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VINCENT, RICHARD BLACKALL, elder son of John Blackall, The Hill, Loughall, co. Armagh, Ireland, and Mary, dau. of Richard Vincent (QS 1708, qv); b.; assumed additional surname of Vincent under will of his grandfather; adm. 12 Jun 1779; KS (aged 15) 1781; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1785, adm. pens. 25 May 1785, scholar 5 May 1786, matr. 1785; BA 1789; ordained; Prebendary of Clonfert from 22 Dec 1803; Archdeacon of Kilmacduagh 22 Dec 1803 - Mar 1815; d. 1834.

VINCENT, SIR MATHIAS, brother of Thomas Vincent (elected to Oxford 1647, qv); b.; adm. 1656 (school lists 1656, last two quarters); an undated petition by his mother Sarah to the Governors for a scholarship for Mathias, one of her two youngest children “now schollers at Westminster Schoole”, is in the Chapter Muniments (no. 43101); apprenticed to merchant, London; later Factor at Surat for EI Company; made a large fortune and returned to England; knighted 20 Mar 1684/5; MP Lostwithiel from 1685; Alderman, Aldgate Ward, City of London, from 30 Apr 1686; m.; d. c. May 1687 (will proved PCC 15 Jun 1687).

VINCENT, JOHN, son of John Vincent, Fontmell, Dorset, edge tool maker, and a younger brother of Thomas Vincent, Under Master; b.; KS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1647, but he had been detained at school “through the exigence of warre” and was granted seniority at Christ Church as if he had been elected on 1 May 1646 (Burrows, ed., 1881, 268), Westminster Student (still 1663, no longer by Dec 1665); submitted to Parliamentary Visitors 14 Jul 1648 (Burrows, op. cit., 155); BA 1650; MA 1652; ordained; Curate, Benson, Oxfordshire 1655; d. St. Clement’s parish, Ipswich, Suffolk May 1665, when he was described as a “minister”, lately of Christ Church, Oxford (A. G. E. Jones, “The Great Plague in Ipswich 1665-1666”, Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology, 27-8, 1958, 89). Will made on board ship Unicorn at Harwich 12 Apr 1665, proved PCC 18 Sep 1665

VINCENT, JOHN FRANCIS, youngest son of William St. Andrew Vincent (qv); b. 27 Sep 1809; adm. 20 Sep 1819; went to Felsted Sch.; Addiscombe Coll. 1826-8; Cadet, EICS Madras 1828; Ensign, 23rd Light Infantry 16 Sep 1830; ret. 19 Jul 1835 [but Dodwell/Miles have him as Lieut. 1 Apr 1836]; subsequently farmed at Wrentham, Suffolk; JP Suffolk; m. 1st, 22 Jul 1840 Sarah, dau. of James Hingeston, Frostendon Hall, Suffolk; m. 2nd, 4 Aug 1864 Rachel Louisa, only dau. of John Ward, Plumstead, Kent; d. 17 Feb 1890.

VINCENT, HENRY; b. ; adm. ; KS 1700. [Possibly Sir Henry Vincent, Bart. , fourth but eldest surviving son of Sir Francis Vincent, Bart. MP, Stoke D’Abernon, Surrey, and Rebecca, dau. of Jonathan Ashe, London, merchant; bapt. Stoke D’Abernon, Surrey 10 Jul 1685 (IGI); Corpus Christi Coll. Oxford, matr. 11 Oct 1703, aged 18; MP Guildford 21 Feb 1728-34; succ. father as 6th baronet 10 Feb 1736; m. Elizabeth, dau. of Bazaliel Sherman, London, Turkey merchant; d. 20 Jan 1757 : see William Vincent, below]

VINCENT, GEORGE, brother of Thomas Vincent (elected to Oxford 1647, qv); b.; adm. 1656 (school lists 1656, last two quarters); BB; Min. Can. (aged 13) 1660.

VINCENT, GEORGE, son of George Giles Vincent (qv), and his first wife; b. 8 Jun 1807; adm. 10 Jan 1820; KS 1822; an attorney; Steward of the Manors of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster; m. 14 Oct 1835 Caroline, sister of Charles Arthur Bedford (qv); d. 25 Mar 1851.

VINCENT, GEORGE GILES, son of William Vincent (adm. 1748, qv); b. 11 Apr 1774; adm. 13 Jun 1781; in school lists 1786; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 25 Jan 1793; a certificated conveyancer; Chapter Clerk, Westminster Abbey, from 4 Nov 1803; author, Evidence in Human Nature of a Future State, 1853, and other works; m. 1st, 16 Dec 1803 Mary, dau. of Rev. Francis Worsley DD, Rector of Chale, Isle of Wight; m. 2nd, 13 Dec 1817 Emilia Elizabeth, second dau. of James Tappenden, Faversham, Kent; d. 28 Jan 1859. Buried North Cloister, Westminster Abbey.

VINCENT, FREDERICK; b.; adm. (aged 12) Jun 1729. [Presumably Frederick Vincent, son of Frederick Vincent, and Mary ---, bapt. St. Paul, Bedford 1 Jan 1716 (IGI)]. [note will Frederick Vincent, St. George, Hanover Square, proved PCC 3 Nov 1785]