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GB-2014-WSA-05460 · Person · 1742-1786

COXE, RICHARD HIPPISLEY, son of John Hippisley Coxe, Stoneaston, Somerset, and Mary, dau. of Stephen Northleigh MP, Peamore, Devon; b. 22 Sep 1742; adm.; KS (aged 13) 1754; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1759, matr. 19 Jun 1759, Westminster Student 5 Jan 1760 - 2 Jul 1763, res.; BA 1763; MP Somerset 1768-84; Col., Somerset Militia 24 Oct 1778, with rank Col. in Army 2 Jul 1779; d. unm. 26 Aug 1786.

GB-2014-WSA-05461 · Person · ca. 1728-1746

COXETER, CHARLES, son of Thomas Coxeter, London; b.; adm. (aged 11) Jun 1739 (Hawkins'); KS 1743; buried Bampton, Oxfordshire 26 Feb 1746. [mother perhaps Elizabeth White (IGI)]

Coxeter, Richmond, fl. 1682
GB-2014-WSA-019018 · Person · fl. 1682

COXETER, RICHMOND; b. ; adm. ; KS 1682. [Perhaps = Richard Coxeter, son of Richard Coxeter, Bampton, Oxfordshire, adm. Middle Temple 25 Jan 1685/6, called to bar 30 Jun 1704] [note Richard Coxeter, Bampton, Oxfordshire, will proved PCC 28 Apr 1741]

GB-2014-WSA-05462 · Person · 1892-?

Cozens, Frederick Cyril, son of Frederick Theophilus Cozens, of Walsall, Staffs, by Minnie Gertrude, daughter of Alfred Sydney Smith, of Walsall; b. July 4, 1892; adm. April 30, 1908 (A); left July 1911; Emman. Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1911; B.A. 1919; M.A., M.B., and B. Ch. 1925; Sub-Lieut. R. N. V. R. March 31, 1918; served as a Surgeon on H. M. S. Sloop Snapdragon during the war in the Mediterranean; St. Bartholomew's Hospital; M.R.C.S. (Eng.) and L.R.C.P. (Lond.) 1921; practised at Herne Bay, Kent; m. Nov. 9, 1920, Jessie McLean, youngest daughter of William Stewart, of Glasgow.

Cozens, Leslie, 1893-1915
GB-2014-WSA-05463 · Person · 1893-1915

Cozens, Leslie, brother of Frederick Cyril Cozens (q.v.); b. Sept. 20, 1893; adm. April 30, 1908 (A); left July 1911; entered his father's business of tanner and currier at Walsall; 2nd Lieut. 5th Batt. South Staffs Regt. May 2, 1912; Lieut. March 1, 1914; Capt. May 19, 1915; went out to the western front March 3, 1915; d. Oct. 14, 1915, from wounds received in action at the Hohenzollern Redoubt the previous day; unm.

GB-2014-WSA-05464 · Person · 1893-1914

Cozens-Brooke, John Gilbert Somerset, only son of Ernest Brooke Cozens-Brooke, of Earl's Court, London, by Mabel Emily Florence, daughter of Capt. John William Clayton, of Marylebone; b. Nov. 26, 1893; adm. Jan. 16, 1908 (R); left July 1910; 2nd Lieut. 3rd Batt. (Spec. Res.) Royal Scots Fusiliers April 1, 1912; Lieut. Aug. 15, 1914, attached 1st Batt. on taking out draft from depot to the western front in Sept. 1914; killed whilst scouting near Lille Oct. 18, 1914.

Crab, Isaac, ca. 1701-1729
GB-2014-WSA-05465 · Person · ca. 1701-1729

CRAB, ISAAC; b.; adm. (aged 14) Sep 1715; in under school list 1716; probably left Mich. 1716. [note will Isaac Crabb, proved PCC 13 Nov 1729]

GB-2014-WSA-05466 · Person · 1730-1799

CRACHERODE, CLAYTON MORDAUNT, son of Col. Mordaunt Cracherode, Governor of Minorca, of Taplow, Bucks., and Mary, sister of Charles Morice (qv); b. 23 Jun 1730; adm. Jun 1737; KS 1742; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1746, matr. 6 Jun 1746, Westminster Student from 24 Dec 1746; BA 1750; MA 1753; ordained priest (Oxford) 25 May 1755; Curate, Binsey, Oxfordshire 1762; did not seek or obtain further religious preferment; spent his life in collecting books, engravings, gems and coins, bequeathed by him to the British Museum; Trustee, British Museum, from 1784; FRS 15 Dec 1785; FSA 8 Mar 1787; member Society of Dilettanti from 1787; left legacies of £1000 each to Christ Church, Oxford, and to the School; d. unm. 5 Apr 1799. Buried in East Cloister, Westminster Abbey. DNB.

By his will dated 9 Apr 1792 (proved 17 Apr 1799), he bequeathed to Westminster School “the sum of £500, the interest to be divided as is done in the case of a benefaction left by my excellent friend Fane Sharpe, Esq. about the year 1771 for the advantage of the King’s Scholars elected to the two Universitities, the management to be under the same trustees”. The fund was subsequently consolidated with the School Exhibition Fund, and the benefaction commemorated by an exhibition known as the Cracherode exhibition.

Cracherode, Edward, 1689-?
GB-2014-WSA-05467 · Person · 1689-?

CRACHERODE, EDWARD, son of Mordaunt Cracherode, St. Paul’s, Covent Garden, linen draper, and his second wife Elizabeth, dau. of Edward Bullock, Faulkbourne, Essex; bapt. St. Paul, Covent Garden 20 May 1689; at school under Knipe (Alum. Cantab., pt. i, vol. i); Magdalene Coll. Cambridge, adm. sizar 24 Jun 1707, aged 18, matr. 1708; BA 1710/1; ordained deacon (London) 27 May 1711.

GB-2014-WSA-05468 · Person · 1888-1917

Cracknell, Charles George Raphael, only son of Charles Collins, of Pimlico, by Annie Letitia, daughter of George Turner, of London; b. May 5, 1888; adm. Sept. 25, 1902 (G); assumed the surname of Cracknell in lieu of Collins by deed poll June 21, 1915, but was known by the name of Cracknell before leaving school; left Easter 1906; articled to a London firm of accountants; joined the H. A. C. on the outbreak of the war Aug. 4, 1914; went out to the western front with the 1st Batt. Sept. 17, 1914; 2nd Lieut. 24th (Co. of London) Batt. the London Regt. July 3, 1915; Lieut. Nov. 3, 1915; served in France 1914-7; joined the British Expeditionary Force to Palestine in Oct. 1917; d. at Tel-el-Brit. Dec. 29, 1917, of wounds received in the defence of Jerusalem, Dec. 27, 1917; unm.