f.152) ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.scholar 1548 ; 4th in ordo 1550/1 ; BA 1550/1 ; Fellow of Trinity Coll., 1551 ; although not ordained was appointed Archdeacon of Norfolk 1552, holding post until 1587 ; studied law at Louvain and other foreign universities for twelve years ; Doctor of Canon and Civil Law, Siena 1565 ; Rector of Sheviock, Cornwall 23 May 1564 – Mar 1576/7 ; travelled in Italy as interpreter for Henry, Earl of Arundel ; subsequently practised in Court of Arches, adm.advocate 1558 ; a Master in Chancery from 1573 ; adm.Gray’s Inn 1589 ; Master, Court of Requests, from 1599 ; knighted 23 Jul 1603 ; m. Alice Ingpenny, widow, eldest dau. of Sir John Rivers, Kt, Lord Mayor of London ; buried St.Dunstan in the West, London, 2 Aug 1618. ODNB.
CAREW, SIR NICHOLAS HACKET, BART., second son of Sir Nicholas Carew, Bart., MP, Beddington, Surrey, and Anne, dau. of Nicholls Hacket, North Crawley, Bucks. ; b. ; succ.his father as 2nd baronet 18 Mar 1726/7 ; adm. (aged 7) Jul 1728 ; in school list Jan 1732/3 ; of Beddington, Surrey ; m. 25 Apr 1741 Katherine, dau. of John Martin MP, Overbury, Gloucs. ; d. 19 Aug 1762.
CAREW, THOMAS, son of John Carew (qv) ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Mar 1741/2 ; still at school Jun – Aug 1745, when surviving letters sent by his father to his father’s elder brother Thomas Carew MP discuss whether or not he should be left at the School or be removed from it ; appears to have gone out to India but later returned to England, where he was imprisoned as a debtor in King’s Bench Prison (occurs as such Mar 1761) ; m. Sep 1758 “Miss Cantle”, Bristol (London Evening Post 23 Sep 1758) ; d. Nov.1763. [This entry replaces the entry in Record which incorrectly identifies this Thomas Carew as a son of Sir Thomas Carew, Bart., of Haccomb, Devon]
CAREWE, — ; b. ; adm. ; a pensioner in 1603 (tutor, Dr Saraiva).
CAREY, see also CARY.
CAREY, — ; b. ; in school list 1744.
CAREY, WILLIAM, son of Richard Carey, Worcester, “who kept the Hop Pole inn in that city”, and Margaret — (IGI) ; b. 18 Nov 1769 ; adm. 9 Sep 1783 ; KS 1784 ; Capt. of the School 1788 ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1789, matr. 12 Jun 1789, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1789 – res 23 Dec 1803, Tutor 1794-1800, Junior Censor 1798-1801 ; BA 1793 ; MA 1796 ; BD 1804 ; DD 1807 ; ordained deacon 22 Dec 1799, priest 8 Jun 1800 (both Oxford); Perpetual Curate, Cowley, Oxfordshire, 8 Jun 1800 – Mar 1803 ; Whitehall Preacher 1801-3 ; Head Master of the School Jan 1803 – Dec 1814 ; Prebendary of York 22 May 1802 – res 15 May 1815 ; Sub-Almoner to the King 16 Feb 1808 – c.1815 ; Prebendary of Westminster 18 Mar 1809 – Apr 1830 ; Vicar of Sutton in the Forest, Yorks., 15 Apr 1813 – Nov 1820 ; consecrated Bishop of Exeter 12 Nov 1820 ; translated to St.Asaph, 7 Apr 1830 ; gave the scenery for the Latin Play that was in use between 1808 and 1858 ; gave during his lifetime £20,000 Consols for the better maintenance of the Bachelor Students at Christ Church, Oxford, elected from Westminster ; Busby Trustee 3 May 1804 ; m. 2 Jan 1804 Mary, only dau. of Rev.William Sheepshanks, Minister of St.John’s, Leeds, and Prebendary of Lincoln and Carlisle ; d. 13 Sep 1846. ODNB.
CAREY, WILLIAM SHERLOCK, son of Rev.Richard Carey, Vicar of Barrowden, Rutland, and Prebendary of York, and Sarah — (IGI) ; nephew of William Carey (qv) ; bapt.Barrowden, Rutland 9 Nov 1799 (IGI); adm. 27 Mar 1811 ; left 1812 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 21 Dec 1816, Canoneer Student to 1825 ; BA 1820 ; MA 1823 ; ordained deacon 22 Dec 1822, priest 21 Dec 1823 (both Oxford); Rector of St.Peter Tavy, Devon, 21 Apr 1824 ; Vicar of Ashburton, Devon, 2 May 1825-36 ; Rector of Lezant, Cornwall, from 1830 ; Domestic Chaplain to his uncle William Carey (qv), Bishop of Exeter ; m. 3 Aug 1825 Eliza Caroline, second dau. of Richard William Ulric Schneider, Putney, Surrey, merchant ; d. 3 Jan 1847.
CARHAMPTON, HENRY, 2ND EARL OF, see LUTTRELL, HENRY LAWES, 2ND EARL OF CARHAMPTON (I).
CARKESSE, JAMES, son of James Carkesse, Hackney, Middlesex, and of City of London, Turkey merchant, and Mary, dau. of Rowland Beresford, London ; b. ; adm. ; KS (aged 13) 1648 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1652, matr. 26 Jan 1652/3, Westminster Student ; BA 3 Feb 1656/7 ; MA 1659 ; refused grace for BA four times, and before his admission was compelled to apologise for some insult which he had offered his college ; in 1658 Busby certified that Carkesse “is of the same standing as those Westminster scholars who take the MA degree this Act 1658”, and that he “was only hindered from residence by the tenuity of his fortunes, which compelled him to reside in Westminster College for a maintenance, and to wait five terms for admission to a student’s place, to which he was elected” (CSP Dom 1658-9, 40) ; Usher, Magdalen Coll.Sch. 1655, 5 Jan 1662/3-3, Head Master 1663-4 ; a clerk in the Seamen’s Ticket Office, Navy Office, Aug 1665 – Mar 1667, Mar 1668 – Sep 1670, Mar 1672 – Jun 1673 ; Headmaster, Chelmsford Free School (by Mar 1677, successor appointed Feb 1678/9, Carkesse suffering from “distempers in body and mind”) ; confined to Bedlam, but discharged 29 Nov 1678 ; again Head Master, Chelmsford Free School, by 1683 (still 1690) ; FRS 23 Mar 1663/4, expelled 18 Nov 1675 ; author, Lucida Intervalla, containing divers miscellaneous poems written at Finsbury and Bethlem bythe doctor’s patient extraordinary, 1679 ; lic. to m. 23 Nov 1663 Arabella Walesson, St.Faith’s, London. ODNB.
CARKESSE, THOMAS, son of Charles Carkesse, Battersea, Surrey, Secretary, Board of Customs, and Mary — ; b. ; adm. (aged 11) Apr 1724 ; KS 1727 ; in school list Feb 1727/8. [father’s will proved PCC 25 Sep 1741]
CARKETT, ROBERT ; b. ; GS 1540; KS 1540-2 (Chapter Muniments 6478 ; PRO, Exch.Aug.Office, Misc.Books, 24).
CARLESS, JOSEPH POWELL, son of Joseph Carless, Maidstone, Kent, corn merchant and miller, and Elizabeth —- ; bapt. Loose, Kent 30 Apr 1803 ; adm. 26 Jan 1814 ; Min.Can. (aged 14) 1817 ; left Christmas 1819. [evidently Joseph Powell Carless, Belgravia, whose widow died 1 Jun 1870]
CARLETON, see also CARLTON.
CARLETON, — ; b. ; in school list 1749. [cf. Charlton, Francis (qv)]
CARLETON, BARON, see BOYLE, HENRY, 1st BARON CARLETON.
CARLETON, DUDLEY, 1ST VISCOUNT DORCHESTER, son of Anthony Carleton MP, Brightwell Baldwin, Oxfordshire, and his second wife Jocosa, widow of Robert Saunders MP, Flore, Northants., and dau. of Sir John Goodwin Kt, Upper Winchendon, Bucks. ; b. 10 Mar 1573/4 ; adm. ; QS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1591, matr. 11 Feb 1591/2, Westminster Student to 1607 ; BA 1595 ; MA 1600 (incorp. Camb.1626) ; DCL 31 Aug 1636 ; member of embassy, Paris 1595, 1597 ; Secretary to Governor of Ostend 1597-1600 ; Secretary to Sir Thomas Parry, Ambassador to Paris, 1602-3 ; MP St.Mawes Mar 1603/4 – Feb 1610/1, Hastings Jan 1625/6 – 22 May 1626 ; adm.Grays Inn 21 Feb 1604/5 ; Comptroller of Household to Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland 1603-5 ; suspected of complicity in the Gunpowder Plot, but succeeded in clearing himself while under arrest ; Secretary of State for Ireland 1609-10, but did not take up duties of post ; Ambassador to Venice 1610-5, The Hague 1616-25 ; knighted c. 9 Aug 1610 ; Vice-Chamberlain of the Household 1625-6 ; Privy Councillor 1626 ; Envoy to Paris 1626, The Hague 1626-8 ; created Baron Carleton 22 May 1626 and Viscount Dorchester 25 Jul 1628 ; Secretary of State from 18 Dec 1628 ; the most sagacious and successful British diplomat of his day ; m. 1st, 2 Nov 1607 Anne, widow of Sir Walter Tredway, Kt, Beckley Park, Oxfordshire, and dau. of George Garrard, Dorney, Bucks., and step-dau. of Sir Henry Savile, Kt (founder of Savilian Professorship at Oxford) ; m. 2nd, 14 Jun 1630 Anne, widow of Paul Bayning, 1st Viscount Bayning, merchant and financier, and dau. of Sir Henry Glemham, Kt MP, Little Glemham, Suffolk ; d. 15 Feb 1631/2. Buried Westminster Abbey, monument in St.Paul’s Chapel. ODNB.
CARLETON, GEORGE, second son of Henry Carleton, Hastings, Sussex, Collector of Taxes and Jurat of Rye, Sussex, and Mary Gibbs, Rye ; bapt. 23 Jul 1718 ; at school under Nicoll (R.F.Scott, ed, Admissions to St.John’s Coll.Camb., pt.iii, 493) ; in school lists Jan 1732/3 (surname mis-spelled) and Aug 1733 ; St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 1 Jun 1738, aged 20 ; BA 1741/2 ; MA 1745 ; ordained deacon 14 Mar 1741/2 (Norwich, lit.dim. from Chichester), priest 18 Dec 1743 (Chichester) ; Vicar of Rye, Sussex, from 7 Jan 1743/4 ; one of the Jurats of the Corporation ; Domestic Chaplain to Margaret, Baroness Clinton, 18 Oct 1751 ; m. 19 Jun 1753 Constance Daw, Rye, Sussex ; d. 27 Nov 1761.
CARLILE, LAWRENCE, son of Lawrence Carlile, and Margaret, dau. of Antony Burbage, St.Dunstan’s in the West, London, citizen and skinner ; b. ; adm. ; QS ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge, 1602, adm.pens.1602, scholar 1603, matr.Mich.1602 ; BA 1607/8 ? ; Basel Univ., 1608 ; MA (incorp.Cambridge from Basel) 1618 ; BD (Cambridge) 1618 ; ordained ; Vicar of Bishop Norton, Lincs., 16 Oct 1614 – still 1643 ; Prebendary of Lincoln, 27 Aug 1617 – res 18 Sep 1624, although he seems to have been regarded as a Prebendary until his death at some unknown date before Sep 1660 ; Rector of Healing, Lincs., 4 Nov 1637 (as Carliel) – ejected 24 Apr 1643 ; sequestered for having resided in Newark while it was a Royalist garrison ; owner, Bolt & Tun, and Three Tuns, Fleet Street, London ; lic.to m. 13 Feb 1615 Jane Kettlewell, Swallow, Lincs. ; living Mar 1646/7.
CARLTON, — ; b. ; in under school lists 1719,1720.
CARLTON, HENRY, 1ST BARON, see BOYLE, HENRY, 1st BARON CARLTON.
CARLYON, JOHN, third son of Thomas Carlyon, Tregrehan, Cornwall, and Elizabeth, dau. of Philip Hawkins, Pennans, Cornwall, attorney ; b. 4 Jun 1722 ; adm. (aged 15) Jan 1737/8 ; left 1739 ; Pembroke Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 2 Dec 1738, matr.1739 ; LLB 1745 ; ordained deacon 25 Mar 1745/6 (London), priest 24 Jun 1746 (Winchester) ; Rector of Bradwell juxta Mare, Essex 26 Jun 1746 – May 1751; Rector of St.Mary’s, Truro, Cornwall ; m. 7 Apr 1763 Mary, dau. of James Winstanley, Braunstone Hall, Leics. ; d. 21 Sep 1798.
CARMALT, — ; b. ; adm. 4 Feb 1766.
CARMARTHEN, MARQUISES OF, see OSBORNE.
CARNARVON, MARQUISES OF, see BRYDGES.
CARNE, — ; b. ; in under school lists 1715,1716.
CARNE, SAMUEL CHARLES, only son of Samuel Carne, Charleston, South Carolina, North America, later of Sandon, Essex, and Kensington, Middlesex, druggist, apothecary and merchant, and Catherine, dau. of Capt. Jacob Bond, Hobcaw Plantation, Christ Church parish, South Carolina ; b. 28 Feb 1760 ; adm. 13 Jan 1773 ; Min.Can.1773 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 25 Jun 1778, matr. Mich.1778 ; BA 1782 ; adm.Middle Temple 20 Jan 1779 ; of Woodhill, Sandon, Essex ; Maj., East Essex Militia 16 May 1798 (still Army List 1808) ; m. 28 Jun 1787 Mary, second dau. of Frederick Rasch, London, Hamburg merchant ; d. 11 Apr 1822.
CARNEGY, — ; b. ; in school list 1754 ; presumably Robert “Garnegey” (surname given as Carnegy in Public Advertiser 19 Feb 1761), acquitted at Old Bailey 25 Feb 1761 on charge of theft of a watch from Lieut.George Mackenzie ; said to have been educated at Westminster School, and to have been articled to – Burduss (presumably Richard (?) Burdus), attorney, Newcastle upon Tyne, where his father lived]
CARNEY (in school list 1749), see VERNEY.
CARPENDER, — ; b. ; adm.1656 (school list 1656, second quarter); left 1656.
CARPENTER, — ; b. ; at school 1789, 1790. [perhaps = John Carpenter (at school under Vincent)]
CARPENTER, GEORGE, 2ND EARL OF TYRCONNEL (I), eldest son of George Carpenter, 1st Earl of Tyrconnel (I) MP, Homme House, Herefs., and Frances, dau. of Sir Robert Clifton, Bart., KB MP, Clifton Hall, Notts. ; b. 30 Jun 1750 ; succ.father as 2nd Earl of Tyrconnel (I) 9 Mar 1762 ; in school lists 1764,1765 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 9 Feb 1767 ; MP Scarborough 28 Jul 1772-96, Berwick on Tweed 1796-1802 ; of Homme House, Herefordshire ; m.1st, 9 Jul 1772 (div.1777) Frances, eldest dau. of John Manners, Marquis of Granby PC MP, Lieut.-Gen. in the Army ; m.2nd, 3 Jun 1780 Hon.Sarah Hussey Delaval, sixth dau. of John Hussey Delaval, 1st Baron Delaval (qv) ; d. 15 Apr 1805.
CARPENTER, JOHN, only son of John Carpenter, Tregony, Cornwall, and Anne, widow of James Veitch, Creed, Cornwall, surgeon, and dau. of Richard Carveth, Ladock, Cornwall ; b. ; at school under Vincent (G.C.Boase & W.P.Courtney, Bib.Cornub., iii, 1115) ; Cornet, 1st Dragoon Guards, 11 Feb 1802 ; Lieut., 18 Feb 1804 ; left Army 1805 ; m. 9 Dec 1797 Teresa Catherine, youngest dau. of George Fieschi Heneage, Hainton, Lincs. ; d. 10 Jan 1865, aged 88.
CARPENTER, THOMAS ; b. ; adm. (aged 9) Jun 1740 ; left 1744.
CARR, — ; b. ; in school lists 1764, 1765. [perhaps Robert Carr, joint author with Samuel Hayes (qv) of tragedy Eugenia, 1766] [“Robert Carr, Esq.”, a subscriber to Peirson Lloyd’s Sermons, 1765]
CARR, ALFRED, son of Ralph Carr (adm.1781, qv) ; b. 24 Jan 1804 ; adm. 28 May 1818 ; of Medina Cottage, Northwood, West Cowes, Isle of Wight ; d.unm. 22 Apr 1867.
CARR, CHARLES ; b. ; adm. 3 Jul 1804 ; left 1806.
CARR, FRANCIS, son of Ralph Carr (adm.1781, qv) ; b. 2 Mar 1806 ; adm.28 May 1818 ; Ensign, 76th Foot, 12 Feb 1824 ; half-pay, West Indian Regt., 9 Jun 1825 ; 1st Foot, 22 Mar 1826 ; Lieut., half-pay, unattached, 1 Aug 1826 ; 62nd Foot, 12 Oct 1826 ; half-pay, unattached, 21 Mar 1827 ; 66th Foot, 18 Jan 1833 ; d. 23 Nov 1833.
CARR, JOHN ; b. ; adm. (aged 17) Jul 1726.
CARR, JOHN, eldest son of Ralph Carr, Dunston Hill, Whickham, co.Durham, and Hedgeley, Northumberland, banker and merchant, and Isabella, dau. of Rev.Henry Byne, Vicar of Ponteland, Northumberland ; b. 21 Sep 1764 ; adm. 13 Jan 1772 ; left Whitsun 1774 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 9 Nov 1781 ; BA 1785 ; Grand Tour (incl.Vienna) 1788-9 ; in Italy for sister’s health 1791-4 ; of Dunston Hill, co.Durham ; JP Co.Durham, chairman, Durham Quarter Sessions (at death) ; DL JP Northumberland, High Sheriff 1813 ; m. 2 Mar 1802 Hannah, dau. of Henry Ellison, Hebburn Hall, co.Durham ; d. 12 Jan 1817.
CARR, JOSEPH ; b. ; adm. (aged 8) Feb 1750/1 ; chorister ; in school list 1754. [Perhaps bapt.St.John Smith Square 12 Jul 1742, son of Joseph Carr, and Elizabeth — (IGI)][note will Joseph Carr, St.John, Westminster, mason, proved PCC 18 Feb 1768][furniture, stock and trade utensils of “Mr Joseph Carr, Stone Mason”, sold by auction at his dwelling house and premises in Millbank Street, Westminster, Oct 1772] [Joseph Carr, jun., announced in Sep 1768 that he would be carrying on his father’s business] [His fifteen-year old sister Elizabeth Carr eloped in 1763 with Charles Churchill (adm.1741, qv)]
CARR, RALPH ; b. ; adm. 5 Jun 1776. [perhaps Ralph Carr, son of Rev.Ralph Carr, Rector of Alderley, Cheshire, and his first wife Anne, dau. of Anthony Hall, Flass, co.Durham ; b. 16 Dec 1767 ; of Cocken Hall, co.Durham ; m. 26 Jun 1802 Mary, dau. of Samuel Andrews ; d. Oct 1834]
CARR, RALPH, brother of John Carr (adm.1772, qv) ; b. 25 May 1768 ; adm. 6 Nov 1781 (Clapham) ; left Whitsun 1785 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 12 May 1785 ; BA 1789 ; MA 1792 ; Fellow, Merton Coll., 1789 ; adm. Middle Temple 30 May 1782, called to bar 10 Jun 1796 ; of Stannington, Northumberland, and Barrow Point Hill, Pinner, Middlesex ; m. 16 Dec 1793 Caroline, youngest dau. of Francis Gregg MP, Wallington Hall, Surrey, attorney ; d. 5 Mar 1837.
CARR, RICHARD, son of Thomas Carr, Westminster ; b. ; BB Christmas 1638 – Lady Day 1640.
CARR, ROBERT, son of William Carr, Newcastle, Northumberland ; bapt.All Saints, Newcastle upon Tyne 18 Feb 1677 (IGI) ; adm. ; KS 1693 ; left 1694 ; University Coll.Oxford, matr. 14 Mar 1694/5, aged 16 ; BA 1698/9 ; d.1714.
CARR, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. ; a pensioner 1562-8 (tutor, the Dean) ; several charges for books supplied to him occur in a bookseller’s account “delyvered for Mr.Deane of Westminster since the 12th of Januarye 1562” preserved in the Chapter Muniments (54003).[presumably “William Carr of Northumberland”, a queen’s ward in 1569-70, occupying a chamber at Gray’s Inn in 1570 (cf. entries for James Butler, 2nd Baron Dunboyne (I) (qv), and Thomas Graye (Grey) (qv)), and, if so, son of Thomas Carr, Ford Castle, Northumberland, and Elizabeth, dau. of William Heron ; b. 11 Nov 1551 ; of Ford Castle and Etal, Northumberland ; m. Ursula, dau. of Henry Brandling, Newcastle upon Tyne ; d. 1 Jan 1588/9].
CARR, WILLIAM, son of Thomas Carr, Middlesex ; b. ; adm. ; Min.Can. (aged 14) 1650 ; KS (Capt.) 1651 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1653, adm.pens. 6 Jun 1653, scholar 1653, matr.Easter 1653.
CARRICK, JOHN, son of an officer in the Parliamentary army ; b. ; adm. ; KS ; elected to Ch.Ch.Oxford 1647, Westminster Student ; refused to submit to Parliamentary Visitors, and expelled 29 Jun 1648 (Burrows, ed., 1881, 70, 137) ; having afterwards made his submission, an order was made 29 Mar 1649 that he should be admitted as a commoner, and “upon his good behaviour shal be capable of further favor for election unto a student’s or scholar’s place in the said Colledge or elsewhere” (Burrows, op.cit., 225-6).
CARRICK, SOMERSET, 1ST EARL OF, see BUTLER, SOMERSET HAMILTON, 1st EARL OF CARRICK.
CARRILL, BLASE, third son of Richard Carrill, Thorpe, Surrey, official in Pipe Office, and Elizabeth, dau. of William Harward, Winchester, Hants. ; b. ; adm. ; KS in 1644 ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1646, matr. 1 Feb 1646/7, aged 16, Westminster Student ; expelled from his Studentship for non-submission to Parliamentary Visitors 13 Oct 1648 (Burrows, ed, 1881, 196) ; subsequently submitted and permission for his re-election apparently granted 21 Mar 1648/9 (Burrows, op.cit., 225) ; adm.Gray’s Inn 29 Nov 1648, called to bar 8 Feb 1655/6.
CARROL, see O’CARROL.
CARROW, HENRY, brother of John Monson Carrow (qv) ; b. 8 Sep 1813 ; adm. 28 Mar 1827 ; KS 1828 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1832, adm.pens. 11 Jun 1832, scholar 1833, matr. Mich.1832 ; one of founders of Third Trinity Boat Club 1833, consisting only of Old Etonians and OWW ; rowed no.3 in the boat which first became head of the river, 1834 ; BA 1836 ; MA 1842 ; ordained deacon 9 Apr 1837, priest 1838 (both Bath & Wells) ; Curate, Rampisham, Somerset, 1841, Loxton, Somerset, 1843 ; Rector of Loxton, Somerset, 1850-65 ; Chaplain to Axbridge Union 1861-5, Isle of Thanet Union 1872-6, Watford Union 1876-80 ; m.1st, 19 Dec 1840 Leah, dau. of John Cook, London ; 2nd, 26 Nov 1850 Amelia, youngest dau. of Capt. William Henry Cleather, 1st Ceylon Regt. ; d. 30 Sep 1887.
CARROW, JOHN MONSON, eldest son of Rev.Richard Carrow, Perpetual Curate of Westbury-upon-Trym, Gloucs., and Mary, elder dau. of William Elton, Clifton, Bristol ; b. 14 Dec 1807 ; adm. 26 Mar 1819 ; KS 1822 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1826, adm.pens. 9 Jun 1826, scholar 1827, matr. Mich.1826 ; BA 1831 ; adm.Inner Temple 31 Jan 1829, called to bar 31 Jan 1834 ; Western Circuit ; County Court Judge, Circuit 57 (Somerset), from 13 Mar 1847 ; Recorder of Wells from 1852 ; DL JP Somerset ; one of compilers of New Sessions Cases, vols i-ii, 1845-7 ; m. 26 May 1847 Gertrude Frances, dau. of Edmund Broderip, The Manor House, Cossington, Somerset ; d. 8 May 1853.
CARRUTHERS, — ; b. ; in school lists 1767 ; BB.
CARTER, — ; b. ; at school c.1660 (Busby’s Account Book).
CARTER, BENJAMIN, son of Jeremiah Carter ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1680 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1686, matr. 17 Dec 1686, aged 19, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1686 – void 1696 ; BA 1690 ; MA 1693 ; ordained deacon 11 Jun 1693, priest 23 Sep 1694 (both Oxford) ; Chaplain to Duke of Devonshire ; Rector of Wilford, Notts., from 15 Oct 1694 ; Rector of Llandrillo yn Edeirnion [check], Merioneth, 1700 ; Prebendary of Southwell from 26 Apr 1705 ; d. c.Dec 1732 (will proved PCC 19 Jan 1732/3, as Rector of Wilford). [perhaps bapt.St.Peter le Poer, London, 2 Feb 1664, son of Jeremiah Carter, and Mary (probably Lloyd) (IGI), but date seems too early]
CARTER, CHARLES ; b. ; adm. 24 Jan 1774.
CARTER, EDWARD ; b. ; adm. 2 Jul 1774 ; left Dec 1774.
CARTER, EDWARD, only son of Edward Carter, Horsham, Sussex, landowner, and Harriet, dau. of John Clater Aldridge MP, Horsham, Sussex ; bapt. Horsham 7 Feb 1785 ; adm. 13 Jan 1796 (Clapham); Min.Can. (aged 13) 1798 ; in school list 1801 ; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm.pens. 27 Feb 1799, matr.Mich.1802, scholar 1803 ; LLB 1805 ; adm. Inner Temple 8 Nov 1806 ; practised for a short time as proctor, Court of Arches, but left London to manage his family’s business affairs in Portsmouth ; a brewer at Portsmouth, Hampshire ; five times Mayor of Portsmouth prior to the Municipal Corporations Act, and first mayor of the reformed corporation, 1836 ; a prominent supporter of the Whig party in local politics, and in religion an Unitarian ; m. 19 Aug 1809 his first cousin Mary, dau. of Sir John Carter, Kt, Mayor of Portsmouth ; d. 12 Aug 1850.
CARTER, EDWARD, eldest son of Edward Carter (adm.1796, qv) ; b. 17 Jul 1812 ; adm. 22 May 1826 (G) ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 17 Feb 1830, aged 18, matr.Mich.1830 ; BA 1834 ; adm.Inner Temple 18 Apr 1837 ; brewer and distiller, Portsmouth, Hampshire ; also of East Upton House, Ryde, Isle of Wight, landowner ; m. 6 Feb 1846 Martha, dau. of Sir Thomas Beevor, Bart. ; d. 12 Nov 1884.
CARTER, FRANCIS RODNEY BECHER, son of Robert Brudenell Carter FRCS LSA, Ophthalmic Surgeon to St.George’s Hospital, London, and his first wife Helen Ann Beauchamp, dau. of John Becher, Balasore, Bengal, India [check if EICS] ; b. 20 Jul 1861 (registered Nottingham) ; adm. 23 Jan 1873 ; d. May 1873.
CARTER, HUGH, son of Daniel Carter ; b. ; adm. ; BB 1651-2 (Chapter Muniments). [Probably Hugh Carter, son of Daniel Carter, and Anne–, bapt.St.Lawrence Pountney, London 21 May 1640 (IGI)]
CARTER, JOHN, son of William Carter, Whethampstead, Herts.; bapt.Whethampstead 25 Mar 1604 (IGI); adm. ; KS ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1623, matr. 24 Jul 1624, aged 18, Westminster Student to death ; BA 18 Feb 1627/8 ; d.1630.
CARTER, JOHN THOROLD, son of John Carter, Montreal, Canada, and Fairford, Gloucs., and Amelia, dau. of Richard Burnaby ; b. (Montreal) 14 Feb 1853 ; at Edinburgh Academy 1864-8 ; adm.(G) 26 Jan 1869 ; left Aug 1870 ; St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 3 Jun 1871, matr.Mich.1871 ; migrated to Downing Coll., 30 Apr 1874, but did not graduate ; death registered Chelsea first quarter 1895, aged 42.
CARTER, REGINALD JEREMIAH, see CURTEIS, REGINALD JEREMIAH.
CARTER, ROBERT, see THELWALL, ROBERT CARTER.
CARTER, THOMAS, son of Rev.Samuel Carter, Rector of Bridport, Dorset ; bapt. 8 Dec 1633 ; at school under Busby ; St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.sizar 30 Sep 1650, aged 15, matr.Mich.1651 (J.E.B. Mayor, ed., Admissions to St.John’s Coll.Camb., pt.i, 97) ; 10th in ordo 1654/5 ; BA 1654/5 ; MA 1658 ; Fellow, St.John’s Coll.Cambridge 1655 ; Curate, Chatham, Kent 17 Sep 1658 ; ejected at Restoration ; practised medicine at Newington Butts ; m. 29 Sep 1659 Ruth Browne, Chatham, Kent ; d. between 1680 and 1690.
CARTER, THOMAS, eldest son of Thomas Richard Carter (qv) ; b. ; adm. 1 Jun 1774 ; KS 1775 ; convicted with four other Westminster boys at Middlesex Quarter Sessions, 21 May 1779, of a gross assault on a man in Dean’s Yard (Annual Register, 1779, 213) ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1779, matr. 3 Jun 1779, aged 18, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1779 – Nov 1790, Faculty Student 10 Nov 1790 – void on marriage 25 Nov 1791 ; BA 1783 ; MA 1786 ; adm. Middle Temple 5 Jun 1780, called to bar 9 Feb 1787 ; private secretary to William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (qv), when Home Secretary, 5 Jan 1795 – 6 Aug 1798 ; MP Tamworth 1796-1802, Callington 1807 – Apr 1810 ; High Sheriff, Northamptonshire 1806 ; m. Nov 1791 Glencairn, dau. of Walter Campbell, Shawfield, Lanarkshire, and Islay, Argyllshire ; d. 10 Jun 1835.
CARTER, THOMAS RICHARD, son of Richard Carter, Haseley, Oxfordshire, barrister, Chief Justice of Glamorgan, and Bencher, Inner Temple, and Martha, widow of George Blackall, Great Haseley, Oxfordshire, and dau. of Rev.Thomas Cornish, Vicar of Watlington, Oxfordshire ; b. ; adm. Jan 1738/9 ; KS (aged 14) 1740 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1744, matr. 28 May 1744, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1744 – Nov 1758, Faculty Student 9 Nov 1758 – void by marriage 13 Jun 1759 ; BCL 1752 ; adm.Inner Temple 19 Jan 1745/6, chambers there from 1748, called to bar 29 Jun 1750 ; adm. Middle Temple 1 Jun 1756 ; of Bayford, Herts. ; m. 7 Jun 1759 Anne Tobina, dau. of Toby Chauncy MP, Edgcote, Northants, and Inner Temple, London, barrister ; d. 14 May 1795.
CARTERET (in school list 1742), see CARTWRIGHT.
CARTERET, GEORGE, eldest son of Edward Carteret MP, St.Clement Danes, London, Joint Postmaster-General, and Bridget, widow of Sir John Sudbury, Bart. (qv) and of Thomas Clutterbuck, Ingatestone, Essex, and dau. of Sir Thomas Exton, Kt LLD MP, Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge ; half-brother of Thomas Clutterbuck (qv) ; bapt.Ingatestone, Essex 26 Oct 1701 ; adm. (aged 14) Apr 1716 ; d. at school 9 Nov 1718. Buried in North Aisle, Westminster Abbey.
CARTERET, JOHN, 2ND EARL GRANVILLE, eldest surviving son of George Carteret, 1st Baron Carteret, and Lady Grace Granville, subsequently created Countess Granville, youngest dau. of John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath ; b. 22 Apr 1690 ; succ.his father as 2nd Baron Granville 22 Sep 1695 ; at school under Knipe ; contributed to collection of verses written by the scholars on death of Duke of Gloucester, 1700 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 15 Jan 1705/6 ; DCL 12 Jul 1756 ; took seat, House of Lords, 25 May 1711 ; a supporter of the Hanoverian succession ; a Lord of the Bedchamber to George I, 16 Oct 1714 – Aug 1721 ; Bailiff of Jersey, Jul 1715 ; Lord Lieutenant, Devon, 13 Jul 1716 – 9 Aug 1721 ; joined section of Whig party headed by Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland (qv), 1717 ; Ambassador Extraordinary to Sweden, May 1719 – Jun 1720, securing opening of Baltic to British commerce and negotiating peace between the Baltic powers ; Secretary of State, Southern Department, 5 Mar 1721 – Apr 1724 ; Privy Councillor 5 Mar 1721 ; became a favourite of George I but was not able to rival the supremacy of Sir Robert Walpole ; Lord Lieutenant, Ireland, 3 Apr 1724 – Apr 1730 ; on intimate terms with Swift, who said that Carteret “had a genteeler manner of binding the chains of the kingdom than most of his predecessors” ; offered post of Lord Steward of Household on return from Ireland, but declined to take further office under Walpole ; took a prominent part in the long struggle against Walpole, and on 13 Feb 1741 unsuccessfully moved his famous resolution in the House of Lords for Walpole’s removal from office ; Secretary of State, Northern Department, 12 Feb 1742 – Nov 1744 ; attended George II during campaign in Germany in 1743, but his pro-Hanoverian policy made him unpopular in Britain ; succ. his mother as 2nd Earl Granville, 18 Oct 1744 ; advised the King not to admit William Pitt to office, but failed himself to form a ministry in Feb 1746 ; nominated KG 22 Jun 1749, installed 12 Jul 1750 ; Lord President of the Council from 17 Jun 1751 ; of the five great men who Horace Walpole believed to have lived in his time, Granville “was most a genius … he conceived, knew, expressed what he pleased” ; a Busby Trustee from 19 Feb 1710/1 ; m.1st, 17 Oct 1710 Frances, only dau. of Sir Robert Worsley, Bart., MP, Appuldurcombe, Isle of Wight ; m.2nd, 14 Apr 1744 Lady Sophia Fermor, sister of George Fermor, 2nd Earl of Pomfret (qv) ; d. 2 Jan 1763. Buried in north aisle of Henry VII’s Chapel, Westminster Abbey. ODNB.
CARTERET, HON.PHILIP, brother of John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville (qv) ; b. 6 Nov 1692 ; adm. ; QS 1707 ; d. 19 Mar 1710/1. Buried in north aisle of Abbey, where his monument carries a bust showing him in full costume of QS of period, with gown, college waistcoat and linen bands ; the epitaph was written by his Head Master, Robert Freind (KS 1680, qv).
CARTERET, ROBERT, 3RD EARL GRANVILLE, only surviving son of John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville (qv), and his first wife ; b. 21 Sep 1721 ; adm. Sep 1731 ; left 1738 ; St.John’s Coll.Oxford, matr. 4 Jul 1738 ; MA 1742 ; styled Viscount Carteret 1744-63 ; MP Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) 14 Dec 1744-7 ; his mental instability was already evident while he was a MP ; succ. father as 3rd Earl Granville 2 Jan 1763, but did not take seat in House of Lords ; m. Elizabeth – – – (said to have been French); d. 13 Feb 1776.
CARTWRIGHT, ALFRED GRAHAME, brother of Arthur Babington Cartwright (qv) ; b. 29 Jul 1858 ; adm. 22 Sep 1871 ; left Aug 1875 ; 2nd Lieut., 19th Foot, from Militia, 1 Jan 1879 ; Lieut., Yorkshire Regt., 11 Feb 1880 ; Capt., 1 Sep 1886 ; Maj., 16 Dec 1896 ; second in command 16 Feb 1906 ; ret., 29 Jul 1906 ; served Nile Expedition 1884-5, Sudan Frontier Field Force 1885-6, Tirah Expedition 1897-8 ; Brigade-Maj., South Lancs. Territorial Brigade, 1907 ; volunteered for service Aug 1914 ; second in command, 7th (service) battn., Yorkshire Regt., 15 Sep 1914 ; served in France 1915 ; Lieut.-Col., 14th (Reserve) battn., Yorkshire Regt., 20 Apr 1916 ; commanding 81st Training Reserve Battn. until retirement from ill health 31 May 1917 ; despatches 30 Apr 1916, also on Secretary of State for War’s list of those who had done good service in the War ; m. 22 Dec 1891 Julia, dau. of Charles George Plumer, Madras Civil Service ; d. 5 Aug 1917.
CARTWRIGHT, ARTHUR BABINGTON, fifth son of Samuel Cartwright FRCS, Old Burlington Street, London, dental surgeon, and Susanna, dau. of Rev.Daniel Mathias, Rector of St.Mary Matfellon, Whitechapel, London, and Vice-Principal, Brasenose Coll.Oxford ; b. 5 May 1856 ; adm. 27 May 1869 (H) ; left May 1875 ; Trinity Coll.Oxford, matr. 18 Oct 1875 ; BA 1879 ; MA 1882 ; ordained deacon 1883, priest 1884 (both Winchester) ; Curate, Bramshott, Hants., 1883-9, Ringwood, Hants., 1890-2, Christ Church, Mayfair, London, 1892-6 ; Chaplain at Valetta and Holy Trinity, Sliema, Malta, 1892-6 ; Archdeacon of Malta 1897-1901 ; Rector of Icklingham, Suffolk, 1901-28; Rector of Mildenhall, Suffolk, from 1928 ; m. 17 Jun 1895 Annie Isabella, dau. of Maj.Richard Augustus Chadwick, Madras Staff Corps ; d. 25 Jan 1931.
CARTWRIGHT, GEORGE, son of George Cartwright, Sutton, Notts., and Catherine, dau. of William Anderson, Dunham, Notts. ; b. 4 May 1707 ; adm. (aged 13) Jan 1719/20 ; Balliol Coll.Oxford, matr. 23 Oct 1721 ; of Ossington, Notts. ; m. 25 Dec 1729 Mary, dau. of John Digby MP, Mansfield Woodhouse, Notts. ; d. 1 Feb 1752.
CARTWRIGHT, JOHN, eldest son of Right Rev.Thomas Cartwright DD, Bishop of Chester, and his first wife Mary Halldenby, St.Clement Danes, London ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1673 ; rejected at election in 1677, but “stayed over” and was elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1678, adm.pens. 25 Jun 1678, aged 18, scholar 1679 ; 4th in “ordo” 1681/2 ; BA 1681/2 ; MA 1685 (incorp.Oxford 12 Jul 1687) ; Queen’s Coll.Oxford ; BD and DD 16 Jul 1696 ; ordained deacon 11 Jun 1682, priest 4 Aug 1683 (both Lincoln) ; Chaplain to father as Bishop of Chester 22 Dec 1686 ; Prebendary of Lincoln 5 Feb 1686/7 – res by 30 May 1704, Prebendary of Worcester 8 Mar 1687/8 – res. by 12 Jun 1708 ; Rector of Winwick, Northants., 18 Jan 1687/8 – 1693/4 ; had a royal mandate to succeed his father as Vicar of Barking, Essex 13 Aug 1688, but not instituted ; “went beyond the seas” before 20 May 1704 ; Chaplain, 3rd Foot, 28 Jun 1708 ; his name appears in Dalton’s Malplaquet Roll ; m. (by 1687) Catherine — (kin to Philip Sidney, 3rd Earl of Leicester, perhaps his illegitimate daughter); d. at Ghent, Flanders, probably before 1714.
CARTWRIGHT, JOHN ; b. ; adm. (aged 13) Jan 1741/2 ; left 1743.
CARTWRIGHT, THOMAS ; b. ; adm. ; KS ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1620, adm.scholar 1621, matr.Easter 1621 ; 5th in “ordo” 1624/5 ; BA 1624/5 ; MA 1630. [presumably Thomas Cartwright MA, Master of Brentwood School 1627-34 ; ordained ; Vicar of Lindsell, Essex 10 Feb 1631/2 (MA) – Aug 1632 ; m. 23 Jun 1631 Judith, dau. of George Wingate, Harlington, Bedfordshire, by whom he was father of Thomas Cartwright, Bishop of Chester, and therefore grandfather of John Cartwright (KS 1673, qv) ; d. before 1670]
CARTWRIGHT, THOMAS, son of William Cartwright, “Greeke Land”, Gloucs. ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1640 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1642, matr. 21 Oct 1642, aged 16, Westminster Student. [perhaps a younger brother of William Cartwright (elected to Christ Church, Oxford, 1628, qv)]
CARTWRIGHT, THOMAS ; b. ; adm. 23 Apr 1777.
CARTWRIGHT, WILLIAM, son of William Cartwright, Leckhampton, Gloucs., and his first wife Dorothy, dau. of Rowland Coles, Northway, Gloucs. ; b. Sep 1611 ; adm. ; KS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1628, matr. 24 Feb 1631/2, Westminster Student to death ; BA 1632 ; MA 1635 ; Junior Proctor 1643 ; his tragi-comedy, The Royal Slave, was performed before the King and Queen by the Students of Christ Church in their Hall 30 Aug 1636, the songs being set to music by Henry Lawes, and Richard Busby (qv) taking the part of Cratander with great applause ; ordained deacon and priest 22 Dec 1638 (Oxford); Prebendary of Chichester from 29 Dec 1638; one of Council of War 1 Sep 1642 ; imprisoned by Viscount Saye and Sele, but released on bail ; Precentor of Salisbury from Oct 1642 ; was “the most florid and seraphical preacher in the University” (Wood, Athenae Oxonienses, iii, 69) ; his plays and poems were collected and published by Humphrey Moseley in 1651 ; Ben Jonson (qv) said of him that “my son Cartwright writes all like a man” ; d. unm. from camp fever at Oxford, 29 Nov 1643. Buried Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. ODNB.
CARTWRIGHT, WILLIAM, only son of George Cartwright (qv) ; b. ; at school under Markham ; d. 17 Apr 1755, “in the fifteenth year of his age, at Westminster-School” (Wotton, Baronetage of England, 1771, vol.2, p.133).
CARTWRIGHTE, — ; b. ; adm. ; a pensioner 1567-9 (tutor, The Sub-Dean) (Chapter Muniments 54015-8).
CARY, — ; b. ; adm. ; KS in 1656 ; left 1656.
CARY, — ; b. ; in under school lists 1719, 1720.
CARY, CHARLES ; b. ; adm. (aged 8) Jan 1715/6 ; left 1718.
CARY, CHARLES JOHN, 9TH VISCOUNT FALKLAND (S), son of Hon.Lucius Ferdinand Cary, Master of Falkland (qv) ; b. Nov 1768 ; adm. 3 Jun 1776 ; entered Royal Navy ; Lieut., 30 Mar 1797 ; Cdr., 19 Jan 1801 ; Post Capt., 29 Apr 1802 ; succ. brother as 9th Viscount Falkland (S) 22 May 1796 ; m. 25 Aug 1802 Christiana Anton, “daughter of a West India merchant” ; d. 2 Mar 1809, from a wound received in a duel two days previously.
CARY (or CAREY), FRANCIS HENRY, son of John Cary (or Carey), North Leigh, Oxfordshire ; b. ; adm. ; KS in 1656 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1661, matr. 22 Aug 1661, aged 19, Westminster Student 4 Jul 1661 – void 1668 ; BA 1665 ; MA 1669 ; ordained deacon and priest 10 Feb 1665/6 (Oxford, lit.dim. from Canterbury) ; Rector of Stowe Nine Churches, Northants., from 15 May 1666 ; Rector of Brinkworth, Wilts., from 20 Jul 1671 (dispensation to hold with Stow, 1671) ; m. —, dau. of Thomas Appletree, Deddington, Oxfordshire [son b.1674] ; d. by 23 Oct 1711 (will proved PCC 18 Feb 1711/2). [father apparently of Ditchley, Oxfordshire]
CARY, HENRY, son of Henry Cary, Liskeard, Cornwall ; b. ; at school 1657 ; KS (aged 15) 1660 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1662, adm.pens. 27 Jun 1662, scholar 1663 ; BA 1665/6.
CARY, HENRY ; b. ; adm. 6 Feb 1775. [perhaps Henry Thomas Cary, 8th Viscount Falkland (S), son of Hon.Lucius Ferdinand Cary, Master of Falkland (qv) ; b.27 Feb 1766 ; Cornet, 10th Dragoons ; Lieut. in Army 7 Dec 1785 ; Lieut., 43rd Foot 5 Apr 1786 ; succ. grandfather as 8th Viscount Falkland (S) Feb 1785 ; d. unm. 22 May 1796]
CARY, JAMES ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Nov 1716 ; BB 1716-21.
CARY, HON.LUCIUS FERDINAND, MASTER OF FALKLAND, eldest son of Lucius Charles Cary, 7th Viscount Falkland (S), and his first wife Jane, widow of James Fitzgerald Villiers, Viscount Villiers (qv), and dau. of Richard Butler, London, conveyancer ; b. ; adm. (aged 11) Jul 1747 ; in school life 1752 ; Ensign, 2nd Foot Guards, 23 Dec 1752 ; Capt.-Lieut., 14th Foot, 14 Oct 1755 ; Capt., 26 Dec 1755 ; Maj., 74th Foot, 8 Feb 1762 ; half-pay 1763 ; Maj., 60th Foot, 4 Apr 1765 – May 1768 ; half-pay, 1768-79 ; Brevet Lieut.-Col., 25 May 1772 ; Lieut.-Col. commandant, 89th Foot, 18 Oct 1779 ; commanding British Forces in Tobago, West Indies, 1779-80 ; MP Bridport from 1774 ; m. at Gibraltar 28 Nov 1757 Anne, dau. of Col.Alexander Leith, Royal Artillery ; d. in Tobago, 20 Aug 1780.
CARY, WILLIAM LUCIUS, eldest son of Rev.Henry Francis Cary, Assistant Keeper, Printed Books, British Museum, the translator of Dante, and Jane, dau. of James Ormsby, Sandymount, near Dublin, Ireland ; b. 17 Jul 1797 ; adm. 20 Jan 1808 (and name up school 1808, as W.L.Carey) ; went to Shrewsbury Sch. ; Ensign, 37th Foot (from half-pay), 11 Jan 1815 ; Lieut., York Chasseurs, 3 May 1815 ; 17th Foot, 30 Dec 1819 ; 96th Foot, 29 Jan 1823 ; Capt., 26 May 1825 ; half-pay, unattached, 20 Jan 1832 ; m. 1 May 1832 Emily Offley, younger dau. of Capt.Sir Henry Wakeman, Bart., East India Maritime Service ; d. 10 Mar 1869.
CARYSFORT, JOHN, 1ST BARON, see PROBY, JOHN, 1st BARON CARYSFORT.
CARYSFORT, JOHN JOSHUA, 1sT EARL OF, see PROBY, JOHN JOSHUA, 1ST EARL OF CARYSFORT.
CASS, WILLIAM, son of Michael Cass, Gerrard Street, Soho, Westminster, linen draper, and Jane Thickbroom (IGI) ; b. 30 Nov 1810 ; adm. 4 Feb 1820 ; BB 1820 ; left Whitsun 1828 ; Guy’s Hospital ; subsequently medical student in Dublin ; MRCS 1833, LSA 1835 ; MD Aberdeen 1855 ; served as medical officer in Royal Navy for five years ; became medical practitioner at Cowes, Isle of Wight, in partnership to 1863 with his brother-in-law, Sir William Carter Hoffmeister ; Apothecary in Ordinary to Royal Household at Osborne, 18 Dec 1845-67 ; m. (by 1842) Caroline, dau. of Charles William Hoffmeister, Portsea, Hampshire, Customs official, and sister of Sir William Carter Hoffmeister MD FRCS LRCP ; d. 12 Apr 1878.
CASSON, JOSEPH ; b. ; in school list 1737 ; BB 1739-41 (Chapter Muniments 33772-3).
CASTILE, ROBERT ; b. ; adm. (aged 7) Apr 1750 ; chorister ; in school list 1754. [evidently son of Edward Castile, Charles Street, Westminster, bookbinder ; apprenticed to William Strahan, stationer and printer, New Street, Fetter Lane 1 Nov 1757 (free 3 Jul 1765) ; in business at Great New Street, Fetter Lane, London, printer, in 1791]
CASTILLION, see also CATTILIAN.
CASTILLION, THOMAS, fifth son of Rev.Douglas Castillion, Rector of Stratford Toney, Wilts., and Margaret Bower [check] ; bapt. Stratford Toney, Wilts. 7 Aug 1631 ; adm. ; Min.Can. (aged 16) 1648 (Chapter Muniments 4305; Magdalen Hall, Oxford, matr. 19 Nov 1650 ; migrated to Christ Church ; BA 29 Jan 1652/3 ; not mentioned in father’s will dated 2 Sep 1653.
CASTLE, A. ; b. ; adm. 3 Oct 1806 ; left 1809.
CASTLE, GEORGE ; b. ; adm. ; KS c.1645 (Chapter Muniments 32487).
CASTLEMAINE, RICHARD, VISCOUNT, see TYLNEY, RICHARD, VISCOUNT CASTLEMAINE.
CASTLETON, NATHANIEL, son of Nathaniel Castleton, St.Benet Fink, London, barrister, Middle Temple, and Amy, sixth dau. of John Sanford MP, Nynehead Court, Somerset ; bapt.St.Benet Fink, London 9 Dec 1716 (IGI); adm. (aged 9) Feb 1725/6 ; left 1734 ; Trinity Coll.Oxford, matr. 3 Apr 1734 ; DCL 2 Jul 1754 ; adm.Middle Temple 18 Apr 1734 ; Grand Tour (Italy) 1740-1 ; d. 30 Oct 1782.
CASWALL, GEORGE, elder son of George Caswall, Weybridge, Surrey, Principal Inspector of Out-Port Collectors’ Accounts for Customs, and Mary — ; b. ; adm. (aged 13) Jan 1750/1 ; KS 1751 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1756, adm.pens. 16 Jun 1756, scholar 6 May 1757, matr. Easter 1756 ; BA 1760 ; ordained deacon 2 Mar 1760 (Ely) , to curacy of Shudy Camps, Cambs., priest 15 Feb 1761 (Lichfield, lit.dim. from Lincoln) ; Chaplain, Royal Navy 1760 ; Rector of Sacombe, Herts., from 16 Feb 1761 ; Vicar of Bengeo, Herts., from 18 Aug 1763 ; incumbent, Castle Hedingham, Essex, from 1787 ; d. 22 Jul 1807.
CASWALL, HENRY ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1750/1 ; in school list 1754 ; referred to by George Butt (qv) in his Poems, 1793, ii, 159, as “dear-lov’d Caswell … he imparted to me his destination to the sea-service, when we were both about fifteen years of age and then at Westminster School” ; Midshipman, Royal Navy ; killed in action on board HMS Namur in sea battle with French off Lagos 18 Aug 1759. [Presumably brother of, or close kin to, George Caswall (qv), adm.same month]
CATCHER, RICHARD, son of Thomas Catcher, Hackney, Middlesex, moneyer, and Sabina, dau. of Francis Eastfield, Walthamstow, Essex ; bapt. St.John, Hackney 14 Jul 1594 ; adm. ; KS 16 Nov 1610 (Chapter Lease Book, 1605-10, f.326) ; Peterhouse, Cambridge, matr.pens. Easter 1612 ; BA 1615/6 ; MA 1619 ; Lic.Med.1624 ; MD 1634 ; FRCP 1634 ; m. 14 May 1629 (IGI) Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Godman, Leatherhead, Surrey ; d. 1 Jun 1651.
CATHCART, CHARLES, 9TH BARON CATHCART (S), third son of Charles Cathcart, 8th Baron Cathcart (S), Major-Gen. in Army, Lord of the Bedchamber to George II, and Representative Peer for Scotland, and his first wife Marion, only child of Sir John Schaw, Bart. MP, Greenock, Renfrewshire ; b. 21 Mar 1721 ; adm. (aged 9) Apr 1730 ; left 1737 ; Leiden Univ., adm. 21 Aug 1737 ; Ensign, 3rd Foot Guards, 13 Nov 1740 ; succ. father as 9th Baron Cathcart (S) 20 Dec 1740 ; Capt., 20th Foot, 2 Apr 1742 ; Capt. and Lieut.-Col., 3rd Foot Guards, 27 May 1745 – 27 Aug 1753 ; served with Duke of Cumberland in Flanders, Scotland and Netherlands, and was dangerously wounded in the head at battle of Fontenoy ; a Lord of the Bedchamber to Duke of Cumberland by 1748 (Chamberlayne 1748) ; a hostage in Paris for the restitution of Cape Breton, Nov 1748 – Oct 1749 ; Brevet Col. and Adj.-Gen. for North Britain, 12 Apr 1750 ; a Scottish Representative Peer from 1752 ; Maj.-Gen., 21 Jan 1755 ; Lieut.-Gen., 14 Dec 1760 ; Commander of the Forces in Scotland ; Lord High Commissioner to General Assembly of Church of Scotland, 1755-63, and from 1773 ; KT 13 Apr 1763 ; First Lord of Police, Scotland, from Jan 1764 ; Ambassador to St.Petersburg, Jul 1768 – Aug 1772 ; PC 29 Jun 1768 ; Rector, Glasgow Univ. 1773-5 ; m. 24 Jul 1753 Jean, sister of Archibald Hamilton (qv) ; d. 14 Aug 1776. ODNB. [Russell Barker and Stenning incorrectly identified Schaw Cathcart (adm. Jan.1733/4) as the future Lord Cathcart, and assigned him in the Record the biographical details that properly belong to Charles Cathcart (adm. Apr 1730). It should be noted that Lord Cathcart was christened as Charles Cathcart only, and that the supposition that his full name was Charles Schaw Cathcart does not appear to be based on fact]
CATHCART, HON.SCHAW, brother of Charles Cathcart, 9th Baron Cathcart (S) (qv) ; b. 26 Sep 1722 ; adm. (aged 11) Jan.1733/4 (as Shaw Cathcart) ; left 1735 ; Leiden Univ., adm. 31 Aug.1737 ; Ensign, 3rdFoot Guards ; m. Jane, dau. of Lieut.-Gen. Francis Leighton MP ; killed at battle of Fontenoy 11 May 1745, aged 23.
CATHROW-DISNEY, DISNEY, son of James Cathrow (afterwards Cathrow Disney), Somerset Herald, and his first wife Elizabeth Ann Ellen, dau. of John Wyatt ; b. 1 Jul 1810 ; adm. 23 Jan 1823 (as Cathrow Disney) ; left Jun 1825 ; m. 25 Aug 1836 Sophia Elwin ; buried Thanington, Kent 6 Apr 1841.
CATLING, — ; b. ; in school lists 1764,1765,1767,1769 ; left 1769. [maybe Benjamin Catling, son of John Catling, Sacrist, Westminster Abbey, and Mary Woolfe ; b. 18 May 1755 ; d. 14 Aug 1776. Buried Dark Cloister, Westminster Abbey]
CATOR, CHARLES, brother of John Barwell Cator (qv) ; b. 25 Aug 1786 ; in school lists 1801,1803 ; Brasenose Coll.Oxford, matr. 30 Oct 1805 ; BA 1810 ; MA 1814 ; ordained deacon 23 Dec 1810, priest 22 Dec 1811 (both York) ; Rector of Kirk Smeaton, Yorks., 12 May 1813 – Oct 1829 ; Rector of Beckenham, Kent, 13 Jun 1829 – 28 May 1835 ; Vicar of Carshalton, Surrey, 27 Aug 1829 – Jul 1835 ; Rector of Stokesley, Yorks., from 2 Jun 1835 ; author, The Doctrine and Ritual of the Church of England, 1836, and other works ; m.1st, 2 May 1809 Philadelphia, second dau. of George Osbaldeston, Hutton Bushel, Yorks. ; m.2nd, 1 Mar 1849 Amelia, dau. of Abraham Langford, Ludgate Hill, London, tobacconist ; d. 17 Dec 1872.
CATOR, JOHN BARWELL, eldest son of Joseph Cator, Beckenham, Kent, merchant, and Diana, sister of Admiral Sir Albemarle Bertie, Bart., KCB, and reputed dau. of Lord Albemarle Bertie ; b. 1781; at school under Vincent (“went to Westminster School and is presently at Christ Church, Oxford” (letter from Brownlow Bertie, 5th Duke of Ancaster (qv), to 3rd Duke of Portland, 13 Apr 1801 (Portland MSS, Nottingham Univ., C52/61/1)) ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 2 May 1800, aged 18 ; adm. Inner Temple 2 May 1803 ; of Beckenham Place, Kent, and Woodbastwick, Norfolk ; High Sheriff, Kent 1818 ; m. 25 Sep 1806 Elizabeth Louisa, dau. of Sir Ross Mahon, Bart., MP, Castlegar, co.Galway, Ireland ; d. 20 Aug 1858.
CATOR, SIR WILLIAM, brother of John Barwell Cator (qv); b. 14 Apr 1785 ; adm. ; in school list 1797 ; still at school 1799 ; Gent.Cadet, Royal Artillery, 13 May 1800 ; 2nd Lieut., 7 May 1803 ; 1st Lieut., 12 Sep 1803 ; 2nd Captain, 1 May 1809 ; Brevet Maj., 12 Apr 1814 ; Capt., 29 Jul 1825 ; Brevet Lieut.-Col., 22 Jul 1830 ; Lieut.-Col., 10 Jan 1837 ; Col., 9 Nov 1846 ; Director of the Royal Laboratory, Woolwich, Apr – Aug 1852 ; Director-Gen. of Artillery, 19 Aug 1852 – Dec 1858 ; Brig.-Gen., 21 Feb 1854 ; Maj.-Gen., 20 Jun 1854 ; Lieut.-Gen., 25 Sep 1859 ; Col.commandant, Royal Artillery, 1 Apr 1860 ; Gen., 5 Apr 1866 ; served in Walcheren Expedition and Peninsular War ; wounded at Barossa and in explosion of magazine at Seville ; appointed to command Artillery at beginning of Crimean War, and went out to Varna, but was obliged to relinquish command on account of ill health just as expedition was starting for the Crimea ; CB 5 Jul 1855 ; distinguished service reward, 1 Apr 1856 ; KCB 28 Mar 1865 ; m.1st, 30 Mar 1815 Penelope Anne, only dau. of Sir John Farnaby, Bart. ; m.2nd, 18 Nov 1837 Mary, widow of William Nettleship, Cheltenham, Gloucs., dau. of John Best, and niece of William Draper Best, 1st Baron Wynford PC, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas ; d. 11 May 1866. [Either or both the references cited above for him having been at the School in 1797 and 1799 may perhaps relate to his elder brother John Barwell Cator (qv), but William Cator was undoubtedly educated at the School, as he was a signatory of the Play Protest, 1847].
CATT, FREDERICK, see WILLETT, FREDERICK.
CATTILIAN, see also CASTILLION.
CATTILIAN, — ; b. ; adm. ; left 1656 (school list 1656, first quarter).
CAULFIELD, — ; b. ; at school 1791. He or next played cricket for the School against Charterhouse 1794 (surname given as Coffield on score sheet). [These entries may well refer to a son or sons of Capt.Wade Toby Caulfield FRS, 3rd Dragoon Guards, by his first wife Hon.Janet Ruthven, dau. of James Ruthven, 3rd Baron Ruthven (S), since Capt.Caulfield was resident in College Street, Westminster, by 1792, and was still so at death 1800 ; they were nephews of John Caulfield (qv). If so, the Caulfield who played against Eton in 1796 will have been Henry Edwin Allen Caulfeild (1779-1808), Capt. in Army, already Cornet, 4th Dragoons, by 1799, Ensign 1st Foot 28 Dec 1799, amateur actor with Pic-Nic Society, and afterwards briefly a professional actor, appearing at Covent Garden in 1803 and selling army commission, d. 8 Sep 1808 while on licence from imprisonment in rules of King’s Bench Prison, to which he had been consigned for non-payment of damages to George Chambers MP for criminal conversation with Chambers’s wife (Caulfield’s liaison with Mrs Chambers had commenced in 1798 and continued until his death). His older brothers Wade Francis Caulfield (1776-1798), Ensign, 1st Foot Guards 10 Dec 1793, Lieut. and Capt., 1st Foot Guards 5 Sep 1796, Capt. 20th Foot 30 Jan 1798, d. 1798 (will proved PCC 16 May 1798), and Ponsonby William Caulfield (1777-c.1796), Cornet, 1st Dragoon Guards 8 Apr 1794, Lieut., 25th Light Dragoons 23 Feb 1796, might also have been at the school]
CAULFIELD, — ; b. ; in school list 1795 ; played against Eton in cricket match on Hounslow Heath, 25 Jul 1796.
CAULFIELD, JOHN, son of Lieut.-Col.William Caulfield, Lieut.-Gov. Fort St.George, Scotland, Inspector of Roads, North Britain, and Catherine, dau. of Rev.Francis Moore, Raheenduff, Queen’s Co. ; b. 27 Nov 1737 ; adm. (aged 13) Jan 1750/1 ; KS 1753 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1757, matr. 8 Jun 1757, Westminster Student 5 Jan 1758 – void for absence 10 Apr 1759 ; ordained deacon 8 Apr 1764, priest 15 Apr 1764 (both York); Chaplain, 17th Foot, 12 Apr 1764-6 ; Curate, Coulsdon, Surrey, 29 Apr 1764-6 ; Chaplain to Duke of Gordon ; Rector of Knockbridge, 1774-5, Vicar of Cloncure 1775-81, Rector of Castlerahan 1777-81, Rector of Aden Kilmore 1776-1816, and Rector of Killashemdra, co.Cavan, 1781-97 ; Archdeacon of Kilmore 1776-1816 ; Prebendary of Clogher from 8 Jul 1797 ; Rector of Derryloran, co.Tyrone, from 5 Jul 1797 ; also Rector of Devenish at death, also DD ; m.1st, 24 Oct 1763 Euphemia, dau. of [William ?] Gordon, Kenmure, Dumfriesshire ; m.2nd, 6 Oct 1808 Maria Farellow, Dublin ; d. 2 Mar 1816.
CAULFIELD, HON.THOMAS, seventh son of William Caulfield, 2nd Baron Charlemont (I), Master-Gen. of the Ordnance (I), and Mary, dau. of Sir John King, Kt., Boyle Abbey, co.Roscommon ; b. ; at school under Busby (Adm.Reg., Magdalene Coll.Cambridge) ; a letter from his aunt Dorothy, widow of Arthur Moore, Dunmoghan, co.Louth, apparently written in 1644, asks for Hartlib’s help on behalf of her nephew at “an ellection of some scollers at Westminster” (Hartlib MSS in possession of Lord Delamere, as quoted H.G.Turnbull, Hartlib, Dury and Comenius, 1947, 247, note) ; Magdalene Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 6 Jun 1645, aged 14, matr.1645 ; a Master in Chancery (I), 29 Mar 1655, continued in office 26 Feb 1660 ; MP (I) Charlemont 1661-5 ; attainted and estate sequestered 1689 ; m.1657 Hon.Anne Moore, dau. of Charles Moore, 2nd Viscount Moore (I) ; d.1690.
CAULFIELD, TOBIAS, brother of John Caulfield (qv) ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1750/1 ; left 1752 ; entered Royal Navy ; Lieut., 20 Jul 1759 ; Capt., 6 Jul 1776 ; d. 31 Jan 1781.
CAVENDISH, WILLIAM, 2ND DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE, elder son of William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire KG PC, Lord Steward of the Household, and Lady Mary Butler, second dau. of James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde KG, Lord Lieut.Ireland ; b. c.1671 ; at school under Busby, where he was a great friend of William Legge, 1st Earl of Dartmouth (qv) (HMC 12th Report, App.V, 190) ; the dedicatee of the second edition, 1726, of the translation into Latin elegiac verse by John Hanway (KS 1686, qv) of the Psalms of David, in the dedication to which Hanway mentions that he and Cavendish were at school together ”sub magistratu veteris tyranni”, i.e. Richard Busby (qv); in command of cavalry regiment raised by father 1689-90 ; Grand Tour (Austria, Spanish Netherlands, Germany, Italy) 1690-1 ; served as volunteer with army in Flanders 1692 ; MP Derbyshire 1695 – Nov 1701, Castle Rising 2 Feb 1702 – 1702, Yorkshire 1702 – 18 Aug 1707 ; Captain, Yeomen of the Guard, 18 Jan 1702- Sep 1707 ; LLD Cambridge 16 Apr 1705 ; a Commissioner for the Union with Scotland, 10 Apr 1706 ; succ.father as 2nd Duke of Devonshire 18 Aug 1707 ; Lord Steward of the Household, 6 Sep 1707 – 21 Sep 1710, 24 Sep 1714 – 6 Jul 1716 ; Privy Councillor 8 Sep 1707 ; Lord Lieut., Derbyshire 6 Nov 1707 – 5 Sep 1711, and from 15 Oct 1714 ; KG 22 Mar 1710 ; Lord President of the Council 6 Jul 1716 – 16 Apr 1717, and from 27 Mar 1725 ; acted five times as one of the Lord Justices ; a consistent Whig politician and a collector of works of art, including engravings and coins ; m. 21 Jun 1688 Rachel, eldest dau. of William Russell, Lord Russell MP ; d. 4 Jun 1729. ODNB.
CAVENDISH-BENTINCK, LORD (WILLIAM) FREDERICK, fourth son of William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (qv) ; b. 2 Nov 1781 ; in school list 1797 ; Ensign, 32nd Foot, 1 Feb 1798 ; Lieut., 24th Light Dragoons, 1 May 1798 ; Capt., 19 Oct 1799 ; 52nd Foot, 25 May 1803 ; Maj., 45th Foot, 27 Mar 1804 ; Lieut.-Col., 7th Foot, 21 Apr 1804 ; 45th Foot, 5 May 1804 ; Col. in the Army, 4 Jun 1813 ; Lieut.-Col., 1st Foot Guards, 25 Jul 1814 – Jul 1821 ; Maj.-Gen., 12 Aug 1819 ; Col., 58th Foot, from 6 Sep 1826 ; served with Russian and Austrian armies in Italy 1799, present as a volunteer in a regiment of Austrian Light Dragoons at battles of Novi and Marengo ; took part in Walcheren expedition 1809 ; MP Weobley 20 Feb 1816 – 26 Jan 1824, Queenborough 22 Mar 1824 – 1826 ; m. 16 Sep 1820 Lady Mary Lowther, third dau. of William Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale (qv) ; d. at Rome 11 Feb 1828.
CAVENDISH-BENTINCK, GEORGE AUGUSTUS FREDERICK, only son of Lord Frederick Cavendish-Bentinck (qv) ; b. 8 Jul 1821 ; adm. 26 May 1834 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 2 Mar 1839, matr. Mich.1839 ; MA 1844 ; Ensign and Lieut., 1st Foot Guards, 28 Jul 1840 ; retd. 21 May 1841 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 5 Apr 1842, called to bar 29 Jan 1846 ; equity draughtsman and conveyancer ; MP (Cons) Taunton 1859-65, Whitehaven from 1865 ; Parliamentary Secretary, Board of Trade, 1874-5 ; Judge Advocate-General, 1875-80 ; Privy Councillor 27 Nov 1875 ; a well-known connoisseur ; Trustee of the British Museum from 1871 ; Hon ARIBA 1878 ; his pictures and objets d’art were sold at Christies in 1891 (9 day sale) ; JP Cumberland, Dorset ; an extensive series of letters written by him from school to his mother between 1834 and 1837 are preserved in the Nottinghamshire Record Office ; author, Fact against Sensation : Speeches on Merchant Shipping Legislation, 1875 ; m. 14 Aug 1850 Prudence Penelope, fourth dau. of Charles Powell Leslie MP, Glasslough, co.Monaghan, Col.Monaghan Militia ; d. 9 Apr 1891.
CAVENDISH-BENTINCK, LORD WILLIAM, second son of William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (qv) ; b. 14 Sep 1774 ; at school under Vincent (Steward, Anniversary Dinner 1798,1809) ; Ensign, 2nd Foot Guards, 21 Jan 1791 ; Capt., 2nd Light Dragoons, 1 Aug 1792 ; 11th Light Dragoons, 20 Feb 1793 ; Maj., 28th Foot, 21 Feb 1794 ; Lieut.-Col., 24th Light Dragoons, 20 Mar 1794 ; ADC to King George III and Brevet Col., 1 Jan 1798 ; Major-Gen., 1 Jan 1805 ; Col., 20th Light Dragoons, 4 Jan 1810 – Jan 1813 [check] ; Lieut.-Gen., 4 Jun 1811 ; Col., 11th Light Dragoons, from 27 Jan 1813 ; Gen., 27 May 1825 ; served on Duke of York’s staff in the Netherlands 1794, with Marshal Suvorov’s army in Northern Italy 1799, and subsequently with Austrian forces until 1801 ; MP Camelford 19 Mar 1796-96, Nottinghamshire 1796 – Apr 1803 ; Governor of Madras, 17 Nov 1802, arriving in India 30 Aug 1803 and holding post until 11 Sep 1807 ; recalled by Directors of East India Co. following mutiny at Vellore, for which he was held mainly responsible ; on staff of Sir Henry Burrard in Portugal, Aug 1808 ; commanded a brigade at battle of Corunna ; Envoy Extraordinary to Court of Sicily, and Commander-in-Chief of British Forces there, 1811-4, conducting expeditions against enemy forces on east coast of Spain and at Genoa ; MP Nottinghamshire 1812 – 12 Mar 1814, 8 Jul 1816-26, King’s Lynn 1826 – Jan 1828 ; KB 1 Feb 1813 ; GCB 2 Jan 1815 ; GCH 1817 ; Governor-General of Bengal 4 Jul 1827 – Nov 1834, also Commander-in-Chief 16 May 1833 ; Privy Councillor 17 Aug 1827 ; Governor-General of India 14 Nov 1834 – 20 Mar 1835 ; the first British statesman who adopted the policy of governing India in the interests of the people of that country ; MP (Whig) Glasgow from 17 Feb 1836 ; Clerk of the Pipe in the Exchequer Oct 1783 – Oct 1833 (office abolished) ; m. 19 Feb 1803 Lady Mary Acheson, second dau. of Arthur Acheson, 1st Earl of Gosford (I) ; d. at Paris 17 Jun 1839. ODNB.
CAVENDISH-BENTINCK, LORD (WILLIAM) CHARLES (AUGUSTUS), third son of William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (qv) ; b. May 1780 ; adm. 29 Jun 1795 (Clapham) ; in school list 1795, sixth form list 1796 ; Ensign, 2nd Foot Guards, 20 Jan 1796 ; Lieut., 44th Foot, 28 Feb 1798 ; Capt., 29th Foot, 10 May 1798 ; Maj., 3rd West India Regt., 17 Jul 1802 ; Lieut.-Col., 38th Foot, 24 Jul 1802 ; Capt. and Lieut.-Col., 1st Foot Guards, 17 Sep 1802, retd. 3 Apr 1811 ; MP Ashburton 1807-12 ; Treasurer of the Household from 29 Jul 1812 ; Privy Councillor 13 Aug 1812 ; m.1st, 21 Sep 1808 Georgiana Augusta Frederica Seymour, illegitimate dau. of Mrs Grace Dalrymple Elliott (her father may have been the Prince of Wales (George IV)) ; m.2nd, 23 Jul 1816 Anne, divorced wife of Sir William Abdy, Bart., MP, and illegitimate dau. of Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley KG KP PC ; d. 28 Apr 1826.
CAVENDISH-BENTINCK, (WILLIAM GEORGE) FREDERICK (AUGUSTUS), second son of George Augustus Frederick Cavendish-Bentinck (qv) ; b. 26 Aug 1856 ; adm. 22 Jun 1867 ; left Dec 1869 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 28 Feb 1874, matr. Mich.1874 ; BA 1878 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 12 Nov 1875, called to bar 25 Jun 1879 ; Western Circuit ; contested (Cons) Carlisle 1886 ; Secretary to Royal Commission on Education Acts 1886-8 ; manager of Lady Howard de Walden’s London estate ; JP Dorset ; FSA 4 Mar 1897 ; a Trustee of the British Museum ; m. 8 Aug 1887 Ruth Mary, radical and suffragist (ODNB), illegitimate dau. of Ferdinand St.Maur, Earl St.Maur ; d. 13 Nov 1948.
CAVENDISH-BENTINCK, WILLIAM HENRY, 3RD DUKE OF PORTLAND, elder son of William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland, and Lady Margaret Cavendish Harley, only dau. of Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford (qv) ; b. 14 Apr 1738 ; styled Marquis of Titchfield to 1762 ; adm. May 1747 (Watts) ; left Dec 1754 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 4 Mar 1755 ; MA 1 Feb 1757 ; DCL 7 Oct 1792 ; LLD Tinity Coll.Dublin 18 May 1782 ; assumed additional surname of Cavendish 1755 ; MP Weobley 1761 – 1 May 1762 ; succ. father as 3rd Duke of Portland 1 May 1762 ; Lord Chamberlain 15 Jul 1765 – 26 Nov 1766 ; Privy Councillor 10 Jul 1765 ; Lord Lieut., Ireland, 10 Apr – 15 Sep 1782 ; Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury 21 Apr – 19 Dec 1783 ; although previously a committed Whig politician, he became alarmed by the French Revolution, and he with other Whig colleagues joined William Pitt’s government in 1794 ; Secretary of State for Home Affairs, 11 Jul 1794 – 30 Jul 1801, Lord President of the Council 30 Jul 1801 – 14 Jan 1805 ; KG 16 Jul 1801 ; Prime Ministry and First Lord of the Treasury 31 Mar 1807 – 28 Sep 1809, when he resigned through ill-health ; Chancellor of Oxford University from 27 Sep 1792 ; Lord Lieut., Nottinghamshire, from 19 Jun 1795 ; Master of Trinity House from 1807 ; FRS 5 Jun 1766 ; Harley family Trustee, British Museum, from 1764 ; a Busby Trustee from 14 Mar 1765 ; an extensive series of letters written to him when at school by his parents and grandmother are preserved in the Nottinghamshire County Record Office ; for his political career see D.Wilkinson, The Duke of Portland, Politics and Party in the Age of George III, 2002 ; m. 8 Nov 1766 Lady Dorothy Cavendish, only dau. of William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire PC KG ; d. 30 Oct 1809. ODNB.
CAVENDISH-SCOTT-BENTINCK, WILLIAM HENRY, 4TH DUKE OF PORTLAND, eldest son of William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (qv) ; b. 24 Jun 1768 ; styled Marquis of Titchfield to 1809 ; adm. 16 Jun 1783 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 25 Jan 1785 ; DCL 1793 ; MP Petersfield 29 Dec 1790 – Apr 1791, Buckinghamshire 18 Apr 1791 – 30 Oct 1809 ; Lord Lieut., Middlesex 6 Aug 1794 – 29 Dec 1841 ; assumed additional surname of Scott 5 Sep 1795 ; a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury 31 Mar – Sep 1807 ; succ.father as 4th Duke of Portland 30 Oct 1809 ; he took no active part in politics between his father’s death in 1809 and 1827, when he was asked to join the administration being formed by his wife’s brother-in-law George Canning ; Lord Privy Seal 30 Apr – Aug 1827, Lord President of the Council 17 Aug 1827 – 26 Jan 1828 ; Privy Councillor 30 Apr 1827 (an original member of Judicial Committee of Privy Council 14 Aug 1833) ; Harley family Trustee, British Museum, 1793-1829 ; m. 4 Aug 1795 Henrietta, eldest dau. of Maj.-Gen.John Scott MP, Balcomie, Fife ; d. 27 Mar 1854.
