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Airy, Ronald William, son of Eustace William Airy FCA and Elsie Catherine, d. of C. L. Grant; b. 31 Jan. 1911; adm. Sept. 1924 (H); left Apr. 1929; Guildhall Sch. of Music; a church organist and market gardener in Kent; RNVR 1942 (Lieut.), discharged with disability pension 1945; d. 21 Aug. 1968.

AISKEW, JOHN, son of Michael Aiskew, Westminster, Clerk Assistant, House of Commons, and Elizabeth Horsley (IGI); b.; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1728/9; in school list 1729 (as Askey); left 1729; Brasenose Coll. Oxford, matr. 27 Mar 1735/6; BA 1738; ordained deacon and priest (Winchester) Dec 1741; Rector of Blendworth, Hampshire, from 1741; Vicar of Catherington, Hampshire, from 1778; m. 19 Jul 1750 Elizabeth Pafford, Rowner, Hampshire; d. 1789 (will proved PCC 9 Dec 1789). [possibly Chaplain, Royal Navy 1777]

AISLABIE, WILLIAM, eldest son of Robert Aislabie, Rotherham, Yorks., solicitor, and Martha, dau. of Timothy Kiplin, Badsworth, Yorks.; b.; adm. (aged 9) May 1735; KS (aged 14) 1738; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1742, adm. pens. 9 Jul 1742, did not matr.; ordained; licensed to curacy of Borden and Halstow, Kent 1749/50; Chaplain Royal Navy 1758, HMS Winchester; d. unm. 2 Oct 1759.

AISLABIE, WILLIAM, eldest son of Rev. William Aislabie, Rector of Birkin, Yorks., and Anne Huton, Cotton, Woodchurch [check county]; b.; adm. (aged 9) Jun 1738 (Wynniate's); left 1743; d. unm. 18 Jan 1761.

Aitken, James Douglas, son of James Aitken, M.B., of Ilford, Essex, by Isabella Muir, daughter of David Gilmour, of Glasgow; b. Aug. 10, 1895; adm. Sept. 22, 1910 (H); left July 1913; 1st class diploma Royal School of Mines 1922; member of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy and of the Indian Institute of Mining Engineers; representative in Hyderabad of John Taylor and Sons and Superintendent of the Nizam's gold mines 1937-55; served in Gallipoli in Great War I; 2nd Lieut. 14th Batt. Middlesex Regt. Nov. 27, 1914; Lieut. Machine Gun Corps July 6, 1916; Capt. March 5, 1918; wounded in Gallipoli; m. March 5, 1927, Marjorie, daughter of Octavius Edward Lambert, of Lewisham; d. Oct. 28, 1955

Aitken, Sir John William Maxwell Bt, son of William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook PC, newspaper proprietor, and his first wife Gladys, d. of Brig.-Gen. Charles William Drury CB of Halifax, Nova Scotia; b. 15 Feb. 1910; adm. Jan. 1924 (R); left July 1928; Pemb. Coll. Camb., matric. 1928; played football for Cambridge 1930 and 1931; dir. Beaverbrook Newspapers Ltd, chairman 1964-77, pres. 1977; RAuxAF 1935, RAF 1939-45 (Group Capt.); DFC 1940, DSO 1942, Czech War Cross, despatches; fighter pilot during Battle of Britain, commanded night fighter squadron 1941-2, strike Mosquito wing Norwegian waters 1943; succ. father as 2nd Baronet 9 June 1964, but disclaimed succession to Barony; MP (C) Holborn 1945-50; dir. Assoc. TV Corpn and Price Bros Ltd; m. 1st 26 Aug. 1939 Cynthia, d. of Col. Hugh Glencairn Monteith OBE DSO RAMC; 2nd 15 Aug. 1946 Jane (formerly wife of Peter Lindsay), d. of Maj. Robert Orlando Rudolph Kenyon-Slaney, of Halton Grange, Shropshire; 3rd 1 Jan. 1951 Vio­let, d. of Sir Humphrey de Trafford, Bt; d. 30 Apr. 1985.

Aitken, Hon. Peter Rudyard, brother of Sir John William Maxwell Aitken (qv); b. 22 Mar. 1913; adm. Sept. 1925 (R); left Apr. 1930; Roy. Fusiliers 1940-2, Pioneer Corps 1942, Roy. Fusiliers Aug. 1942-5 (Capt.); m. 1st 25 Jan. 1934 Janet, d. of Murray Macneill, Prof. of Mathematics Dalhousie Univ., Halifax, NS; 2nd 1943 Marie Patricia, d. of Michael Maguire, of Melbourne, Australia; d. 3 Aug. 1947.

Aitken, William John, brother of James Douglas Aitken (q.v.); b. Aug. 28, 1899; adm. Sept. 22, 1910 (H); K.S. 1913; left July 1917; M.B., Ch. B. Glasgow 1925; diploma of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool 1926; in practice at Ilford, Essex 1926; a medical officer, Colonial Medical Service, Tanganyika Territory 1931; m. Dec. 16, 1926, Shiona Alexa, daughter of - Muir, of Troon, Ayrshire.

Akerhielm, Claes Edward, son of Baron Evert Akerhielm, Swedish Dipl. Service, and Mary Dorothy, d. of Charles Frederick Maria Scarisbrick; b. 27 Feb. 1918; adm. Jan. 1932 (H); left Mar. 1936; a consulting engineer; MIEE 1941, CEng FIEE 1959; RAOC July 1942, REME Oct. 1942 (Capt.); Ewbank & Partners Ltd (London and Brighton) 1958-78; m. 1st 26 June 1943 Suzanne Naomi, d. of Col. E. L. W. Henslow OBE MC, of Fleet, Hams; 2nd 12 Dec. 1952 Lynette Mary Guinness, widow of Maj. George Learmouth Streeter MC; d. 1 Jun. 2012.