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HOARE, CHARLES GEORGE, fourth son of Peter Richard Hoare (adm. 1781, qv); b. 30 Mar 1809; adm. 16 Jan 1824 (Stelfox's); Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 29 May 1827, matr. Mich. 1827; d. unm. 27 Feb 1829.

HARPER, ARTHUR, son of Robert John Harper (qv); b. 7 Jan 1810; adm. 16 Apr 1823 (Stelfox's); left Bartholomewtide 1826; Ensign, 9th Foot 17 Jan 1828; Lieut., 22 Oct 1830; Capt., 17 Oct 1837; retd. 28 Aug 1838; of New Lodge, Needwood, Staffs.; d. 1 Sep 1838.

HAMILTON, LEVESON RUSSELL, eldest son of John Leveson Hamilton (qv); b. 12 Jul 1822; adm. 4 Jun 1834 (Stelfox's); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 26 May 1841; BA 1845; MA 1850; ordained deacon 1846, priest 1847 (both Bath & Wells); Curate, Lovington, Somerset; author, The Lives of the Sovereigns of England, 1868, and other works; m. 17 Jul 1866 Wilhelmina, youngest dau. of William Thomas Dilkes (qv); d. 14 Oct 1869.

HALL, ARTHUR, son of Charles Henry Hall (qv); b. 25 Nov 1809; adm. 19 Oct 1822 (Stelfox's); Clerk, Board of Control; Cadet, EICS Bengal 1827; Cornet, unattached 10 Jan 1829; 5th Bengal Light Cavalry 17 May 1829; Lieut., 1 Mar 1836; Capt., 14 Jan 1842; Maj., 1 Apr 1854; Lieut. -Col., 5 May 1856; 3rd Bengal Light Cavalry 1860; retd. as Maj. -Gen., 31 Dec 1861; m. at Ghazipur, India 3 Oct 1842 Anne, second dau. of Col. John Mackenzie, EICS Bengal [but Russell Barker & Stenning record him as having m. 23 Aug 1843 Mary Ann Rosa, second dau. of Maj. M. C. Chase, Nottingham Place, Regent’s Park, London : her father would have been Lieut. -Col. Morgan Charles Chase, EICS Madras]; d. 13 Nov 1879.

GRIME, EDWARD HATTON HALL, only son of Rev. Edward Grime, Warrington, Lancs., Perpetual Curate of Hindley, Lancs.; b. 22 Feb 1809; adm. 19 Jan 1820 (Stelfox's); in under second form list 1821; Queen’s Coll. Oxford, matr. 18 Nov 1827. [mother perhaps Ann Hall (IGI)]

GRAHAM-STIRLING, THOMAS JAMES, second son of Thomas Graham-Stirling (formerly Graham), Airth, Stirlingshire, Convener of Stirlingshire, and Caroline Mary, only dau. of Lieut. -Col. James Home, Blackadder, Berwickshire; b. 11 Jun 1811; adm. 22 Sep 1824 (Stelfox's); left Nov 1827; Ensign, 42nd Foot 8 Nov 1827; Lieut., 16 Nov 1832; retd. 15 Dec 1837; DL JP Perthshire; m. 1st, 4 Jul 1844 Mary, eldest dau. of William Stirling, Kenmare House, Lanarkshire; m. 2nd, 3 Feb 1858 Jane, youngest dau. of William Hugh Hunter, Auchterarder, Perthshire; d. 15 Aug 1896.

GRAHAM, JOHN, eldest son of John Smith Graham, Bernard Street, Bloomsbury, London, and Anne Elliott (IGI); b. 12 Dec 1812; adm. 10 Jan 1825 (Stelfox's); Wadham Coll. Oxford, matr. 27 Oct 1831; Newdigate Prize for English Verse 1833; migr. to New Inn Hall; BA 1837; ordained deacon (London) 12 Jun 1840, priest 6 Jun 1841; Curate, St. John’s, Hackney; his poem on Staffa, written for the Newdigate Prize in 1832, when he was defeated by Roundell Palmer (afterwards Earl of Selborne) was published in Blackwood’s Magazine, 1832; d. 28 Nov 1845.

GRAHAM, CAROLUS JAMES HOME, brother of Thomas James Graham-Stirling (qv); b. 24 May 1812; adm. 22 Sep 1824 (Stelfox's); at Haileybury Coll. 1830-1; Writer, EICS Bengal 1831; arrived India 14 Sep 1831; Assistant to Commissioner of Revenue and circuit, Cuttack 27 Dec 1832; held various subsequent appointments; resigned in India 1 May 1846 and returned home; d. 30 Oct 1877.

GOOLD, WYNDHAM HENRY, third son of Thomas Goold, Dromadda and Rosbrien, co. Limerick, Master in Chancery (I), and Elizabeth, dau. of Rev. Brinsley Nixon, Rector of Painstown, co. Meath; b. 8 Jul 1812; adm. 14 Jan 1824 (Stelfox's); Trinity Coll. Dublin, adm. fellow commoner 6 Dec 1830; BA 1834; adm. King’s Inns 1833, called to Irish bar 1837; adm. Gray’s Inn 8 May 1835; Munster circuit; Crown Prosecutor, Limerick 1843; MP Co. Limerick from Dec 1850; d. unm. 27 Nov 1854.

FROUDE, WILLIAM, fourth son of Ven. Robert Hurrell Froude, Archdeacon of Totnes and Rector of Dartington, Devon, and Margaret Spedding, Mirehouse; b. 28 Nov 1810; adm. 28 May 1823 (Stelfox's); KS 1824; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1828, adm. pens. 16 May 1828, but went to Oriel Coll. Oxford, matr. 23 Oct 1828; 1st cl. Mathematics and 3rd cl. Lit. Hum. 1832; BA 1832; MA 1837; pupil of Henry Robinson Palmer, civil engineer, 1833; joined engineering staff of Isambard Kingdom Brunel on the Bristol and Exeter Railway 1837; while working for Brunel he propounded the “curve of adjustment”; gave up active involvement in civil engineering in mid 1840s, owing to failing health of his father; undertook research into ship design; devised bilge-keels to prevent the rolling of ships; conducted experiments at the Admiralty Experiment Works, Torquay, on the resistance and propulsion of ships; invented a dynamometer to determine the power of large marine engines; MICE 7 Apr 1846, member Council 1877; FRS 2 Jun 1870, Royal Medal 1876; LLD Glasgow 27 Apr 1876; m. 4 May 1839 Catherine Henrietta Easterbrook, youngest dau. of Arthur Howe Holdsworth MP, Widdicombe and Brooke Hill, Devon; d. at Admiralty House, Simonstown, Cape Colony 4 May 1879. DNB.