SWABEY, STEPHEN, son of Maurice Swabey (KS 1799, qv); b. 21 Dec 1824; adm. 24 Sep 1838 (G); QS 1839; rowed v. Eton 26 Jul 1842; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1843, matr. 9 Jun 1843, Westminster Student; settled in Prince Edward Island, Canada; m. 7 Jul 1853 his cousin Katherine Margaret, dau. of William Swabey (KS 1803, qv); d. at Picton, Nova Scotia, Canada 4 Nov 1873.
SUTHERLAND, ALEXANDER JOHN, eldest son of Alexander Robert Sutherland (qv), and his first wife; b. 7 Apr 1811; adm. 14 Sep 1818; KS 1825; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1829, matr. 2 Jun 1829, Westminster Student; BA 1833; MA 1835; MB 1836; MD 1838; St. George’s Hospital; MRCP 1840; FRCP 1847; succeeded father as Physician, St. Luke’s Hospital, Old Street; FRS 18 Jun 1846; m. Alison Johanna, dau. of John Wilson Carmichael (IGI); d. 31 Jan 1867.
STEDMAN, JOHN, only son of John Stedman, Chester [presumably adm. 1800, qv]; b. 20 Jul 1817; adm. 18 Jan 1831 (Stikeman's); KS 1831; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1835, adm. pens. 27 Jun 1835, scholar 1836; adm, . Lincoln’s Inn 10 Jun 1835, called to bar 15 Jun 1840; equity draftsman and conveyancer; signed Play Protest 1847 as “John Stedman, jun. ”; d. 4 May 1872.
ST. JOHN, AMBROSE, second son of Henry St. John, and Catherine, dau. of Rev. Henry Wigley, Pensham House, Worcs.; nephew of St. Andrew St. John (qv); b. 29 Jun 1815; adm. 13 Jan 1829 (Scott's); KS 1830; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1834, matr. 15 May 1834, Westminster Student; BA 1838; MA 1840; ordained deacon (Oxford) 20 Dec 1840, priest (Canterbury) 22 May 1842; Curate, Walmer, Kent 1840-5; received into Roman Catholic Church Oct 1845; accompanied J. H. Newman to Rome 1846, where they joined the Oratorians and were ordained RC priests 1847; one of original Oratorian community which Newman established at Maryvale Jan 1848 and which moved to Hagley Road, Edgbaston 1852; volunteered with Newman to assist the Catholic priests at Bilston during cholera epidemic 1849; Head Master, Oratory School, Edgbaston, from 1862; went on mission to Rome 1867 about the Oratory School and the proposed Oratory at Oxford; broke down from overwork while translating Fessler’s book True and False Infallibility; called in Rome Newman’s “Angel Guardian”, and, “certainly”, Newman wrote, “he has been to me Azarias, the son of Ananias” (Ward, Life of J. H. Newman, 1912, ii, 410, 412); his name is singled out in the concluding paragraphs of the Apologia; d. 24 May 1875. Buried Rednal, Shropshire, where Newman was later buried in the same grave.
SPRAT, THOMAS, only surviving son of Right Rev. Thomas Sprat DD, Bishop of Rochester and Dean of Westminster, and Helen, eldest dau. of Devereux Wolseley, Ravenstone, Staffs.; b. 5 Apr 1679; adm.; KS (Capt. ) 1692; Capt. of the School 1696; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1697, matr. 10 Jul 1697, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1697 – void 1707; BA 1701; MA 1704 (incorp. Cambridge 1715); adm. Middle Temple 13 Jun 1700; ordained; Prebendary and Archdeacon of Rochester from 4 Dec 1704; Vicar of Boxley, Kent, from 1704/5; Rector of Stone, Kent, from 1707; Prebendary of Winchester from 18 Nov 1712, and of Westminster from 29 Sep 1713; Chaplain in Ordinary to George I (Chamberlayne 1716); FRS 20 Mar 1711/2; Busby Trustee 19 Feb 1710/1; m. 9 Apr 1716 Frances, fourth dau. of John Horden (qv); d. 10 May 1720. Buried Westminster Abbey, monument in St. Nicholas’s Chapel.
