Courtenay, Edwin Baldwin, 1836-1891
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 (Rigaud's); QS 1850; left 1851; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 18 Oct 1854; MP (Cons) Exeter Aug 1864-8, East Devon 1868 - Mar 1870; joined Roman Catholic church 1870; DL Devon, JP (1858) Devon; succ. father as 12th Earl of Devon 18 Nov 1888; d. unm. 15 Jan 1891.
Courtenay, Henry Reginald, 1836-1898
COURTENAY, HENRY REGINALD, LORD COURTENAY, eldest son of Henry Hugh Courtenay, 13th Earl of Devon (qv); b. 20 Jan 1836; adm. 22 Jun 1848 (Rigaud's); 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.
Cowan, Eric William Lindsay, 1901-1959
Cowan, Eric William Lindsay, only son of Sir William Henry Cowan, Kt., M. P., of Westminster, by Winifrede, daughter of Daniel Smith, of Edinburgh; b. Nov. 20, 1901; adm. from Rugby School Sept. 27, 1917 (R); left July 1920; Caius Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1920; m. April 22, 1925, Hylda Dorothea, elder daughter of J. H. Marlow, of Sedgebrook, Northampton; 31 Oct. 1959.
Cowan, Horatio Alexander, 1901-?
Cowan, Horatio Alexander, son of Horatio William Alexander Cowan, M. D., of St. Pancras, by Alma Beatrice, daughter of John Whaley, of Bayswater; b. Aug. 4, 1901; adm. April 29, 1915 (R); left July 1918; Univ. Coll. Hospital; M.R.C.S. (Eng.) and L.R.C.P. (Lond.) 1924; practised in London and at Bournemouth; surgeon of the Royal Victoria Hospital, Bournemouth.
Cowell, John Jermyn, 1838-1867
COWELL, JOHN JERMYN, son of John Welsford Cowell, Gloucester Terrace, Hyde Park, a clerk in Bank of England, and Frances Maberly (IGI); b. 30 Jan 1838; adm. 7 Jun 1850 (Rigaud's); 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, John Richard, 1933-1998
Cowell, John Richard, son of Frank Richard Cowell CMG PhD, author, and Lilian Margaret, d. of Rev. Alfred Edward Palin, Rector of Nether Denton, Cumberland; b. 30 Apr. 1933; adm. Sept. 1946 (R); left July 1951; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1952, BA 1955, MA 1959; secretariat Lond. Chamber of Commerce 1957-8, Roy. Horticultural Soc. 1958, dep. sec. 1970, sec. 1975, retd. 1988; m. 8 Apr. 1972 Josephine Suzanne Elizabeth, d. of Ian Craig of Burneston, Yorks; d. 9 Nov. 1998.
Cowie, Anson Gordon, only son of William Clarke Cowie, of Brockley, chairman and managing director of the British North Borneo Company, by Amy Constance, daughter of Charles Durdant Pead, of Margate, Kent; b. July 19, 1890; adm. May 4, 1905 (R); left July 1909; served in Great War I; Capt. 20th Batt. London Regt. June 1, 1916; m. May 23, 1916, Kathleen Frances, eldest daughter of Hubert Schmitz, of Niton, Isle of Wight.
Cozens-Brooke, John Gilbert Somerset, 1893-1914
Cozens-Brooke, John Gilbert Somerset, only son of Ernest Brooke Cozens-Brooke, of Earl's Court, London, by Mabel Emily Florence, daughter of Capt. John William Clayton, of Marylebone; b. Nov. 26, 1893; adm. Jan. 16, 1908 (R); left July 1910; 2nd Lieut. 3rd Batt. (Spec. Res.) Royal Scots Fusiliers April 1, 1912; Lieut. Aug. 15, 1914, attached 1st Batt. on taking out draft from depot to the western front in Sept. 1914; killed whilst scouting near Lille Oct. 18, 1914.
Craies, Constantine, son of William Feilden Craies, of Kensington. barrister-at-law, by Euterpe, daughter of Constantine A. Ionides, of Hove, Sussex; b. March 25, 1882; adm. from Winchester College April 23, 1896 (R); left April 1899; founded in 1907 the gramophone business of Craies and Stavridi, Bunhill Row, London; served during Great War I as Officer Interpreter at Salonica; was Capt. when demob.; mentioned in despatches L. G. June 11, 1918; author of The United States of the World : m. 1st Oct. 26, 1907, Barbara, daughter of Octavius Valieri, of London; 2nd May 5, 1945, Hester Rosamond, younger daughter of James Parsons, barrister-at-law, of London.
Craig, John McAdam, youngest son of James Craig, M. D., of Beckenham, Kent, by Mary, daughter of Richard Attenborough, of Sawtry, Hunts; b. May 11, 1886; adm. as (non-resident) Q.S. Sept. 27, 1900 (R); left July 1905; R. M.C. Sandhurst 1905; 2nd Lieut. Seaforth Highlanders Oct. 6, 1906; Lieut. (Indian Army) Jan. 6, 1909; Double Company Officer 57th (Wilde's) Rifles Sept. 21, 1909; served on the N. W. frontier of India 1908; attached to the 58th Rifles in the Indian division of the Expeditionary Force to the western front, which arrived at Marseilles Oct. 12, 1914; died Nov. 1, 1914, from wounds received in action near Bethune on the previous day; unm.