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Meyer, Edward Stirling, son of William Charles Bernhard Meyer MD FRCS and Alice Elizabeth Stirling, writer, d. of Col. Alexander Surlmg, Black Watch, of Perth; b. 8 Dec. 1920; adm. Sept. 1933 (KS); Capt. of the school 1938-9; left July 1939; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1939; Black Watch 1941-4 (Capt.), wounded, despatches (Middle East) Jan. 1944; killed in action (NW Europe) 1944.

Edward Stirling Meyer was born at Marylebone, London on the 8th of December 1920 the elder son of Dr William Charles Bernard Meyer BA MB Ch.B FRCS, a surgeon, and Alice Elizabeth (nee Stirling) Meyer MA, a writer, of 215, North End Road, West Kensington in London. He was educated at the Froebel Institute, Westminster and at Westminster School where he was admitted as a King’s Scholar from September 1933 to July 1939. He was awarded the Science VI Form Prize in 1936. He was a member of the Cricket XI in 1938 and 1939 and was a member of the Rowing VIII in 1939. He was a member of the Eton Fives team from 1937 and was a member of the First Pair in 1938 and 1939 and served on the Committee of the Debating Society in 1938. He was elected as Captain of Gym in 1938 and was a member of the Squash team in the same year. He was a member of the Officer Training Corps and was promoted to Lance Corporal in September 1937. He was Captain of School from 1938 to 1939. He won the Westminster Scholarship to Christ Church, Oxford and matriculated in 1939. He did not complete his degree as he left the College for military service.
He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) on the 12th of March 1941 and was promoted to temporary Captain on the 13th of January 1944. He was wounded in the Middle East in 1943 and was Mentioned in Despatches for: -“Gallant and distinguished services in the Middle East”, which was announced by the War Office on the 13th of January 1944.
At 8am on the morning of the 10th of June 1944, the 7th Battalion, Black Watch arrived off the Normandy beaches at Courseulles-sur-Mer and began unloading at 6am the following morning. On the 20th of June 1944, the Battalion relieved the 3rd/7th Gordon Highlanders at the Bois de Bavent. They occupied the positions in the thick woodland where they were under sniper fire and they came under shell fire during the afternoon. The following day enemy patrols probed their positions and they were subjected to further shelling. On the 22nd of June, they came under heavy shell and mortar fire throughout the day and suffered casualties of two men killed and six wounded. On the 23rd of June, B Company was approached by an enemy tank which was repelled and later, the Regimental Aid Post received a direct hit from an enemy shell which killed three men. That afternoon Edward Meyer lead a patrol out towards the German lines to a position known as “Timber Post”, to the east of the Battalion’s positions, where he heard an enemy working party, but did not engage them before returning to the woods.
On the 26th of June 1944, the Battalion was relieved by the 7th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and was to move to Escoville. At noon, during the relief, heavy shelling and mortar fire fell on their positions and Edward Meyer was killed by the explosion of a mortar shell. Two other men were killed and four more were wounded.
The Westminster School magazine, The Elizabethan, wrote of him: - “He was a boy of all-round ability, and conspicuous among his qualities was the indomitable courage and determination by which he triumphed over an almost excessive natural shyness and over disappointments resulting from ailments and accidents. He was training for the medical profession, but threw it up to join the fighting services.”
He is buried at La Delivrande War Cemetery Plot V, Row A, Grave 6.

Ryan, Lionel Ernest Norwood, eldest son of George Norwood Ryan, of Teddington, Middx, by Isabella, daughter of James Anderson, of Aberdeen; b. July 16, 1888; adm. as (non­ resident) K.S. Sept. 25, 1902; went into College 1903; left (with Triplett) July 1907; Ch. Ch. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1907; sometime in the shipping office of M. Samuel and Co., London, and of Samuel Samuel and Co. Ltd., Yokohama, Japan; agent, Canadian Pacific Railway Co., Shanghai, China, April 1916 - May 1919; chief asst. Hong-Kong, July 1920-5; agent 1926; d. in the Japanese Internment Camp at Hong Kong Feb. 27, 1945; he bequeathed a share of his residue, amounting to about £6,000, to the Westminster School Society.

