BROWNE, ISAAC HAWKINS, son of Rev. William Browne, Vicar of Burton on Trent, Staffs., and Prebendary of Lichfield, and Ann, dau. of Isaac Hawkins; b. 21 Jan 1705-6; in under school lists as Browne 1715-7; adm. (or readm. ) (aged 13) Feb 1719/20, as Isaac Hawkins; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 12 Sep 1721, matr. Easter 1723; BA 1725/6; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 5 Jun 1722, called to bar 27 Jun 1728; of Badger Hall, Shropshire; MP Wenlock 7 Dec 1744-54; FRS 2 Feb 1749/50; according to Dr Johnson he was “one of the first wits of this country” and “of all conversers the most delightful” (Boswell, Life of Johnson, ed. G. B. Hill, ii, 339); author, De Animi Immortalitate, 1754, and other poems, an edition of which was published by his son in 1768; m. 10 Feb 1744 Jane, dau. of Ven. David Trimnel DD, Archdeacon of Leicester; d. 14 Feb 1760. DNB.
BURKE, WILLIAM, eldest son of John Burke (or Bourke), Middle Temple and St. James’s, London, and his first wife Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Burke, London, vintner; b.; adm. (aged 13) Sep 1742 (Durand's); KS 1743; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1747, matr. 26 Jun 1747, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1747 - 26 Jun 1761 (void), leave of absence on appt. as Secretary, Guadeloupe, 25 Aug 1759; BCL 1755; adm. Middle Temple 26 May 1750, called to bar 28 Nov 1755; Secretary and Registrar, Guadeloupe, 1759-63; Under-Secretary of State, Jul 1765 - Feb 1767; MP Great Bedwyn 16 Jun 1766-8, 29 May 1768-74; lost substantial sums of money in speculations on the Stock Exchange, 1769; in India 1777-8, becoming agent for Rajah of Tanjore; again in India 1780-93, initially at Madras, subsequently at Calcutta; Deputy Paymaster of the Forces, East Indies, 1782-93; present at OWW dinner at Calcutta 1783 (Hickey, Memoirs, iii, 245-6); figures in Goldsmith’s Retaliation; lived on intimate terms with his distant kinsman Edmund Burke, with whom he wrote An Account of the European Settlements in America, 1757; author of two pamphlets on the peace negotiations, 1759 and 1761; d. Mar 1798. DNB.
BRODRICK, LAURENCE, only surviving son of Rev. Laurence Brodrick DD, Rector of Mixbury, Oxfordshire, Chaplain to House of Commons and Prebendary of Westminster, and Anne Humphrys; bapt. 11 Oct 1715; adm.; in school list 1729; KS (aged 14) 1730; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1735, matr. 9 Jun 1735, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1735 - res 26 Mar 1746; BA 1739; MA 1742; adm. Middle Temple 26 Oct 1733; ordained; Rector of Callan, co. Kilkenny, 15 Jul 1745; Treasurer of Lismore, 16 Aug 1745-78; Vicar of Derragarth and Ballybeacon, 16 Aug 1745; Vicar of Tubrid; Rector of Stradbally, 1774; m. (settlement dated 21 Apr 1748) his cousin Jane, youngest dau. of Right Hon. St. John Brodrick PC (I) MP MP (I); d. Apr 1786.
BROMLEY-CHESTER, WILLIAM, only son of Francis Bromley (qv); bapt. 30 Jul 1738; at school under Markham (Steward, Anniversary Dinner, 1775); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 27 Jan 1757, aged 18; adm. Inner Temple year 1758/9, called to bar 25 Jun 1762; tenant chambers, Inner Temple Nov 1761 - May 1769; of Cleve Hill, Gloucs.; MP Gloucestershire from 6 May 1776; m. 20 Apr 1765 Elizabeth Lucy, only child of Richard Howe Chester, and niece of Thomas Chester MP, Almondsbury and Knole Park, Gloucs.; d. 12 Dec 1780.
