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VINCENT, RICHARD, son of John Vincent, Hampstead, Middlesex, brewer, and Sarah, eldest dau. of Richard Cowper, London; b.; adm. (aged 11) Jun 1730; left 1736; Wadham Coll. Oxford, matr. 12 Apr 1736; adm. Inner Temple year 1735-6, called to bar 2 Jul 1742; of Castle Yard, Highgate, Middlesex; d. 7 Jan 1776 [Whitmore] (will proved PCC 9 Jan 1776, he of Inner Temple).

VINCENT, RICHARD, third son of Rev. George Vincent, Rector of Sheepy, Leics. (southern mediety), and Elizabeth, dau. of William Haly, Harborough, Leics.; bapt. Sheepy Magna, Leics., 21 Feb 1692 (IGI); adm.; QS (aged 15) 1708; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1713, adm. pens. 4 Jun 1713, aged 19, scholar 9 Apr 1714, matr. 1714; 1st in “ordo” 1716/7; BA 1716/7; MA 1720; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1719, Major Fellow 11 Jul 1720; ordained deacon 13 Mar 1719/20, priest 31 May 1724 (both London); Rector of Church Langton, Leics.; Rector of Castlecaulfield, co. Tyrone; Rector of Donaghmore, co. Tyrone; m. Ann Thomas; d. 1774.

VINCENT, RICHARD BLACKALL, elder son of John Blackall, The Hill, Loughall, co. Armagh, Ireland, and Mary, dau. of Richard Vincent (QS 1708, qv); b.; assumed additional surname of Vincent under will of his grandfather; adm. 12 Jun 1779; KS (aged 15) 1781; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1785, adm. pens. 25 May 1785, scholar 5 May 1786, matr. 1785; BA 1789; ordained; Prebendary of Clonfert from 22 Dec 1803; Archdeacon of Kilmacduagh 22 Dec 1803 - Mar 1815; d. 1834.

VINCENT, SIR MATHIAS, brother of Thomas Vincent (elected to Oxford 1647, qv); b.; adm. 1656 (school lists 1656, last two quarters); an undated petition by his mother Sarah to the Governors for a scholarship for Mathias, one of her two youngest children “now schollers at Westminster Schoole”, is in the Chapter Muniments (no. 43101); apprenticed to merchant, London; later Factor at Surat for EI Company; made a large fortune and returned to England; knighted 20 Mar 1684/5; MP Lostwithiel from 1685; Alderman, Aldgate Ward, City of London, from 30 Apr 1686; m.; d. c. May 1687 (will proved PCC 15 Jun 1687).

VINCENT, JOHN, son of John Vincent, Fontmell, Dorset, edge tool maker, and a younger brother of Thomas Vincent, Under Master; b.; KS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1647, but he had been detained at school “through the exigence of warre” and was granted seniority at Christ Church as if he had been elected on 1 May 1646 (Burrows, ed., 1881, 268), Westminster Student (still 1663, no longer by Dec 1665); submitted to Parliamentary Visitors 14 Jul 1648 (Burrows, op. cit., 155); BA 1650; MA 1652; ordained; Curate, Benson, Oxfordshire 1655; d. St. Clement’s parish, Ipswich, Suffolk May 1665, when he was described as a “minister”, lately of Christ Church, Oxford (A. G. E. Jones, “The Great Plague in Ipswich 1665-1666”, Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology, 27-8, 1958, 89). Will made on board ship Unicorn at Harwich 12 Apr 1665, proved PCC 18 Sep 1665

VINCENT, JOHN FRANCIS, youngest son of William St. Andrew Vincent (qv); b. 27 Sep 1809; adm. 20 Sep 1819; went to Felsted Sch.; Addiscombe Coll. 1826-8; Cadet, EICS Madras 1828; Ensign, 23rd Light Infantry 16 Sep 1830; ret. 19 Jul 1835 [but Dodwell/Miles have him as Lieut. 1 Apr 1836]; subsequently farmed at Wrentham, Suffolk; JP Suffolk; m. 1st, 22 Jul 1840 Sarah, dau. of James Hingeston, Frostendon Hall, Suffolk; m. 2nd, 4 Aug 1864 Rachel Louisa, only dau. of John Ward, Plumstead, Kent; d. 17 Feb 1890.

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.