CAVERLY, see also CALVERLEY.
CAVERLY, — ; b. ; in under school list 1715.
CECIL, HON.ALGERNON, brother of Hon.William Cecil (at school under Busby (qv)) ; b. ; adm. ; KS (Capt.) 1641 ; among the Steward’s accounts at Hatfield for the year 1640-1 are payments “to Mr Busby for diet for the two gentlemen [William and Algernon Cecil] at the rate of £60 per ann., and their servant at £15 per ann.”, for “potation money” at Easter 5s., and on “Mr Algernon’s admittance to be a King’s Scholar” £3.15s.9d. ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.fellow commoner 28 Apr 1645, MA 1644 [check], still in residence Jun 1647 ; elected MP Old Sarum 1660, but there was a double return and his opponents were seated instead ; m. (settlement Jul 1659) Dorothy, dau. of Sandford Nevile, Chevet, Yorks. ; d. Nov.1676.
CECIL, HON.CHRISTOPHER, fourth son of Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter KG, and his first wife Hon.Dorothy Nevill, dau. of John Nevill, 4th Baron Latymer ; b. 4 May 1576 ; at school under Grant ; Pembroke Coll.Camb., adm.fellow commoner, matr. c.1593 ; adm.Gray’s Inn 4 Nov 1597 ; a Latin letter written by Cecil to his grandfather, Lord Burghley, dated from Westminster School 6 Apr 1591, is among the Lansdowne MSS, British Library ; drowned in Germany before 12 Jan 1603/4.
CECIL, JAMES, 6TH EARL OF SALISBURY, elder son of James Cecil, 5th Earl of Salisbury, and Lady Anne Tufton, second dau. of Thomas Tufton, 6th Earl of Thanet ; b. 10 Oct 1713 ; adm. Sep 1724 ; in school list 1729 ; succ.father as 6th Earl of Salisbury 9 Oct 1728 ; Grand Tour (France) (to Jun 1734) ; High Steward of Hertford from 1735 ; m. 28 Jan 1744/5 Elizabeth, elder dau. of Edward Keet, Canterbury, Kent, barber ; d. 19 Sep 1780.
CECIL, WILLIAM, 16TH BARON DE ROS, only son of William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Exeter KG, and his first wife Lady Elizabeth Manners, Baroness De Ros, only d. of Edward Manners, 3rd Earl of Rutland KG ; nephew of Hon.Christopher Cecil (qv) ; b. May 1590 ; succ.his mother as 16th Baron De Ros 11 May 1591 ; at school in 1603 (Chapter Muniments 33656) ; travelling in Europe 1605-15 ; Ambassador on special mission to Spain, Nov 1616- spring 1617 ; left England again Aug 1617 ; Roman Catholic convert ; m. 12 Feb 1615/6 Elizabeth, dau. of Right Hon.Sir Thomas Lake Kt PC MP, Canons, Middlesex, Secretary of State ; d. at Naples 27 Jun 1618. ODNB.
[CECIL, WILLIAM, 2ND EARL OF SALISBURY, eldest son of Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury KG, Secretary of State to Elizabeth I and James I, and Hon.Elizabeth Brooke, dau. of William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham KG ; b. 28 Mar 1591 ; at school under Ireland (Dalton, Life and times of General Sir Edward Cecil, Viscount Wimbledon, 1885, i, 204, note) ; St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, fellow commoner, matr. Mich.1602 ; MA 1605 (also created MA Oxford, 30 Aug 1605) ; KB 6 Jan 1604/5 ; adm. Gray’s Inn, 2 Feb 1604/5 ; styled Viscount Cranborne 1605-12 ; travelling in Europe 1608-10 ; MP Weymouth and Melcombe Regis 1610-1 ; succ.father as 2nd Earl of Salisbury 24 May 1612 ; Lord Lieut., Hertfordshire, 10 Jul 1612 ; KG 31 Dec 1624 ; carried Sceptre with the Cross at coronation of Charles I, 2 Feb 1626 ; Privy Councillor 22 Jul 1626 ; Captain, Band of Gentlemen Pensioners, 1635-42 ; one of the noblemen named by the King to treat with the Scots at Ripon, 1640 ; Lord Lieut., Dorset, 15 May 1641 ; took the Parliamentary side in the Civil War ; one of the four Earls sent to treat with the King at Oxford Jan 1642/3 ; member, Assembly of Divines, 7 Jun 1643 ; a Commissioner at Conference of Uxbridge, 1645 ; voted a Marquisate by Parliament, 1 Dec 1645 ; a Commissioner of the Great Seal Jul – Oct 1646 ; a Commissioner at Conference at Newport, 1648 ; a Councillor of State, Feb 1649-51 ; after abolition of House of Lords elected MP King’s Lynn 8 Sep 1649, and MP for Hertforshire 1654 and 1656 ; High Steward of St.Alban’s 1663 ; m. 1 Dec 1608 Lady Catherine Howard, youngest dau. of Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk KG ; d. 3 Dec 1668. ODNB] [But he was certainly at Sherborne School in 1600, and Dalton, op.cit., asserts the fact that he was at Westminster School without adducing evidence]
CECIL, HON.WILLIAM, fourth son of William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury PC KG , and Lady Catherine Howard, youngest dau. of Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk (qv) ; bapt.St.Martin’s in the Fields 25 Apr 1627 ; at school under Busby (Hatfield Steward’s Account, 29 Sep 1641, Salisbury MSS) ; m. 16 Aug 1649 Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Thomas Lawley, Bart., MP, Alderman, City of London, draper ; d. 9 Dec 1668.
CECIL, HON.WILLIAM, younger brother of James Cecil, 6th Earl of Salisbury (qv) ; b. 13 Feb 1717/8 ; adm. (aged 12) Apr 1730 ; left 1734 ; Grand Tour (left England Sep 1735) ; d. unm. at Aachen, Germany, 5 May 1740.
CHADWICK, — ; b. ; in school lists 1764,1765.
CHADWICK, GEORGE ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Aug 1719 ; in under school list 1722.
CHADWICKE, DANIEL, second son of Samuel Chadwicke, Nottinghamshire, and Elizabeth — ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1674 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1678, adm.pens. 26 Jun 1678, aged 18, scholar 1679, matr.1679 ; BA 1681/2 ; ordained deacon Nov 1683 (Norwich) ; [? of Hoddesdon, Herts. ?] ; m. Martha, dau. of Isaac King, Hertford ; d. 28 Feb 1696/7, aged 39 (will proved PCC 26 Oct 1697, as of Tottenham High Cross, Middlesex).
CHAFY, WILLIAM LUCAS, elder son of John Chafy, Chief Inspector of Customs, Liverpool, and Emma, dau. of Stucley Lucas, Barons Down, Dulverton, Somerset ; b. 12 Jan 1807 ; adm. 6 May 1816 ; Min.Can.1821 ; left 1825 ; Sidney Sussex Coll.Cambridge,adm.pens. 1 Nov 1823, matr. Mich.1825 ; BA 1829 ; MA 1832 (incorp. Oxford, 18 May 1842) ; ordained deacon 6 Jun 1830, priest 5 Jun 1831 (both Norwich) ; Fellow and Usher, Dulwich Coll., Nov 1836 – Dec 1857 ; m. 21 Jan 1858 Caroline, dau. of Rev.Zachary Brooke, Vicar of Great Hormead, Herts. ; d. 10 Jan 1878.
CHALES, PHILIP, see CHEALE, PHILIP.
CHALK, RICHARD GREGORY, eldest son of Rev.William Shove Chalk, Rector of Wilden, Beds., and Eliza, second dau. of Rev.Thomas Gregory, Rector of Henlow, Beds. ; b. 8 Aug 1823 ; adm. 19 Sep 1837 ; QS 1838 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1842, adm.pens. 12 May 1842, scholar 1843, matr. Mich.1842 ; BA 1846 ; ordained deacon 1848, priest 1849 (both Ely) ; Curate of Wilden, Beds., 1848-9, Rector from 1849 ; JP (1852) Bedfordshire ; m. 10 Jun 1851 Julia, seventh dau. of Rev.James Landon BD, Vicar of Aberford, Yorks. ; d. 12 Jun 1899.
CHALLENER, THOMAS, son of Samuel Challener, Wrenbury, Cheshire, farmer, and Hannah, dau. of John Sproston, Wrenbury, Cheshire ; bapt.Wrenbury, Cheshire 15 Feb 1801 ; adm. 21 Jan 1812 ; manufacturer in Liverpool (at time of marriage in 1834) ; Governor of Lord Coventry’s Hospital, and Master, Coventry Endowed School, Droitwich, Worcs. (by 1841) ; retired Dec 1869 after sustaining injuries in train accident ; author, A Complete Catechism of the Descriptive Geography of England, 1856 (identified in advertisement for it as “formerly student in Westminster School”) ; m..1st, — ; m. 2nd, 1 Nov 1834 Ann Griffiths, Liverpool, Lancs. ; death registered King’s Norton third quarter 1870, aged 69.
CHALNCOMBE, GEORGE, son of Thomas Chalncombe, Combe Martin, Devon ; b. ; at school under Osbaldeston (Venn, Biog.Hist.Gonville & Caius Coll., i, 287) ; Gonville and Caius Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 28 Feb 1628/9, aged 16, scholar Mich 1630 – Lady Day 1634, matr. Easter 1629 ; BA 1632/3 ; MA 1636.
CHALONER, see also CHALLENER.
CHALONER, EDWARD, son of Charles Chaloner, Buckinghamshire ; b. ; adm. ; BB in 1659 and 1660 (Chapter Muniments 33694) ; Min.Can. (aged 14) 1661. [Probably = Edward Chaloner, Queen’s Coll.Cambridge, adm. sizar 3 Jul 1665] [and perhaps Edward Chaloner, parish St.Margaret’s, Westminster, d. 11 Sep 1730, aged 84 (will proved PCC 17 Oct 1730), buried North Cloister, Westminster Abbey] [father perhaps of Steeple Claydon, Bucks.]
CHALONER, JOHN, elder son of Robert Chaloner, Bishop Auckland, co.Durham, and Dorothy, sister of Sir John Lister Kaye, Bart. (adm.1740, qv) ; b. 3 Jun 1765 ; adm. 18 Jan 1777 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 17 Dec 1782, Canoneer Student 23 Dec 1782 – void 26 Feb 1791 (expiry year of grace for V.Wirksworth from 2 Mar 1790) ; BA 1786 ; MA 1789 ; ordained deacon 14 Dec 1788, priest 20 Dec 1789 (both Oxford) ; Vicar of Wirksworth, Derbs., 20 Feb 1790 – Aug 1815 ; Rector of Kirk Ireton, Derbs., 28 Jul 1809 – Mar 1815 ; Rector of Newton Kyme, Yorks., from 30 Jan 1815 ; Rector of Darrington, Yorks., from 1 May 1815 ; m. 12 Nov 1798 Augusta Anne, widow of Edward Elmsall Vavasour, Weston Hall, Yorks., and younger dau. of Robert Sutton (adm.1738, qv) ; d. 4 Nov 1830.
CHAMBERLAIN, THOMAS ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Jun 1720.
CHAMBERLAIN, THOMAS, son of Rev.Thomas Chamberlain Hughes Chamberlain (previously Thomas Chamberlain Hughes), Wardington, Oxfordshire, Rector of Churchover, Warwicks., and Anne, dau. of Thomas Lambert Snow, Tidmington, Worcs. ; b. 25 Nov 1810 ; adm. 18 Jan 1821 ; KS (Capt.) 1824 ; Capt. of the School 1827 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1828, matr. 16 May 1828, Westminster Student (still at death) ; BA 1832 ; MA 1834 ; ordained deacon 25 May 1834, priest 14 Jun 1835 (both Oxford) ; Perpetual Curate of Cowley, Oxfordshire, 20 May 1837-42 ; Vicar of St.Thomas the Martyr, Oxford, from 1842 ; Hon.Canon, Christ Church, from 1882 ; founded Sisterhood of St.Thomas the Martyr, Oxford, and St.Edward’s School, Summertown ; built Church of St.Frideswide to serve the wants of Osney Town ; editor, The Ecclesiastic 1846-67, Oxford University Herald from 1881 ; author The Seven Ages of the Church, 1856, and other works ; d. unm. 20 Jan 1892.
CHAMBERLAYN, RICHARD, son of Charles Chamberlayn, Lincolnshire ; b. ; at school (aged 13) 2 July 1582 (Chapter Muniments).
CHAMBERLAYNE, — – ; b. ; adm. ; a pensioner, Lady Day quarter 1564/5.
CHAMBERLAYNE, EDWARD, youngest son of Edward Chamberlayne LLD DCL FRS, author The Present State of England, and Susannah, only dau. of Richard Clifford, Frampton, Gloucs. ; b. 23 Sep 1669 ; at school under Busby (M.I., Chelsea Old Church) ; Trinity Coll.Oxford, matr. Apr 1685 ; adm.Inner Temple 27 Jun 1678 (sic) ; officer in Royal Navy ; served seven years on the sea and fought against the French ; d. 14 May 1698.
CHAMBERLAYNE, EDWARD TOMES, second son of Henry Thomas Chamberlayne (qv) ; b. 4 Feb 1833 ; adm. (G) 22 Jan 1846 ; QS 23 Oct 1847 ; left 1851 ; Brasenose Coll.Oxford, matr. 28 Jan 1852 ; BA 1855 ; MA 1858 ; ordained deacon 1857, priest 1858 (Peterborough) ; Curate, Witherley, Warwicks. (subsequently Leics.), 1857-71, Rector from 1871 ; d.unm. 12 Oct 1887.
CHAMBERLAYNE, HENRY THOMAS, brother of Stanes Brocket Brocket (qv) ; b. 23 May 1798 ; adm. 27 Sep 1811 ; in school list Oct 1814 ; of Stoney Thorpe, Warwicks. ; DL JP Warwickshire ; High Sheriff, Warwickshire 1836 ; m. 6 Dec 1825 Mary, only child of Edward Tomes, Southam, Warwicks., farmer ; d. 12 Mar 1875.
CHAMBERLAYNE, JOHN, brother of Stanes Brocket Brocket (qv) ; b. 25 Aug 1791 ; in school lists 1801, May 1803 ; left 1803 ; Jesus Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 28 May 1808, matr. Mich.1808 ; BA 1814 ; MA 1817 ; ordained deacon 11 Jun 1815 (London), priest 24 Mar 1816 (Ely, lit.dim. from London) ; Perpetual Curate of Norton Mandeville, Essex, 26 Mar 1816-55 ; Rector of Eastwick, Herts., from 10 Jun 1825 ; d. unm. 25 Nov 1867.
CHAMBERLAYNE, STANES BROCKET, see BROCKET, STANES BROCKET.
CHAMBERLAYNE, STANES BROCKET HENRY, youngest son of Henry Thomas Chamberlayne (qv) ; b. 8 Feb 1843 ; adm. (G) 25 Jan 1856 ; QS 1858 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1862, matr. 12 Jun 1862 ; BA 1866 ; adm.Middle Temple 25 Jan 1867, called to bar 17 Nov 1869 ; Midland circuit ; of Witherley Hall, Atherstone, Warwicks.; JP (1881) Warwickshire ; m. 9 Dec 1880 Norah Greame, youngest dau. of Sir Edward Bates, Bart, MP ; d. 5 Mar 1931.
CHAMBERLAYNE, WILLIAM, brother of Stanes Brocket Brocket (qv) ; b. 12 Aug 1788 ; in school lists 1797, 1801 ; left Mar 1803 ; Cornet, 2nd Dragoon Guards, 19 Aug 1806 ; Lieut., 18 Dec 1806 ; Capt., 9 May 1811 ; Maj., 1 Jul 1824 ; Lieut.-Col., half pay 30 Dec 1826 ; Col., 23 Nov 1841 ; Maj.-Gen., 11 Nov 1851 ; Lieut.-Gen., 17 Jul 1859 ; Gen., 14 Jan 1866 ; m. 1832 Sarah, fourth dau. of Rev.John Preston, Vicar of Flasby, Yorks. ; d. 21 Jul 1869.
CHAMBERLAYNE, WILLIAM TANKERVILLE, eldest son of Henry Thomas Chamberlayne (qv) ; b. 14 Nov 1828 ; adm. (G) 27 Jan 1842 ; QS 1843 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1847, adm.pens. 13 May 1847, scholar 1848, matr. Mich.1847 ; LLB 1858 ; adm.Middle Temple 6 May 1848, called to bar 7 May 1852 ; DL Warwickshire, JP (1859) Warwickshire ; m. 1874 Evelyn Mary, only child of Lieut.-Col.Fitzroy Campbell, Scots Fusilier Guards, Wellesbourne Lodge, Warwicks.; d. 28 Dec 1905.
CHAMBERS, – – – ; b. ; adm. ; a pensioner 1562 (tutor, The Dean).
CHAMBERS, SIR CHARLES HARCOURT, brother of William Frederick Chambers (KS 1800, qv) ; b. 31 Aug 1789 ; in school list 1801 ; Min.Can. 1802 ; KS 1803 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1807, adm.pens. 3 May 1807, scholar 1808, matr.Mich.1807 ; 5th Wrangler 1811 ; BA 1811 ; MA 1814 ; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll.1813, Major Fellow 1814, Assistant Tutor 1813-4 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 13 Jan 1812, called to bar 26 Nov 1816 ; knighted 21 Nov 1823 ; Puisne Judge, Supreme Court of Bombay from 8 Dec 1823, acting Chief Justice Aug 1828 ; edited A Treatise on Estates and Tenures by the late Sir RobertChambers, 1824 ; m. 12 Nov 1823 Isabella, dau. of Maj.William Wilson, 39th Foot, Polmaily, Glen Urquhart, Inverness-shire ; d. at Bombay 13 Oct 1828.
CHAMBERS, NEWTON, son of George Chambers MP, Capt. 40th Foot, and Hon.Jane Rodney, dau. of George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney KB, Vice-Adm. Royal Navy ; grandson of Sir William Chambers, architect ; bapt.St.Mary, St.Marylebone Road, London 10 Nov 1791 (IGI) ; in school list May 1803 ; left 1809 ; Ensign, 1st Foot Guards, 26 Jan 1809 ; Lieut. and Capt., 7 Apr 1813 ; ADC to Lieut.-Gen. Sir Thomas Picton at Waterloo ; killed at battle of Waterloo, 18 Jun 1815, aged 22.
CHAMBERS, RICHARD ; b. ; adm. 31 Jan 1787. [Not in school list Dec 1788]
CHAMBERS, ROBERT, of Middlesex ; b. ; adm. ; KS ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1654, adm.pens. 11 May 1654, scholar 1654.
CHAMBERS, ROBERT HARCOURT, younger son of William Frederick Chambers (KS 1800, qv) ; b. 4 Jan 1830 ; adm. 2 Jun 1842 ; Clare Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 29 Apr 1850, mch.1850 ; BA 1854 ; adm.Inner Temple 31 Jan 1851, called to bar 30 May 1856 ; Junior Examiner, Audit Office Nov 1854 ; transferred to War Office Jun 1856 ; 2nd class Clerk, Accountant General’s Dept., War Office Jul 1865 ; Senior Clerk, War Office (occurs 1874) ; m. 4 Dec 1855 Julia Eliza Dormer, younger dau. of Rev.Thomas Robinson, Vicar of Milford, Hampshire ; d. 26 Sep 1907.
CHAMBERS, THOMAS, son of Thomas Chambers, Westminster ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1685 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1690, matr. 12 Jul 1690, aged 18, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1690 – void 1704.
CHAMBERS, SIR WILLIAM FREDERICK, eldest son of William Chambers, EICS Bengal, Oriental scholar, and Charity, dau. of Thomas Fraser MD, Antigua, West Indies ; b. 10 Oct 1786 ; adm. ; KS 1800 ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1804, adm.pens. 12 May 1804, scholar 26 Apr 1805, matr.Mich.1804 ; BA 1808 ; MA 1811 ; Lic.Med.1814 ; MD 1818 ; Members’ (Second) Prize for Senior Bachelors 1810 ; medical student at St.George’s Hospital and Edinburgh ; Physician to St.George’s Hospital, 20 Apr 1816-39 ; FRCP 30 Sep 1818 ; Physician in Ordinary to Queen Adelaide 25 Oct 1836, William IV 1 Jun 1837, Queen Victoria 8 Aug 1837 and Duchess of Kent 1839 ; the leading physician in London until his retirement from practice in 1848 ; FRS 13 Mar 1828 ; KCH 8 Aug 1837 ; m. 10 Feb 1821 Mary, dau. of William Mackinnon Fraser MD, Lower Grosvenor Street, London ; d. 16 Dec 1855. ODNB.
CHAMBERS, WILLIAM FREDERICK, elder son of Sir William Frederick Chambers (qv) ; b. 17 Jan 1829 ; adm. 2 Jun 1842 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 29 Nov 1847, matr. Mich.1848 ; BA 1852 ; MA 1856 ; ordained deacon 1853 (Hereford), priest 1854 (Lincoln) ; Curate, Willey-cum-Barrow, Shropshire, 1853-4, Titchfield, Hants., 1854 ; Vicar of North Kelsey, Lincs., 1854-82 ; Curate, Hitcham, Suffolk 1884-8 ; m. 29 Sep 1863 Augusta Catharine Rebecca, elder dau. of Rev.Thomas Robinson, Vicar of Milford, Hampshire ; d.10 Apr 1898.
CHAMOT, PAUL GEORGE FRANCOIS, eldest son of Alexander Louis Chamot, Paris, France, merchant, and Nathalie Emma Helene, dau. of August Thurneyssen, Paris, France, financier ; b.Paris 11 Apr 1862 ; adm. (G [or H ?]) 4 Apr 1877 ; left Aug 1880 ; Magdalen Coll.Oxford, matr. 27 Apr 1881 ; d. at Arcachon, France 3 May 1886.
CHAMP, GEORGE EDWARD ; b. ; adm. 14 Feb 1814 ; at school 1816. [Presumably George Edward Champ, bapt.St.Peter the Less, Chichester, Sussex 26 Aug 1801 (IGI), son of James Champ, Chichester, solicitor and notary public, and Mary Louisa, dau. of Edward Hutchinson, Long Acre, London, coachmaker ; articled to father ; of 21, Little Thomas Apostle, London, in 1824, of 5 Bouverie Street, Fleet Street, London, in 1825] [perhaps m. 1 Jul 1834 Sophia Taylor (IGI)] [perhaps George Edward Champ, buried 30 Jan 1853, death registered Holborn first quarter 1853] [presumably George Edward Champ, attorney, living 1843, sentenced to two years imprisonment for conspiracy to prepare false affidavits] [he had been in 1835 managing clerk to — Long, Staple Inn, solicitor][readm.attorney, Queens Bench 1835 and 1842]
CHAMPERNOON, see also CHAMPERNOW NE.
CHAMPERNOON, JOHN ; b. ; adm. (aged 13) Oct 1735 ; left 1736. [Perhaps John Champernowne, bapt.Paignton, Devon 21 Feb 1721 [or 1721/2 ?], son of John Champernowne][perhaps son of Rev.John Champernowne, Vicar of Paignton, Devon, and Margaret, dau. of Rawlin Mallock, Cockington, Devon ; d.young]
CHAMPERNOWNE, ARTHUR, elder son of Arthur Champernowne MP, Dartington, Devon, and his first wife Elizabeth, second dau. of Francis Courtenay, Powderham, Devon ; bapt. 11 Nov 1708 ; adm. (aged 9) Jan 1718/9 ; in under school list 1722 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.fellow commoner 29 Dec 1724, matr. 1725 ; of Dartington, Devon ; contested Totnes 1732,1734,1754 ; m. Dec 1735 Jane, dau. of John Hollings MD FRS FRCP, Physician to George II ; d. 27 Apr 1766.
CHAMPERNOWNE, FRANCIS, brother of Arthur Champernowne (qv) ; bapt. 4 May 1711 ; adm. (aged 9) Jan 1720/1 ; in under school list 1724 ; Balliol Coll.Oxford, matr. 26 Aug 1730, aged 17 (sic) ; BCL 1737 ; ordained deacon 5 Jun 1737, priest 24 Jun 1737 (both Exeter) ; Rector of Dartington, Devon, from 20 Jun 1737 ; d. unm. 1763 (will proved PCC 7 Mar 1763).
CHAMPION, CHARLES ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Jan 1737/8 ; left 1738.
CHAMPION, THOMAS ; b. ; adm. (aged 9) Jan 1725/6 ; in school list 1731. [perhaps Thomas Champion, son of Thomas Champion, Worksop, Notts., apprenticed to James Burges, citizen and apothecary 20 Aug 1731]
CHAMPNES, see also CHAMPNEYS.
CHAMPNES, WILLIAM HENRY ; b. ; adm. 30 Jun 1788 ; chorister.
CHAMPNEYS, FRANCIS THOMAS, son of Weldon Champneys (qv), and his second wife ; b. 14 May 1776 ; adm. 19 Jan 1786 ; KS (aged 13) 1790 ; practised as an attorney in London ; m. 15 Jul 1801 (IGI) Charlotte, dau. of — Silk, Hatton Street, London ; d. 21 May 1825.
CHAMPNEYS, JOHN WELDON, eldest son of Weldon Champneys (qv), and his first wife ; bapt. 25 Jun 1769 ; adm. 30 May 1777 ; went to Eton Coll. (KS there 1781) ; Merton Coll.Oxford, matr. 5 Jul 1787, aged 18 ; BA 1791 ; ordained deacon 11 Dec 1791, priest 29 Sep 1793 (both Lincoln); Vicar of Ogbourne St George, Wilts., from 10 Aug 1794 ; m. 1st, 5 Oct 1797 Mary Brathwaite (IGI) ; m.2nd, 13 Oct 1801 Martha, dau. of Nathaniel Merriman, Marlborough, Wilts., cheese factor ; dead by 11 Apr 1811, when successor appointed.
CHAMPNEYS, THOMAS, brother of Weldon Champneys (qv) ; b. ; adm. (aged 9) Oct 1748, chorister ; KS 1753 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1758, adm.pens. 24 May 1758, scholar 11 May 1759, matr. Easter 1759 ; BA 1762 ; MA 1768 ; ordained deacon 4 Jun 1762 (Chester, lit.dim. from London), priest 19 Sep 1762 (London) ; Minor Canon of St.Paul’s from 22 Dec 1764 ; Vicar of Mucking, Essex, from 29 Feb 1772 ; Minor Canon of Windsor from 24 Apr 1781 ; m. 30 Aug 1766 Mary Turner ; d. 17 May 1782.
CHAMPNEYS, THOMAS WELDON, son of Samuel Champneys (or Champnes), St.Margaret’s, Westminster, Gentleman of the Chapel Royal and Vicar Choral of St Paul’s, bass singer and actor at Drury Lane Theatre ; nephew of Weldon Champneys (qv) ; b. ; adm. 4 Feb 1782 ; BB ; KS (aged 15) 1789 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1792, adm.pens. 6 Jun 1792, aged 19, scholar 12 Apr 1793, matr.Mich.1792 ; BA 1796 ; MA 1799 ; ordained deacon 29 May 1796 (Salisbury), priest 11 Jun 1797 (Lincoln) ; Minor Canon of Westminster 1800 (still 1829) ; Minor Canon of Windsor from 28 Feb 1803 ; Vicar of Sutton Courtenay, Berks., 8 Jul 1806 – May 1811 ; Vicar of Upton cum Chalvey, Bucks., 3 Jul 1806 – Aug 1841 ; Vicar of Ogbourne St.George, Wilts., 11 Apr 1811-20 ; Rector of Cottisford, Oxfordshire, 10 Jun 1820 (still 1829) ; Vicar of Wyrardisbury, Bucks., Feb 1821 – Jul 1824 ; Rector of Fulmer, Bucks., from 30 Dec 1823 ; m.1st, 27 Dec 1799 Mary (with whom he eloped while tutoring her brother), sister of John Macnamara (qv) ; m.2nd, 11 Jan 1825 Elizabeth (IGI) , dau. of Rev.William Langford DD, Fellow of Eton Coll. and Canon of Windsor ; d. 21 Dec 1841.
CHAMPNEYS, WELDON, son of Thomas Champneys (or Champnes), London, and Epping, Essex, and Mary, dau. of John Weldon, Organist of the Chapel Royal, and composer ; b. 24 Apr 1736 ; probably “Chamnes” in school list 1743 ; at school 1745 ; KS 1751 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1756, adm.pens. 16 Jun 1756, scholar 6 May 1757, matr. Easter 1757 ; BA 1760 ; MA 1767 ; ordained deacon 2 Mar 1760, priest 1 Jun 1760 (both Rochester) ; Minor Canon of St.Paul’s from 23 May 1760, Junior Cardinal 17 Feb 1776, Senior Cardinal 1 Nov 1790, Sub-Dean from 15 Dec 1797 ; Minor Canon of Westminster from 1766 ; Minor Canon of Windsor from 24 Feb 1778 ; lecturer, St.Brides, Fleet Street 27 May 1766 ; Rector of Kensworth, Herts., 24 Dec 1765 – May 1767 ; Vicar of Caddington, Beds., 4 Apr 1767 – Aug 1795 ; Vicar of Deeping St.James, Lincs., from 5 Jul 1777 ; Domestic Chaplain to George, Baron Willoughby of Parham 31 Jul 1778 ; Vicar of Ruislip, Middlesex, 17 Sep 1778 – Jul 1794 ; Rector of Langton Hills, Essex 9 Feb 1795 – May 1797 ; Vicar of St.Pancras, London, from 21 Jan 1797 ; m.1st, 16 Mar 1761, Amy, dau. of Thomas Baildon, Vicar Choral of St.Paul’s ; m.2nd, 5 Apr 1774 (IGI) Frances Porter ; d. 26 Oct 1810.
CHANDLER (or CANDLER), PHILIP, son of Rev.Matthias Chandler (alias Gillett), Vicar of Codenham, Suffolk, and Anne, dau. of Rev.Peter Devereux, Vicar of Rattlesden, Suffolk ; bapt. 29 Oct 1629 ; adm. ; KS ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1647, adm.pens. 5 Jul 1647, scholar 1648, matr.Mich.1650 ; BA 1650/1 ; MA 1654 ; Chaplain, Trinity Coll., 1653-8 ; Curate, St.Mary at Quay, Ipswich, Suffolk 4 Mar 1660/1, but ejected for nonconformity 1662 ; Head Master, Woodbridge School, Suffolk, from 24 May 1670 (subscription on appointment) ; m. Deborah, dau. of Rev.Richard Golty, Rector of Framlingham, Suffolk ; buried Woodbridge, Suffolk 6 Oct 1689.
CHANDOS, DUKES OF, see BRYDGES.
CHANDOS, JOHN, LORD, see BRYDGES, JOHN, MARQUIS OF CARNARVON.
CHANTRELL, OWEN, of Wales ; b. ; at school under Busby ; Jesus Coll.Cambridge, adm.sizar 3 Jul 1669, matr.1672 ; 9th in ordo 1670/1 ; BA 1672/3 ; in a letter dated 20 Sep 1673 the Earl of Strafford recommends Chantrell “not a year and a half these seven years out of the Earl’s house, a Westminster scholar, and BA of Cambridge” to the Duke of Ormonde, and asks the Duke to “speak well of him to the Bishop of Man” (HMC v, 358) ; ordained deacon 14 Jun 1674 (York).
CHAPLIN, CHARLES, brother of John Chaplin (qv) ; b. 27 Jul 1730 ; adm. Feb 1743/4 ; left 1748 ; Clare Coll.Cambridge, adm.fellow commoner 24 Oct 1748, matr.1748 ; of Tathwell, Lincs. ; m. 14 Apr 1755 Elizabeth, sister of Thomas Thoroton (qv) ; d. 21 Feb 1795.
CHAPLIN, EDWARD, only son of Amos Chaplin, Covent Garden, Westminster, and Kentish Town, Middlesex, cordwainer, boot and shoe manufacturer, and Mary Anne, dau. of — von Stocken [or Van Stockum ?], Librarian to King of Prussia ; b. 7 Jul 1771 ; adm. 17 Jan 1786 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 8 Jun 1789, scholar 1792, matr.Mich.1790 ; BA 1793 ; MA 1796 ; adm.Gray’s Inn 23 Jun 1791 ; ordained deacon 1 Mar 1795, priest 22 May 1796 (both Norwich) ; Curate, Watlington, Norfolk, 1 Mar 1795-1812 ; Chaplain, St.Martin’s in the Fields Burial Ground, Pratt Street, Camden Town, 1812 ; Reader and Chaplain, Gray’s Inn, from 1824 ; m. 10 Sep 1795 Margaret Clarke, dau. of Thomas Theodorick, Downham Market, Suffolk, surgeon ; d. 14 Nov 1858.
CHAPLIN, FRANCIS, son of Charles Chaplin (qv) ; bapt. 26 Aug 1759 ; adm. 10 Feb 1772 (from Louth GS) ; left 1776 ; [probably Page of Honour to George III 2 Dec 1768 – Jul 1776, and Cornet, Army, 14 Jun 1776, Horse Guards 8 Jul 1776, Lieut. 10 Jul 1782, Capt.-Lieut., 19 Sep 1787 ; Capt., 9 Feb 1788 ; retd. Feb 1794] ; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm.pens. 12 Dec 1789, but did not matr. ; of Riseholme, Lincs. ; DL Lincolnshire, JP Lindsey ; m. 1781 [or 30 Jul 1792 ?] his cousin Elizabeth, dau. of John Chaplin (qv) ; d. 28 May 1838.
CHAPLIN, JOHN, elder son of Thomas Chaplin, Blankney, Lincs., and Diana, dau. of Andrew Archer MP, Umberslade, Warwicks., and sister of Thomas, 1st Baron Archer ; b. ; adm. (aged 15) Feb 1743/4 ; left 1745 ; Grand Tour [since member Soc Dil] ; of Blankney, Lincs. ; MP Lincoln 1754-61, Stamford from 1761 ; member, Society of Dilettanti 1750 ; m. 24 May 1757 Lady Elizabeth Cecil, fifth dau. of Brownlow Cecil, 8th Earl of Exeter ; d. 31 May 1764.
CHAPLIN, ROBERT, son of Rev.Robert Chaplin, Rector of Averham, Notts, and Prebendary of Southwell, and Anne Georgina, dau. of Sir Richard Sutton, Bart. (adm.1743/4, qv) ; grandson of Charles Chaplin (qv) ; bapt. 20 Dec 1796 ; adm.Mich.1811 ; left 1813 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 31 Jan 1815, aged 22, readm. 16 Feb 1818, matr.Mich.1815 ; BA 1822 ; d. 7 Sep 1824.
CHAPMAN, — ; b. ; in school lists 1656.
CHAPMAN, — ; b. ; at school 1660-4 (but probably adm. 8 Jan 1661/2); a boarder (Busby’s Account Book).
CHAPMAN, — ; b. ; at school by 27 Jan 1795 ; in school list 1795.
CHAPMAN, CHRISTOPHER, son of Christopher Chapman, Lay Vicar of the Abbey, and Chief Brewer to the College, and Melior — ; bapt. St.Margaret, Westminster 8 Jul 1647 ; adm. ; KS (aged 12) 1660 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1664, adm.pens.1664, scholar 1665 ; BA 1667/8 ; MA 1671 ; in a petition to the Crown he complains that “he and other Westminster scholars were disappointed of their just expectations of fellowships … on account of pre-elections, which are unwarranted by statutes, and were forbidden by King James”, and begs “a letter for his admission to the next fellowship” (CSP Dom 1665-6, 141) ; d. 25 Mar 1675. Buried in the Cloisters, Westminster Abbey, memorial tablet near West Cloister door.
CHAPMAN, EDWARD ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Jun 1724 ; in under school list 1727.
CHAPMAN, FREDERICK STOVIN, brother of John Chapman (adm.1861, qv) ; b. 23 Jul 1849 ; adm. (G) 29 Sep 1861 ; left Whitsun 1864 ; Ensign, 21st Foot, 2 May 1868 ; Lieut., 27 Oct 1871 ; Capt., Royal Scots Fusiliers, 1 Oct 1880 ; Cameron Highlanders, 29 Oct 1881 ; Paymaster, 2nd batt., East Surrey Regt., 16 Oct 1884 ; reserve, on retired pay, 27 Jan 1888 ; served Egyptian War, 1882 ; m. 2 Mar 1880 Louise Kate, dau. of James Elliott, Lambeth, Surrey, afterwards of Geelong, Victoria, Australia, solicitor ; d. 8 Feb 1904.
CHAPMAN, GEORGE WALTER, eldest son of George Chapman, Afon House, Mortlake, Surrey, land agent and auctioneer, and Lucy Weston (IGI) ; b. 14 Jul 1847 ; adm. 27 Sep 1860 ; QS 1862 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1866, matr. 23 May 1866 ; BA 1870 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 8 Jun 1869, called to bar 7 Jun 1873 ; equity draughtsman and conveyancer ; Assistant Receiver, Court of Bankruptcy, 1888-96, Senior Assistant Receiver 1896-9, an Official Receiver 1899-1912 ; m.19 Sep 1888 Marion Patterson, third dau. of Frederic Sewell, Redcliffe Square, South Kensington, shipbroker ; d. 5 Sep 1913.
CHAPMAN, HENRY BREWER, son of Henry Samuel Chapman, London, newspaper editor and barrister, Judge of Supreme Court, New Zealand, and his first wife Catherine, dau. of Thomas Gibson Brewer, Nottingham, barrister ; b. 10 Apr 1841 ; adm. 6 Oct 1853 ; QS 1856 ; elected head to Trinity Coll Cambridge (with Triplett) 1860, adm.pens. 24 May 1860, matr. Lent 1861 ; LLB 1864 ; drowned in wreck of SS London, while on her passage to Australia, 11 Jan 1866.
CHAPMAN, JOHN, of Lincolnshire ; b. ; adm. ; presumably educated at the School as BB, since a Williams scholar at Cambridge ; St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, adm. Bishop Williams scholar 8 Nov 1627, matr.Easter 1628 ; BA 1630/1.
CHAPMAN, JOHN ; b. ; adm. (aged 11) Oct 1741 ; left 1744.
CHAPMAN, JOHN, sixth son of John Mellor Chapman, Elsworth Place, co.Durham, and Caroline Sarah, third dau. of Samuel Walter Parker, Scott’s House, co.Durham ; b. 30 Mar 1847 ; adm. (G) 26 Sep 1861 ; left Whitsun 1864 ; practised successively as a solicitor and as a stockbroker ; went out to Australia, where he became a fruit-grower ; latterly of Widbury, Langton Green, Kent ; m. 28 Apr 1877 Edith Georgina, youngest dau. of Frederick Parbury, Lancaster Gate, London, Australian merchant ; d. 18 Jan 1930.
CHAPMAN, PETER, brother of Christopher Chapman (qv) ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1668 ; d. 11 Sep 1672. Buried in North Cloister, Westminster Abbey, memorial tablet near West Cloister door.
CHAPMAN, RICHARD HENRY, son of Rev.Richard Henry Chapman, Minister of Marylebone Parish Chapel, and [his first wife ?] Anne (Walker ?) (IGI) ; b. 20 Apr 1814 ; adm. (G) 26 May 1823 ; at Felsted Sch. Aug 1826 – Dec 1828 ; Addiscombe Coll. 1830-1 ; Cadet, EICS Madras, 1832 ; 2nd Lieut., Madras Engineers, 2 Sep 1836 ; d. 9 Sep 1837.
CHAPMAN, WILLIAM ANTHONY, brother of Richard Henry Chapman (qv) ; b. 6 Sep 1815 ; adm. (G) 25 Jun 1830 ; St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 12 Dec 1835, matr.Mich.1836 ; BA 1840 ; MA 1843 ; ordained deacon 14 Jun 1840, priest 6 Jun 1841 (both York) ; Curate, Lythe, Yorks., 1840-2, Colkirk, Norfolk, 1842-57 ; d.unm. 31 Jan 1883.
CHARE, GEORGE, third son of John Chare, Wandsworth, Surrey ; b. 12 Oct 1646 ; at Merchant Taylors’ Sch.1658-60 ; adm. 20 Jan 1660/1 ; a boarder ; KS ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1664, adm.pens.1664, scholar 1665 ; BA 1667/8 ; MA 1671 ; Fellow of Trinity Coll. from 1670, Tutor 1674 ; d. 27 Jan 1676/7. Buried Trinity Coll.Chapel, Cambridge.
CHARLETON, JOHN ; b. ; adm. ; QS in 1569 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1571, adm.scholar 1572, matr. Easter 1572 ; BA 1575/6.
CHARLTON, CHARLES, brother of William Henry Charlton (qv) ; b. 31 Aug 1817 ; adm. (G) 14 Jan 1828 ; St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.sizar 11 Apr 1837, matr. Mich.1837 ; BA 1841 ; MA 1845 ; ordained deacon 1842, priest 1843 (both Peterborough) ; Curate, Slapton, Northants, 1842-3, Cranford 1843-4 ; Perpetual Curate of St.Paul’s, Alnwick, Northumberland, from 1846 ; m. 3 Oct 1848 Harriet, third dau. of Maj.John Bertram Orde, 21st Light Dragoons, Longridge House, Norham, co.Durham ; d. 11 Jan 1868, aged 50.
CHARLTON, EDWARD EDMUND GRIFFITHS, son of E.Charlton ; b. 7 Jan 1825 ; adm. 23 Jan 1839 (as Edward Edmund Charlton) ; left Feb 1841 ; Cadet, Madras Infantry 1 Feb 1845 ; Ensign, 10thMadras Native Infantry 23 May 1845 ; m. 8 Jan 1848 at Saugor, West Bengal, Charlotte Adelaide, dau. of Col. Robert Gordon ; d. at Narsingpore, Madras 18 Jul 1849. [evidently Edward Edmund Griffiths, b. 7 Jan 1824 (sic), bapt.St.Pancras Old Church 23 Jan 1825, son of Edmund Griffiths, and Bessey —]
CHARLTON, SIR FRANCIS, BART., elder son of Sir Blunden Charlton, Bart., Ludford, Herefs., and Mary, sister of Thomas Foley, 1st Baron Foley (qv) ; b. 29 Nov 1707 ; adm. (aged 9) May 1717 ; in under school list 1720 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 6 Jul 1724 ; adm.Inner Temple 28 Nov 1724 ; succ. father as 4th baronet Dec 1742 ; a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to George II and George III (occurs 1760-83) ; Receiver-Gen., Post Office Oct 1746 – Jul 1762 ; Comptroller, Penny Post Office (occurs 1769-83) ; d.unm. 3 Dec 1784.
CHARLTON, FRANCIS ; b. ; adm. (aged 11) Nov 1749 ; probably Carleton in school list 1749 ; left 1749.
CHARLTON, GEORGE, second son of George Charlton, Boxley, Kent, and his second wife Elizabeth, dau. of Robert Andrews, London ; bapt. 15 Jan 1695 ; adm. ; QS (aged 14) 1711 ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1715, adm.pens. 16 Jun 1715, scholar 13 Apr 1716, matr.1718 ; BA 1718/9 ; MA 1722 ; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll., 2 Oct 1721, Major Fellow 4 Jul 1722 ; ordained deacon 19 Dec 1725, priest 22 Dec 1728 (both Rochester) ; Vicar of Wateringbury, Kent, from 22 Dec 1729 ; d. 20 Dec 1734.
CHARLTON, PHILIP, youngest son of St.John Charlton, Apley Castle, Shropshire, and Mary Tampsit [or, Frances, only child of John Tampsett ?], Goudhurst, Kent ; b. 26 Jan 1767 ; adm. 23 Jan 1783 ; Cornet, 3rd Dragoon Guards, 28 Apr 1784 ; Lieut., 13 Feb 1788 ; Capt., 17 Feb 1793 ; Maj., 21 Dec 1797 ; [not in Army List 1802] ; of Wytheford Hall, Shropshire ; DL JP Shropshire ; m. 4 Apr 1796 Jane Brady, sister of William Barnett (adm.1777, qv) ; d. 30 Jul 1843.
CHARLTON, ROBERT JOB, brother of Sir Francis Charlton, Bart (qv) ; b. 27 Apr 1713 ; adm. (aged 7) Jan 1720/1 ; in under school list 1729 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 27 Oct 1730 ; migrated to All Souls’ Coll. ; BCL 1738 ; DCL 1745 ; ordained deacon 5 Jun 1737 (Oxford); Rector of Brampton Bryan, Herefs., from 25 Sep 1737 ; Vicar of Kidderminster, Worcs., from 12 Jun 1746 ; d.unm. 28 Apr 1776.
CHARLTON, WILLIAM HENRY, son of Rev.William Henry Charlton, Vicar of Felmingham, Norfolk, Domestic Chaplain to Duke of Dorset, and Harriet, dau. of Robert Masters, Prospect House, Bath, Somerset ; b. 17 Dec 1814 ; adm. (G) 26 Jan 1826 ; KS 1829 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1833, adm.pens. 4 Jun 1833, scholar 1834, matr.Mich.1833 ; BA 1837 ; MA 1841 ; ordained deacon 1838 (Rochester), priest 20 Oct 1839 (Peterborough) ; Rector of St.George’s with St.Paul’s, Stamford, Lincs., 12 May 1840 ; Domestic Chaplain to Marquis of Exeter 1846 ; Rector of Easton, Lincs., from 12 May 1848 ; author, Burghley, The Life of William Cecil, Lord Burghley, 1847 ; m. 17 May 1843 Sarah, eldest dau. of Thomas Hippisley Jackson, Stamford, Lincs., solicitor ; d. 2 May 1874.
CHARNOCK, — ; b. ; adm. 1656 ; left 1656 (School list, 1656, third quarter).
CHARNOCK, BENJAMIN, brother of John Charnock (qv) ; b. ; adm. (aged 14) Jun 1738 ; left 1738.
CHARNOCK, JOHN, eldest son of Benjamin Charnock, Barbados, West Indies ; b. ; adm. (aged 15) Jun 1738 ; left 1738 ; adm. Inner Temple 3 Oct 1741, called to bar 3 Jul 1747 ; tenant chambers, Inner Temple, 1747 – chambers sold 21 Jun 1757 ; m. 13 Jan 1756 Frances, sister of Robert Boothby (qv) ; d. 16 Jul 1809. [mother probably Mary — (IGI)]
CHASE, WILLIAM, son of Thomas Chase, Bromley, Kent, previously of Lisbon, Portugal, merchant, and Sarah — ; b. ; adm. ; KS (aged 13) 1757 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1762, matr. 9 Jun 1762, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1762 – 22 Dec 1785, expiry year of grace as V.Staverton ; BA 1766 ; MA 1769 ; BD 1777 ; ordained deacon 24 Dec 1769, priest 23 Dec 1770 (both Oxford) ; Rector of St.Martin’s, Birmingham 4 Dec 1771 – Jun 1772 ; Domestic Chaplain to Dowager Countess of Shaftesbury 1 Apr 1772 ; travelling tutor with his cousin William Tennant on Grand Tour (Italy) in 1775-6 ; Curate, Cowley, Oxfordshire, 1778, St.Thomas, Oxford, 1780 ; Vicar of Staverton, Northants., from 18 Dec 1784 ; Prebendary of Wells from 11 May 1797 ; d. 6 Jan 1815. [Presumably William Chase, son of Thomas Chase and Sarah —, bapt.St.Peter le Poer, London, 21 Jul 1743]
CHASTEL DE BOINVILLE, JOHN COLLINS ALFRED, see BOINVILLE, JOHN ALFRED.
CHATFIELD, GEORGE, son of Francis Chatfield, Bucks. ; b. ; at school (aged 12) 2 Jul 1582 (Chapter Muniments).
CHATTERTON, EDMUND BALSIR, brother of Frederick Aspull Chatterton (qv); b. 23 Oct 1862 ; adm. 15 Jun 1876 (R) ; left Aug 1878 ; “merchant’s clerk” (1881 census), “newspaper clerk” (1901 census) ; employed by Morning Post newspaper ; m. Helen Hughes (marriage registered Lambeth third quarter 1890) ; d. 27 Feb 1947.
CHATTERTON, FREDERICK ASPULL, son of Frederic Balsir Chatterton, King Street, St.James’s Square, London, theatre manager, and Mary Ann Williams ; b. 6 Aug 1860 ; adm. 23 Sep 1875 ; left Dec 1877 ; “articled clerk” (1881 census). [probably Frederick A.Chatterton, death registered Lambeth second quarter 1898, aged 37]
CHAUNCY, CHARLES, fifth son of George Chauncy, Yardley Bury and New Place, Gilston, Herts., and his second wife Agnes, widow of Edward Humberstone, and dau. of Edward Welch, Great Wymondley, Herts. ; bapt.Yardley Bury, Herts. 5 Nov 1592 ; adm. ; KS ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1609, adm.scholar 1610, matr. Easter 1610 ; 2nd in ordo 1613/4 ; BA 1613/4 ; MA 1617 (incorp. Oxford 13 Jul 1619) ; BD 1624 ; Fellow Trinity Coll. 1614 – c.1621 ; ordained deacon and priest 18 Sep 1619 (Salisbury) ; Vicar of St.Michael’s, Cambridge, 1626 ; Vicar of Ware, Herts., 27 Feb 1627 – 16 Oct 1633 ; Vicar of Marston St.Lawrence, Northants., 28 Aug 1633 – 28 Aug 1637 ; brought before Court of High Commission for neglect of church ceremonies in 1630 and 1634 ; submitted to Laud after some months’ imprisonment, 4 Feb 1635/6 ; emigrated to America in 1637, after writing a solemn “Retractation” ; Assistant Minister, Plymouth, New England ; Minister at Scituate, 1641-54 ; President, Harvard College, from 29 Nov 1654 ; published sermons and theological tracts ; m. 17 Mar 1630 Catherine, dau. of Robert Eyre, Salisbury, Wilts., barrister ; d. at Harvard 19 Feb 1671/2. ODNB.
CHAUNCY, GEORGE, brother of Charles Chauncy (qv) ; b. ; adm. ; KS in 1609 (Chapter Muniments 41289).
CHAUNCY, THOMAS, second son of William Chauncy, Sawbridgeworth, Herts., and Bridget, dau. of John Raymond ; b. (aged 3 in 1572) ; adm. ; Min.Can.1580.
CHAUVEL, GEORGE, second son of James Chauvel, Shepperton, Middlesex, Col.Middlesex Militia (Westminster), and Mary Smith (IGI); b. ; at Winchester Coll., scholar 1772 ; adm. 22 Jul 1774 ; adm. Lincoln’s Inn, 27 Nov 1775 ; not mentioned in father’s will dated 6 Jun 1777.
[CHAUVET, JOHN LEWIS (c.1760-94), EICS Bengal 1780-94, recorded by Hickey as present at OW dinner at Calcutta c.Jul – Oct 1784 (Hickey, Memoirs, iii, 245-6), and included in Record by Russell Barker and Stenning on that basis, is stated by the editors of the Supplement to have been educated at Eton (where he was 1766-73)]
CHAWORTH, PATRICIUS, son of Patricius Chaworth MP, Annesley, Notts., and Ann, dau. of William Levinz MP, Grove, Notts. ; bapt.Grove, Notts. 12 Feb 1724 (IGI) ; adm. (aged 11) Feb 1735/6 ; d. Jan 1737.
CHAWORTH, WILLIAM, brother of Patricius Chaworth (qv) ; b. ; adm. (aged 9) Feb 1735/6 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.fellow commoner 27 Mar 1745, matr.1745 ; of Annesley, Notts. ; quarrelled with his cousin William Byron, 5th Baron Byron (qv), on the subject of game preserving, at a dinner of Nottinghamshire gentlemen held at the Star and Garter Tavern, Pall Mall, 26 Jan 1765, and was mortally wounded by him in a duel, without seconds, in a back room of the tavern ; d. unm. 27 Jan 1765.
CHEADLE, WALTER WILLIAM, eldest son of Walter Butler Cheadle MD FRCP, Portman Street, London, and his first wife Anne, youngest dau. of William Murgatroyd, Bankfield, near Bingley, Yorks. ; b. 4 Jun 1869 ; adm. 22 Sep 1881 (R) ; left Apr 1887 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 21 May 1888, matr.Mich.1888 ; BA 1891 ; MA 1895 ; Demonstrator in Science at the School, Sep 1892 – Apr 1893 ; with Thurrock Brewery, Grays, Essex ; latterly living at The Grey House, Shaldon, Devon ; d. 14 Jun 1935.
CHEALE, PHILIP, second son of John Cheale, Shiprods, Henfield, Sussex, and Mary, dau. of John Gratwick, Shermanbury, Cowfold, Sussex ; bapt. 2 Apr 1718 ; adm. Sep 1730 (as “Chales”) ; left 1732 ; Magdalen Coll.Oxford, matr. 14 Apr 1735 ; of Shiprods, Henfield, Sussex ; m. 2 Nov 1736 Catherine, dau. of Thomas Marchant, Hurstpierpoint, Sussex ; d. 8 Dec 1746.
CHEAP, JOHN, son of John Cheap, EICS Bengal, and Arabella Anne, dau. of Rev. John Clarke, Vicar of Hungerford, Berks. ; b. (Calcutta) 26 Nov 1793 ; adm. Christmas 1808 ; KS (aged 15) 1808 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1811, adm.pens. 25 May 1811, scholar 1812, matr.Mich.1811 ; BA 1815 ; MA 1818 ; ordained deacon 22 Oct 1816, priest 21 Dec 1817 (both York) ; Rector of Wimpole, Cambs., from 8 Aug 1818 ; Domestic Chaplain to Philip, Earl of Hardwicke 1 Jan 1819 ; Vicar of Riseley, Beds., from 11 Mar 1825 ; m. 27 Jun 1821 Mary, dau. of R.Simpson, York ; d. 3 Sep 1831.
CHEDWORTH, BARONS, see HOWE.
CHEEKE, — ; b. ; adm. ; KS in 1644 (Chapter Muniments).
CHEEKE, ROBERT ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1642.
CHEERE, — ; b. ; in under school lists 1715,1716.
CHEERE, — ; b. ; in under school lists 1715,1716.
CHEERE, CHARLES, brother of Sir William Cheere, Bart. (qv) ; b. ; adm. (aged 13) Jan 1747/8 ; left 1751 ; “played a role in his father’s business” (ODNB) ; of Westbourne Green, Paddington, Middlesex ; m. ; d. 7 Sep 1799.
CHEERE, HENRY ; b. ; at school under Busby ; gave evidence at the hearing of the complaint against Arthur Godley (qv) in 1657.
CHEERE, SIR WILLIAM, BART., eldest surviving son of Sir Henry Cheere, Bart., FRS FSA, sculptor, and Helen, dau. of Sauvignion Randall ; b. ; adm. (aged 11) Jun 1742 ; left 1744 ; Magdalene Coll.Cambridge, adm. 11 Feb 1747/8, matr.1748 ; migrated to Trinity Coll., adm.pens. 20 Feb 1749, scholar 1750 ; LLB 1754 ; ordained deacon 22 Dec 1754 (Lincoln), priest 20 Sep 1762 (London) ; Rector of White Roding, Essex, from 20 Sep 1762 ; succ.father as 2nd baronet 15 Jan 1781 ; d.unm. 28 Feb 1808.
CHELSUM, JAMES, only surviving son of James Chelsum, a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal and a Vicar Choral at Westminster Abbey and St.Paul’s, and Mary Ward ; b. 13 Apr 1738 ; in school list 1746 ; BB Mich.1748 – still 1754 ; St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.sizar 28 May 1755, matr.Easter 1756 ; migrated to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 30 Jun 1758, Canoneer Student 7 Jul 1758 – void 29 May 1781 (expiry year of grace as PC Lathbury from 22 May 1780), Tutor 1765-79, Catechist 1768-80, Junior Censor 1769-70, Senior Censor 1771 ; BA 1759 ; MA 1762 ; BD 1772 ; DD 1773 ; leave of absence from Ch.Ch. on being made Usher at Westminster School 22 Dec 1759, holding post for some years ; ordained deacon 7 Mar 1762 (Chester, lit.dim. from Lichfield), priest 2 Jun 1765 (Oxford) ; Domestic Chaplain to Duke of Manchester Jun 1764 ; travelling tutor with John Gooch, subsequently Archdeacon of Sudbury, in France and Germany ; Curate, St.Thomas, Oxford, 1777 ; Vicar of Duffield, Derbs., 20 Feb 1773 – May 1780 [although it is not clear how he was able to hold this living with his Studentship at Christ Church] ; Perpetual Curate of Lathbury, Bucks., from 26 May 1780 ; Rector of Badger, Shropshire, 29 May 1780 – May 1795 ; Rector of Droxford, Hampshire, from 21 Mar 1782 ; Chaplain to Right Rev.Brownlw North, Bishop of Winchester ; Whitehall Preacher 1770-82 ; author of two pamphlets on Gibbon’s treatment of Christianity in the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1776, 1785, and of a History of the Art of Engraving in Mezzotinto, 1786 ; buried Droxford, Hampshire 1 May 1801. ODNB.
CHELTENHAM, NICHOLAS, son of Nicholas Cheltenham, Staffs. ; b. ; at school by Jun 1654, aged 13 (WAM 43112) ; in an undated petition his father asks the Governors for a Bishop’s Boy place for him “these five yeares or thereabouts at the school “ (WAM 43084). [perhaps m. at Aylesford, Kent 24 Jun 1674 Elizabeth Pemble (IGI)]
CHENEY, see CHEYNE.
CHEPMELL, CHARLES JOHN HEINEKEN, brother of William Philip Chepmell (qv) ; b. 15 Feb 1844 ; adm. (G) 26 May 1853 ; QS 1859 ; left (with Triplett) Whitsun 1863 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 16 Oct 1863 ; BA 1866 ; MA 1871 ; left England Jul 1867 ; Senior Classical Master, The King’s School, Parramatta, NSW, Australia ; Head Master, The Bishop’s School, Nelson, New Zealand ; Head Master of own school at Hobart, Tasmania ; m. 1 Jul 1873 Katharine Isabella, dau. of Henry Douglas, Latrobe, Tasmania, police magistrate ; d. 25 Nov 1930.
CHEPMELL, EDWARD JAMES, brother of William Philip Chepmell (qv) ; b. 10 Dec 1845 ; adm. (G) 23 Jun 1859 ; QS 8 Apr 1861 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1864, but was never adm. ; d. 28 Feb 1865.
CHEPMELL, WILLIAM PHILIP, eldest son of Rev.Havilland Le Mesurier Chepmell DD, The Hermitage, St.Martin’s, Guernsey, sometime Chaplain, RMC Sandhurst, and Eliza Guille, dau. of Peter Ozanne, Guernsey ; b. 3 Oct 1842 ; adm. (G) 26 May 1853 ; left Dec 1853 ; at Elizabeth Coll., Guernsey 1855-9 ; emigrated to New Zealand 1861, where he became a sheep and cattle farmer in the province of Auckland ; member Piako County Council, New Zealand 1877-1905 (chairman 1888-1905) ; m. 30 Aug 1888 Mary Elizabeth, dau. of William Hunt, Wortley, Yorks. ; d. at Hamilton, New Zealand Oct 1930.
CHERITON, — ; b. ; in under school lists 1716-8.
CHERITON, CHARLES, son of Charles Cheriton, St.Margaret, Westminster, glover ; b. ; adm. (aged 8) Jan 1728/9 ; Min.Can.1734 ; KS 1735 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1739, adm.pens. 21 Jun 1739, scholar 2 May 1740, matr.1740 ; BA 1742/3 ; ordained deacon 24 May 1743 (Winchester), priest 20 May 1744 (Rochester) ; Chaplain, Royal Navy 1744 ; Curate, St.John the Evangelist, Westminster, 1746 ; living 1748.
CHERITON, GEORGE, brother of Charles Cheriton (qv) ; b. ; in school lists Jan 1732/3 and Aug 1733 ; BB 1733-9 ; St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.sizar 5 Nov 1739, aged 17, matr.1739/40 ; BA 1743/4 ; ordained deacon (25 May 1746 (Rochester), to curacy Edenbridge, Kent, priest 19 Feb 1748/9 (Norwich), to curacy St.Lawrence’s, Ipswich, Suffolk.
CHESHIRE, THOMAS ; b. ; adm. (aged 9) Oct 1731 ; left 1732. [Perhaps Thomas Cheshire, son of John Cheshire, and Mary —, bapt.St.Martin’s in the Fields 15 Sep 1723 (IGI)]
CHESTER, ANTHONY, younger son of Sir John Chester, Bart., MP, Chicheley, Bucks., and Frances, dau. of Sir Edward Bagot, Bart. MP, Blithfield, Staffs. ; bapt 25 Sep 1732 ; adm. (aged 11) Jul 1745 ; left 1747 ; applied for writership in EIC 1749 ; entered Royal Navy ; Lieut., HMS Vigilant [but not in Syrett & DiNardo] ; d.unm. 1752 (adm. granted to brother 3 Nov 1752).
CHESTER, ANTHONY, second son of Charles Chester (adm.1738/9, qv) ; b. 5 May 1773 ; adm. 24 Jan 1786 ; still at school 22 Apr 1789 (“Bagot Chester” in account book) ; Ensign, 13th Foot, 1 Sep 1790 ; Lieut., 1 Nov 1794 ; Capt., 1 May 1798 ; m. 1798 (IGI) Anne Eliza, dau. of Hamlet Obins, Castle Obins, co.Armagh ; killed in Egyptian campaign, 13 Mar 1801.
CHESTER, CHARLES, brother of William Bagot, 1st Baron Bagot (qv) ; b. 11 Sep 1730 ; adm. Feb 1738/9 (Watts) ; entered merchant’s office in Canton [presumably EICS Canton] ; returned from China in 1753 ; became wine merchant at Oporto ; inherited Chicheley estate, Bucks., and assumed surname and arms of Chester in lieu of Bagot by private Act of Parliament 31 Geo II, in compliance with the will of his first cousin, Sir Charles Bagot Chester, Bart., 1755 ; m. 3 Oct 1765 Catherine, dau. of Hon.Heneage Legge, Baron of the Exchequer ; d. 2 Apr 1793.
CHESTER, CHARLES, brother of Sir Robert Chester (qv) ; b. 31 Dec 1768 ; adm. 5 Jun 1776 ; KS 1783 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1787, matr. 8 Jun 1787, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1787 – res 20 Jul 1789 ; migrated to Emmanuel Coll.Cambridge, adm.fellow commoner 18 Jun 1791, matr.Lent 1792 ; LLB 1795 ; ordained deacon 3 Jun 1792, priest 24 Feb 1793 (both Norwich) ; Curate, Swaffham, Cambs., 1792 ; Rector of Rousham, Oxfordshire, 26 Apr 1797 – Jan 1804 ; Rector of Barley, Hertfordshire 29 Nov 1803-14 ; Rector of Ayot St.Peter, Hertfordshire 22 May 1803 (still 1829) ; Rector of Rettendon, Essex, from 25 Feb 1814 ; m. (by 1794) Catherine, dau. of Ven.John Roberts, Archdeacon of Merioneth ; d. 19 May 1837.
CHESTER, CHARLES, eldest son of Charles Chester (adm.1738/9, qv) ; b. 25 Oct 1770 ; adm. 3 Feb 1783 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 31 Jan 1788 ; of Chicheley Hall, Bucks. ; MP Castle Rising 14 Jul 1794 – 1807 ; d. 11 Jun 1838.
CHESTER, HARRY, brother of Sir Robert Chester (qv) ; b. 10 Aug 1770 ; adm. 23 Jan 1778 ; Min.Can. 1784 ; KS 1785 ; Ensign, 2nd Foot Guards, 14 May 1790 ; Lieut. and Capt., 25 Apr 1793 ; Adjutant, 9 Dec 1795 ; Capt. and Lieut.-Col., 18 Jan 1799 ; Col. in the Army, 25 Oct 1809 ; Maj.-Gen., 1 Jan 1812 ; served in Flanders and in the Peninsular War ; m. 3 Sep 1799 Harriet, youngest dau. of Gen.Sir Henry Clinton KB MP ; d. 5 Jan 1821.
CHESTER, HARRY, youngest son of Sir Robert Chester (qv) ; b. 1 Oct 1806 ;at Charterhouse Sch. 1815-9; adm. 10 Jan 1820 ; KS 1820 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1824, adm.pens. 12 Jun 1824, scholar 1825, matr. Mich.1824 ; a Clerk in the Privy Council Office May 1826 – 31 Dec 1858 ; Assistant Secretary to Committee of Privy Council on Education 1840-58 ; Vice-President, Society of Arts ; JP Middlesex ; author, Spain and Portugal, 1834, and of books on education ; m.1st, 2 Sep 1837 Anne Maria, only dau. of Robert Isherwood, Highgate, Middlesex, proctor, Doctors’ Commons ; m.2nd, 24 Mar 1856 Henrietta Mary, author, dau. of George Goff, Lausanne, Switzerland ; d. 5 Oct 1868.
CHESTER, HARRY ROBERT, son of Harry Chester (adm.1820, qv), and his first wife ; b. 4 Mar 1840 ; at Highgate Sch. Jan 1849 – Jun 1852 ; adm. (G) 10 Jun 1852 ; QS 30 Mar 1855 ; d. 4 Dec 1855.
CHESTER, HENRY, eldest son of Henry Chester, Briggins Park, Hunsdon, Herts., and Mary Thomas ; b. 26 Feb 1738/9 ; adm.Jun 1751 ; in school list 1754 ; apprenticed to Richard Ivatt (qv), Six Clerks’ Office, 8 Aug 1755 ; a clerk in the Six Clerks’ Office ; of Eversley, Hampshire, later of West Lavington, Wilts. ; m. 24 Jun 1760 Hetty, eldest dau. of William de Billinghurst, Mitchen Hall, Peper Harow, Surrey ; d. 28 Oct 1786.
CHESTER, JOHN, only son of Thomas Chester, Cheapside, London, linen draper, and Elizabeth, sister of Thomas Wigfall (qv) ; b. ; adm. (aged 13) May 1716 ; left 1717 ; went to Eton Coll. ; Christ’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 10 Jun 1721, scholar 1 Jun 1722, matr.1721 ; adm.Inner Temple 12 Feb 1723/4 ; adm. solicitor 2 Dec 1730 ; m. 24 Aug 1738 his cousin Elizabeth, second dau. of Sir William Chester, Bart., Chicheley, Bucks. ; d. 2 Jan 1750/1.
CHESTER, ROBERT, third son of Sir Robert Chester, Kt, Royston, Herts., and Anne, dau. of Sir Henry Capell Kt MP, Little Hadham, Herts. ; b. ; adm. ; KS 16 Nov 1610 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1615, adm.pens. 1615 ?, scholar 1616, matr.Lent 1615/6 ; BA 1619/20 ; MA 1623 (incorp. Oxford, 12 Jul 1623) ; DD 1636 ; ordained deacon and priest 9 Nov 1629 (St Davids for Lincoln)(but described as DD) ; Rector of Stevenage, Herts., from 19 Dec 1629 ; Rector of Hinxworth, Herts., 14 Dec 1638 – Nov 1639 ; Rector of Graveley, Herts. ; d. 6 Apr 1664, aged 67.
CHESTER, SIR ROBERT, eldest son of Robert Chester, Inner Temple, Secretary to Queen Anne’s Bounty, and Harriott, dau. of Charles Adelmare Caesar, Bayford Place, Herts. ; b. 5 Jan 1768 ; adm. 6 Feb 1775 ; KS 1782 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1786, but went to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 30 Jun 1786 ; BA 1790 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn, 15 Jan 1789 ; Gentleman Usher Quarterly Waiter to George III, 20 Feb 1794 – Apr 1797 ; Groom of Privy Chamber 19 Oct 1797 – Jul 1798 ; Extra Gentleman Usher of Privy Chamber 25 Feb 1796 – Jul 1798, Gentleman Usher of Privy Chamber 29 Jul 1798 – May 1818 ; Assistant Master of the Ceremonies 16 Dec 1796 – May 1818, Master of the Ceremonies 27 May 1818 – Dec 1846 ; knighted 5 Jun 1818 ; of Bush Hall, Herts. ; Lieut.-Col. Hertfordshire Militia, DL JP Hertfordshire ; member, Society of Dilettanti, 1794 [so Grand Tour ?] ; m. 10 Oct 1797 Eliza, third dau. of John Ford, The Chantry, Sproughton, Suffolk ; d. 12 Aug 1848.
CHESTER, ROBERT, eldest son of Sir Robert Chester (qv) ; b. 6 Oct 1800 ; adm.Midsummer 1813 ; left Whitsun 1816 ; Pembroke Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 7 Jul 1819, matr.Mich.1819 ; migr. to Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 21 Oct 1819 ; Assistant Master of the Ceremonies from 27 May 1818 ; d.unm. 20 Sep 1822.
CHESTER, SAMUEL, eldest son of Edward Chester, Antigua, West Indies, merchant ; bapt. 8 Sep 1706 ; adm. (aged 12) Jan 1718/9 ; in under school list 1720 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 8 Sep 1720.
CHESTERFIELD, PHILIP, 3RD EARL OF, see STANHOPE, PHILIP, 3RD EARL OFCHESTERFIELD.
CHETHAM, — ; adm. 9 Jan 1792 (Clapham) ; at school Midsummer 1792.
CHETWODE, E. ; b. ; adm. ; at school 1802 (name up School with that date).
CHETWODE, JOHN, see NEWDIGATE-LUDFORD-CHETWODE, SIR JOHN, BART.
CHETWOOD, JOHN SHEFFIELD, son of Very Rev.Knightly Chetwood DD, Dean of Gloucester, and Anne, widow of Thomas Andrews, St.Peter’s, Cornhill, London, and dau. of Samuel Shute, Sheriff of London ; bapt. 20 Feb 1694/5 ; at school under Freind (J.E.B.Mayor, ed., Admissions to St.John’s Coll.Camb., ii, 209) ; St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.fellow commoner 15 May 1713, matr.1713 ; migrated to Trinity Hall Oct 1718 ; LLB 1721 ; LLD 1726 ; Fellow of Trinity Hall from 16 Mar 1727/8 ; adm.Inner Temple 2 Mar 1715/6 ; unsuccessfully prosecuted a claim to the ancient English barony of Wahull ; a benefactor to Trinity Hall ; d. unm. 7 Oct 1733.
CHETWOODE, JOHN, son of Crewe Chetwoode, Woodbrook, Queen’s County, Ireland, and Anna Maria, widow of Ralph Sneyd, Keele Hall, Staffs., and dau. of Allen Holford, Davenham, Cheshire ; half-brother of Edward Sneyd (qv) ; b. ; at school under Markham (Alum.Dub.) ; Trinity Coll.Dublin, adm.pens. 19 Nov 1758 (as Chetwood), aged 16, scholar 1760 ; BA 1762 ; ordained deacon 1 Jun 1762, priest 11 Jun 1762 ; Treasurer of Ross 11 Jun 1762 – res 27 Feb 1799 ; Rector and Vicar of Scull, co.Cork, 21 Feb 1767- Jun 1780 ; Precentor of Cork 21 Jun 1780-90, Prebendary of Cork from 18 Mar 1790, Vicar Choral of Cork from 27 Feb 1799 ; Rector of Rathcooney, co.Cork, from 1790 ; of Glanmire, co.Cork ; m. 25 Oct 1769 Elizabeth, dau. of [Dr. ?] William Hamilton, Dublin ; d. 13 Apr 1814.
CHETWYND, — ; b. ; in school list 1739.
CHETWYND, – – – ; b. ; in school lists 1764,1765,1767 ; left Whitsun 1767.
CHETWYND, SIR GEORGE, BART., elder son of Sir George Chetwynd, Bart., MP, Grendon Hall, Warwicks., and Hannah Maria, eldest dau. of John Sparrow, Bishton Hall, Staffs. ; b. 6 Sep 1809 ; adm. 22 Apr 1822 ; “head boarder” in 1827 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 27 Nov 1827 ; BA 1830 ; succ.father as 3rd baronet 24 May 1850 ; of Grendon Hall, Warwicks. ; DL JP Warwickshire ; m. 2 Aug 1843 Lady Charlotte Augusta Hill, eldest dau. of Arthur Hill, 3rd Marquis of Downshire KP DCL ; d. 24 Mar 1869.
CHETWYND, JOHN, youngest son of William Richard Chetwynd, 3rd Viscount Chetwynd (qv) ; b. 16 Nov 1723 ; adm. (aged 8) Jun 1732 ; KS 1738 ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1743, matr. 1 Jun 1743, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1743 – res 23 Dec 1747 ; migrated to Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.fellow commoner 31 Dec 1747 ; MA 1750 ; adm.Middle Temple 9 Feb 1741/2 ; ordained deacon 5 Apr 1747 (Rochester), priest 23 Oct 1748 (Winchester); Precentor of Cork from 15 May 1752 ; m. 8 Feb 1753 Judith, dau. of Emanuel Pigott MP (I), Cork, Ireland ; d. c. Sep 1757.
CHETWYND, RICHARD WALTER, 6TH VISCOUNT CHETWYND (I), only son of Richard Chetwynd, 5th Viscount Chetwynd (I), and Charlotte, dau. of Thomas Cartwright, Aynho, Northants ; grandson of William Chetwynd, 4th Viscount Chetwynd (qv) ; b. 13 Dec 1800 ; adm. Christmas 1813 ; in school list Oct 1814 ; Ensign, 52nd Foot, 29 Jan 1818 ; Ensign and Lieut., 1st Foot Guards, 28 Feb 1822 ; retd. 20 Nov 1822 ; succ.father as 6th Viscount Chetwynd (I), 27 Feb 1821 ; m. 1st, 29 Aug 1822 Mary, only surviving dau. of Robert Moss, and niece of Right Rev.Charles Moss DD, Bishop of Oxford ; m.2nd, 24 Sep 1861 Mary, dau. of John Hussey, Nash Court, Marnhull, Dorset, Recorder of Lyme Regis ; d. 6 Dec 1879.
CHETWYND, THOMAS, second son of William Richard Chetwynd, 3rd Viscount Chetwynd (qv) ; bapt.St.Martin’s in the Fields 2 Feb 1721 (IGI); adm. (aged 7) Mar 1727/8 ; left 1733 ; d. at sea.
