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CHURCH, JOHN, son of John Church, Lay Vicar and Master of the Choristers, Westminster Abbey, and Elizabeth Wood, Boughton Aluph, Kent; b.; in school list 1715 [“probably a chorister”]; Min. Can. (aged 13) 1718; KS 1719; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1723, matr. 18 Jun 1723, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1723 - void 18 Aug 1736 (expiry year of grace as R. Boxford from 18 Sep 1735); BA 1727; MA 1730 (incorp. Cambridge 1732); ordained; Rector of Boxford, Suffolk, from 1735; Rector of Groton, Suffolk, from 1743; known as “Honest John Church” (Bishop Newton’s Works, 1787, i, 172); m. Mary, dau. of Thomas Martin, Barrards Hall, Whatfield, Suffolk; d. 27 Oct 1785.

CHURCH, RALPH, brother of John Church (qv); b. ; adm. ; in under school list 1716 [“probably a chorister”]; KS (aged 13) 1721; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1725, matr. 2 Jun 1725, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1725 - void 26 Nov 1736 (expiry year of grace as V. Pyrton), Tutor 1729-31; BA 1727; MA 1732; ordained deacon 23 Sep 1733, priest 4 Jun 1734 (both Oxford); Vicar of Pyrton, Oxfordshire, from 20 Nov 1735; Vicar of Shirburn, Oxfordshire, from 14 Nov 1748; edited Spenser’s Faery Queen, 1738; d. Apr 1787. DNB.

CHURCH, RICHARD; b.; adm. 13 Jan 1777; left Dec 1780.

CHURCH, WILLIAM, son of William Church, Newport, Shropshire; b.; adm. (aged 9) Jan 1744/5; left 1747; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 16 Nov 1754; BA 1758; MA 1763; ordained; Rector of Hymston and Llanharan, Glamorganshire; [perhaps Chaplain, 1st Foot, 12 May 1769 - still 1781 – a new Chaplain in his place 1786]; d. 27 May 1815. [Perhaps William Church, son of William Church, and Alice ---, bapt. Shawbury, Shropshire 26 May 1735 (IGI)]

CHURCHEY, WILLIAM, son of William Churchey, Henstridge, Somerset; b.; adm. (aged 10) Jun 1726; in under school list 1729; Hart Hall, Oxford, matr. 17 Nov 1732; adm. Middle Temple 22 Jan 1732/3, called to bar 24 Jun 1737; m. 13 Mar 1742/3 Elizabeth Spateman, St. Andrew’s, Holborn. [Probably William Churchey, bapt. St. Andrew, Holborn 20 Nov 1715, son of William Churchey, and Mary (Boucher ?) (IGI)]

CHURCHILL, ---; b.; in under school list 1724.

CHURCHILL, ARTHUR LINDSAY MAURY; b. Ceylon 21 May 1865; adm. (J) 25 Sep 1879; left Aug 1881; Westminster Hospital; LSA 1895, LMSSA 1907; Assistant Medical Officer, Wonford Hospital, and County Asylum, Lancaster; general medical practitioner at Mevagissey, Cornwall; Lieut., RAMC, attached Hampshire RHA (TF), 17 Dec 1914; Capt., attached 18th (Co. of London) Batt., London Regt. (London Irish Rifles), 17 Jun 1915; d. on active service 24 Jun 1917.

CHURCHILL, BARTHOLOMEW, son of John Churchill, Chertsey, Surrey, and Harriet Susannah Steele (IGI); b. 29 Mar 1809; adm. 18 Feb 1817. [perhaps m. 20 Jan 1834 Susannah Fitzpatrick (IGI)]

CHURCHILL, CHARLES, eldest son of Charles Churchill (adm. 1717/8, qv); b. Feb 1731/2; adm. (aged 9) May 1741; KS (Capt. ) 1745; left 1748 [or 1747 ?]; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 8 Jul 1748; ordained deacon (Wells) 22 Sep 1754, priest (Rochester for London) 19 Dec 1756; Curate, South Cadbury and Sparkford, Somerset, 1754-6, and to his father at Rainham, Essex, 1756-8; Curate and Lecturer, St. John the Evangelist, Westminster, 1758-63; became involved in debt, and was in danger of imprisonment until befriended by Pierson Lloyd (qv), who induced the creditors to accept a composition; author of the poems The Rosciad and The Apology, published in 1761; by their sale he is said to have cleared no less than £2000; became an intimate friend of John Wilkes, with whom he worked on The North Briton; his poems satirised Hogarth, Bute, Sandwich, and others; his literary career, although brief, was brilliant; although he led a reckless and extravagant life, his generosity was undoubted and he remained an unwavering friend of Robert Lloyd (qv); William Cowper (qv) held him in high estimation as a poet and called him the “great Churchill” (Works of William Cowper, 1836, vi, 9-10); for an account of Byron’s visit to his grave at Dover, see Lord Broughton’s Recollections of a Long Life, i, 335; his collected works were published in two volumes, 1763-4; m. c. 1749 Martha Scott, Westminster; d. at Boulogne, 4 Nov 1764. DNB.