BROOKE, PHILIP; b.; adm. (aged 11) Jun 1720; left 1721. [Perhaps Philip Brooke (or Broke), second son of Robert Brooke (or Broke), Nacton, Suffolk, and his second wife Elizabeth, dau. of Sir John Hewitt, Bart., Waresley, Hunts., bapt. Nacton, Suffolk 30 Sep 1708; Pembroke Coll. Cambridge, matr. 1726 [check exact date]; MP Ipswich 27 Jan 1730-4; of Broke Hall, Suffolk; m. 1st, 1 Feb 1732 Ann, dau. of Martin Bowes, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk; m. 2nd, Alice, widow of Sir John Barker, Bart., Sproughton, Suffolk, and dau. of Sir Comport Fytche, Bart., Eltham, Kent; d. 21 Sep 1762] [Perhaps “Brooks” in under school list 1721]
BROWN, PETER; b.; adm. (aged 16) Feb 1746/7 (Gibson's); left 1748. [Probably Peter Browne-Kelly, 2nd Earl of Altamont (I), son of John Browne, 1st Earl of Altamont (I), and Anne, eldest surviving dau. of Sir Arthur Gore, Bart.; b.; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 26 Oct 1748, aged 17; assumed surname of Kelly on his marriage; MP (I) Co. Mayo [check]; succ. father as 2nd Earl of Altamont (I) 4 Jul 1776; m. 16 Apr 1752 Elizabeth, only dau. of Denis Kelly, Lisduffe, co. Galway, Ireland, Chief Justice of Jamaica; d. 28 Dec 1780] [Whitmore also thinks so]
BRYDGES, JAMES, 1ST DUKE OF CHANDOS, fourth but eldest surviving son of James Brydges, 8th Baron Chandos, Ambassador to Constantinople, and Elizabeth, eldest dau. of Sir Henry Bernard, Kt., Bridgnorth, Shropshire, Turkey merchant; b. 6 Jan 1673/4; adm. 1686; an interesting letter, written by his father from Constantinople, confides his “three poor little boys (all the treasure the kind God of his kind mercy hath spared me)” to Richard Busby (qv), then Head Master (GM 1792, i, 39); New Coll. Oxford, matr. 21 Jun 1690; FRS 30 Nov 1694; MP Hereford Jul 1698 - 16 Oct 1714; member, Council to Lord High Admiral, 29 Mar 1703 - 5 Apr 1705; Paymaster-Gen. of the Forces Abroad, 10 May 1705 – Sep 1713; succ. father as 9th Baron Chandos 16 Oct 1714; cr. Earl of Carnarvon 19 Oct 1714 and Duke of Chandos 29 Apr 1719; Lord Lieut., Herefordshire 11 Sep 1721 - 16 Jul 1741, and of Radnorshire from 11 Sep 1721; Privy Councillor 11 Nov 1721; Chancellor, Univ. of St. Andrews; the “princely” Chandos expended some £200, 000 in building his country house at Canons, near Edgware, Middlesex; Handel spent two years there composing anthems for the chapel, and writing Esther, his first English oratorio; Defoe describes the splendour of the house in his Tour through England, and Pope refers to it as “Timon’s Villa” in his Epistle to Lord Burlington; m. 1st, 27 Feb 1695/6 Mary, dau. of Sir Thomas Lake, Kt., Canons, Whitchurch, Middlesex; m. 2nd, 4 Aug 1713 Cassandra, dau. of Francis Willoughby FRS, naturalist, Wollaton, Notts. ; m. 3rd, Apr 1736 Lydia Catharine, widow of Sir Thomas Davall MP, and dau. of John Vanhatten; d. 9 Aug 1744. DNB.
BRYDGES, JOHN, MARQUIS OF CARNARVON, fourth son of James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos (qv), and his first wife; b. 15 Jan 1702/3; styled Viscount Wilton 1714-9, Marquis of Carnarvon from 1719; adm. Jul 1717; Balliol Coll. Oxford, matr. 4 Nov 1719; DCL 8 Apr 1721; Grand Tour (Netherlands, France, Germany) 1721-3; Leyden Univ. 1721; MP Steyning from 26 Jan 1725/6; m. 1 Sep 1724 Lady Catherine Tollemache, second dau. of Lionel Tollemache, 2nd Earl of Dysart (S) MP; d. of smallpox 7 Apr 1727.
BULLER, JOHN FRANCIS, eldest son of John Buller MP, Morval, Cornwall, and Anne, d. of William Lemon, Carclew, Cornwall; bapt. 14 Jan 1771; adm. 20 Jan 1784; in school list 1787; adm. Inner Temple 22 Apr 1789; Ensign, 67th Foot 11 Nov 1789; 1st Foot Guards 2 Jan 1790; of Morval, Cornwall, inherited from father 1793; MP West Looe 1796 - Nov 1796, 1826 - Mar 1827; DL JP Cornwall, High Sheriff 1835; m. 1st, 10 Apr 1799 Elizabeth, younger dau. of Hon. and Right Rev. James Yorke DD, Bishop of Ely; m. 2nd, 29 Jun 1814 Harriet, fourth dau. of Sir Edward Hulse, Bart.; d. 3 Apr 1849.
BUNBURY, SIR THOMAS CHARLES, BART., eldest son of Sir William Bunbury, Bart. (qv); b. May 1740; adm. Apr 1751 (Watts'); in school list 1754; St. Catherine’s Hall, Cambridge, adm. 17 Apr 1756, matr. Mich. 1757; MA 1765; Grand Tour (Italy) 1760-1; MP Suffolk 1761-84, 1790-1812; Secretary to Embassy, Paris, Aug 1763 - May 1765, and Chief Secretary to Lord Lieut. Ireland, Jun-Aug 1765, but did not perform duties of either post; succ. father as 6th baronet, 11 Jun 1764; High Sheriff, Suffolk 1788; a well-known owner of racehorses, including Diomed, winner of the first Derby, 1780, Eleanor, winner of the Oaks and Derby, 1801, and Smolensko, winner of the Two Thousand Guineas and Derby, 1813; m. 1st, 2 Jun 1762 (div. 1776) Lady Sarah Lennox, sister of Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond and Lennox (qv); m. 2nd, 21 Nov 1805 Margaret Cocksedge; d. 31 Mar 1821.