CHETWYND, WALTER, 1ST VISCOUNT CHETWYND (I), eldest son of John Chetwynd MP, Ingestre, Staffs., and Lucy, dau. of Thomas Roane, Tolhurst Farm, Merstham, Surrey ; bapt. St.Martin’s in the Fields 3 Jun 1678 (IGI) ; adm. ; Min.Can. (aged 14) 1693 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 28 May 1696 ; of Ingestre, Staffs. ; MP Stafford 26 Dec 1702- 25 Jan 1710/1, 24 Jan 1711/2-22, 4 Feb 1724/5-34 ; Master of the Buckhounds to Prince George of Denmark and Queen Anne 13 Jun 1709 – Jun 1711 ; Ranger of St.James’s Park and Keeper of the Mall Jan 1714/5 – Jul 1727 ; created Viscount Chetwynd (I) 29 Jun 1717 ; High Steward of Stafford, 1717 ; Thomas Newton (qv) relates a curious story of Chetwynd’s “alarming illness”, which was cured by his drinking some small beer after some 750 guineas had been wasted in medical advice (Newton, Works, 1787, i, 33) ; m. 27 May 1703 Hon.Mary Berkeley, Maid of Honour to Queen Anne, eldest dau. of John Berkeley, 4th Viscount Fitzhardinge ; d. 21 Feb 1735/6.
CHETWYND, WILLIAM, 4TH VISCOUNT CHETWYND (I), eldest son of William Richard Chetwynd, 3rd Viscount Chetwynd (qv) ; b. 25 Nov 1721 ; adm. Mar 1727/8 ; KS 1733 ; left 1737 ; Hart Hall, Oxford, matr. 2 Dec 1737 ; MP Stockbridge 1747-54 ; Equerry to George II 24 May 1758- Oct 1760 ; succ.father as 4th Viscount Chetwynd (I) 3 Apr 1770 ; disinherited by father ; in receipt of pension from government 1770 onwards ; settled in Ireland ; took seat Irish House of Lords 1773 ; m. 19 Nov 1751 Susannah, youngest dau. of Sir Jonathan Cope, Bart, MP ; d. 12 Nov 1791.
CHETWYND, HON.WILLIAM, eldest son of William Chetwynd, 4th Viscount Chetwynd (I) (qv) ; b. 26 Jan 1753 ; in school list 1764 ; KS 1767 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1771, adm.pens. 29 May 1771, but did not matr. ; Ensign, 52nd Foot, 2 Mar 1772 ; Lieut., 18 Jun 1775 ; Capt., 46th Foot, 3 Dec 1776 ; served in North America 1777-8 ; probably the Chetwynd who, says Edward Nares, “us’d often to wait for me at the bottom of the school steps, and carry me up in his teeth, with my satchel of books at my back” (A Versatile Professor, 1903, 11) ; d. of fatigue after capture of St.Lucia, West Indies, Aug 1778.
CHETWYND, WILLIAM, only son of John Chetwynd (qv) ; b. ; in school list 1764 ; KS (aged 13) 1767 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1771, adm.pens. 29 May 1771, but did not reside ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn, 24 Jun 1771 ; Trinity Coll.Dublin, adm.fellow commoner 1 Oct 1771 ; BA 1775 ; High Sheriff, co.Cork, 1783 ; m. 1783 Penelope, dau. of John Carleton, Woodside, co.Cork ; killed in action with the Irish rebels, at Saintfield, co.Down, 11 Jun 1798.
CHETWYND, WILLIAM HENRY, brother of Sir George Chetwynd, Bart (qv) ; b. 14 Sep 1812 ; adm. 17 Jan 1827 (G) ; Cornet, 7th Hussars, 2 Nov 1830 ; Lieut., 15 Jun 1832 ; retd. 12 Aug 1834 ; of Longdon Hall, Staffs. ; DL JP Staffordshire ; m. 1st, 15 Aug 1854 (div.1865) Blanche, eldest dau. of Hon. and Rev.Arthur Talbot, Rector of Ingestre, Staffs. ; m.2nd, 7 Dec 1875 Mary, third dau. of James Parkin, Grove Park, Wrexham, Denbighshire ; d. 5 Jul 1890.
CHETWYND, WILLIAM RICHARD, 3RD VISCOUNT CHETWYND (I), brother of Walter Chetwynd, 1st Viscount Chetwynd (qv) ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1699 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1703, matr. 8 Jun 1703, aged 19, Westminster Student 20 Dec 1703 – void 1715 ; adm. Middle Temple 8 Dec 1707, called to bar 7 May 1714 ; secretary to elder brother John when Envoy at Turin 1705-6, 1706-13 ; British Resident, Genoa, Jun 1708 – Mar 1711, Envoy Extraordinary there Mar 1711 – Feb 1713 ; MP Stafford 1715-22, Plymouth 1722-7, Stafford from 1734 ; a Lord of the Admiralty 16 Apr 1717 – Aug 1727 ; Master of the Mint 29 Dec 1744 – 3 Jun 1769 ; succ. his brother as 3rd Viscount Chetwynd (I) 21 Jun 1767 ; m.1715 Honora, dau. of William Baker, Consul at Algiers ; d. 3 Apr 1770. ODNB.
CHEYNE, CHARLES, son of Thomas Cheyne (IGI) ; bapt.Lilley, Herts. 7 Sep 1714 (IGI); in school lists 1726,1727 ; BB. [probably “Cheneney”, Christian name not stated, in third form, school list Feb 1727/8]
CHEYNE, FRANCIS, brother of Charles Cheyne (qv) ; bapt.Lilley, Herts. 23 May 1716 (IGI); in school list Feb 1727/8 (second form, as Cheney), 1729 ; BB in 1728/9.
CHEYNE, THOMAS, son of Rev.Thomas Cheyne, Rector of Pertenhall, Beds., and Prebendary of Lincoln, and Ellen — ; bapt. Wootton, Beds. 4 Sep 1684 (sic) ; adm. ; KS 1701 ; St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 30 Oct 1704, aged 18 (sic), matr.1705 ; ordained deacon 22 Sep 1706 (Peterborough), priest 20 Mar 1708/9 (London) ; Curate, St.Marylebone, Middlesex ; presumably Rector of Lilley, Herts., 13 Nov 1709, and father of Charles Cheyne and Francis Cheyne (qvv)] ; Chaplain to Earl of Plymouth ; “Master of the Boarding-School near Vauxhall” ; m. 23 Sep 1708 Mary, dau. of Sir Villiers Chernocke, Bart., MP ; d. by 6 Mar 1721 [check].
CHEYNE, THOMAS ; b. ; in under school list 1717 ; BB 1718-20. [Perhaps Thomas Cheyne, son of Thomas Cheyne, bapt. Sundon, Beds. 7 Apr 1701 (IGI)].
CHICHELEY, WILLIAM, third son of Adm.Sir John Chicheley, Kt MP, Wimpole, Cambs., and Isabella, widow of Daniel Norton, Southwick, Hants., and dau. of Vice-Adm. Sir John Lawson, Kt. ; bapt. St.Giles in the Fields, London 15 Nov 1689 ; adm. ; QS 1705 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1709, adm.pens. 28 Jun 1709, aged 18, scholar 22 Apr 1710, matr.1710 ; BA 1712/3 ; MA 1716 ; Librarian, Trinity Coll. 10 Sep 1716 – res Dec 1716 ; ordained deacon and priest 23 Dec 1716 (Winchester) ; Rector of Widley, Hampshire, and Vicar of Wymering, Hampshire, from 29 Dec 1716 ; Rector of Farlington, Hampshire, from 26 Sep 1726 ; d. by 12 Jun 1737 (but will not proved PCC until 16 Jul 1739]
CHICHESTER, EARLS OF, see PELHAM.
CHICHESTER, ARTHUR, 1ST MARQUIS OF DONEGAL (I), eldest son of Hon.John Chichester MP(I), Abinger, Surrey, and Elizabeth, sister of Sir Edward Newdigate, Bart. (qv) ; b. 13 Jun 1739 ; adm. Jun 1748 ; in school list 1754 ; succ. uncle as 5th Earl of Donegal (I) 30 Sep 1757 ; Trinity Coll.Oxford, matr. 25 Nov 1757 ; MA 1759 ; DCL 7 Jul 1763 ; Privy Councillor (I) 15 Sep 1768 ; of Fisherwick Park, Staffs. ; MP Malmesbury 1768-74 ; created Baron Fisherwick (GB) 3 Jul 1790 and Marquis of Donegal (I) 27 Jun 1791 ; m.1st, 16 Nov 1761 Lady Anne Hamilton, dau. of James Hamilton, 5th Duke of Hamilton (S) KT ; m.2nd, 25 Oct 1788 Charlotte, widow of Thomas Moore MP (I), Barne, co.Tipperary, and dau. of Conway Spencer, Trummery, co.Antrim ; m.3rd, 12 Oct 1790 Barbara, dau. of Rev.Luke Godfrey LLD, Rector of Midleton, co.Cork ; d. 5 Jan 1799.
CHICHESTER, HON.JOHN, brother of Arthur Chichester, 1st Marquis of Donegal (qv) ; b. 26 Dec 1740 ; adm. Jun 1751 ; in school list 1754 ; Trinity Coll.Oxford, matr. 7 Jul 1759 ; MP (I) Belfast 1761-8, Carrickfergus 1768-76 ; d.unm. 6 Feb 1783.
CHILD, — ; b. ; in school list Jul 1774.
CHILD, FRANCIS, son of Samuel Child MP, Osterley, Middlesex, banker, and Agatha, dau. of Mileson Edgar, Combs, Suffolk ; b. ; adm. (aged 8) Feb 1743/4 ; in school list 1752 ; Magdalen Coll.Oxford, matr. 4 Jul 1753 ; MA 1757 ; DCL 8 Jul 1763 ; member firm Child & Co., bankers, Temple Bar, Fleet Street, London ; MP Bishop’s Castle from 1761 ; of Osterley Park, Middlesex ; d. 23 Sep 1763.
CHILD, HENRY, see CHILDE, HENRY.
CHILD, JOHN, see TYLNEY, JOHN CHILD, 2ND EARL TYLNEY (I).
CHILD, RICHARD, see TYLNEY, RICHARD, VISCOUNT CASTLEMAINE.
CHILD, ROBERT, brother of Francis Child (qv) ; b. ; adm. (aged 8) Feb 1746/7 ; in school list 1754 ; Magdalen Coll.Oxford, matr. 9 Feb 1758, aged 18 ; member firm Child & Co., bankers, from 1760 ; MP Wells from 15 Jan 1766 ; of Osterley Park, Middlesex ; FSA 18 Nov 1778 ; m. 6 Oct 1763 Sarah, dau. of Paul Jodrell, Wraysbury, Middlesex ; d. 28 Jul 1782.
CHILD, THOMAS ; b. ; adm. (aged 11) Jan 1716/7.
CHILD, WILLIAM GILBERT, only son of William Child, Beverley, Yorks., and Smith Street, Westminster, merchant ; b. (Hamburg, Germany) ; adm. 1 Jul 1773 ; KS (aged 11) 1774 ; elected to Trin.Coll.Camb. 1779, but never adm. ; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 7 Feb 1777 ; Cornet, 21st Light Dragoons, 26 Dec 1778 ; Lieut., 26 Feb 1780 ; 23rd Dragoons, 24 Sep 1781 ; Capt.-Lieut., 19th Light Dragoons, Mar 1785 ; Maj., 13 Apr 1792 ; 25th Light Dragoons, 12 Jan 1797 ; Lieut.-Col. in Army 3 May 1796 ; ret. 19 Feb 1799 ; Barrack Master at Colchester, 1812, and at Chatham, 1816 ; m. 9 Sep [or 3 Oct ?] 1803 Charlotte, dau. of Stephen Delancey, Governor of Tobago, American loyalist ; d. Mar 1821 (will proved PCC 2 Jun 1821).
CHILDE, ARNOLD, eldest son of Arnold Childe (or Chylde), Sutton Court, Chiswick, Middlesex, and Elizabeth Weeks, Aldenham, Herts. ; nephew of Henry Childe (qv) ; b. ; adm. KS 1610 (Chapter Lease Book 1605-10, f.326) ; adm.Gray’s Inn 7 May 1623 ; living 1629. [perhaps Arnold Childe, from whom a petition was read in the House of Lords 1 May 1646]
CHILDE, EDWARD, son of Thomas Childe, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, and Sarah, eldest dau. of Sir Edward Acton, Bart., MP ; b. 1 Jun 1700 ; adm. ; Min.Can. (aged 13) 1715 ; KS 1716 ; left 1718 ; Balliol Coll.Oxford, matr. 22 Jun 1719 ; buried Acton Scott, Shropshire, 15 Feb 1726/7.
CHILDE, HENRY, third son of Thomas Childe (or Chylde), Chiswick, Middlesex, and Elizabeth Burton ; b. ; adm. ; QS ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1588, matr. 17 Jan 1588/9 (as Henry Child), aged 19, Westminster Student to 1599 ; BA 1592 ; MA 1595 ; ordained ; Rector of Arlingham, Gloucs., from 21 Mar 1598/9 ; m. (by 1603) Anne — ; buried Arlingham, Gloucs., 1 Jun 1633.
CHILVER, THOMAS FARQUHAR, son of Samuel Chilver, New Burlington Street, Westminster, surgeon and apothecary, and Jane — ; b. 11 Mar 1805 ; adm. (G) 9 Apr 1817 ; Min.Can. 1818 ; LSA 1826 ; MRCS 1828 ; FRCS (hon) 1852 ; practised in New Burlington Street, London ; m. 15 Dec 1829 Lucy Elizabeth, second dau. of Sir Charles Mansfield Clarke, Bart., MD DCL FRS FRCP, Physician to Queen Adelaide; d. 15 Aug 1874.
CHIPPE, — ; b. ; in school lists 1656.
CHIPPE, – – – ; b. ; in school lists 1656.
CHITTICK, WALTER THOMAS, son of Henry Chittick MD, King Street, Westminster, and Mary Smith, Bristol ; b. ; adm. 12 Jun 1769 ; left Whitsun 1773 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 26 May 1775 ; BA 1781 ; MA 1782 ; MB 1783 ; MD 1795 ; medical practitioner in London ; prisoner for debt in King’s Bench Prison ; m. 27 Apr 1796 Sarah Seger (IGI); whereabouts uncertain, believed dead in 1816 (see Morning Post 8 Mar 1816).
CHITTY, ABRAHAM, eldest son of Abraham Chitty, St.Helen’s, Bishopsgate, London, brewer, director East India Company, and Elizabeth — ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1689 ; left 1693/4 ; Trinity Hall, Camb., adm.pens. 5 Aug 1696, afterwards fellow commoner, matr.1696 ; an East India merchant ; buried St.Laurence Pountney, London 31 May 1724.
CHITTY, JOSEPH, eldest son of Joseph Chitty, barrister and legal writer, and Elizabeth Woodward ; b. 22 Feb 1796 ; adm. 9 Jan 1809 ; left 1811 ; adm.Middle Temple 13 May 1813 ; a certificated special pleader 1822 ; author, Contracts, 1826, and other legal works ; m. 7 Mar 1829 Sarah, third dau. of John Hardwick, Ford, near Sheffield, Yorks. ; d. 10 Apr 1838. ODNB (s.v.father).
CHOCKE, GEORGE, son of George Chocke, London ; b. ; adm. ; Min.Can. (aged 14) 1714 ; Peterhouse, Cambridge, adm.pens. 23 Jun 1715, Hale Scholar.
CHOLMELEY, HENRY JAMES, third son of Montague Cholmeley, Easton Hall, Grantham, Lincs., and Sarah, sister of Humphrey Waldo Sibthorp (qv) ; b. 28 Oct 1776 ; adm. ; KS 1792 ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1796, matr. 25 May 1796, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1796 – Oct 1805, Faculty Student 31 Oct 1805 – void by marriage 17 Jun 1811 ; BA 1800 ; MA 1803 ; MB 1804 ; MD 1807 ; FRCP 25 Jun 1810, Censor 1814, 1824, 1834 ; Physician to Guy’s Hospital from 1811 ; practised in the City and East End of London ; m. 11 Jun 1811 Eliza, third dau. of William Havard, South Lambeth, Surrey, banker ; d. 14 Jun 1837.
CHOLMELEY, MONTAGU, son of James Cholmeley, Easton, Lincs., and Catherine, dau. of John Woodfine, Ratley, Warwicks. ; bapt.South Stoke, Lincs. 17 Sep 1711 (IGI); adm. (aged 12) Jun 1724 ; left 1727/8 (still in school list 27 Feb 1727/8) ; Merton Coll.Oxford, matr. 29 Feb 1727/8 ; BA 1731 ; migrated to Magdalen Coll., Fellow from 1733 ; MA 1734 ; BD 1744 ; DD 1749 ; ordained deacon 5 Jun 1737 (Oxford), priest 20 Sep 1740 (Gloucester) ; Rector of Cadeby, Lincs., 21 Apr 1741 – Sep 1747 [perhaps again to 1778] ; Curate of Old Shoreham, Sussex 25 Jul 1751-2 ; Vicar of Candlesby, Lincs., 27 Jul 1752 – May 1757 ; Vicar of Saltfleetby All Saints, Lincs., from 2 Mar 1757 ; d. unm. 5 Feb 1785.
CHOLMELEY, ROBERT, brother of Henry James Cholmeley (qv) ; b. 29 Apr 1780 ; adm. ; Min.Can.1795 ; Corpus Christi Coll.Oxford, scholar 23 Apr 1796, matr. 25 Apr 1796 ; BA 1800 ; MA 1803 ; BD 1812 ; Fellow of Corpus Christi Coll., 1803-13 ; ordained deacon 5 Jun 1803, priest 27 May 1804 (both Oxford); held curacies at Beckenham, Kent, Lewes, Sussex, and Leeds, Yorks. ; Rector of Wainfleet, Lincs., from 15 Jan 1817 ; m. 26 Mar 1813 Maria Anne, dau. of John Miller, New York, U.S.A., and Woolwich, Kent ; d. 30 Jul 1852.
CHOLMONDELEY, CHARLES COWPER, eldest son of Charles Cholmondeley, Overlegh, Cheshire, and Caroline Elizabeth, dau. of Nicholas Smythe, Cubley, Shropshire ; grandson of Thomas Cholmondeley (qv) ; b. 28 Sep 1795 ; adm.Midsummer 1808 ; left 1812 ; Brasenose Coll.Oxford, matr.31 Mar 1814 ; BA 1818 ; MA 1822 ; ordained deacon 28 May 1820, priest 7 Oct 1821 (both Chester, lit.dim. from Lichfield) ; Perpetual Curate of Moreton Say, Shropshire, from 10 May 1822 ; Rector of Marton-in-Craven, Yorks., 25 Jun 1822 – Mar 1828 ; Rector of Hodnet, Shropshire, from 8 Jun 1827 ; m. 22 Jun 1822 Mary, dau. of Rev.Reginald Heber, Hodnet Hall, Shropshire, Rector of Chelsea, and sister of Richard Heber MP, book collector ; d. 5 Feb 1831.
CHOLMONDELEY, GEORGE, 2ND EARL OF CHOLMONDELEY, son of Robert Cholmondeley, 1st Viscount Cholmondeley, and Elizabeth, second dau. of George Cradock, Caverswall Castle, Staffs. ; b. ; at school under Busby (Collins, The English Baronage, 1727, 589) ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 2 Sep 1680 ; DCL 9 Nov 1695 ; adm.Inner Temple 31 Mar 1680/1 ; Cornet, Independent Troop of Horse, 20 Jun 1685 ; Capt., Lord Dover’s Regt. of Horse, 1 Sep 1685 ; Queen Consort’s Regt. of Horse, 1 Jun 1686 ; Maj., 16 Nov 1687 ; joined Earl of Devonshire at Nottingham in support of William of Orange, 1688 ; Lieut.-Col., 1st Troop of Life Guards, at battle of the Boyne, 1690 ; distinguished himself at battle of Steinkirk, 1692 ; Col., 1st Troop Horse Guards, 4 Oct 1693 (on its formation) ; Brig.-Gen. of the Horse, 17 Jan 1697 ; Maj.-Gen., 9 Mar 1702 ; Lieut.-Gen. of the Horse, 1 Jan 1703/4 ; Col., 3rd Troop, Horse Guards, 11 Feb 1714/5 ; General of the Horse, 1 Mar 1727 ; MP Newton 1690-5 ; a Groom of the Bedchamber to William III c.Jan 1692 – Mar 1702 ; created Baron Newborough (I) 15 Mar 1714/5 and Baron Newburgh (GB) 2 Jul 1716 ; succ. brother as 2nd Earl of Cholmondeley (GB) 18 Jan 1724/5 ; Lord Lieut., Cheshire, from 7 Apr 1725 ; Lord Lieut., North Wales, from 7 Apr 1725 ; Governor of Guernsey from Oct 1732 ; FRS 9 Jun 1715 ; reputed joint author of Verses spoken before the Duke and Dutchess of York and Lady Ann, in Oxford Theatre, May 21st 1683, printed in Examen Poeticum, 1693 ; m. 1701 Anna Elisabeth, dau. of Aelbert van Ruytenburgh, Governor of Sas van Gent, Netherlands ; d. 7 May 1733. ODNB.
CHOLMONDELEY, HUGH, brother of Charles Cowper Cholmondeley (qv) ; b. 1 Jul 1797 ; adm. 23 Jun 1808 ; left 1811 ; Brasenose Coll.Oxford, matr. 15 Dec 1815. [maybe Hugh Cholmondeley, born Chester, living Gateshead, co.Durham, in 1861 (1861 Census), then aged 65, death registered Gateshead fourth quarter 1869, then aged 77 (sic)]
CHOLMONDELEY, HON.ROBERT, brother of George Cholmondeley, 2nd Earl of Cholmondeley (qv) ; b. ; adm. ; KS (Capt) 1678 ; d. 2 Feb 1678/9, aged 13. Buried Westminster Abbey, monument in north aisle of nave.
CHOLMONDELEY, THOMAS, third son of Charles Cholmondeley MP, Vale Royal, Cheshire, and Essex, dau. of Thomas Pitt MP, previously EICS Madras, Governor of Fort St.George ; b. 24 Jun 1726 ; adm. Dec 1740 ; left 1743 ; St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.fellow commoner 20 Jun 1743, matr.1745 ; succeeded father in Vale Royal estates, 1756 ; MP Cheshire 28 Apr 1756-68 ; m. 29 Oct 1764 Dorothy, second dau. of Edmund Cowper, Overlegh, Cheshire ; d. 2 Jun 1779.
CHOPE, BASIL STAFFORD, brother of Clement Robert Chope (qv) ; b. 30 Aug 1868 ; adm. 16 Jun 1881 ; left Dec 1884 ; went to Derby Sch. ; St.John’s Coll.Oxford, matr. 13 Oct 1888 ; resident Kensington, Middlesex, in 1891 (1891 Census) ; bankrupt 14 Sep 1896 ; left England for Africa in Sep 1896 ; a warrant was issued in Oct 1896 for his arrest for having obtained £500 worth of jewellery by false pretences ; supposed to be living in the Transvaal in May 1898.
CHOPE, CLEMENT ROBERT, eldest son of Rev.Robert Richard Chope, Vicar of St.Augustine’s, Queen’s Gate, South Kensington, and Lucy Hannah, dau. of Dr Charles Carter, Ovington Square, Brompton ; b. 29 Jun 1856 ; adm. 22 Sep 1870 (H) ; left Aug 1874 ; Exeter Coll.Oxford, matr. 15 May 1875 ; BA 1878 ; ordained deacon 1880, priest 1881 (both Exeter) ; Curate, Ashburton, Devon, 1880-4, Clyst St.George, Devon, 1884-9, Overseal, Derbs., 1889-92 ; Rector of Combe Pyne, Devon, 1892-1905 ; Rector of Bridford, Devon, from 1905 ; m. 19 Feb 1884 Bessie Florence, youngest dau. of John Furneaux, Buckfastleigh, Devon, woollen manufacturer ; d. 4 Jul 1914.
CHOPE, HERBERT IRONS, brother of Clement Richard Chope (qv) ; b. 19 Apr 1861 ; adm. 23 Jan 1873 (H) ; left Aug 1878 ; resident Bombay, India, in 1884-8 ; P. & O. Steam Navigation Co. agent in Singapore from 1899 ; m. 21 Aug 1883 Ethel Gwynne, dau. of Rev.George Philipps, Rector of Winfrith Newburgh, Dorset ; d. at Singapore 17 Jan 1906, from effects of a carriage accident.
CHOVET, JACOB ; b. ; adm. (aged 11) Apr 1716 ; left 1716.
CHOWNE, THOMAS, son of Thomas Chowne MP, Alfriston, Sussex, and Phoebe, youngest dau. of William Westbrook MP, East Ferring, Sussex ; bapt. Alfriston, Sussex 19 Dec 1713 ; adm. (aged 10) Apr 1724 ; in school list 1729 ; Queen’s Coll.Oxford, matr. 20 Oct 1731 ; adm.Inner Temple 20 Apr 1730 ; of Alfriston, Sussex ; FSA 17 Dec 1772 ; m. 11 Oct 1740 Mary, sister of John Tilson (qv) ; d. 16 Apr 1788.
CHRISTIAN, — ; b. ; in school list Dec 1788 ; still at school Feb 1790.
CHRISTIAN, ROBERT, of Hertfordshire ; b. ; adm. ; QS ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1587, matr. 29 Nov 1588, aged 19, Westminster Student [check] ; BA 1591 ; MA 1594 ; Canon commoner [sic : check], Christ Church, occurs 1597-1600 ; Superior Bedell of Theology, Oxford Univ. 7 Jul 1597, still Oct 1600. [perhaps subsequently notary public, Knightrider Street, London (living 1622) ; Deputy Registrar, Diocese of London, at 21 Apr 1613 ; joint Receiver of Fines and Forfeitures, Court of High Commission, 27 Apr 1616 – still 1629, but dead at 30 Jun 1630]
CHRISTIE, GEORGE JAMES, eldest son of Col.Sir Archibald Christie KCH, 1st Royal Veteran Battn., Stenton, Fifeshire, sometime Governor of Stirling Castle, and Jane, only child of George Dwyer, Singland, co.Limerick ; b.1801 ; adm. 6 Jul 1812 ; left 1814 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 16 Jan 1819, matr. Lent 1821, but did not graduate ; Cornet, 13th Light Dragoons, 18 Sep 1823 ; Lieut., half pay, unattached, 3 Oct 1826 ; retd., 16 Jun 1829 ; d.unm. 9 Dec 1837.
CHUFFE, — ; b. ; adm. ; QS in 1556 (Chapter Muniments 37713).
CHURCH, — ; b. ; in under school lists 1717,1718. [“probably a chorister”]
CHURCH, JOHN, son of John Church, Lay Vicar and Master of the Choristers, Westminster Abbey, and Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, and Elizabeth Wood, Boughton Aluph, Kent ; b. ; in school list 1715 (“probably a chorister”) ; Min.Can. (aged 13) 1718 ; KS 1719 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1723, matr. 18 Jun 1723, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1723 – void 18 Aug 1736 (expiry year of grace as R.Boxford from 18 Sep 1735) ; BA 1727 ; MA 1730 (incorp.Cambridge 1732) ; ordained deacon 7 Mar 1727/8, priest 2 Mar 1728/9 (both London); Rector of Boxford, Suffolk, from 13 Aug 1735 ; Rector of Groton, Suffolk, from 12 Feb 1742/3 ; known as “Honest John Church” (Newton, Works, 1787, i, 172) ; m. Mary, dau. of Thomas Martin, Barrards Hall, Whatfield, Suffolk ; d. 27 Oct 1785.
CHURCH, RALPH, brother of John Church (qv) ; b. ; adm. ; in under school list 1716 (“probably a chorister”) ; KS (aged 13) 1721 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1725, matr. 2 Jun 1725, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1725 – void 26 Nov 1736 (expiry year of grace as V.Pyrton), Tutor 1729-31 ; BA 1727 ; MA 1732 ; ordained deacon 23 Sep 1733, priest 4 Jun 1734 (both Oxford) ; Vicar of Pyrton, Oxfordshire, from 20 Nov 1735 ; Vicar of Shirburn, Oxfordshire, from 14 Nov 1748 ; Chaplain to Earl of Godolphin ; edited Spenser’s Faery Queen, 1738 ; m. Sarah [Tanner ?]; d. Apr 1787. ODNB.
CHURCH, RICHARD ; b. ; adm. 13 Jan 1777 ; left Dec 1780.
CHURCH, WILLIAM, son of William Church, Newport, Shropshire ; b. ; adm. (aged 9) Jan 1744/5 ; left 1747 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 16 Nov 1754 ; BA 1758 ; MA 1763 ; ordained deacon 8 Oct 1758, priest 21 Sep 1760 (both Lichfield & Coventry) ; Curate, Forton 1758 ; Usher, Newport Sch., Shropshire, in 1759 ; Rector of Flemingston, Glamorgan, from 17 Dec 1763 ; Rector of Michaelston, Glamorgan, 17 Dec 1763 ; Rector of Llanilid with Llanharan, Glamorgan 20 Apr 1764 ; Rector of Llanfihangel, Glamorgan (at death) ; [perhaps Chaplain, 1st Foot, 12 May 1769 – still 1781 – a new Chaplain in his place 1786] ; Domestic Chaplain to Douglas, Duke of Hamilton 7 May 1771 ; m. 1773 Catherine Deere ; d. 27 May 1815. [Perhaps William Church, son of William Church, and Alice —, bapt.Shawbury, Shropshire 26 May 1735 (IGI)]
CHURCHEY, WILLIAM, son of William Churchey, Henstridge, Somerset, merchant ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Jun 1726 ; in under school list 1729 ; Hart Hall, Oxford, matr. 17 Nov 1732 ; adm.Middle Temple 22 Jan 1732/3, called to bar 24 Jun 1737 ; m. 13 Mar 1742/3 Elizabeth Spateman, Cannon Street, London. [Probably William Churchey, bapt.St.Andrew, Holborn 20 Nov 1715, son of William Churchey, and Mary (Boucher ?) (IGI)]
CHURCHILL, — ; b. ; in under school list 1724.
CHURCHILL, ARTHUR LINDSAY MAURY, son of John Fleming Churchill MICE, Director of Public Works, Ceylon, and Jeannie Lindsay, dau. of Matthew Ross Deas MD MRCS (Ed), Kirkleatham, Yorks. ; b. Ceylon 21 May 1865 ; adm. 25 Sep 1879 (R) ; left Aug 1881 ; Westminster Hospital ; LSA 1895, LMSSA 1907 ; Assistant Medical Officer, Wonford Hospital, and County Asylum, Lancaster ; general medical practitioner at Mevagissey, Cornwall ; Lieut., RAMC, attached Hampshire RHA (TF), 17 Dec 1914 ; Capt., attached 18th (Co. of London) Batt., London Regt. (London Irish Rifles), 17 Jun 1915 ; m. Kate Louisa Cousins (marriage registered Faringdon second quarter 1909) ; d. on active service at Cairo, Egypt 24 Jun 1917.
CHURCHILL, BARTHOLOMEW, son of John Churchill, Chertsey, Surrey, and Harriet Susannah Steele (IGI) ; b. 29 Mar 1809 ; adm. 18 Feb 1817.[perhaps m. 20 Jan 1834 Susannah Fitzpatrick (IGI)]
CHURCHILL, CHARLES, youngest son of John Churchill, Westminster ; b. ; adm. (aged 9) Mar 1717/8 ; KS 1723 ; left 1725 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 2 Mar 1725/6, matr.1726 ; adm.Inner Temple 17 Jan 1723/4 ; ordained deacon 24 Dec 1732, priest 19 Feb 1732/3 (both London) ; Curate and Lecturer, St.John the Evangelist, Westminster, from Feb 1732/3 ; Vicar of Rainham, Essex, from 31 Mar 1742 ; m. Anne — ; d. 7 Sep 1758. [Presumably Charles Churchill, son of John Churchill, and Mary —, bapt.St.Martin’s in the Fields 13 Sep 1708 (IGI)]
CHURCHILL, CHARLES, illegitimate son of Lieut.-Gen.Charles Churchill MP, and Anne Oldfield, actress ; b. ; adm. (aged 9) Apr 1730 ; left 1730 ; Grand Tour (Italy) 1735-9 ; Geneva Univ 1739 ; Cornet, 8th Dragoons, 6 May 1726 ; 10th Dragoons, 13 Apr 1732 ; Lieut., 29 Oct 1736 ; 2nd Foot Guards, 3 Jan 1738/9 ; retd Jun 1745 ; MP Stockbridge 1741-7, Milborne Port 2 Dec 1747-54, Great Marlow 1754-61 ; Deputy Ranger, St.James and Hyde Parks, Jun 1745 -c.1751 ; Searcher in Port of London ; of Chalfont House, Bucks. ; m. 17 Feb 1745/6 Lady Maria Walpole, Housekeeper of Windsor Castle, illegitimate dau. of Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford PC KG, Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury ; d. 13 Apr 1812.
CHURCHILL, CHARLES, eldest son of Charles Churchill (adm.1717/8, qv) ; b. Feb 1731/2 ; adm. (aged 9) May 1741 ; KS (Capt.) 1745 ; left 1748 [or 1747 ?] ; St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 8 Jul 1748 ; ordained deacon 22 Sep 1754 (Bath & Wells), priest 19 Dec 1756 (Rochester for London) ; Curate, South Cadbury and Sparkford, Somerset, 1754-6, and to his father at Rainham, Essex, 1756-8 ; Curate and Lecturer, St.John the Evangelist, Westminster, 1758 – Jan 1763 ; became involved in debt, and was in danger of imprisonment until befriended by Pierson Lloyd (qv), who induced the creditors to accept a composition ; author of the poems The Rosciad and The Apology, published in 1761 ; by their sale he is said to have cleared no less than £2000 ; became an intimate friend of John Wilkes, with whom he worked on The North Briton ; his poems satirised Hogarth, Bute, Sandwich, and others ; his literary career, although brief, was brilliant ; although he led a reckless and extravagant life, his generosity was undoubted and he remained an unwavering friend of Robert Lloyd (qv) ; William Cowper (qv) held him in high estimation as a poet and called him the “great Churchill” (Works of William Cowper, 1836, vi, 9-10) ; for an account of Byron’s visit to his grave at Dover, see Lord Broughton’s Recollections of a Long Life, i, 335 ; his Works were published in two volumes, 1763-4 ; m. c.1749 Martha Scott, Westminster (“niece to the sister of the late Mr.Bransby, apothecary, in Tothill Street, Westminster”) ; d. at Boulogne, 4 Nov 1764. ODNB. [Note that Robert Bransby m. at St Martin’s in the Fields 6 Apr 1703 Katharine Scott]
CHURCHILL, JOHN, son of Charles Churchill (adm.1717/8, qv) ; b. 12 Jun 1735 ; adm. Nov 1745 ; left 1750 ; practised as a surgeon-apothecary in Parliament Street, Westminster ; medical attendant to John Wilkes, 1778 ; as executor of his brother Charles, published several editions of his Works, the fifth of which appeared in 1774 ; prominent in the electoral politics of Westminster ; lic.to m. 23 Jul 1763 Susan Tuttridge, Petty France, Westminster ; d. 7 May 1799.
CHURCHILL, ROBERT, son of Robert Churchill, St.Margaret’s, Westminster, mason, and Elizabeth — ; bapt. 10 Feb 1708/9 ; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1719/20 ; in under school list 1723 ; apprenticed to Edward Heath, citizen and apothecary, 3 Mar 1723/4 ; an apothecary ; m. 31 Oct 1734 Dorothy, dau. of William Tufnell, St.Margaret’s, Westminster, builder and bricklayer ; d. by 3 Feb 1735/6.
CHURCHILL, WILLIAM, son of Charles Churchill (adm.1717/8, qv) ; b. ; in school lists 1750-2 ; ordained priest 19 Feb 1786 (St. Davids, as literate, i.e. no university degree); Prebendary of Brecon from 11 Feb 1788 ; Vicar of Orton on the Hill, Leics., from 27 Aug 1789 ; buried there 3 Feb 1804. [Churchill owed his clerical appointments to Edward Smallwell (qv), successively Bishop of St.David’s and of Oxford, who is said to have been his uncle] [There had been a Smallwell-Churchill marriage in 1703]
CIBBER (or SLOPER), CHARLES, illegitimate son of William Sloper (qv), and Susanna Maria Cibber, actress, wife of Theophilus Cibber, actor, and dau. of Thomas Arne, St.Paul’s, Covent Garden, Middlesex, upholsterer ; b. ; at school under Markham (The Public Advertiser, 19 Apr 1758) ; d. “at a boarding house in Dean’s Yard”, 18 Apr 1758, aged 8. Buried (as Charles Sloper) in the North Cloister, Westminster Abbey.
CIRCUITT, GEORGE JOSEPH, brother of Robert William Perry Circuitt (qv) ; b. 5 Dec 1847 ; adm. 23 Jun 1859 ; QS 1862 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1866, but never adm. ; d. Sep 1870.
CIRCUITT, RICHARD WILLIAM PERRY, son of George John Circuitt, Woburn, Beds., clerk (1851 census, then living Kensington, Middlesex), and Mary, dau. of William Porter, Elstree, Herts. ; b. 3 Oct 1846 ; adm. 27 Jan 1859 ; QS 3 Oct 1861 ; left Whitsun 1865 ; King’s Coll.London, AKC 1869 ; ordained deacon 1869, priest 1871 (both Winchester) ; held several curacies 1869-78 ; Vicar of Cholsey, Berks., 1878-85 ; Rector of St.Luke’s, Heywood, Lancs., 1885-1900 ; Vicar of Brixham with Churston Ferrers, Devon, from 1900 ; m. 28 Nov 1870 Sally Anne, younger dau. of John Hermon, Claverton Street, Belgravia, London ; d. 26 Sep 1920.
CLABON, WILLIAM MONTAGU ROBERT, only son of John Moxon Clabon, Sevenoaks, Kent, solicitor, and Jane Lewis, dau. of John Alfred Wigan, Clare House, East Malling, Kent, hop merchant ; b. 5 Jan 1858 ; adm. (G) 12 Jun 1868 ; left Dec 1868 ; went to Market Bosworth Sch. ; at Radley Coll. Mich 1871 – Easter 1876 ; articled to firm of solicitors, Maidstone, Kent ; accidentally killed while getting in to a train at Gravesend Railway Station 15 Jul 1876.
[CLAGGET, — ; b. ; in school lists Jan 1732/3 and Aug 1733 (both third form). Evidently Wiseman Clagget (qv)]
CLAGGET, WISEMAN, son of Wiseman Clagget, Barnard’s Inn, London, solicitor, and Martha, second dau. of William Clifton, Castleford, Yorks. ; bapt.St.Andrew, Holborn 20 Sep 1721 (IGI); adm. (aged 11) Jul 1732 ; left 1735 ; attorney, King’s Bench ; emigrated to Antigua, West Indies, where he became a notary public and Secretary of the island ; settled in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, North America 1758 ; practised as an attorney in Portsmouth ; King’s Attorney, New Hampshire 1765-9 ; in England 1769-71 ; resident at Litchfield, New Hampshire, from 1771 ; represented Litchfield and Nottingham West on General Court, New Hampshire ; became an opponent of colonial rule ; active member, provincial congresses, and one of drafters of original constitution for state of New Hampshire ; member, Council and Committee for Public Safety, New Hampshire ; Justice, Superior Court, New Hampshire 1779-81 ; Solicitor-General, New Hampshire 1781-4, when post abolished ; m. 1759 Lettice, dau. of — Mitchell, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, medical practitioner ; d. at Litchfield, New Hampshire, USA 4 Dec 1784.
CLAPCOTT, HENRY, son of George Bunter Clapcott, Tarrant Keyneston, Dorset, and Eliza Bestland, dau. of Rev.James Dowland DD, Rector of Winterborne Clenston, Dorset ; b. 28 Nov 1830 ; adm. 12 Jan 1844 ; QS 1845 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1849, adm.pens. 19 May 1849, scholar 1850, matr.Mich.1849 ; BA 1853 ; emigrated to Dunedin, New Zealand, where he took up sheep farming ; member Provincial Council, Otago, 1864, also Provincial Treasurer ; manager, Bank of Otago ; JP New Zealand ; m.1st, at Douglas, Isle of Man 8 Dec 1858 Mary Jane, second dau. of Maj. Thomas Power, 60th Foot ; m.2nd, at Dunedin, New Zealand, 18 Jan 1862 Annie Harriet, eldest dau. of Charles Bedborough ; d. 19 Sep 1897.
CLAPHAM, — ; b. ; adm. 26 May 1662 ; a boarder ; left 1663 (Busby’s Account Book).
CLAPHAM, CHARLES HERBERT, son of Edward Clapham MD MRCS, Wimbledon, Surrey, previously of Devizes, Wilts., and Catherine, dau. of Edward Thurlow Leeds, Eyebury, Peterborough, Northants., farmer ; b. 1 Feb 1869 ; adm. (H) 26 Jan 1883 ; left Dec 1885 ; an invalid (but described as “laundry proprietor” when living Wimbledon, Surrey, in 1901) ; m. 27 Jul 1907 Mary Ross, dau. of Charles Waring Finch, Moor House, Staines, Middlesex, mustard manufacturer ; d. 13 Jan 1921.
CLAPHAM, EDWARD LEEDS, brother of Charles Herbert Clapham (qv) ; b. 1 Feb 1870 ; adm. (H) 26 Jan 1883 ; QS 12 Jun 1884 ; left Jul 1886 ; Assistant Master, Wellingborough GS ; subsequently proprietor, The Southdown Laundry Ltd, Raynes Park, London ; played for England at hockey, 1895, 1902 ; m. 14 Jul 1924 Jessie Unwin, widow of Egerton Railton, Manchester, land agent, and younger dau. of John Mulliner, Manchester, smallware manufacturer ; d. 9 Jun 1937.
CLAPHAM, ROBERT, son of Richard Clapham, London, whose widow Martha kept a boarding house, first in Dean’s Yard and then at 1 Little Dean’s Yard ; b. (Doncaster, Yorks.) ; adm. 26 Sep 1774 ; KS (aged 15) 1780 ; Treasurer, Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, from 15 Feb 1805 ; m. Mary, eldest sister of Charles Simpson (qv) ; d. 17 May 1805. [Perhaps bapt.Marr, Yorks., 16 Oct 1764, son of Richard Clapham, and Martha — (IGI) (Marr is close to Hemsworth, where his brother Thomas was Master of the GS); note also that a Richard Clapham m. at St.George’s, Hanover Square 15 Dec 1757 Martha Smith] [father perhaps of Dartmouth Street, Westminster, Secretary to Archbishop of York (occurs as such 1765), notary public, who died in 1774]
CLAPHAM, THOMAS, brother of Robert Clapham (qv) ; b. ; adm. 26 Sep 1774 ; KS (aged 13) 1781 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1786, adm.pens. 14 Jun 1786, aged 18, scholar 19 Apr 1787, matr. Mich.1786 ; BA 1790 ; MA 1793 ; Usher at the School, 1792-6 ; ordained deacon 25 Jan 1791 (Rochester), priest 4 Jul 1792 (Carlisle, lit.dim. from Rochester) ; Vicar of Felkirk, Yorks., from 17 Nov 1792 ; Master, Hemsworth GS, Yorks., from Aug 1796 ; d. 13 Feb 1801.
CLAPTON, DAVID, son of Thomas Clapton, Great Queen Street, Soho, apothecary, and his second wife Jane, dau. of John Le Sage, St.Anne’s, Soho, goldsmith ; b. 17 Jul 1768 ; adm. 3 Feb 1778 ; surgeon, Pratt Street, Camden Town, Middlesex, previously of Parliament Street, Westminster ; Master, Society of Apothecaries of London 1838-9 ; m. Catherine — ; d. 25 Sep 1840.
CLARENT, HENRY ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Apr 1719 ; in under school list 1723.
CLARGES, GOULD, fifth son of Sir Walter Clarges, Bart., MP, and his third wife Elizabeth, widow of Sir Robert Wymondsold, Kt., Putney, Surrey, and dau. of Sir Thomas Gould, Kt., Sheriff of London, citizen and draper ; b. 26 Feb 1700/1 ; adm. (aged 13) Nov 1715 ; in under school list 1717 ; adm.Middle Temple 16 May 1717 ; University Coll.Oxford, matr. 5 May 1720 ; Cornet, 5th Dragoons 8 Sep 1725 (still 1730) ; a Cupbearer, Royal Household, from 10 May 1730 ; resident in Marlborough Street, London ; d. 13 May 1780.
CLARGES, THOMAS, only son of Sir Thomas Clarges, Bart., MP, Gentleman of the Privy Chamber, and Hon.Barbara Berkeley, second dau. of John Berkeley, 4th Viscount Fitzhardinge (I), MP, Treasurer of the Chamber ; nephew of Gould Clarges (qv) ; b. Jun 1721 ; adm. (aged 13) Sep 1733 ; left 1738 ; adm.Inner Temple 22 Oct 1733 ; Brasenose Coll.Oxford, matr. 27 Mar 1738 ; MA 22 Feb 1739/40 ; m. 2 Jan 1746/7 Hon.Anne Barrington, dau. of John Barrington, 1st Viscount Barrington (I) MP ; d. in France 27 Nov 1753.
CLARK, see also CLARKE, CLERK and CLERKE.
CLARK, — ; b. ; in school lists Feb 1727/8 (third form), 1729. [Perhaps same individual as John Clark (adm. 1723/4 (qv))]
CLARK, — ; b. ; in under school lists 1730,1731.
CLARK, ARTHUR WILLIAM, son of Alfred Aurelius Clark, Westbourne Square, Bayswater, London, varnish and colour manufacturer, and his first wife Mary Anne Jane, only dau. of Stephen Price, Felton Butler, Shropshire, farmer ; b. 23 Jul 1867 ; adm. (G) 5 Oct 1880 ; left Dec 1880 ; living 1895. [Note Arthur William Clark, d. 4 Apr 1934, aged 66, death registered Maidenhead ; if so, he had m. 22 Jun 1895 Ethel Lane, elder dau. of John Lane Hawkins, Earls Court, London,stockbroker, he then described as of Burnham, Berks.]
CLARK, HENRY GEORGE JAMES ; b. ; adm. 16 Jun 1772.[presumably Henry George James Jennings Clarke, Cadet EICS 1780, arrived in Madras Jan 1781 ; Ensign, 2nd bn., 2nd Regt., Madras ; taken prisoner by French at Pondicherry 1781, and handed over to Hyder Ali ; circumcised, and forced to convert to Islam and to enter Hyder Ali’s service]
CLARK, JAMES, see CLARKE, JAMES.
CLARK, JOHN ; b. ; adm. (aged 14) Jan 1715/6.
CLARK, JOHN ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Apr 1722 ; left 1724.
CLARK, JOHN ; b. ; adm. (aged 8) Feb 1723/4 ; left 1730.
CLARK, JOHN ; b. ; adm. 15 Jan 1782 ; chorister.
CLARK, JONATHAN ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Oct 1725 ; in school list 1731.
[CLARK, NATHANIEL ; b. ; in school list Dec 1736. Forename probably an error]
CLARK, PETER ; b. ; adm. ; Min.Can.1576.
CLARK, RICHARD ; b. ; adm. 9 Sep 1783. [Whitmore identifies this individual as Richard Clarke, son of Richard Clarke, College Precincts, Worcester, and Mary — (IGI) ; bapt.Worcester Cathedral 29 Jul 1771 (IGI) ; adm. 9 Sep 1783 ; left 1788 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 2 Apr 1788, aged 16 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 29 Oct 1792 ; migr. to Inner Temple 15 May 1797, called to bar 26 May 1797 ; d. 22 Jan 1805] [father probably Diocesan Registrar, Worcester]
CLARK, RICHARD BROWN, see CLARKE, RICHARD BROWN
CLARK, THOMAS, see CLARKE, THOMAS.
CLARK, THOMAS ; b. ; in school lists 1727/8 (first form), 1728.
CLARK, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Jul 1729 ; left 1732.
CLARK, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. 8 Mar 1775 ; chorister ; left Aug 1780. [perhaps William Clark, tenor singer, occurs 1784-8]
CLARK, ZACHARIAH ; b. ; adm. 1 Aug 1785 ; chorister.
CLARKE, — ; b. ; adm. ; a pensioner 1565 (tutor, Prebendary Young) (Chapter Muniments 54006-10).
CLARKE, — ; b. ; in school lists 1656 ; perhaps the “sonn now a scholler in the sd. ffree school”, mentioned in an undated petition from Tristram Clerke, citizen and clothworker, London, to the Governors (Chapter Muniments 25806).
CLARKE, — ; b. ; in school lists 1729, 1731.
CLARKE, CHARLES LANGTON, eldest son of Rev.James Langton Clarke, Clarendon Square, Leamington, Warwicks., and Frances Mary, dau. of Thomas Elliot Harrison, Whitburn, co.Durham, shipbuilder ; b. 30 Oct 1858 ; adm. (G) 9 Oct 1872 ; left Aug 1875 ; emigrated to Canada ; member engineering staff, Grand Trunk Railway ; subsequently journalist with Daily World, Sunday World and Globe, Toronto, Canada ; cable editor, Toronto Mail and Empire ; d. at Toronto, Canada 4 Mar 1936.
CLARKE, CHARLES NOEL, brother of Francis Richard Clarke (qv) ; b. 7 Feb 1868 ; adm. (G) 16 Jun 1881 ; left Jul 1886 ; Trinity Coll.Oxford, matr. 16 Oct 1886 ; BA 1890 ; adm.solicitor May 1896 ; in practice at Iquique, Chile ; head of firm there connected with nitrade trade ; British Consul at Iquique 8 Apr 1899 (still 1908) ; 2nd Lieut., Herts Yeomanry (TF) 3 Mar 1915 ; Lieut., 13 Oct 1915 ; of Lound Hall, Tuxford, Notts. ; m. 29 Apr 1896 Beatrice Mary, dau. of Rev.Christian Mortimer, Rector of Pitchford, Shropshire, and Hon.Canon of Lichfield ; d. 15 Dec 1931.
CLARKE, DENNIS, second son of John Clarke, Blake Hall, Barking, Essex, and Elizabeth, dau. of Admiral Sir Richard Haddock Kt MP, Comptroller of the Navy ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Feb 1727/8 ; in under school list 1729 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 7 Nov 1734 ; migrated to Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm. 14 Nov 1740 ; LLB 1741 ; LLD 1746 ; adm.Middle Temple 24 Sep 1735, Grays’ Inn 25 May 1739 ; adm.advocate, Court of Arches, 1746 ; Judge of the Cinque Ports, Commissary of London, Essex, and Hertfordshire, and to Dean and Chapter of Westminster, and official to Archdeacon of Middlesex (all by 1769) ; Dean and Commissary of South Malling, Pagham and Terring, Sussex, from 1763 ; of Blake Hall, Essex (inherited from elder brother 1770) ; d. unm. 6 Nov 1776.
CLARKE, EDWARD HYDE, eldest son of Tanner Owen Hyde Clarke, Upper Grosvenor Street, London, banker, and Fanny Julia, dau. of Alfred Braithwaite ; b. 7 Nov 1854 ; adm. (G) 23 Sep 1869 ; left Christmas 1871 ; no occupation (1881 Census) ; of Wrentham House, Suffolk ; m. 17 Sep 1878 Sarah Elizabeth, dau. of Robert Godfrey, Homeland, Isle of Wight ; buried Wrentham, Suffolk 17 Oct 1928, aged 74 (as Edward Hyde Hyde-Clarke).
CLARKE, ESME, son of Esmé Clarke ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1737/8 ; left 1743 ; apprenticed to John Nicoll, St.Andrew’s, Holborn, London, 19 Jul 1744 ; adm.solicitor, 29 Nov 1750 ; Clerk to Saddlers Company 31 Mar 1772-96, Joint Clerk with his son 20 Oct 1796 – 14 Aug 1798 ; m.1st, 18 Mar 1754 Catherine Stonehewer, St.Bartholomew the Less, London ; m.2nd, 7 Jan 1774 Ann Norton, St.George’s, Bloomsbury, widow ; buried St.Vedast’s, Foster Lane, 9 Jan 1800, aged 73. [Mother probably Dorothy Richardson (IGI)] [father Capt., Horse Guards, later Town Major, Hull, Yorks. ?]
CLARKE, FRANCIS RICHARD, son of Frederic Führmann Clarke, Aldridge Lodge, Walsall, Staffs., solicitor, and Lucy Annette, second dau. of Francis Booth MD MRCP, Gower Street, London ; nephew of Nathaniel Garnett Clarke (qv) ; b. 12 Apr 1860 ; adm. (G) 14 Oct 1872 ; QS Dec 1875 ; left May 1879 ; Trinity Coll.Oxford, matr. 31 May 1879 ; BA 1883 ; MA 1886 ; adm. solicitor Jan 1887 ; practised at Walsall ; Registrar, Walsall County Court (by 1907) ; m. 7 Apr 1888 Ellen Maud, dau. of Clement Satterthwaite, Bromley, Kent, stockbroker ; d. 17 Sep 1927.
CLARKE, FREDERIC GARNETT, brother of Francis Richard Clarke (qv) ; b. 16 Jan 1862 ; adm. (G) 27 May 1875 ; left Aug 1880 ; in nitrate industry at Valparaiso, Chile (by 1896), and subsequently at Iquique, Chile ; resident Kensington, London, in 1911 (1911 Census) ; m. 1st, 14 Sep 1886 Penelope Mary, dau. of George Petrie, De Vere Gardens, Kensington, shipowner ; m.2nd, (by 1911) Laura Louisa Delphina, dau. of Eduardo Alibaud ; d.1942 [check].
CLARKE, GABRIEL, son of John Clarke, Clothall, Herts., yeoman ; b. ; adm. ; QS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1605, Westminster Student to 1618/9, matr. 21 Feb 1605/6, aged 17 ; BA 1609 ; MA 1612 (incorp. Camb.1616) ; BD (from Pembroke Hall) 1630 ; ordained deacon 19 Dec 1613, priest 24 Dec 1615 (both Oxford); Chaplain to Richard Neile (qv), his future wife’s uncle ; Prebendary of Lincoln from 26 May 1615 ; Rector of Middleton Stoney, Oxfordshire, 1616 – Dec 1620 ; Rector of Howick, Northumberland, 1619-21 ; Archdeacon of Northumberland, 7 Aug 1619 – Sep 1620 ; Prebendary of Durham from 4 Aug 1620 ; Archdeacon of Durham (and Rector of Easington, co.Durham) from 9 Sep 1620 ; Rector of Elwick, Durham, 6 Sep 1620 – Jul 1624 ; Master of Greatham Hospital, Durham, from 24 Jul 1624 ; deprived of preferments by 17 Sep 1644, but reinstated at the Restoration ; ex officio Proctor in Convocation for diocese of Durham 1661 ; m. (by 1624) Mildred, dau. of William Neile, and niece of Richard Neile (qv) ; d. 10 May 1662.
CLARKE, GEORGE, eldest son of Thomas Clarke MD, Hertford, Herts., and Susanna, dau. of Rev. Charles Proby DD, Rector of Tewin, Herts. ; b. ; adm. (aged 11) Jan 1737/8 ; left 1742 ; Oriel Coll.Oxford, matr. 9 Feb 1742/3 ; adm. Middle Temple 23 Nov 1741, called to bar 24 Jun 1748 ; d. 11 Dec 1753.
CLARKE, GEORGE NOEL, son of Joseph Clarke, London, stonemason, and Mary Anne Thompson, subsequently mistress of HRH Frederick, Duke of York ; b. 14 Feb 1798 ; adm. Mich.1811 ; left 1813 ; his education and Army career were provided for by the Duke ; his name appears in the Army Lists as George Frederick Clarke ; Cornet, 17th Light Dragoons (subsequently Lancers), 17 Mar 1814 ; Lieut., 1 Jan 1819 ; half-pay, 6th Dragoons [check : wrong Regiment ?] ; exchanged to active list, 17th Lancers 23 Aug 1823 ; Capt., unattached, half-pay, 7 Jul 1825 ; 17th Lancers, 25 Aug 1825 ; retd., 21 Dec 1832 ; agent to Col. Robert Fulke Greville, Castle Hall, Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire ; m. 28 May 1853 Emma Georgiana, dau. of Arthur James Lewis, barrister, Middle Temple, Advocate General at Bombay ; d. 9 Feb 1861.
CLARKE, HENRY HARCOURT HYDE, only son of (Henry) Hyde Clarke, St.George’s Square, London, company secretary, and Maria Mildred Eaton, widow ; b. 29 May 1852 ; adm. (G) 26 Jan 1866 ; Min.Can. 1867 ; left Whitsun 1868 ; no occupation (1881 Census) ; bankrupt 1893 ; m. 2 Jun 1888 (divorced 1901) Louisa Christine Dorothea, second dau. of Herman Dirs Mertens, Streete Court, Westgate, Kent, landowner ; death registered St.George Hanover Square fourth quarter 1906, aged 54.
CLARKE, HENRY TREVISA, brother of Francis Richard Clarke (qv) ; b. 4 Jan 1864 ; adm. as exhibitioner (G) 31 May 1877 ; QS 1878 ; left Dec 1881 ; a shipbuilder with Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson ; member Inst.Naval Architects 1887 ; managing director, North of Ireland Shipbuilding Co., Londonderry 1909-27 ; District Superintendent, Shipbuilding and Ship Repairing, North-West Ireland, Ministry of Shipping, 1916-9 ; m. 24 Apr 1894 Margaret Evelyn, second dau. of William Henry Sale, The Uplands, Derby, solicitor ; d. 23 Dec 1947.
CLARKE, JAMES, brother of Joseph Clarke (qv) ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Jun 1721 (as Clark) ; in under school list 1725 ; d. 26 Nov 1726.
CLARKE, JOHN, son of John Clarke, Halton, Cornwall, and Elizabeth, dau. of John Hickes, Saltash, Cornwall ; b. ; adm. ; Min.Can. (aged 11) 1755, (aged 14, sic) 1756 ; Exeter Coll.Oxford, matr. 30 Jun 1759, aged 17 ; MA 1763 ; adm.Inner Temple 3 Jan 1759 ; of Halton, St.Dominic, Cornwall ; m. 15 Aug 1773 Elizabeth, eldest dau. of Edward Phelips (qv) ; d. 1790 (will proved PCC 12 Jun 1790).
CLARKE, JOSEPH, son of Rev.Joseph Clarke DD, Rector of Long Ditton, Surrey ; b. ; adm. (aged 11) Jun 1721 ; in under school list 1724 ; Magdalene Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 20 Mar 1726/7, matr. 1728 ; BA 1730/1 ; MA 1734 ; Fellow, Magdalene Coll. 1732 ; ordained (by 1746) ; a controversialist ; author, Treatise of Space, 1733, and other works ; lic.to m. 7 Sep 1742 Frances, dau. of Sir George Walter, Bart., Worcester Park, Surrey ; d. 30 Dec 1749. ODNB. [Perhaps Joseph Clarke, son of Joseph Clarke, and Mary —, bapt.East Molesey, Surrey 8 Feb 1710 (IGI)] [will proved PCC 28 Jan 1751, as of Long Ditton, Surrey] [perhaps Josephus Clerke BA, ordained deacon 24 Sep 1732 (London)]
CLARKE, MATTHEW, son of Rev.Matthew Clarke, Rector of Bitterley, Shropshire, and of St.Leonard’s, Shoreditch, London ; nephew of Rev.Thomas Hill DD, Master of Trinity Coll.Cambridge ; b. ; adm. (having previously been at Charterhouse Sch.) ; KS ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1648, adm.pens. 20 May 1648, scholar 1649, matr.Mich.1651 ; BA 1651/2 ; MA 1655 ; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1653 – c.1658 ; Chaplain to Col.Hacker’s Regt., Scotland ; Rector of Narborough, Leics., 28 May 1658 until ejection under Act of Uniformity of 1662 ; became a nonconformist preacher in Leicestershire ; thrice imprisoned in Leicester Gaol “for the crime of preaching” ; licensed as presbyterian preacher at Market Harborough, Leics., 29 May 1672 ; retired to Norwich, where he lived with his daughter ; an oriental scholar of some distinction ; m. ; d. 1708, aged 78. ODNB.
CLARKE, MAYNARD ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Jan 1729/30 ; apprenticed to Joseph Norton, attorney, St.Ann’s, Westminster, 22 Sep 1735 ; reapprenticed to James Francis, Castle Yard, London, 31 May 1744 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 22 Oct 1735, called to bar 31 May 1756, having waived his first admission and taking his “standing as from five years last past” (Black Book, xiii, 266) ; of St.Andrew, Surrey County, Jamaica, and of Birchanger, Herts. ; “lately deceased” at 10 Jun 1760 (will already proved PCC 8 Dec 1759). [presumably Maynard Clarke who m. 9 Mar 1757 Elizabeth Thompson (IGI)]
CLARKE, NATHANIEL GARNETT, son of Nathaniel Richard Clarke, Handsworth, Staffs., Serjeant-at-law, and Judge under Small Debts Act for Dudley and Wolverhampton, and Anna Maria Führmann, dau. of Thomas Garnett, Nantwich, Cheshire ; b. 14 Feb 1818 ; adm. 7 Jun 1830 ; Min.Can.1832 ; Peterhouse, Camb., adm.pens. 17 Mar 1837, Gisborne Scholar 26 Nov 1838, matr.Mich.1837 ; d. 5 Jul 1839.
CLARKE, RICHARD BROWN, son of Thomas Clarke, Hailsham, Sussex, Under Sheriff for London and Middlesex, and Catherine, only dau. of Richard Brown, Golden Square, Westminster, and Stamford Hill, Middlesex, solicitor ; b. 5 Dec 1774 ; adm. 22 Sep 1788 (as Richard Brown Clark) ; of Hailsham, Sussex ; Ensign, Northamptonshire Militia 14 Nov 1798 ; d.14 Jan 1800.
CLARKE, ROCHFORT HYDE, brother of Edward Hyde Clarke (qv ; b. 20 Sep 1858 ; adm. (G) 4 Jun 1874 (as Rochford Hyde Clarke) ; left Christmas 1874 ; “retired tea planter” (sic, 1881 census) ; m. 1st, 13 Jul 1883 (divorced 1916 ?) Constance Isabelle Every, dau. of Thomas Edward Every Clayton, Carr Hall, Barrowford Booth, Lancs., landowner ; m. 2nd, 1917 Thelma Alethea, dau. of Maj.William Hampden Evans Lawless, 8th Hussars (marriage registered Fulham second quarter 1917) ; d. 5 Oct 1930.
CLARKE, SKINNER DYKE, son of Charles Edward Clarke MD, St.Marylebone, London, formerly Assistant Surgeon, 3rd Foot Guards, and Susanna, dau. of Very Rev.John Skinner DD, Dean of Salisbury; b. 12 Feb 1802 ; adm. 23 Jan 1811 ; left 1812 ; at Winchester Coll. 1815-6 ; certificate of qualification to practice as an apothecary 6 Mar 1823 ; Ensign, Army, unattached 8 Oct 1825 ; will proved London Consistory Court Nov 1828, he described as bachelor, Lower Grosvenor Street.
CLARKE, SPENCER, son of Turner Poulter Clarke, Andover, Hants., land agent, and Elizabeth, dau. of James Parker ; b. 13 May 1837 ; adm. 26 Apr 1848 (R) ; QS 1851 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1855, adm.pens. 11 Jan 1855, scholar 1856, matr. Mich.1855 ; BA 1859 ; MA 1862 ; adm.solicitor Mich.1862 ; Superintendent Registrar and Coroner for Hampshire from 1863 ; practised at Whitchurch, Hampshire ; m. 6 Feb 1868 Charlotte Elizabeth, dau. of Tobias Rustat Hemsted MRCS LSA, Whitchurch, Hampshire ; d. 1 Nov 1921.
CLARKE, STEPHEN HARDCASTLE, brother of Francis Richard Clarke (qv) ; b. 19 May 1865 ; adm. QS 12 Jun 1879 ; left May 1884 ; Trinity Coll.Oxford, matr. 11 Oct 1884, exhibitioner 1884 ; BA 1888 ; MA 1891 ; adm.solicitor Aug 1899 ; in practice at Sunderland ; m. 7 Aug 1902 Paula, eldest dau. of Francis Ford Freeman, Tavistock, Devon, “rectifier and spirit dealer” (1881 Census) ; d. 26 Aug 1928.
CLARKE, SIR THOMAS, younger son of Thomas Clarke, St.Giles’s in the Fields, Holborn, carpenter, “whose wife kept a pawnbroker’s shop” ; b. ; adm. (aged 11) 10 Jan 1714/5 ; Min.Can.1716 ; KS 1717 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1721, adm.pens. 10 Jun 1721, scholar 6 Apr 1722 ; 2nd in ordo 1724/5 ; BA 1724/5 ; MA 1728 ; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll., 2 Oct 1727, Major Fellow 6 Jul 1728 ; adm. Gray’s Inn 20 Oct 1727, called to bar 21 Jun 1729 ; KC 1740 ; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 4 May 1742, Bencher 17 May 1754 ; MP Mitchell 1747-54, Lostwithiel 1754-61 ; Master of the Rolls from 25 May 1754 ; knighted 25 May 1754 ; Privy Councillor 21 Jun 1754 ; FRS 14 Nov 1754 ; author, Fleta seu Commentarius Juris Anglicani, 1735 (issued anonymously) ; d. unm. 13 Nov 1764. ODNB.
CLARKE, THOMAS, son of Rev.Thomas Clarke, Rector of Fitz, Shropshire, and Catherine Blease, St.Alkmund’s, Shrewsbury, Shropshire ; b. 28 Mar 1707 ; adm. (aged 12) Mar 1719/20 ; in under school list 1721 ; Min.Can.1723 ; Magdalen Coll.Oxford, matr. 5 May 1725 ; buried at Fitz 27 Feb 1727/8.
CLARKE, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. ; KS ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1626, adm.scholar 1627, matr. Easter 1629 ; BA 1630/1.
CLARKE, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. (aged 11) Apr 1736 ; left 1742.
CLARKSON, see also CLERKSON.
CLARKSON, CHARLES JAMES PALMER, son of William Clarkson (adm.1810, qv) ; b. 1 Aug 1836 ; adm. (G) 22 Jan 1846 ; RMC Sandhurst ; Ensign, 30th Foot 18 Jan 1855 ; Lieut., 18 May 1855 ; Capt., 13 Nov 1860 ; retired 1870 ; settled in Halifax, Nova Scotia, as general agent ; m. 1 July 1891 —, eldest dau. of John Glenney, Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada ; d. at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada 24 Feb 1900.
CLARKSON, GEORGE, son of John Clarkson, St.James’s, Westminster, china importer, and Anne — ; b. 26 Sep 1758 ; adm. 12 Sep 1768 ; left Dec 1773 ; articled to Daniel Robinson, solicitor 17 Jan 1774 ; adm.attorney 28 Jan 1779 of Clement’s Inn, London ; ; still in practice with brother in Essex Street, Strand 1822 [Law List 1822] ; m. c. 24 Oct 1788 Elizabeth Fisher, Hatton Street, London. [mother perhaps Anne Robinson (IGI)]
CLARKSON, GEORGE PALMER, son of William Clarkson (adm.1810, qv) ; b. 1 Nov 1830 ; adm. 26 Sep 1844 ; QS 1845 ; left Christmas 1846 ; articled to Charles James Palmer, Bedford Row, London, solicitor ; adm. solicitor Trinity term 1852 ; in practice at Tunbridge Wells, Kent ; m. 27 Apr 1859 Harriette, youngest dau. of Thomas William Elam, Brunswick Place, Brighton, Sussex, farmer ; d. 12 Dec 1870.
CLARKSON, ROMAINE WILLIAM, brother of George Clarkson (qv) ; bapt.St.James, Piccadilly 12 Dec 1762 (IGI) ; adm. 18 May 1772 (as William Clarkson) ; articled to John Morgan 1778 ; of Clements Inn ; practiced as a solicitor in Essex Street, Strand ; he and his brother George acted as solicitors for John Horne Tooke (qv) in his trial for high treason, Nov 1794 ; Secretary, Whig Club Mar 1798 ; Chief Clerk to Insolvent Debtors Court ; Chief Clerk to Master of Rolls (occurs 1819) ; still in practice 1822 (Law List 1822) ; m. 8 Sep 1790 Sophia Baker, St.Giles in the Fields, London ; dead by 24 May 1832.
CLARKSON, THOMAS HOLLINGWORTH, son of William Clarkson (adm.1810, qv) ; b. 12 Mar 1832 ; adm. (G) 16 Jan 1845 ; Ensign, 99th Foot, 21 Sep 1852 ; Lieut., 14 Aug 1854 ; Adj., 16 Jan 1857 – 7 Apr 1859 ; Capt., 8 Apr 1859 ; Maj., 2 Sep 1868 ; 63rd Foot, 15 Jan 1873 ; 20th Foot, 26 Mar 1873 ; Brevet Lieut.-Col., 23 Aug 1877 ; Lancashire Fusiliers, 1 Jul 1881 ; Col. in the Army, 23 Aug 1881 ; Col. commanding 48th Regimental District 17 Dec 1888, 20th Regimental District, 21 Apr 1889 ; m. 12 Feb 1861 Mary Ann, eldest dau. of Joseph Henry Goodhart, The Manor House, Upper Tooting, Surrey, sugar refiner ; d. 30 May 1891.
CLARKSON, WILLIAM, son of Romaine William Clarkson (qv); bapt.St.Andrew, Holborn 17 Nov 1795 (IGI) ; adm. 25 Jun 1810 ; left 1813 ; articled to father ; adm.Inner Temple 13 Nov 1817, called to bar 7 Feb 1823 ; Home Circuit and Central Criminal Court ; a well-known Old Bailey barrister, connected with most of the famous criminal trials of the day ; Recorder of Faversham from 1844 ; m. 29 Aug 1829 Eliza Celia, only dau. of George Palmer, Boyne House, Tunbridge Wells, Kent ; d. 24 Oct 1856, aged 61.
CLARKSON, WILLIAM GEERING, son of William Geering Clarkson, Leonard Place, Kensington, a Proctor, Court of Arches, and Anne Cunningham, widow of Capt.(Harry) Percival Lewis, 29th Foot, Downton House, Radnorshire, and dau. of — Nicholl ; b. 21 Oct 1842 ; adm. Jan 1855 ; Ensign, 88th Foot 6 Sep 1861 ; retired 1862 ; m. — [marriage registered Kensington third quarter 1869].
CLARKSON, WILLIAM HENRY, son of William Clarkson (adm.1810, qv) ; b. 6 Jan 1832 ; adm. (G) 26 Sep 1844 ; Ensign, 11th Foot, 29 Jun 1849 ; Lieut., 6 Jun 1854 ; Capt., 15 Jun 1858 ; 30th Foot, 10 May 1864 ; Brevet Maj., 5 Jul 1872 ; retired with rank Hon.Lieut-Col., 2 Mar 1878 ; m. 11 May 1870 Charlotte, youngest dau. of Leonard Hicks, Paddock Lodge, Kentish Town, Middlesex, solicitor ; d. 16 Jun 1903.
CLAVERING, HENRY MORDAUNT, second son of Maj.-Gen. Sir John Clavering KB, Commander-in-Chief, Bengal, and his first wife Lady Diana West, dau. of John West, 1st Earl De La Warr KB, General in the Army ; b. 16 Dec 1766 ; adm. 20 Sep 1779 (Clapham); University Coll.Oxford, matr. 15 Jun 1782 ; Grand Tour (Italy) 1789-90 ; Ensign, Capt.O’Connor’s Independent Co., 7 Feb 1794 ; Lieut., Capt.Wolfe’s Independent Co., 12 Feb 1794 ; Capt., 13 Feb 1794 ; Maj., 98th Foot, 30 Jul 1794 ; Lieut.-Col., Argyll Fencibles, 19 Aug 1795 ; Brevet Col., 29 Apr 1802 ; Brig.-Gen. (local rank in S.America) 22 Apr 1807 ; retd., 11 Nov 1824 ; some interesting extracts from his letters to his old schoolfellow John Benn (qv), relating to their school-days, are printed in Elizabethan xi, 175-6, 185-7 ; m. 1st, 5 Feb 1788 Lady Augusta Campbell, elder dau. of John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll (S), Field-Marshal in the Army ; m.2nd, 18 Apr 1839 Sarah McHardie [probably dau. of James McHardie] ; d. 18 May 1850.
CLAVERING, ROBERT, only surviving son of Right Rev.Robert Clavering DD, Bishop of Peterborough, and Mary, dau. of John Croke, Fawley Court, Bucks., Spanish merchant ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Jun 1737 ; left 1742 ; Ch.Ch.Oxford, matr. 20 Dec 1742, Canoneer Student 23 Dec 1742 – void by marriage 18 Jul 1748 ; of All Saints parish, Northampton, on second marriage ; m.1st, Judith — ; 2nd, 5 Jan 1759 Jane, dau. of William Byrche (qv) ; d. 9 Aug 1787 (will proved PCC 22 Mar 1788, as of Northampton).
CLAVERING, ROBERT SAVAGE, see SAVAGE, ROBERT SAVAGE CLAVERING
CLAXTON, HAMMOND (or HAMOND), son of Hamon Claxton, Booton, Norfolk, and Gray’s Inn, London ; b. ; at school under Osbaldeston 2 years (Venn, Biog.Hist.Gonville & Caius Coll., i, 326) ; subsequently went to Harrow Sch., where he remained for 7 years under Mr Hide ; Gonville and Caius Coll.Camb., adm.scholar 6 Jun 1637, aged 17 ; adm. Gray’s Inn 12 Aug 1631 ; probably a prisoner in the Fleet Prison 1654 ; of Aylsham, Norfolk ; living 8 Dec 1682 when a legatee in will of his brother-in-law, Rev.Charles Worsley, Holt Market, Norfolk ; still alive 20 Jun 1695 when named as executor in will of his son-in-law Jonathan Dawson, Aylsham, Norfolk ; m. 29 Dec 1649 Paulina, sister of Thomas Pepys (qv).
CLAXTON, HAMMOND ; b. ; at school under Osbaldeston ; Peterhouse, Cambridge, adm.pens. 8 Jun 1637, aged 17, described as of London, Slade scholar 19 Mar 1637/8. [perhaps same individual as last]
CLAY, GEORGE BERTIE, son of Rear-Adm. Edward Sneyd Clay, Royal Navy, and Elizabeth Mary, dau. of Adm.Sir John Knight, Royal Navy ; bapt. Southwell, Notts. 14 Jun 1800 ; adm. 30 Sep 1814 ; left 13 Dec 1817 ; St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 16 Dec 1818, matr.Mich.1819 ; BA 1823 ; “about to proceed to New South Wales as a settler” Jul 1825 ; JP New South Wales ; returned from Australia 1832 ; d. 5 Feb 1835. [Russell Barker & Stenning incorrectly describe him as a brother of William Waldegrave Pelham Clay (qv)]
CLAY, STANLEY, second son of Maj.-Gen. Charles Henry Clay, Commandant, Deoli Irregular Force, previously EICS Bombay, and Eleanor Isabel Agnes, dau. of Alexander Sangster, Sussex Gardens, Hyde Park, London ; b. India 8 Jul 1868 ; adm. (H) 9 Apr 1883 ; left 1887 ; RMC Sandhurst Jul 1887 ; 2nd Lieut., Yorks Light Infantry, 22 Aug 1888 ; Lieut., Indian Staff Corps, 5 Jan 1890 ; Capt., 22 Aug 1899 ; Double Company Commander, 7th Gurkhas, 1 Jul 1900 ; served in Manipore expedition 1891, Lushai expedition 1896, and in Waziristan 1901-2 ; m. 12 Mar 1901 May Isabel, youngest dau. of Maj.-Gen.Alfred Thomas Etheridge CSI, Bombay Army (previously EICS Bombay); killed in earthquake at Dharmsala, India, 4 Apr 1905.
