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VINCENT, HENRY; b. ; adm. ; KS 1700. [Possibly Sir Henry Vincent, Bart. , fourth but eldest surviving son of Sir Francis Vincent, Bart. MP, Stoke D’Abernon, Surrey, and Rebecca, dau. of Jonathan Ashe, London, merchant; bapt. Stoke D’Abernon, Surrey 10 Jul 1685 (IGI); Corpus Christi Coll. Oxford, matr. 11 Oct 1703, aged 18; MP Guildford 21 Feb 1728-34; succ. father as 6th baronet 10 Feb 1736; m. Elizabeth, dau. of Bazaliel Sherman, London, Turkey merchant; d. 20 Jan 1757 : see William Vincent, below]

VINCENT, GEORGE, brother of Thomas Vincent (elected to Oxford 1647, qv); b.; adm. 1656 (school lists 1656, last two quarters); BB; Min. Can. (aged 13) 1660.

VINCENT, GEORGE, son of George Giles Vincent (qv), and his first wife; b. 8 Jun 1807; adm. 10 Jan 1820; KS 1822; an attorney; Steward of the Manors of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster; m. 14 Oct 1835 Caroline, sister of Charles Arthur Bedford (qv); d. 25 Mar 1851.

VINCENT, GEORGE GILES, son of William Vincent (adm. 1748, qv); b. 11 Apr 1774; adm. 13 Jun 1781; in school lists 1786; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 25 Jan 1793; a certificated conveyancer; Chapter Clerk, Westminster Abbey, from 4 Nov 1803; author, Evidence in Human Nature of a Future State, 1853, and other works; m. 1st, 16 Dec 1803 Mary, dau. of Rev. Francis Worsley DD, Rector of Chale, Isle of Wight; m. 2nd, 13 Dec 1817 Emilia Elizabeth, second dau. of James Tappenden, Faversham, Kent; d. 28 Jan 1859. Buried North Cloister, Westminster Abbey.

VINCENT, FREDERICK; b.; adm. (aged 12) Jun 1729. [Presumably Frederick Vincent, son of Frederick Vincent, and Mary ---, bapt. St. Paul, Bedford 1 Jan 1716 (IGI)]. [note will Frederick Vincent, St. George, Hanover Square, proved PCC 3 Nov 1785]

VINCENT, EDWARD ODELL, son of Joseph Vincent, Oxford, proprietor and printer Oxford University Herald; b. 14 Apr 1835; adm. 5 Oct 1845 (Rigaud's); QS 1849; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1853, adm. 7 May 1853, scholar 1854; BA 1857; MA 1860; ordained deacon 1860, priest 1862 (both Oxford); Curate, Ducklington, Oxfordshire 1860-2, Northam, Devon 1864-8; Principal, Brixton Hill College, Surrey 1870-86; m. Frances E. M. A. --- (by 1881); d. 17 Feb 1927.

VINCENT, DORMER, eldest son of Francis Vincent, Inner Temple, London, and Mercy, widow of Thomas Adderley, Weddington Hall, Warwicks., and third dau. of Rev. Dormer Sheldon, Abberton, Worcs.; b.; adm. 4 Feb 1773; KS (aged 13) 1775; University Coll. Oxford, matr. 1 Dec 1779; Ensign, 33rd Foot 18 Sep 1780; Lieut., 22nd Foot 1 Feb 1782; half-pay 69th Foot 24 Mar 1787; 5th Foot 30 Oct 1799; half-pay 1802-4; Capt., 17 Mar 1804; 38th Foot 3 Aug 1804; d. Dec 1806.

Vincent, Charles Howard, eldest son of Charles Vincent, Mus. Doc., of Hampstead; b. Aug. 25, 1887; adm. Sept. 25, 1902 (H); left July 1904; served in Great War I; 2nd Lieut. R.F.C. April 15, 1916; m. April 10, 1915, Mary Doris, eldest daughter of W. Phillips, of Kensington.

VINCENT, SIR (CHARLES EDWARD) HOWARD, brother of Arthur Frederick Vincent (qv); b. 31 May 1849; adm. 26 May 1864 (G); left Aug 1865; RMC Sandhurst Nov 1866; Ensign, 23rd Foot 22 Jul 1868; Lieut., 28 Oct 1871; ret. Aug 1873; Special Correspondent, Daily Telegraph, at Berlin in 1871 and during Russian-Turkish War 1876; adm. Inner Temple 3 May 1873, called to bar 26 Jan 1876; South-Eastern Circuit; Director of Criminal Investigations, Metropolitan Police 1878-84; Col. -Commandant, Queenís Westminster Volunteers 1884-1904, later Hon. Col., VD; MP (Conservative) Sheffield Central from 1885; member, Metropolitan Board of Works 1888-9, London County Council 1889-96; one of the British delegates to Anti-Anarchist Conference, Rome 1898; ADC to Edward VII from 1901; CB 23 Jan 1886; knighted 17 Jan 1896; KCMG 3 Jun 1899; DL JP Co. London, JP Middlesex, Berkshire; a consistent advocate of imperial protection, founding in 1891 the United Empire Trade League, of which he was Hon. Secretary; Chairman, National Union of Conservative Associations 1895; the Acts of Parliament dealing with the probation of first offenders, 1887, and for the appointment of a public trustee, 1906, were mainly due to his persistence; author, A Police Code and Manual of Criminal Law, 1882, and other works; m. 26 Oct 1882 Ethel Gwendoline, second dau. of George Moffatt MP, Goodrich Court, Herefordshire; d. at Menton, France 7 Apr 1908. DNB.

VINCENT, ARTHUR FREDERICK, eldest son of Rev. Sir Frederick Vincent, Bart., Rector of Slinfold, Sussex, and Prebendary of Chichester, and his second wife Maria Copley, dau. of Robert Herries Young, Auchenspragh, Dumfriesshire; b. 6 Jun 1845; adm. 21 Jan 1858 (G); Min. Can. 1860; left Dec 1861; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 12 Oct 1864; LLB 1869; adm. Inner Temple, called to bar 1 May 1871; equity draftsman and conveyancer; two English Literature prizes at the School were founded in his memory by his mother; d. at Cannes, France 2 Apr 1875.