SPENCE-JONES, HENRY DONALD MAURICE, eldest son of George Spence QC MP, Pall Mall, London, barrister, and Caroline --- (IGI); b. 14 Jan 1836; adm. from King’s Coll. Sch. 30 May 1850 (Rigaud's); BB 6 Mar 1852; QS 18 May 1852; left 1854; entered Civil Service; Private Secretary to Sir Douglas Galton, Railway Secretary to Board of Trade; Corpus Christi Coll. Cambridge, matr. Mich. 1861; 1st cl. Theology 1865, 1866; BA 1865; MA 1868; DD 1887; ordained deacon 1865, priest 1866 (both St. Davids); Prof. of English Literature and Hebrew lecturer, St. David’s Coll., Lampeter 1865-70; Rector of St. Mary le Crypt, Gloucester 1870-7; Principal, Gloucester Theological Coll., 1875-7; Hon. Canon, Gloucester 1875-86; Vicar of St. Pancras, London 25 Sep 1877-86; Dean of Gloucester from 18 Dec 1886; Select Preacher, Cambridge 1883, 1887, 1901, 1905, Oxford 1892, 1893; Professor of Ancient History, Royal Academy, from 1905; assumed additional surname of Jones 1904; JP Cardiganshire; joint editor, Pulpit Commentary, 48 vols, 1880-94; author, Early Christianity and Paganism, 1902, and various other works; m. 11 Apr 1871 Louise Madeline Maria, younger dau. of David Jones MP, Pantglas, Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire; d. 2 Nov 1917.
SPENCE, LANCELOT MOLYNEUX DALRYMPLE, brother of Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones (qv); b. 14 Sep 1837; adm. from King’s Coll. Sch. 10 Jun 1852 (James'); QS 1853; left Aug 1855; Clerk, Board of Trade, from Nov 1855; d. 4 Jul 1865.
SOUTHBY, PHILIP, second son of Richard Worlledge Southby, Bampton, Oxfordshire; b. 3 Jan 1843; adm. 24 Jan 1856 (G); left Whitsun 1861 (with Dean Thomas); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 22 May 1861; BA 1865; MA 1868; adm. Middle Temple 1 May 1863, called to bar 17 Nov 1866; Oxford Circuit; of Bampton, Oxfordshire; JP Oxfordshire 1872; [unm. in 1881]; d. 2 Jan 1908.
SOMERSET, RAGLAN GEORGE HENRY, brother of Granville Robert Henry Somerset (qv); b. 17 Dec 1831; adm. 19 Apr 1843 (G); QS 1845; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1849, matr. 31 May 1849, Westminster Student 1849-67; BA 1853; MA 1856; Clerk, Audit Office 1853-4; Junior Clerk, Treasury Mar 1854 – Jul 1856, Third Class Clerk Jul 1856 - Apr 1857; a Gentleman Usher Quarterly Waiter to Queen Victoria 19 Mar 1873 – Jan 1901; d. 2 Sep 1924.
SNELL, RICHARD HUGH, brother of William Frederick Snell (qv); b. 6 Apr 1812; adm. 17 Jan 1825 (Stikeman's); KS 1826; left 1829; at Haileybury Coll. 1829-30; Writer, EICS Bengal 1831; Assistant Revenue Officer, Benares 1832; Assistant to Magistrate and Collector, Benares 1833, Twenty-Four Parganas 1837-40; Secretary to Government Savings Bank 1842; First Assistant to Accountant-Gen.; Assistant to Collector of Customs, Calcutta 1852; Superintendent of Stamps and Stationery 1853; retd. 1 May 1860; m. 26 Sep 1832 Letitia Knox, widow of John Shum, EICS Bengal, Assistant to Collector of Customs, Patna; d. 7 Dec 1899.