CLAY, WILLIAM, of Warwickshire ; b. ; adm. Christmas 1812 ; BB 1812 ; left 1820 ; St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, adm. Bishop Williams scholar 16 May 1820, matr.Mich.1820 ; BA 1824 ; d. 7 Sep 1827, aged 25.
CLAY, WILLIAM WALDEGRAVE PELHAM, eldest son of Lieut.-Gen. William Waldegrave Pelham Clay, Burridge Hall, Southwell, Notts., and Charlotte Catherine, dau. of Mundy Pole ; b. 1796 ; adm. ; left 1810 ; Royal Military College, Marlow ; Ensign, 5th Foot, 1 Jul 1813 ; Lieut., 19 Apr 1821 ; 43rd Foot, 10 Oct 1822, half-pay [check Regt]; of Southwell, Notts. ; DL Nottinghamshire 1854 ; m. 1st, 26 Jul 1824 Jane, second dau. of William Wylde, Southwell, Notts., landowner ; m.2nd, 19 Mar 1836 Henrietta Jane, eldest dau. of George Vernon, Clontarf Castle, co.Dublin ; d. 3 Jul 1873.
CLAYTON, — ; b. ; in school list 1729.
CLAYTON, ROBERT ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1664 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1667, adm.pens. 29 Jun 1667, scholar 1668, matr. 1667/8 ; adm.Inner Temple 18 Jun 1667 (as of St.Martin’s in the Fields, London), called 23 Nov 1673 ; d. 13 Dec 1676, aged 28 (M.I.St Martins in the Fields, London, recording fact of his education at the School).
CLAYTON, ROBERT, eldest son of Very Rev.John Clayton DD, Dean of Kildare, previously Rector of Crofton, Yorks., and Juliana Edmundson, Heysham, Lancs. ; bapt. Wakefield, Yorks. 6 May 1695 ; adm. ; Min.Can. (aged 15) 1710 (cf. also Cotton, Fasti Ecc.Hib., i, 232) ; Trinity Coll.Dublin, adm.pens. 25 Jun 1710, aged 15 (as pupil of “Mr.Pearson, Dublin”) ; BA 1714 ; MA 1717 ; LLB 1718 ; LLD 1722 ; DD 1730 ; Fellow Trinity Coll.Dublin 1714- Jun 1728, Senior Fellow 1724 ; travelled on Continent, incl. Italy ; ordained priest 24 May 1719 (Kildare) ; became an intimate friend of Samuel Clarke, the metaphysician ; consecrated Bishop of Killala 10 May 1730 ; translated to Cork and Ross 19 Dec 1735 and to Clogher 26 Aug 1745 ; the Lord Lieut. of Ireland refused to appoint him Archbishop of Tuam in 1752, on account of his Arianism ; summoned to appear before a meeting of the Irish bishops in answer to a charge of heresy ; FSA 14 May 1752 ; author, Essay on Spirit … with some Remarks on the Athanasian and Nicene Creeds, 1751, and other works ; m. 17 Jun 1728 Catherine, dau. of Nehemiah Donellan, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, Ireland ; d. 25 Feb 1759. ODNB.
CLEAVER, EUSEBY, brother of John Cleaver (qv) ; b. 8 Sep 1745 ; adm. ; KS 1759 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1763, matr. 9 Jun 1763, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1763 – void 10 May 1775 (expiry year of grace as R.Spofforth from 12 May 1774), Tutor 1767-74 ; BA 1767 ; MA 1770 ; BD and DD 1783 ; DD Trinity Coll.Dublin 1788 ; tutor to Earl of Egremont at Christ Church 1767 ; ordained deacon 20 Dec 1772 (Oxford), priest 5 May 1774 (Chester) ; Rector of Spofforth, Yorks., 9 May 1774 – Apr 1783 ; Rector of Tillington, Sussex, 13 Mar 1783-9 ; Rector of Petworth, Sussex, 5 Apr 1783-9 ; Prebendary of Chichester 21 Feb 1787 – res by May 1789 ; Chaplain to Marquis of Buckingham when Lord Lieut.Ireland, 1787-9 ; consecrated Bishop of Cork and Ross 28 Mar 1789, translated to Ferns and Leighlin 13 Jun 1789 ; suffered heavy losses during rebellion of 1798, having his palace plundered and his library destroyed ; Archbishop of Dublin from 25 Aug 1809 ; m. 2 May 1788 Catherine, dau. of Right Hon.Owen Wynne PC (I) MP (I), Hazlewood, co.Sligo ; d. 10 Dec 1819. ODNB.
CLEAVER, HENRY OWEN, son of Euseby Cleaver (qv) ; b. 12 Aug 1796 ; adm. 30 Sep 1806 ; KS 1810 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1814, matr. 23 May 1814, Westminster Student ; BA 1818 ; MA 1820 ; ordained deacon 20 May 1820, priest 17 Jun 1821 (both Oxford) ; Perpetual Curate of Hawkhurst, Kent, 3 Feb 1826-32 ; m. 24 May 1826 Carolina Charlotte Wilhelmina, dau. of Alexander Diederik, Rijksbaron van Spaen, Batavian Minister at Stuttgart ; d. 4 Jun 1837.
CLEAVER, JOHN, son of Rev.William Cleaver, Twyford, Bucks., master of a private school there, and Martha, dau. of Rev.John Lettice, Vicar of Bozeat, Northants. ; bapt. Hanwell, Oxfordshire 6 Jan 1736 [or 1736/7 ?]; adm. (aged 13) Nov 1749 ; KS 1750 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1754, matr. 18 Jun 1754, Westminster Student from 27 Feb 1755, Catechist 1767, Junior Censor 1772, Librarian 1775 ; BA 1758 ; MA 1761 ; leave of absence from Ch.Ch. to be private tutor at Westminster Sch. 1760 (his pupil there was divinably Charles O’Hara (qv), to whom he was certainly tutor in 1762-3, as evidenced by R.J.S.Hoffman, Edmund Burke, New York Agent, 1956, 285, 310, 312) ; ordained deacon 18 Dec 1763 (Norwich), priest 21 Dec 1763 (London), then intending to go abroad as a travelling tutor ; Chaplain in Ordinary to George III from 1770 ; Curate, Cowley, Oxfordshire, 1773 ; Vicar of Frodsham, Cheshire, from 19 Oct 1774 ; Prebendary of Chester from 25 Apr 1775 ; d.unm. 24 Apr 1776. Buried Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.
CLEAVER, JOHN FRANCIS, brother of William Cleaver (KS 1799, qv) ; b. 16 Mar 1788 ; adm. ; KS (Capt) 1801 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1805, matr. 25 May 1805, Westminster Student ; 1st cl.Classics & 2nd cl.Math., 1808 ; BA 1809 ; MA 1811 ; ordained deacon 15 Feb 1812 (Oxford), priest 25 Mar 1812 (Lincoln, lit.dim. from St.Asaph) ; Rector of Corwen, Merioneth, from 21 Apr 1812 (a sinecure) ; Rector of Newtown, Montgomeryshire, 16 Jun 1814 – Nov 1815 ; Prebendary of St.Asaph from 6 Jan 1815 ; Vicar of Great Coxwell, Berks., from 23 Oct 1815 ; d. unm. 12 Mar 1861.
CLEAVER, WILLIAM, eldest son of Right Rev.William Cleaver DD, Bishop of St.Asaph, and Anne, dau. of Ralph Assheton (qv) ; nephew of John Cleaver (qv) ; b. 11 Dec 1785 ; adm. ; KS 1799 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1803, matr. 23 May 1803 ; BA 1807 ; MA 1809 ; ordained priest 11 Dec 1809 (St Asaph); Rector of Llanfawr, Merioneth, from 11 Dec 1809 (s sinecure) ; Rector of Corwen, Merioneth 11 Dec 1809 – Apr 1812 (a sinecure) ; Precentor of St.Asaph, 11 Dec 1809-46 ; Perpetual Curate of Drelincourt Chapel, Denbighshire, 3 Sep 1811 – May 1812 ; Rector of Newtown, Montgomeryshire, 12 Oct 1811 – Jun 1814 ; Vicar of Bettws, Montgomeryshire, 26 May 1814 – Oct 1814 ; Rector of Denbigh, 17 Sep 1814 – Aug 1818 ; Rector of Wanlip, Leics., 17 Sep 1818 – Feb 1831 ; d. unm. 7 Dec 1854.
CLEAVER, WILLIAM, son of Euseby Cleaver (qv) ; b. 24 Mar 1789 ; adm. 18 Jan 1800 ; in school lists 1801, May 1803 ; KS 1803 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1807, matr. 13 May 1807, Westminster Student ; Chancellor’s Prize for Latin Verse, 1808 ; BA 1812 ; MA 1818 ; ordained deacon 13 Jun 1813, priest 4 Jun 1814 (both Oxford) ; Perpetual Curate of Tring, Herts.. 1 Jun 1818 – Jun 1819 ; Prebendary of St.Patrick’s, Dublin, 16 Jan – Jul 1819 ; Rector of Delgany, co.Wicklow, 1819-37 ; m. 22 Feb 1819 Mary, second dau. of Sir Digby Mackworth, Bart. (adm.1778, qv) ; d. 28 Dec 1860.
CLELAND, HENRY, brother of John Cleland (qv) ; bapt.Kingston upon Thames 13 Oct 1711; adm. Apr 1721 (as “Cleavland”) ; in under school list 1722 ; Min.Can. (aged 13) 1723, 1724 ; KS (Capt.) 1725 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1728, matr. 25 Jun 1728, Westminster Student 23 Dec 1728 – void for absence 28 May 1733 ; see Pope’s letter to Lord Oxford, 3 Nov 1730, asking for “a recommendatory letter” to some worthy man at Ch.Ch. who “would countenance and have an eye” over his friend’s son (Elwin & Courthope, Works of Alexander Pope, viii, 274-5) ; apparently in West Indies on his father’s death in 1741 and presumably Henry Cleland who was appointed Collector of Montserrat 12 Nov 1745 ; not mentioned in his mother’s will dated 4 Feb 1751/2.[Perhaps Ensign, 2nd Foot Guards 11 Jun 1730, out of Regt. Feb 1733/4]
CLELAND, JOHN, son of William Cleland, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, Commissioner of Taxes, previously army officer, and Lucy, dau. of Samuel du Pass, London, merchant ; bapt.Kingston upon Thames 24 Sep 1710 ; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1720/1 ; KS 1722 ; arrived in Bombay as soldier 28 Aug 1728 ; attorney, Mayor’s Court, Bombay 26 Aug 1730 ; Writer, EICS Bombay 1731 ; Secretary for Portuguese Affairs, Bombay Jun 1737 ; Junior Merchant Oct 1737 ; Secretary to Council, Bombay 8 Jan 1738/9 ; left Bombay to return to England 23 Sep 1740 ; lived in London with mother ; his financial position became desperate, and in Feb 1747/8 he was arrested for debt and was detained for more than a year in the Fleet prison ; author, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, 1748-9 (reissued in an expurgated version as Fanny Hill, 1750); a warrant was issued in November 1749 for Cleland’s arrest as the author of an indecent book, but he was never prosecuted ; in later life he wrote other less successful novels and books on health and linguistics, as well as contributing to the periodicals The Monthly Review (1749-51) and The PublicAdvertizer (1765-87) ; see William H.Epstein, John Cleland, Images of a Life, 1974 ; d. unm. 23 Jan 1789. ODNB.
CLEMENS, MICHAEL ; b. ; in school list Aug 1733 (first form) ; BB 1733-9.
CLEMENT, — ; b. ; adm. ; a boarder 1656-7 (Busby’s Account Book).
CLEMENT, JOSEPH ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1673.
CLENCH, THOMAS, son of John Clench, Creeting, Suffolk, a Judge of the King’s Bench, and Catherine, dau. of Thomas Almott, Creeting, Suffolk ; bapt. 22 Feb 1567/8 ; at school (aged 13) 2 Jul 1582 (Chapter Muniments 43050); adm.Lincoln’s Inn 1 Oct 1586, called to bar 9 Jun 1594 ; of Holbrooke, Suffolk ; m. Mary — ; buried Holbrooke, Suffolk 26 Jun 1607.
CLENT, MILES, second son of Miles Clent, Gloucester ; b. ; adm. ; Min.Can.1637 ; KS ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1642, adm.pens. 16 May 1642, scholar 1643, matr. Easter 1642 ; d. 7 Jun 1658. [perhaps m. Dorothy, dau. of William Brydges, Tiberton Court, Herefs.]
CLERE, WILLIAM ; b. ; at school under Nowell ; a draft of a letter from Nowell recommending him and Edward Beamond (qv) to Robert Herricke, Physician to Henry VIII, was offered in a Hodgson book sale of 28 Apr 1939.
CLERK, SIR JAMES, BART., eldest son of Right Hon.Sir James Clerk, Bart., PC MP, Vice-Pres. Board of Trade, and Maria Ann, sister of William John Law (qv) ; b. 17 Jul 1812 ; adm. (G) 15 Jan 1822 ; Ensign, 83rd Foot, 9 Jun 1830 ; Lieut., 11 Jun 1833 ; 9th Lancers, 24 Dec 1833 ; retd., 5 May 1837 ; Private Secretary to father when Vice-Pres.Board of Trade, Feb 1845-6 ; succ.father as 7th baronet 23 Dec 1867 ; m. 26 Jun 1851 Jane Calvert, eldest dau. of Maj.-Gen. Douglas Mercer Henderson (formerly Mercer) CB ; d. 17 Nov 1870.
CLERK, JOHN, brother of Sir James Clerk, Bart. (qv) ; b. 16 Apr 1816 ; adm. (G) 14 Jan 1828 ; adm.Inner Temple 16 Apr 1838, called to bar 11 Jun 1841, Bencher from 28 Apr 1868, Treasurer 1885 ; Home Circuit and Parliamentary bar ; QC 22 Feb 1868 ; JP Leicestershire ; author, Practical Treatise on the Law of Elections, 1854, and other works ; m. 9 Dec 1845 Rose Alice Clothilde, second dau. of Thomas Greene MP, Whittington Hall, Lancs. ; d. 10 Apr 1900.
CLERK, SAMUEL, son of Christopher Clerk, London ; b. ; adm. ; at school by Jun 1654, aged 15 (WAM 43112, as Clearke) ; KS ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1657, adm.pens. 22 May 1657, scholar 1658, but did not matr. [Perhaps ordained priest 15 Jan 1662/3 (Chichester), as Clerke, but described there as BA Trinity Coll. Cambridge].
CLERKE, EDMUND, son of Edmund Clerke, Hungerford Park, Berks. ; bapt.Hungerford, Berks. 10 Apr 1678 (IGI, sic); adm. ; KS 1694 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1697, adm.pens. 19 Jun 1697, aged 17, scholar 6 May 1698, matr.1697. [maybe “Edmund Clarke Esqr”, “late an officer in Lord Slaney’s Regiment of Foot, who died in Ireland the 26th of Septr 1709” (MI Hungerford, Berks.)]
CLERKE, FRANCIS, only son of Francis Carr Clerke MP, Weston on the Green, Oxfordshire, and Catherine, sister of Charles Montagu Bertie (qv) ; b. 23 Sep 1724 ; adm. Sep 1735 ; left 1742 ; Worcester Coll.Oxford, matr. 18 May 1742, MA 21 Aug 1745 ; of North Weston, Oxfordshire ; High Sheriff, Oxfordshire 1750 ; m. 3 Mar 1746/7 Susanna Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Henry Ashhurst, Waterstock, Oxfordshire, Vice-Chancellor Duchy of Lancaster, Recorder of Liverpool and Wigan ; d. 30 Apr 1760.
CLERKE, SIR TALBOT, BART., only son of Sir Talbot Clerke, Bart., and Barbara, dau. of Thomas Gladwin, Durrant Hall, Chesterfield, Derbs. ; b. ; succ. father as 5th baronet 14 Feb 1723/4 ; adm. (aged 12) Oct 1732 ; d. at school 21 Nov 1732. Buried North Cloister, Westminster Abbey.
CLERKE, WILLIAM, son of George Clerke, Swainswick, Somerset, and Katherine, dau. of Thomas Prynne, Swainswick, Somerset, farmer, and sister of William Prynne, Keeper of the Records, Tower of London, pamphleteer and barrister ; bapt. Swainswick, Somerset 21 Jul 1639 ; at school by Jun 1654, aged 14 (WAM 43112) ; Oriel Coll.Oxford, matr. 7 Dec 1660 ; BA 14 Nov 1661 ; Fellow, Oriel Coll., 30 Mar 1663-6 ; studied medicine ; practised at Bath and subsequently at Stepney ; author, The Natural History of Nitre, 1670 ; d. 24 Apr 1684. ODNB (as William Clarke).
CLERKSON, EDWARD STEWART, brother of Henry Chambers Clerkson (qv) ; b. 17 May 1797 ; adm. 19 Jan 1809 ; left Midsummer 1810 ; Lieut., Royal Navy 12 Jun 1820, commanding brig HMS Swinger in Jan 1825 ; d. at sea off West African coast by Jul 1825.
CLERKSON, FREDERICK PETRIE, brother of Henry Chambers Clerkson (qv) ; b. 4 Mar 1800 ; adm. 27 Mar 1811 ; left 1812 ; Ensign, 52nd Foot 19 Jun 1815 ; 9th Foot 23 Jul 1818 ; Lieut., 2 May 1822 ; still in Army List 1827 (not 1828).
CLERKSON, HENRY CHAMBERS, eldest son of Lieut.-Col. John Clerkson, EICS Bengal, and Aurora Catherine, widow of Capt.Robert Maxwell, EICS Bengal, and dau. of George Smith (IGI) ; b. 22 May 1796 ; adm. 26 Apr 1808 ; left 1811 ; EICS Bengal ; Ensign, unattached, 7 Oct 1814 ; Lieut., 41st Bengal Native Infantry, 24 Jun 1817 ; d. on the river Ganges, off Bhagalpur, Bihar, Bengal, 20 May 1827.
CLETHERALL, — ; b. ; adm. ; QS in 1556 (Chapter Muniments 37713).
CLEVELAND, — ; b. ; in school list Jun 1764 ; left 1764.
CLEVLAND, ARCHIBALD, brother of John Clevland (qv) ; b. ; adm. (aged 8) May 1722 ; left 1725 ; “drowned on the bar of Salline [Bideford Bar, Devon ?], by the upsetting of the boat when going on shore” (Burke, LG).
CLEVLAND, JOHN, eldest son of Capt.William Clevland RN, Commissioner of the Navy, and Anne, dau. of John Davie, Orleigh, Devon ; b. ; adm. (aged 11) Sep 1718 ; in under school list 1721 ; adm.Middle Temple 1 Feb 1722/3 ; a clerk in Navy Office c.1723-31 ; Clerk of the Cheque, Plymouth, 1731-43 ; a Commissioner of the Navy 1743-6 ; Second Secretary to the Admiralty, 4 Aug 1746 – 1 May 1751, First Secretary from 1 May 1751 ; MP Saltash 1741 – 2 Mar 1743, Sandwich 1747-61, Saltash from 1761 ; m. 1st, 28 Jun 1728 (IGI) Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Caesar Child, Bart., Woodford, Essex ; m. 2nd, 28 Oct 1747 Sarah, dau. of Charles Shuckburgh, Longborough, Gloucs. ; d. 19 Jun 1763. ODNB.
CLIFDEN, VISCOUNTS, see AGAR and AGAR-ELLIS.
CLIFF, EDWARD ; b. ; adm. (aged 9) 10 Jan 1714/5 ; in under school list 1716. [Or Clift ?] [perhaps Edward Clift, b. 8 Mar 1704, son of John Clift, and Eleanor — (IGI)]
CLIFFE, — ; b. ; in school lists 1656.
CLIFFE, HENRY (alias JOHNSON), son of John Cliffe, London ; b. ; at school under Camden one year (Foley, Records of the English Province of the Society of Jesus, vi, 227); studied law 3 years ; became a Roman Catholic, having been converted by his uncle George Blackwell, Archpriest of the Roman Catholic secular clergy in England ; adm. to English College, Rome, 21 Aug 1603, aged 18 ; left Rome for Perugia to enter Benedictine order, but returned to Venerable English College ; ordained priest, Rome 18 Apr 1609 ; probably Ildephonse Cliff professed OSB at St.Malo 1615, having been exiled from England in 1614 after serving three years in prison ; d. 1657.
CLIFFE, RICHARD ; b. ; adm. (aged 15) Jan 1728/9 ; left 1730.
CLIFFORD, MARTIN, eldest son of Henry Clifford, London, and Cecily, dau. of Right Rev.Martin Fotherby DD, Bishop of Salisbury ; b. ; KS (Capt.) ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1640, adm.scholar 1641, matr.1640 ; living in Brussels 1659 ; secretary to Duke of Buckingham ; employed by the Duke of Buckingham in producing The Rehearsal (together with Samuel Butler and Thomas Sprat) ; attacked John Dryden (qv) in a series of letters ; Master of the Charterhouse from 1671 ; author, A Treatise of Human Reason, 1674 ; d. unm. 10 Dec 1677. ODNB.
CLIFTON, BENJAMIN, brother of James Maillard Clifton (qv) ; b. 3 Jul 1776 ; adm.11 Apr 1785 ; perhaps Clifton who played cricket for Town Boys v KSS 28 Jul 1789 ; KS (aged 14) 1789 ; played cricket for MCC and other teams in 1797-8 ; a physician at St.Kitts, West Indies. [perhaps “Benjamin Clifton, Esq.”, son in law of Thomas Boys, St.Anne’s Street, Westminster, who d. at Demerara Dec 1820]. [Elizabeth, widow of Benjamin Clifton, Demerara, d. 15 Mar 1857]
CLIFTON, EDWARD, LORD, see BLIGH, EDWARD, 2ND EARL OF DARNLEY (I).
CLIFTON, JAMES MAILLARD, eldest son of Benjamin Clifton MD, St.Kitts, West Indies, Physician to the Forces and Inspector of Hospitals, and Elizabeth Sarah Maillard ; b. 3 Jul 1772 ; adm. 7 Apr 1785 ; KS 1786 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1790, adm.pens. 8 Jun 1790, scholar 1791, matr. Mich.1790 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 12 Nov 1788 ; Ensign, 38th Foot, 29 Apr 1797 ; Lieut., 47th Foot, 22 Sep 1797 ; Capt., 1st West India Regt., 21 Feb 1801 ; Maj., 4 Apr 1808 ; Lieut.-Col., 13 May 1813 ; served in West Indies during Napoleonic Wars ; retd. 24 Dec 1818.
CLIFTON, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. (aged 14) Oct 1728 ; in under school list 1729 ; Attorney-Gen., Georgia 13 Aug 1754-64 (first holder of this appointment) ; Chief Justice of West Florida 1764 (suspended 1766 but reinstated 1768, still holding post when Spanish forces took Pensacola on 10 May 1781); left Florida on flag of truce schooner Feb 1782 ; “I was in the third form at Westminster when Lord George Germain and his brother were in the fourth” (letter from him to William Knox, dated Pensacola 12 February, year not stated, K.G.Davies, ed, Documents of the American Revolution 1770-1783, Colonial Office Series, vol.19, 1978, 40) ; m. (by 1758) Jane — ; d. by Mar 1783 (adm. to niece and next of kin Ann Raincock March 1783). [Ann Raincock was presumably the wife of George Raincock, Pensacola, Florida, member Council of West Florida ; if so, she was probably “Miss Harper, late of James Street, Bedford Row, London”, who m. 15 Jun 1770 George Raincock, Pensacola, merchant]
CLINKET, — ; b. ; adm.1656 (school lists 1656, last three quarters).
CLIVE, HENRY, third son of George Clive MP, Whitfield, Herefs., and Arlington Street, Westminster, and Sydney, dau. of Thomas Bolton, Knock, co.Louth ; b. ; at school 1791 (Clapham) ; still at school 1794 ; actor in Town Boy play Tamerlane Dec 1791 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 3 Feb 1795, aged 17 ; BA 1798 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 13 Nov 1794, called to bar 29 Jan 1802 ; Oxford circuit ; MP Ludlow 1807-18, Montgomery 1818-32 ; Under-Secretary of State, Home Office Apr 1818 – Jan 1822 ; m. 27 Nov 1809 Charlotte Jane, sister of John Buller (qv) ; d. 16 Mar 1848.
CLOUGH, JOHN HENRY GORE, second son of Henry Gore Clough MD FSA, Surgeon to 3rd Foot Guards, and his second wife Mary Williams, dau. of — Tucker, Michael’s Place, Brompton, Middlesex, licensed victualler ; b. 4 Jun 1813 (Record gives 1814, evidently in error) ; adm. 25 Jun 1827 ; Queen’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.sizar 22 Aug 1836, matr. Easter 1837 ; migr. to Trinity Coll., adm.pens. 10 Apr 1837, and to Christ’s Coll., adm.pens. 24 Jan 1838 ; BA 1845 ; ordained deacon 21 Dec 1845 (Oxford) ; Curate, Drayton Beauchamp, Bucks. ; of Chatham, Kent ; m. Albertine Lawrence [but check] ; d. 14 May 1879.
CLOWES, CHARLES, son of Charles Clowes, Norwich, Norfolk, head of art department J. & J.Colman Limited, mustard manufacturers, and Emma Matthews, dau. of Thomas William Read, Trowse, Norfolk, merchant and miller ; b. 3 Jun 1866 ; adm. 23 Jan 1879 (R) ; left Aug 1881 ; architect, living Chiswick, Middlesex, 1901 Census ; m. Laura, dau. of Lazarus George Horne, Norwich, Norfolk, mustard maker employed by the Colman firm (marriage registered Hackney third quarter 1894) ; d. 20 Sep 1908.
CLUTTERBOOKE, WILLIAM, see CLUTTERBUCK, WILLIAM
CLUTTERBUCK, CHARLES ; b. ; adm. 22 Jan 1770 ; a clerk in the Bank of England ; forged the signature of a cashier to the blank notes in his charge to an amount of £5930 ; on the discovery of his fraud in Jul 1782 he absconded to France ; an application for his return to England for trial having been refused, he was tried in France and condemned to death, the sentence afterwards being reduced to service in the galleys for life ; left Arras to undergo sentence 31 Aug 1785 ; see Memoire pour CharlesClutterbuck, Anglais de nation, Arras 1784.
CLUTTERBUCK, JOHN, of London ; b. ; adm. ; KS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford, 1616, matr. 10 Jun 1618, aged 16, Westminster Student to c.1649 ; BA 1620 ; MA 1623 ; BD 1642 ; ordained deacon 11 Dec 1628, priest 19 Dec 1630 (both Oxford, surname given as Clotterbooke).
CLUTTERBUCK, THOMAS, eldest son of Thomas Clutterbuck, Ingatestone, Essex, one of the Six Clerks in Chancery, and Bridget, widow of Sir John Sudbury, Bart. (qv), and dau. of Sir Thomas Exton Kt LLD, one of the Six Clerks in Chancery ; half-brother of George Carteret (qv) ; bapt.Ingatestone, Essex 8 Jul 1697 (IGI); at school under Knipe (Steward of Anniversary Dinner 1734) ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 20 Oct 1713, aged 16 ; adm. Middle Temple 28 Nov 1713 ; MP Liskeard 2 Nov 1722-34, Plympton from 1734 ; Chief Secretary for Ireland May 1724 – Jun 1730 ; Privy Councillor (I) 1724 ; MP (I) Lisburn from 1725 ; a Lord of the Admiralty 1732-41, of the Treasury 1741-2 ; Treasurer of the Navy from 12 May 1742 ; Privy Councillor 14 Jun 1742 ; m. 4 May 1731 Lady Henrietta Tollemache, sister of Lionel Tollemache, 4th Earl of Dysart (qv) ; d. 23 Nov 1742.
CLUTTERBUCK, WILLIAM, fourth son of Jasper Clutterbuck, King’s Stanley, Gloucs., and his second wife Margaret, dau. of Laurence Halliday ; bapt. 17 Jun 1604 ; adm. ; KS in 1619 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1623, adm.scholar 9 Apr 1624 ; BA 1627/8 ; MA 1631 ; BD 1639 ; Librarian, Trinity Coll., 27 Apr 1631-41 ; ordained deacon 18 Feb 1637/8 (Peterborough), priest 22 Dec 1639 (Norwich) ; Rector of Woodham Ferris, Essex, from 11 Nov 1641 (ejected 1645, but restored 1660) ; Rector of Danbury, Essex, from 3 Oct 1662 ; d.1665.
CLUTTON, RICHARD, second son of John Clutton, Pensax, Worcs., and his second wife Mary Jobber, Shropshire ; bapt.Pensax, Worcs. 15 Jun 1683 (IGI) ; adm. ; KS 1696 ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1702, matr. 12 Jun 1702, Westminster Student from 22 Dec 1702 ; d. 29 May 1703, aged 19. Buried Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.
COAPE, GEORGE, brother of William Coape (qv) ; b. 9 May 1805 [or 1804 ?] ; adm.(G) 12 Jan 1818 ; in school list Dec 1819 ; adm. Middle Temple 18 Jan 1822 ; d. 20 May 1846.
COAPE, WILLIAM, eldest son of John Coape, George Street, Hanover Square, and Anna Maria, sister of John Baldwin (qv) ; b. 4 Oct 1801 ; adm. 5 Oct 1812 ; in school lists 1813, Oct 1814 ; of Wallington, Fareham, Hampshire ; d. 21 Feb 1848.
COBB, ROBERT ; b. 9 Dec 1803 ; adm. 12 Jun 1816 (G); left Bartholomewtide 1818.
COBBY, FREDERICK EDWARD, son of Edward John Cobby, Wandsworth, Surrey, Chancery Registrars’ Office, also solicitor, and Catherine, second dau. of Thomas King, Brighton, Sussex, solicitor ; b. 16 Jan 1861 ; adm. 22 Jan 1874 (R) ; QS Jan 1876 ; left Christmas 1878 ; Keble Coll.Oxford, matr. 14 Oct 1879 ; BA 1883 ; MA 1886 ; adm. solicitor, New Zealand 1887, barrister 1888 ; returned to England ; solicitors’ managing clerk, Wakefield, Yorkshire (1901 Census) ; m. 3 Jul 1886 Laura Matilda Wynyard, sixth dau. of Thomas Gladwin Hurd, Toronto, Ontario, Canada ; d. Feb 1924.
COCHRAN, see also COCKRAINE, COCKRAN and COCKREEN.
COCHRAN, EDWARD ; b. ; adm. (aged 11) Oct 1725 ; left 1728 (in school list Feb 1727/8 as Cockran).
COCK, ANTHONY ; b. ; adm. (aged 16) 10 Jan 1714/5.
COCK, ROBERT, only son of Francis Cock, Norwich, and —, dau. of Ralph Blennerhasset, Pockthorpe, Norwich ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1680 ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1685, matr. 17 Dec 1685, aged 18, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1685 – void 1707, expiry year of grace as V.Chippenham from 1 Sep 1705 ; BA 1689 ; MA 1692 ; Master of the Grammar School at Christ Church, Oxford ; ordained deacon 4 Mar 1693/4 (Oxford) ; Vicar of Chippenham, Wilts., 21 Aug 1704 – Jul 1716, when he resigned as a non-juror ; subsequently a schoolmaster in Chippenham ; m. ; d. 4 Oct 1724, aged 57 (M.I.Chippenham, Wilts.).
COCKAYNE, THOMAS, only son of Thomas Mildmay Cockayne, Exon of Yeomen of the Guard, and Mary Anne, dau. of Thomas Jones, Comptroller of Accounts of the Treasurer of the Chamber ; b. ; adm. 20 Apr 1773 ; left Whitsun 1780 ; Emmanuel Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 3 Mar 1780, matr.Lent 1782 ; BA 1784 ; MA 1788 ; BD and DD 1813 ; ordained deacon 12 Mar 1786 (Gloucester, lit.dim. from London), priest 6 Jul 1788 (Gloucester) ; Curate, Stapleton, Gloucs. 1787 ; opened a school at Stapleton Court, Gloucs. 1787 ; Vicar of Burnham, Essex, 13 Feb 1796-1826 ; Rector of Dogmersfield, Hampshire, from 25 Nov 1826 ; m.1st, 26 Jan 1792 Frances Devey, schoolmistress, Stapleton, Gloucs. ; m.2nd, 11 Dec 1828 Charlotte, youngest dau. of Maj.Robert Bayard, 60thFoot, Stubbington House, Hampshire, American loyalist ; d. 17 Dec 1829.
COCKBURN, ALEXANDER ; b. ; adm. (aged 13) Mar 1734 ; left 1736. [probably Sir Alexander Cockburn, Bart., only son of Alexander Cockburn, Langton, Berwickshire, and Mary, sister of Hon.Colin Campbell (qv) ; b. ; at Edinburgh Univ in 1737, having been “bred in England till now” ; succ. grandfather as 5th baronet 29 May 1739 ; Ensign, 1st Foot Guards 1 Sep 1744 ; killed unm. at battle of Fontenoy 11 May 1745]
COCKBURN, THOMAS, son of James Cockburn MD, Kingston, Jamaica, and Sarah — ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Jun 1722 ; Min.Can.1723 ; KS 1724 ; left 1727 ; MD Glasgow Univ 1747 ; a physician at York, living there in 1756 ; Physician, Greenwich Hospital (Chamberlayne 1748) ; a friend of Charles Wesley (qv) ; m.1st, 1737 Prudence Lewis ; m.2nd, 1740 Rachel Moore, widow ; m.3rd, 23 Oct 1747 (IGI), at Royal Hospital, Greenwich, Sarah Drinkwater ; d. 1763 [but perhaps d.1769, check]. [Thomas Cockburn, “late Doctor of Physic now Lodger”, St.James, Westminster, will proved PCC 6 Nov 1769 (sic)]
COCKBURN-MUIR, CHARLES, son of William John Cockburn Muir, Gratton Road, Middlesex, civil engineer, and Jane Emily — (1881 Census) ; b. 17 Mar 1858 ; adm. 22 Jan 1874 (H) ; left Christmas 1875 ; “despatch clerk, New York Associated Press” (1881 census).
COCKE, THOMAS, see COOKE, THOMAS.
COCKER, GEORGE THOMAS, brother of Saxon James Nicholas Cocker (qv) ; b. 25 (or 18) Sep 1808 ; adm. (G) 9 Oct 1817 ; left 1823 ; living 1844.
COCKER, SAXON JAMES NICHOLAS, third surviving son of Barnard Cranstoun Cocker, Nassau Street, Soho, Westminster, solicitor, and Margaret — b. 22 Aug 1806 ; adm. (G) 9 Oct 1817 ; left 1823 ; articled to father ; d. 25 Jan 1831. Buried Protestant Cemetery, Florence, Italy.
COCKERELL, CHARLES ROBERT, second son of Samuel Pepys Cockerell, Westbourne Lodge, Paddington, architect and Surveyor to East India Co., and Anna, dau. of John Whetham, St.Ives, Hunts. ; b. 28 Apr 1788 ; adm. 29 Apr 1802 (Clapham); Min.Can.1802 ; in school list Oct 1803 ; entered his father’s office at age of 16 ; in office of Sir Robert Smirke 1809-10 ; on architectural study tour in Greece, Asia Minor, Sicily and Italy 1810-7 ; participated in discovery of Aeginetan and Phigaleian Marbles ; commenced architectural practice on return to England ; Surveyor, St.Paul’s Cathedral, 1819-54 ; ARA 1829, RA 1836, Professor of Architecture at Royal Academy 1839-57 ; architect to Bank of England, 1833 ; “at once the most fastidious and the least pedantic of English neo-classical architects” (Colvin) ; his principal architectural works included the University Library, Cambridge, 1837-40, the Ashmolean Museum and Taylorian Institution, Oxford, 1841-2, and a series of provincial branch buildings for the Bank of England ; DCL Oxford 20 Jun 1844 ; completed the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1845-7, and the interior of St.George’s Hall, Liverpool, 1851-4 ; Hon FRIBA 9 May 1836, FRIBA 3 Dec 1849, President 1860-1, Gold Medallist 1848 ; FSA by 1831 ; member, Society of Dilettanti, 1858 ; designed the scenery for the Westminster Latin Play, painted under his superintendence by Fenton and used for the first time in 1857 ; retired from practice 1859 ; author, The Temples of Jupiter Panhellenius at Aegina, and of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae, 1860, and other works ; m. 4 Jun 1828 Anna Maria, dau. of John Rennie FRS, civil engineer ; d. 17 Sep 1863 and buried St.Paul’s Cathedral. ODNB.
COCKERELL, SAMUEL PEPYS, seventh son of Charles Robert Cockerell (qv) ; b. 19 Dec 1844 ; adm. 27 Jan 1857 ; QS 1858 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1862, matr. 12 Jun 1862 ; BA 1866 ; an artist ; edited his father’s Journal of Travels in Southern Europe and the Levant 1810-1817, 1903 ; m. 13 Aug 1878 his cousin Anne Frances, dau. of Capt.Henry Craufurd, Royal Navy ; d. 12 Mar 1921.
COCKERELL, WILLIAM ACLAND, fifth son of Charles Robert Cockerell (qv) ; b. 27 Nov 1840 ; adm. 26 May 1853 ; 3rd cl. Junior Clerk, Foreign Office, 27 Jan 1860-4, 2nd cl.Junior Clerk 7 Sep 1864 ; acting 3rd Secy., Diplomatic Service, 19 Dec 1868, on temporary attachment to Embassy in Berlin ; acting Assistant Clerk, 16 Feb 1874 ; Assistant Clerk, 1 Mar 1877 ; Senior Clerk, 7 Feb 1896 ; retd. 1 Jan 1906 ; m. 5 Jun 1877 Sidney Ada, third dau. of Richard Davies, The Vigia, Madeira, vineyard proprietor ; d. 12 Apr 1919.
COCKES (or COX), GEORGE, eldest son of George Cockes, Lambeth, Surrey, one of the Keepers of the Privy Council Chamber ; b. ; adm.1629 ; KS 1631 ; recommended by King Charles I in a letter dated 10 May 1633 to the Dean and Sub-Dean of Christ Church “for election as a Student of Christ Church at the next election” (CSP Dom 1633-4, 52, and 387 (father’s petition to Lord Cottington, Chancellor of the Exchequer, apparently the boy’s godfather)) ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1633, matr. 29 Nov 1633, aged 16, Westminster Student to 1641. [presumably George Cocks, one of Keepers of Privy Council Chamber in Dec 1672]
COCKMAN, NEWELL, second son of Thomas Cockman, Mark Lane, London, and Mary Newell ; bapt.St.Mary, St.Marylebone Road 29 Jul 1725 ; adm. (aged 14) Nov 1739 ; left 1741 ; apprenticed to James Momsey, Cheapside, London, attorney, 9 Apr 1742 ; adm.attorney, Common Pleas, 29 Nov 1750 ; Vestry Clerk, St.Marylebone (at death) ; m. 17 Sep 1747 Margaret Robinson ; d. 8 Jun 1766.
COCKRAINE (or COCKRAM), PHINEAS, son of William Cockram, Fressingfield, Suffolk, and Margaret Baldrye (IGI) ; bapt. Fressingfield 15 Aug 1591 ; adm. ; KS ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1611, adm.scholar 1612, adm.Easter 1612 ; BA 1615/6 ; MA 1619 ; ordained deacon 18 Sep 1619 (Lichfield), priest 24 Sep 1620 (London), aged 25 ; Curate, All Hallows, Bread Street, London 1620 ; Vicar of Easton Maudit, Northants., from 21 Apr 1623 ; m. 15 Sep 1624 [or 1623 ?] Elizabeth, dau. of Rev.Christopher Spicer, Rector of Cogenhoe, Northants. ; d. 1636.
COCKRAN, JAMES ; b. ; adm. (aged 13) Jul 1717. [perhaps James Cochran, son of James Cochran, apprenticed to Cornelia Penn, citizen and barber surgeon 8 Apr 1719]
COCKREEN, THOMAS ; b. ; adm. (aged 11) Jan 1738/9.
COCKS, see also COCKES.
COCKS, EDWARD CHARLES, brother of John Somers Cocks, 1st Earl Somers (qv) ; b. 23 Jan 1767 ; adm. 10 Sep 1777 ; KS 1779 ; drowned while bathing in the Thames 6 Aug 1781.
COCKS, JOHN JAMES THOMAS, see SOMERS-COCKS, HON.JOHN JAMES THOMAS.
COCKS, JOHN SOMERS, 1ST EARL SOMERS, elder son of Charles Cocks, 1st Baron Somers, Clerk of the Ordnance, and his first wife Elizabeth, dau. of Richard Eliot MP, Port Eliot, Cornwall ; b. 6 May 1760 ; adm. 13 Jan 1774 (Jones) ; left 1777 ; St.Alban Hall, Oxford, matr. 26 Jan 1778 ; MP West Looe 20 Feb 1782-4, Grampound 1784-90, Reigate 1790 – 30 Jan 1806 ; succ.father as 2nd Baron Somers 30 Jan 1806 ; Lord Lieut., Herefordshire, from 28 Oct 1817 ; cr. Earl Somers 17 Jul 1821 ; took Conservative whip in House of Lords ; m.1st, 19 Mar 1785 Margaret, only dau. of Rev.Treadway Russell Nash DD FSA, Rector of Leigh, Worcs., and niece of Richard Treadway Nash (qv) ; m.2nd, 3 Jun 1834 his cousin Jane, widow of Rev.George Waddington, Rector of Northwold, Norfolk, and dau. of James Cocks, banker, London ; d. 5 Jan 1841.
COCKS, HON.JOHN SOMERS, see SOMERS-COCKS, JOHN SOMERS, 2ND EARL SOMERS.
COCKS, REGINALD THISTLETHWAYTE, second son of Thomas Somers Cocks (b.1781, qv) ; b. 6 Oct 1816 ; adm. 23 Apr 1829 (Stikeman) ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 15 May 1834 ; banker, firm Cocks Biddulph & Co, Charing Cross, London, to retirement 1892 ; Treasurer, Royal Geographical Society 1863-90 ; m. 4 Sep 1845 Henrietta Pole, dau. of William Stuart MP, Aldenham Abbey, Herts. ; d. 13 Jan 1895.
COCKS, THOMAS SOMERS, eldest son of Thomas Somers Cocks, Charing Cross, London, banker, and Anne, dau. of Alexander Thistlethwayte MP, Southwick Place, Hants. ; b. 1 Aug 1781 ; in school lists 1795, 1797 ; a banker, firm Biddulph Cocks and Ridge, Charing Cross ; m. 24 Feb 1813 Agneta, fifth dau. of Right Hon.Reginald Pole Carew PC MP, Antony House, Cornwall ; d. 10 Mar 1859.
COCKS, THOMAS SOMERS, eldest son of Thomas Somers Cocks (b.1781, qv) ; b. 5 Feb 1815 ; adm. 14 Apr 1828 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 9 Jun 1832 ; MP Reigate 1847-57 ; banker, firm Cocks Biddulph & Co, Charing Cross, London ; DL Lincs., JP (1860) Bucks., JP Middlesex ; m. 24 May 1842 Sarah Louisa, dau. of Charles Wynne Griffith-Wynne (qv) ; d. 30 Aug 1899.
COCKS, WALTER CAREW, fourth son of Thomas Somers Cocks (b.1781, qv) ; b. 10 Mar 1824 ; adm. 5 Oct 1836 ; QS 1838 ; left 1840 ; a clerk in the Audit Office ; Auditor, India Office, Aug 1874 – Dec 1894 ; a Busby Trustee from 18 May 1886 ; m. 30 Oct 1856 Isabella Susan, third dau. of Right Hon.Sir Edward Hall Alderson PC, Baron of the Exchequer ; d. 31 Dec 1898.
COCKS, WILLIAM ; b. ; in school lists 1801, 1803.
CODDINGTON, CHARLES HOPWOOD, son of Charles Hopwood Coddington, Southport, Lancs., cotton broker, and Elizabeth, only dau. of John Acton, Southport, Lancs. ; b. 28 Aug 1866 ; adm. 21 Jun 1878 (R) ; left Aug 1882 ; m. 25 Aug 1893 Ethel Adelaide, dau. of William Kay Brydges, Buenos Aires, Argentina, bank manager ; d. at Buenos Aires, Argentina, 21 Aug 1931.
CODERE, JOHN, elder son of Rev.Samuel Codere, Huguenot minister (and clergyman in Church of England) ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1747/8 ; living c.1754 (had not been heard of for seventeen years when father made will in 1771).
CODRINGTON, SIR WILLIAM, BART., eldest son of Sir William Codrington, Bart., MP, and Elizabeth, dau. of William Bethell, Swinton and Ellerton, Yorks. ; b. 26 Oct 1719 ; adm. Jan 1735/6 ; left 1737 [sic, check] ; University Coll.Oxford, matr. 14 Dec 1736 ; succ. as 2nd baronet 17 Dec 1738 ; Grand Tour (in Switzerland 1740, Italy 1742) ; of Dodington, Gloucs. ; Lieut.-Col., South Gloucestershire Militia (occurs as such 1761, 1774) ; MP Beverley 1747-61, Tewkesbury from 1761 ; m. 22 Feb 1735/6 [sic, check (marriage was apparently at St.Bride’s, Fleet Street), 1736/7 seems more likely] Anne Acton, Fulham, Middlesex ; d. 11 Mar 1792.
COFFIN, ROGER ; b. ; adm. ; KS in 1553 (Chapter Muniments); see Acts of the Privy Council, New Series, vol.iv, 78, for a letter to the Dean and Chapter dated 14 Jun 1552, requesting them “to place Roger Coffin, late one of the childerne of the Chapell, in the rome of one of the Kinges Majesties schollers in the grammer schole there, to be trayned up in learning, being removed from the Chappell for that his brest is chaunged”.
COGAN, WILLIAM ; b. ; at school under Nowell (Brasenose Coll MSS 31, f.32a) (a similar entry appears in Record under Logan, William).
COGHLAN, HENRY THOMAS, only surviving son of Lieut.-Gen.Roger Coghlan, and Emma, dau. of Rev.Sir Thomas Broughton (formerly Delves), Bart., Doddington Hall, Cheshire ; b. 27 Mar 1813 ; adm. 26 Apr 1824 ; “fundholder” (1881 Census), i.e. no occupation, living Hyde Park Gardens, London ; a recluse who “increased his patrimony by miserliness and investment”, leaving an estate worth nearly £700,000 ; m. 17 Nov 1840 Augusta Jane, dau. of Col.Edward Bayly [perhaps Col.West Middlesex Militia ?] ; d. 24 Nov 1892.
COKAYNE, THOMAS, see COCKAYNE, THOMAS.
COKE, see also COOK and COOKE.
COKE, — ; John Wall (qv), in a MS autobiography preserved at Holkham, states that he was educated at Westminster School with the sons of Sir Edward Coke, Lord Chief Justice of England. [In History of Parliament, House of Commons 1604-1629, Sir Edward Coke’s sons, Sir Robert Coke MP (1587-1653), Henry Coke MP (1591-1661), and Clement Coke MP (1594-1630), are all stated to have been educated at Westminster School, but this is merely a deduction from the statement by Wall, and it is not necessarily the case that all of Coke’s sons were educated at the School]
COKE, CLEMENT, only son of Robert Coke, Epsom, Surrey, and his cousin Theophila, youngest dau. of Arthur Coke, Bramfield, Suffolk ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1673 ; d. 8 Aug 1674, aged 17. Buried in North Cloister, Westminster Abbey.
COKE, D’EWES, eldest son of Rev.D’Ewes Coke, Brookhill Hall, Derbs., Rector of Pinxton and of South Normanton, Derbs., and Hannah, dau. of George Haywood, Brimington, Derbs. ; b. 22 Dec 1774 ; adm. 13 Sep 1787 ; KS 1788 ; Glasgow Univ. ; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm.pens. 20 Jan 1792, matr. Lent 1793 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 18 May 1789, called to bar 22 Jun 1797 ; Deputy Recorder of Grantham, 13 Mar 1803 ; Recorder of Newark 1806 ; agent for Derbyshire estates of Duke of Rutland ; of Brookhill Hall, Derbs. ; DL JP Derbyshire, JP Notts. ; m. 2 Nov 1797 Harriet, second dau. of Thomas Wright, Mapperley Hall, Notts. ; d. 11 Mar 1856.
COKE, EDWARD, VISCOUNT COKE, only son of Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester, and Lady Margaret Tufton, third dau. of Thomas Tufton, 6th Earl of Thanet ; b. 20 Jun 1719 ; adm. (aged 9) Mar 1728/9 ; recited an epigram at the Annual Meeting of 28 Jan 1730/1, and spoke his verses in College Hall at the Westminster Feast of 1734/5 “extremely well” (HMC 9th Report, Appendix ii, 465) ; in school lists Jan 1732/3, Aug 1733 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr.12 Jun 1735 ; Grand Tour (Italy) c.1738-40 ; MP Norfolk 1741-7, Harwich from 1747 ; member, Society of Dilettanti 1740/1 ; styled Viscount Coke 1744-53 ; m.1 Apr 1747 Lady Mary Campbell, letter writer (ODNB), fifth dau. of John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll (S) and 1st Duke of Greenwich KG KT PC, Field Marshal in the Army ; d. 31 Aug 1753.
COKE, GEORGE ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1542-4 (Chapter Muniments).
COKE, REGINALD HENRY, eldest son of Henry Coke, President Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, merchant, firm David Sassoon & Co, formerly in Public Works Department, Bombay (born Jamaica), and Jane, eldest dau. of William Ross, Skeldon, British Guiana ; b. 11 May 1863 ; adm. as exhibitioner 31 May 1877 (R) ; QS 1878 ; left 1882 ; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm.1882, matr. Mich.1882 ; rowed against Oxford 1885 ; LLB and BA 1885 ; adm. Inner Temple 13 Jan 1883, called to bar 17 Nov 1885 ; Northern Circuit ; Senior Resident Magistrate, Jamaica, 1890 ; drowned on his passage out to the West Indies, 14 Nov 1891.
COKE, THOMAS ; b. ; adm. (aged 9) Jan 1750/1 ; left 1752. [Presumably Thomas Coke, son of Edward Coke, Inner Temple, and Canterbury, Kent, and Catherine, third dau. of Sir Thomas Hales, Bart., Bekesbourne, Kent, bapt.St.Botolph, Bishopsgate, London 30 Sep 1741]
COKE, SIR WILLIAM, brother of D’Ewes Coke (qv) ; bapt.South Normanton, Derbs., 12 Feb 1776 (IGI); adm. ; KS (aged 13) 1790 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1794, matr. 18 Jun 1794, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1794 – void 25 Jun 1806 ; BA 1798 ; MA 1801 ; adm. to Lincoln’s Inn 1 Feb 1798, called to bar 15 May 1801 ; Procurator Fiscal, Ceylon, 1808-9 ; Puisne Judge, Ceylon from 6 Oct 1809, acting Chief Justice at death ; knighted 25 May 1815 ; d. unm. at Trincomalee 1 Sep 1818, aged 42.
COKELEY, ADAM, see COLCLOUGH, ADAM.
COKER, HEARST, second son of Rev.Thomas Coker, Rector of Hinton Parva, Wilts., and Canon Residentiary of Salisbury, and Mary, dau. of William Hearst, Salisbury ; b. ; adm. ; KS (aged 14) 1715 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1719, matr. 28 May 1719, but died before his admission as a Westminster Student ; adm.Inner Temple 16 Apr 1719 ; d. 5 Nov 1719.
COLBATCH, JOHN, son of John Colbatch, Ludlow, Shropshire, and Jane — ; bapt. 27 Dec 1663 ; adm. ; KS 1680 ; rejected 1682, but elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1683, adm.pens. 19 Jun 1683, aged 18, scholar 10 Apr 1684 ; BA 1686/7 ; MA 1690 ; BD 1701 ; DD 1706 ; Minor Fellow, Trin.Coll., 2 Oct 1689-90, Major Fellow 1 Jul 1690-1715, Senior Fellow from 1715 ; ordained priest 20 Dec 1691 (London) ; Chaplain to British Factory, Lisbon 20 Dec 1691-6 [check] ; a protege of Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury ; tutor, Trinity Coll., 1700, Senior Dean 1705-7 ; travelling tutor in Italy with Earl of Hertford (later 7th Duke of Somerset) 1706 ; Knightsbridge Professor of Moral Theology, Cambridge, 1707-44 ; an opponent of Richard Bentley in internal Trinity College disputes, becoming involved in several resulting lawsuits ; Prebendary of Salisbury 7 Aug 1702 – res May 1720 ; Rector of Orwell, Cambs., from 25 Feb 1720 ; author, three pamphlets ; d. unm. 11 Feb 1747/8. ODNB.
COLBATCH, JOSEPH ; b. 1669 ; adm. ; KS 1686 (as Colebatch) ; left 1689 ; St Edmund Hall, Oxford, matr. 15 Dec 1690 ; BA 1694 (from Oriel Coll.); ordained deacon 17 Feb 1694/5 (London); licensed by Bishop of London as preacher for Leeward Islands 4 Jul 1695, as minister for Maryland 26 Feb 1697 [or 1697/8 ?] ; Minister of All Hallows parish, Arundel County, Maryland, North America, from c.1697 ; invited to come to London for consecration as suffragan bishop for Maryland 1727, but prevented from leaving Maryland by the civil authorities ; buried 13 Jan 1734/5.
COLBORNE, BARON, see RIDLEY-COLBORNE, NICHOLAS WILLIAM, 1ST BARON COLBORNE.
COLBURN, ZERAH, sixth child of Abia Colburn, Cabot, Vermont, USA, farmer, and Elizabeth Hills (IGI) ; b. 1 Sep 1804 ; adm. 19 Sep 1816 ; left Whitsun 1819 ; showed remarkable powers of computation when quite young, which left him on his approach to manhood ; exhibited by his father as a mathematical prodigy in America and the United Kingdom prior to his admission to the School ; returned to USA 1824 ; studied at Vermont Univ. ; joined Methodist Society at Cabot, Vermont, Dec 1825, and was for nine years an itinerant Methodist preacher ; Professor of Languages, Norwich Univ., Vermont, 1835 ; author, AMemoir of Zerah Colburn written by himself, 1833 (in which he gives some interesting details of his school life, and his strong objections to being fagged) ; d. at Norwich, Vermont, USA, 2 Mar 1840.
COLCHESTER, BARONS, see ABBOT.
COLCHESTER, RICHARD, LORD, see SAVAGE, RICHARD, 4TH EARL RIVERS.
COLCLOUGH, ADAM, fifth son of Caesar Colclough MP (I), Tintern Abbey, co.Wexford, and his second wife Henrietta, dau. of Agmondisham Vesey, Lucan, co.Dublin ; b. ; adm. (aged 13) Jun 1744 ; left 1749 ; of Duffrey Hall, co.Wexford ; High Sheriff, co.Wexford 1769 ; lic. to m. 31 Jan 1753 Marianne, sister of George Byrne (qv) ; d.1799.
COLE, — ; b. ; at school c.1660 (Busby’s Account Book).
COLE, EDWARD ; b. ; adm. (aged 11) Jan 1721/2 ; in under school list 1727. [perhaps Edward Cole, son of George Cole, St.Margaret, Westminster, apprenticed to Benjamin Bristow, citizen and apothecary 5 Sep 1727 : a brother of George Cole (qv) and Harry Cole (qv) ?]
COLE, ELDRED MOWBRAY, brother of William Fairfax Cole (qv) ; b. 20 Jun 1811 ; adm. 10 Jan 1825 ; Ensign, 54th Foot, 31 Jul 1828 ; 2nd Lieut., 87th Foot, 14 Aug 1828 ; Lieut., 27 Sep 1831 ; retd. 10 Jun 1836 ; emigrated to Cape of Good Hope (by 1838) ; Civil Commissioner and Resident Magistrate, Somerset division, Cape of Good Hope 1 Feb 1844 ; Native Commissioner, Cape of Good Hope, 10 Aug 1847 ; Civil Commissioner, Caledon division 1849 ; Auditor-General, Cape of Good Hope 16 Feb 1859 – 20 Jul 1875, retired ; m. 31 May 1836 Helen Lena Johanna Theresa, second dau. of General von Molgel [check], Stellenbosch, Austria [but presumably South Africa : check] ; d. 23 Mar 1888.
COLE, FRANCIS HAWKINS, son of Capt. Francis Cole, Royal Navy, Marazion, Cornwall, and Honor, dau. of John Keir, Marazion, Corwall, surgeon and apothecary ; bapt. St.Hilary, Cornwall 6 Mar 1787 ; adm. ; Min.Can. (aged 13) 1801 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 29 Apr 1805 ; BA 1809 ; ordained deacon 17 Jun 1810, priest 10 Mar 1811 (both Winchester) ; Curate, Yaverland, Isle of Wight 1811, Menheniot, Cornwall 1818 ; m.1st, Elizabeth Blake, sister of Thomas Bermingham Daly Henry Sewell (qv) ; m.2nd, 14 Mar 1831, Elizabeth, dau. of James Ewing (qv) ; d. at Baden-Baden, Germany, 18 Oct 1864.
COLE, GEORGE, son of George Cole, Westminster ; b. ; adm. (aged 8) Jan 1715/6 ; Min.Can.1721 ; KS 1722 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1726, adm.pens. 10 Jun 1726, scholar 14 Apr 1727 ; BA 1729/30. [perhaps son of George Cole, Clerk without Doors, House of Commons] [note death of “Mr George Cole”, “one of the Clerks in the Chapter-House where the Records are kept, adjoining to Westminster Abbey”, 19 May 1746 (General Advertiser 20 May 1746)]
COLE, HARRY, son of George Cole, St.Margaret’s parish, Westminster ; b. ; adm. (aged 9) Jan 1717/8 ; in under school list 1721 ; apprenticed to John Shipton, citizen and ironmonger, 21 Apr 1724. [no doubt a brother of George Cole (qv)]
COLE, J. ; b. ; in school list 1801, May 1803 ; left 1803.
COLE, THOMAS, sixth son of William Cole, London, and Elizabeth, dau. of Nathaniel Deards, London, silkman ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1642 (“Thomas Coale maior”), still 1644 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1646, but he had been detained at school “through the exigence of warre”, and was granted seniority at Christ Church as of 1 May 1645 (Burrows, ed., 1881, 268), matr. 1 Feb 1646/7, aged 18, Westminster Student ; submitted to the Parliamentary Visitors 14 Jul 1648 (Burrows, op.cit., 150) ; BA 1649 ; MA 1651 (incorp.Camb.1653) ; tutor of John Locke (qv) ; Principal, St.Mary Hall, Oxford, 15 Oct 1656 – ejected June 1660 ; ordained deacon and priest 2 Aug 1660 (both Oxford) ; Rector of Brampton Bryan, Herefordshire 1660-2 [check] ; resigned living on declining to take tests laid down by Act of Uniformity 1662 ; [perhaps Vicar of Spelsbury, Oxfordshire 11 Aug 1663-6 (as Thomas Coles)] ; opened school at Nettlebed, Oxfordshire 1666 ; licensed as Congregational preacher at Henley on Thames 22 Apr 1672 ; Minister of Independent Congregation, Silver Street, London, Feb 1674 ; his congregation subsequently met at Tallow Chandlers’ Hall, Dowgate Hill, and at Pinners’ Hall, Old Broad Street, where he preached his last sermon 22 Aug 1697 ; m. Hannah (Partridge ?) ; d. 16 Sep 1697. ODNB.
COLE, THOMAS ; b. ; adm. (aged 9) Jul 1723 ; in school list 1729.
COLE, WILLIAM FAIRFAX, son of Stephen Thomas Cole, Stoke Lyne, Oxfordshire, and Lady Elizabeth Henrietta Stanley, second dau. of Edward Smith Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby PC ; b. 15 Sep 1809 ; adm. 25 Sep 1822 ; buried at Twickenham 8 May 1826.
COLEBATCH, see COLBATCH.
COLEBRON (or COLBRON), WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1683 ; left 1685 ; Wadham Coll.Oxford, adm.servitor 3 Mar 1685, matr. 26 Mar 1686 ; BA 1689 ; ordained deacon 16 Mar 1689/90 (Sodor & Man, lit.dim. from Oxford), priest 22 Dec 1690 (Winchester) ; Vicar of Brighton, Sussex, 1705-44 ; Rector of West Blatchington, Sussex, 16 Mar 1712/3 – 22 ; Rector of Pett, Sussex, from 29 Jul 1745 ; m. Jane — ; buried Brighton 22 Jul 1750.
COLEIRE, RICHARD, son of Walter Coleire, London, citizen and innholder, and Lettice, dau. of Rev.Hugh Humphries ; b. 14 Nov 1669 ; “educated in grammar learning at Westminster School” (as reported by him to Richard Rawlinson in 1737, Bodleian Library, MS Rawl.J. ff.2 and 394) ; appears subsequently to have been at Shrewsbury School ; Brasenose Coll.Oxford, matr. 11 Sep 1685 ; BA 1689 ; MA 1693 ; Fellow, All Souls Coll., 4 Nov 1688-1702, Bursar 1697 ; Proctor 1701 ; ordained deacon 8 May 1692 (Oxford), priest 1 Apr 1695 (Rochester) ; Chaplain, Wyndham’s Regt. of Horse 1694 ; Vicar of Harrietsham, Kent, 1702-16 ; Chaplain of HMS Medway (in 1706) ; Vicar of Tong, Kent 1712-6 ; Vicar of Isleworth, Middlesex, from Sep 1716 ; Vicar of Kingston upon Thames, Surrey 1720-6 ; Minister of Richmond, Surrey, from 7 Jun 1726 ; Domestic Chaplain to Viscount Falkland (in 1714) and to Dowager Marchioness of Wharton (in 1716) ; m.1st, 25 Oct 1702 Frances Holden, Weston on Trent, Derbs. ; m.2nd, 23 Nov 1707 Elizabeth Sampson ; m.3rd, 13 Mar 1717/8 Abigail, sister of Thomas Lutwyche (qv) ; buried Richmond, Surrey 31 Aug 1746.
COLES, WILLIAM ; b. 10 May 1807 ; adm. 6 Jun 1817, chorister ; left 1823.
COLFE, ISAAC, fourth son of Almundus (or Amandus) Colfe, Canterbury, Kent, previously of Guisnes, France, and Katherine, dau. of John Bradfield, Calais, France ; b. ; adm. ; Min.Can.1576 (name given as Isaac Wolf in early nineteenth century transcript, but see A.B.Grosart, ed., The Spending of the Money of Robert Nowell of Reade Hall, 1877, 168, where a payment is recorded to “one Isacke Colffe, whoe came to the Election to Westem’ the vth of Julye 1576”, the Election proceedings at the School actually taking place on 4 Jul 1576) ; Broadgates Hall, Oxford, matr. 23 Jul 1579, aged 20 (Wood states that he was adm. a commoner there in 1576) ; BA 1579/80 ; MA 1582 ; ordained (by Feb 1582/3) ; Curate, Lydd, Kent 1584 ; Vicar of Stone, Kent 2 Feb 1585/6- Aug 1587 ;; Vicar of Brookland, Kent, from 31 Mar 1587 ; Master of Eastbridge Hospital, Canterbury, Kent, from 18 Jun 1596 ; Six Preacher. Canterbury Cathedral, from 5 Aug 1596 ; author, A Sermon preached on the Queene’s day … at the town of Lidd inKent, 1588 ; m. 20 Jun 1583 Alice Caxston, Lydd, Kent, widow ; d. 15 Jul 1597. ODNB.
COLLCUTT, ARTHUR MAURICE, son of Thomas Edward Collcutt FRIBA, Bloomsbury Square, London, architect, and Emily, dau. of Samuel Tagg, Elsfield, Oxfordshire ; b. 30 Mar 1869 ; adm.(H) 26 Jan 1882 ; left Whitsun 1884 ; London Univ., matr. Mar 1886 ; Gonville and Caius Coll.Camb., adm.pens. 1 Oct 1887, scholar 1889-90, matr.Mich.1887 ; BA 1890 ; MA, MB, BCh 1894 ; St.Thomas’s Hospital ; MRCS, LRCP 1894 ; in practice at Brighton ; Capt., RAMC, 27 Apr 1908 ; served in 1914-18 war at 2nd Eastern General Hospital ; m. 13 Dec 1899 Ada Jane, dau. of Samuel Eli Harris, Hove, Sussex, farmer ; d. 1 Mar 1933.
COLLE, — ; b. ; adm. ; KS in 1626 (Chapter Muniments 33256).
COLLER, FRANK HERBERT, fourth son of Richard Coller, Birchanger Lodge, Bishop’s Stortford, Herts., landowner, and Annie, dau. of William Langford, The Priory, King’s Lynn, Norfolk ; b. 26 Dec 1866 ; adm. (G) 28 Sep 1876 ; exhibitioner 1880 ; QS 1881 ; Capt. of the School 1884 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1885, matr. 16 Oct 1885 ; 1st cl.Cl.Mod.1887, 1st cl.Lit.Hum.1889 ; BA 1889 ; Librarian, Oxford Union, 1889, Pres.1890 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 3 Nov 1890, called to bar 14 Jun 1893 ; equity draughtsman and conveyancer ; South-Eastern circuit ; Chief Justice of St.Lucia 1912 ; Prize Court Judge, 1914 ; seconded for war duty in United Kingdom 1 Jan 1917 ; CB 1 Jan 1919 ; Secretary, Ministry of Food, 1919-21, Food Dept., Board of Trade, 1921-5 ; member, Royal Commission on Wheat Supplies, 1922, Royal Commission on Food Reform 1924 ; author, A State Trading Adventure, 1925 ; d. 8 Oct 1938.
COLLET, ROBERT STRATFOLD, son of Robert Stratfold Collet (formerly Stratfold), Wendover, Bucks., and Anne, dau. of Rev.Richard Penn, Vicar of Mentmore, Bucks. ; bapt.Wendover, Bucks. 22 Sep 1771 ; adm. 6 Jun 1787 (as Robert Stratford Collet) ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.sizar 6 Jun 1789, aged 17, matr. Mich.1790 ; BA 1794 ; ordained deacon 21 Dec 1794, priest 22 May 1796 (both Lincoln) ; d. c.1796.
COLLETON, SIR JAMES ROUPELL, BART., eldest son of Sir James Nassau Colleton, Bart., Clerk, Home Office, and Susannah, dau. of William Nixon, Lincoln ; grandson of Robert Colleton (qv) ; b. 22 Dec 1783 ; at school 1793 ; in school lists 1795, 1797 ; Ensign, Royal Staff Corps, 18 Nov 1802 ; Lieut., 21 Dec 1803 ; Capt., 25 Jun 1806 ; Brevet Maj., 22 Nov 1813 ; Brevet Lieut.-Col., 21 Jun 1817 ; Assistant QMG, 4 Sep 1817 ; Maj., Royal Staff Corps, 9 Aug 1821-31 ; Lieut.-Col., 31st Foot, and sold out, 1831 ; served at battle of Maida 1806 and in Peninsular War 1808-14 ; succ. father as 7th baronet, 16 Jan 1815 ; m. at The Hague 12 Dec 1819 (and in Westminster 19 Feb 1820) Septima Sexta Colleton, sixth dau. of Adm.Richard Graves RN, Henbury Fort, Devon ; d. 28 Jul 1848.
COLLETON, PETER, second son of Sir John Colleton, Bart., Withycombe Raleigh, Devon, and Fairlawns, South Carolina, North America, and Elizabeth, dau. of John Snell MP, Exeter ; b. ; adm. (aged 7) Oct 1716 ; in under school list 1723 ; of Devil’s Elbow and Epsom Plantations, South Carolina ; d.unm. at sea c.1748 (will dated 30 Nov 1740, not proved until 11 Nov 1754).
COLLETON, ROBERT, brother of Peter Colleton (qv) ; b. ; adm. (aged 8) Jun 1721 ; Min.Can.1728 ; 1st Lieut., Jeffreys’ Marines 30 Jan 1740-1 ; Lieut. and Capt., 1st Foot Guards, 29 Nov 1745 ; Capt. and Lieut.-Col., 29 Apr 1749 ; inherited Devil’s Elbow Plantation, South Carolina, under brother’s will ; m. 24 Sep 1748 his cousin Anne, only dau. of James Colleton, South Carolina ; d. 27 Jan 1755.
COLLETON, THOMAS WILLIAM, brother of Sir James Roupell Colleton, Bart. (qv) ; b. Jul 1796 ; adm. ; left 1809 ; Ensign, 28th Foot, 21 Nov 1811 ; Lieut., 25 Nov 1813 ; Royal Staff Corps, 2 Jan 1817, half-pay 25 Dec 1818 ; restored to active list, 9 Sep 1819 ; Capt., 19 Apr 1831, half-pay 25 Oct 1831 ; 23rd Foot, 27 May 1842 ; retd. 31 Mar 1843 ; served at battle of Waterloo ; subsequently stationed in Canada. [presumably living in Ontario, Canada, in 1846 ; will of Thomas W.Colleton proved as of Haldimand township, Ontario 26 Mar 1853]
COLLEY, HON.GEORGE FRANCIS, brother of John James Pomeroy, 5th Viscount Harberton (I) (qv) ; b. 11 Nov 1797 ; adm. 17 Sep 1808 ; left 1809 ; entered Royal Navy ; Lieut., 2 Mar 1819 ; retd.pay ; Cdr., 1 Jul 1864 ; assumed surname of Colley in lieu of Pomeroy by royal licence, 20 Jan 1830 ; of Ferney, co.Dublin ; m. 22 Jul 1825 Frances, third dau. of Very Rev.Thomas Trench, Dean of Kildare ; d. 9 May 1879.
COLLEY, HENRY, eldest son of Dudley Colley MP (I), Castle Carbery, co.Kildare, Ireland, and his first wife Anne, dau. of Henry Warren, Grangebegg, co.Kildare, Ireland ; b. ; at school under Busby (Alum.Dub.) ; Trinity Coll.Dublin, adm.fellow commoner 13 Jan 1662/3, aged 15 ; MP (I) Co.Kildare 1698-9 ; m.1st, 1674 Mary, only dau. of Sir William Ussher, Kt MP (I), Commissioner of Excise (I), Dublin, and his second wife ; m.2nd, Aug 1694, Sarah, dau. of John Boswell, Kilcorey, co.Wicklow, Ireland ; d. Jun 1719.
COLLEY, JOSEPH ; b. ; adm. ; QS 1705 ; left 1708. [perhaps Joseph Colley, son of John Colley, amd Elizabeth —, bapt.St.Mary, Whitechapel 22 Apr 1690]
COLLIER, see also COLLYER.
COLLIER, — (in school list 1797), see COLLIER, GEORGE
COLLIER, CHARLES ; b. ; adm. 1805 (fourth quarter) ; left Bartholomewtide 1806. [maybe younger brother of George Collier (qv) ; b. 19 Aug 1792; Cadet, EICS Bengal 1808 ; arrived in India 21 Oct 1809 ; Cornet, 1st Bengal Native Cavalry 14 Nov 1812 ; d. unm. Muttra, Bengal 23 May 1818].
COLLIER, FREDERICK LEONIDAS, eldest son of George Frederick Collier MD MRCP LSA, Spring Gardens, Westminster, and Marian, dau. of John Jones, Scethrog House, Brecon, Breconshire ; b. 24 Mar 1826 ; adm. 24 Sep 1838 (home boarder) ; left Mar 1840 ; gave evidence in the case of Williamson v. Collier before Lord Chief Justice Tindal and a common jury, 3 Dec 1841 (The Times, 4 Dec and 13 Dec 1841) ; merchant, living Nelson, New Zealand, in 1854, and Graytown, Victoria, Australia, in 1872 ; m. 4 Mar 1847 Louisa Ann Vaughan, younger dau. of Edward Weaver, Gloucester Street, London, surgeon ; d. Seymour, Victoria, Australia 19 Oct 1875.
COLLIER, GEORGE, eldest son of Vice-Adm.Sir George Collier Kt MP, Royal Navy, and his second wife Elizabeth, dau. of William Fryer, Exeter, Devon, merchant ; bapt.St.James’s, Piccadilly 1782 ; “left Westminster School at seventeen years of age” (Naval Chronicle, vol.32, 1814, 398), and therefore presumably Collier, forename not stated, in school list 1797 ; Cornet, 14th Light Dragoons ; Ensign, 2ndFoot Guards 28 Dec 1799 ; Capt. in Army 14 May 1801 ; Lieut. and Capt., 25 Dec 1802 ; Lieut.-Col., 3 Oct 1811 ; served in Egypt, Germany, and Copenhagen, and in Peninsular War ; slightly wounded at battle of Talavera ; d.unm. 10 May 1814, in 31st year, of wounds received in sortie from Bayonne, France, on 14 Apr 1814.
COLLIER, GEORGE BERTRAM, brother of Frederick Leonidas Collier (qv) ; b. 1 Sep 1827 ; adm. 24 Sep 1838 (home boarder) ; left Mar 1840 ; gave evidence in the case of Williamson v. Collier (see above) ; served in 3rd Light Dragoons ; “belonging to the Government Secretariat” at Agra, India, in 1858 ; m. at Umballa, India, 16 Mar 1850 Rebecca, eldest dau. of Thomas Garret, [Paymaster ?] EICS [Bengal ?].
COLLIER, JAMES, brother of John Collier (qv) ; b. 21 May 1721 ; adm. Aug 1732 ; in school list Dec 1736 ; left 1738 ; Clare Hall, Cambridge, adm.fellow commoner 23 Jun 1738, matr.1738, residing for four years but not taking a degree ; adm.Middle Temple 15 May 1739, Lincoln’s Inn 14 Feb 1739/40 ; adm.solicitor 13 Feb 1741/2 ; Mayor of Hastings 1745 ; d.unm. 30 May 1747. Buried North Cloister, Westminster Abbey.
COLLIER, JAMES JOHN, brother of Joshua Collier (qv) ; bapt.St.Olave, Hart Street 2 May 1791 (IGI); in school lists 1801 ; left by May 1803 ; a cotton spinner ; resident in Manchester, Lancs., in 1820s, and subsequently at Pendleton, Lancs. (there in 1841 Census); m. at Havre, France 1 Feb 1823 Eugenie Antoinette, dau. of Antoine Jean Baptiste Trial-Latour ; d. 7 Dec 1853, aged 62.
COLLIER, JOHN, son of John Collier, High Street, Hastings, Sussex, Surveyor-Gen. of Customs for Kent, Usher and Crier of the Court of King’s Bench, Mayor of Hastings, and his second wife Mary, dau. of Rev.James Cranston, Rector of St.Clement’s and All Saints, Hastings ; b. 7 May 1720 ; adm.Aug.1732 ; some interesting details of the school life of John and his brother James are given in C.L.Sayer (ed.), Correspondence of Mr John Collier (deceased) and his family 1716-1780, vol.1, 1907 ; d. 31 Dec 1732. Buried North Cloister, Westminster Abbey.
