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Brenton, Guy Sansom, son of Robert Ivor Brenton MBE, Air Ministry, and Violet Jean Victoria, d. of John Edge of Chiswick; b. 2 Mar. 1927; adm. Sept. 1940 (KS); left July 1945; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1945; a documentary film maker; d. 31 July 1994.

BRERETON, ROBERT, brother of Owen Salusbury-Brereton (qv); b.; adm. (aged 10) Jul 1728; KS 1731; left 1735; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 8 Nov 1735, scholar 6 May 1737, matr. 1735; LLB Lambeth 1750; ordained; [Chaplain, 45th Foot 11 Jan 1740/1 – still 1773 ?]; Vicar of Northop, Flints., from 1747; Perpetual Curate of St. Nicholas’s, Liverpool, 1750 (dispensation to hold with Northop, 1750); d. 5 Oct 1784. [presumably also Chaplain, Royal Navy 1746]

BRESSEY, CHARLES; b.; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1727/8; in under school list 1729. [Probably son of Charles Bressey and Grace Webb, who m. St. Martin in the Fields 27 Jul 1710 (IGI)]

BRESSEY, WILLIAM; b.; adm. (aged 8) Jan 1727/8; left 1730. [Presumably brother of, or close kin to, last : perhaps also m. 21 Oct 1753 Mary Grace (IGI)]

BRETT, --- ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1640 (Chapter Muniments 32460).

BRETT, ARTHUR, son of John Brett, Middlesex; b.; adm.; KS (aged 14) 1650; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1653, matr. 20 Jul 1654, Westminster Student; BA 6 Feb 1656/7; MA 1659; ordained; Rector of Templeton, Devon, 1662; Vicar of Market Lavington, Wilts., 10 May 1670, but shortly afterwards resigned his living and came up to London, where he fell into poverty and begged in the street; author, A Poem on the Restoration of King Charles II, 1660, and other poems; d. c. 1677. DNB.

BRETT, ARTHUR; b.; adm. (aged 8) Jun 1723; in school list 1729. [note will Arthur Brett, St. Andrew’s, Holborn, proved 10 Feb 1741].

BRETT, THOMAS BRANDON, only son of Thomas Brett, Spring Grove, Wye, Kent, and Anne, dau. of Roger Kynaston, Essex; b.; adm. Mich. 1813; in school list Oct 1814; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 8 Jun 1820; BA 1825; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 21 Jan 1826, called to bar 28 Jan 1831; Home Circuit; of Spring Grove, Kent; d. 10 Nov 1843, aged 42.

BRETT, THOMAS, son of Arthur Brett, Ghent, Flanders; b.; adm. (aged 8) Apr 1722; Min. Can. 1728; KS 1729.