Lionel Ernest Norwood Ryan was born at Kingston, Surrey on the 16th of July 1888 the eldest son of George Norwood Ryan, a ship broker, and Isabella “Bella” (nee Anderson) Ryan of 21, Gwendolyn Avenue Putney in Surrey, later of “St John’s”, Somers Road, Reigate in Surrey. He was christened at Surbiton on the 23rd of October 1888.
He was educated at Westminster School where he was a non resident King’s Scholar from the 25th of September 1902 and was up College from 1903 to July 1907. He was a member of the Officer Training Corps where he was promoted to Sergeant on the 9th of August 1906. He was a member of the Shooting VIII in 1906 and 1907 and competed for the school in the Ashburton Shield Competition in the latter year. He was a member of the Debating Society in 1907. He matriculated for Christ Church, Oxford in 1907 and was awarded a Triplett Exhibition.
On leaving university he went to work as a shipping agent’s clerk for the office of M. Samuel & Company of London and of Samuel and Samuel & Company Ltd of Yokohama. He moved to China where he worked for the Canadian Pacific Company at Shanghai from April 1916 to May 1919 before transferring to their Hong Kong office as a Superintendant Assistant from July 1920. He was a member of the Hong Kong Club and of the Civil Defence Service.
He was captured and interned in a camp by the Japanese at the fall of Hong Kong on the 25th of December 1941. He was a Canadian national and the Canadians in the camp were released and repatriated to Canada in August 1943. Lionel Ryan and a Mr. Drummond were not among those who were released. A diary, kept by Franklin Gimson noted in August 1943 that: -“In the evening, Drummond and Ryan, two Canadians whose names had been excluded from the list (repatriation) came to see me and took the matter very calmly. All they asked was that they might be included on the list if vacancies occurred."
He died at The British Civilian Internment Camp at Stanley in Hong Kong from pneumonia brought on by a brain tumour.
He left the sum of £6,000 to the Westminster Society in his will.
His brothers, 2nd Lieutenant Warwick John Norwood Ryan, Queen’s Own Dorset Yeomanry died on the 5th of September 1916 and Captain Edward St John Norwood Ryan MC, 12th (Service) Battalion East Surrey Regiment, was killed in action on the 22nd of October 1918.
He is commemorated on the war memorial at Christ Church, Oxford.
He is buried at Stanley Military Cemetery.

BEAUFORT, SIR LEICESTER PAUL, younger son of Rev. Daniel Augustus Beaufort, Rector of Lymm with Warburton, Cheshire, and Emily Nowell, second dau. of Sir John Francis Davis, Bart., KCB DCL FRS, EICS Canton, Governor of Hong Kong; b. 13 Dec 1853; adm. 21 Jun 1867 (James'); QS 29 Jan 1869; left Nov 1871; Queen’s Coll. Oxford, matr. 22 Oct 1872; BA 1878; BCL and MA 1879; adm. Inner Temple 30 Jun 1876, called to bar 7 May 1879; Northern Circuit; member, London School Board 1888-9; Governor, Secretary and Judicial Commissioner, North Borneo 1889-95; Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Labuan and North Borneo 1895-1900; Chief Justice of Northern Rhodesia 1901-18; acting administrator, North-Eastern Rhodesia 1905-11; knighted 18 Feb 1919; m. 29 Mar 1883 Edith Mary, dau. of Rev. Charles Higman Griffith, Rector of Stratfield Turgis, Hampshire; d. at Wynberg, South Africa, 12 Aug 1926.

PARKER, WILLIAM EDWARD, brother of Robert John Parker, Baron Parker (qv); b. 31 May 1859; adm. 2 May 1872 (James'), BB; QS 1874; left May 1876; d. 5 Mar 1910.

WAKLEY, THOMAS, only son of Thomas Henry Wakley FRCS, Arlington Street, Piccadilly, London, surgeon and editor of The Lancet, and Harriette Anne, third dau. of Francis Radford Blake, Rickmansworth, Herts.; b. 10 Jul 1851; adm. 31 Jan 1865 (James'); QS 1866; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1870, matr. Mich. 1870; St. Thomas’s Hospital; a serious bicycle accident interrupted his medical studies for some six years; LRCP 1883; entered the office of The Lancet as assistant to his uncle James Wakley, its then editor; Joint Editor of the Lancet with his father 1886-1907, sole Editor from 1907; m. 8 Aug 1903 Gladys Muriel, dau. of Norman Barron; d. 5 Mar 1909. DNB.