COLLIER, JOSHUA, eldest son of Joshua Collier, Tottenham, Middlesex, and Jane, dau. of James Landon, EICS Madras ; bapt.St.Olave, Hart Street 1 Dec 1789 (IGI); in school lists 1801 ; left by May 1803 ; m.
COLLINGTON, — ; b. ; adm. 18 Jan 1661/2 ; a boarder ; twice called Colleton (Busby’s Account Book).
COLLINGTON, NATHANIEL, son of Rev.Nathaniel Collington, Vicar of Caldicot, Monmouthshire, subsequently Vicar of Tenterden, Kent ; b. ; adm. ; Min.Can. (aged 16) 1661 (Chapter Muniments 43105) ; Queen’s Coll.Oxford, matr. 19 Jul 1662 ; BA 1666 ; ordained deacon 20 Aug 1665 (Chichester), priest 22 Dec 1667 (Lincoln) ; licensed to curacy of Smallhythe, Kent, Feb 1667/8 ; Rector of Pluckley, Kent, from 1676/7 ; m. (by c.1681) Mary — [dau. of Anthony Nowers, Pluckley, Kent, officer in Parliamentary Army ?] ; d. 14 Dec 1735.
COLLINGTON, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. ; BB 1691-7 (Chapter Muniments 33726-30). [perhaps William Collington, son of William Collington, citizen and goldbeater, apprenticed to Job Mathews, apothecary 3 Aug 1697]
COLLINGWOOD, EDWARD, brother of John Spencer Stanhope (qv) ; b. 30 Oct 1791 ; adm. ; in school lists May and Oct 1803 ; left 1807 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 26 Oct 1809 ; assumed surname of Collingwood in lieu of Spencer Stanhope on inheriting his great-uncle’s estate at Dissington, near Newcastle, 1816 ; had the reputation of being the best rider in Yorkshire and Northumberland ; DL JP Northumberland, High Sheriff 1824 ; m. 9 Sep 1820 Arabella, dau. of Gen. John Calcraft, Cholderton, Hampshire ; d. 4 Aug 1866.
COLLINS, see also COLLYNS.
COLLINS, — ; b. ; in school list 1754.
COLLINS, CHARLES ; b. ; adm. (aged 11) Apr 1729 ; left 1730.
COLLINS, CHARLES, son of William Collins, Birmingham, Warwicks., later of Frolesworth, Leics., and of Maize Hill, Greenwich, Kent, a “mechanic of the gentleman class”, and Sarah — ; bapt.St.Martin’s, Birmingham 3 Jan 1777 (IGI) ; at school under Vincent (Southey, Life and Correspondence, i,188) ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 31 Jan 1793, aged 16 ; migr. to St.Mary Hall 1795 ; BA 1796 ; MA 1800 ; adm. Lincoln’s Inn ; a schoolfriend of Robert Southey (qv) ; of The Grove, Ashbourne, Derbs. ; m. 6 Dec 1797 Jane, youngest dau. of Richard Forman, Ordnance Office, Tower of London, and Peckham, Surrey (“married very early, a lady with a good fortune”, Bentham, Works, x, 572-3) ; d. 27 April 1806. [mother perhaps Sarah Kemmis, Tewkesbury, Gloucs.]
COLLINS, EDWARD, brother of Charles Collins (at school under Vincent, qv) ; bapt.St.Martin’s, Birmingham 10 Jun 1778 (IGI) ; at school under Vincent (Bentham, Works, x, 572-3) ; amanuensis to Jeremy Bentham (qv) c.1795-6 ; Cornet, 2nd Dragoon Guards 25 Sep 1801 ; Lieut., 14th Dragoons, half-pay ; Capt. in Army 25 Apr 1805 ; Capt., 21st Light Dragoons 5 Sep 1805 ; last appears in Army List 1810 ; of Maize Hill, Greenwich, Kent ; m. 9 Apr 1810 Margaret, dau. of William Wood, Charlotte Street, Fitzroy Square, London ; d. 1 Sep 1841.
COLLINS, ESSEX ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Jun 1715 ; in under school list 1717.[Perhaps bapt. St.Luke, Chelsea, Middlesex 20 Jun 1703, son of John Collins (although this may have been a dau. of John Collins) (IGI) ; perhaps m. at Holy Trinity, Gosport, Hampshire 11 Oct 1724 Frances Though (IGI)]
COLLINS, JOHN ; b. ; adm. (aged 7) Jul 1728 ; left 1730.
COLLINS, THOMAS ; b. ; adm. (aged 14) Oct 1718 ; left 1718.
COLLINS, TOBIAS, son of Toby Collins, Westminster ; b. ; adm. (aged 8) Jan 1718/9 ; Min.Can.1723.
COLLINS, VINCENT ; b. ; adm. ; Min.Can.1636 ; KS 1637. [Presumably Vincent Collins, son of Thomas Collins, and Dorothy —, bapt.St.Bride, Fleet Street 23 Oct 1622 (IGI) ; his parents were doubtless Thomas Collins and Dorothy Vinson (sic), who had m. at St.Benet, Paul Wharf 13 Dec 1621]
COLLINS, WILLIAM, son of Anthony Collins, Witney, Oxfordshire, blanket and carpet manufacturer, and Elizabeth Sylvester, Burford, Oxfordshire ; bapt.Witney, Oxfordshire 16 Feb 1752 (IGI, sic); adm. 21 Nov 1768 ; KS (aged 15) 1769 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1773, matr. 11 Jun 1773, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1773 – void 10 Oct 1789 (expiry year of grace as R.Slapton) ; BA 1777 ; MA 1780 ; ordained deacon 14 Jun 1778, priest 20 Dec 1778 (both Oxford) ; Rector of Slapton, Bucks., from 18 Oct 1788 ; Perpetual Curate, Cogges and Hailey, Oxfordshire, licensed 15 Oct 1802 ; d. Apr 1808.
COLLINS, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. 14 Jun 1811 ; in school list Oct 1814.
COLLIS, WILLIAM BLOW, eldest son of William Blow Collis DL, Wollaston Hall, near Stourbridge, Worcs., industrialist, and Anne, dau. of James Horman, Franche, Kidderminster, Worcs. ; b. 7 Feb 1839 ; adm. 23 Jan 1851 ; QS Oct 1853 ; left May 1856 ; mining engineer and colliery manager ; of Swinford House, near Stourbridge, Worcs. ; JP (1905) Worcs. ; m. 12 Apr 1864 Helen Firmstone, dau. of Henry Cosser, Swinford House, Worcs. ; d. 24 Apr 1922.
COLLYER, FRANCIS SPENCER, brother of George Samuel Collyer (qv); b. 30 Sep 1810 ; adm. (G) 4 Feb 1822 ; m. (marriage registered St George Southwark third quarter 1841) ; death registered Marylebone fourth quarter 1843.
COLLYER, GEORGE SAMUEL, son of George Samuel Collyer, South Weald, Essex, and Park Place, St.James’s, London, army agent and Treasurer, RMC Sandhurst, and Mary Spencer, dau. of Andrew Clinton, Clerk, War Office ; b. ; adm. 1 Apr 1812 ; left Christmas 1818 ; living South Weald, Essex, with parents, in 1841, aged 40, independent means (1841 Census) ; d. 10 Jan 1877, aged 76.
COLLYNS, CHARLES BAYLEY, son of George Nelson Collyns MRCS LSA, Moreton Hampstead, Devon, and Susannah Millard, dau. of Robert White ; b. 16 May 1859 ; adm. 12 Jun 1873 ; QS 1874 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1878, adm.pens. 1 Jun 1878, sizar 1881, matr.Mich.1878 ; BA 1882 ; ordained deacon 1883, priest 1884 (St.Albans) ; Curate, Leytonstone, Essex, 1883-5, Stoke Damerel, Devon, 1885-95 ; Vicar of Plymstock, Devon, from 1895 ; m.1st, 14 Sep 1887 Agnes Emma, younger dau. of John William Leach Ashe, Bexley, Kent. artist and piano teacher ; m.2nd, 2 Feb 1910 Helena Sarah, widow of Rev.Richard Trezise Tyacke, Rector of Meavy, Devon, and of Rev.Charles Scott, Vicar of Seaton, Devon, and dau. of William Henry Rough (qv) ; d. 8 Jun 1913.
COLMAN, EDMUND CRAVEN, illegitimate son of George Colman (adm.1772, qv), and Maria Gibbs, actress, dau. of — Logan ; bapt.St.Mary, Marylebone Road 10 Jul 1802 (IGI); adm. 18 Jul 1812 ; in school list Oct 1814 ; Third Assistant Clerk, Lord Chamberlain’s Office, 6 Jan 1823, Second Assistant Clerk 4 May 1825, First Assistant Clerk, 10 Oct 1826, Third Assistant Clerk (sic) 11 Oct 1831 – Dec 1832.
COLMAN, GEORGE, son of Francis Colman, British Resident at Court of Tuscany, and Mary, dau. of John Gumley MP, Isleworth, Middlesex, Commissioner-Gen. of Musters, and sister-in-law of William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath (qv) ; bapt. 18 Apr 1732 ; adm.Oct 1741 (Preston) ; KS 1746 ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1751, matr. 5 Jun 1751, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1751 – void 25 Jun 1764 ; BA 1755 ; MA 1758 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 14 Jan 1752, called to bar 24 Jan 1757 ; Oxford circuit ; joint editor with Bonnell Thornton (qv) of The Connoisseur, 1754-6 ; his first play, Polly Honeycombe, was produced at Drury Lane 5 Dec 1760 ; his Jealous Wife, the most popular comedy of its day, appeared in the following year, and The Clandestine Marriage, written in collaboration with his friend David Garrick, in 1766 ; manager, Covent Garden Theatre 1767-74, Haymarket Theatre 1777-89 ; suffered a stroke in 1785 and a further incapacitating stroke in 1789 ; member, Society of Dilettanti, 1778 ; edited The Dramatic Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, 1778 ; translated The Comedies of Terence, 1765, and Horace’s Art of Poetry, 1783 ; m. 12 Jul 1768 Sarah Ford, actress, previously a domestic servant in Jamaica ; d. 14 Aug 1794. ODNB.
COLMAN, GEORGE ; b. ; adm. (aged 8) Jan 1747/8 ; in school list 1754.
COLMAN, GEORGE, only son of George Colman (adm.1741, qv) ; b. (before his parents’ marriage) 21 Oct 1762 ; adm. 30 Jun 1772 (Jones, afterwards Clapham) ; saved from drowning, whilst bathing in the Thames opposite Dicky Roberts’s boat house, by his schoolfellow George Cranstoun (qv) ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 28 Jan 1780 ; King’s Coll.Aberdeen, 1781-3 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 9 Aug 1784 ; Manager, Haymarket Theatre, 1789-1813 ; Lieut., Yeomen of the Guard, 13 May 1820- Sep 1831; Examiner of Plays, Lord Chamberlain’s Office, from 19 Jan 1824 ; author, Broad Grins, 1802, Random Records, 1830, and of the plays The Iron Chest, 1796, The Heir at Law, 1797, and John Bull, 1803 ; his Random Records contains interesting reminiscences of his schooldays and schoolfellows ; m. at Gretna Green 3 Oct 1784 (and at Chelsea Parish Church 10 Nov 1788 : separated 1795) Catherine Morris, actress, St.Luke’s, Chelsea ; d. 17 Oct 1836. ODNB.
COLOONY, THOMAS, LORD, see COOTE, THOMAS.
COLQUHOUN, — ; b. ; at school under Markham ; “Mr.Colquhoun” was one of the OWW who played cricket on Molesey Heath v. Old Etonians, Aug 1768 (Hickey, Memoirs, i,100).
COLQUHOUN (later DE COLQUHOUN), EWING PYE, brother of Sir Patrick MacChombaich Colquhoun (qv) ; b. 11 Sep 1827 ; adm. 10 Jun 1839 ; rowed against Eton 1 Aug 1843 ; St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 14 Dec 1844, scholar 9 Nov 1847, matr. Mich.1846 ; BA 1850 ; adm.Inner Temple 2 May 1850, called to bar 26 Jan 1869 ; Consul-General for Oldenburg in London 14 Jan 1859 ; m. 21 Jan 1869 Theodora, dau. of Charles Storr Kennedy, Ulverston, Lancs., merchant ; d. at Naples 13 Feb 1875.
COLQUHOUN (later DE COLQUHOUN), JAMES CHARLES HENRY, brother of Sir Patrick MacChombaich Colquhoun (qv) ; b. 1 Feb 1826 ; adm. 10 Jun 1839 ; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm. 12 Dec 1844, matr.Mich.1845 ; LLB 1851 ; adm.Inner Temple 1 May 1847, withdrew name 14 Nov 1871 ; Consul-General for Saxony in London 16 Oct 1854 ; a well-known oarsman ; resided for many years at Cannes, where he founded the “Cercle Nautique”, and became known as the Chevalier de Colquhoun ; m. 2 Jun 1849 Louisa, dau. of Sir Thomas Smith Marrable, Kt, Secretary to Board of Green Cloth ; d. at Cannes 22 Mar 1891.
COLQUHOUN, SIR PATRICK MACCHOMBAICH, eldest son of Chevalier James Colquhoun LLD, Consul-General for the Hanse Towns in London, and Catherine, dau. of James Deacon, Receiver of Grand Receipts, Customs House [maybe sister of James Henry Deacon (qv)] ; b. 13 Apr 1815 ; adm. 25 May 1826 ; left Aug 1832 ; St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 27 Feb 1833, scholar 8 Nov 1836, hon.fellow 5 Mar 1886, matr.Mich.1833 ; BA 1837 ; MA 1844 ; LLD 1851 ; adm.Inner Temple 1 May 1834, called to bar 4 May 1838, Bencher 1869, Treasurer 1888 ; Home Circuit ; QC 4 Dec 1868 ; JUD Heidelberg 1838 ; Secretary to Hanse Legation to German Diet Apr 1838 ; Plenipotentiary for Hanse Towns in Turkey, Persia and Greece, 1840-4 ; Aulic Counsellor to King of Saxony, and Standing Counsel to Saxon Legation in London, 1857-66 ; member, Supreme Court of Justice, Corfu, 1858-61, Chief Justice of Ionian Islands 1861-4 ; knighted 14 Nov 1861 ; President, Royal Society of Literature ; a well-known oarsman ; won Wingfield Sculls and became amateur champion of the Thames, 1837 ; Secretary, Leander Club, President from 24 Apr 1882 ; joint donor to the School of the Silver Sculls, with Edmund Charles Burton (qv) ; Vice-Pres., Elizabethan Club, from 1885 ; author, A Summary of the Roman Law, 1849-54, and other works ; m.1843 (or 23 Nov 1858, IGI) Katherine, dau. of M. de Saint Vitalis ; d. 18 May 1891. ODNB.
COLQUIT, — ; b. ; adm. 14 May 1800 ; in school list May 1803 ; left 1803. [Identified by Whitmore as Goodwin Colquitt, son of Capt.Goodwin Colquitt, Royal Navy, and Catharine, sister of William Collins, Frolesworth, Leics. ; b.1786 ; Ensign, 1st Foot Guards 28 Dec 1803; Lieut. and Capt., 15 Sep 1808 ; Capt. and Lieut.-Col., 25 Jul 1814 ; served in Peninsular War and at Waterloo ; retd. 26 Oct 1820 ; CB 16 Sep 1815 ; m. 1814 Anne Colquhoun, youngest dau. of John Wallace, Kelly, Renfrewshire ; d. 18 Apr 1823]
COLSTON, ALEXANDER, brother of Edward Francis Colston (qv) ; b. ; adm. (aged 8) Jan 1749/50 (as Alexander Ready) ; left 1751 ; Trinity Coll.Oxford, matr. 28 Jan 1759, aged 17 ; BA 1763 (incorp. Cambridge 1769, MA Clare Coll.Cambridge 1769) ; ordained deacon 7 Jan 1764 (Gloucester), priest 2 Jan 1765 (Oxford) ; Rector of Bradwell, Oxfordshire, from 13 Sep 1765 ; Rector of Henbury, Gloucs., from 20 Jan 1786 ; Domestic Chaplain to Dowager Baroness Middleton 12 Apr 1786 ; assumed surname of Colston in lieu of Ready ; m.1st, 20 Nov 1763 (IGI) Louisa Mynshul, dau. of Paul George Elers, Bourton Place, Black Bourton, Oxfordshire ; m.2nd, Susannah, dau. of Rev. — Hook, Gloucester ; d. 18 May 1792 (will proved PCC 9 Jul 1792).
COLSTON, EDWARD FRANCIS, son of Alexander Ready Colston (formerly Ready), Filkins, Oxfordshire, barrister, Middle Temple, and Sophia, dau. of Thomas Edwards MP, Filkins, Oxfordshire, barrister ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1749/50 ; perhaps “Ready” in school list 1750 ; in school list 1754 ; New Coll.Oxford, matr. 2 Jul 1757 ; d.unm.
COLT, EDWARD, son of John Colt, Wales ; b. ; adm. 1656 (School List 1656, last quarter) ; Min.Can. (aged 14) 1658.
COLT, EDWARD WILLIAM, eldest son of Rev.David Williams, Rector of Nannerch, Flintshire, Hon.Canon St Asaph, and Martha Elizabeth Flora, elder dau. of Sir Edward Vaughan Colt, Bart., Trawscoed, Radnorshire ; b. 17 May 1846 ; adm. 23 Jun 1859 (as Edward William Colt Williams) ; BB 6 Oct 1860 ; QS 1861 ; rowed against Eton 28 Jul 1864 ; elected to Ch.Ch.Oxford 1865, matr. 7 Jun 1865 ; BA 1869 ; MA 1891 ; an Inspector of Schools from 1871 ; assumed surname of Colt in lieu of Williams, 1892 ; m. 28 Sep 1871 Caroline, second dau. of Thomas Timberlake, Pembroke Street, Oxford ; d. 29 Dec 1904.
COLT-WILLIAMS, DAVID ARCHER VAUGHAN, brother of Edward William Colt (qv) ; b. 21 Jun 1849 ; adm. as BB 30 May 1861 ; QS 1864 ; left 1868 ; Jesus Coll.Oxford, matr. 27 Oct 1868 ; BA 1871 ; adm.Middle Temple 1 Jun 1874, called to bar 17 Nov 1877 ; North Wales Circuit ; assumed surname of Colt-Williams in lieu of Williams ; Revising Barrister for North Wales, 1893 ; practised at Chester ; m. 25 Nov 1884 Laura Louisa Lilia, only child of Rev.Henry John Vernon, Vicar of Eckington, Worcs. ; d. 21 Apr 1914.
COLTON, WITTING, son of Richard Colton, London ; b. (Middlesex) 1696 ; adm. ; Min.Can.(aged 15) 1711 ; QS (Capt) 1712 ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1716, adm.pens. 18 Jun 1716, aged 19, scholar 10 May 1717, matr.1717 ; BA 1719/20 ; MA 1723 ; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll., 2 Oct 1722, Major Fellow 2 Jul 1723 ; BA 1719/20 ; MA 1723 ; ordained deacon 20 May 1722 (Ely) ; Chancellor of Salisbury from 27 Oct 1727 ; Vicar of West Lavington, Wilts., 14 Jun 1727 – Jun 1730 ; Domestic Chaplain to William, Duke of Manchester ; Rector of Poulshot, Wilts., 6 Dec 1728 – Jun 1730 ; Vicar of St.Giles’s, Reading, Berks., from 19 May 1730 ; Vicar of Odiham, Hants., from 13 Mar 1737/8 (disp. to hold with St.Giles’s, Reading) ; m.1st, 30 Sep 1727 (IGI) Anna Bullard, niece of Right Rev.Benjamin Hoadly DD, Bishop of Winchester ; m.2nd, 24 Apr 1743 Mary, widow of John Dicker, and dau. of — Jones [check] ; m.3rd, 6 Nov 1746 Mary Peck ; d. 21 Dec 1755.
COMBE, see also COOMBE and COOMBES.
COMBE, EDMOND, brother of Matthew Combe (qv) ; b. ; adm.May 1723 ; left 1728 ; adm. a solicitor Nov 1733 ; adm.New Inn 23 Nov 1733, Bencher 1775 ; practised as an attorney in London ; of Craven Street, London ; lic.to m. 26 Dec 1752 Mary Edwards, Thame, Oxfordshire ; d.1793, aged 81.
COMBE, EDWARD, brother of Richard Thomas Combe (qv) ; bapt.St.Mary, Marylebone Road 9 Jan 1774 (IGI); adm.13 Jun 1785 ; one of Southey’s “most intimate associates” at school (Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey, i, 154) ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 17 Oct 1792, aged 18 ; BA 1796 ; MA 1803 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 16 Jan 1795 ; ordained deacon 10 May 1804, priest 22 Sep 1804 (both Oxford); Perpetual Curate of Barrington, Somerset, from 28 Apr 1810 ; Rector of Earnshill, Somerset, from 23 Aug 1821 ; Rector of Donyatt, Somerset, from 27 Aug 1821 ; d. unm. 17 Jun 1848.
COMBE, HARVEY, brother of Matthew Combe (qv) ; bapt. 27 Sep 1716 ; adm. (aged 11) Jan 1726/7 ; left 1732 ; adm.New Inn Jul 1742 ; practised as an attorney at Andover, Hants. ; m. 17 May 1750 Christian, dau. of J.Jarman, St.Peter, Cornhill, London ; buried Andover 2 Aug 1787.
COMBE, HENRY, brother of Richard Thomas Combe (qv) ; b. 22 Feb 1771 ; adm. 30 Mar 1780 ; Naval Academy, Portsmouth, 1784-7 ; entered Royal Navy 12 Apr 1787 ; Lieut., 2 May 1793 ; Cdr., 8 Aug 1799 ; d. 26 May 1801.
COMBE, MATTHEW, eldest son of Edmond Combe, Grange Court, St.Clement Danes, London, and Hartley Wintney, Hants., solicitor, and Katharine, dau. of Rev.Thomas Pretty, Rector of Winchfield, Hants. ; b. 19 Apr 1706 ; adm. Jun 1721 ; in under school list 1722 ; adm.New Inn 30 Nov 1730 ; adm.solicitor 14 Dec 1730 ; m. 17 Nov 1745 Hannah Hahn, widow [mother of Daniel Hahn, adm.1723 (qv) ?] ; d.1747.
COMBE, RICHARD THOMAS, son of Richard Combe MP, Harley Street, London, and Ann, dau. of Thomas Chamberlayne, Bristol, tobacco merchant trading with Virginia ; bapt.St.Mary, Marylebone Road 17 Feb 1770 (IGI); adm. 30 Mar 1780 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 23 Oct 1788 ; BA 1792 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 4 Dec 1789 ; of Earnshill, Somerset ; d. unm. 6 Oct 1849, aged 79.
COMBERMERE, STAPLETON, 1ST VISCOUNT, see COTTON, STAPLETON, 1st VISCOUNT COMBERMERE
COMBES, JOHN ; b. ; adm. (aged 14) Jul 1721 ; in under school list 1722.
COMBES, THOMAS ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Apr 1722 ; left 1722.
COMPTON, CHARLES, 7TH EARL OF NORTHAMPTON, eldest son of Hon.Charles Compton, HBM Consul and Envoy Extraordinary, Lisbon, and Mary, dau. of Sir Berkeley Lucy, Bart., FRS ; b. 22 Jul 1737 ; adm.May 1746 ; in school list 1754 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 4 Jan 1755 ; DCL 3 Jul 1759 ; Grand Tour (Italy) 1757-9 ; succ.uncle as 7th Earl of Northampton 6 Dec 1758 ; carried Queen’s ivory rod with dove at Coronation 22 Sep 1761 ; Ambassador to Venice 26 Aug 1762 – Jun 1763 ; m. 13 Sep 1759 Lady Anne Somerset, eldest dau. of Charles Somerset, 4th Duke of Beaufort (qv) ; d. at Lyon, France, 18 Oct 1763.
COMPTON, CHARLES, 1ST MARQUIS OF NORTHAMPTON, only son of Spencer Compton, 8th Earl of Northampton (qv), and his first wife ; bapt. 21 Mar 1760 ; adm. 4 Mar 1768 ; left Dec 1770 ; went to Ealing Sch. ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.nob. 9 Nov 1776, matr. Mich.1776 ; MA 1779 ; Capt., Northants Militia 24 Mar 1777, Maj. 9 Jan 1780, Col. 24 Mar 1784 (and 14 Mar 1794) ; MP Northampton 1784 – 7 Apr 1796 ; succ.father as 9th Earl of Northampton 7 Apr 1796 ; Lord Lieut., Northamptonshire, from 11 Jun 1796 ; created Marquis of Northampton 7 Sep 1812 ; m. 18 Aug 1787 Mary, eldest dau. of Joshua Smith MP, Erlestoke Park, Wilts. ; d. 24 May 1828.
COMPTON, SPENCER, 8TH EARL OF NORTHAMPTON, brother of Charles Compton, 7th Earl of Northampton (qv) ; b. 5 Aug 1738 ; adm. May 1746 ; in school list 1754 ; Ensign, 2nd Foot Guards, 21 Jan 1756 ; Capt., 31st (afterwards 70th) Foot, 2 Sep 1757 ; 50th Foot, 4 Sep 1760, sold out 1761 ; Groom of the Bedchamber 25 Nov 1760 – 18 Oct 1763 ; MP Northampton 1761 – 18 Oct 1763 ; succ.brother as 8th Earl of Northampton 18 Oct 1763 ; Lord Lieut., Northamptonshire, from 6 Jul 1771 ; went to live in Switzerland in 1770s ; m.1st, 1758 Jane, dau. of Henry Lawton, Northampton ; m.2nd, 16 May 1769 Anne, dau. of Culpeper Hougham, City of London, linen draper ; d. at Bern, Switzerland, 7 Apr 1796.
COMPTON-SMITH, WILLIAM, only son of William Compton-Smith, Sumner Place, Kensington, solicitor, and Mary Isabel, dau. of John Richardson, Swansea, Glamorgan ; b.18 Nov 1859 ; adm.15 Apr 1873 ; Min.Can.1874 ; left May 1878 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens.1 Jun 1878, matr.Mich.1878 ; BA and LLB 1882 ; adm.Inner Temple 10 Nov 1879, called to bar 21 Jun 1882 ; Midland Circuit ; m.6 Sep 1888 Henrietta Beatrix, dau. of Sir Joseph Cocksey Lee, Kt, Park Gate, Altrincham, Cheshire, cotton manufacturer ; d. 12 Feb 1936.
COMYN, EDWARD, son of Stephen Comyn, barrister, Bencher Inner Temple, Clerk to Dean and Chapter of St.Paul’s, and Elizabeth, only child of Edward Tay, All Hallows, Honey Lane, London, and Frierning, Essex, citizen and draper ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Jun 1748 ; in school list 1754 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 6 Nov 1755. scholar 14 May 1756, matr. Easter 1756 ; adm.Inner Temple 1 Dec 1752, called to bar 25 Nov 1757 ; d. 3 Jan 1760.
COMYN, EDWARD, second son of Fitzwilliam Comyn, London, solicitor, and Harriet Palmer (IGI) ; b. 7 Oct 1837 ; adm. (G) Jun 1854 ; adm.Middle Temple 12 Nov 1857, called to bar 6 Jun 1860 ; South-Eastern Circuit ; still in Law List, 1900 ; latterly of Thanet Villa, Maidenhead, Berks. ; m. 23 Aug 1864 Mary Louisa, eldest dau. of John Pullen, Middle Temple, London, solicitor ; d. 9 Dec 1916.
COMYN, FREDERICK FITZWILLIAM, brother of Edward Comyn (adm.1854 (qv) ) ; b. 18 Jan 1839 ; adm.(G) Jun 1854 ; Cadet, EICS Bombay 1859 ; Ensign, 30th Bombay Native Infantry, 27 Feb 1859 ; Lieut., 26 Sep 1860 ; Quartermaster and Wing Officer, 4th Native Infantry, 3 Oct 1864 ; Capt., 14 Nov 1868 ; Maj., 27 Feb 1879 ; Wing Commander, 8 Apr 1881 ; Lieut.-Col., 27 Feb 1885 ; retd. 23 Nov 1888 ; served in Afghan War 1879 ; m. 28 Dec 1869 Henrietta Frances, dau. of Lieut.-Gen. Charles Malcolm Barrow CB, Bombay Army ; d. 15 Jul 1915.
COMYN, HENRY, brother of Stephen George Comyn (IGI); b. 5 Jun 1775 ; adm. ; KS (aged 15) 1792 ; probably — Cummins who played cricket against Charterhouse 1794 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 11 Dec 1795 ; BA 1799 ; MA 1806 ; ordained deacon 28 Feb 1808 (Exeter) ; Curate, Boldre, Hampshire 1811-9 ; Vicar of Manaccan, Cornwall, 14 Nov 1821-37 ; Vicar of Sancreed, Cornwall, from 13 Oct 1837 ; m. Jun 1814 Philadelphia, dau. of John Heylyn ; d. 30 Jul 1851.
COMYN, ROBERT VALENS, brother of Edward Comyn (adm.1748 (qv)) ; b. 9 Aug 1741 (IGI); adm. ; Min.Can. (aged 15) 1756 ; Balliol Coll.Oxford, matr. 4 Apr 1759 ; adm.Inner Temple 22 Jan 1760, called to bar 25 Jun 1762, Bencher 1797 ; a Commissioner of Bankrupts (occurs in annual lists 1772 to death) ; succeeded his father as Clerk to Dean and Chapter of St.Paul’s, to resignation 1798 ; m. 28 Oct 1779 Elizabeth, dau. of Christopher Metcalfe, Tottenham, Middlesex ; d. 25 Oct 1799.
COMYN, STEPHEN GEORGE, son of Stephen Comyn [? Cornhill, London, merchant], and Mary, third dau. of Robert Wilsonn, Lombard Street, London, stationer and member of Common Council, City of London ; nephew of Edward Comyn (qv) ; b. 29 Dec 1763 ; adm. 11 Oct 1775 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 2 Nov 1782, aged 18, matr. Mich.1782 ; BA 1788 ; ordained deacon 20 Dec 1795, priest 21 Dec 1795 (both Winchester) to curacy of Brading, Isle of Wight ; Chaplain, Royal Navy 1798, still 1801 ; on Lord Nelson’s ship at battles of The Nile and Copenhagen ; Rector of Bridgham, Norfolk, from 8 Jul 1802 ; Vicar of Roudham, Norfolk 28 Apr 1826 – Sep 1835 ; m.(by c.1795) Charlotte Carter, Rochester, Kent ; d. 17 Mar 1839.
COMYN, VALENS RICHARD, son of James Comyn FRS, Deputy Comptroller of Excise, and [his third wife ?] Alice, fifth dau. of Drewry Ottley, St.Kitts, West Indies ; b. 21 May 1763 (IGI); adm. 15 Jun 1773 ; left 1779 ; Lieut., Royal Navy, 6 Dec 1793 ; d. 28 Jun 1810, aged 45.
COMYNS, see CUMMINS.
CONAN, AMBROSIUS, son of Cornelius Conan, London, and Anne — ; bapt. Westminster 3 Feb 1751 ; adm. 15 Jun 1767 ; KS (aged 15) 1769 ; left 1769.
CONANT, WILLIAM, second son of Sir Nathaniel Conant, Kt, Chief Magistrate, Bow Street, London, previously bookseller and stationer, and Sarah, dau. of John Whiston, Fleet Street, London, bookseller ; b. 13 Sep 1783 ; in school lists 1795,1797 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 15 Dec 1800, scholar 1802, matr. Mich.1801 ; BA 1806 ; MA 1809 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 26 Apr 1806, called to bar 1811 ; a Commissioner of Bankrupts (occurs in annual lists 1814-31, when post abolished) ; d. 16 Jun 1835.
CONDUITT, JOHN, son of Leonard Conduitt, St.Paul’s, Covent Garden, London, and Sarah — ; bapt. St.Paul’s, Covent Garden 8 Mar 1687/8 ; adm. ; KS 1701 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1705, adm.pens. 7 Jun 1705, scholar 12 Apr 1706, matr.1705/6 ; Grand Tour (Germany, Netherlands, etc.) 1707-10 ; Judge Advocate with British Forces in Portugal, 1711 ; Capt., Brigadier Hunt Withers’ Regiment of Dragoons, 23 Mar 1712, half-pay 1713 ; Commissary of Stores and Provisions, Gibraltar, 6 Apr 1713, still Deputy Paymaster at Gibraltar in 1717-8 ; his marriage to Sir Isaac Newton’s stepniece in 1717 brought him into Newton’s circle of intimates ; FRS 1 Dec 1718 ; purchased Cranbury Park estate, Hampshire, 1720 ; MP Whitchurch 26 Jun 1721- 3 Apr 1735, Southampton from 3 Apr 1735 ; assisting Sir Isaac Newton with his duties as Master of the Mint by Jun 1726 ; Master of the Mint from Apr 1727 ; author, Observations on the present state of our gold and silver coins, 1774 (compiled 1730) ; m. 26 Aug 1717 Catherine, second dau. of Robert Barton, Brigstock, Northants. ; d. 23 May 1737. Buried in Nave, Westminster Abbey (monument at west end of nave). ODNB.
CONGREVE, RICHARD JONES, brother of William Walter Congreve (qv) ; b. 8 Feb 1806 ; adm.(G) 1 Jun 1818 ; KS 1820 ; Brasenose Coll.Oxford, matr. 12 Jun 1824 ; Ensign, 43rd Foot, 1 Jul 1828 ; retd. 15 May 1829 ; of Carlingwark, Kirkcudbrightshire ; m. 20 Jun 1843 Louisa Margaret, second dau. of Lieut.-Col. William Miller KH, Royal Artillery ; d. 9 Jan 1879.
CONGREVE, WILLIAM WALTER, eldest son of Richard Congreve, Burton Hall, Cheshire, and Mary Anne, dau. of George Birch, Hampstead Hall, Staffs. ; b. 5 Apr 1804 ; adm.(G) 1 Jun 1818 ; Brasenose Coll.Oxford, matr. 6 May 1822 ; Cornet, 3rd Light Dragoons, 5 May 1825 ; Lieut., 29 Mar 1827 ; Capt., 3 May 1833 ; retd.1836 ; DL JP Cheshire ; m. 29 Apr 1830 Anne Selina, second dau. of Rev.Henry Lambart Bayly, Ballyarthur, co.Wicklow, Ireland ; d. 15 Nov 1864.
CONIERS, see also CONYERS.
CONIERS, — ; b. ; at school c.1660 (Busby’s Account Book).
CONINGSBY, see CONYSBYE.
CONNELL, THOMAS JOHN BARLOW, son of James Connell, Assistant Surgeon, 23rd Foot, and Maria, widow of Capt.Nicholas Wrixon, 98th Foot ; b. 21 Mar 1833 (bapt. Brandon, Suffolk) ; adm.11 Oct 1841 ; QS 1846 ; left 1850 ; Ensign, 3rd West India Regt., 1852 ; Lieut., 24 Mar 1854 ; exchanged to 46th Foot, 8 Sep 1854 ; Capt., 31 Aug 1858 ; served in Crimean War ; d. at Mooltan, India 5 Jun 1859.
CONNER, — ; adm. 11 Jun 1766.
CONNER, — ; adm. 11 Jun 1766.
CONNOR, HENRY ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Apr 1743 ; left 1747.
CONOLLY, THOMAS, only son of Right Hon.William Conolly PC (I) MP MP(I), Castletown, Ireland, and Stretton Hall, Staffs., and Lady Anne Wentworth, eldest dau. of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Jan 1749/50 ; in school list 1754 ; Grand Tour (Italy) 1758 ; MP Malmesbury 21 Mar 1759-68, Chichester 1768-80 ; MP (I) Co.Londonderry 1761-1800 ; Privy Councillor (I) Jul 1761 ; a leader of the revolt in the Irish House of Commons against the ministry in 1788, but a warm supporter of the Union ; m. 30 Dec 1758 Lady Louisa Augusta Lennox, sister of Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond (qv) ; d. 27 Apr 1803. ODNB.
CONSTABLE, R. ; b. ; adm. ; KS (Capt) c.1654 (Dormitory Tablet).
CONWAY, BENJAMIN, son of Robert Conway, Southwark, Surrey, dyer ; b. ; at school under Busby seven years ; KS 1676 ; St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 31 Mar 1679, aged 18 ; BA 1682/3 ; MA 1686 ; BD 1694 ; Fellow of St.John’s Coll. 1691 ; ordained deacon 29 Dec 1686, priest 20 Feb 1691 (both Rochester) ; Rector of Bigrave, Herts., from 10 Dec 1696 ; d. Jan 1700.
CONWAY, EDWARD, 1ST EARL OF CONWAY, eldest surviving son of Edward Conway, 2ndViscount Conway, and Frances, dau. of Sir Francis Popham MP, Littlecote, Wilts. ; b.c.1623 ; at school under Osbaldeston and/or Busby (described by Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey (qv) as a “fellow boarder” at Westminster School, as quoted by A.Marshall, The Strange Death of Edmund Godfrey, 2013, although no reference cited); living in Paris in 1640 ; succeeded father as 3rd Viscount Conway 26 Jun 1655 ; Capt., Troop of Horse (I) 1660 ; Privy Councillor (I) Dec 1660 ; Governor of Charlemont Fort, Ireland 1672 ; Commissioner of Customs (I) 1673-5 ; Lieut.-Gen. of Horse (I) 1674 ; created Earl of Conway 3 Dec 1679 ; Privy Councillor 2 Feb 1680/1 ; Lord Lieut., Warwickshire, from 1681 ; Secretary of State (Northern Dept.) Feb 1680/1 – Jan 1682/3 ; FRS 2 Jan 1668 ; of Ragley Hall, Warwickshire ; m. 1st, 11 Feb 1650/1 Anne, writer and thinker on metaphysics, sister of Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham (qv) ; m. 2nd, Hon.Elizabeth Booth, dau. of George Booth, 1st Baron Delamere ; m.3rd, before 30 Aug 1681 Ursula, eldest dau. of George Stawell, Cothelstone, Somerset ; d.11 Aug 1683. ODNB.
CONWAY, EDWARD, son of Edward Conway, St.Dunstan’s [check], London ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1721/2 ; in school list 1729 ; Jesus Coll.Oxford, matr. 18 Mar 1729/30. [Perhaps a son of Edward Conway, Soughton Hall, Flintshire, Master in Chancery]
CONWEY, — ; b. ; adm. ; a pensioner in 1603 (tutor, Mr Roger Edwards).
CONYBEARE, BRUCE LIDDELL OLIVIER, brother of Henry Crawford Arthur Conybeare (qv) ; b. 25 Jan 1859 ; adm.(G) 12 Jun 1868 ; left May 1869 ; readm. 26 Sep 1872 ; left May 1876 ; d. at St.Servan, France, 11 Mar 1880.
CONYBEARE, CHARLES FREDERICK PRINGLE, brother of Henry Crawford Arthur Conybeare (qv) ; b. 19 May 1860 ; adm. 24 Sep 1868 ; left May 1869 ; readm. 25 Sep 1873 ; left Aug 1874 ; Midshipman, Royal Navy, 1875, retd.1880 ; emigrated to Canada ; articled to law firm, Winnipeg, Manitoba 1880 ; called to bar, North West Territories, Canada 1886 ; settled at Lethbridge, Alberta ; Crown Prosecutor, South Alberta, 1888-1900 ; QC 1894 ; Chancellor, Diocese of Calgary, 1904-16 ; DCL Bishop’s Coll., Lennoxville, 1907, Univ.Alberta 1908 ; President, Alberta Moderation League, 1919, Alberta Law Society 1926 ; author, Vahnfried, a poetical romance ; m. 24 Jun 1890 Letitia Ida, dau. of Lieut.-Col.Peter H.Attwood, Canadian Militia, London, Ontario, Canada ; d. 13 Jul 1927. See Dictionary of Canadian Biography.
CONYBEARE, HENRY CRAWFORD ARTHUR, eldest son of Henry Conybeare MICE, Vice-Pres. ICE, and Ann Newport, dau. of Gen.George Moore ; grandson of William Daniel Conybeare (qv) ; b. 16 Jan 1853 ; adm. 26 Sep 1867 ; left Dec 1868 ; King’s Coll.London ; Merton Coll.Oxford, matr. 21 Apr 1882 ; BA 1888 ; MA 1891 ; adm.Inner Temple 20 Apr 1887, called to bar 14 Jun 1899 ; appointed to Indian Civil Service after exam of 1871 ; arrived in India 3 Nov 1873 ; Assist.Magistrate and Collector, N.W.Provinces and Oudh ; Joint Magistrate, Jan 1885 ; Deputy Commissioner, Aug 1890 ; Magistrate and Collector, Aug 1891 ; Agent to Governor-Gen. in Benares, Oct 1897 ; officiating Commissioner, Apr 1900, confirmed Aug 1900, retd. Nov 1908 ; JP (1909) Devon ; author, Note on Pargana Dudhi of the Mirzapur District,1879 ; m. 20 Feb 1889 Amy Maxwell, dau. of Maynard Brodhurst, Bengal Civil Service (previously EICS Bengal), Judge of Supreme Court, North Western Provinces ; d. 10 Mar 1916.
CONYBEARE, JOHN JOSIAS, elder son of William Conybeare (qv) ; b. 10 Jun 1779 ; adm. ; Min.Can.1792 ; KS (Capt) 1793 ; Capt. of the School 1796 ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1797, matr. 19 Jun 1797, Westminster Student 23 Dec 1797 – void 17 Dec 1813 (expiry year of grace as V.Batheaston) ; Chancellor’s Prize for Latin Verse 1800 ; BA 1801 ; MA 1804 ; Select Preacher 1808-9 ; Bampton Lecturer 1824 ; ordained deacon 13 Jun 1802 (Oxford), priest 3 Jul 1803 (Winchester, lit.dim. from St Asaph); an Usher at the School 1803-4 ; Prebendary of York from 13 Jul 1803 ; Curate, St.Thomas, Oxford, 1805, Cowley, Oxfordshire, 1806-10 ; Professor of Anglo-Saxon, Oxford University, 1808-12, of Poetry 1812-21 ; Vicar of Batheaston, Somerset, from 11 Dec 1812 ; author, On the Geology of Devon and Cornwall, 1823, and of other geological, chemical, and theological tracts ; his Illustrations of Anglo-Saxon Poetry were edited by William Daniel Conybeare (qv) in 1826 ; m. 21 Feb 1814 Mary, dau. of Rev.Charles Davies, Fellow of Pembroke Coll.Oxford, and Vicar of Sutton Benger, Wilts. ; d. 11 Jun 1824. ODNB.
CONYBEARE, WILLIAM, son of Right Rev.John Conybeare DD, Bishop of Bristol and Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, and Jemima, dau. of William Juckes, Hoxton Square, London ; b. 23 Sep 1739 ; adm. Jan 1752 ; KS 1752 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1757, matr. 8 Jun 1757, Westminster Student 5 Jan 1758 – void 21 Aug 1778, Tutor 1767-74, Junior Censor 1765-6, Senior Censor 1769-70, Librarian 1776 ; BA 1761 ; MA 1764 ; BD and DD 1775 ; Proctor 1770 ; ordained deacon 10 Oct 1762, priest 17 Jun 1764 (both Oxford) ; Domestic Chaplain to Robert Hay-Drummond (qv), Archbishop of York 18 Apr 1768 ; Prebendary of York 2 Oct 1769 – res 13 Jul 1803 ; Curate, Drayton, Oxfordshire, 1774, Cowley, Oxfordshire 1774 ; Rector of St.Botolph’s, Bishopsgate, London, from 1 Aug 1776 ; m. 19 Aug 1778 Margaret Esther, dau. of Daniel Josias Olivier (qv) ; d. 5 Apr 1815.
CONYBEARE, WILLIAM DANIEL, younger son of William Conybeare (qv) ; b. 7 Jun 1787 ; in school list May 1803 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 28 Jan 1805 ; 1st cl.Classics & 2nd cl.Mathematics 1808 ; BA 1808 ; MA 1811 ; Select Preacher 1821 ; Bampton Lecturer 1839 ; ordained deacon 13 Jun 1813 (Salisbury, lit.dim. from London), priest 21 Sep 1817 (Peterborough); Rector of Sully, Glamorgan, 30 Aug 1822-36 ; Rector of Axminster, Devon, 1836-48 ; Dean of Llandaff from 29 Sep 1844 ; a leading geologist ; FRS 9 Dec 1819 ; contributed numerous papers on geology and on palaeontology to Transactions of the Royal and Geological Societies ; he and Sir Henry De La Beche founded the Bristol Philosophical and Literary Institute 1812 ; m. 23 Aug 1814 Sarah Anne, sister of Charles Ranken (qv) ; d. 12 Aug 1857. ODNB.
CONYBEARE, WILLIAM JOHN, eldest son of William Daniel Conybeare (qv) ; b. 1 Aug 1815 ; adm. 12 Jun 1828 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 22 Oct 1832, scholar 1835, matr. Lent 1833 ; 35th Wrangler and 3rd Classic 1837 ; BA 1837 ; MA 1840 ; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll., 1839, Major Fellow 8 Jul 1840 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 9 Jul 1840 ; ordained deacon 4 Apr 1841, priest 19 Dec 1841 (both Lichfield) ; Principal, Liverpool Collegiate Institution (Liverpool College), 1842-8 ; Vicar of Axminster, Devon, 1848-54 ; joint author with Rev.J.S.Howson of The Life and Epistles of St.Paul, 1851 ; m. 14 Dec 1842 Eliza, youngest dau. of Rev.Joseph Rose, Vicar of Rothley, Leics. ; d. 22 Jul 1857. ODNB.
CONYERS, see also CONIERS.
CONYERS, JOHN, son of John Conyers MP, Copt Hall, Epping, Essex, and his second wife Lady Henrietta Fermor, sister of George Fermor, 2nd Earl of Pomfret (qv) ; b. ; at school under Markham (Steward, Anniversary Dinner, 1782) ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 27 Jan 1767, aged 18 ; Leiden Univ., adm. 3 Jul 1769 ; of Copt Hall, Epping, Essex ; m. 19 May 1773 Julia Catherine, only dau. of William Mathew, Baddow, Essex ; d. 2 May 1818.
CONYNGHAM, HENRY JOSEPH, EARL OF MOUNTCHARLES, eldest son of Henry Conyngham, 1st Marquis Conyngham KP, Lord Steward of the Household, and Elizabeth, eldest dau. of Joseph Denison, Denbies, Surrey, banker ; b. 6 Apr 1795 ; at school 1804 ; left 1807 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.nob. 3 Nov 1813, matr.1814 ; MA 1816 ; MP Co.Donegal from 1818 ; d.unm. at Nice 26 Dec 1824.
CONYSBYE, — ; b. ; adm. ; a pensioner 1565-8 (tutors, the Usher and Prebendary Fre(a)ke) (Chapter Muniments 54008-17).
COOK, see also COKE and COOKE.
COOK, — ; b. ; adm. 27 Jan 1767 ; left Dec 1771.
COOK, ALFRED, brother of Robert Allen Cook (qv) ; b. 25 Nov 1836 ; at Charterhouse Sch.1847-9 ; adm. 24 Jan 1850 (G) ; Ensign, 40th Foot, 15 Dec 1854 ; Lieut., 25 Apr 1855 ; Capt., 15 Feb 1861 ; Brevet Maj., 28 Mar 1874 ; retd. with rank Lieut.-Col., 1 May 1878 ; served in New Zealand War 1860-1, despatches ; m.11 Feb 1873 Jane Clare, eldest dau. of Col.John Richard Blagden Hale, Bradley House, Gloucs., 3rd Light Dragoons ; d. 20 Jun 1885.
COOK, GEORGE ; b. ; adm. (aged 15) Jul 1729 ; left 1731.
COOK, JAMES ; b. ; adm. (aged 8) Jun 1719 ; in under school list 1719.
COOK, JOHN ; b. ; adm. (aged 9) Feb 1733/4 ; left 1737.
COOK, ROBERT ALLEN, son of Robert Cook, Harley House, Bath, Somerset, solicitor, Mayor of Bath ; b. 13 Jun 1831 ; adm. 20 Jan 1845 ; QS 1846 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1850, adm.pens. 11 May 1850, scholar 1851, matr.Mich.1850 ; BA 1854 ; MA 1857 ; adm.solicitor Trin.1857 ; practised at Bath to 1864, at Cambridge 1864-7 ; d. 4 Feb 1867.
COOKE, — ; b. ; adm. ; a pensioner 1568-9 (tutor, the Dean) (Chapter Muniments 54018). [“pensioner from Xmas Quar 1568 ; called “Mr Cooke”]
COOKE, — ; b. ; adm. ; a pensioner, Lady Day quarter 1568/9 (tutor, the Head Master) (Chapter Muniments 54018).
COOKE, — ; b. ; at school c.1660.
COOKE, —- ; in school list 1740.
COOKE, ANTHONY, eldest son of Sir Anthony Cooke KB MP, Gidea Hall, Essex, tutor to King Edward VI, and Anne, dau. of Sir William Fitzwilliam, Kt, Milton, Northants., and Bread Street, London, Alderman, City of London, merchant taylor ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1 Feb 1547/8 (Acts of Chapter) ; his sister Mildred m. William Cecil, Lord Burghley ; d. before 1576. [dead by 1555 ?]
COOKE, BENJAMIN, son of Benjamin Cooke MusDoc, Organist of the Abbey, and Mary, sister of Charles Jackson, Tooting, Surrey, Comptroller, Foreign Department, General Post Office ; b. 13 Aug 1761 ; adm. 14 Sep 1769 ; left Whitsun 1771 ; a boy of much musical promise ; some of his compositions are preserved in the Royal College of Music ; d. 25 Jan 1772. Buried in West Cloister, Westminster Abbey.
COOKE, SIR BRYAN, BART., brother of Sir George Cooke, Bart. (qv) ; b. 11 Aug 1717 ; adm. Jun 1730 ; left 1730 ; succ. his brother as 6th baronet, 16 Aug 1756 ; of Wheatley, Yorks. ; m. 11 May 1741 Mary, dau. of Lieut.-Col.Samuel Foley, 3rd Light Dragoons, Wadworth, Yorks. ; d. 4 Mar 1766.
COOKE, SIR GEORGE, BART., eldest son of Sir Bryan Cooke, Bart., MP, Wheatley, Yorks., and Priscilla, dau. of Robert Squire MP ; b. 14 Mar 1714 ; adm. Jan 1721/2 ; left 1723 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 12 Jun 1733 ; succ. as 5th baronet 25 Oct 1734 ; of Wheatley, Yorks. ; High Sheriff, Yorkshire, 1739 ; m. 1736 Catherine, dau. of John Sunderland, Doncaster, Yorks. ; d. 16 Aug 1756.
COOKE, HUGH, third son of William Cooke, Lincoln’s Inn, barrister ; b. ; at school under Busby and Knipe (see Monthly Mirror, Nov 1807, 299, where it is stated, incorrectly, that he was “class-fellow … with the youngest son of our great poet Dryden”, and that he remembered Dryden’s funeral in Westminster Abbey) ; a merchant ; settled in Cork, Ireland ; his second son, William Cooke (d.1824), was a barrister and writer (see ODNB) ; m. — , dau. of “a considerable manufacturer and exporter of woollen yarns”, Cork, Ireland ; dead by Jun 1770.
COOKE, JOHN ; b. ; adm. (aged 15) Jun 1748 ; left 1751.
COOKE, JOHN BARFOOT ; b. ; adm. 29 Jan 1806 ; left 1807.
COOKE (or COCKE), THOMAS ; b. ; adm. ; QS in 1564 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1566, Westminster Student 10 Jan 1566/7 – 1577 ; BA 26 Jan 1569/70 ; MA 1573 ; ordained deacon and priest 23 Jun 1576 (Lincoln). [perhaps Vicar of Great Budworth, Cheshire, 1601 ; but see COOPER, Thomas, Min.Can.1580 (qv)]
COOKES, DEAN, son of Edward Cookes, Westminster, and Catherine — (IGI) ; bapt.St.Paul, Covent Garden 13 Feb 1724/5 ; adm. (aged 12) Jun 1738 ; KS 1740.
COOKES, THOMAS, youngest son of Henry Cookes, Leytonstone, Essex, and Jane, dau. of Robert Magraith, Loughloher Castle, co.Tipperary ; b. 2 Apr 1735 ; adm.Jun 1749 ; in school list 1752 (as Cooke); Worcester Coll.Oxford, matr. 15 Jun 1754 ; ordained deacon 22 Sep 1776 (Canterbury) to curacy Swalecliffe, Kent, priest 20 Dec 1777 (London, lit.dim.from Canterbury) ; Rector of Notgrove, Gloucs., from 22 Mar 1787 ; m. 14 Feb 1765 Anne, only dau. of John Denham, Welling, Kent ; d. 1 Dec 1809.
COOKSON, JOHN, son of William Cookson, Leeds, Yorks., Alderman and Mayor of Leeds, and Susanna, dau. of Michael Idle, Leeds, Mayor of Leeds ; b. 24 May 1706 ; adm. (aged 12) Sep 1718 ; in under school list 1720 ; University Coll.Oxford, matr. 28 Jan 1722/3 ; adm.Middle Temple 24 Jan 1721/2, called to bar 16 May 1729, Bencher 11 Nov 1757, Reader 1767 ; a Commissioner of the Hackney Coach Office from 25 May 1732 ; a Commissioner of Bankrupts (occurs in annual lists 1758 to death) ; d. 1 Feb 1783.
COOMBE, THOMAS, younger son of Rev.Thomas Coombe DD, Rector of St.Michael’s, Queenhithe, London, and Prebendary of Canterbury, and his second wife Elizabeth, dau. of Francis Chassereau, Marylebone [probably fan maker] ; b. 11 Nov 1796 ; adm. 9 Apr 1806 ; left 1810 ; Wadham Coll.Oxford, matr. 9 Feb 1815 ; migr. to Peterhouse, Cambridge, adm.fellow commoner 17 Nov 1818, matr.Lent 1819 ; BA 1821 ; MA 1824 ; ordained deacon 15 Apr 1821 (Ely, lit.dim. from London), priest 3 Mar 1822 (Bangor, lit.dim. from Canterbury) ; Curate, Frittenden, Kent ; Curate, Waterbeach, Cambs., 1834 ; Rector of Girton, Cambs., 1846-8 ; m. 8 Dec 1818 Anna Maria, dau. of Melchior Henry Wagner, Pall Mall, London, hatter to George III ; d. 7 Jan 1876.
COOPE, — ; b. ; in school list 1771 ; left Aug 1771.
COOPE, WILLIAM, see COAPE, WILLIAM.
COOPER, see also COWPER.
COOPER, — ; b. ; in school list 1736.
COOPER, ALFRED, brother of Charles Cooper (at sch. under Vincent, qv) ; b. 20 Oct 1784 (IGI); in school list 1801 ; Ensign, 14thFoot 1 Nov 1814 ; served at battle of Waterloo, where he was slightly wounded ; went out to India with his regiment ; murdered by a drunken sepoy at Dinapur, Bengal, India, before 25 Jun 1822, unm.
COOPER, ALLEN, son of Allen Cooper, Upper Gower Street, London, Capt., EI Maritime Service, and Susannah Maria, teacher of French to daughters of King George III, dau. of Frédéric Moula, Neuchatel, Switzerland, mathematician and interpreter for King of Prussia ; b. ; adm. ; left Feb 1805 ; Oriel Coll.Oxford, matr. 6 Jun 1809, aged 15 ; BA 1813 ; MA 1815 ; ordained deacon 5 Jan 1817 (London, lit.dim. from Canterbury), priest 1817 (lit.dim. from Canterbury) ; Curate, Sutton Valence, Kent, 1817-9, East Farleigh, Kent, 1818 ; Domestic Chaplain to Marquess of Exeter 29 Apr 1817 ; Perpetual Curate of St.Mark’s, North Audley Street, London, from 1828 ; m.1st, 26 Apr 1820 Harriet Anne, dau. of Ven.John Turner, Archdeacon of Taunton ; m.2nd, 30 Mar 1842 Harriet Grace, youngest dau. of Sir John Gregory Shaw, Bart. ; d. 5 Jan 1851.
COOPER, ALLEN TREVELYAN, son of Allen Cooper (qv) and his first wife ; b. 11 Jun 1825 ; adm. 17 Jan 1838 ; QS 1839 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1843, adm.pens. 29 May 1843, scholar 1844, matr.Mich.1843 ; BA 1847 ; MA 1852 ; ordained deacon 1848, priest 1849 (both London) ; Chaplain to Embassy at Lisbon ; Curate, Buckland, Devon, subsequently Swanscombe, Kent ; m. 16 Mar 1865 Lucy Evans (IGI) ; d. 24 Jul 1866.
COOPER, ARCHIBALD HENRY SPENCER, son of Henry Spencer Cooper, Springfield Hall, Halkin, Flintshire, barrister, and Charlotte, dau. of Archibald Thomson, Springfield, Flintshire, merchant ; b. 24 Jul 1850 ; adm. BB (G) 26 May 1864 ; left Dec 1866 ; of Springfield Hall, Halkin, Flintshire ; m. 30 Mar 1875 Clara Dorothea, second dau. of Cdr.Sydenham Pennystone Cooper Wylde, Royal Navy ; d. 6 Feb 1901.
COOPER, BEAUCHAMP SCARLETT, son of Bransby Blake Cooper FRCS FRS, New Street, Spring Gardens, Westminster, surgeon, and Mary Anne, only dau. of John Keeling, Broxbourne, Herts. ; b. 3 Oct 1822 ; adm. 1 Jun 1836 ; left Nov 1836 ; RMA Woolwich ; Cadet, EICS Bengal 1839 ; Ensign, unattached, 3 Jan 1840 ; 44th Bengal Native Infantry, 29 Aug 1840 ; Lieut., 19 May 1843 ; d. at Almora, India 9 Jan 1844.
COOPER, CHARLES, son of John Cooper, Westminster ; b. ; adm. (aged 7) Jun 1734 ; KS 1740 ; Capt. of the School 1744 ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1745, adm. pens. 17 Jun 1745, scholar 25 Apr 1746 ; 7th in Maths Tripos 1748/9 ; BA 1748/9 ; MA 1752 ; DD 1769 ; Minor Fellow, Trin.Coll., 2 Oct 1751, Major Fellow 8 Jul 1752 (still 1758) ; ordained deacon 28 Dec 1756, priest 19 May 1757 (both Ely) ; Junior Usher at the School Jun 1748 (sic), Senior Usher May 1756 – Jun 1762, when left the School on preferment ; Domestic Chaplain to Lord Delamer Oct 1758 ; Rector of Trowbridge, Wilts., 13 Oct 1763 – Aug 1774 ; Prebendary of York 11 Aug 1768 – Sep 1779 ; Prebendary of Salisbury, 17 Mar 1773- res 1779 ; Rector of Kirkby Overblow, Yorks., from 4 May 1774 ; Prebendary of Durham from 29 Aug 1779 ; Archdeacon of York 2 Aug 1786- res 28 Jun 1794 ; m. Mar 1777 Dorothy, widow of Morton Davison, Beamish, Northumberland, and dau. of Thomas Younghusband, Budle, Northumberland ; d. 10 Oct 1804. [Perhaps Charles Cooper, son of John Cooper, and Elizabeth —, bapt.St.Paul, Covent Garden 7 Oct 1725]
COOPER, CHARLES, natural son of Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland PC, Paymaster-General ; b. ; at school under Nicoll (not in admission register or school lists, but see Hickey, Memoirs, iii, 245-6, and certainly an OW since a donor of the Warren Hastings Cup) ; Lieut., 49th Foot, 24 Oct 1747 ; 14th Foot, 5 Jun 1758 ; Lieut. and Capt., 2nd Foot Guards, 3 Mar 1761 ; Capt. and Lieut.-Col., 4 Mar 1773 ; sold out 25 May 1775, because of gaming debts ; Comptroller of Chelsea Hospital 17 Mar 1761 – Oct 1788 ; went out to India as Cadet, EICS Madras, but recommended by Lord Macartney to Warren Hastings, and went to Bengal, where he acted as ADC to Warren Hastings (qv) and to Hastings’s successor, Sir John Macpherson (Hickey,iii, 244, 284-5) ; present at OW dinner at Calcutta c.Jul – Oct 1784 (Hickey,iii, 246) ; one of donors of Warren Hastings Cup ; returned to England in 1787, but was compelled to leave England again and to take refuge from his creditors at Boulogne, France ; m. [by 1773] Mary, widow of John Cooper, Trowbridge, Wilts., and illegitimate dau. of Sir Edward Bayntun (afterwards Bayntun Rolt) Bart. MP, Spye Park, Wilts, ; d. at Boulogne some years after 1787.
COOPER, CHARLES, eldest son of Charles Cooper, Oby, Norfolk, barrister, and his first wife Ann, dau. of William Yarington, Norwich, dyer ; b. 13 Nov 1779 (IGI); at school under Vincent (W.Rye, Norfolk Families, i, 120) ; adm.freeman of Norwich 1807 ; Secretary to Sir James Cockburn, Bart., Governor of Bermuda (occurs as such 1818) ; Third Class Clerk, Marine Pay Department, Admiralty, from 23 Jan 1824 ; d. unm. 18 Oct 1827.
COOPER, FREDERICK HENRY, son of Allen Cooper (qv) ; b. 20 Dec 1826 ; adm. 17 Jan 1838 ; QS 1841 ; left Dec 1844 ; at Haileybury Coll. 1845-6 ; Writer, EICS Bengal 1847 ; Deputy Commissioner, Amritsar, during Indian Mutiny ; CB 18 May 1860 ; Superintendent and Commissioner, Delhi, 6 Mar 1865 ; m. 4 Oct 1852 Mary, dau. of Brig. James Steel CB, EICS Bengal ; d. 22 Apr 1869.
COOPER (formerly COWPER), GEORGE, brother of Henry Cholwell Cooper (qv) ; b. 22 Dec 1813 ; adm. 15 Jan 1821 ; emigrated with his brother to Canada in 1832 ; farmed in Ontario ; d. in Huron County, Ontario, Canada, 26 Feb 1835.
COOPER (formerly COWPER), HENRY CHOLWELL, natural son of Sir Horace David Cholwell St.Paul, Bart., and Henrietta Campbell, dau. of Rev.George Cupples, Swinton, Berwickshire, minister ; b. 20 Aug 1806 ; adm. 30 Mar 1814 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 30 Dec 1823 ; migr. to Pembroke Coll. 13 Oct 1824, matr. Mich.1824 ; BA 1828 ; ordained deacon 6 Jun 1830 (Oxford, lit.dim. from Bristol), priest 23 Oct 1841 (Toronto) ; Curate, Stratton Audley, Oxfordshire, 1830 ; emigrated with his brother George to Huron County, Ontario, Canada, 1832 ; farmed and did clerical duty at St.Paul’s, Clinton, Ontario, 1832-40 ; SPG missionary, Devonshire Settlement, Ontario, 1840-9 ; Rector of St.Philip’s, Weston, Ontario, 1849-53 ; Rector of St.George’s, Islington, Ontario, from 1849, also of Christ Church, Nimico, Ontario, from 1849 ; m. 26 Oct 1831 Susan Bowden ; d. at Islington, Ontario, Canada 10 Sep 1877.
COOPER, JOHN ; b. ; adm. ; BB ; KS (Capt) 1672 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1674, adm.pens. 24 Jun 1674, scholar 1675, matr.1677 ; BA 1677/8 ; MA 1681 ; BD 1703 ; Fellow, Trinity Coll., from 1680, Junior Dean 1703-6, Tutor 1706, Senior Fellow from 1711 ; Proctor 1701 ; signed petition to Bishop of Ely against Bentley ; ordained deacon 18 Dec 1687, priest 11 Mar 1687/8 (both Lincoln) ; Vicar of Barrington, Cambs., from 22 Jun 1698 ; d. 9 Dec 1714.
COOPER, JOHN GILBERT, eldest son of John Gilbert, Locko, Derbs., and Thurgarton Priory, Notts., and Dorothy, dau. of William Bainbrigge, Lockington, Leics. ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Sep 1734 ; left 1740 ; assumed with his father additional surname of Cooper in 1736 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.fellow commoner 18 Sep 1740, matr.1740 ; Groningen Univ. 1743 ; befriended Bridge Frodsham (qv) ; wrote several books, including Life of Socrates, 1749, and Letters on Taste, 1754 ; one of the principal contributors to Dodsley’s Museum, started in 1746, under the pseudonym “Philaretes” ; m. 22 Oct 1748 Susan, dau. of William Wrighte, Recorder of Leicester [perhaps OW, qv] ; d. 12 Apr 1769. ODNB.
COOPER, JOSEPH ; b. ; adm. (aged 7) Jul 1736 ; left 1737.
COOPER, LOVICK EMILIUS, only son of Rev.Thomas Lovick Cooper, Rector of Mablethorpe, Lincs., and his first wife Emily Mary Swinfen, only dau. of Sir Thomas Durrant, Bart., Scottowe, Norfolk ; b. 28 Nov 1837 ; adm.(G) 23 Jan 1851 ; Ensign, Rifle Brigade, 21 Oct 1855 ; served in Indian Mutiny ; d. 19 Mar 1858, from wounds received in action at Lucknow on 11 Mar 1858. Memorial window in Abbey, at west end of North Transept.
COOPER, ONESIMUS ; b. ; adm. ; KS ; an undated entry in the Treasurer’s Accounts, probably belonging to Feb 1627/8, states “given to Onesus Cooper, a minister, a Westminster Scholler XLs” (Chapter Muniments 34163).
COOPER, ROGER, son of John Cooper, Thurgarton Priory, Notts., and Jane, dau. of Henry Gilbert, Locko, Derbs. ; b. ; adm. ; BB 1676 ; KS 1679 ; Brasenose Coll.Oxford, adm.Somerset scholar 26 May 1680, matr. 27 May 1680, aged 17 ; BA 1 Feb 1683/4 ; MA 1686 ; a Gentleman Usher Daily Waiter to Princess Anne, and from 9 Jul 1702 a Gentleman Usher of the Privy Chamber to her as Queen ; lic. to m. 18 Feb 1687/8 Agneta, Dresser and Mother of the Maids to Princess Anne and later Woman of Bedchamber to her as Queen, dau. of Francis Jones, Newton Toney, Wilts. ; d. 19 Apr 1703. Buried in East Cloister, Westminster Abbey.
COOPER, THOMAS, third son of Cassian Cooper, London, Clerk to Skinners’ Company, and Anne, eldest dau. of John Godde, St.Swithin’s, London, citizen and merchant taylor ; bapt. 25 Sep 1569 ; adm. ; Min.Can. (aged 12) 1580 ; at school (aged 14) 2 Jul 1582 (WAM 43050) (as Thomas Cowper, Sussex) ; QS ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1586, matr. 17 Dec 1586, aged 16 ; BA 1590 ; MA 1593 ; BD 1600 ; ordained ; Vicar of St.Mary Magdalen, Oxford 28 Jul 1595 – Dec 1601 ; one of the preachers for the County Palatine of Lancaster ; Vicar of Great Budworth, Cheshire, 1 Aug 1601 – Aug 1604 (as Thomas Cowper) ; Vicar of Holy Trinity, Coventry, Warwicks., 1 Sep 1604-10 ; living in Whitecross Street, London in 1620 ; subsequently appointed a preacher to the Fleet Prison ; living 1626 ; author, The Romish Spider, with his Web of Treason, 1606, and other works. ODNB.
COOPER, THOMAS, son of Richard Cooper, London ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1674 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1679, matr. 12 Dec 1679, aged 19, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1679 – expulsion 1682.
COOPER, THOMAS ; b. ; adm. (aged 14) Sep 1724 ; in under school list 1726.
[COOPER, THOMAS ; b. ; in school list Dec 1736. Forename probably an error]
[COOPER, THOMAS ; b. ; in school lists Dec 1736-9. Forename presumably only given in list of Dec 1736 (on which two individuals named Thomas Cooper appear), probably an error]
COOTE, — ; b. ; at school c.1660 (Busby’s Account Book).
COOTE, CHARLES CHIDLEY, eldest son of Chidley Coote, Mount Coote, Kilmallock, co. Limerick, and Anne, dau. of Hon.William Williams Hewitt, Cork, Ireland, banker ; b. 1 Jun 1798 ; adm. 19 Sep 1809 ; left 1811 ; inherited Mount Coote estate from father 1843 ; d. 22 Feb 1869.
COOTE, CHARLES HENRY, 7TH EARL OF MOUNTRATH (I), only son of Algernon Coote, 6th Earl of Mountrath PC (I) MP, and Lady Diana Newport, sister of Henry Newport, 3rd Earl of Bradford (qv) ; b. ; adm. (aged 11) Sep 1735 ; left 1738 (appears as “Lord Coote” in school list Dec 1736) ; styled Viscount Castle Coote to 1744 ; Grand Tour (Italy) 1742-5 ; succ.father as 7th Earl of Mountrath (I) 27 Aug 1744 ; took seat in Irish House of Lords 19 Dec 1753 ; Privy Councillor (I) Jul 1761 ; created Baron Castle Coote (I), with a special remainder, 31 Jul 1800 ; d.unm. 1 Mar 1802.
COOTE, CHARLES THOMAS, brother of Richard Coote (qv) ; b. 20 Sep 1823 ; adm. 20 Jan 1834 ; King’s Coll.Sch., adm.1838 ; Queen’s Coll.Oxford, matr. 21 May 1840 ; BA 1844 ; MA 1847 ; MB 1850 ; MD 1853 ; Fellow of Pembroke Coll. 1846-51 ; Radcliffe Travelling Fellow, 15 Jul 1849-59 ; Natural Science Examiner 1857-8 ; Assistant Physician, Middlesex Hospital ; m. 1 Oct 1830 Frances Sophia, younger dau. of William Lewis, Woburn Place, London, solicitor ; d. at Hyères, France 13 Nov 1860.
COOTE, HENRY JOSEPH, brother of Richard Coote (qv) ; b. 9 Jan 1819 ; adm. 1 Oct 1827 ; Ensign, 22nd Foot, 23 Sep 1836 ; Lieut., 17 Sep 1839 ; Capt., 7 Dec 1844 ; 28th Foot, 5 Jan 1848 ; 36th Foot, 2 Mar 1849 ; 18th Foot, half-pay, 1 Jul 1853 ; Brevet Maj., 16 May 1857 ; retd 29 Mar 1861 ; served throughout operations in Scinde and severely wounded at capture of Hyderabad, 1843 ; emigrated to New Zealand ; member, New Zealand Legislative Council from 8 Jul 1865 ; an amateur artist ; m. 22 Oct 1844 Rhoda Carleton, only dau. of William Holmes, Brookfield, Sussex ; d. in Wellington, New Zealand 25 Mar 1867.
COOTE, HOLMES, brother of Richard Coote (qv) ; b. 10 Nov 1815 ; adm. 18 Jan 1826 ; apprenticed to Sir William Lawrence, Surgeon to St.Bartholomew’s Hospital ; MRCS 1838, FRCS 1844 ; Assistant Surgeon, St.Bartholomew’s Hospital, 1854-63, Surgeon from 1863 ; Surgeon to British Hospital at Smyrna, 1855, and in the Dardanelles 1856, while on leave of absence during Crimean War ; author of a treatise on Joint Diseases, 1867, and of other publications on surgical subjects ; m. 1st, 1 Aug 1848 Jessie Blanche, dau. of John Herbert Koe, County Court Judge ; m. 2nd, 14 Sep 1852 Georgina Gordon, eldest dau. of Gordon Lorimer MRCS, Lidsey Lodge, Sussex, formerly Surgeon, EICS St Helena ; d. 22 Dec 1872. ODNB.
COOTE, RICHARD, eldest son of Richard Holmes Coote, Lincoln’s Inn, barrister, one of the Six Conveyancing Counsel to Court of Chancery, and Elizabeth Callander (IGI); b. 7 Jul 1814 ; adm. 14 Nov 1825 (Home Boarder) ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 3 Dec 1831 ; migr. to Trinity Hall, Camb., matr. Lent 1836 ; head of 1st cl., Civil Law, 1839-40 ; Fellow of Trinity Hall from 24 Dec 1841 ; LLB 1842 ; LLD 1853 ; adm. Lincoln’s Inn, 3 Nov 1832, called to bar 17 Nov 1841 ; assisted his father in the third edition of his Treatise on Mortgages, 1850 ; d. 5 Apr 1871.
COOTE, THOMAS ; b. ; adm. ; QS ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1601, adm.pens. 1601 ?, scholar 16 Apr 1602 ; BA 1605/6 ; MA 1609 (incorp. Oxford 9 Jul 1611) ; BD 1617 ; Fellow of Trinity Coll. from 1608 ; a conspicuous figure in the great riot at the gate of Trinity Coll. Feb 1610/1 (Cambridge Antiq.Soc. Publications, octavo series, no.xliii, 1906) ; ordained deacon and priest 10 May 1612 (both Peterborough); Vicar of Bottisham, Cambs., 15 Mar 1617/8 ; d. 1619.
COOTE, THOMAS, LORD COLOONY, second son of Richard Coote, 3rd Earl of Bellamont (I), and his first wife Judith, dau. of Francis Wilkinson, Southwark, Surrey ; b. 15 Apr 1710 ; adm. Nov 1719 ; left 1728 ; styled Lord Coloony after the death of his elder brother in 1740 ; m. 6 Feb 1733/4 Elizabeth, eldest dau. of Thomas Bond, Dublin, merchant ; d. 24 Mar 1765.
COPE, see also COAPE.
COPE, — ; b. ; in school list May 1803 ; left 1803.
COPE, A. ; b. ; in school list May 1803 ; left 1803.
COPE, SIR ANTHONY, BART., brother of Edmund William Cope (qv) ; b. 9 Mar 1842 ; adm. Jun 1854 ; QS Jun 1856 ; left Apr 1859 ; Ensign, Rifle Brigade, 16 Oct 1860 ; Lieut., 2 May 1865 ; Capt., 13 Nov 1872 ; Maj., 1 Jul 1881 ; Adjutant to Auxiliary Forces 13 May 1875 – 14 Nov 1881 ; Lieut.-Col., half-pay, 9 Mar 1890 ; retd., 21 May 1890 ; served in Canada during Fenian raids 1866-70, and in Ashanti War 1874 ; succ. father as 13th baronet 7 Jan 1892 ; of Bramshill Park, Hants. ; JP (1899) Hampshire ; Roman Catholic convert ; m. 13 Oct 1870 Mary Leckonby, widow of Rev.Henry Goold Tudway, Vicar of Walton, Somerset, and dau. of John Lewis Phipps, Leighton, Wilts. ; d. 3 Nov 1932.
