VIDAL, PETER, son of Peter Vidal, Kensington, Middlesex, and Hester ---; bapt. 7 Oct 1701; adm. (aged 14) Sep 1715; BB 1716-9; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. sizar 30 Oct 1719, aged 17, matr. 1719; BA 1723/4; MA 1729; ordained; an Usher at the School for many years; composed an ode for St. Cecilia’s day, set to music by William Boyce; m. 4 May 1733 Mary Strelley, St. John the Evangelist, Westminster; d. 19 Feb 1740/1.
Vidal, Henry Dashwood Sealy, 1854-1905
VIDAL, HENRY DASHWOOD SEALY, son of Edward Urch Vidal (qv); b. 5 Nov 1854; adm. 24 Jan 1868 (G); QS 1869; left May 1873; ordained deacon 1880, priest 1881 (both Winchester); Curate, St. Luke’s, Jersey 1880-3; held other curacies; emigrated to New South Wales, Australia 1886; Curate, Ballarat 1887-8, St. Lukeís, Liverpool 1889-91; Vicar of Guyong 1894-8; Rector of Rylestone 1900-2; Rector of Carcoar from 1902; m. 25 May 1890 Kate Elston, eldest dau. of John Brown Bossley, Edenson Park, New South Wales; d. at Carcoar 1 May 1905.
VIDAL, EDWARD URCH, only son of Edward Sealy, Friarn House, Bridgwater, Somerset, and Elizabeth, dau. of Rev. William Lewis, Cannington, Somerset; b. 7 Jul 1816; adm. 23 Sep 1828 (Stikeman's); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 15 May 1834; BA 1838; MA 1841; adm. Middle Temple 3 Nov 1837, called to bar 15 Apr 1842; Western Circuit; assumed surname of Vidal in lieu of Sealy 17 Feb 1842, on inheriting Devon estate of Robert Studley Vidal; of Cornborough, Devon; JP Somerset, Devon; m. 19 May 1842 Emma Harriet, dau. of Walpole Eyre, Weybridge, Surrey; d. 18 Dec 1884.
Vidal, Edward Sealy, 1848-1878
VIDAL, EDWARD SEALY, son of Edward Urch Vidal (qv); b. 13 Jun 1848; adm. 26 Sep 1861 (G); QS 1863; rowed v. Eton 28 Jul 1864; left Aug 1864; Ensign, 57th Foot, 31 May 1867; Lieut., 29 Dec 1869; ret. 17 Jul 1872; m. 5 Dec 1871 Beatrice Christine, third dau. of Lieut. -Col. Hon. Richard Charles Hare; d. 13 Mar 1878.
Victoria I, 1819-1901, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland
Patron of the School; She gave £800 towards the fund for the improvement of College Dormitory in 1846.
Vickers, Thomas Bernard, 1896-1921
Vickers, Thomas Bernard, son of William Henry Playfair Vickers, M.D., of Graiguenamanagh, co. Kilkenny; b. Nov. 6, 1896; adm. April 28, 1910 (R); left July 1910; 2nd Lieut. R.E. April 1, 1917; Indian Army; attached Queen Victoria's Own Sappers and Miners Sept. 19, 1917; Lieut. Jan. 1, 1919; served in East Africa in Great War I, and on the Indian Frontier; killed in action on the Shapur river, in Waziristan, July 16, 1921.