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AMHERST, WILLIAM PITT, 2ND EARL AMHERST, son of William Pitt Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst (qv) and his first wife; b. 3 Sep 1805; adm. 1 Apr 1818 (Packharness'); KS 1820; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1824, matr. 28 May 1824, Westminster Student; BA 1828; styled Viscount Holmesdale 1826-57; MP East Grinstead Feb 1829-32; succ. his father as 2nd Earl Amherst 13 Mar 1857; Busby Trustee 18 May 1869; DL JP Kent; m. 12 Jul 1834 Gertrude, sixth dau. of Hon. and Right Rev. Hugh Percy DD, Bishop of Carlisle; d. 26 Mar 1886.

AMIS, EDWARD, brother of Richard Amis (qv); b. 26 Sep 1779; in school lists 1795, 1797; a farmer at Catfield, Norfolk; d. unm. 26 Oct 1852.

AMIS, RICHARD, eldest son of John Amis MD, Acle and Catfield, Norfolk, and Mary, dau. of Rev. Richard Fayerman, Rector of Oby, Norfolk; b. 16 Feb 1778; in school lists 1795, 1797; ordained [check]; d. 25 Aug 1842.

AMORY, ROBERT, son of Thomas Amory, Brunalty, co. Clare, Millbank, Westminster, and Newton Hall, Wakefield, Yorks., author, and his first wife Elizabeth, dau. of Rev. John Vandeleur, co. Clare; b.; adm. (aged 12) Jan 1741/2; KS 1745; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 23 Mar 1746/7, matr. 1747; MB 1757; practised as a physician in Wakefield, Yorks.; Governor of Wakefield Grammar School 18 Apr 1768 - 4 Feb 1793; m. Anna Maria ---; d. 15 Feb 1805.

AMORY, THOMAS; b. 1692; adm.; d. 1723] [thus Whitmore, but on what authority ? : “see new slip”]

Amos, Andrew James Arthur, son of the Rev. Andrew Amos, Vicar of St. Anne's, South Lambeth, by Susan Constance, daughter of the Rev. Robert James Charles Connolly, Rector of Foynes, Limerick; b. Aug. 1, 1900; adm. Sept. 25, 1913 (A); left July 1918; Clare Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1919; B.A. 1921; a chartered accountant with F. Claudet Ltd., Assayers to the Bank of England; served in Royal Army Pay Corps in Great War II; m. July 6, 1927, Margaret Winifred, daughter of David Johnston, of Lurgan, Co. Armagh.

AMSON, JOHN; b.; adm. (aged 16) Sep 1730 (surname read by Russell Barker & Stenning as Anson); left 1733.

AMYAND, CLAUDIUS, eldest son of Claudius Amyand FRS, Serjeant-Surgeon to George II, and Mary, dau. of Daniel Rabache, St. Peter le Poer, London; b. 25 Aug 1718; adm. Jun 1726; KS 1732; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1736, matr. 25 Jun 1736, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1736 - res 26 Jun 1744; BA 1740; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 23 Jan 1733/4, called to bar 2 Jul 1742; Keeper of the King’s Libraries from 8 Nov 1745; “1749, Oct. 5, Whitehall. Treasury order for payment to Claudius Amyand, Keeper of his Majesty’s Libraries of £50 as half a year’s allowance for house rent or accommodation of the Libraries, and which allowance is to be continued until he shall be provided with the like accommodations when the said Libraries, which are now lying in the old Dormitory at Westminster, shall be removed from thence” (HMC Laing, ii, 402); MP Tregony 1747-54, Sandwich 1754 - 11 Dec 1756; Under-Secretary of State, Southern Department Apr 1750 - Nov 1756; a Commissioner of Customs Dec 1756-65; Receiver-General of the Land Tax for Middlesex from 1765; m. 26 Nov 1761 Frances, widow of George Compton, 6th Earl of Northampton, and dau. of Rev. Thomas Payne, Vicar of Holme Lacy, Herefs.; d. 1 Apr 1774.