COPE, ARTHUR MAINLEY, brother of Edgar Broome Cope (qv) ; b. 27 Apr 1854 ; adm. (G) 21 Jun 1867 ; Min.Can.1869 ; left Dec 1870 ; assumed surname of Cope in lieu of Pinniger, 10 Aug 1867 ; articled to father ; adm. solicitor Feb 1877 ; practised in London, firm Cope & Co, parliamentary agents ; [unm. in 1881] ; d. 28 Jan 1927. [check if became barrister]
COPE, EDGAR BROOME, eldest son of John Alexander Mainley Cope (formerly Pinniger), Drumilly, co.Armagh, and Pembridge Square, London, solicitor, and Georgina Catherine, third dau. of Nathaniel Garland, Michaelstowe Hall, Essex ; b. 26 Mar 1849 ; adm.(G) 11 Oct 1862 ; QS 1 Nov 1864 ; left Whitsun 1868 ; Trinity Coll.Oxford, matr. 17 Oct 1868 ; assumed surname of Cope in lieu of Pinniger, 10 Aug 1867 ; adm.Inner Temple 7 Jun 1870, called to bar 26 Jan 1875 ; practised at Lahore, Punjab ; d. at Lahore 6 Jul 1891.
COPE, EDMUND WILLIAM, elder son of Rev.Sir William Henry Cope, Bart., Minor Canon and Librarian of Westminster Abbey, and his first wife Mary Anne, dau. of Henry Garnett, Green Park, co.Meath ; b. 27 Mar 1838 ; adm. 3 Apr 1850 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 4 Jun 1857 ; BA 1861 ; entered Diplomatic Service 1863 ; Third Secretary, 19 Nov 1867 ; Second Secretary, British Legation, Munich 16 Dec 1872 ; Secretary, British Legation, Stockholm, from 1 Nov 1883 ; m. 16 Sep 1863 Edith Cockburn, only child of James Kerr Ewart, EICS Bengal ; d. at Stockholm 28 Oct 1886.
COPE, FREDERICK ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Jun 1723.
COPE, SIR JOHN, only son of Lieut.-Col.Henry Cope, Icomb, Gloucs., 2nd Foot Guards, and Dorothy Waller, “widow of an exciseman” ; b. 1690 ; at school under Knipe (EHR lxxviii, 656) ; page to Lord Raby, Ambassador at Berlin 1706 ; Cornet, 1st Dragoons 24 Jul 1707 ; served in War of Spanish Succession ; ADC to Gen. James Stanhope 1708-9 ; Capt., 33rd Foot 19 Jul 1709 ; Peterborough’s Dragoons 1709 ; Capt. and Lieut.-Col., 3rd Foot Guards 1710 ; Lieut.-Col., Macartney’s Foot 1712 ; Wynne’s Foot 1712 ; Brevet Col.. 1713, with seniority as from 15 Nov 1711 ; half-pay 1713 ; Lieut.-Col., 2nd Foot Guards 22 Jul 1715 ; 1st Horse Grenadier Guards 27 Apr 1720 ; Col., 39th Foot 10 Nov 1730 – Dec 1732, 5th Foot 15 Dec 1732 – Jun 1737 ; Brig.-Gen., 1735 ; Col., 9th Dragoons 27 Jun 1737 – Aug 1741; Maj.-Gen., 2 Jul 1739 ; Col., 7th Dragoons, from 12 Aug 1741 ; Lieut.-Gen. 7 Feb 1742/3 ; Commander in Chief, Scotland 1745 ; in command at battle of Prestonpans, when defeated by Jacobite rebels ; acquitted at subsequent court martial, but not again employed ; MP Queenborough 1722-7, Liskeard 1727-34, Orford 1 Feb 1738-41 ; KB 12 Jul 1743 ; m.1st, 16 Dec 1712 (IGI) Jane, sister of Anthony Duncombe, 1st Baron Feversham (qv) ; m.2nd, Elizabeth — ; d. 28 Jul 1760. ODNB.
COPE, JOHN GARLAND, brother of Edgar Broome Cope (qv) ; b. 25 Jul 1850 ; adm.(G) 5 Jul 1864 ; Min.Can.1865 ; left Whitsun 1867 ; assumed surname of Cope in lieu of Pinniger, 10 Aug 1867 ; adm. solicitor, Trinity term, 1873 ; practised in London, firm Cope & Co. ; of Drumilly, co.Armagh ; DL JP co.Armagh ; m.1st, 23 Apr 1878 Theresa Charlotte, dau. of Ralph Smith Obré, Chantilly Lodge, co.Armagh ; m.2nd, 27 Jan 1900 Mary Edith, second dau. of Col.Sir Lonsdale Augustus Hale Kt, Royal Engineers, Camberley, Surrey ; d. 8 Nov 1920.
COPELAND, — ; b. ; adm. 5 May 1765.
COPINGER, PATRICK, only son of Patrick Copinger (or Coppinger), Upper Shadwell, Middlesex, and his second wife Elizabeth Orrill ; b. 24 May 1732 ; adm. (aged 12) Jul 1744 ; left 1744.
COPLEY, JOHN, brother of Robert Copley (qv) ; bapt. 6 Nov 1713 ; adm. (aged 12) Oct 1726 ; in under school list 1728 ; left 1728 ; d. 16 Apr 1731.
COPLEY, ROBERT, son of Robert Copley, Nether Hall, Doncaster, Yorks., and Elizabeth, dau. of Robert Shaw, Ardsley, Yorks. ; bapt. 10 Oct 1709 ; adm. (aged 15) Apr 1725 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 3 Jun 1728 ; of Nether Hall, Yorks. ; a patron of music and musicians ; d.unm. 12 Oct 1771.
COPPENDALE, JOHN ; b. ; adm. (aged 11) Sep 1731 ; left 1732. [Perhaps only surviving son of William Coppendale, Northgate, Wakefield, Yorks., and Hannah (Waller ?) ; bapt. 5 Sep 1721] [perhaps merchant, Lisbon, firm Coppendale, May & Mouchet ; m. at Lisbon 7 Oct 1741 Rose Sherman ; d. 1764 (will proved PCC 18 Jul 1764)]
CORBET, – – – ; b. ; in school lists 1764, 1765,1767,1769 ; left Dec 1769. [Possibly John Corbet, son of John Corbet, Sundorne, Shropshire, and his second wife Barbara Letitia, dau. of John Mytton, Halston, Shropshire ; b. 3 Aug 1751 ; Pembroke Coll.Oxford, matr. 7 Jan 1770, aged 18, Grand Tour (Italy) 1772-3, MP Shrewsbury 1775-80, of Sundorne Castle, Shropshire ; High Sheriff, Shropshire 1793 ; a well-known master of fox hounds, hunting the Warwickshire country 1791-1811 ; m.1st, 15 Sep 1774 Emma Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Charlton Leighton, Bart. ; m.2nd, 19 Feb 1800 Anne, dau. of Rev.William Pigott, Rector of Edgmond, Shropshire ; d. 19 May 1817]
CORBET, DUGNAN ; b. ; adm. (aged 14) Oct 1720.
CORBET, EDWARD, eldest son of Pryce Maurice, Lloran, Denbighshire, and Ann, dau. of Athelstan Owen, Ynysmaengwyn, Merioneth ; bapt.St.Mary, Shrewsbury, Shropshire 26 May 1742 (IGI); at school under Markham (Admissions to Trin.Coll.Camb., iii, 190) ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 31 May 1759, aged 17, matr.1759, readm. as fellow commoner 3 Mar 1761 ; assumed surname of Corbet in lieu of Maurice 15 Feb 1783, on succeeding to Ynysmaengwyn estate ; High Sheriff, Merioneth 1792 ; formed Legion of Towyn Volunteers 1795, Capt. commandant 3 Jun 1795 – 1 Oct 1801, when corps disbanded ; m. 1st, 8 Jul 1765 (IGI) Hannah, dau. of John Chambre, Petton, Shropshire ; m. 2nd, 1813 Jane, dau. of Robert Thomas (she and her father were in “a very humble situation in life”) ; d. 2 Dec 1820.
CORBET, HENRY ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Jun 1718 ; in under school list 1722.
CORBET, J. ; b. ; at school under Vincent (name up school, 1801).
CORBET, JOHN DRYDEN, eldest son of Rev.John Dryden Pigott, Rector of Edgmond, Shropshire, and Frances, second dau. of Maj.Henry Bevan, EICS Bengal, Shrewsbury, Shropshire ; b. 18 Apr 1808 ; adm. 4 May 1821 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 13 May 1826 ; BA 1830 ; ordained deacon 3 Jul 1831, priest 7 Jul 1833 (both Lichfield) ; Curate, Tibberton, Shropshire, 1831-42 ; Rector of Edgmond, Shropshire, 1845-65 ; assumed surname of Corbet in lieu of Pigott, 28 Mar 1865, on inheriting Sundorne Castle estate, Shropshire, under will of his cousin Andrew William Corbet ; author, Collected Poems, 1877-8 ; d.unm. 25 Oct 1889.
CORBET, RICHARD, son of Vincent Corbet, Ewell, Surrey, nurseryman, and Benet — ; b. ; adm. ; QS ; failed to obtain election to either university 1598 ; Broadgates Hall, Oxford, matr. 7 Apr 1598, aged 15 ; migrated to Christ Church, Oxford, Canoneer Student 1599-1620 ; BA 1602 ; MA 1605 ; BD and DD 1617 ; Proctor 1612 ; ordained deacon and priest 26 Mar 1614/5 (both Oxford); Rector of Puttenham, Herts., 1620 ; Prebendary of Salisbury 11 Jan 1620 – res by Jun 1631 ; Vicar of Stewkley, Bucks., from 1620 (disp. to hold with Puttenham 11 May 1621) ; Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, 24 Jun 1620 – Oct 1628 ; Chaplain to James I by 1621 ; Vicar of Cassington, Oxfordshire 1622 – May 1632 ; also Rector of Brightwell Baldwin, Oxfordshire, 9 Oct 1628 – Jul 1632 ; consecrated Bishop of Oxford 19 Oct 1628 ; translated to Norwich 7 May 1632 ; a strong churchman who admonished his clergy for puritan practices ; an intimate friend of Ben Jonson (qv) ; famous for his conviviality, witty sayings, and practical jokes ; his Poems were first published in a collected edition in 1647 ; m. Alice, dau. of Leonard Hutten (qv) ; d. 28 Jul 1635. ODNB.
CORBET, SIR RICHARD, BART., only son of Edward Corbet, Leighton, Shropshire, and Hon.Anne Newport, dau. of Richard Newport, 1st Baron Newport ; bapt. 2 Sep 1640 ; adm. 9 May 1656 (school list, 1656) ; a boarder in the Head Master’s house ; succ.grandfather as 2nd baronet Apr 1653 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 31 Jul 1658 ; FRS 3 May 1665 ; MP Shrewsbury 17 Mar 1677 – Mar 1681 ; lic. to m. 5 Jan 1661/2 Victoria, eldest dau. of Sir William Uvedale, Kt MP, Wickham, Hampshire, Treasurer of the Chamber ; d. 1 Aug 1683.
CORBET, RICHARD ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Sep 1748 ; in school list 1752.
CORBET, THOMAS ; b. ; adm. (aged 11) Nov 1716 ; in under school list 1720.
CORBET, VINCENT, only son of Richard Corbet (d.1635, qv) ; b. 16 Nov 1627 ; at school under Busby ; some charming lines addressed to him when only three years old are printed among his father’s poems ; Aubrey says that he “went to Westminster with Ned Bagshawe (qv), a very handsome youth, but he is run out of all, and goes begging up and downe to gentlemen” (Brief Lives, ed.Bennett, 2015, I, 355) ; living 10 Nov 1648, when he proved the will of his grandmother Ann Hutten.
CORBET, VINCENT, illegitimate son of Edward Corbet (qv) ; b. Towyn, Merioneth (1851 Census)(bapt. Llanaber, Merioneth 22 Nov 1789) ; in school list 1801 ; left 1806 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.fellow commoner 6 Feb 1807, matr.Lent 1807 ; BA 1812 ; MA 1815 ; m. Catherine — [check] ; d. at Chepstow, Mon., 15 Apr 1858, aged 68.
CORBETT, ANDREW (ROBERT), brother of Thomas George Corbett (qv) ; b. 16 Mar 1805 ; adm. 5 Jun 1817 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 6 Mar 1824, matr.Mich.1824 ; BA 1828 ; MA 1831 ; ordained deacon 1 Jun 1828, priest 14 Jun 1829 (both Lincoln) ; Vicar of Sixhills, Lincs. 6 Aug 1829-39 ; Rector of Great Ludford and Elsham, Lincs., 6 Aug 1829-31 ; Rector of Benniworth, Lincs., from 6 Jul 1831 ; Rector of South Willingham, Lincs., from 2 Feb 1838 ; JP Parts of Lindsey ; m. 5 Jan 1839 Marianne, fourth dau. of Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bart. (b.1778, qv) ; d. 9 May 1864.
CORBETT (or CORBET), EDWARD, son of William Corbett ; b. ; adm. 14 Jun 1808 ; left 1809 ; entered Royal Navy as 1st class volunteer, HMS Blake, 30 Sep 1809 ; Midshipman Oct 1811 ; Lieut., 24 Sep 1822 ; half-pay 27 Nov 1822 ; in Navy Lists as Edward Corbet ; served at siege of Cadiz ; d. 1849.
CORBETT, THOMAS, eldest son of William Corbett, Nanteos, Cardiganshire, and Middle Temple, London, and Eleanor, dau. of Col.John Jones, Nanteos, Cardiganshire ; b. ; adm. ; KS (Capt.) 1701 ; joined Royal Navy as ordinary seaman 23 Mar 1703/4 ; acted initially as clerk, from 14 Dec 1704, and then as secretary, Sep 1705-9,1711, to Adm.Sir George Byng (afterwards 1st Viscount Torrington) ; a clerk in the Admiralty 17 Jan 1715-23 ; again secretary to Byng when in command of British fleet in Sicilian waters 1718-20 [check] ; Secretary to Greenwich Hospital 1716 – Feb 1735/6 ; Chief Clerk, Admiralty, 15 Mar 1722/3-8, Deputy Secretary 27 Jul 1728-41; Secretary to Admiralty from 29 Apr 1741 ; MP Saltash from 6 Feb 1733/4 ; m. 31 Jan 1740/1 Mary, widow of John Lloyd, Danyrallt, Llangadog, Carmarthenshire, and dau. of William Lloyd, Alltycadno, Llangyndeyrn, Carmarthenshire ; d. 30 Apr 1751. ODNB.
CORBETT, THOMAS GEORGE, eldest son of William Thompson Corbett (formerly William Corbett), Darnhall, Cheshire, and Elsham, Lincolnshire, and Jane Eleanor, eldest dau. of Gen.George Ainslie ; b. 29 Jul 1796 ; adm. ; left 1808 ; readm. 1811 ; left 1813 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 8 May 1815 ; BA 1819 ; MA 1834 ; MP Lincolnshire North (Cons) 1835-7 ; of Elmshall Hall, Brigg, Lincs. ; DL JP Lincolnshire ; m. 15 Dec 1836 Lady Mary Noel Beauclerk, youngest dau. of William Beauclerk, 8th Duke of St.Albans ; d. 25 Jul 1868.
CORBRIDGE, JAMES, son of James Corbridge, Norwich, land surveyor, and Mary — ; bapt. St.Giles, Norwich 10 Dec 1729 ; in school list 1739 ; KS (aged 13) 1744 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1748, but went to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 1 Jul 1748 ; BA 1752 ; ordained deacon 24 Sep 1752 (Bath & Wells), priest 10 Mar 1754 (Norwich, lit.dim. from Winchester) ; Curate, Wotton, Surrey, and West Hoathly, Sussex, in 1754, previously of Pill, Somerset ; subseqyuently Curate, St.Martin, Ludgate, London ; Vicar of Figheldean, Wilts., from Aug 1761 ; d. Feb 1763.
CORDES, — ; b. ; in under school lists 1715-7.
CORDINER, CORNELIUS ; b. 11 Jul 1705 ; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1716/7 ; left 1717 ; at Merchant Taylors’ School 1717-9 ; m. 29 Apr 1736 Ann Bell, Whitechapel ; living 1737.
CORFE, ARTHUR THOMAS, third son of Joseph Corfe, Organist of Salisbury Cathedral and Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, and Mary Bernard (IGI) ; b. 9 Apr 1773 ; adm. 3 Mar 1783, chorister ; in school list 1787 ; Organist of Salisbury Cathedral from 1804 ; composed a service, a few anthems, and some pianoforte pieces ; author, The Principles of Harmony and Thorough Bass ; m. 17 Sep 1796 Frances, dau. of Rev. John Davies, Vicar of Padworth, Beds. ; d. 28 Jan 1863. ODNB.
CORK AND ORRERY, EARLS OF, see BOYLE.
CORK, WILLIAM ; b. ; at school 1800 ; in school list 1801, May 1803 and Oct 1803 (as Corke) ; left 1806. [note William Corke, Lieut., Royal Navy 17 Jul 1811, d.1816, will proved PCC 24 Dec 1816, as of Portsea, Hampshire]
CORMELL, CAMBRIDGE, son of John Cormell, Chapel, near Colchester, Essex, and previously of Southwark, Surrey, linen draper, and Rebecca, seventh dau. of Gilbert Upton, St.Katherine by the Tower, London, and Camberwell, Surrey, merchant ; b. ; at Merchant Taylors’ Sch. 1720 ; adm. (aged 13) Jun 1725 ; in under school list 1726 ; of Mare Street, Hackney, Middlesex ; d.unm. 21 Aug 1772.
CORNE, WILLIAM, son of Rev.William Corne, Rector of Tixall, Staffs., and his cousin Ellen, dau. of Michael Peake, Saint Thomas, Staffs., farmer ; bapt.Tixall, Staffs. 6 Sep 1775 (IGI); adm. ; in school list Christmas 1788 ; KS (aged 13) 1789 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1793, matr. 30 May 1793, Westminster Student from 24 Dec 1793, Junior Censor 1806-10, Senior Censor 1811-7, Catechist 1811-7, also Librarian ; BA 1797 ; MA 1800 ; BD 1809 ; Examiner 1805-6, 1815-7 ; Proctor 1808 ; Select Preacher 1814 ; Whitehall Preacher 1814-9 ; ordained deacon 19 May 1799 (Chester for Oxford), priest 8 Jun 1800 (Oxford) ; Prebendary of Lichfield from 3 Jul 1800 ; Rector of Hambledon, Bucks., 25 Jan 1803 – Jun 1804, having been given permission by Christ Church 10 Oct 1802, to hold living for eighteen months, while prospective incumbent was under age ; Curate, St.Thomas, Oxford, 1804, Cowley, Oxfordshire, 1805, and Binsey, Oxfordshire, 1806 ; d. unm. 4 May 1818.
CORNELYES, — ; b. ; adm. ; QS in 1556 (Chapter Muniments 37713).
CORNISH, CHARLES JAMES, eldest son of Charles Cornish MD, Staverton, Devon, Surgeon EICS Bengal, and Emily Reybaud, Calcutta ; b. 6 Apr 1809 ; adm.(G) 26 Mar 1821 ; KS 1823 ; left 1824 ; Balliol Coll.Oxford, matr. 2 Apr 1827 ; Cornet, 16th Lancers 30 Jul 1829 ; Lieut., 6 Jul 1830 ; exchanged into 3rd Dragoon Guards, 16 Nov 1832 ; d. on voyage home from India 24 Aug 1833.
CORNISH, GEORGE JAMES, eldest son of George Cornish, Salcombe Hill, Devon, and Sarah, only child of John Kestell, Egloshayle, Cornwall, and Ottery St.Mary, Devon ; b. 7 Jun 1794 ; adm. Christmas 1809 ; left 1810 ; Corpus Christi Coll.Oxford, matr. 8 Jun 1810 ; BA 1814 ; MA 1817 ; ordained deacon 17 May 1818 (Oxford) ; Curate, Salcombe Regis, Devon Jan 1821 ; Vicar of Kenwyn and St.Kea, Cornwall, from 1 Oct 1828 ; Prebendary of Exeter from 11 Feb 1843 ; a Selection from the Sermons and Poetical Remains of G.J.Cornish was published in 1850 ; m. 3 Jul 1819 Harriet, sister of Charles Foley Wilmot (qv) ; d. 10 Sep 1849.
CORNISH, JOHN ROBERT, see MOWBRAY, SIR JOHN ROBERT, BART.
CORNISH, KENNETH HENRY, eldest son of Rev.Henry Hubert Cornish DD, Principal of New Inn Hall, Oxford, and Mary, eldest dau. of Capt.Sir William Dick, Bart., EICS Bengal ; nephew of Charles James Cornish (qv) ; b. (Dum Dum, Bengal) 17 Jul 1833 ; adm.(R) 1 Oct 1846 ; QS 1848 ; left Nov 1849 ; Wadham Coll.Oxford, matr. 19 Mar 1851 ; St.George’s Hospital ; MRCS 1857 ; a medical practitioner in London ; edited various scientific and political journals 1857-67 ; living Wandsworth, London, in 1901 (1901 Census) ; d. 27 Jun 1916.
CORNISH, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Sep 1719 ; left 1721.
CORNTHWAITE, ROBERT, brother of Thomas Cornthwaite (qv) (IGI) ; bapt.St.Martin in the Fields 21 Oct 1723 (IGI); adm. (aged 9) Jan 1732/3 ; in school list Aug 1733. [maybe Robert Cornthwaite, “late a Taylor in King-Street, St.James’s”, who d. Jul 1764 (St.James’s Chronicle, 2 Aug 1764) ; he had been administering the estate of William Cornthwaite, King Street, St.James’s, and Chelsea, Middlesex, “an eminent Taylor” (presumably his father), in Feb 1759]
CORNTHWAITE, THOMAS, son of William Cornthwaite, St.Martin’s in the Fields, Westminster, and his second wife Anne, eldest dau. of Very Rev.Thomas Tullie LLD, Dean of Carlisle ; b. 30 Apr 1721 ; adm. (aged 11) Jan 1732/3 ; KS 1735 ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1739, adm.pens. 21 Jun 1739, scholar 2 May 1740 ; BA 1742/3 ; MA 1746 ; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1745, Major Fellow 2 Jul 1746 ; adm.Grays Inn 11 Jul 1741 ; ordained deacon 7 Jun 1747 (Norwich), priest 20 Dec 1747 (Lincoln) ; Perpetual Curate of Mortlake, Surrey, from Nov 1751 ; Vicar of Hackney, Middlesex, from 27 Jan 1753 ; m. 26 Apr 1757 Hester, dau. of John Moorey, Homerton, Middlesex, West India merchant, Deputy for Bread Street Ward, City of London ; d. 29 May 1799.
CORNEWALL, — ; b. ; in under school list 1715.
[CORNWALL, EDWARD ; b. ; in school lists 1733-8 (first form, 1733) ; left 1738. Forename presumably only given in list of Dec 1736, so possibly an error]
CORNWALL, NICHOLAS ; b. ; in school lists Feb 1727/8 (second form), 1729. [Perhaps Nicholas Cornwall, son of Robert Cornwall, and Sarah —, bapt.St.Martin in the Fields 17 Oct 1714] [“yesterday died at his house in Dartmouth Street, Westminster, Mr Nicholas Cornwall” (Public Advertiser 23 Feb 1759) ; m. (by 1743) Isabella — (?)]
CORNWALL, PETER MONAMY DURELL, son of Thomas Cornwall, Marsham Street, Westminster, apothecary, and Ann, dau. of Peter Monamy, St.Margaret’s, Westminster, marine painter ; bapt.St.Margaret’s, Westminster 20 Jan 1747; adm. ; BB ; KS (aged 15) 1762 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1766, adm.pens. 28 May 1766, scholar 15 May 1767, matr. Easter 1766 ; BA 1770 ; MA 1780 ; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1771 ; ordained deacon 30 Jul 1769 (Salisbury), priest 7 Jul 1771 (Bath & Wells) ; Curate, Fonthill Gifford, Wilts., c.1772-5, Minchinhampton, Gloucs., 1776 ; Curate, Wotton under Edge, Gloucs., from 1788 ; Head Master, Wotton-under-Edge GS, from 1788 ; Vicar of Westbourne, Sussex, from 26 Jun 1805 ; m. 1st, 25 Jun 1772 Mary Wyar ; m.2nd, 1783 Sarah Fry, Tisbury, Wilts. ; d. 24 Jul 1828.
CORNWALLIS, WILLIAM, of Suffolk ; b. ; adm. ; QS ; elected to Trin.Coll.Camb.1597, adm.scholar 1598, matr.c.1598 ; training for Roman Catholic priesthood at Douai Coll. 1599-1600 as William Huett, alias Cornwallis.
CORRY, CHARLES O’NEILL, brother of Henry Pery Corry (qv) ; b. 22 Oct 1804 ; adm. 4 Apr 1815 ; left 9 Oct 1816 ; Worcester Coll.Oxford, matr. 13 Jun 1821 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 22 Jan 1825 ; living at Newry, co.Armagh, Ireland, in 1831 ; will proved Armagh, Ireland 1864.
CORRY, HENRY PERY, illegitimate son of Right Hon.Isaac Corry PC (I) MP (I), Chancellor of the Exchequer (I), later MP (UK), and Jane Symms ; b. Jul 1796 ; adm. Lady Day 1809 ; Min.Can.1810 ; left 1811 ; Trinity Coll.Dublin, adm.fellow commoner 5 Apr 1813 ; Cornet, 6th Dragoon Guards, 7 Jul 1825 ; d. 28 Dec 1825, from the effects of a kick from a horse.
CORRY, THOMAS CHARLES STEWART, son of Thomas Corry, Fairfield, co.Monaghan, Ireland, and Rebecca, dau. of William Stewart MP (I), Bailieborough House, co.Cavan, Ireland ; b. ; adm. 14 Jun 1799 (Clapham) ; left Oct 1801 ; Magdalen Coll.Oxford, matr. 5 Dec 1801, aged 16 ; Cornet, 13thDragoons 6 Aug 1803 ; Lieut. and Capt., 5 Oct 1804 ; retd. 1808 ; of Rockcorry Castle, co.Monaghan ; High Sheriff, co.Monaghan 1807 ; MP Co.Monaghan 18 Nov 1807-12, 10 Apr 1813-8 ; m. Sep 1804 Anne Grace, dau. of Sir John Dillon, Bart., MP (I), Lismullen, co.Meath ; d. 17 Jan 1844.
CORRY, MARTIN WILKINS GELL DE WINTON, only son of Rev.Robert Corry, Rector of Tarrant Hinton, Dorset, and Fellow of Dulwich College, and Louisa, dau. of Richard Harmar, Sloane Street, London ; b. 26 Oct 1814 ; adm. (G) 16 Jan 1826 (as Wilkins Martin Gell Corry); Brasenose Coll.Oxford, matr. 13 Jun 1833 ; of Straw Hall, co.Carlow, Ireland ; subsequently of Yateley Hall, Hampshire ; m. 22 Jan 1846 Margaret Lucy, third dau. of Matthew Fortescue, Belvidere, co.Dublin ; d. 4 Feb 1885.
CORRY, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Jan 1720/1.
CORSLAND, EZEKIEL, son of Stephen Corsland, Bedfordshire ; b. ; at school (aged 13) 2 Jul 1582 (Chapter Muniments 43050).
COSBY, JOHN MONTAGUE, son of Lieut.-Gen. Sir Henry Augustus Montague Cosby EICS Madras, Col., 4th Madras Native Infantry, and his first wife Elizabeth, dau. of John Marsh ; b. ; adm. 23 Jun 1783 (surname misread as Crosby by Russell Barker & Stenning) ; left 1783 ; Lieut., Madras Cavalry 12 Dec 1788 ; Capt., 17 Jun 1800 ; Capt., 8th Madras Native Cavalry 1 May 1804 ; Maj., 23 May 1807 ; Lieut.-Col., Army, 4 Jun 1813 (local rank); Lieut.-Col., 1 Mar 1818 ; m. 8 Jun 1802 Anne, eldest dau. of André Reynaud, Pondicherry, India, merchant ; d. at Seroor, near Poona, India 14 Jul 1819.
COSSER, — ; b. ; at school 1796 ; in school list 1797 ; left Bartholomewtide 1797. [perhaps Walter Cosser, son of Stephen Cosser, Milbank, Westminster, timber merchant, and Anne, dau. of James Duddingston, St Ford [check county] ; b. 11 Jan 1788 ; timber merchant, Milbank, Westminster ; m. Maria Wood ; d. 1 Feb 1836]
COSSING, — ; b. ; in school list 1803.
COSSLEY, JOHN ; b. ; adm. (aged 9) Apr 1729 (as Cossey) ; in school lists 1731, Jan 1732/3, Aug 1733 (sixth form). [note John Cossley who m. at St.Anne, Soho 8 Jan 1739 Elizabeth Stone]
COSTER, MARTIN EDWIN LEONARD, only son of Guillaume Frederic Isidore Coster, Park Crescent, Regent’s Park, London (born Brussels), diamond merchant, and Fanny — (1881 Census) ; b. 4 Oct 1867 ; adm. (H) 16 Jun 1881 ; left Dec 1884 ; Merton Coll.Oxford, matr. 20 Jan 1887 ; migrated to Charsley Hall ; BA 1890 ; stockjobber (1901 Census). [His father m. 12 Jun 1855 Julia, only dau. of Henry Emanuel, Wilton Lodge, St.John’s Wood Place, Regent’s Park : was this his mother ?]
COTES, JOHN ; b. ; adm. (aged 15) Feb 1730/1.
COTHER, WILLIAM, eldest son of William Cother FRCS, surgeon, Gloucester, and Mary Eliza, eldest dau. of John Bill, Llandrinio Hall, Montgomeryshire ; b. 8 Nov 1812 ; adm. 20 Jan 1825 ; KS (Capt.) 1826 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1830, matr. 28 May 1830, Westminster Student to 1837 ; BA 1834 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 28 Jan 1835, called to bar 19 Nov 1842 ; Oxford Circuit ; practised as a conveyancer in Gloucester ; m. 30 Apr 1850 Marion, youngest dau. of John Warburton MD FRS, Clifford Street, London ; d. at Dinant, France 20 Mar 1870.
COTTER, EDMUND, brother of Sir James Laurence Cotter, Bart. (qv) ; b. ; adm. ; KS (aged 13) 1762 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1766, matr. 18 Jun 1766, Westminster Student from 24 Dec 1766 ; BA 1770 ; d.unm.in Ireland Sep 1770, “owing to a wound in a fray”.
COTTER, GEORGE SACKVILLE, brother of Sir James Laurence Cotter, Bart. (qv) ; b. ; in school list Jun 1764 ; KS (Capt., aged 13) 1765 ; Capt. of the School 1770 ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1771, adm.pens. 26 Jun 1771, scholar 15 May 1772, matr. Lent 1774 ; BA 1775 ; MA 1779 ; ordained deacon 12 May 1776, priest 1 Nov 1778 (both Cork) ; Curate, Cloyne, 21 Jun 1781 ; Vicar of Kilmichael, co.Cork 18 Feb 1784 – May 1797 ; Rector of Tullcredan, Garryvoe and Ightermurragh, co.Cork, from 27 May 1797 ; author, two volumes of Poems, 1788, and of translations of Four Comedies of Terence … the Stage Management and Mode of Acting set down, as they were acted at Westminster School, 1824, and of Seven Comedies of Plautus Select, 1826 ; m. 4 Nov 1775 (IGI) Margaret, dau. of Bayley Rogers, Cork City, physician and banker ; d. 4 Apr 1831. ODNB.
COTTER, SIR JAMES LAURENCE, BART., eldest son of Sir James Cotter, Bart. , MP (I), and Arabella, widow of Col. William Casaubon, MP (I), Carrig, co.Cork, and dau. of Right Hon.John Rogerson PC (I), Lord Chief Justice of the King’s Bench (I) ; b. ; adm. ; KS (Capt., aged 14) 1762 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1766, matr. 18 Jun 1766, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1766 – void by marriage 16 Jan 1773 ; BA 1770 ; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 2 Aug 1766 ; MP (I) Taghmon 1771-6, Mallow 1783-90, Castlemartyr 1790-1800 ; succ. father as 2nd baronet 9 Jun 1770 ; partner, Cotter & Kellet, bankers, Cork ; m.1st, c.Jan.1773, Anne, only dau. of Francis Kearney, Garretstown, nr.Kinsale, co.Cork ; m.2nd, 16 Jul 1785 (IGI) Isabella, widow of George Brereton, Carrigslaney, co.Carlow, and dau. of Rev.James Hingston, Aglish, co.Cork, Prebendary of Cloyne ; d. 9 Feb 1829.
COTTER, ROGERSON, brother of Sir James Laurence Cotter, Bart.(qv) ; b. ; adm. ; KS (aged 12) 1762 ; Capt. of the School 1766 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1767, adm.pens. 17 Jun 1767, scholar 29 Apr 1768, matr.Mich.1767 ; BA and 10th Wrangler 1771 ; MA 1774 ; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1771, Major Fellow 4 Jul 1774 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 2 Aug 1766 ; called to Irish bar (King’s Inns) Trin.1773 ; MP (I) Charleville 1783-1800 ; m. Sep 1794 Jane, widow of William Grady, and dau. of Richard Harrold, Limerick ; d. 19 Feb 1830.
COTTERELL, see also COTTRELL.
COTTERELL, SIR CHARLES LUDOWICK, brother of Clement Cotterell (qv) ; b.10 Aug 1654 ; at school 1663-5 ; a boarder (Busby’s Account Book) ; Merton Coll.Oxford, matr. 12 Jul 1671, aged 17 ; DCL 3 Jun 1708 ; said to have taken degree of LLD at Cambridge (Hearne, Remarks and Collections, ii, 112) ; Assistant Master of the Ceremonies 29 Jun 1672 – Dec 1686, Master of the Ceremonies from 30 Dec 1686 ; knighted 18 Feb 1686/7 ; a Commissioner of the Privy Seal, 13 Apr 1697 ; author, The Whole Life of Prince George of Denmark, 1708 ; m.1st, 19 Feb 1676/7 Eliza, dau. of Nicholas Burwell, Grays Inn, London ; m.2nd, 16 Jun 1691 Elizabeth, only dau. of Chaloner Chute MP, The Vyne, Hampshire ; d. 9 Jul 1710. ODNB (s.v.father).
COTTERELL, CLEMENT, eldest son of Sir Charles Cotterell, Kt MP, Master of the Ceremonies, and Frances, dau. of Edward West, Marsworth, Bucks. ; b. ; at school 1659-64 ; a boarder (Busby’s Account Book) ; Merton Coll.Oxford, matr. 1 Apr 1664, aged 14 ; accompanied Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich, on his embassy to Spain, 1666-8 ; Assistant Master of the Ceremonies from 23 Mar 1668 ; Grand Tour (with Hon.Sydney Montagu) 1668-70 ; returned to England 30 Jan 1671 ; on outbreak of Dutch War in 1672 joined Royal Navy as volunteer under Earl of Sandwich ; killed in explosion of HMS Royal James in action off Southwold Bay, 28 May 1672. Monument in south aisle of nave, Westminster Abbey.
COTTINGHAM, JOHN ; b. ; adm. (aged 11) Jun 1719 ; in under school list 1722.
COTTON, — ; b. ; in school list 1740.
COTTON, — ; b. ; in school lists 1764,1765,1767,1769 ; left Dec 1769.
COTTON, AMBROSE ALEXANDER, fourth son of Sir John Hynde Cotton, Bart. (adm.1727, qv) ; b. 11 Jul 1764 ; adm. 22 Jan 1777 ; in school lists 1781 ; Pembroke Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 15 May 1782, matr.Mich.1782 ; BA 1786 ; MA 1789 ; ordained deacon 17 Dec 1787 (Peterborough, lit.dim.from Ely), priest 21 Dec 1788 (Ely); Vicar of King’s Langley, Herts., 3 Feb 1791-1807 ; Rector of Meesdon, Herts., 27 May 1790 – Oct 1812 ; Chaplain, Royal Navy 1793, still 1797 ; Rector of Girton, Cambs., from 24 Jan 1807 ; Rector of Great Hallingbury, Essex, 17 Apr 1812-38 ; present at battles of Glorious First of June and Cape St.Vincent ; m. 16 Jun 1807 Maria, dau. of Jacob Houblon, Hallingbury Place, Essex ; d. 9 Mar 1846.
COTTON, SIR CHARLES, BART., third son of Sir John Hynde Cotton, Bart. (adm.1727, qv) ; b. 21 Jun 1753 ; adm. 5 Mar 1767 ; left Midsummer 1773 (sic) ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 17 Jan 1770 ; entered Royal Navy on board HMS Deal Castle 24 Oct 1772 ; Lieut., 29 Apr 1777 ; Cdr., 3 Apr 1779 ; Post Capt., 10 Aug 1779 ; Rear-Adm., 20 Feb 1797 ; Vice-Adm., 29 Apr 1802 ; Adm., 28 Apr 1808 ; took part in Howe’s victory on 1 Jun 1794 and in retreat of Cornwallis 16 Jun 1795 ; in command in the Tagus 1807-8 and in the Mediterranean 1810 ; Commander-in-Chief, Channel Fleet, 1811 ; succ. his father as 5th baronet 23 Jan 1795 ; m. 27 Feb 1788 Philadelphia, dau. of Adm.Sir Joshua Rowley, Bart., Royal Navy ; d. 23 Feb 1812. ODNB.
COTTON, CHRISTOPHER ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Jan 1728/9 ; left 1734. [Presumably brother of, or close kin to, Robert Salusbury Cotton (qv), adm. same month]
COTTON, EDWARD, sixth son of Sir John Hynde Cotton, Bart. (adm.1727, qv) ; b. 19 Mar 1769 ; adm. 29 Oct 1778 ; left 1786 ; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm.pens. 2 Jun 1786, matr.Mich.1786 ; LLB 1792 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 5 Mar 1793 ; Tancred Orator 1794, 1798 ; Collector of Customs, Grenada, West Indies ; d.unm. in Nevis, West Indies, 13 Oct 1810.
COTTON, GEORGE, brother of Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, Bart. (qv) ; b. ; at school under Markham ; a boarder at Mrs Morel’s, where he occupied the same bedroom as Jeremy Bentham (qv), who recounts that after his admission to College Cotton “became an occasional visitor, sometimes for days together at the boarding house, where he had formerly lived, and resumed his former situation of bedfellow to (William) Mitford” (qv) (Bentham, Works, x, 28) ; Min.Can. (aged 12) 1756 ; KS 1757 ; elected to Trin.Coll.Camb.1761, adm.pens. 21 May 1761, scholar 30 Apr 1762, matr.Easter 1761 ; BA 1765 ; MA 1768 ; LLD 1787 ; ordained deacon 24 Aug 1767, priest 30 Aug 1767 (both St Asaph); Domestic Chaplain to Richard, Earl Temple 15 Jan 1771 ; Rector of Stoke on Tern, Shropshire, from 15 Jan 1773 ; Dean of Chester from 10 Feb 1787 ; Rector of Davenham, Cheshire, 21 Mar 1787-97 ; Rector of Dodleston, Cheshire, from 28 Jan 1797 ; m. 1771 Katherine Maria, eldest dau. of James Tomkinson, Dorfold Hall, Cheshire ; d. 10 Dec 1805. [perhaps George Cotton, MA, Rector of South Reston, Lincs., 15 Jun 1771 – Feb 1775, and Vicar of Stowe, Bucks., 20 May 1772 – Jul 1773]
COTTON, GEORGE EDWARD LYNCH, only son of Capt.Thomas D’Avenant Cotton, 7th Foot, and Mary Headley Burnley, Halifax, Nova Scotia ; grandson of George Cotton (qv) ; b. 29 Oct 1813 ; adm.(G) 17 Jan 1825 ; KS 1828 ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1832, adm.pens. 11 Jun 1832, scholar 1833, matr.Mich.1832 ; 8th Classic and 40th Senior Optime 1836 ; BA 1836 ; MA 1839 ; DD 1858 (incorp.Oxford 3 Jun 1858) ; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1838, Major Fellow 1839 ; Assistant Master, Rugby School, 1837-52 (the “young master” of Tom Brown’s Schooldays) ; Headmaster, Marlborough Coll., 1852-8 ; ordained deacon 1 Feb 1839, priest 9 Jun 1839 (both Worcester) ; Bishop of Calcutta from 1858 ; consecrated in Westminster Abbey 13 May 1858 ; established schools for the education of poor European and Eurasian children ; m. 26 Jun 1845 his cousin Sophia Anne, dau. of Rev.Henry Tomkinson, Reaseheath Hall, Cheshire, Vicar of Acton, Cheshire ; accidentally drowned in the Ganges at Kushtia 6 Oct 1866. ODNB.
COTTON, H.L. ; b. ; in school list May 1803 ; left 1803.
COTTON, HENRY, third son of Rev.William Cotton, Vicar of Chicheley, Bucks., and Charlotte Elizabeth, dau. of Rev.Thomas Barrett, Vicar of Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire ; b. 31 Mar 1790 ; adm. ; in school list May 1803 ; KS 1803 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1807, matr. 12 May 1807, Westminster Student ; 1st cl.Classics 1810 ; BA 1811 ; MA 1813 ; DCL 1820 ; LLD Trinity Coll.Dublin 1832 ; Sub-Librarian, Bodleian Library, 1814-22 ; ordained deacon 22 Dec 1816, priest 1 Jun 1817 (both Oxford) ; Vicar of Cassington, Oxford, 6 Feb 1818 – Oct 1823 ; Domestic Chaplain to Most Rev.Richard Laurence, Archbishop of Cashel, 1823 ; Prebendary of Cashel 1 Oct 1823 – Jun 1824, Archdeacon of Cashel 19 Jun 1824-50 ; Treasurer, Christ Church, Dublin, 12 Jun 1832 ; Dean of Lismore 16 Dec 1834 – Oct 1849 ; author, Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae, 1845-78, and other works ; m. 29 May 1818 Mary Vaughan, dau. of Most Rev.Richard Laurence DCL, Archbishop of Cashel ; d. 3 Dec 1879. ODNB.
COTTON, HENRY CALVELEY, brother of Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, Bart. (qv) ; b. ; at school under Smith (Steward Anniversary Dinner, 1788) ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 8 Apr 1773, aged 17, matr. Lent 1774 ; adm.Middle Temple 20 Nov 1772, called to bar 5 May 1780 ; Ensign, 27th Foot, 29 Jun 1778 ; Lieut., 9 Jun 1784 ; Capt., 31 Jan 1792 ; 1st Life Guards ; retd. 1795 ; Receiver-Gen., Cheshire, from Aug 1786 ; of Woodcote House, Oxfordshire ; DCL Oxford Univ. 6 Jul 1810 ; m. 14 Apr 1788 Matilda, only dau. of John Lockwood (qv) ; d. 15 May 1837, aged 81.
COTTON, HENRY CALVELEY, eldest son of Henry Calveley Cotton (qv) ; b. 25 Mar 1789 ; adm. ; in school list May 1803, Oct 1803 ; left 1805 ; Merton Coll.Oxford, matr. 9 May 1806 ; BA 1810 ; MA 1813 ; ordained deacon 20 Dec 1812, priest 20 Jun 1813 (both Lincoln) ; Vicar of Penn, Bucks., 20 Jun 1813 – res Oct 1823 ; Curate, Great Ness, Shropshire 1817 ; Rector of Hinstock, Shropshire, from 30 Mar 1820 ; Vicar of Great Ness, Shropshire, from 27 Sep 1823 ; m. 24 May 1815 Eloisa, dau. of William Mostyn Owen MP, Woodhouse, Shropshire ; d. 4 Oct 1850.
COTTON, JOHN ; b. ; adm. ; QS in 1575 (Chapter Muniments 25122).
COTTON, JOHN, eldest son of Sir John Hynde Cotton, Bart. (adm.1727, qv) ; b. 15 Sep 1749 ; in school lists 1764, 1765 ; Emmanuel Coll.Cambridge, adm.fellow commoner 24 Dec 1766, aged 18, matr.Easter 1767 ; d. 31 Jul 1781, from a gunshot accident while shooting rabbits.
[COTTON, SIR JOHN HYNDE, BART., only surviving son of Sir John Cotton, Bart. MP, Madingley Hall, Cambs., and Elizabeth, dau. and coheiress of Sir Joseph Sheldon, Kt, Lord Mayor of London, draper ; bapt. 7 Apr 1686; recorded in Record as having been appointed as Steward of the Anniversary Dinner for 1753, but he was already dead by the date of the Anniversary Dinner in 1752, and the list of Stewards for 1753 printed in the Record is in any event unreliable ; Emmanuel Coll.Cambridge, adm.fellow commoner 29 Sep 1701 ; MP Cambridge 1708-22, Cambridgeshire 1722-7, Cambridge 1727-41, Marlborough from 1741 ; succ.father as 3rdbaronet 20 Jan 1712/3 ; a Commissioner of Trade and Plantations 7 Jul 1712 – 13 Dec 1714; Treasurer of the Chamber 24 Dec 1744 – May 1746 ; a prominent Tory politician ; m.1st, 21 May 1714 Lettice, dau. of Sir Ambrose Crowley Kt MP, Greenwich, Kent, Sheriff of London ; m.2nd, Margaret, widow of Samuel Trefusis MP, Trefusis, Cornwall, and third dau. of James Craggs MP, Postmaster-General ; d. 4 Feb 1751/2, aged 63. ODNB]
COTTON, SIR JOHN HYNDE, BART., only surviving son of Sir John Hynde Cotton, Bart. (possible OW, qv), and his first wife Lettice, dau. of Sir Ambrose Crowley Kt MP, Greenwich, Kent, Sheriff of London; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Sep 1727 ; in school list 1735 ; Emmanuel Coll.Cambridge, adm.fellow commoner 6 Jan 1735/6, matr.1736 ; Grand Tour (Italy) 1739-40, travelling with Henry Vernon (qv) ; MP St Germans 1741-7, Marlborough 18 Feb 1751/2 – 61, Cambridgeshire 22 Mar 1764-80 ; succ.father as 4th baronet 4 Feb 1751/2 ; DCL Oxford Univ. 7 Jul 1763 ; member Society of Dilettanti 1741 ; m. 1 Jul 1745 his cousin Anne, second dau. of Humphrey Parsons MP, Reigate, Surrey, Lord Mayor of London, brewer ; d. 23 Jan 1795.
COTTON, MORTEN HENRY, son of Henry Morten Cotton, London, solicitor, and his first wife Emma Harriet Read; b. 2 Mar 1862 ; adm. (G) 23 Jan 1873 ; left Dec 1877 ; Christ’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 19 Jun 1880, matr.Mich.1880 ; BA 1884 ; MA 1892 ; adm.solicitor Jul 1888 ; practised in Clifford’s Inn ; one of the original members of the “Footlights” Dramatic Club at Cambridge University ; d. 10 Nov 1907.
COTTON, RICHARD, brother of William Cotton (adm.1733/4, qv) ; bapt. 29 Jul 1720 ; adm. (aged 13) Jan 1733/4 ; left 1736 ; of Park Place, Leeds, Yorks. ; m. 1 Oct 1781 Harriot, second dau. of Ingram Rider, Leeds, Yorks., and Boughton Place, Kent ; d.c. Sep 1793.
COTTON, RICHARD WILLIAM, second son of Henry Cotton (qv) ; b. 23 Jun 1829 ; adm. 10 Feb 1842 ; QS 1843 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1847, matr. 27 May 1847, Westminster Student to 1861 ; BA 1851 ; MA 1854 ; coxed Oxford Eight against Cambridge Dec 1849, 1852, and at Henley and Thames Regatta 1850 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 10 Nov 1849 ; “engaged in farming” (Forshall, p.356) ; of Kilbree, Cappoquin, co.Waterford ; m. 1875 Catherine Power (marriage registered West Derby fourth quarter 1875) ; d. 27 May 1919.
COTTON, SIR ROBERT, BART., only surviving son of Sir John Cotton, Bart., MP, Conington, Hunts., and his second wife Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Thomas Honeywood MP, Marks Hall, Essex ; b. ; at school under Busby (W.W.R.Ball & J.A.Venn, eds., Admissions toTrin.Coll.Camb., ii, 560) ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 9 Oct 1686, aged 16, matr. 1686/7 ; adm.Middle Temple 10 Feb 1687/8 ; succ. nephew as 5th baronet, 5 Feb 1730/1 ; of Steeple Gidding, Hunts. ; m.1st, Elizabeth Wigston ; m.2nd, Sarah Morton, widow ; d. 12 Jul 1749. ODNB (s.v.Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, Bart.).
[COTTON, SIR ROBERT BRUCE, BART., eldest son of Thomas Cotton, Conington, Hunts., and his first wife Elizabeth, dau. of Francis Shirley, Staunton Harold, Leics. ; b. 22 Jan 1570/1 ; at school under Grant (so stated by Sidney Lee in DNB, followed by subsequent writers (most recently by Stuart Handley in ODNB), but no evidence cited ; education at Westminster School had been asserted earlier by J.Watkins, Universal Biographical Dictionary, 1823, p.403) ; Jesus Coll.Cambridge, matr. 22 Nov 1581 ; BA 1585/6 ; adm. Middle Temple 3 Feb 1587/8 ; a collector of manuscripts from the late 1580s, and also a collector of coins ; an early member of the original Society of Antiquaries, and active in its proceedings 1598-1604 ; made antiquarian tour in the North of England with William Camden (formerly Head Master, qv) 1600 ; High Sheriff, Huntingdonshire 1601 ; MP Newtown (IOW) 1601, Huntingdonshire 1604-11, Old Sarum 1624, Thetford 1625, Castle Rising 1628-9 ; knighted 11 May 1603 ; a favourite at court in the early years of the reign of James I, benefiting by patronage from Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton ; created baronet 29 Jun 1611 ; contributed to Speed’s History of England, 1611, and to Camden’s History of Elizabeth 1615 ; imprisoned for five months in 1616 for trying to screen his new patron, Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, by altering dates of letters ; settled in 1622 in Cotton House, Old Palace Yard, Westminster, which became a resort for scholars and antiquaries ; became friendly with Sir John Eliot, and in 1625 openly attached himself to the parliamentary opposition to the Crown ; author, History of Henry III, 1627, and The Dangers wherein the Kingdom now standeth and the Remedye, 1628 ; treated as an enemy by the court in 1628-9, and after proceedings in the Star Chamber was deprived of access to his library ; this library, which was later to form the nucleus of the library of the British Museum (now British Library), was moved to Ashburnham House in 1730, suffering damage by fire there on 23 Oct 1731, and was then temporarily housed in the Old Dormitory ; m. 1592 Elizabeth, dau. of William Brocas, Theddingworth, Leics. ; d. 6 May 1631. ODNB]
COTTON, ROBERT SALUSBURY, elder surviving son of Thomas Cotton, St.Margaret, Westminster, apothecary, and Mary, dau. of John Tomlinson ; bapt. St.Paul’s, Covent Garden 20 Jul 1715 ; adm. (aged 13) Jan 1728/9 (as Robert Cotton); practised as an apothecary in King Street and Crown Court, Westminster ; a collector of coins and medals ; FRS 24 Nov 1774 ; FSA 14 May 1779 ; m. 14 Feb 1743/4 Alison, dau. of James Robertson, Glasgow ; d. Aug 1790.
COTTON, SIR ROBERT SALUSBURY, BART., eldest son of Sir Lynch Salusbury Cotton, Bart., MP, and Elizabeth Abigail, younger sister of William Cotton (adm.1733/4, qv) ; b. ; adm. (aged 9) Mar 1749/50 (as Robert Cotton) ; in school list 1754 ; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm.fellow commoner 11 May 1756, but did not matr. ; succ.father as 5th baronet 14 Aug 1775 ; MP Cheshire 1 Mar 1780-96 ; Maj., Cheshire Militia 15 Apr 1771 ; FRS 24 Nov 1774 ; m.1767 Frances, dau. of Col.James Russell Stapleton, 3rd Foot Guards, Bodrhyddan, Flintshire ; d. 24 Aug 1809, aged 70.
COTTON, ROBERT SALUSBURY, eldest son of Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, Bart. (qv) ; b. 11 Sep 1768 ; adm. 17 Apr 1780 ; in school list Oct 1786 ; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm.fellow commoner 5 Oct 1786, but did not matr. ; d.unm.1799, “of an inflammatory attack, brought on by exposure in an open boat at Weymouth” (will proved PCC 4 Apr 1799).
COTTON, SIR ST.VINCENT, BART., elder son of Sir Charles Cotton, Bart. (qv) ; b. 6 Oct 1801 ; adm. 29 Mar 1815 ; left 3 Dec 1817 ; succ.father as 6th baronet 23 Feb 1812 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 3 Feb 1820 ; Cornet, 10th Light Dragoons (Hussars), 13 May 1826 ; Lieut., 13 Dec 1827 ; retd. on half-pay 19 Nov 1830 ; DL JP Cambridgeshire ; a well-known sportsman in the hunting, shooting, racing, gaming, and pugilistic world ; played cricket for the Gentlemen against the Players 1832, 1835 ; a skilled coach driver, driving the Age coach from London to Brighton for three years in the late 1830s ; gambled away his estates ; m. 24 Jan 1863 Hepzibah (his mistress), dau. of Nathaniel Dimmick ; d. 25 Jan 1863. ODNB.
COTTON, STAPLETON, 1ST VISCOUNT COMBERMERE, second son of Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, Bart. (qv) ; b. 14 Nov 1773 ; adm. 28 Jan 1785 ; at school four years ; 2nd Lieut., 23rd Foot, 26 Feb 1790 ; 1st Lieut., 13 Apr 1791 ; Capt., 6th Dragoon Guards, 28 Feb 1793 ; Maj., 59th Foot, 1794 ; Lieut.-Col., 25th Light Dragoons, 9 Mar 1794 ; Brevet Col., 1 Jan 1800 ; Lieut.-Col., 16th Light Dragoons, 14 Feb 1800 ; served in Flanders 1793-4, at Cape Town 1795, in campaign against Tippoo Sahib 1799, and in Dublin during Emmett’s insurrection 1800 ; Brig.-Gen., 11 Feb 1804 ; Maj.-Gen., 30 Oct 1805 ; commanded allied cavalry during part of Peninsular War ; wounded at Salamanca 1812 ; Lieut.-Gen., 1 Jan 1812 ; Col., 20th Light Dragoons, 27 Jan 1813 – Jan 1821 [check] ; took part in Pyrenees Campaign, 1813-4 ; commanded allied cavalry in France, 1815-6 ; Governor of Barbados 1816-20 ; Col., 3rd Dragoons, 25 Jan 1821 – Sep 1828 ; Commander-in-Chief, Ireland, 1822-5 ; Gen., 27 May 1825 ; Commander-in-Chief, East Indies, 9 Feb 1825 – 1 Jan 1830 ; captured city of Bhurtpore, 28 Jan 1826 ; Col., 1st Life Guards, from 16 Sep 1829 ; Constable of the Tower (and Lord Lieut., Tower Hamlets) from 11 Oct 1852 ; Field-Marshal, 2 Oct 1855 ; MP Newark 1806 – 17 May 1814 ; succ.father as 6th baronet 24 Aug 1809 ; KB 21 Aug 1812 ; created Baron Combermere 17 May 1814, with annuity of £2000 p.a. for two generations ; GCB 2 Jan 1815 ; GCH 1817 ; Governor of Sheerness 25 Jan 1821 – still 1829 ; Privy Councillor (I) 21 Nov 1822 ; created Viscount Combermere 8 Feb 1827 ; DCL Oxford Univ. 23 Jun 1830 ; Privy Councillor 16 Dec 1834 ; KCSI 19 Aug 1861 ; see Viscountess Combermere & W.W.Knollys, Memoirs and Correspondence of Field-Marshal Viscount Combermere, 2 vols, 1866 ; m.1st, 1 Jan 1801 Lady Anne Maria Pelham-Clinton, eldest dau. of Thomas Pelham-Clinton, 3rd Duke of Newcastle, Major-Gen. in the Army ; m.2nd, 22 Jun 1814 Caroline, second dau. of Capt.William Fulke Greville, Royal Navy ; m.3rd, 2 Oct 1838 Mary Woolley, dau. of Thomas Gibbings MD, Gibbings Grove, co.Cork ; d. 21 Feb 1865. ODNB.
COTTON, SIR SYDNEY JOHN, second son of Henry Calveley Cotton (d.1837, qv) ; b. 2 Dec 1792 ; adm. Jan 1805 (Lusus Alteri Westmon., iii, 52) ; left 1805 ; Cornet, 22nd Light Dragoons, 19 Apr 1810 ; Lieut., 13 Feb 1812 ; Capt., 1 Jan 1820 ; half-pay 25 Jul 1820 ; 3rd Foot (The Buffs), 2 May 1822 ; Maj., 41st Foot, 18 Jan 1828 ; 28th Foot, 25 Mar 1836 ; Brevet Lieut.-Col., 23 Nov 1841 ; Lieut.-Col., 28th Foot, 8 Jan 1843 ; 22nd Foot, 2 Dec 1847 ; Brevet Col., 20 Jun 1854 ; Lieut.-Col., 10th Foot, 14 Dec 1858 ; Maj.-Gen., 26 Oct 1858 ; Col., 10th Foot, from 5 Feb 1863 ; Lieut.-Gen., 20 Apr 1866 ; Governor of Chelsea Hospital from 10 May 1872 ; KCB 24 Mar 1858 ; GCB 24 May 1873 ; served at almost every station where European troops were located in the three Indian presidencies ; commanding in Peshawar Valley as 1st class Brigadier at outbreak of Indian Mutiny, and did good service on North-West Frontier ; author, Nine Years on the North-West Frontier from 1854 to 1863, 1868, and other works ; m. at Bangalore, India, 1 Jul 1820 Marianne, youngest dau. of Capt.William Hackett, 22nd Light Dragoons ; d. 20 Feb 1874. ODNB.
COTTON (alias ROGERS), THOMAS ; b. ; adm. ; QS 9 Oct 1553 (Acts of Chapter, as Rogers, Christian name not stated, with another entry for 16 Oct in which he is described as Thomas Cotton) ; left Nov 1553.
COTTON, THOMAS ; b. ; adm. 31 May 1771 ; in school list 1771.
COTTON, WILLIAM, son of Philip Cotton, Market Drayton, Shropshire, and his first wife Beatrice — (IGI) ; bapt.Mucklestone, Staffs. 17 Aug 1689 ; adm. ; QS 1706 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1710, adm.pens. 8 Jun 1710, aged 18, scholar 14 Apr 1711 ; BA 1713/4 ; MA 1717 ; of Salter’s Hall, Shropshire ; m. 26 Oct 1719 (IGI) Catherine Holbrooke ; d. 1734.
COTTON, WILLIAM, son of Rowland Cotton MP, Etwall, Derbs., and Mary, dau. of Sir Samuel Sleigh, Kt, Etwall, Derbs. ; bapt.Etwall, Derbs. 1 Feb 1700 (IGI); adm. (aged 16) Apr 1718 ; Balliol Coll.Oxford, matr. 16 Mar 1718/9 ; of Bellaport Hall, Norton in Hales, Shropshire, and of Etwall Hall, Derbs. ; m. 14 Jun 1742 Rebecca (a servant girl), dau. of Daniel Webster ; d. Jan 1776.
COTTON, WILLIAM, eldest son of William Cotton, Crakemarsh, Staffs., and Elizabeth, dau. of William Milner, Alderman of Leeds, and sister of Sir William Milner, Bart. ; bapt. 4 Jun 1719 ; adm. (aged 14) Jan 1733/4 ; left 1736 ; University Coll.Oxford, matr. 17 Dec 1736 ; BCL 17 Jan 1752 ; DCL 1754 ; adm.Gray’s Inn 11 Mar 1733 and to Middle Temple 12 Dec 1739, called to bar 13 May 1743 ; ordained deacon 24 May 1752, priest 23 Jun 1753 (both Lichfield) ; Prebendary of Lichfield 2 Aug 1762 – Feb 1774, resigned ; of Crakemarsh Hall, Staffs. ; m. 16 Oct 1755 Hester Maria, only child of Sir Charles Tyrell, Bart., Thornton Hall, Bucks. ; d. 7 Jun 1782.
COTTON, WILLIAM, third son of Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, Bart. (qv) ; bapt. 19 Oct 1777 ; adm. 25 Feb 1788 ; entered Army ; Ensign [date and regt. ?] ; Lieut. in Army 1 Apr 1795 ; 32nd Foot 1 Oct 1795 ; Nantwich Volunteers 1 Jun 1797 ; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm. 15 Apr 1795, matr.Mich.1797 ; LLB 1801 ; ordained deacon 2 May 1802, priest 19 Sep 1802 (both Chester) ; Vicar of Audlem and Chaplain of Burleydam, Cheshire, 18 Oct 1802-36 ; Rector of Hinstock, Shropshire, 10 Apr 1810 – Mar 1820 ; Rector of Adderley, Shropshire, 17 Mar 1820 (still 1829) ; d.unm. 16 Jun 1853.
COTTRELL, EDWARD, son of Charles Cottrell, of York and of Scarborough, Yorks., surgeon apothecary, and Catherine Preston ; bapt.St.Martin’s, Coney Street, York 13 Feb 1746/7 ; adm. ; Min.Can. (aged 14) 1761 ; of Loughor, Glamorgan (occurs 1781) ; m. (by 1784); d. Swansea, Glamorgan 1788 (will proved PCC 4 Jul 1788).
COULSON, — ; b. ; in school lists 1795,1797.
COURTEN, see CURTEEN.
COURTENAY, CHARLES BARRON, son of Charles Barron Courtenay MD, Great Marlborough Street, London, and Langley, Bucks., and Anna — ; b. 24 Nov 1808 ; adm.(G) 27 Oct 1823 ; articled to Nicholas Wehnert, Leicester Square, London, solicitor, and then to John Williams, South Square, Gray’s Inn, solicitor ; attorney and parliamentary agent, adm. Mich.1833 ; practised in Leeds, Yorkshire, and latterly in Lincoln’s Inn Fields ; d. 13 Apr 1855.
COURTENAY, EDWIN BALDWIN, 12TH EARL OF DEVON, third son of William Reginald Courtenay, 11th Earl of Devon (qv) ; b. 7 May 1836 ; adm. 4 Oct 1848 ; QS 1850 ; left 1851 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 18 Oct 1854 ; MP (Cons) Exeter Aug 1864-8, East Devon 1868 – Mar 1870, when he vacated his seat owing to bankruptcy ; joined Roman Catholic church 1870 ; again became bankrupt 1878 ; DL Devon, JP (1858) Devon ; succ. father as 12th Earl of Devon 18 Nov 1888 ; d. unm. 15 Jan 1891.
COURTENAY, FREDERICK WILLIAM, son of Thomas Lefroy Courtenay, Grange, co.Antrim, and Dublin, Ireland, and Jane, dau. of Martin Morris, Spiddal, co.Galway, Ireland, and sister of Michael Morris, 1st Baron Killanin PC, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland and member Judicial Committee, Privy Council; b. 28 Jan 1859 ; adm. as exhibitioner 30 May 1872 ; QS 1873 ; left May 1876 ; Trinity Coll.Dublin ; d. 16 Apr 1879.
COURTENAY, GEORGE HENRY, third son of Hon.Thomas Peregrine Courtenay (qv) ; b. 23 Dec 1814 ; adm. 3 Apr 1826 ; Ensign, 66th Foot, 9 Mar 1832 ; 2nd Lieut., 60th Rifles, 7 Apr 1832 ; Lieut., 8 Apr 1836 ; half-pay, 4 Mar 1842 ; went out to Tasmania 1844 ; Chief Constable, Convict Establishment, Port Arthur ; Adjt., 1st Devon VRC 12 Feb 1861 ; retd. with hon.rank of Maj., 19 Jul 1880 ; m. at Hobart, Tasmania, 22 Sep 1852 Laura, youngest dau. of David Samuda, London, merchant ; d. 2 Jan 1910.
COURTENAY, HENRY HUGH, 13TH EARL OF DEVON, second son of William Courtenay, 10th Earl of Devon (qv) ; b. 15 Jul 1811 ; adm. 24 Jan 1822 ; Merton Coll.Oxford, matr. 3 Dec 1829 ; BA 1833 ; MA 1844 ; ordained deacon 26 Apr 1835 (Rochester, lit.dim. from Ely), priest 1836 ; Rector of Mamhead, Devon, 1845-77 ; Prebendary of Exeter from 1876 ; Rector of Powderham, Devon, from 1877 ; succ.nephew as 13th Earl of Devon 15 Jan 1891 ; m. 6 Jan 1835 Lady Anna Maria Leslie, dau. of George Gwyther (afterwards Leslie), Leslie House, Fifeshire, formerly employee in nursery garden business in London, and sister of George Leslie, 15th Earl of Rothes (S) ; d. 29 Jan 1904.
COURTENAY, HENRY REGINALD, brother of William Courtenay, 1st Viscount Courtenay (qv) ; b. 8 Jun 1714 ; adm. Feb 1724/5 ; in school list 1729 ; Magdalen Coll.Oxford, matr. 3 May 1731 ; MP Honiton 1741-7, and from 1754 ; m. 14 Apr 1737 Lady Catherine Bathurst, dau. of Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst ; d. 30 Apr 1763.
COURTENAY, HENRY REGINALD, second son of Henry Reginald Courtenay (qv) ; b. 27 Nov 1741 ; adm. Apr 1751 ; Min.Can.1754 ; KS 1755 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1759, matr. 19 Jun 1759, Westminster Student 5 Jan 1760 – void 26 Jan 1769 (expiry year of grace as R.Sapperton), Tutor 1763-7 ; BA 1763 ; MA 1766 ; DCL 1774 ; ordained deacon 23 Sep 1764, priest 21 Sep 1766 (both Exeter) ; Domestic Chaplain to William Courtenay 2nd Viscount Courtenay (qv) 1 Oct 1764 – 30 Sep 1774 ; Rector of Sapperton, Gloucs., 25 Jan 1768-73 ; Vicar of Spelsbury, Oxfordshire 9 Feb 1769 – Jan 1774 ; Prebendary of Exeter 1772-94 ; Prebendary of Rochester Sep 1773 – Jun 1774, Sep 1783 – Mar 1797 ; Rector of Lee, Kent, from 1773 ; Chaplain to King George III Apr 1772 – Mar 1794 ; Rector of St.George’s, Hanover Square, London, from 16 Jun 1774 ; consecrated Bishop of Bristol, 11 May 1794 ; translated to Exeter 10 Mar 1797 ; m. 20 Jan 1774 Lady Elizabeth Howard, dau. of Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of Effingham ; d. 9 Jun 1803. ODNB.
COURTENAY, HENRY REGINALD, LORD COURTENAY, eldest son of Henry Hugh Courtenay, 13th Earl of Devon (qv) ; b. 20 Jan 1836 ; adm. 22 Jun 1848 ; left Jun 1849 ; Merton Coll.Oxford, matr. 16 Jun 1854 ; migr. to New Inn Hall ; BA 1859 ; adm.Inner Temple 9 Nov 1861, called to bar 17 Nov 1864 ; Sub-Inspector, Poor Law Board, 1869-71, Local Government Board 1871-4 ; General Inspector, Local Government Board, 1874-96 ; styled Lord Courtenay from 1891 ; JP Devon ; m. 12 Jun 1862 Lady Evelyn Pepys, youngest dau. of Charles Pepys, 1st Earl of Cottenham PC, Lord Chancellor ; d. 27 May 1898.
COURTENAY, REGINALD, second son of Hon.Thomas Peregrine Courtenay (qv) ; b. 27 Feb 1813 ; adm. 12 May 1824 ; KS 1826 ; at Tonbridge Sch 1827-30 ; St.Alban Hall, Oxford, matr. 8 Jul 1830 ; migrated to Magdalen Hall ; BA 1835 ; MA 1838 ; BD and DD 1856 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 2 Jun 1835, called to bar 22 Nov 1838 ; ordained deacon 1841, priest 22 May 1842 (Dublin) ; Curate, Donnybrook, co.Dublin, and afterwards of St.Stephen’s, Dublin ; Rector of Thornton Watlass, Yorks., 1842-52 ; Archdeacon of Middlesex, Jamaica, 1853-6 ; consecrated Bishop of Kingston, Jamaica, 24 Mar 1856 ; Coadjutor to Bishop of Jamaica 1856-72 ; Bishop of Jamaica 1872-9 ; Chaplain at L’Ermitage, France, 1881-6 ; author, The Future States, 1843 ; m. 23 Jul 1842 Georgiana, second dau. of Admiral Sir John Poo Beresford, Bart. KCB MP ; d. 13 Apr 1906.
COURTENAY, HON.THOMAS PEREGRINE, younger son of Henry Reginald Courtenay (adm.1751, qv) ; b. 31 May 1782 ; adm. ; KS 1796 ; a Junior Clerk, Treasury, 23 May 1799-1802 ; Cashier of the Stationery Office, 13 Jul 1802-13 ; Colonial Agent for Ceylon 1804-6 ; Principal Registrar under Land Tax Redemption Acts 1806-13 ; Deputy Paymaster-General of the Forces 1807-11 ; MP Totnes 22 Oct 1811-32 ; Secretary to Board of Control 20 Aug 1812-28 ; agent for Cape of Good Hope 1813-33 ; Vice-President, Board of Trade, 30 May 1828 -Nov 1830 ; Privy Councillor 30 May 1828 ; member, Board of Control, 31 Jul 1828 – Nov 1830 ; author, Memoir of the Life and Works of Sir William Temple, Bart.,1836, and other works ; m. 5 Apr 1805 Anne, dau. of Mayow Wynell-Mayow, Sydenham, Kent, Solicitor of Excise ; drowned while bathing in sea near Torquay, Devon, 8 Jul 1841. ODNB.
COURTENAY, THOMAS PEREGRINE, eldest son of Hon.Thomas Peregrine Courtenay (qv) ; b. 21 Feb 1810 ; adm. 7 May 1821 ; Junior Clerk, Treasury, 24 Feb 1826-34, Assistant Clerk, 17 Oct 1834-52, Senior Clerk 20 Feb 1852 – res 4 Dec 1855 ; Private Secretary to Financial Secretary to Treasury Jan – Apr 1835, Sep 1841 – Feb 1845 ; Private Secretary to Right Hon.Benjamin Disraeli MP, Chancellor of Exchequer Mar – Dec 1852 ; Secretary, Commission of Inquiry into the Customs ; d.unm. 7 Jun 1861.
COURTENAY, WILLIAM, 1ST VISCOUNT COURTENAY, third son of Sir William Courtenay, Bart., MP, and Lady Anne Bertie, second dau. of James Bertie, 1st Earl of Abingdon ; b. 11 Feb 1709/10 ; adm.Oct 1722 ; in under school list 1725 ; Magdalen Coll.Oxford, matr. 4 Jun 1729 ; MA 28 Jan 1730/1 ; DCL 16 May 1739 ; MP Honiton 1734-41, Devonshire 1741 – 6 May 1762 ; succ.father as 7th baronet 10 Oct 1735 ; cr.Viscount Courtenay 6 May 1762 ; a print after a drawing by him of School and College from Little Dean’s Yard is in the Department of Prints and Drawings, British Museum ; m. 2 Apr 1741 Lady Frances Finch, youngest dau. of Heneage Finch, 2nd Earl of Aylesford (qv) ; d. 16 May 1762.
COURTENAY, WILLIAM, eldest son of Henry Reginald Courtenay (adm.1724/5, qv) ; b. 9 Sep 1738 ; adm. Jun 1748 ; KS 1752 ; Capt. of the School 1756 ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1757, matr. 8 Jun 1757, Westminster Student 5 Jan 1758 – 8 Nov 1760, void on election to Fellowship All Souls ; BA 1761 ; MA 1774 ; Fellow, All Souls Coll., 1760 ; adm.Middle Temple 30 Dec 1761 ; ordained deacon 29 May 1774, priest 24 Jun 1774 (both Winchester) ; Rector of Kenn, Devon, from 29 Jun 1774 ; Domestic Chaplain to William Courtenay, 2nd Viscount Courtenay (qv), from 8 Aug 1775 ; Rector of Little Hempston, Devon, from Sep 1777 ; patentee of the Subpoena Office in Court of Chancery from 26 May 1778 ; m. 31 Dec 1764 Anne, dau. of John Downes, Otterbury, Hampshire ; d. 27 Nov 1783.
COURTENAY, WILLIAM, 2ND VISCOUNT COURTENAY, only son of William Courtenay, 1st Viscount Courtenay (qv) ; b. 30 Aug 1742 ; at school under Markham (Steward, Anniversary Dinner, 1769) ; Magdalen Coll.Oxford, matr. 21 Mar 1761 ; succ.father as 2nd Viscount Courtenay 16 May 1762 ; m. at Edinburgh 7 May 1762 and at Powderham, Devon, 19 Dec 1763 Frances, dau. of Thomas Clack, Wallingford, Berks., publican ; d. 14 Dec 1788.
COURTENAY, WILLIAM, 9TH EARL OF DEVON, only son of William Courtenay, 2nd Viscount Courtenay (qv) ; b. 30 Jul 1768 ; adm.12 Apr 1779 ; left 1784 ; acted in Town Boy play Tamerlane 7 Dec 1782 ; succ.father as 3rd Viscount Courtenay 14 Dec 1788 ; his claim to the Earldom of Devon was established in the House of Lords 15 Mar 1831 ; did not take seat in House of Lords either as Viscount or as Earl ; William Beckford became enamoured with him while he was still a boy, and the resulting scandal destroyed Beckford’s prospects in public life and society ; revelations about his own homosexuality led him to flee to the United States in 1810 ; he was subsequently to settle in France ; see D.Presswell, The Exiled Earl, William Courtenay – Fact and Fiction, 2009 ; d.unm. at Paris 26 May 1835.
COURTENAY, WILLIAM, 10TH EARL OF DEVON, elder son of Henry Reginald Courtenay (adm.1751, qv) ; b. 19 Jun 1777 ; adm. ; in school list Dec 1788 ; KS 1790 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1794, matr.18 Jun 1794, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1794 – 15 Dec 1804, void by marriage ; BA 1798 ; MA 1801 ; DCL 1837 ; patentee of the Subpoena Office in Court of Chancery 1784-1852, when office abolished ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 3 Dec 1793, Tancred Law Scholar, called to bar 11 Jun 1799 ; a Commissioner of Bankrupts (appears in annual lists 1801-17) ; Recorder of Exeter 1814 ; a Master in Chancery 30 Jul 1817 – 23 Mar 1826 ; MP Exeter 1812 – Jan 1826 ; Clerk Assistant, House of Lords 8 Feb 1826 – 26 May 1835 ; succ.cousin as 10th Earl of Devon 26 May 1835 ; High Steward, University of Oxford, from 1838 ; an Ecclesiastical Commissioner 21 Jan 1842 – Aug 1850 ; Busby Trustee 26 May 1826 ; m.1st, 29 Nov 1804 Lady Harriet Leslie, dau. of Sir Lucas Pepys, Bart., MD FRS FRCP, by the Countess of Rothes ; m.2nd, 30 Jan 1849 Elizabeth Ruth, dau. of Rev.John Middleton Scott, Ballygrannon, co.Wicklow ; d. 19 Mar 1859.
