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Bird, Clifford Gordon, son of Charles Ellis Bird, of London, solicitor, by Ellen Lancaster, daughter of Alexander Henderson; b. Oct. 15, 1877; adm. Sept. 25, 1890 (G); left July 1894; St. Edmund Hall, Oxon., matric. Lent 1899; B.A. 1902; entered the South African Civil Service; seconded to the S. W. African Administration as Public Trustee; retired 1925; Senior Announcer, South African Broadcasting Corpn., Cape Town 1925-42; Property Manager of the Board of Executors, Cape Town; served in the Imperial Yeomanry in the South African War 1900, and as Capt., Cape Garrison Artillery, in Great War I; m. June 24, 1911, Joan Elizabeth, daughter of Andries Petrus Brink, of Worcester, Cape Province; d. 1947.

BIRD, SIDNEY ARTHUR, son of Henry Bird, Uxbridge, Middlesex; b. 20 Jan 1864; adm. as exhibitioner (G) 31 May 1877; QS 1878; left Dec 1881; man. dir., The Century Trust; m. 6 Jun 1904 Norah Agnes Sarah Jane, dau. of Alexander Patrick McClery; d. 6 Sep 1929.

BISCOE, HENRY GERMAIN, third son of Robert Biscoe (qv); b. 21 Oct 1840; adm. (G) 20 Jan 1853; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 21 Oct 1858; BA 1862; emigrated to Australia by 1868; settled in Queensland; m. K. Anderson; d. at Waroonga, Albion, Brisbane, 6 Mar 1904.

BLACK, ALURED ELLIOT, son of Lieut. -Col. George Black, Chief Constable of Norfolk, and Louisa Phillips, dau. of Adm. Sir John Marshall, Elstree, Herts.; b. 5 Jan 1859; adm. (G) 24 Jul 1872; QS 1873; elected to Trin. Coll. Camb. (with Triplett) 1877, adm. pens. 11 Oct 1877, matr. Mich. 1877; BA 1882; MA 1886; ordained deacon 1883, priest 1884 (both Rochester); Curate, Holy Trinity, Greenwich, Kent, 1883-7; Rector of Milton-next-Gravesend, Kent, 1887-9; Rector of Oxnead with Buxton, Norfolk, 1889-1907; Vicar of Holmfirth, Yorks., 1914-6; Vicar of Silsoe, Beds., 1916 - res Feb 1931; m. 14 Nov 1883 Annie, dau. of James Cleland, Toban, Mhuire, co. Down; d. 1935.

BLACKETT, ARTHUR STEWART, youngest son of Rev. Henry Ralph Blackett, Perpetual Curate of Hanover Chapel, Regent Street, London, and Adelaide, youngest dau. of Richard Mills, The Grove, Camberwell, Surrey; b. 15 Jan 1865; adm. (G) 25 Mar 1876; left Dec 1881; member, London Stock Exchange; m. 19 Apr 1894 Caroline Frances, elder dau. of Maj. Charles Walsham Maynard, Royal Artillery, Elsieshields Tower, Dumfriesshire; d. 5 Dec 1922.

BLACKETT, FRANCIS ST. JOHN, son of Henry Blackett, Ealing, Middlesex; b. 24 Jun 1864; adm. (G) 23 Sep 1875; left Aug 1878.

Blake, Edmund Vernon Brodie, son of Edward Blake, M. D., of Hampstead, by A. Madeleine Hanson; b. Sept. 22, 1875; adm. from Univ. Coll. School Sept. 1889 (G); left Nov. 1889; King's Coll. and Univ. Coll. London; studied art in Paris; painter and sculptor; author of Relation in Art (1925) and other works; m. Marie Bonnin; d. at Avignon April 19, 1920.

BLAKER, ERNEST HENRY, youngest son of Edgar Blaker, Lewes, Sussex, and Amelia, dau. of Henry Grundy Renshaw, Chelsea; b. 17 Apr 1855; adm. (G) 21 Jan 1870; left Dec 1871; adm. solicitor Nov 1877; practised successively at Worthing and Chichester; Registrar, Chichester County Court, 1901; m. 10 Jul 1883 Harriet Marianne, third dau. of Rev. Henry George Nicholls, Perpetual Curate of Holy Trinity, Forest of Dean, Gloucs.

BLANDY, CHAPIN ADDISON, elder surviving son of Alfred Addison Blandy MD, Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, London, and Ozella Louisa, eldest dau. of Chapin Aaron Harris, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; b. 26 Jun 1855; adm. (G) 1 Feb 1867; left Dec 1873; an invalid; d. 29 Apr 1879.

Blee, David Michael Vaughan, son of David Blee CBE, man. dir. LMR British Rail, of Slough, Bucks, and Catherine Rosetta, d. of Edward Vaughan, railway official; b. 2 Feb. 1931; adm. Sept. 1945 (G); left July 1949; Emmanuel Coll. Camb., matric. 1950, BA 1953, MA 1957; a schoolmaster, HM Eylesden Court Sch. 1962-7, Tormore Sch. 1967-74, Cathedral Sch. Salisbury 1974-96; chmn. Choir Schools’ Assn. 1982; m. 2 Apr. 1960 Sheila Mary, d. of Ralph Bentley, chartered accountant, of Curdridge, Hants; d. 22 July 2000.