JAMES, RICHARD, brother of Jonathan James (qv); bapt. All Hallows, Bread Street, London 9 Aug 1730 (IGI); adm. (aged 9) Nov 1739 (Bainbrigg's); KS 1744; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1748, matr. 14 Jun 1748, Westminster Student 23 Dec 1748 – expelled 19 Jun 1750; his expulsion was for “providing entertainment both of dinner and supper for several persons” in celebration of the Pretender’s birthday, for “forcing himself out of the College Gate at a very late hour, by threatening to kill the porter”, and for failing to appear before the Dean and Chapter when cited (see Thompson, Christ Church, 153-4); ordained; Curate, Mortlake, Surrey, in 1765-6; Vicar of Broad Hinton, Wilts., from 1772; d. 16 May 1781.

SHIPTON, DANIEL, son of John Shipton, Watford, Herts., leather dresser, and Elizabeth --- (IGI); bapt. Watford, Herts. 28 Aug 1731 (IGI); adm. (aged 13) Jan 1744/5 (Preston's); KS 1747; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1751, matr. 5 Jun 1751, Westminster Student 23 Dec 1752 (sic, having been suspended from admission for one year for riot 15 Nov 1751) – void 21 Mar 1766 (expiry year of grace as V. Willen); ordained deacon (Oxford) 21 Sep 1755; Vicar of Willen, Bucks., from 14 Jan 1765; Rector of Wavendon, Bucks., from 17 Apr 1796 [or 1768 – check]; m. 1st, ---; m. 2nd, 29 Dec 1768 Temperance, dau. of Rev. Arthur Bedford, Vicar of Sharnbrook, Beds.; d. 7 Sep 1805.

BLADEN, MARTIN, son of Nathaniel Bladen, Bolton Percy, Yorks., and Isabella, dau. of Sir William Fairfax, Kt., Steeton, Yorks.; b.; adm.; KS 1695; left 1697; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 17 Apr 1697, aged 16, matr. 1697; adm. Inner Temple, 23 Mar 1696/7; Ensign, Col. T. Fairfax’s Regt. of Foot, 12 Dec 1697; Ensign of a company added to this Regt. in Ireland, 1 Mar 1702; Capt., Sir Charles Hotham’s new Regt. of Foot, 25 Mar 1705; served in Low Countries and Spain; ADC to Lord Galway; attained rank of Brevet Col.; Col. of a British Regt. raised in Spain, 26 Oct 1709; sold out 26 Jun 1710; Comptroller of the Mint, 23 Dec 1714-27; MP Stockbridge 1715-34, Maldon 1734-41, Portsmouth from 1741; Joint Secretary to Lord Justices of Ireland and to Lord Lieut. of Ireland Sep 1715 - Apr 1717; MP (I) Bandon Bridge 1715-27; Privy Councillor (I) 1 Nov 1715; director, Royal African Company, 1717-26; a Commissioner of Trade and Plantations from 13 Jul 1717; Joint Commissioner to Court of France for settling plantation boundaries in America, 1719-20; First Commissioner and Plenipotentiary to the Conference for settling commerce at Antwerp, Jun 1732 - Feb 1742; one of Sir Robert Walpole’s steadiest supporters in the House of Commons; author of Solon (a tragi-comedy), 1705, and of an English translation of Caesar’s Commentaries, 1712; m. 1st, Mary, dau. of Col. --- Gibbs; m. 2nd, 29 Mar 1728 Frances, widow of John Foche, Aldborough Hatch, Essex, and niece of Col. Joseph Jory, West India merchant; d. 15 Feb 1745/6. DNB.

MONCK, JOHN, son of William Monck, Cecil Street, London, Bencher Middle Temple, barrister, and Dorothy, dau. of Thomas Bligh MP (I), Rathmore, co. Meath, and sister of John Bligh, 1st Earl of Darnley (I); b.; adm. (aged 11) Jan 1746/7 (Watts'); KS 1750; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1754, matr. 18 Jun 1754, Westminster Student 13 Jun 1755 – Mar 1764, Faculty Student 28 Mar 1764 – void by marriage 28 Mar 1767; BCL 1761; adm. Middle Temple 21 Jul 1749, called to bar 2 Jul 1756; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 4 May 1758; travelling in Italy 1763-4; lived at Bath for many years; m. (settlement 14 Feb 1767) Emily, a widow, dau. of Samuel Snee, Bloomsbury Square, London; d. 12 Nov 1809.

GARDEN, JAMES, son of Peter Garden, London [but matr. as son of George Garden, St. Andrew’s, Holborn]; b.; adm. (aged 12) Jun 1746 (Hutton's); KS (Capt. ) 1750; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1754, matr. 18 Jun 1754, Westminster Student from 24 Dec 1754; d. 1758.