COURTENAY, WILLIAM REGINALD, 11TH EARL OF DEVON, elder son of William Courtenay, 10th Earl of Devon (qv) ; b. 14 Apr 1807 ; adm. (G) 16 Sep 1818 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr.30 Mar 1824 ; President, Oxford Union 1827 ; 1st cl.Classics 1827 ; BA 1828 ; BCL 1831 ; DCL 1838 ; Fellow, All Souls Coll., 1828-30 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 22 Mar 1828, called to bar 27 Jan 1832 ; MP (Cons) South Devon 1841 – Feb 1849 ; a Poor Law Inspector 1849-50 ; Secretary, Poor Law Board 1850-9 ; succ.father as 11th Earl of Devon 19 Mar 1859 ; took Conservative whip in House of Lords ; member, Public Schools Commission, 1862 ; Chancellor, Duchy of Lancaster, Jul 1866 – May 1867 ; Privy Councillor 10 Jul 1866 ; President, Poor Law Board, May 1867 – Dec 1868 ; known in Devon as “the good earl” ; Chairman, Devon Quarter Seesions, from 1836 ; DL JP Devon, JP co.Limerick ; Busby Trustee 11 May 1861 ; member governing body, Westminster School, from 1869 ; edited with others vol.6 of Cases decided in the House of Lords on appeal from the Courts of Scotland, 1832-3 ; m. 27 Dec 1830 Lady Elizabeth Fortescue, seventh dau. of Hugh Fortescue, 1st Earl Fortescue ; d. 18 Nov 1888. ODNB.
COURTHOP(E), SIR GEORGE, eldest son of Sir George Courthop(e), Kt., Whiligh, Ticehurst, Kent, Commissioner of the Alienation Office, and his first wife Alice, dau. of Sir George Rivers, Kt., MP, Chafford House, Kent ; bapt. Penshurst, Kent 3 Jun 1616 ; at Westerham GS c.1623-30, Merchant Taylors’ Sch., and finally at Westminster under Osbaldeston (The Memoirs of Sir George Courthop, Camden Miscellany xi, 103, Camden Society Publications, 3rd Series, vol.xiii) ; University Coll.Oxford, matr. 22 Jun 1632, aged 16 ; BA 1635 ; Grand Tour (France, Italy, Aegean, Turkey) 1636-9 ; a Commissioner of the Alienation Office 1642-3, 1654-77 ; MP Sussex Sep 1656 – Feb 1657/8, East Grinstead 1659 – Jan 1678/9 ; knighted 24 Apr 1661 ; a Gentleman Pensioner from Jun 1660 ; DL Sussex ; m. 12 Jul 1643 Elizabeth, only dau. of Edward Hawes, London, merchant ; d. 18 Nov 1685.
COUSSMAKER, GEORGE, only son of Lieut.-Col.George Kien Hayward Coussmaker, 1st Foot Guards, and Hon.Catherine Southwell, sister of Edward Southwell, 21st Baron De Clifford (qv) ; b.1797 ; adm. 20 Apr 1808, left 1814 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 23 May 1814, aged 17 ; MP Kinsale from 1818 ; d.unm. 23 May 1821.
COVENTRY, GEORGE WILLIAM, 7TH EARL OF COVENTRY, only son of George William Coventry, 6th Earl of Coventry, Lord Lieut.Worcestershire, and his first wife Maria, sister of John Gunning (qv) ; b. 28 Apr 1758 ; styled Viscount Deerhust 1758-1809 ; adm. 5 Mar 1767 ; left Whitsun 1775 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 5 Jan 1776 ; blinded in hunting accident Nov 1780 ; Lord Lieut., Worcestershire from 23 Nov 1808 ; succ.father as 7th Earl of Coventry 3 Sep 1809 ; Recorder of Worcester ; High Steward of Tewkesbury ; m.1st, 18 Mar 1777 Lady Catherine Henley, fourth dau. of Robert Henley, 1st Earl of Northington (qv) ; m.2nd, 10 Jan 1783 Peggy, second dau. of Sir Abraham Pitches, Kt, Streatham, Surrey ; d. 26 Mar 1831.
COVENTRY, GEORGE WILLIAM, 8TH EARL OF COVENTRY, eldest son of George William Coventry, 7th Earl of Coventry (qv), and his second wife ; b. 16 Oct 1784 ; in school list 1801 ; played cricket against Eton 31 Jul 1801 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 4 Feb 1802 ; styled Viscount Deerhurst 1809-31 ; MP Worcester 23 Dec 1816-26 ; succ.father as 8th Earl of Coventry 26 Mar 1831 ; DL Worcs. 1803, Vice-Lieut. 1826 ; m.1st, 16 Jan 1808 Hon.Emma Susanna Lygon, sister of William Beauchamp Lygon, 2nd Earl Beauchamp (qv) ; m.2nd, 22 Jun 1811 (in Scotland) and 6 Nov 1811 (in England) Lady Mary Beauclerk, only dau. of Aubrey Beauclerk, 6th Duke of St.Albans, and his first wife ; d. 15 May 1843.
COVENTRY, HON.JOHN, second son of George William Coventry, 7th Earl of Coventry (qv), and his second wife ; b. 30 Jun 1789 ; at school 1800 ; in school list 1801 ; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm.fellow commoner 14 Dec 1808, but did not matr. ; Cornet, 10th Light Dragoons (Hussars) 13 Sep 1821, half-pay ; d. 24 May 1852.
COVENTRY, HON.THOMAS HENRY, fourth son of George William Coventry, 7th Earl of Coventry (qv) and his second wife ; b.18 Sep 1792 ; adm.18 Jan 1805 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 17 Oct 1811 ; BA 1815 ; MA 1827 ; ordained deacon 9 Jun 1816 (Salisbury, lit.dim. from London), priest 1816 ; Domestic Chaplain to George William Coventry, 7th Earl of Coventry (qv), 11 Jun 1816 ; Rector of Pirton with Croome D’Abitot, Worcs., 1 Nov 1816-33 ; Rector of Hill Croome, Worcs., from 19 Feb 1827 ; Rector of Severn Stoke, Worcs., from 2 Mar 1833 ; d. 20 Aug 1869.
COVENTRY, HON.WILLIAM JAMES, youngest son of George William Coventry, 7th Earl of Coventry (qv), and his second wife ; b. 1 Jan 1797 ; adm. 15 Jan 1806 (Packharness) ; left 1810 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 27 Feb 1815 ; DL JP Worcestershire ; m. 26 Jul 1821 Mary, dau. of James Laing, Jamaica, plantation owner ; d. 11 Mar 1877.
COVERT, COCKQUERELL, elder son of Rev.Charles Randall Covert, Vicar of North Mundham, Sussex, and Martha, dau. of George Cockquerell, Heyshott, Sussex ; b. 27 May 1709 ; adm. (aged 13) Aug 1722 ; apprenticed to Michael Thompson, citizen and mercer ; adm.attorney, Common Pleas, 29 Oct 1732, and adm.solicitor, 27 May 1734 ; practised at Chichester ; d. 5 May 1737.
COWDELL, HENRY SEWARD, son of Alfred Burton Cowdell, Croydon, Surrey, solicitor, and Helen, dau. of Joseph James, Highfield House, Edgbaston, Birmingham, Warwickshire ; b. 5 Jun 1855 ; adm. (G) 23 Sep 1869, left Whitsun 1872 ; adm.solicitor May 1878 ; practised in Budge Row, London, firm Cowdell and Son ; m.1st, 2 Feb 1889 Ethel Bertha, dau. of Thomas Reid, Addiscombe, Surrey ; m.2nd, 4 Jun 1903 Georgina Checas, widow of Joseph Westwood MICE, Hampstead, Middlesex, partner Joseph Westwood & Co, constructional engineers ; d. 14 Aug 1924.
COWELL, ALARIC CARLISLE ANTROBUS, brother of Wilfrid Hammerton Antrobus Cowell (qv) ; b. 4 Apr 1869 ; adm. (H) 16 Jun 1881, left Dec 1885 ; partner, Cowell & Co, wine merchants, London, to 1896, Bouverie Cowell & Erskine, wine merchants 1896-7, Bouverie Cowell & Co, wine merchants 1897-9 ; d. in West Africa 11 Dec 1905, buried at Sekondi.
COWELL, GEORGE, son of George Cowell, London ; b. ; adm. Christmas 1811, left 1814 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 19 Jun 1815, matr. Mich.1815 ; BA 1820 ; ordained deacon 24 Dec 1820 (London for Canterbury), priest 23 Sep 1821 (Canterbury) ; Curate, St.Michael, Crooked Lane, London, 1821. [Presumably George Cowell, son of George Cowell and Isabella —, bapt.St.Botolph without Aldgate, London 22 Nov 1796 (IGI)] [probably George Cowell, MA (sic), Trinity College, Cambridge, Professor of English Literature, Racine College, Wisconsin, USA, in 1847 (in 1857 acting Professor of Greek and Latin there) ; living in Racine, Wisconsin, in 1860 (US Census 1860, but said to have been born in England c.1801) ; m. 22 Jul 1828 Frances, dau. of Rev.William Whitfield Dakins DD FSA, Minor Canon and Precentor, Westminster Abbey, and Rector of St.Magnus, London Bridge, and St.Michael, Crooked Lane, City of London] [perhaps also Chaplain to the Forces (stationed in Montreal 1841) ; Headmaster of Collegiate School, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada ; Rector of Woodstock, New Brunswick 1828-30] [mother perhaps dau. of William Ince, London and Crouch End, Middlesex, cabinet maker ; father of Fitzroy Square, and of Lynton, Devon]
COWELL, JOHN JERMYN, son of John Welsford Cowell, Gloucester Terrace, Hyde Park, a clerk in Bank of England, and Frances, dau. of John Maberly MP, manufacturer and army contractor ; b. 30 Jan 1838 ; adm.7 Jun 1850 (R) ; QS 1852 ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1856, adm.pens. 5 May 1856, scholar 1857, matr.Mich.1856 ; BA 1860 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 21 Apr 1860, called to bar 30 Apr 1864 ; Secretary, The Alpine Club ; Cowell seems to have developed his fondness for climbing while at school, for he “climbed with another Westminster boy to the top of the Victoria Tower, which was then building, walked out to the end of a beam, projecting over London, and looked down” (Oscar Browning, Memoirs of Sixty Years, 39, 57, 58-61) ; d. 16 Dec 1867.
COWELL, SIBERT FORREST ANTROBUS, brother of Wilfrid Hammerton Antrobus Cowell (qv) ; b. 24 Sep 1863 ; adm.(H) 15 Jun 1876 ; QS Jan 1879 ; left 1882 ; University Coll.Oxford, matr. 14 Oct 1882 ; BA 1886 ; MA 1911 ; Assistant Secretary, Royal College of Surgeons, 1888-1901, Secretary 1901-34 ; d.unm. 13 Jan 1949.
COWELL, WILFRID HAMMERTON ANTROBUS, eldest son of Thomas William Cowell MRCS LSA, Piccadilly, London, and Frances Ann, dau. of Edmund Edward Antrobus DL FSA, Kensington Palace Gardens, London, and Charing Cross, Westminster, wholesale tea dealer ; b. 2 Oct 1856 ; adm. 12 Jun 1868 ; QS 1871 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1875, matr. 20 May 1875 ; BA 1879 ; MA 1882 ; Assistant Master, St.Edward’s School, Oxford 1880, Tutor 1893, Second Master from 1925 ; edited The Roll of St.Edward’s School, 1890, 2nd ed. 1898, 3rd ed. 1907 ; d. unm. 5 Sep 1937.
COWELLE, — ; b. ; adm. ; KS ; left by Jun 1549 (Acts of Chapter, surname read as Cowell by Knighton).
COWES, JAMES, son of Edmond Cowes, London ; b. ; adm. ; KS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1646, but he had been detained at school “through the exigence of warre” and was granted seniority at Christ Church as of 1 May 1645 (Burrows, ed., 1881, 268), matr. 29 Jan 1646/7, aged 17, Westminster Student ; BA 1649 ; MA 1651 (incorp.Cambridge 1654) ; submitted to Parliamentary Visitors 28 May 1648 (Burrows, op.cit., 116) ; Chaplain, Christ Church 1650 ; subscribed the Engagement 1650/1 (Burrows, ibid., 329); ordained ; Rector of Luddenham, Kent, from 10 Apr 1661 ; Perpetual Curate, Oare, Kent, from 1668 ; d.1674.
COWLEY, ABRAHAM, seventh and posthumous child of Thomas Cowley, St.Michael Le Querne, London, citizen and stationer, and Thomasine — ; b.1618 ; adm. ; Min.Can.1630 ; KS ; author, Poetical Blossoms, dedicated to his schoolmaster Lambert Osbaldeston (qv) and published 1633 ; while in College he also wrote Love’s Riddle, a pastoral comedy, not published until 1638 ; failed to obtain election to either university 1636 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 21 Apr 1636, scholar (by dispensatory letter from King) 14 Jun 1637 ; his Latin play, Naufragium Joculare, was played before the University by members of Trinity Coll. 2 Feb 1638 ; BA 1639/40 ; MA 1643 ; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll., from 30 Oct 1640 ; ejected by Parliamentary Visitors for non-residence etc. 1644 and went to Oxford, taking up residence in St.John’s Coll. ; went abroad 1646 ; employed in diplomatic services by exiled Royalist court ; returned to England as Royalist spy 1654 ; author, Miscellanies, 1656 ; MD Oxford 2 Dec 1657 (incorp. Cambridge 11 Jul 1664) ; withdrew to France, but returned at Restoration ; applied for Mastership of Savoy 1661, unsuccessfully ; his Works were first published in a collected form in 1668, when Several Discourses by way of Essays in Prose and Verse appeared for the first time ; some hitherto unpublished Verses on the Happy Birth of the Duke of York are printed in the Elizabethan, v, 54-5, viii, 281 ; d. unm. 28 Jul 1667, and buried in Poets’ Corner, Westminster Abbey. ODNB.
COWLEY, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Sep 1750 ; in school list 1754.
COWPER, EDWARD, second son of James Cowper MP, Lincoln’s Inn, barrister, and Anne, dau. of John Wroth, Loughton, Essex ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1676 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 19 Jun 1680, aged 17, scholar 22 Apr 1681, matr.1681 ; adm.Middle Temple 23 Jan 1682/3 ; buried 14 Jul 1688.
COWPER, JOHN, son of Spencer Cowper (b.1669, qv), and his first wife ; bapt.St.Olave’s, Southwark 8 Aug 1694 (IGI); at school under Freind (J.Peile, Biog.Reg. of Christ’s Coll., ii, 178) ; Christ’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 25 Jun 1711, scholar 26 Mar 1713, matr.1711/2, resided to Mich.1713 ; DD 1728 ; migr. to Merton Coll.Oxford, matr. 14 Oct 1714 ; BA 1715/6 ; MA 1718 ; Fellow of Merton Coll. 1715-22 ; ordained deacon 8 Jun 1718, priest 24 May 1719 (both Oxford) ; Rector of Great Berkhampstead, Herts., from 11 May 1722 ; Chaplain to King George II 3 Oct 1727 – Aug 1751 ; joint patentee for making out Commissions, Commissioners of Bankruptcy Apr 1731 (still Chamberlayne 1748) ; m. 1st, 1728 Anne, dau. of Roger Donne, Ludham Hall, Norfolk ; m.2nd, 8 Jan 1740/1 Rebecca, widow of Obadiah Marryat, St.Clement Danes, London, attorney, and dau. of — Moxon ; d. 10 Jul 1756.
COWPER, SPENCER, younger brother of William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper (qv) ; b. 23 Feb 1669/70 ; at school under Busby (Howell, State Trials, xiii, 1180) ; Christ’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 13 Feb 1685/6, matr.1686, resided to Mich.1687 ; adm.Middle Temple 7 May 1687, called to bar 26 May 1693 ; Home Circuit ; tried with three others at Hertfordshire Assizes Jul 1699 for murder of Sarah Stout, a quakeress, but acquitted ; there was practically no evidence of the crime against the accused, and the trial is a curious illustration of the crass stupidity of mens’ minds when blinded by religious and political fanaticism (Howell, State Trials, xiii, 1105-1250) ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 21 Oct 1713, Bencher 12 Feb 1715, Treasurer 28 Nov 1715 ; Bencher, Middle Temple 23 Oct 1718 ; MP Bere Alston 1 Dec 1705-10, Truro 1715-27 ; one of the managers of Sacheverell’s impeachment, 1709-10 ; Attorney-General to Prince of Wales 12 Oct 1714-27, to Duchy of Lancaster from 1727 ; KC 5 Jan 1715 ; Chief Justice of Chester 17 Jul 1717-27 ; a Judge of the Common Pleas (and Serjeant-at-Law) from 24 Oct 1727 ; m.1st, 7 Feb 1687/8 Pennington, dau. of John Goodere ; m.2nd, 25 Jul 1728 Theodora, widow of John Stepney ; d. 10 Dec 1728. ODNB.
COWPER, HON.SPENCER, second son of William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper PC (qv), and his second wife ; b. ; in school list Feb 1727/8 (fifth form) ; Exeter Coll.Oxford, matr. 16 May 1729, aged 16 ; BA 14 Mar 1731/2 ; MA 1734 ; BD and DD 1746 ; ordained deacon 26 Aug 1738, priest 23 Sep 1738 (both Oxford) ; Rector of Fordwich, Kent, from 15 Apr 1742 ; Prebendary of Canterbury 21 May 1742 – Jun 1746 ; Dean of Durham from 14 Jul 1746 ; m. 19 May 1743 Hon.Dorothy Townshend, dau. of Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend KG PC, Secretary of State and Lord President of the Council ; d. 25 Mar.1774. ODNB.
COWPER, SPENCER, son of William Cowper (at school under Knipe, qv) ; b. ; adm. (aged 7) Jun 1733 ; left 1742 ; Worcester Coll.Oxford, matr. 1 Dec 1742 ; adm.Middle Temple 11 Jun 1741 ; Ensign, 1st Foot Guards, 17 Jan 1747 ; Lieut. and Capt., 2 Feb 1753 ; Capt.-Lieut., 23 Jul 1760 ; Capt. and Lieut.-Col., 22 Dec 1761 ; Brevet Col., 25 May 1772 ; retd. 24 Nov 1773 ; Lieut.-Gov.Tynemouth (occurs -1774-90-) ; Major-Gen., 19 Feb 1779 ; Lieut.-Gen., 28 Sep 1787 ; commanded a brigade in American War ; m. 12 May 1748 (IGI) Charlotte, dau. of John Baber, Sunninghill Park, Berks. ; d. 13 Mar 1797.
COWPER, THOMAS, (at school 1582), see COOPER, THOMAS.
COWPER, THOMAS ; b. ; in school list 1727/8 (fifth form).
COWPER, WILLIAM, 1st EARL COWPER, eldest son of Sir William Cowper, Bart., MP, The Castle, Hertford, Hertfordshire, landowner, and Sarah, dau. of Samuel Holled, London, merchant ; b.c.1665 ; ed. St.Albans Sch. 1672 ; subsequently at school under Busby (ODNB, quoting a memorandum in his handwriting referring to a compendium “by which I learnd the Syrian dialect at Westminster Schoole”) ; adm.Middle Temple 8 Mar 1681/2, called to bar 25 May 1688 ; led party of volunteers to join William III’s forces at Wallingford Nov 1688 ; KC 1694 ; Recorder of Colchester 1694 ; MP Hertford 1695-1700, Beeralston 7 Mar 1701- 11 Oct 1705 ; Lord Keeper of the Great Seal 11 Oct 1705 ; Privy Councillor 1705 ; succ. father as 3rd baronet Nov 1706 ; cr. Baron Cowper 14 Dec 1706 ; Lord Chancellor 4 May 1707 – 23 Sep 1710, 21 Sep 1714 – 15 Apr 1718 ; cr.Earl Cowper 18 Mar 1718 ; FRS 3 Apr 1706 ; m. 1st, 7 Jul 1688 Judith, dau. of Sir Robert Booth, Kt, London, merchant ; m.2nd, 18 Sep 1706 Mary, Lady of Bedchamber to Caroline, Princess of Wales, dau. of John Clavering, Chopwell,co.Durham ; d. 10 Oct 1723. ODNB.
COWPER, WILLIAM, son of Spencer Cowper (b.1669, qv), and his first wife ; b. ; at school under Knipe (Steward, Anniversary Meeting 1734) ; left 1705 (“taken [by his father] from Westminster School without, nay against the consent of his grandfather”, when “not sixteen till November” (diary entry for 1705 by Sarah, Lady Cowper, cited in A. Kugler, Errant plagiary, the life and writings of Lady SarahCowper 1644-1720, 2002, p.27) ; Wadham Coll.Oxford, matr. 14 Feb 1705/6, aged 16 ; adm. Middle Temple 5 Nov 1705, called to bar 8 Feb 1711/2 ; Clerk of the Parliaments from 5 Jan 1715/6 ; joint patentee for making out Commissions in Bankruptcy from Apr 1731 ; m. 19 Jul 1716 Joan, dau. of John Budget, Chelsea, Middlesex ; d. 14 Feb 1740, aged 51.
COWPER, WILLIAM, eldest son of William Cowper (at school under Knipe, qv); b. ; adm. (aged 8) Apr 1730 ; left 1737 ; Worcester Coll.Oxford, matr. 1 Mar 1738/9 ; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 22 Apr 1740 ; of Hertingfordbury, Herts. ; MP Hertford from 1768 ; DL Hertfordshire 1745, JP Hertfordshire ; Maj., Hertfordshire Militia ; m. 5 Aug 1749 his cousin Maria Frances Cecilia, sister of Martin Madan (qv) ; d. 27 [or 28 ?] Aug 1769.
COWPER, WILLIAM, elder surviving son of John Cowper (qv), and his first wife ; b. 15 Nov 1731 ; adm. Apr 1742 (Playford/Ludford) ; left 1749 ; articled to — Chapman, attorney, Greville Street, Holborn 1750-2 ; adm.Middle Temple 29 Apr 1748, called to bar 14 Jun 1754 ; fell in love with his cousin Theodora Cowper, but the marriage was forbidden by her father ; contributed verses to various papers ; a member of the Nonsense Club, chiefly composed of Westminster men who dined together weekly ; migrated to Inner Temple, adm.there 17 Jun 1757 ; tenant of chambers Inner Temple 1757 to death (let out after 1763); a Commissioner of Bankrupts (occurs in annual lists 1758-65) ; Clerk of Journals, House of Lords c.May – Nov 1763 ; the stress brought on by his acceptance of the appointment caused a suicide attempt and nervous breakdown ; an inmate of Nathaniel Cotton’s private lunatic asylum at St.Albans, Dec 1763 – Jun 1765 ; lived with the Unwins at Huntingdon 1765-7 and subsequently with Mrs Unwin at Olney, where he was employed by the Rev.John Newton as a sort of lay-reader and district visitor ; composed hymns, a number of which are printed in Newton’s Olney Hymns, 1779 ; became engaged to Mrs Unwin ; again deranged 1773-5 and for part of that time a guest in Newton’s house ; occupied himself in gardening and writing verse ; published Anti-Thelypthora, 1781, an anonymous attack on the defence of polygamy written by his cousin Martin Madan (qv) in the previous year ; published Poems,Feb 1782 ; wrote the famous ballad of John Gilpin, first published in The Public Advertiser, Nov 1782 ; began translating Homer 1784 ; published The Task, 1785 ; removed to Weston, Nov.1786 ; again became insane 1787 ; published his translation of Homer, 1791 ; undertook to edit Milton ; removed in 1795 to East Dereham, Norfolk, where Mrs Unwin died in the following year ; a complete edition of his works was published in 15 vols. by Robert Southey (qv) in 1834-7 ; Cowper’s schooldays, to which he frequently refers in his correspondence, were probably the happiest days of his life, and his recollections of them afforded him much pleasure ; he appears to have enjoyed playing cricket and football ; his favourite friend was Sir William Russell, Bart. (qv), but he was “much intimate” with Walter Bagot (adm.1739/40, qv) ; he had a “particular value” for Warren Hastings (qv), to whom he addressed some lines on his impeachment, and he showed his friendly feeling for Robert Lloyd (qv) in the verse epistle which he addressed to him in 1754 ; his poem Table Talk contains an interesting allusion to the custom in his time of awarding pieces of Maundy Money for a good copy of verses (lines 507-11) ; d. unm. 25 Apr 1800. Memorial window in baptistery of Westminster Abbey. ODNB.
COX, — ; b. ; adm. Jun or Jul 1716 ; in under school list 1717 ; perhaps a chorister.
COX, — ; b. ; in school list 1729.
[COX, — ; b. ; in school list 1733. Perhaps Samuel Cox (qv)]
COX, — ; b. ; at school 9 May 1789 ; perhaps at school 1795.
COX, — (“the Rev.Mr.Cox, an Old Westminster”, met in Berlin in 1806 by Sir George Jackson (qv)), see COX, THOMAS (KS 1763, qv).
COX, — , son of Thomas Cox (KS 1763, qv) ; b. ; adm. ; at school under Vincent ; described by Sir George Jackson (qv), who met his father in Berlin in 1806, as “a frequenter of Dean’s Yard at the same time as myself” (i.e. c.1800) (Lady Jackson, ed., Diaries and Letters of Sir George Jackson KCH, i, 411-2).
COX, CHARLES HENRY, second surviving son of Richard Cox, Oxford, banker, mercer and linen draper, Mayor of Oxford, and Mary Adams ; b. 16 Nov 1797 ; adm. Mich.1810 ; KS (aged 14) 1812 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1816, matr. 25 May 1816, Westminster Student ; BA 1820 ; MA 1822 ; ordained deacon 23 Dec 1820, priest 23 Dec 1821 (both Oxford); Vicar of St.Mary Magdalen, Oxford, 7 Nov 1823 – Oct 1827 ; Sub-Librarian, Bodleian Library, Oxford 1826-8 ; Perpetual Curate, Benson, Oxfordshire 28 May 1828 – Feb 1834 ; Perpetual Curate, North and South Littleton, Worcs., 11 Dec 1833-45 ; Rector of Oulton, Suffolk, from 1845 ; m. 31 Jan 1837 Elizabeth, eldest dau. of Rev.Giles Haworth Peel, Vicar of Ince, Cheshire ; d. 1 Oct 1850.
COX, GEORGE ; b. ; adm. (aged 13) Jun 1747 ; left 1747.
COX, HUGH BERTRAM, youngest son of Rev.John Edmund Cox DD, Rector of St.Helen’s, Bishopsgate, London, and Emily Clara, dau. of John Pittman, Montpelier, South Lambeth ; b. 19 Apr 1861 ; adm. 22 Jun 1874 ; Mure scholar 1877 ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1879, matr. 10 Oct 1879 ; 1st cl.Classics (Mods) 1881, 1st cl.Lit.Hum.1883 ; BA 1883 ; BCL and MA 1886 ; adm.Inner Temple 22 Jun 1882, called to bar 29 Apr 1885 ; assisted Attorney-General with parliamentary and official work 1886-97 ; Junior Counsel to Treasury in peerage cases 1892-7, to HM Customs 1896-7 ; Assistant Under-Secy. (Legal), Colonial Office 1897-1911 ; Solicitor to Board of Inland Revenue 1911-21 ; CB 11 Jul 1902 ; joint author, Leaves from the Journals of Sir George Smart ; m. 2 Sep 1896 Rachel, youngest dau. of Sir Julius Richard Glyn (qv) ; d. 31 Dec 1930.
COX, JAMES ; b. ; ad. 17 Jun 1768 ; in school list 1771.
COX, JOHN ; b. ; adm. ; BB 1712-6 (Chapter Muniments 337448) ; in under school lists 1715, 1716.
COX, JOHN ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Oct 1721.
COX, PHILIP ZACHARIAH, son of Philip Cox, Queen Square, Westminster, and Sarah, dau. of Zachariah Button, Mucking Hall, Essex ; b. 10 Apr 1779 ; in school list 1795 ; Cornet, 3rd Dragoon Guards 28 Aug 1804, half-pay ; Cornet, 23rd Light Dragoons, 9 May 1805, Lieut., 17 Jan 1806, Capt., 15 Mar 1810, half pay 1818 ; served in Peninsular War and at battles of Talavera and Waterloo ; of Harwood Hall, Upminster, Essex ; m. 1st, 17 Feb 1817 Louisa Frances, younger dau. of Adm.Sir Albemarle Bertie, Bart. KCB ; m.2nd, 25 Apr 1838 Elizabeth Anne Frances, widow of Thomas Charles Pattle, EICS Canton, and of Maj.Alexander Robson, 19th Foot, and natural dau. of Nathaniel Middleton, EICS Bengal (and therefore half-sister of Hastings Nathaniel Middleton (qv)) ; d. 21 May 1858.
COX, R. ; b. ; at school under Nowell c.1543 (Brasenose Coll.Oxford, MSS 31, f.23b).
COX, RICHARD ; b. ; adm. 2 Jun 1777.
COX, SAMUEL, son of Samuel Cox, St.Giles, Cripplegate, London, and Judith Fox (IGI); bapt.St.Giles, Cripplegate 22 Aug 1718 (IGI); adm. ; Min.Can. (aged 13) 1733 ; KS 1734 ; left 1737 ; adm.Inner Temple 26 Oct 1737, called to bar 12 Jun 1741 ; adm.Staple Inn 25 Nov.1755 ; of Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane ; concerned with William Markham (adm.1733, qv) and Thomas Salter (adm.1720, qv) in financing the erection of the houses on the Terrace and the other alterations in Dean’s Yard, for which they procured an Act of Parliament ; godfather to Samuel Bentham (qv) (see Bentham’s Works, x, 26-7, 28-9) ; m. Nov 1756 Mary, youngest dau. of Godhard Hagen, Mark Lane, London, merchant ; d. 15 Oct 1776.
COX, SAMUEL COMPTON, only son of Samuel Cox (qv) ; bapt.St.Andrew, Holborn 5 Jan 1758 (IGI); adm. 16 Oct 1765 ; KS (aged 13) 1769 ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 1 Jun 1774, scholar 5 May 1775, matr.Mich.1774 ; BA and 11th Wrangler 1778 ; members’ (second) prize for Middle Bachelors 1779 ; MA 1781 ; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1779, Major Fellow 4 Jul 1781 ; adm.Inner Temple 15 May 1775, Lincoln’s Inn 20 Jan 1781, called to bar 15 Jun 1781 ; a Commissioner of Bankrupts 1787-98 (occurs in annual lists 1788-98) ; Second Justice of Carmarthen 1 Aug 1798-1804 ; a Master in Chancery 18 Jul 1804 – Mar 1831 ; Lieut.-Col., Bloomsbury Inns of Court Associated Volunteers 9 Apr 1803 ; Treasurer, Foundling Hospital, from 1806 ; left Lincoln’s Inn 6 Nov 1806 ; FSA (by 1831) ; edited the fifth edition of Peere Williams’s Reports in Chancery, 1787 ; m. 23 Jun 1787 Anna, youngest dau. of Percival Pott FRCS, Princes Street, Hanover Square, London, Surgeon to St.Bartholomew’s Hospital ; d. 25 Mar 1839.
COX, THOMAS ; b. ; adm. ; BB in 1711 (Chapter Muniments 33743).
COX, THOMAS ; b. ; adm. (aged 9) Jun 1727 ; left 1728.
COX, THOMAS, son of Rev.James Cox, St.James’s, London, and Eleanor — ; b. ; adm. ; BB ; KS (aged 13) 1763 ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 1 Jun 1768, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1768 – 26 Mar 1777 (expiry year of grace as Vicar of Badby-cum-Newnham) ; BA 1772 ; MA 1775 ; ordained deacon 21 Dec 1771 (London), priest 31 Jul 1774 (Lichfield) ; Garrison Chaplain, Port Louis, Senegal Jan 1772 ; Vicar of Badby-cum-Newnham, Northants., from 11 Mar 1776 ; spent much of his time on the European continent ; Sir George Jackson (qv) met him in Berlin in 1806, when he was travelling with Prince Ivan Ivanovich Bariatinsky, a Russian nobleman on his way to England (Lady Jackson, ed., Diaries and Letters of Sir George Jackson KCH, I, 411-2) ; FSA 1798 [check] ; m. 2 Mar 1783 Jane, eldest dau. of Robert Clavering (adm.1737, qv) ; d. 3 Feb 1816. The identification with “Rev.Mr.Cox”, the OW met by Jackson in Berlin in 1806 (above), was not made by Russell Barker and Stenning, but is demonstrable from the fact that Thomas Cox (KS 1763) was the clergyman who signed Prince Bariatinsky’s daughter’s birth certificate in 1807. [father probably Curate, St.James’s, Piccadilly]
COX, WALTER ; b. ; adm. (aged 14) Nov 1715.
COX, WILLIAM SPILLER, eldest son of Edward Webster Cox, Secretary, Land Securities Co., and chairman and man.dir. The Builder Ltd, and Julia Lamport, elder dau. of William Cook Spiller, Hampstead, Middlesex, accountant ; b. 7 Sep 1870 ; adm. as exhibitioner (H) 31 May 1883 ; QS 12 Jun 1884 ; left Apr 1888 ; Queen’s Coll.Oxford, matr. 22 Oct 1889 ; Thanet exhibitioner 1889 ; BA 1893 ; MA 1896 ; Wycliffe Hall, Oxford 1893 ; ordained deacon 1893, priest 1894 (both Rochester) ; Curate, St.Mary Magdalen, Peckham, Surrey, 1893-6 ; a CMS missionary in Sierra Leone 1896 ; see E.W.Cox, Early promoted, a memoir of the Rev.William Spiller Cox, 1898 ; d.unm. on his voyage home from West Africa 12 Jun 1897.
COXE, CHARLES, eldest son of John Coxe MP, barrister, Bencher Lincoln’s Inn, and Theodora, dau. of Thomas Eyre, Huntercombe, Burnham, Bucks. ; bapt.St.Andrew, Holborn 9 Jul 1722 (IGI); adm. (aged 11) Oct 1734 ; left 1738 ; Balliol Coll.Oxford, matr. 22 Mar 1738/9 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 4 Jun 1739 ; of Kemble, Wilts. (now Gloucs.) ; m. 1 Apr 1749 Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Robert Westley, Kt, Lord Mayor and Alderman, City of London ; d. 19 Feb 1808.
COXE, HENRY OCTAVIUS, brother of Philip Smith Coxe (qv); b. 20 Sep 1811 ; adm. 15 Jan 1821 ; Worcester Coll.Oxford, matr.19 Nov 1829 ; BA 1833 ; MA 1836 ; assistant, Dept.MSS, British Museum 1833-8 ; ordained deacon 14 Jun 1835 (London), priest 6 Jun 1836 (Gloucester) ; Sub-Librarian, Bodleian Library, Oxford 1838-60, Librarian from 6 Nov 1860 ; held various curacies in neighbourhood of Oxford ; Select Preacher 1842 ; Chaplain, Corpus Christi Coll., Oxford 1845-74 ; hon.fellow, Worcester and Corpus Christi Colls., Oxford ; Rector of Wytham, Oxfordshire 1868-80 ; Whitehall Preacher 1868 ; made archaeological tour in the Levant 1857 ; supervised the preparation and publication of the catalogue of the printed books in the Bodleian Library 1859-80 ; edited various historical manuscripts ; m. 9 Apr 1839 Charlotte Esther, youngest dau. of Gen.Sir Tomkyns Hilgrove Turner GCH, Governor of Bermuda ; d. 8 Jul 1881. ODNB.
COXE, HOLLED WALLACE HENRY, only son of Rev.Holled Coxe, Bangalore, India, Chaplain EICS Madras, and Mary Anne, dau. of Ven.Josiah Thomas, Archdeacon of Bath ; nephew of Philip Smith Coxe (qv) ; b. 16 Oct 1820 ; adm. 13 Jan 1834 ; KS 1835 ; left 1839 ; Worcester Coll.Oxford, matr. 10 May 1839 ; appointed a clerk in Board of Control 1841, but became Cadet, EICS Bengal 1841 ; Ensign, 70th Bengal NI 21 Jun 1841 ; Lieut. 8 Apr 1850 ; Assist.Commissioner, Punjab 28 Feb 1856 ; Capt., 21 Jun 1856 ; Deputy Commissioner, Peshawar 6 Apr 1859 ; Maj. 21 Jun 1861 ; Lieut.-Col., 21 Jun 1867 ; Col. 21 Jun 1872 ; ret. 31 Dec 1874 ; Maj.-Gen., 23 Jan 1875 ; served in Gwalior campaign 1843 and in expedition against Mahsood Waziris 1860 ; m. 8 May 1855 Mary Louisa, eldest dau. of Rev.William Sibthorpe Cole, Rector of Ryther, Yorks. ; d. 24 Jan 1898.
COXE, JOHN ; b. ; adm. ; KS 26 Jun 1549 (Acts of Chapter).
COXE, JOHN ; b. ; adm.(aged 10) 1720 ; in school list 1723.
COXE, JOHN HIPPISLEY, brother of Richard Hippisley Coxe (qv) ; b. 2 Sep 1743 ; adm. ; Min.Can. (aged 12) 1754 ; KS 1755 ; Capt. of the School 1759 ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1760, adm.pens. 5 Jun 1760, scholar 17 Apr 1761, matr. Mich.1760 ; BA 1764 ; presumably the individual referred to as “Cox” and “Giovanni Hepuleii” on Grand Tour in Italy 1766, accompanying Benjamin Hyett (qv) ; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 4 May 1759 ; of Midsomer Norton, Somerset ; buried 21 Jan 1782 (will proved PCC 12 May 1783).
COXE, PHILIP SMITH, son of Rev.Richard Coxe, Vicar of Bucklebury, Berks., and his second wife Susan, fifth dau. of Holled Smith, Normanton Hall, Leics.; b. 9 Aug 1809 ; adm. 15 Jan 1821 ; adm.solicitor Hilary 1831 ; practised in London, firm Bischoff Coxe and Bompas, Coleman Street ; m. 18 Apr 1849 Louisa, widow of Walter Rankin Johnson (qv), and dau. of Joseph Stephens, Dilwyn, Herefs. ; d.12 Apr 1868.
COXE, RICHARD HIPPISLEY, son of John Hippisley Coxe, Stoneaston, Somerset, and Mary, dau. of Stephen Northleigh MP, Peamore, Devon ; b. 22 Sep 1742 ; adm. ; KS (aged 13) 1754 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1759, matr.19 Jun 1759, Westminster Student 5 Jan 1760 – 2 Jul 1763, res. ; BA 1763 ; MP Somerset 1768-84 ; Col., Somerset Militia 24 Oct 1778, with rank Col. in Army 2 Jul 1779 ; d. unm. 26 Aug 1786.
COXETER, CHARLES, son of Thomas Coxeter, London ; b. ; adm. (aged 11) Jun 1739 ; KS 1743 ; buried Bampton, Oxfordshire 26 Feb 1746. [mother perhaps Elizabeth White (IGI)]
COXETER, RICHMOND ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1682. [Perhaps = Richard Coxeter, son of Richard Coxeter, Bampton, Oxfordshire, adm.Middle Temple 25 Jan 1685/6, called to bar 30 Jun 1704] [note Richard Coxeter, “of the Inner Temple, Esq.”, who d. “at his Lodgings without Temple Bar” 21 Aug 1740, in 75th year (Weekly Miscellany 23 Aug 1740) (presumably Richard Coxeter, will proved PCC 28 Apr 1741, as of Weald, Bampton, Oxfordshire, with wife Barbara who he had m. 1687)]
CRAB, ISAAC ; b. ; adm. (aged 14) Sep 1715 ; in under school list 1716 ; probably left Mich.1716. [note will Isaac Crabb, proved PCC 13 Nov 1729]
CRABB, DARELL, see TRELAWNY, DARELL.
CRACHERODE, CLAYTON MORDAUNT, son of Lieut.-Col. Mordaunt Cracherode, Taplow, Bucks., Governor of Minorca, Captain of Invalids, and Mary, sister of Charles Morice (qv) ; nephew of Edward Cracherode (qv) ; b. 23 Jun 1730 ; adm. Jun 1737 ; KS 1742 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1746, matr. 6 Jun 1746, Westminster Student from 24 Dec 1746 ; BA 1750 ; MA 1753 ; ordained deacon 3 Feb 1754 (Gloucester), priest 25 May 1755 (Oxford) ; Curate, Binsey, Oxfordshire 1762 ; did not seek or obtain further religious preferment ; spent his life in collecting books, engravings, gems and coins, bequeathed by him to the British Museum ; Trustee, British Museum, from 1784 ; FRS 15 Dec 1785 ; FSA 8 Mar 1787 ; member Society of Dilettanti from 1787 ; left legacies of £1000 each to Christ Church, Oxford, and to the School ; d.unm. 5 Apr 1799. Buried in East Cloister, Westminster Abbey. ODNB.
CRACHERODE, EDWARD, son of Mordaunt Cracherode, St.Paul’s, Covent Garden, linen draper, and his second wife Elizabeth, dau. of Edward Bullock, Faulkbourne, Essex ; bapt. St.Paul, Covent Garden 20 May 1689 ; at school under Knipe (Alum.Cantab., pt.i, vol.i) ; Magdalene Coll.Cambridge, adm.sizar 24 Jun 1707, aged 18, matr.1708 ; BA 1710/1 ; ordained deacon 27 May 1711 (London).
CRACROFT, WALTER SEWELL, brother of William Cracroft (qv) ; b.1795 ; in school list 1803 ; left 1810 ; entered Royal Navy ; Writer, EICS Prince of Wales Island 1813 ; Secretary to Government there 1817-28, member of Council 3 Dec 1828-31, ret. ; m.1st, Princess Amoy, a “native of Prince of Wales Island” ; 2nd, 22 Oct.1829 his first cousin Jane, only dau. of Lieut.Edmund Cracroft, EICS Bengal, subsequently of Worcester, Worcs. ; drowned by jumping off the Havre packet while crossing the Channel 21 Mar 1865.
CRACROFT, WILLIAM, eldest son of William Cracroft, North Street, Westminster, Chief Clerk, Exchequer Office, and Elizabeth, eldest sister of Jeremiah Hawkes (qv) ; b. 15 Sep 1787 ; in school lists 1797, 1801 ; Writer, EICS Bengal 1801 ; arrived in India 5 Sep 1803 ; Registrar, Shahabad 1805 ; held numerous official posts in Bengal, in 1829 becoming Judge of Provisional Court of Appeal (Civil Cases), Dacca ; Officiating Commissioner of Revenue and Circuit, Dacca 1833 ; Acting Commissioner and Civil and Sessions Judge, Dacca ; Officiating Civil and Sessions Judge, 24 Parganas 1837 ; Officiating Special Commissioner, Murshidabad 1838 ; retd. 1 May 1839 ; d.unm. at Naples 3 Apr 1846.
CRADDOCK (or CRADOCK), CHRISTOPHER, son of Capt.Christopher Craddock, EI Maritime Service, and Florentia Charleton ; bapt. Madras 14 Mar 1709/10 ; adm. (aged 7) Feb 1716/7 ; in under school list 1723 ; supercargo, EICS Madras ; living at Madras 1743 ; m. 24 May 1736 Grace, dau. of Thomas Cooke, EICS Madras.
CRADOCK, NORRIS, son of Norris Cradock, Loughborough, Leics., solicitor, Steward of the Court of Record, Leicester, and Mary Palmer ; bapt.All Saints, Loughborough, Leics. 16 Oct 1723 (IGI); adm.(aged 11) Jun 1735 ; left 1740 ; St.John’s Coll.Oxford, matr. 23 Jan 1740/1 ; adm.Inner Temple 5 Dec 1739, called to bar 3 Jul 1747, chambers there 1748-67 ; one of the Purveyors and Granitors of the Royal Stables from 20 Jan 1761 ; m. Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Jarvis, Markfield, Leics. ; d. 24 Mar 1779.
CRADOCK, SHELDON, only son of William Cradock, Gilling West, Yorkshire North Riding, and Mary, dau. of Gilbert Sheldon, St.Andrew’s, Holborn ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Jun 1728 ; left 1733 ; adm.Middle Temple 28 Jun 1737 ; m.1st, c. Dec 1739 Elizabeth, sister of Marwood Place (qv) ; m.2nd, c.1745 Sarah Moseley, widow, dau. of — Williamson, Follifoot, Yorkshire ; buried Gainford, Yorks., 13 Mar 1752.
CRADOCK, THALES ; b. ; adm.(aged 11) Jan 1742/3 ; left 1744.
CRADOCK, WILLIAM ; b. ; at school under Busby ; BB 1650-1 (Chapter Muniments 43304).
CRAGE, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm.17 Sep 1778, chorister.
CRAGGE, RICHARD ; b. ; adm. ; KS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1618, Westminster Student to 1623 ; BA 22 Feb 1622/3 ; ordained (by 1632) ; Perpetual Curate, Badsey, Worcs. 1645-61 ; Perpetual Curate, South and Middle Littleton, Worcs., from c.1661 ; lic.to m. Jan 1631/2 Anne Bingham, St.Giles in the Fields, Middlesex, spinster ; d.1666.
CRAIG, — ; b. ; in school lists 1727/8, 1729, 1731, 1731/2.
CRAIG, CHARLES BAINTON, brother of Philip Craig (qv); b. 8 Oct 1716; adm. (aged 9) Jun 1726 ; in school list 1731 ; Ensign, 2ndFoot Guards 25 Apr 1734 ; Lieut., 10 May 1740 ; Capt.-Lieut., 30 Jan 1750/1 ; Capt. and Lieut.-Col., 17 Dec 1751 ; d. in Germany 30 Mar 1761.
CRAIG, JAMES, brother of Philip Craig (qv) ; bapt.St.Martin’s in the Fields 21 May 1724 (IGI); adm. (aged 8) Jul 1732 ; Min.Can.1737 ; KS 1738 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1742, matr. 13 Jun 1742, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1742 – void 30 Jun 1750 ; BA 1746 ; Ensign, 2nd Foot Guards 26 Feb 1746/7 ; Lieut., 23 Dec 1752 ; Capt.-Lieut., 23 Sep 1763 ; Capt. and Lieut.-Col. 23 Dec 1763 ; retd. 15 May 1767 ; will dated 2 Oct 1788, proved 27 Apr 1789.
CRAIG, PHILIP, son of Philip Craig, Craig’s Court, St.Martin’s in the Fields, London, and Greenford, Middlesex, and Sarah — (IGI) ; b. 10 Oct 1715 ; adm. (aged 10) Jun 1726 ; in under school list 1731 ; presumably Craig, Christian name not stated, in school list Jan 1732/3 (sixth form) ; Lincoln Coll.Oxford, matr. 15 Oct 1733 ; adm.Inner Temple 15 Jul 1731, called to bar 9 Feb 1738/9, chambers there 1740-58 ; [migr. to Gray’s Inn ?] ; d. unm. 28 Apr 1769.
[CRAIG, THOMAS ; b. ; in school lists Dec 1736, 1738. Probably an error for James Craig (qv)]
CRAIGMILE, — ; b. ; in school lists 1656.
CRAKE, — ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1640 (Bodleian Library, Tanner MSS, lxix, f.140).
CRAMER, HENRY ELLIS, eldest son of John Anthony Cramer (qv) ; b. 2 Apr 1824 ; adm. (G) 27 Sep 1836 ; KS 1837 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1841, matr. 26 May 1841, Westminster Student 1841-54 ; BA 1845 ; MA 1847. [apparently living 1867]
CRAMER, JOHN ANTHONY, second son of Jean Antoine Cramer, Mittoden, Switzerland, Professor of Law at Geneva, afterwards resident in England, and Harriet Sara, dau. of Jean Antoine Courlet-Thomeguex ; b. ; adm. ; KS (aged 14) 1807 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1811, matr. 28 May 1811, Westminster Student, Tutor ; 1st cl.,Classics and Mathematics, 1814 ; BA 1814 ; MA 1817 ; BD 1830 ; DD 1831 ; ordained deacon 20 Dec 1818, priest 19 Dec 1819 (both Oxford); Perpetual Curate, Binsey, Oxfordshire 3 Jun 1822-45 ; Vice-Principal, St.Alban Hall, Oxford 1823-5 ; Select Preacher 1826, 1831 ;Public Orator 1829-42 ; Principal, New Inn Hall (which he rebuilt) 1831-47 ; Regius Professor of Modern History from 1842 ; Dean of Carlisle from 21 Dec 1844 ; author, A Description of Ancient Italy, 1826, and other works ; m.27 May 1823 (IGI) Harriet, dau. of John Ashton, The Grange, Cheshire ; d. 24 Aug 1848. ODNB.
CRAMER, LEWIS ANTHONY, second son of John Anthony Cramer (qv) ; b.31 Dec 1826 ; adm. (G) 13 Jun 1838 ; QS 1840 ; rowed against Eton 1843 ; left 1844 ; New Inn Hall, Oxford, matr.25 May 1844 ; BA 1848 ; went into the Austrian service ; d. at Belgrade 28 Jun 1855.
CRANBORNE, JAMES, VISCOUNT, see CECIL, JAMES, 6TH EARL OF SALISBURY.
CRANE, JAMES ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Oct 1741 ; left 1746.
CRANE, ROBERT, brother of William Crane (elected Trin.Coll.Camb.1627, qv) ; b. ; adm. ; KS ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1632, adm.scholar 1633 ; BA 1635/6 ; MA 1639 ; LLD 1660 ; Fellow, Trinity Coll., from 1637, Tutor 1639 ; ejected from his fellowship by the Parliamentary Visitors 1645, but restored 1660 ; Junior Bursar 1660-3, Senior Fellow 1665, Senior Bursar 1668-71 ; Abraham Cowley (qv) bequeathed him “a ring of five punds valew”, as “a small token of our friendship” ; d. 16 Feb 1672, aged 60.
CRANE, THOMAS, of London ; b. ; adm. ; QS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford (aged 17) 1576, Westminster Student 18 Jun 1577 – 1587/8 ; BA 26 Jan 1579/80 ; MA 6 Feb 1582/3 (incorp.Cambridge 1584) ; ordained ; Rector of South Cadbury, Somerset, from 2 Dec 1587 ; m. ; buried South Cadbury 2 Jun 1608.
CRANE, WILLIAM, son of Thomas Crane (qv) ; bapt. 19 Sep 1602 ; adm. ; KS in 1619 (Chapter Muniments 32451) ; Chapel Clerk, New Coll.Oxford Jan 1622-5, Chaplain 1625-7 ; BA 1625/6 ; MA 1628 ; ordained ; [perhaps Curate, Wolvercote, Oxfordshire 1631, St.Cross, Oxford 1632-5] ; Vicar of Isle Abbotts, Somerset, 30 Nov 1637, sequestered ; Minor Canon of Bristol (occurs 1637-57).
CRANE, WILLIAM, eldest son of John Crane, Loughton, Bucks., Chief Clerk of Board of Green Cloth to James I and Charles I, and Mary, dau. of Sir Thomas Tresham, Kt, Newton, Northants. ; b. ; adm. ; KS ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1627, matr.Mich.1627, adm.scholar 1628 ; BA 1631/2 ; MA 1635 ; Fellow, Trinity Coll.1633, Tutor 1635-9 ; of Woodrising, Norfolk (described as of Woodrising (and not as a clergyman) in will of his relative John Crane, Cambridge, apothecary, dated 21 Jun 1651) ; [perhaps subsequently ordained ; Vicar of Britford, Wilts., 8 Nov 1662, described as MA, occurs 1673] ; m. 20 Oct 1636 Frances, dau. of William Bond, Erth, Saltash, Cornwall, and niece of Sir Francis Crane, Kt MP, Woodrising, Norfolk ; d. 2 Apr.1673. [some confusion here, since if William Crane had married in 1636, he would not still have been a tutor at Trinity Coll. after that date]
CRANFORD, J. ; b. ; adm. ; Min.Can. 1642 ; KS in 1644 (Chapter Muniments 43114).
CRANSTON, EDWARD, son of John Cranston (qv) ; b.11 Jan 1761 ; adm.23 Feb 1770 ; in school list 1775 ; adm.Middle Temple 30 Jun 1775 ; Pembroke Coll.Oxford, matr. 30 Apr 1778 ; of East Court, East Grinstead, Sussex ; m. 22 Apr 1797 Harriet, dau. of Charles Newland, Chichester, Sussex ; d. 7 Jan 1841.
CRANSTON, JOHN, son of William Cranston, Johnson’s Court, Fleet Street, London, solicitor, and his first wife Mary Swaysland ; bapt.St.Bride’s, Fleet Street 3 Dec 1736 (IGI); adm. (aged 14) Jan 1750/1 ; in school list 1752 ; adm.solicitor 30 Nov 1759 ; practised in London ; retired after a few years to East Grinstead, Sussex, where he built East Court and in 1767 became Assist.Warden, Sackville College ; m. 8 Nov 1759 (IGI) Catherine, dau. of Francis Green, East Court, East Grinstead, Sussex ; d. 26 Mar 1781.
CRANSTOUN, HON.GEORGE, fifth son of James Cranstoun, 6th Baron Cranstoun (S), and Sophia, dau. of Jeremiah Browne, Abscourt, Surrey, and St.Kitts, West Indies ; bapt. 21 Dec 1761 ; adm. 6 Dec 1771 (Jones/Clapham ?) ; while at school he saved George Colman (adm.1772, qv) from drowning, while bathing in the Thames just opposite Dicky Roberts’s boathouse ; left 1777 ; Ensign, 25th Foot 25 Dec 1778 ; Lieut., Independent Co. of Foot, 27 Mar 1781 ; Capt. 21 Aug 1782 ; Brevet Maj. 1 Mar 1794 ; Capt., 131st Foot 22 Apr 1795, 60th Foot 13 May 1795 ; Maj., 4th West Indian Regt., 19 Sep 1795 ; Lieut.-Col., 1 Jun 1796 ; 64th Foot, 28 Aug 1801 ; Brevet Col., 1 Jan 1805 ; wounded at capture of Surinam May 1804 ; d.unm. at Surinam 8 Mar 1806.
CRANSTOUN, JAMES EDMUND, 9TH BARON CRANSTOUN (S), son of Hon.Charles Cranstoun, Creeling Castle, Midlothian, and Elizabeth Turner, Worcestershire, and nephew of Hon.George Cranstoun (qv) ; b. ; succ.his uncle James as 9th Baron Cranstoun (S) 22 Sep 1796 ; at school 1796 ; in school lists 1797, 1801 ; played cricket against Eton at Lords’ 31 Jul 1801 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr.23 Oct 1802, aged 18 ; a plantation owner, St.Kitts, West Indies ; m. 25 Aug 1807 Anne Linnington, eldest dau. of John Macnamara, St.Kitts, West Indies ; d. at St.Kitts 5 Sep 1818.
CRAUFURD, ALEXANDER, younger brother of John Craufurd (adm.1780, qv) ; bapt. Richmond, Surrey 24 Aug 1770 (IGI); adm.24 Jan 1782 ; left Whitsun 1785 ; Göttingen Univ. ; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 4 Jun 1788, called to bar [check] ; Commissary of Accounts to Forces at San Domingo from 23 Jun 1795 ; d. at Cape Nichola Mole, San Domingo, West Indies 19 Jun 1796.
CRAUFURD, D. E. ; b. ; in school list May 1803 (and name up school 1803) ; left 1805. [probably Donald Craufurd, bapt.St.Anne, Soho 9 May 1788 (IGI), a younger brother of George Craufurd and John Craufurd (in school list 1795, qvv) ; 2nd Lieut., Royal Artillery 9 Nov 1804 ; 1st Lieut. 2 Nov 1805 ; Capt., 20 Jun 1815 ; half-pay 1 Feb 1819 ; wounded at battle of Waterloo ; subscriber to Edward Smedley (q.v.)’s Erin, A Poem ; d. unm. 21 Oct 1819]
CRAUFURD, GEORGE, son of Patrick George Craufurd FRS FSA, Herrings Place, Sussex, Accountant General in Paymaster General’s Office, and Jean, dau. of Lieut.-Col.Donald Macdonald, 84thFoot ; bapt. St.Anne, Soho 28 Nov 1778 (IGI) ; in school list 1795 ; d.unm. 1804 [but check].
CRAUFURD, JOHN, son of Sir Alexander Craufurd, Bart., and Jane, dau. of James Crockatt, Luxborough, Essex ; bapt.Chigwell, Essex 23 Sep 1765 ; at Harrow School in 1779 ; adm.31 May 1780 ; KS (Capt., aged 15) 1781 ; St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens.20 Jun 1783, scholar on Bishop Williams’ foundation 4 Nov 1783, matr.Mich.1783 ; BA 1789 ; MA 1804 ; ordained deacon 8 Mar 1788 (London, lit.dim. from York), priest 11 Oct 1789 (York) ; Curate, Gamston, Notts., and Domestic Chaplain to William, 4th Duke of Queensberry 1789 ; Vicar of Elvaston, Derbs., from 2 Apr 1790 ; Vicar of Great Coates, Lincs., 12 Nov 1792 – Aug 1795 ; Rector of Beelsby, Lincs., 8 Dec 1800-03 ; Vicar of West Markham, Notts., from 29 Nov 1803 ; d. at Barèges, France Apr 1806.
CRAUFURD, JOHN, brother of George Craufurd (qv); b. 4 Jan 1780 ; in school list 1795 ; succeeded to Auchenames estate, Ayrshire, on death of his cousin in 1814 ; DL JP Ayrshire ; Secretary to Senate of Ionian Islands 1826 (still occurs as such 1829) [and/or Treasurer General ?] ; m. 16 Aug 1814 Sophia Marianna, dau. of Maj.-Gen.Horatio Churchill MP ; d. 28 Apr 1867.
CRAVEN, — ; b. ; in school list Jun 1764 ; left Dec 1764.
CRAWFORD, ROBERT, son of Henry Crawford, Upper Seymour Street, London, and Gunnersbury House, Middlesex, previously EICS Madras, and Elizabeth, dau. of Kingsford Venner ; b. ; at school Midsummer 1801 (Glover) ; still at school Mich.1806 ; payments of his school bills at Mrs. Glover’s 1801-6 are recorded in his father’s cash book (G.E.R.G.Brown, ed., Extracts from the Cash-Book of Henry Crawford, H.E.I.C.S., 1907); afterwards at private sch. kept by Abbé de Rouvigny ; of Chelsfield Court, Chelsfield, Kent ; m. 23 Oct 1811 Elizabeth, dau. of Samuel Elvy, Harbledown, Kent, d. 27 Aug 1860.
CRAWFORD, WILLIAM, only son of William Crawford, Newington, Surrey, schoolmaster, and his first wife Sarah — ; b. ; adm. ; KS (aged 12) 1762 ; Capt.of the School 1767 ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1768, adm.pens. 1 Jun 1768, scholar 21 Apr 1769, matr. Lent 1769 ; BA 1772 ; MA 1775 ; DD 1801 ; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll., 2 Sep 1773, Major Fellow 5 Jul 1775 ; ordained deacon 19 Sep 1773, priest 25 Apr 1775 (both London) ; Curate, Newington Butts, Surrey, 1785 ; Rector of Bleddfa, Radnorshire, 17 Sep 1788 – Oct 1793 ; Prebendary of Brecon from 24 Dec 1791 ; Archdeacon of Carmarthen and Prebendary of St.Davids from 11 Oct 1793 ; Rector of Trottescliffe, Kent, from 13 Nov 1794 and of Milton, Kent, from 10 Aug 1797 ; m. 1 Jan 1778 Susanna Weston, Newington, Surrey ; d. 14 Apr 1827.
CRAWLEY, CHARLES HENRY, second son of Rev.Robert Townsend Crawley, Rector of North Ockendon, Essex, and Louisa Marianne, dau. of Rev.James Charles Clutterbuck, Rector of Long Wittenham, Berks. ; b. 7 Jul 1859 ; adm. 30 May 1872 (R) ; left May 1877 ; an accountant ; became Secretary to Lord Burton at Rangemore, Burton-on-Trent, Staffs. ; m. 12 Dec 1888 Mathilde Louise Genevieve, eldest dau. of J.C.Lefebvre, Boulogne, France ; d. 1 Sep 1914.
CRAWLEY, RICHARD, second son of Rev.Richard Crawley, Rector of Rotherfield, Sussex, and of St.Mildred Poultry, London, and Mary, dau. of Owen Clutton, Greenwich, Kent; b. 31 May 1791 ; adm. ; KS (aged 14) 1806 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1810, adm.pens.7 Jun 1810, scholar 1811, matr.Mich.1810 ; BA 1814 ; migr. to Magdalene Coll. Dec 1814 ; MA 1817 ; Fellow and Tutor, Magdalene Coll. ; Proctor 1823-4 ; Whitehall Preacher 1829 ; ordained deacon 19 Mar 1815, priest 29 Sep 1816 (both Ely) ; Vicar of Steeple Ashton cum Semington, Wilts., from 12 Jun 1828 ; Prebendary of Salisbury from 25 Feb 1843 ; d.unm. 9 Dec 1869.
CREAKE, THOMAS, son of Thomas Creake, Chelsea, Middlesex, and Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Talbot DCL, Gunvill’s Hall, Norfolk ; b. ; adm. ; Min.Can. (aged 14) 1629 ; KS 1630 (Bodleian Library, Tanner MSS lxix, 224).
CREIGHTON (or CREYGHTON), ROBERT, son of Thomas Creighton, Dunkeld, Perthshire, and Margaret Stuart ; b.1593 ; adm.1607 ; KS ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1613, adm.scholar 1614 ; BA 1617/8 ; MA 1621 (incorp.Oxford 15 Jul 1628) ; DD Oxford 21 Feb 1642/3 ; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1619- c.1621 ; Professor of Greek, Cambridge 1625-39; Public Orator Jan 1627/8 – 1639 ; ordained ; Prebendary of Lincoln 18 Mar 1631/2 – Jun 1670 ; Prebendary and Treasurer, Wells (as Crichton) Dec.1632 – Jun 1660, also Canon Residentiary 1 Apr 1633 – Jun 1660 ; Chaplain in Ordinary to Charles I ; Rector of Huggate, Yorks., 16 Aug 1641-5, sequestered (reinstated 1660-2); Dean of St.Buryan, Cornwall, 1642-5, sequestered ; escaped to the Continent on the fall of Oxford, disguised as a labourer ; member of exiled court of Charles II ; tutor to Sir Ralph Verney’s son at The Hague 1652 ; Dean of Wells 29 Jun 1660 – Jun 1670 ; restored the cathedral ; Rector of Uplowman, Devon 21 Jan. 1664 [or 1664/5 ?]-70 ; Vicar of Cheddar, Somerset, 5 Sep 1665-70 ; consecrated Bishop of Bath and Wells 19 Jun 1670 ; his age and health prevented him from taking his seat in the House of Lords; author, Vera HistoriaUnionis inter Graecos et Latinos sive Concilii Florentini exactissima narratio, 1660 ; m. Frances, dau. of William Walrond, Isle Brewers, Somerset ; d. 21 Nov 1672. ODNB.
CREIGHTON (or CREYGHTON), ROBERT, son of Robert Creighton (elected to Camb.1613, qv) ; b. adm. ; KS ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1655, adm.pens. 23 May 1655, scholar 1655, matr.Easter 1656 ; 10th in “ordo” 1658/9 ; BA 1658/9 ; MA 1662 ; DD 1678 ; Fellow of Trinity Coll. 1659 – c.1668, Tutor 1665 ; Regius Professor of Greek 1666-72 ; ordained ; Chaplain in Ordinary to Charles II 1660 – c.1690 ; Reptor of Uplowman, Devon, from 28 Jul 1670 ; Rector of Ashbrittle, Somerset, from 22 Oct 1670 ; Prebendary of Wells from 23 Aug 1662, also Precentor and Canon Residentiary from 2 May 1674 ; in a letter to Richard Busby (qv), dated 15 Dec 1688, preserved among the muniments of the Busby Trustees, Creighton thus acknowledges his obligations to his old master : “I have been your debtor from my childhood, to you I owe my education, and my child’s, my fortune, my Fellowship in Cambridge, my lecture there, my travails, my station in this church, this dividend, myselfe, all, except my infirmities” (Elizabethan xi, 140) ; composed several services and anthems, one of which, “I will arise” is still a favourite with lovers of church music ; m. (by 1674) Frideswide, dau. of Ven. William Peirs DD, Archdeacon of Taunton ; d. 17 Feb 1733/4, aged 97. ODNB.
CREIGHTON (or CREYGHTON), ROBERT, son of Robert Creighton (elected to Camb.1655, qv) ; b. ; adm.Apr 1686 ; in a letter dated 14 Apr 1686 his father, while commending his son to Busby’s care, writes “the school I send him to will make him happy, or nothing will” ; KS (aged 13) 1687 ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1692, adm.pens. 28 Jun 1692, scholar 28 Apr 1693, matr.1693 ; 9th in “ordo” 1695/6 ; BA 1695/6 ; MA 1699 ; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1698, Major Fellow 28 Apr 1699 -c.1702 ; ordained deacon 17 Mar 1700/1 (Chichester, as Robertus Creyhton MA), priest 20 Sep 1702 (Winchester) ; Vicar of Combe St.Nicholas, Somerset, 17 Mar 1703/4 – Mar 1725/6 ; Master of the Grammar School and Keeper of the Cathedral Library, Wells, 2 Apr 1712 – Jan 1727/8 ; Prebendary of Wells from 26 Apr 1718 ; Vicar of Odcombe, Somerset, from 15 Mar 1725/6 ; Domestic Chaplain to John, Earl of Breadalbane ; Vicar of Burnham, Somerset, from 18 Dec 1727 ; m. ; buried Wells Cathedral 22 Dec 1732.
CREMER, ACTON, son of Thomas Cremer, Bockleton, Worcs., and Ann Acton ; b. 17 May 1651 (IGI); adm. ; KS 1667 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1670, matr. 1 Jul 1670, aged 19, Westminster Student 18 Jan 1671 – 1676, void by marriage ; BA 1674 ; MA 1677 ; author of an English translation of Scheffer’s History of Lapland, published in Oxford in 1674, being “an imposition set him by Bishop Fell [Dean of Ch.Ch.] for courting a mistress at that age, which the Bishop dislik’d” (Hearne, Remarks andCollections, iii, 318) ; ordained ; Rector of Brampton Abbots, Herefs., from 25 Sep 1684 ; Vicar of Clifton on Teme, Worcs., from 14 Jan 1687 ; m. 1676 (despite the Dean’s objection and imposition) his cousin Elizabeth, dau. of Edward Penell, Woodstone, Worcs. ; d. 1689.
CREMER, HENRY, son of Acton Cremer (qv) ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1693 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1698, matr. 4 Jul 1698, aged 18, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1698 – void 1720, expiry year of grace from 30 Jul 1719 ; BA 1702 ; MA 22 Mar 1704/5 ; ordained deacon 19 Sep 1708, priest 8 Apr 1711 (both Rochester) ; Perpetual Curate of Benson, Oxfordshire 25 Mar 1714-20 ; Prebendary of St.David’s from 11 Dec 1716 ; Prebendary of Brecon from 5 Jul 1717 ; Vicar of Llandilofawr, Carmarthenshire, from 4 Jul 1719 ; d. 12 Apr 1723.
CREMER, THOMAS, fourth son of Robert Cremer, Heacham, Norfolk, and Temperance, dau. of William Hovell ; b. ; adm. ; KS (aged 13) 1650 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1653, adm.pens. 6 Jul 1653, scholar 1654, matr. Easter 1656 ; BA 1657/8 ; MA 1661 ; Fellow of Trin.Coll. 1659 – c.1664 ; ordained priest 19 Aug 1662 (Norwich) ; Vicar of Barrington, Cambs., 23 Aug 1662 (successor by Sep 1664) ; Rector of Grimston, Norfolk, from 9 Feb 1663/4 ; m.1st, Elizabeth Acton ; m.2nd, 1673 Sarah Lowry ; m.3rd, 1681 Mary, dau. of Henry Boyton, Grimston, Norfolk ; buried Grimston, Norfolk 1691.
CRESPION, STEPHEN, son of Germain Crespion, St.Giles in the Fields, London, and Cornelia, eldest dau. of Stephen Nau, Musician on the Violins to Charles I ; b. ; adm. ; KS (Capt.) 1663 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1666, matr.13 Jul 1666, aged 17, Westminster Student 17 Jan 1667-73, void ; BA 1670 ; MA 22 Mar 1672/3 ; when still an undergraduate sang before Cosimo de Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, on his visit to Oxford in May 1669 (Wood, Life and Times, ii, 158) ; ordained ; Priest, Chapel Royal 13 May 1673 – Apr 1697, and from 8 May 1702 ; Confessor to the Royal Household 1 Nov 1675 (still 1691) ; Sacrist and Chaunter, Westminster Abbey, from 25 Jul 1683 ; Prebendary of Bristol from 3 Aug 1683 ; Proctor in Convocation for diocese of Bristol 1685, 1689 ; m.1st, by 1674 Margaret — ; m.2nd, by 1693 Mary Orris ; d. 25 Nov 1711. Buried South Cloister, Westminster Abbey.
CRESSET, — ; b. ; adm.1656 (School List 1656, second quarter) ; left 1656.
CRESSWELL, FREDERICK, son of Ralph Cresswell, and Mary, sister of Charles Carpenter, Jetwells, Camelford, Cornwall, attorney, Deputy Receiver of the Stannaries ; b.29 Sep 1802 (Record gives date of birth as 29 Sep 1803, but he was bapt. St.George the Martyr, Southwark 8 Dec 1802) ; adm. 1 Jul 1816 ; articled to Douglas Skelton (qv), solicitor ; a solicitor, practising in Plymouth, Devon ; inherited Jetwells estate, Camelford, from uncle 1831, selling estate in 1838 ; living at Moditonham House, Botus Fleming, Cornwall, with wife Mary, and children in 1841 (1841 census) ; emigrated to Ontario, Canada ; he may be “Frank” Cresswell, living at Brampton, Peel, Ontario, aged 79, widower (1881 Canadian Census). [presumably m. 20 Feb 1834 Mary Ann Gilbert]
CRESSWELL, HENRY WHITFIELD, son of Richard Cheslyn Cresswell, Joint Deputy Registrar Prerogative Court of Canterbury and a proctor, Court of Arches, and Mary Whitfield (IGI) ; b. ; in school list 1803 ; left 1810 ; adm.proctor, Court of Arches 1819 ; practised in Godliman Street, Doctors’ Commons, London ; d. 17 Feb 1828. [mother perhaps dau. of Rev. Henry Whitfield DD, Vicar of Bedfont, Middlesex]
CRESSWELL, RICHARD ESTCOURT, eldest son of Estcourt Cresswell MP, Pinkney Park, Wilts., and his second wife Mary Gregory (formerly his mistress), Sherston, Wilts. ; b. 5 Oct 1781 ; a contemporary at Westminster School of Alexander Robert Sutherland (qv) (see Sutherland’s evidence at Sheriff’s Court, Red Lion Square, London, 31 Aug 1839, as summarised Annual Register1840, 156-7), and therefore presumably — Creswell (in school list 1797) ; adm.Inner Temple 31 Jan 1814 ; of Pinckney Park, Wilts., and Bibury House, Oxfordshire ; ; contested Cirencester 1818 and Taunton 1826 ; declared a lunatic by a jury in Oxford Jan 1823 ; arrested for debt in France in 1830s and imprisoned, but transferred because of his evident insanity to a lunatic asylum at St.Vernant, France ; suffering from paranoid delusions and declared insane in Aug 1839, as from 1 Aug 1830 ; m. 24 May 1803 Elizabeth, fourth dau. of Rev.Charles Coxwell, Ablington House, Gloucs. ; d. at St.Vernant, France 31 Mar 1841.
CRESWELL, — (in school list 1797), see CRESSWELL, RICHARD ESTCOURT
CRESWELL, HENRY W., see CRESSWELL, HENRY WHITFIELD
CRESWELL, ROBERT, son of Robert Creswell ; b. ; adm. ; KS ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1631, adm.scholar 1631, matr.Easter 1632 ; 3rd in “ordo” 1635/6 ; BA 1635/6 ; MA 1639 (incorp.Oxford 12 Jul 1653) ; “chamber fellow” at Cambridge of Abraham Cowley (qv) ; Fellow of Trin.Coll.1637-44, when ejected by Parliamentary Visitors. [Robert Creswell, schoolmaster, parish of St.Giles, Cripplegate, at Jul 1629, is likely to have been this individual’s father ; it was probably he, rather than the younger Robert Creswell, who was Usher at Aldenham School, Herts. (by Mar 1637/8), and Head Master there 1643-9 ; he was described as being “aged & poore” in 1649 ; either the father or the son took the Engagement 12 Oct 1650, and was Vicar of Ruislip, Middlesex 1650 [no longer 1661] (adm. PCC 1659)]
CREW, SAMUEL, son of Samuel Crew, Westminster ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Jun 1736 (in school list Dec 1736 as “John Crew”) ; KS 1738 ; Capt. of the School 1742 ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1743, adm.pens. 2 Jun 1743, scholar 20 Apr 1744 ; BA 1746/7 ; MA 1750 ; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll., 2 Oct 1749, Major Fellow from 4 Jul 1750 ; ordained deacon 6 Mar 1747/8 (Norwich, litt.dim. from St.Davids), priest 4 Jun 1750 (Ely) ; reprimanded by Vice-Chancellor for interfering with the Senior Proctor in the exercise of his duties on the occasion of the Westminster Club dinner, presided over by Thomas Francklin (qv), 17 Nov 1750 ; Vicar, Great St.Mary’s, Cambridge 1760 ; d. 13 Nov 1760. [father perhaps Messenger in Ordinary, Royal Household]
CREWE, — ; b. ; in school list Jun 1764 ; left 27 Jul 1764.
CREWE, JOHN, elder son of Sir Clippesby Crewe, Kt. MP, Crewe, Cheshire, and Jane, second dau. of Sir John Pulteney, Kt MP, Misterton, Leics. ; b. 20 Dec 1626 ; at school under Busby (J.E.B.Mayor, ed., Admissions to St.John’s Coll.Camb., i, 79) ; St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.fellow commoner 15 Jun 1646, matr. Easter 1646 ; migr. to Trinity Coll., adm.fellow commoner 26 Jul 1647 ; of Crewe Hall, Cheshire ; m.1st, Carew, dau. of Sir Arthur Gorges Kt MP, Chelsea, Middlesex ; 2nd, Lucy Byron (who afterwards married Edmund Turnor, Covent Garden, London) ; d. 13 Feb 1683/4. Buried in Westminster Abbey.
CREWE, JOHN, 1ST BARON CREWE, eldest son of John Crewe MP, Crewe Hall, Cheshire, and Anne, dau. of Richard Shuttleworth MP, Gawthorpe, Lancs. ; nephew of Randulph Crewe (adm.1728, qv) ; b. 27 Sep 1742 ; adm.Manchester GS 1754 ; at school under Markham (Steward Anniversary Dinners 1766, 1785) ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 19 Feb 1760 ; Grand Tour (Italy) 1761-2 ; High Sheriff, Cheshire 1764 ; MP Stafford 4 Mar 1765-8, Cheshire 1768-1802 ; Lieut.-Col., Cheshire Militia 25 Mar 1778 ; a personal friend and political supporter of Charles James Fox ; created Baron Crewe 25 Feb 1806 ; member, Society of Dilettanti, from 1764 ; m. 4 Apr 1766 Frances Anne, Whig political hostess and the “Amoret” of Fox’s well-known poem, sister of Henry Francis Greville (qv) ; d. 28 Apr 1829. ODNB.
CREWE, JOHN, 2ND BARON CREWE, son of John Crewe, 1st Baron Crewe (qv) ; bapt. 1772 ; adm. 22 Jan 1781 ; Lieut., Independent Co.Foot 21 Nov 1790, half-pay 1791 ; Lieut., 77th Foot 20 Jul 1792 ; Maj., 103rd Foot 12 Sep 1794 ; Lieut.-Col., Lochaber Fencible Infantry 25 Nov 1794 ; Brevet Col., 1 Jan 1801 ; Maj.-Gen., 25 Apr 1808 ; Lieut.-Gen., 4 Jun 1813 ; Gen., 22 Jul 1830 ; succ.father as 2nd Baron Crewe (qv) 28 Apr 1829 ; resident in Belgium at death ; his portrait in fancy dress as Henry VIII was painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds ; m. 5 May 1807 Henrietta Maria Anne, dau. of George Walker Hungerford, Calne, Wilts. ; d. 4 Dec 1835.
CREWE, RANDULPH (or RALPH), brother of John Crewe (at school under Busby, qv) ; b. 6 Apr 1631 ; at school under Busby (J.E.B.Mayor, ed., Admissions to St.John’s Coll.Camb., i, 79) ; St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.fellow commoner 15 Jun 1646 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 30 Oct 1647 ; an amateur artist ; drew a map of Cheshire that was published in King’s Vale Royall of England, or theCounty Palatine of Chester illustrated, 1646 ; d. from wounds received from footpads while walking in the streets of Paris 21 Sep 1657. ODNB.
CREWE, RANDULPH, son of John Crewe MP (formerly Offley), Crewe Hall, Cheshire, and Sarah, dau. of Morgan Price, Nantgwared, Brecon ; b. 6 Feb 1717 ; adm.Nov.1728 ; left 1733 ; Hart Hall, Oxford, matr. 12 Dec 1734 ; migr. to Hertford Coll.; BCL 1741 ; DCL 1746 ; ordained deacon 20 Dec 1741, priest 19 Sep 1742 (both Chester) ; Rector of Checkley, Staffs., 13 Oct 1743 – Sep 1744 ; Rector of Warmingham, Cheshire, from 10 Mar 1747 ; Rector of Barthomley, Cheshire, from 21 Jan 1758 ; m. Anne, dau. of John Read, Llandinam Hall, Montgomeryshire ; d. 20 May 1777.
CREWE, RICHARD, brother of John Crewe, 1st Baron Crewe (qv) ; b. 27 Sep 1749 ; adm.Manchester GS 1757 ; at school under Markham (The World, 24 Feb 1787, 3) ; Ensign, 1st Foot Guards 4 Mar 1767 ; Capt., 17th Dragoons 11 Jul 1769 ; Maj., 25 Feb 1776 ; retd. 3 Jun 1778 ; of Raymonds, Jamaica ; m.in Jamaica 1780 (divorced 1800) Milborough, dau. of Samuel Alpress, Spanish Town, Jamaica ; d. 17 Jun 1814.
CREWS, ARTHUR EDWARD, brother of Charles Bunford Washington Crews (qv) ; b. 22 May 1866 ; adm. 31 May 1877 (R) ; left Aug 1884 ; stock jobber (1901 Census) ; m. 1899 Maud Helen, dau. of William Edward Stewart FRCS (Ed), Harley Street, London, and Hove, Sussex ; d. 13 Feb 1916.
CREWS, CHARLES BUNFORD WASHINGTON, eldest son of Charles Thomas Daniell Crews DL FSA, Billingbear Park, Wokingham, Berks., stockbroker, and Mary Ann Gill, dau. of Charles Washington ; b. 13 Aug 1864 ; adm. 26 Jan 1877 (R) ; left Aug 1882 ; a stockbroker ; d. 12 May 1900.
CREWYS, — (in school list 1733), see CRUWYS, JOHN (qv).
CRISSELL, THOMAS, son of John Crissell, Long Melford, Suffolk ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Feb 1725/6 ; readm. Jan 1732/3 ; left 1733 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 22 Feb 1733/4, Canoneer Student from 26 Jun 1738 ; BA 1738 ; ordained deacon 1 Jun 1740 (Oxford) ; buried Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford 26 Jun 1740.
CROCHLEY, see also CRUTCHLEY.
CROCHLEY, GEORGE, son of George Crochley, Bloomsbury, London, writing master ; b. ; adm. (aged 9) Apr 1720 ; Min.Can.1724 ; KS 1725 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1729, matr. 12 Jun 1729, Westminster Student from 23 Dec 1729 ; BA 1733 ; drowned at Sandford Lasher, near Oxford, 25 Apr 1735. Buried Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.
CROCHLEY, RICHARD JOHN, brother of George Crochley (qv) ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) May 1733 ; KS 1737 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1742, matr.19 Jun 1742, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1742 – void 30 Jun 1750 ; said to have been an Usher at the School ; ordained deacon 25 May 1746, priest 14 Jun 1747 (both Oxford); Master, Doncaster Free Grammar School, from 27 Aug 1747 ; Vicar of Cantley, Yorks., from 3 Oct 1758 ; m. ; buried at Cantley 20 May 1776.
CROCKETT, ARTHUR WALCOTT, son of Edwin Arthur Brassey Crockett, Strathmore Gardens, Kensington, engineer and architect, and Elizabeth Isabel, eldest dau. of Sir Stephen Walcott KCMG, Lansdown Crescent, Notting Hill, London, Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioner ; b. 10 Sep 1867 ; adm. from Derby Sch. (H) 22 Sep 1882 ; left Apr 1883 ; at Hereford Cathedral Sch. 1883-4 ; Non-Coll., Cambridge, matr.Mich.1888 ; migrated to Corpus Christi Coll., adm.pens. 12 Jan 1889 ; BA 1891 ; MA 1895 ; Ridley Hall, Cambridge, 1892 ; ordained deacon 1892, priest 1893 (both Canterbury) ; held several curacies, including two years at The Old Church, Calcutta, India ; Vicar of Compton and Rector of Upper Marden, Sussex 1903-8 ; Vicar of Bitterne, Hants., 1908-20 ; Rector of Southfleet, Kent, 1920-6 ; Rector of St.Ives, Cornwall, 1927-37 ; Curate, West Camel, Somerset, 1943-4 ; m.1st, 22 Jun 1892 Caroline Elizabeth, dau. of Rev.Charles George Coombe, Vicar of St.Peter’s, Worthing, Sussex ; m.2nd, 22 May 1912 Gertrude Hayes Katherine, sister of Felix John Sterndale Gardiner (qv) ; m.3rd, 1942, Ellen Rose, younger dau. of John Batten Gover, Plymouth, Devon, grocer and confectioner ; d. 15 Aug 1950.
CROFT, SIR ARCHER DENMAN, BART., brother of Sir Thomas Elmsley Croft, Bart. (qv) ; b. 7 Dec 1801 ; adm.Mich.1813 ; left 8 Aug 1816 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 21 Aug 1820, called to bar 30 Apr 1839, having initially been a solicitor ; succ. his brother as 8th baronet 29 Oct 1835 ; a Master, Court of Queen’s Bench 1837-64 ; m. 31 Aug 1837 Julia Barbara, widow of Athelstan Corbet, Ynys-y-Maengwyn, Merioneth, and youngest dau. of Major-Gen.John Garstin, EICS Bengal, successively Surveyor-Gen. and Chief Engineer, Bengal ; d. 10 Jan 1865.
[CROFT, HERBERT, eldest son of Sir Richard Croft, Bart., MD, and Margaret, dau. of Thomas Denman MD ; b. 10 Feb 1793 ; adm. ; d. of smallpox 25 Aug 1802, “while a pupil at Westminster School”] [check evidence for this]
CROFT, SIR HERBERT ARCHER, BART., eldest son of Sir Herbert George Denman Croft, Bart., MP, and Georgiana Eliza Lucy, eldest dau. of Matthew Henry Marsh (qv) ; grandson of Sir Archer Denman Croft, Bart. (qv) ; b. 5 Sep 1868 ; adm.(R) 12 Apr 1882 ; left Dec 1884 ; went to Australia 1887, sheep-farming ; succ.father as 10th baronet 11 Feb 1902 ; enlisted as private in Herefordshire Regt., Aug.1914, and raised company of 150 men within a week ; 2nd Lieut., 1st batt., Herefordshire Regt. 2 Sep 1914, Lieut. ; Capt., 12 Sep 1914 ; went out with British expeditionary force to Mediterranean Jul 1915 ; DL Herefordshire, JP (1896), High Sheriff 1911 ; m.1st, 20 Jun 1892 Kathleen, second dau. of John Hare, Invercargill, New Zealand, merchant ; m.2nd, 3 Feb 1903 Katharine Agnes, eldest dau. of Joseph Charlton Parr, Grappenhall Heyes, Cheshire ; killed in action at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli 10 Aug 1915.
CROFT, HERBERT EDWARD PRICHARD, son of Henry Prichard Croft, Finborough Road, West Kensington, merchant, and Isabel Anne Annette, dau. of Henry Prichard, Ashley Park, Gloucs. ; b. 4 Jun 1860 ; adm.31 May 1872 ; left Dec 1875 ; “insurance clerk” (1901 Census) ; d. 28 Oct 1941.
CROFT, SIR JAMES, son of Sir Herbert Croft MP, Croft Castle, Herefs., and Mary, dau. of Anthony Bourne, Holt Castle, Worcs. ; b. ; adm. ; KS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1617, matr.8 Jun 1621, aged 18, Westminster Student to 1626 ; BA 1621 ; adm.Gray’s Inn 1625 ; a Gentleman Pensioner in Ordinary to Charles I ; a Col. in the Royalist army ; knighted at Oxford 18 Dec 1644 ; inherited Croft Castle estate on his elder brother’s death in 1645 ; suffered much for his loyalty ; buried St.Clement’s, London, 9 Aug 1659.
CROFT, ROBERT, brother of Sir James Croft (qv) ; b. ; adm. ; KS (aged 16) 1629 (Bodleian Library, Tanner MSS lxix, 224) ; a Col. in the Royalist army ; of Yarpole, Herefs. ; m. Elizabeth — ; buried 5 May 1683.
CROFT, SIR THOMAS ELMSLEY, BART., third but eldest surviving son of Sir Richard Croft, Bart., MD, and Margaret, dau. of Thomas Denman MD ; b. 2 Sep 1798 ; adm.Lady Day 1811 ; left 1813 ; Ensign, 1st Foot Guards 28 Apr 1814, half-pay 2 Mar 1820, retd. 29 Mar 1831 ; severely wounded at battle of Quatre Bras 16 Jun 1815 ; succ.father as 7th baronet 13 Feb 1818 ; FSA ; author, Poetical Remains (posthumous), 1836 ; m.9 Sep 1824 (divorced 1829) Sophia Jane, only child of Richard Lateward-Lateward, Grove House, Perivale, Middlesex ; d. 29 Oct 1835.
CROFT, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm.26 Jul 1774.
CROFTON-ATKINS, WILLIAM ARTHUR, illegitimate son of Maj.-Gen.Richard Henry Crofton, Royal Artillery, and Emily Catherine Anne, younger dau. of William James Brown, Gravesend, Kent ; b. 2 Dec 1844 ; adm.14 Apr 1857 ; St.John’s Coll.Oxford, matr.18 Oct 1862 (described in Foster as only son of William Arthur Crofton Atkins, Woolwich, Kent, presumably in error) ; Ensign, 2nd Foot Guards [check]; University Coll.Durham ; BA and L.Th 1871 ; ordained deacon 1872, priest 1873 (both Winchester) ; Curate, St.Clement’s, Bournemouth 1872-4 ; of Combe Bank, Kent, and St.Leonard’s, Sussex ; m.14 Jun 1866 Charlotte Anne Rosalie, eldest dau. of Rev.Edward Norman Coles, Rector of Battlesden with Pottesgrove, Beds. ; d. 17 Jan 1928.
CROFTS, DANIEL, brother of John Crofts (adm.1743, qv) ; b. ; adm. (aged 9) Jan 1749/50 ; in school list 1754 ; apprenticed to Charles Hornby, Sworn Attorney, Pipe Office, 26 Mar 1756 ; adm.solicitor 13 Feb 1765 ; of the Pipe Office, London, as one of the Board End clerks 1772-6 and as a Sworn Attorney from 1776 ; m. 1 Jul 1768 — Hunt, Lincoln’s Inn Fields ; d.18 Sep 1785.
CROFTS, JOHN, eldest son of John Crofts, Lincoln’s Inn, and Sompting Abbots, Sussex, solicitor, and Ann, dau. of Daniel Le Pla, Stamford, Lincs. ; bapt.St.Andrew, Holborn 27 Jul 1732 (IGI) ; adm.(aged 10) Apr 1743 ; left 1749 ; m. 19 Jun 1766 Frances, dau. of James Pinnock, Great Queen Street, London ; d. 20 Oct 1812, aged 80.
CROFTS, JOHN ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Jun 1751 ; in school list 1754.
CROFTS, JOHN, only son of John Crofts (adm.1743, qv) ; b. ; adm.23 Feb 1784 ; in school lists 1786 ; St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 6 Mar 1790, matr. Mich.1790, but did not graduate ; kept three terms ; d.unm. 23 Dec 1794, aged 23.
CROKE, see also CROOKE.
CROKE, JOHN, fourth son of Sir Alexander Croke, Kt, Studley Priory, Oxfordshire, Judge of Vice-Admiralty Court, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Alice, dau. of A.Blake, Brackley, Northants. ; b. Nova Scotia 23 Nov 1811 ; adm.(G) 22 Sep 1824 ; KS May 1826 ; rowed against Eton 27 Jul 1829 ; expelled 1829, having come back drunk after the Westminster/Eton race ; Jesus Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 13 Oct 1829, matr.Mich.1829 ; BA 1834 ; MA 1837 ; ordained deacon 26 Apr 1835 (Peterborough), priest 29 May 1836 (Lincoln) ; of Studley Priory, Oxfordshire ; m.1st, 11 Feb 1861, Selina, second dau. of D.Clarke, Brighton, Sussex ; m.2nd, 16 Jul 1884 Ida Frances, widow of Cdr.James Nias Croke RN, and dau. of John Reynolds Dickson, Woodville, co.Leitrim, landowner ; d. 12 May 1902.
CROKER, EDWARD, only son of John Croker, Ballynagarde, co.Limerick, and Catherine Adeline, daughter of John Bagwell (qv) ; b. 31 Aug 1814 ; adm.22 Jun 1825 ; Cornet, 17th Lancers 7 Sep 1832 ; Lieut., 11 Aug 1835 ; Capt., 1 Mar 1839 ; retd. 21 May 1841 ; JP co.Limerick, High Sheriff 1862 ; m.17 May 1841 Lady Georgiana Ellen Monck, sixth dau. of Henry Monck, 1st Earl of Rathdowne (I) ; d. 23 Mar 1869.
CROKER, ROBERT ; b. ; adm. (aged 16) Jan 1718/9 ; in under school list 1720.
CROKER, TEMPLE HENRY, son of Henry Croker, Sarsfield Court, co.Cork, Ireland, and his second wife Anne, dau. of Capt.Temple Briscoe, Dublin, army officer ; b. ; adm. (aged 11) Oct 1741 ; KS 1743 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1746, adm.pens. 29 May 1746, but did not matr. ; went to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 25 Nov 1746 ; BA 1750 ; MA 1760 ; ordained deacon 28 Dec 1751 (Chichester), priest 23 Dec 1753 (Lincoln, lit.dim. from Winchester) ; Curate, Crondall, Hants.,1753 ; held curacies in Sussex 1751-68 ; Chaplain to William, 1st Earl of Hillsborough, 8 Feb 1755 ; Reader of Temple Church Mich.1759 – dismissal Jun 1763, having gone abroad Sep 1761 ; Chaplain, Royal Navy 1761, serving on HMS Edgar in Sep 1763 ; Rector of Ightham, Kent, 28 Jul 1769-73 ; bankrupt 1773 ; emigrated to West Indies ; Rector of St.John’s, Capisterre, St.Kitts ; author of a translation of Orlando Furioso, 1755, and of other works ; m.1st, 15 Mar 1753 Anne McAnally, St.James’s, Westminster ; lic. to m. 2nd, 6 Mar 1758, Anne Whitehead, Petworth, Sussex [but GM records his marriage in 1763 (sic) to “Miss Whitehead, of Bramshot” (i.e. Bramshott, Hampshire), and IGI gives date of marriage as 23 Sep 1763 ; Miss Whitehead was “Lady of the Manor of Bramshot” (St.James’s Chronicle 1 Oct 1763 ; she was certainly of Bramshott, where she was buried as Croker’s widow in 1811] ; d. in St.Kitts 1790 (?). ODNB.
CROMPTON, — ; b. ; adm. ; left 1656 (school list, 1656, first quarter).
CROMPTON, EUSTACE, second son of Rev John Lake Crompton (previously Lake), Pinetown, Durban, Natal, South Africa, Hon.Canon Maritzburg, and Harriet, dau. of Joseph Phelps, Funchal, Madeira, wine grower ; b. 3 May 1857 ; adm.30 May 1872 ; left Aug 1874 ; King’s College, London ; student, ICE 20 Apr 1875 ; later living at Pinetown, Natal, South Africa ; m. 15 Jul 1897 Constance Harriet Van Zuilocom ; d. at Pietermaritzburg, South Africa 19 Aug 1933
CROMPTON, JOHN, son of George Crompton, Middlesex ; b. ; adm. ; Min.Can. (aged 12) 1650 (Chapter Muniments 43057).
CROMPTON, THOMAS LAKE, son of Thomas Crompton, and Alice — (IGI) ; b.20 Jan 1827 ; adm. (G) 4 Apr 1837 ; left May 1843 ; commercial traveller and commission agent ; emigrated briefly to New Zealand ; returned to England ; insolvent debtor in 1857 ; d. c. Mar 1864. [perhaps m. 21 Jul 1849 Clara Kent (IGI)]
CROMWELL, ABRAHAM ; b. ; at school c.1660 (Busby’s account book).
CROOKE, CLEMENT, eldest son of Clement Crooke, Chief Justice of St.Kitts, West Indies ; b. ; adm. (aged 15) Oct 1721 ; left Mich.1722 ; m. Harriet, dau. of Robert Cunyngham, St.Kitts, planter ; buried 23 Aug 1744.
CROOKE, JOHN, brother of Samuel Crooke (qv); b. ; adm. (aged 9) Oct 1752 ; Min.Can.1756 ; KS 1757 ; living 1764.
CROOKE, MICHAEL, son of Samuel Crooke, St.Kitts, West Indies, and Mary — ; b. ; adm. (aged 15) Jun 1736 ; left 1736.
CROOKE, SAMUEL, eldest son of Samuel Crooke, New House, Boxford, Suffolk, and St.Kitts, West Indies, member Council, St Kitts, and Sarah Milward, widow ; nephew of Michael Crooke (qv) ; b. ; adm. (aged 11) Oct 1752 ; in school list 1754 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens.10 Mar 1757, matr. Easter 1757 ; adm.Middle Temple 24 Jan 1760 ; of Little Ilford, Essex (in 1772) ; m. at St.George’s, Basseterre, St.Kitts 31 Mar 1772 Mary Duport.
CROOKS, — ; b. ; in school lists 1764,1765,1767 ; left Whitsun 1767.
CROONE, HENRY, son of Henry Croone, London, wine merchant (for father’s occupation see Busby’s Account Book 27 Apr 1664), and Anne, dau. of Richard Hiller, Beddington, Surrey ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1637 ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1640, matr.3 Jul 1640, aged 17, Westminster Student to ejection 1648 (although his name does not feature in the minutes of the Parliamentary Visitors), restored 1660 ; BA 1644 ; MA 23 Jan 1646/7 ; Faculty Student, Christ Church 1662-7, 1679-81, void on marriage ; adm.Middle Temple (as Croome) 8 Nov 1641 ; Judge Advocate of the Fleet 29 Jul 1680 – 23 May 1689 ; lic.to m. 27 Jun 1681 Catherine, widow successively of Rev.John Doughty DD, Prebendary of Westminster, and of Sir Thomas Heath, Kt., Stoke, near Guildford, Surrey ; buried Cloisters, Westminster Abbey 14 Jun 1689.
CROOTE, HENRY, son of “a poor godly Minister of the county of Lyncolne” ; b. ; adm. ; BB in 1654 ; left May 1657 (Chapter Muniments 43086).
CROPLEY, JOHN ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1742/3. [maybe John Cropley, St.Margaret’s, Westminster, clerk to an army agent, indicted at the Old Bailey for forging exchange bills 5 Jul 1749] [this John Cropley was apparently son of John Cropley, Charles Street, Westminster, peruke maker]
CROPLEY, MATTHEW ; b. ; adm. (aged 8) Mar 1747 ; left 1747.
CROSBY, JOHN MONTAGUE, see COSBY, JOHN MONTAGUE.
[CROSDILL, JOHN, son of Richard Crosdill, cellist ; b. c.1751 ; adm. ; chorister ; studied the cello with Jean Pierre Duport ; already performing as a cellist in 1765 ; member, Royal Society of Musicians 4 Dec 1768 ; principal cellist, Concerts of Ancient Music 1776 ; violist, Chapel Royal, from 10 Mar 1778 ; in Italy with Richard, 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam, Oct 1778 ; Chamber Musician to Queen Charlotte 1782, principal cellist, Handel Festival, Westminster Abbey 1782 ; Chief Composer and Master of Music (I) (occurs as such 1789, 1790) ; retired from musical profession soon after his marriage ; m.31 May 1785 Elizabeth, widow of Robert Colebrooke, Chilham Castle, Kent, and dau. of John Thresher, Wilts. ; m.2nd, — [check] ; d. Oct 1825. ODNB. Included in Record by Russell Barker & Stenning, but they cite no specific evidence that he attended the School, although as a chorister he may well have ; Viscount Fitwilliam, described as a school friend, was in fact at Charterhouse].
CROSS, ROBERT CLIFFORD LLOYD, son of Maurice Cross, Judge of Small Cause Court,Madras, and his second wife Grace Eleanor Coltman, dau. of Col.Robert Clifford Lloyd, 68th Foot ; b. 2 Apr 1863 ; adm. 27 Jan 1876 (R) ; left Dec 1876 ; at Cheltenham Coll.1877-9 ; living in Tasmania (occurs 1914) to 1922 ; subsequently resident in Fullarton, South Australia ; m. Mary Ann Lickman (marriage registered Wandsworth fourth quarter 1900) ; buried Mount Barker Cemetery, South Australia 18 Dec 1949.
CROSSE, — ; b. ; adm. ; QS in 1556 (Chapter Muniments 37713).
CROSSE, — ; b. ; adm. ; left 1656 (school list 1656, first quarter).
CROSSE, — ; b. ; adm. ; left 1656 (school list 1656, first quarter).
CROSSE, ANDREW FREDERICK, eldest son of Andrew Crosse, Fyne Court, Somerset, researcher into electricity, and his second wife Cornelia Augusta Hewitt, dau. of Capt.F(rederick ?) H(ewitt ?) Berkeley, Dixfield, Exeter, Devon ; b. 31 May 1852 ; adm.(G) 15 Jun 1865 ; left Whitsun 1867 ; went to Univ.Coll.Sch., London ; an analytical chemist ; afterwards went to Hungary, where he engaged in wine growing ; emigrated to South Africa 1889, where he resumed his work as a consulting chemist and metallurgist ; resident in Johannesburg ; President, South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy 1895 ; author, Round about the Carpathians, 1878 ; m. ist, (by 1877) Emilia Pawlowszky ; m.2nd, at Cape Town, South Africa, 17 Oct 1895 Frances Charlotte, dau. of George Bryan Jennings, Shelley House, Chipping Ongar, Essex, merchant ; d. 8 Dec 1925.
CROSSE,JOHN, son of Oliver Crosse, Ware, Herts., vintner, and Agnes — ; b. ; at school (aged 12) 2 Jul 1582 (Chapter Muniments 43050) ; QS ; a contributor to the congratulatory verses by QSS to Queen Elizabeth c.1586 (Hatfield, Salisbury MSS).
CROSSE, SIR JOHN, BART., second but only surviving son of Sir Thomas Crosse, Bart. (qv) ; b. ; adm. (aged 14) 10 Jan 1714/5 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr.21 Feb 1716/7, aged 16 ; MP Wootton Bassett 1727-34, Lostwithiel 19 May 1735-47, Westminster 1754-61 ; succ.father as 2nd baronet 27 May 1738 ; m. 15 Jul 1746 Mary Godfrey, St.Margaret’s, Westminster [apparently his cousin, dau. of [William ?] Godfrey, mercer] ; d. 12 Mar 1762.
CROSSE, SIR THOMAS, BART., eldest son of Thomas Crosse, St.Margaret’s, Westminster, brewer, and Mary, sister of John Lockwood ; b. 29 Nov 1663 ; at school under Busby (memorial tablet in St.Margaret’s, Westminster) ; inherited father’s brewing business ; MP Westminster Feb – Nov 1701, 1702-5, 1710-22 ; created baronet 11 Jul 1713 ; director South Sea Company 1721-4 ; gave £50 towards building of College Dormitory ; m. Jane, dau. of Patrick Lambe, Stoke Poges, Bucks. ; d. 27 May 1738.
CROUCH, see also CROWCH.
CROUCH, HENRY NEWTON, second son of Charles William Crouch, Middle Temple, barrister, and Sarah Mary Anne, only dau. of Henry Constable, Fellows Road, Hampstead, Middlesex ; b. 6 Aug 1865 ; adm. 12 Jun 1879, exhibitioner (R) ; QS 20 Oct 1879 ; left May 1884 ; LLB London Univ 1890 ; adm.solicitor Oct 1892 ; went out to India ; Public Prosecutor, Sind 27 Sep 1897 ; adm.Middle Temple 21 Feb 1900, called to bar 9 May 1900 ; joined Indian Civil Service Jun 1906 ; Additional Judicial Commissioner, Sind 18 Jun 1906 (still 1918) ; Kaisar-i-Hind medal (1st class) 3 Jun 1918 ; m. 8 Jan 1900 Ethel Frances, second dau. of Lieut.-Col.John Muir Hunter CSI OBE, Indian Staff Corps, later of Tunbridge Wells, Kent ; d. 12 Mar 1946.
CROUCH, THOMAS ; b. ; adm. (aged 8) Jan 1716/7 (“probably a chorister”); left 1718.
CROW, see also CROWE.
CROW, WILLIAM, son of Christopher Crow, East Bilney, Norfolk, and Susan, dau. of Thomas Townsend, Testerton, Norfolk ; b. ; at school under Camden five years ; Gonville and Caius Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens.10 Jan 1594/5, aged 18, scholar Lady Day 1595 – Mich.1602, Junior Fellow Mich.1603, Senior Fellow Lady Day – Mich.1613, matr.1595 (J.Venn, Biog.Hist.Gonville and CaiusColl.Camb., I, 154) ; BA 1598/9 ; MA 1602 ; ordained priest 3 Apr 1613 (Lincoln) ; Rector of Barnby and Vicar of Mutford, Suffolk, from 1613 ; kept a school at Mutford ; m. Margaret, dau. of Rev.James Taylor DD, Rector of Westmill, Herts., and Prebendary of Ely ; buried at Mutford 20 Jul 1633.
CROWCH, JOHN ; b. ; adm. ; KS ; failed to obtain election to either university 1639.
CROWDY, CHARLES WHITTON, brother of Ernest Alfred Crowdy (qv) ; b. 23 Dec 1864 ; adm. 25 Sep 1879 (R) ; left Aug 1881 ; adm.solicitor Nov 1887 ; practised at Torquay, Devon, subsequently in London ; m. 11 Feb 1914 Sybil Ada, dau. of Henry Nicholas Harvey AMICE, Hayle, Cornwall, civil engineer ; d. 12 Oct 1945.
CROWDY, ERNEST ALFRED, eldest son of Alfred Southby Crowdy, Donnington, Berks., banker, and Emma Eliza, dau. of James Smith Townsend (qv) ; b. 18 Sep 1855 ; adm. 27 May 1869 ; left Aug 1872 ; drowned by the upsetting of his canoe at Anstey’s Cove, Torquay 5 Mar 1874.
CROWDY, FRANCIS DEMAINBRAY, brother of Ernest Alfred Crowdy (qv) ; b. 17 Sep 1857 ; adm. 26 Jan 1871 ; QS 1872 ; left Apr 1876 ; Oriel Coll.Oxford, matr. 22 Jan 1877 ; played Association Football against Cambridge 1877, 1880 ; BA 1881 ; MA and MB 1885 ; MD 1889 ; St.Thomas’s Hospital ; MRCS LSA 1885 ; practised at Torquay ; m. 8 Apr 1896 Florence Mary, dau. of John Brewer Saunders, Torquay, telegraph engineer ; d. 12 Feb 1939.
CROWE, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1672.
CROWLE, CHARLES JOHN (or JOHN CHARLES), son of Richard Crowle MP, Hull, Yorks., barrister and Bencher Inner Temple, and Elizabeth, dau. of John Pearman, London, timber merchant ; b. ; adm. (aged 8) Jan 1748/9 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.fellow commoner 30 Jul 1757, matr. Lent 1758, but did not graduate ; adm.Inner Temple 13 Jun 1755 ; Grand Tour (in Italy 1761-2) ; MP Richmond 26 May 1769-74 ; Steward of Household to Earl of Carlisle when Lord Lieut. of Ireland ; MP (I) Harristown 1781-3 ; Master of the Revels from 21 Mar 1786 ; Sergeant Trumpeter, Royal Household, from 9 Jan 1803 ; member Society of Dilettanti 1764, Secretary 1774-8 ; FSA (by 1800) ; d. 7 Mar 1811.
CROYDEN, GEORGE, brother of Thomas Croyden (qv) ; b. ; adm. ; KS (Capt.) ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1634, matr.1 Sep 1634, aged 18, Westminster Student to 1650 (?), Censor ; BA 1638 ; MA 1641 ; Under Master, Westminster School 1642-5 ; apparently submitted to Parliamentary Visitors 1648, although there is no record of that in their minutes ; “absent on leave” when required to subscribe the engagement in Feb 1650/1 (Burrows, op.cit., 329) ; LLD Padua 20 Mar 1656/7 (at Padua 8 Nov 1656, incorp.DCL Oxford 4 Nov 1662) ; ordained deacon 19 Sep 1641 (Lincoln) ; Canon of Christ Church, Oxford from 14 Dec 1666, subsequently also Treasurer, Christ Church ; m.10 Jul 1660 (IGI) Elizabeth, widow of Thomas Garfoot, The Hyde, Ingatestone, Essex, by whom she was mother of Thomas Garfoot (qv), and sister of Sir John Heydon, Kt, Governor of the Bermuda Company ; d. 14 Jun 1678. Buried Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.
CROYDEN, THOMAS, son of George Croyden, Templecombe, Somerset ; b. ; adm. ; KS ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1631, adm.scholar 1631, matr.Easter 1632 ; BA 1635/6 ; MA 1639 ; Fellow of Trinity Coll. 1637-47, when deprived (patent for travelling having expired), Tutor 1640-1 ; practising medicine at Padua 1647-50 (at Padua by 9 Jan 1645/6), MD Padua 30 Oct 1648 (incorp.Oxford 6 Dec 1652) ; FRCP 22 Dec 1657, Censor 1664,1665,1668,1670, 1672 ; Physician in Ordinary Supernumary to Charles II 2 Jun 1668 ; d.c.1679.
CROYDEN, WILLIAM, brother of Thomas Croyden (qv) ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1633 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1636, adm.pens. 19 May 1636, scholar 1637 ; BA 1639/40 ; MA 1643 ; Minor Fellow Trin.Coll.1640, Major Fellow 1641, Tutor 1644-55 [check], a Senior Fellow by order of House of Commons 6 Nov 1645-c.1651 [check], Senior Bursar 1647-50, Proctor 1647, 1650 ; will proved PCC 2 Jun 1657 (gentleman, Wilbraham, Cambs.). [a son of William and Elizabeth Croyden bapt. St.Michael’s, Cambridge 23 Sep 1651 (and a daughter 1652)]
CROZIER, FREDERICK WILLIAM FRANCIS ST.JOHN, son of Rev.James Alexander Crozier, Chaplain to Household Cavalry, and Frances Elizabeth, dau. of William Frederick Chambers (KS 1800, qv) ; b.24 Jun 1858 ; adm.22 Jan 1874 ; left Dec 1874 ; lived for several years in South Africa ; d. unm.10 Feb 1903.
CRUCIFIX, ROBERT ; b. ; adm.12 Jun 1779 ; chorister.
CRUMP, — ; b. ; in under school lists 1715, 1716.
CRUMP, — ; b. ; in school list Jun 1764 ; left Sep 1764.
CRUMP, — ; b. ; in school lists 1764, 1765.
CRUMP, BYAM, second son of Col.Nathaniel Crump, President of Antigua, West Indies, and Ann White ; b. ; adm. (aged 15) Feb 1733/4 ; in school list 1736 ; adm.Inner Temple 6 Feb 1735/6 ; Ensign, 3rd Foot Guards 15 Jun 1744 ; Lieut. and Capt., 10 Mar 1747 ; Maj., 38th Foot 23 Nov 1753 ; Lieut.-Col., 60th Foot (afterwards 58th Foot) 27 Dec 1755 ; 4th Foot, 17 Dec 1757 ; temporary rank of Brig.-Gen. as Governor of Guadeloupe Apr 1759 ; m. Feb 1758 Dorothea, second dau. of Ven.William Lewis, Archdeacon of Kilfenora ; d. 11 Mar 1760.
CRUMP, PHILIPS ; b. ; adm. (aged 8) Sep 1715 ; in under school list 1720.
CRUTCHLEY, NATHANIEL, son of Nathaniel Crutchley, London ; b. ; adm. ; BB 1721 ; Min.Can. (aged 13) 1725 ; KS 1725 ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1730, adm.pens.4 Jun 1730, scholar 7 May 1731, matr.1731 ; Craven Scholar 20 Oct 1732 – Jun 1742 ; BA 1733/4 ; MA 1737 ; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll.2 Oct 1736, Major Fellow 6 Jul 1737 ; ordained deacon 24 Dec 1732, priest 9 Jun 1734 (both Rochester) ; Curate, Meonstoke, Hampshire c.1736 ; Vicar of Roxton, Beds., from 20 Mar 1740 ; m. (?) ; d.1743 (will dated 1 Sep 1743, proved 4 Nov 1743).
CRUWYS, JOHN, elder son of Samuel Cruwys FRS, Cruwys Morchard, Devon, barrister, and Susanna, dau. of Thomas Bretton, London, vintner ; b. 22 Oct 1716 ; adm.Feb 1732/3 ; in school list Aug 1733 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr.14 May 1734, Canoneer Student 11 Jul 1735 – void 14 Sep 1742 (expiry year of grace as R.Cruwys Morchard from 10 Sep 1741) ; BA 1738 ; MA 1740 ; ordained deacon 23 Sep 1739, priest 28 Dec 1740 (both Oxford) ; Rector of Cruwys Morchard, Devon, from 11 Aug 1741 ; d.unm. 1 Feb 1791.
CUBITT, EDWARD GEORGE, youngest son of George Cubitt, Catfield Hall, Norfolk, and his second wife Frances, dau. of Rev.Henry Parish, Rector of Rainham, Norfolk ; b. 23 Feb 1814 ; adm.13 Jun 1827 (G) ; Ensign, 73rd Foot 9 Dec 1831 ; Lieut., 28 Apr 1837 ; Paymaster, 7th Light Dragoons 16 Feb 1844 ; Paymaster, Cavalry Depot, Maidstone 1 Oct 1858 ; Hon.Maj., 1 Jan 1860 ; Paymaster, Recruiting Staff 18 Apr 1865 ; Paymaster, Coast Brigade RA 31 Mar 1866 ; ret. as Hon.Col. 1 Aug 1872 ; JP Norfolk ; m. 11 Mar 1844 Elizabeth, dau. of Charles Weston, Thorpe, Norwich, banker and brewer ; d.1 Jan 1888.
CUFFE, OTWAY, 1ST EARL OF DESART (I), second son of John Cuffe, 1st Baron Desart (I), and his second wife Dorothea, sister of Richard Gorges (adm.1721, qv) ; b. ; adm. (aged 13) Oct 1749 ; left 1752 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr.11 Jul 1752 ; adm.Middle Temple 31 Jan 1756 ; Second Lieut., Royal Marines 24 Feb 1758/9 ; First Lieut., 14 Mar 1761 ; Capt., 120th Foot 13 Feb 1762 ; succ.brother as 3rd Baron Desart (I) 25 Nov 1767 ; took seat in Irish House of Lords 22 Dec 1767 ; Grand Tour (Italy) 1769-70 ; created Viscount Desart (I) 6 Jan 1781 and Earl of Desart (I) 20 Dec 1793 ; an Irish Representative Peer from 1801 ; m. 18 Aug 1785 Lady Ann Browne, eldest dau. of Peter Browne, 2nd Earl of Altamont (I) (perhaps OW, qv) ; d. 9 Aug 1804.
CULLIN, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. (aged 8) Feb 1724/5.
CULLING, WILLIAM, son of William Culling, London ; b. ; adm. ; in school list Feb 1727/8 (first form) (as Cullen) ; Min.Can. (aged 12) 1732, (aged 14) 1733 (as Cullen) ; in school lists Jan 1732/3 and Aug 1733 (both as Culling) ; left 1734. [perhaps son of William Culling, who m. at St.Katherine by the Tower Jun 1719 Mary Scott (IGI)] [note William Culling, Brigadier 1st Troop, Horse Guards 21 Jul 1744, Exempt and Guidon 5 Jun 1758, left regiment 1770]
CULPEPPER, HON.FRANCIS, son of John Colepeper, 1st Baron Colepeper PC, successively Chancellor of the Exchequer and Master of the Rolls, and his second wife Judith, dau. of Sir Thomas Culpepper Kt, Hollingbourne, Kent ; b. ; at school 1659 (Busby’s Account Book); KS (Capt.) 1662 ; buried in the Cloisters, Westminster Abbey 1 Nov 1663.
[CULVERDEN, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. ; a bell-founder in London in 1510 ; by his will dated 1522 and proved 1523 he bequeathed “to the Abbey of Westmynster where I was brought upp in my youth to be bestowed in the same church for the welth of my soule xxxiiis viiid”. Included in Supplement, but it seems illogical to include him but to exclude all pre-dissolution monks, presumably for the most part educated in the Abbey as novices]
CUMBERBACH, JAMES ; b. ; adm. (aged 9) 10 Jan 1714/5 ; in under school list 1718. [probably James Comberbach, bapt.St.Michael’s, Chester 8 Jul 1705, youngest son of Roger Comberbach, Inner Temple and Chester, Cheshire, barrister at law, Recorder of Chester and Welsh Judge, and his wife Alice, dau. of William Street, Chester, Alderman of Chester]
CUMBERLAND, — (at school under Vincent), see FITZERNEST, GEORGE.
CUMBERLAND, — ; b. ; in school list May 1803 ; left 1803. [Possibly = FITZERNEST, GEORGE]
CUMBERLAND, CHARLES, third son of Richard Cumberland (adm.1745/6, qv) ; b. 21 May 1764 ; adm.16 Jun 1772 ; left Aug 1775 ; Ensign, 10th Foot 31 Aug 1781 ; Lieut., 24 Sep 1787 ; Capt., Independent Co.Foot 18 May 1793 ; retd. 10 Sep 1793 ; member MCC ; played cricket twice for Kent in 1791 and 1793, and for OWW against Old Etonians at Lord’s 13-14 May 1793 ; m. 23 Oct 1799 Penelope Susannah, widow of David Dewar, Enham House, Hants., mother of George Edward Mathew Dewar (qv) and dau. of Gen.Edward Mathew, Governor of Grenada ; d. 12 May 1835.
CUMBERLAND, DENISON, second son of Ven.Richard Cumberland, Archdeacon of Northampton, and Elizabeth, dau. of Adam Denison, Leverington, Cambs. ; grandson of Right Rev.Richard Cumberland DD, Bishop of Peterborough ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Jun 1720 (in boarding house later known as Ludford’s) ; in under school list 1721 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens.18 Sep 1724, readm.fellow commoner 28 Mar 1727 ; MA 1728 ; ordained deacon 12 Dec 1731, priest 19 Dec 1731 (both Lincoln) ; Rector of Stanwick, Northants., 21 Dec 1731-57 ; Vicar of Fulham, Middlesex, 29 Jan 1757-63 ; Prebendary of Lincoln 2 Jun 1735- Jun 1763, St.Paul’s 29 Jan 1761- May 1763 ; DD Lambeth 1 Jun 1761 ; consecrated Bishop of Clonfert 19 Jun 1763 ; translated to Kilmore 6 Mar 1772 ; m. 15 Aug 1728 Joanna, dau. of Rev.Richard Bentley DD FRS, Master of Trinity Coll.Cambridge ; buried at Kilmore 22 Nov 1774.
CUMBERLAND, GEORGE, second son of Richard Cumberland (adm.1745/6, qv) ; b.1762 ; adm.27 May 1771 ; entered Royal Navy ; killed at siege of Charleston, South Carolina Jun 1776.
CUMBERLAND, RICHARD, only son of Denison Cumberland (qv) ; b.19 Feb 1732 ; adm. from Bury St.Edmunds Sch. Jan 1745/6 (Ludford, afterwards home boarder) ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens.11 Jun 1747, scholar 1748, matr.1748 ; 6th Wrangler 1750/1 ; BA 1750/1 ; MA 1754 ; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll.1752, Major Fellow 1753 ; private secretary to George, 2nd Earl of Halifax c.1754-c.1765 ; Crown Agent for Nova Scotia c.1758 – ? ; held post of Ulster Secretary Apr 1761 – Apr 1763 during Halifax’s term of office as Lord Lieut.Ireland ; Solicitor and Clerk of Reports, Board of Trade 31 May 1765 – Jan 1776, Secretary to Board of Trade 23 Jan 1776 – 2 May 1782, when post abolished ; on unsuccessful secret mission to Spain Jun 1780 – Apr 1781, seeking to secure a separate peace with that country ; after the abolition of his government appointment he settled in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, holding a commission in local volunteers during Napoleonic Wars ; author of numerous comedies, tragedies, translations and novels ; his most successful play, The West Indian, was produced by Garrick in 1771 and ran for twenty-eight nights ; described by Goldsmith in his Retaliation as “the Terence of England” and caricatured by Sheridan as Sir Fretful Plagiary in The Critic (see Lord Broughton, Recollections of a Long Life, i, 138) ; wrote with Sir John Bland Burges (qv) an epic called The Exodiad, 1808 ; author, The Observer, almost the last imitation of The Spectator ; his Memoirs, published in 1807, contain several interesting references to the School and to his contemporaries there ; m.19 Feb 1759 Elizabeth, only dau. of George Ridge, Kilmeston, Hants. ; d. 7 May 1811. Buried in Poets’ Corner, Westminster Abbey. ODNB.
CUMBERLAND, RICHARD, eldest son of Richard Cumberland (adm.1745/6, qv) ; b. 28 Dec 1760 ; adm.10 Jan 1770 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens.30 Aug 1776, aged 15, scholar 15 May 1778, matr. Mich.1777 ; sailed as volunteer in Sir Charles Hardy’s fleet 1779 ; Ensign, 1st Foot Guards 12 Oct 1779 ; Lieut. and Capt., 20 Oct 1784 ; Capt., 66th Foot 9 Jul 1788 ; 13th Foot 31 Jul 1789 ; m.14 Jul 1784 Lady Albinia Hobart, eldest dau. of George Hobart, 3rd Earl of Buckinghamshire (qv) ; d. at Barbados, on his way home from the West Indies, 16 Feb 1794.
CUMBERLAND, RICHARD FRANCIS GEORGE, son of Richard Cumberland (adm.1770, qv) ; b. ; in school list 1801 ; left Christmas 1802 ; at Harrow Sch.1804-5 ; a Page of Honour to George III 4 Feb 1804 – Jan 1810 ; Ensign, 3rd Foot Guards 27 Jan 1809 ; Lieut. and Capt., 25 Dec 1813 ; retd. 24 Feb 1825 ; ADC to Duke of Wellington during Peninsular War 1812-4, wounded at siege of Bayonne ; Gentleman Usher Quarterly Waiter to Queen Adelaide, Jul 1830- c.1834; Collector of Land Revenue, Malta c.1832-8, post abolished ; a Junior Clerk, Royal Mint Jan 1842 – Feb 1869, superannuated ; Naval Officer, St Vincent (sinecure) ; m.17 Dec 1827 Mary, dau. of — Turner, Rotherham, Yorks., solicitor ; d. 9 Mar 1870, aged 77. ODNB.
CUMBERLAND, WILLIAM, fourth son of Richard Cumberland (adm.1745/6, qv) ; b. ; adm. 7 Jun 1773 ; left Whitsun 1781 ; entered Royal Navy ; Lieut., 26 Feb 1790 ; Commander 3 Oct 1795 ; Capt., 8 Nov 1798 ; Rear-Adm., 27 May 1825 ; served at San Domingo 1803, and commanded HMS Leyden at capture of Danish fleet at Copenhagen 1807 ; m. 10 May 1800 Eliza, dau. of Charles Pym Burt, St Croix, West Indies, and Albemarle Street, Piccadilly, London, plantation owner ; d.15 Nov 1832, aged 67.
CUMING, JOSEPH HENRY, son of William Cuming, Bognor, Sussex, Deputy Accountant-General, Royal Navy, and Cecily Kemp, dau. of Rev.Joseph Henry Cumming, Warden, Queen’s Coll., Birmingham ; b. 31 Jul 1870 ; adm. as exhibitioner (G) 31 May 1883 ; QS 12 Jun 1884 ; left Dec 1888 ; Trin.Coll.Camb., adm.pens.5 Oct 1889, matr.Mich.1889 ; passed into Indian Civil Service after exam of 1889 ; arrived in India 3 Dec 1891 ; served North West Provinces and Oudh as Assist.Magistrate and Collector, and as Assist.Commissioner ; Joint Magistrate Jan 1897 ; District and Sessional Judge, United Provinces Mar 1904 (still 1926) ; m.23 Oct 1907 Céphise Marie, dau. of James Weller Maxwell, Raur Estate, Etah, United Provinces, India ; d. 5 Dec 1949.
CUMMINGS, — ; b. ; in school lists 1764,1765,1767,1769 ; left Dec 1769.
CUMMINS, THOMAS ; b. ; adm. (aged 13) Jun 1720 ; appears as “Comyns” in under school list 1720.
CUNNINGHAM, ROBERT NAPIER, son of William Richard Cunningham, Twickenham, Middlesex, merchant, and Caroline Elizabeth, dau. of Richard Cave, co.Cork, Ireland ; b. 26 Jan 1868 ; adm. (G) 26 Jan 1883 ; left May 1884 ; went to Valencia, Spain, to complete his education ; a fruit merchant in Canary Islands ; m. ; d. in Canary Islands c.1908.
CUNNINGHAM, THOMAS ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1750/1 ; in school list 1754.
CUNYNGHAME, ROBERT, second son of Sir William Augustus Cunynghame, Bart., MP, and his first wife Frances, dau. of Sir Robert Myrton, Bart., Gogar, Midlothian ; bapt.Livingston, West Lothian 29 Jul 1770 (IGI); adm.13 Nov 1783 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr.29 Dec 1787, aged 17, Canoneer Student 22 Dec 1787 – res 8 Jun 1791 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 2 Apr 1787 ; of Brunswick Square, Hove, Sussex ; m. 8 Apr 1813 Maria, dau. of Capt. George Dundas of Dundas, EI Maritime Service ; d. 8 Sep 1836.
[CUPPAGE, — ; b. ; in school lists 1729, 1731, Jan 1732/3 (sixth form), Aug 1733 [check], 1734. Presumably entries relate to Burke Cuppage (qv) and George Cuppage (qv)]
CUPPAGE, BURKE, son of Very Rev.George Cuppage, Dean of Connor and Rector of Coleraine, co.Londonderry, and Mary Burke ; b. (London) ; adm. ; Min.Can. (aged 13) 1732 ; KS 1733 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1738, adm.pens.2 Jun 1738, scholar 18 May 1739 ; BA 1741/2 ; ordained deacon 13 Jun 1742, priest 29 Apr 1743 (both Lincoln) ; Rector of Coleraine, co.Londonderry 14 Jul 1743 – 68 (successor appointed 6 Dec 1768) ; m. — Kirkpatrick.
CUPPAGE, GEORGE ; b. ; in school lists 1734-8. [presumably George Cuppage, son of George Cuppage, and Mary —, bapt.St.James, Piccadilly 1 Oct 1724, a younger brother of Burke Cuppage ?]][apprenticed to Benjamin Wilding, Cornhill, London, vintner c.1738]
CUPPAGE, STEPHEN, son of George Cuppage, and Mary Burke ; bapt.St.John, Smith Square 27 May 1733 (IGI); adm.(aged 11) May 1744 ; left 1746. [Probably a younger brother of Burke Cuppage (qv)]
CUPPAGE, WILLIAM ADAM, eldest son of Maj.John Macdonald Cuppage, Fermoy, co.Cork, 89thFoot, and Elizabeth Geraldine De Courcy, third dau. of William Cooke-Collis, Castle Cooke, co.Cork ; b. 24 Jun 1860 ; adm.3 Jun 1872 (R) ; QS 1875 ; left May 1879 ; RMC Sandhurst 1880 ; 2nd Lieut., 99th Foot 22 Jan 1881 ; 8th Foot 30 Mar 1881 ; Lieut., Liverpool Regt., 1 Jul 1881 ; Capt., 22 Jan 1882 ; Bengal Staff Corps, 15 Oct 1884 ; Wing Officer, 5th Bengal Native Infantry 8 May 1885 ; Double Company Commander, 1 May 1900 ; Maj., Indian Army 22 Jan 1901 ; Lieut.-Col.commandant, 48th Brigade 6 Apr 1901 ; retd. 1 Apr 1905 ; served in Burmese expedition 1866-7, severely wounded in engagement in Shan Hills ; m.28 Jan 1891 Caroline Isabella, eldest dau. of Lieut.-Gen.James May CB, Bengal Army ; drowned in the Blackwater, near Fermoy, 19 Oct 1908.
CUPPINCOTT, HENRY, see LUPPINCOTT, HENRY.
CURE, — ; b. ; in school list 1754. [perhaps George Cure, son of George Cure, Haymarket, Westminster, Upholsterer to Prince of Wales, and Catherine, dau. of Capel Payne, St.Anne, Soho, Westminster ; St.John’s Coll.Oxford, matr. 8 Jul 1761, aged 17 ; BCL 1768 ; adm. Inner Temple 6 Feb 1764 ; of Eversley, Berkshire ; a subscriber to Peirson Lloyd, Sermons, 1765 ; m. 14 Jul 1784 Mary Willis, dau. of Benedict Freeman, Windsor, Berks. ; d. 6 Jan 1798 ; but Visitation of England and Walessays ed Harrow]
CURE, GEORGE, second son of Thomas Cure, Newington Butts, Surrey, and Lettice, dau. of Edward Littlebury, Leics. ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1630 (Bodleian Library, Tanner MSS lxix, 137) ; Exeter Coll.Oxford, matr.21 Jun 1633, aged 18 ; adm.Inner Temple Nov 1634, called to bar 13 Nov 1644, Bencher 1662 ; m.before 20 May 1640 Frances, dau. of Abraham Jones, Welford, Berks., and Middle Temple, London ; m.2nd, Anne — ; d.1689.
CURETON, JAMES EDWIN, elder son of Rev.William Cureton DD, Canon of Westminster and Rector of St.Margaret’s, Westminster, and Harriet, eldest dau. of William Blore DCL FRS, Manchester Square, London, architect ; b. 15 Apr 1848 ; adm.3 Jun 1858 ; QS 1863 ; left before Whitsun 1867 ; employed Department of Coins and Medals, British Museum, c.1869-70 ; emigrated to California ; d.unm. at San Francisco 15 Aug 1881.
CURETON, WILLIAM EDWARD NEWCOMBE, brother of James Edwin Cureton (qv) ; b. 5 Feb 1850 ; adm.10 Jun 1860 ; left Christmas 1864 ; at Shrewsbury Sch.1865-8 ; emigrated to New Zealand in 1873, but returned to England on inheriting property in Shropshire at his brother’s death ; m.13 Nov 1884 his cousin Emma Jane M., dau. of George Benjamin Cureton, Westbury, Shropshire ; drowned in the Severn 7 Jul 1885.
CURRAY, JOHN ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1663 ; rejected at the election of 1665 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1666, adm.pens.26 Jun 1666, scholar 1667, matr.1666/7 ; 2nd in “ordo” 1669/70 ; BA 1669/70 ; MA 1676 ; signed for deacon’s orders 13 Jun 1674 (London) ; Prebendary of Lincoln from 9 Jul 1683 ; d. by 21 Nov 1695. [presumably Rector of Sutton in the Dale with Duckmanton, Derbs., 1 Apr 1678 to death by Mar 1695/6]
CURRY, — ; b. ; at school in 1665 (Busby’s account book).
CURTEEN (or COURTEN), WILLIAM, only son of William Curteen (or Courten), Pirton, Worcs., and Lady Katherine Egerton, seventh dau. of John Egerton, 1st Earl of Bridgewater PC KB, Lord President of Wales ; b. 28 Mar 1642 ; in school lists 1656 (as Curteen, Christian name not stated) ; a boarder ; described as “olim condiscipulus noster” in a letter written by Leonard Plukenet (qv) ; studied at Montpelier, France ; returned to England 1663, living with his aunt, Lady Knightley, at Fawley Court, Northants ; again on European continent 1670-84 ; resident in Temple, London from 1684, living under assumed name of Charleton ; formed a museum of botanical specimens, acquired after his death by Sir Hans Sloane ; d. 29 Mar 1702. ODNB.
CURTEIS, EDWARD BARRETT, second son of Edward Jeremiah Curteis (qv) ; b. 25 Jul 1804 ; adm.3 Feb 1815 (Stelfox) ; shot snipe in osier beds close to the Willow Walk, in the Long Meadow, and in the osiers of the Chelsea Waterworks at Battersea ; master of a pack of beagles, kept in the kitchen of 1 Vincent Square, which hunted in Battersea Fields (Elizabethan ii, 130) ; left 1821 ; Ensign, 33rd Foot 5 Dec 1822 ; Lieut., 1st Royal Dragoons 4 Aug 1825 ; Capt., 7th Dragoon Guards 12 Apr 1827 ; Maj., 17 Oct 1834 ; sold out 8 Jul 1836 ; MP Rye 1832-7 ; author, Exposure of the corrupt system of elections at Rye, 1853 ; m.1st, 9 Mar 1837 Charlotte Lydia, youngest dau. of Thomas Law Hodges MP, Hempstead Park, Kent ; m.2nd, 15 Sep 1841 Frances, eldest dau. of William Kenrick MP, Broome Park, Surrey ; d. 14 Dec 1879.
CURTEIS, EDWARD JEREMIAH, only son of Jeremiah Curteis, Tenterden, Kent, and Rye, Sussex, attorney and banker, Town Clerk of Rye, and Jane, dau. of Searles Giles, Biddenden, Kent ; b. 6 Jul 1762 ; adm.29 Jan 1776 ; left 17 Jul 1779 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr.13 Dec 1779 ; BA 1783 ; MA 1787 ; Fellow, Oriel Coll.Oxford 1784-9 ; adm.Inner Temple 20 Nov 1778, called to bar 1 Feb 1788 ; MP Sussex 1820-30 ; partner, Curteis & Co, Rye, Sussex, bankers, to 1811 ; George Colman’s “honest, openhearted quondam friend Jerry Curteis, as we familiarly called him at Westminster and at Oxford” (Colman, Random Records, I,305) ; m.14 Apr 1789 Mary, only dau. of Rev.Stephen Barrett, Rector of Hothfield, Kent ; d. 18 Mar 1835.
CURTEIS, HENRY HERBERT, eldest son of Rev.George Herbert Curteis, Canon of Lichfield and Chaplain of the Savoy, and Elizabeth Anna, eldest dau. of Edmund Robert Ball, Monkstown, co.Dublin, solicitor ; b. 8 Nov 1863 ; adm.from Rugby Sch. 27 Sep 1877 (R) ; left May 1880 ; Hertford Coll.Oxford, matr.18 Oct 1882 ; BA 1890 ; engaged in educational work in various parts of the world ; living in 1925 ; latterly living in south of France.
CURTEIS, HERBERT, eldest son of Herbert Mascall Curteis (qv) ; b. 14 Apr 1849 ; adm. (G) 20 Jun 1863 ; left Aug 1868 ; Merton Coll.Oxford, matr. 25 Jan 1871 ; of Windmill Hill Place, Hailsham, Sussex ; JP Sussex ; an all-round sportsman ; managed Sussex county cricket team for three years, and captained Gentlemen of Sussex ; m.12 Jan 1881 Isabella, youngest dau. of Sir Anchitel Ashburnham, Bart. ; d. 28 Oct 1919.
CURTEIS, HERBERT BARRETT, eldest son of Edward Jeremiah Curteis (qv) ; b. 19 Jun 1793 ; adm.1805 ; KS 1807 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1812, matr.9 May 1812, Westminster Student ; BA 1815 ; MA 1820 ; MP Sussex 1830-2, East Sussex 1832-7, Rye from 1841 ; m. 29 Jun 1821 his cousin Caroline Sarah, sister of Robert Curteis Mascall (qv) ; d. 13 Dec 1847.
CURTEIS, HERBERT MASCALL, only son of Herbert Barrett Curteis (qv) ; b. 8 Jan 1824 ; adm. (G) 1 Jun 1836 ; left Aug 1840 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr.3 Jun 1840 ; played cricket for Oxford University 1841,1842 and for Sussex 1846-60 ; MP Rye Dec 1847- Mar 1848 (unseated), Apr 1848-52 ; Master, East Sussex Foxhounds 1854-68 ; President, Sussex County Cricket Club 1869-78 ; m. 15 Jun 1848 Paulina, sister of Sir Godfrey John Thomas, Bart. (qv) ; d. 16 Jun 1895.
CURTEIS, JEREMIAH LINTEN, son of Samuel Curteis, and his first wife Mary, dau. of Felix Kadwell, Rolvenden, Kent; bapt.Tenterden, Kent 20 Sep 1723 (IGI) ; adm. (aged 13) Jun 1737 (as Jeremiah Curteis) ; left 1739 ; an attorney ; of Wye, Kent ; m. 23 Feb 1758 Sarah, only dau. of Richard Righton, Tenterden, Kent ; d. Jan 1759. [Supplement identifies him as son of William Curteis, and Rebecca — , bapt.St.Paul, Covent Garden 7 Dec 1723, but this identification is wrong, for in the baptismal register the father’s surname is spelled Curtis (sic), and the above identification of him as a member of the Curteis family from Tenterden seems preferable, although he was not the Jeremiah Curteis who was the father of Edward Jeremiah Curteis (qv)].
CURTEIS, REGINALD JEREMIAH, third son of Edward Jeremiah Curteis (qv) ; b. 27 Oct 1805 ; adm. 11 Jan 1820 (also in original edition of Record as Carter, Reginald Jeremiah, incorrectly) ; left Whitsun 1822 ; Ensign, 6th Foot 31 Jul 1823 ; Lieut., 31 Dec 1825 ; Capt., 14 Nov 1826 ; 1st Royal Dragoons 22 May 1828 ; retd.1835 ; m. 2 Oct 1838 Frances Mary, sister of Thomas Reynolds (qv) ; d. 28 Jan 1847, aged 41.
CURTEIS, ROBERT MASCALL, second son of Herbert Mascall Curteis (qv) ; b.12 Oct 1851 ; adm. (G) 26 Jan 1866 ; left Aug 1870 ; Merton Coll.Oxford, matr. 22 Jan 1872 ; played cricket for Sussex 1878 ; of Piltdown, Uckfield, Sussex ; [no occupation stated in 1881 Census] ; m. 14 Feb 1884 Florence Henrietta, eldest dau. of Rev.Robert Shuttleworth Sutton, Vicar of Rype, Sussex and Prebendary of Chichester ; d. 21 Jan 1927.
CURTEIS, WHITFELD, son of William Curteis, Friday Street, London, and Camberwell, Surrey, merchant, and Elizabeth, dau. of Francis Whitfeld, Bethersden, Kent ; bapt. St.Matthew, Friday Street, London 5 Dec 1777 (IGI, sic)]; adm.28 Jan 1788 ; Min.Can. 1793 ; KS (aged 14) 1794 ; played cricket against Eton 25 Jul 1796 (and probably — Curtis who played cricket against Charterhouse 1794) ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1797, adm.pens.27 Jun 1797, scholar 20 Apr 1798, matr. Mich.1800 ; BA 1801 ; MA 1804 ; ordained deacon 26 Apr 1801 (London, lit.dim.from Canterbury), priest 14 Sep 1802 (Norwich) ; Curate, Hothfield, Kent 1801 ; Rector of Burwash, Sussex 17 Jun 1806-21 ; Rector of Smarden, Kent, from 20 Mar 1821 ; m. 16 Apr 1807 Mary, dau. of Bertram Thorne, Ashford, Kent ; d.31 Jul 1834.
CURTES, see also CURTYS.
CURTES, — ; b. ; adm. ; a pensioner 1564-5 (tutor, Prebendary Beaumont) (Chapter Muniments 54004-6).
CURTIS, ARTHUR EVELYN SCOTT, brother of Edward George Curtis (qv) ; b. 21 Jan 1870 ; adm. (R ) 1 Jun 1880 ; left Aug 1880 ; at Cheltenham Coll.1884-6 ; a clerk in Bank of England 1889- ; served 1914-18 war ; 2nd Lieut., Suffolk Regt. 10 Nov 1915 ; Maj., Cameron Highlanders 11 Jun 1918 ; m.1st, Margaret Emma, dau. of John Mackintosh, Inverness (marriage registered Strand first quarter 1902); m.2nd, 26 Jun 1930 Elspeth Helen Marguerite Cammell, younger dau. of Percy Herbert Jacobs, Barnes, Surrey, woollen merchant ; d. 6 Jun 1944.
CURTIS, EDWARD GEORGE, third son of Maj.-Gen.Reginald Curtis, Royal Artillery, St.George’s Square, London, and Marianne Emma, elder dau. of James Salmond, Waterfoot, Cumberland ; b. 26 Nov 1868 ; adm. (R, subsequently G) 1 Jun 1880 ; left Aug 1881 ; at Cheltenham Coll.1883-6 ; RMC Sandhurst 1887 ; 2nd Lieut., Bedfordshire Regt. 22 Aug 1888 ; Lieut., 6 Aug 1890 ; served Chitral Relief Force 1895 ; Capt., 30 Sep 1896 ; Maj., 2 May 1908 ; retd. 10 Feb 1909 ; Reserve of Officers ; rejoined as Lieut.-Col., 4th battn., Northamptonshire Regt., 5 Aug 1914 ; served Gallipoli and Egypt ; Col., Reserve of Officers 6 Aug 1918 ; demobilised 16 Oct 1919 ; despatches (LG) 13 Jul 1916, 28 Nov 1917, 11 Jun 1918, 5 Jun 1919 ; CMG 3 Jun 1916 ; Secretary, Royal Navy Club, Portsmouth ; m.10 Sep 1903 Ethel, younger dau. of Walter Coote, travel writer ; d. 6 Mar 1923.
CURTYS, see also CURTES.
CURTYS, — ; b. ; adm. ; QS 1566-9 (Chapter Muniments 54009-18, 54020).
CURZON, ASSHETON, 1ST VISCOUNT CURZON, brother of Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Baron Scarsdale (qv) ; b. 2 Feb 1729/30 ; adm.Mar 1739/40 ; left 1746 ; Brasenose Coll.Oxford, matr.6 Feb 1746/7 ; DCL 2 Jul 1754 ; MP Clitheroe 1754-80, 27 Feb 1792 – 13 Aug 1794 ; created Baron Curzon 13 Aug 1794 and Viscount Curzon 27 Feb 1802 ; DL Staffordshire 1796 ; m.1st, 21 Feb 1756 Esther, dau. of William Hanmer, Hanmer, Flintshire ; m.2nd, 6 Feb 1766, Dorothy, sister of Thomas Grosvenor (adm.1749, qv) ; m.3rd, 17 Apr 1777 Anna Margaretta, widow of Barlow Trecothick MP, Alderman of London, and sister of Sir William Meredith, Bart. (qv) ; d. 21 Mar 1820.
CURZON, HON.CHARLES WILLIAM, second son of Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Baron Scarsdale (qv) ; b.22 Mar 1758 ; adm.23 Jan 1769 ; left Easter 1775 ; entered army as Ensign, 33rd Foot ; Lieut., 9 Dec 1777 ; Capt., 11 Oct 1781 ; Capt.-Lieut. and Capt., 60th Foot 11 Oct 1782 ; half-pay 1783 ; d. unm.31 Mar 1804.
CURZON, HON.DAVID FRANCIS, fourth son of Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Baron Scarsdale (qv) ; bapt. 23 Aug 1761 ; adm.22 Sep 1772 ; in school list Jul 1779 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 1 Nov 1779 ; BA 1783 ; MA 1787 ; ordained deacon 23 Dec 1787, priest 22 Jun 1788 (both Lichfield) ; Rector of Kirk Langley, Derbs., 10 Mar 1791 – Jun 1794 ; Rector of Kedleston, Derbs., from 20 Jul 1795, and of Mugginton, Derbs., from 8 Jul 1800 ; d. unm. 21 Feb 1832.
CURZON, FERDINAND, fifth son of Nathaniel Curzon, 2nd Baron Scarsdale (qv), and his second wife ; b. 23 Feb 1797 (before father’s second marriage) ; at Repton Sch. ; adm.22 Sep 1810 ; left 1811 ; Magdalene Coll.Cambridge, adm.1815, but did not matr. ; Ensign, 89th Foot 12 Aug 1813 ; 69th Foot 18 Sep 1817 ; Lieut., 53rd Foot 1 Nov 1818 ; still in Army List 1822 ; d.unm. at St Helier, Jersey 12 Jul 1832.
CURZON, FREDERICK EMMANUEL HIPPOLITUS, fourth son of Nathaniel Curzon, 2nd Baron Scarsdale (qv), and his second wife ; b. 5 Feb 1795 (before father’s second marriage) ; adm.Mich.1810 ; left 1812 ; Oriel Coll.Oxford, matr. 3 Jun 1813 ; migr. to Magdalene Coll.Cambridge, adm.fellow commoner Feb 1819, matr.Lent 1819 ; MA 1820 ; ordained deacon 28 May 1820 (Chester), priest 8 Oct 1820 (Chester, lit.dim. from Lichfield) ; Curate of Kedleston, Derbs. ; Vicar of Mickleover, Derbs., from 10 Oct 1820 ; also Rector of Kedleston, Derbs., 1850-5 ; m. 13 Dec 1826 Augusta Marian, second dau. of Edward Miller Mundy, Shipley Hall, Notts. ; d. 18 Dec 1871.
CURZON, HON.HENRY, fifth son of Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Baron Scarsdale (qv) ; b.24 May 1765 ; adm.30 May 1774 ; entered Royal Navy as A.B., HMS Aeolus 14 Oct 1776 ; Lieut., 1 Feb 1783 ; Commander, 21 Sep 1790 ; Capt., 22 Nov 1790 ; Rear-Adm., 31 Jul 1810 ; Vice-Adm., 4 Jun 1814 ; Adm., 22 Jul 1830 ; distinguished himself in command HMS Pallas during Cornwallis’s retreat 16-17 Jun 1795 ; assisted at embarkation of Sir John Moore’s troops at Corunna 1809 ; commanded squadron which blockaded Cherbourg 1810 ; d. unm. 2 May 1846.
CURZON, HON.JOHN, third son of Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Baron Scarsdale (qv) ; b. 27 Oct 1760 ; adm. 26 Sep 1770 ; entered Royal Navy ; Lieut., 10 Jan 1783 ; d.unm. 15 Oct 1794.
CURZON, NATHANIEL, 1ST BARON SCARSDALE, second son of Sir Nathaniel Curzon, Bart., MP, and Mary, dau. of Sir Richard Assheton, Bart., MP ; b. 23 Dec 1726 ; adm. (aged 13) Mar 1739/40 ; carved his name on the Coronation Chair in the Abbey ; left 1744 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr.14 Feb 1744/5 ; DCL 14 Apr 1749 ; Grand Tour ; MP Clitheroe 2 Feb 1748-54, Derbyshire 1754-61 ; succeeded father as 5th baronet 18 Nov 1758 ; created Baron Scarsdale 9 Apr 1761 ; Chairman of Committees, House of Lords 1775 – Feb 1790 ; m. 27 Oct 1750 Lady Caroline Colyear, eldest dau. of Charles Colyear, 2nd Earl of Portmore (S) KT ; d. 5 Dec 1804. ODNB.
CURZON, NATHANIEL, 2ND BARON SCARSDALE, eldest son of Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Baron Scarsdale (qv) ; b. 27 Sep 1751 ; in school lists 1764,1765,1767 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 19 Jan 1768 ; MA 1771 ; Cornet, 3rd Dragoons 19 Jul 1771 ; MP Derbyshire 4 Feb 1775-84 ; succ.father as 2nd Baron Scarsdale 5 Dec 1804 ; m.1st, 11 Aug 1777 Hon.Sophia Susanna Noel, third dau. of Edward Noel, 1st Viscount Wentworth ; m.2nd, 18 Nov 1798 Felicité Anne Josèphe, dau. of François Joseph de Wattines, Peruwelz, Cambrai, Belgium ; d, 27 Jan 1837.
CURZON, NATHANIEL, 3RD BARON SCARSDALE, eldest son of Nathaniel Curzon, 2nd Baron Scarsdale (qv), and his first wife ; b. 3 Jan 1781 ; adm. 1 Aug 1791 (Clapham) ; in school lists 1795-7 ; left 1797 ; succ.father as 3rd Baron Scarsdale 27 Jan 1837 ; d.unm.12 Nov 1856.
CURZON, HON.PENN ASSHETON, son of Assheton Curzon, 1st Viscount Curzon (qv), and his first wife ; b. 31 Jan 1757 ; adm.12 Sep 1768 ; Brasenose Coll.Oxford, matr.17 May 1774 ; MP Leominster 1784-90, Clitheroe 1790- Feb 1792, Leicestershire from 27 Feb 1792 ; Lieut.-Col., Staffordshire Militia 12 Mar 1781 ; m.31 Jul 1787 Sophia Charlotte Howe, Baroness Howe, eldest dau. of Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe (qv) ; d. 3 Sep 1797.
CURZON, HON.ROBERT, son of Assheton Curzon, 1st Viscount Curzon (qv), and his second wife ; b. 13 Feb 1774 ; adm. ; left Bartholomewtide 1792 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr.17 Oct 1792 ; BA 1795 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 1791 ; MP Clitheroe 1796-1831 ; of Parham, Sussex ; DL JP Sussex, High Sheriff 1834 ; JP Staffordshire ; m.14 Oct 1808 Harriet Anne, Baroness Zouche, elder dau. of Cecil Bisshop, 12th Baron Zouche ; d. 14 May 1863.
CUSACK, JAMES, see LOSACK, JAMES.
CUSSANS, THOMAS, son of Thomas Cussans, Amity Hall, Jamaica, and Mary (Wood ?) ; b. ; adm. (aged 13) Apr 1752 ; in school list 1754 ; Trinity Coll.Oxford, matr. 29 May 1755 ; adm.Middle Temple 20 May 1755 ; of Amity Hall, Jamaica ; m. 21 Mar 1775 Catherine, dau. of Admiral Francis Holburne, Ditton, Surrey ; d. 3 Jul 1796, aged 58.
CUTBEARD, — ; b. ; adm. ; left 1656 (school list 1656, first quarter).
CUTFORTHAY, JOHN, third son of Robert Cutforthay, Rotherham, Yorks., plumber, and Sarah — ; b. ; adm. (aged 13 ) Sep 1729 ; under school list, 1730 ; apprenticed to Richard Slater, apothecary, Bawtry, Yorks., 18 May 1731 ; surgeon and wine merchant, Rotherham, Yorks. ; m. 28 Jun 1746 Jane, dau. of Rev.William Steer, Vicar of Ecclesfield, Yorks., and Prebendary of York ; d. 15 Feb 1780.
CUTHBERT, — ; b. ; adm. ; QS 1553-6 (Chapter Muniments 54001).
CUTHBERT, RICHARD, son of John Cuthbert, barrister, Serjeant-at-Law and Recorder of Durham, and Dorothy, dau. of John Spearman, Durham, attorney ; bapt. St Mary le Bow, Durham 6 Apr 1696 ; adm. ; QS (aged 13) 1710 ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1714, adm.pens.26 May 1714, scholar 13 May 1715 ; BA 1717/8 ; MA 1721 ; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 6 Sep 1720, Major Fellow 5 Jul 1721 ; Junior Proctor 1729 ; ordained deacon 18 Dec 1720, priest 24 Sep 1721 (both York) ; lecturer, St.Anne’s, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland 1727-32, St.John’s, Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1 Jul 1732 ; Vicar of Kendal, Westmorland, from 31 May 1734 ; m. 16 Jun 1735 Dorothy, dau. of Christopher Mickleton, Houghton-le-Spring, co.Durham ; d. 7 Nov 1744.
CUTHBERTSON, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. (aged 11) Apr 1738 ; left 1739. [“Mr William Cuthbertson” subscriber to Peirson Lloyd, Sermons, 1765] [Teller in the Exchequer, died 1777 ?]
CUTLARD (or CUTLERD), JOHN ; b. ; adm. ; QS in 1563 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1566, adm.scholar 1567 ; BA 1569/70 ; two letters from him to Sir William Cecil (Lord Burghley) are summarised in CSP Dom 1561-6.
CUTLER, — ; b. ; adm. Aug 1658 ; a boarder ; left 1661 (Busby’s account book).
CUTLER, WILLIAM, son of William Cutler, Hackney, Middlesex ; b. ; adm. ; KS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1654, matr.20 Jul 1654, Westminster Student (retaining Studentship at Restoration, 1660) ; BA 16 Mar 1657/8 ; MA 1660 ; adm.Middle Temple 2 Feb 1654/5 ; buried Clerkenwell 28 Feb 1676/7.
CUTLOVE, JOSEPH, son of Joseph Cutlove, Suffolk ; b. ; at school by Jun 1654, aged 16 (WAM 43112) ; Emmanuel Coll.Cambridge, adm.sizar 14 Mar 1654/5, matr.1655 ; BA 1658/9 ; ordained priest 20 Jul 1660 (Chichester for Norwich) ; Rector of Letheringsett, Norfolk 1660-1 ; Rector of Onehouse, Suffolk, from 16 May 1661, and of Harleston, Suffolk, from 18 Sep 1667 ; Vicar of St.Mary-le-Tower, Ipswich, Suffolk, from 1676 [but check] ; author, sermons ; m. 1st, Anne — ; m.2nd, Susan — ; d. 17 Feb 1707/8.
CUTTS, — ; b. ; adm. ; KS in 1644 (Chapter Muniments 43114).