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AMYOT, THOMAS EDWARD, eldest son of Thomas Amyot FRS FSA, James Street, Buckingham Gate, Westminster, sometime Private Secretary to Right Hon. William Windham, and Jane, dau. of Edward Colman, Norwich, surgeon; b. 28 Jan 1817; adm. 12 Jan 1829; St. Thomas’s Hospital; MRCS LSA 1839; FRCS 1866; practised at Diss, Norfolk; m. 20 Oct 1847 Elizabeth, dau. of Rev. Francis Howes, Minor Canon of Norwich; d. 15 Dec 1895.

Anderson, Godfrey Howard Parry, son of Edgar Anderson of Bedford and Mabel, d. of Edward Parry; b. 4 Oct. 1908; adm. Jan. 1922 (H); left July 1925; a journalist; war correspondent (Ethiopia and Middle East) in WW2; p.o.w. Italy Nov. 1941; represented Assoc. Press of America for 38 years, with appointments in Paris, Berlin, Brussels and Stockholm; Dallas, Texas, 1971-4; a freelance journalist representing British papers in USA; m. 4 Oct. 1946 Nadeane, d. of Charles Walker of Canton, Texas; d. 20 Apr. 1999.

Anderson, William, brother of Ronald George Anderson (qv); b. 30 Mar. 1936; adm. May 1950 (B); left Apr. 1954; Univ. of Aberdeen; a farmer; m. 1 July 1960 Margaret Watt Taylor of Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire; d. 30 Mar. 1973.

ANDREWES, GERRARD, son of Gerrard Andrewes (qv); b. 14 Apr 1750; adm. Jan 1764; KS 1764; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge (with Titley gratuity) 1769, adm. pens. 23 May 1769, scholar 4 May 1770, matr. Mich. 1769; BA 1773; MA 1776; DD 1807; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 4 Sep 1774, Major Fellow 4 Jul 1775; Usher at the School 1771 [check] - 84; ordained deacon (Peterborough) 15 Dec 1776; occasional preacher at St. Bride’s Fleet Street, and later at St. James’s Chapel, Hampstead Road; Rector of Zeal Monachorum, Devon 1788 [no longer 1801]; preacher at The Magdalene Hospital 1791, at The Foundling Hospital 1799; Rector of Mickleham, Surrey 1800-9; Rector of St. James’s, Piccadilly, London, from 10 Aug 1802; Dean of Canterbury from 8 Nov 1809; declined Bishopric of Chester on account of his age 1812; Vicar of Great Bookham, Surrey, from 1820; composed a school song entitled “Dean’s Yard and Queen Eliza” recited at the Anniversary Dinner of 1836 (Forshall, 255-7); among his cherished possessions was the jawbone of King Richard II, given to him by a schoolfellow who had fished it out of Richard’s tomb in 1766 (Archaeologia xlv, 304, note, and Elizabethan xvii, 99-100); four of his letters written while he was at school were published in The Treasury, ix, 131-6; m. 1 Dec 1788 Elizabeth Maria, dau. of Rev. Thomas Ball, Rector of Wymondham, Norfolk; d. 2 Jun 1825. DNB.

ANDREWES, THEOPHILUS, son of John Andrewes, Greenwich, Kent, a servant of James I; b.; adm.; recommended for admission into College by Sir Edward Conway, Secretary of State, 18 May 1624 (CSP Dom 1623-5, 249); KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1631, matr. 24 Feb 1631/2, aged 20, Westminster Student to 1641. [will proved PCC 28 Jan 1656]

ALSOPP, GEORGE; b.; adm. 25 Feb 1782; left 1784.

ALTHAM, ROGER, son of Roger Altham, Settle, Yorks.; b.; apparently adm. to Christ’s Coll. Camb. from Giggleswick School 6 Jun 1663, aged 15, but if so was at Westminster subsequently; KS (Capt. ) 1664; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1668, matr. 17 Dec 1668, aged 19, Westminster Student 26 Dec 1668 – void 1690, Tutor 1675-82, Junior Censor 1681; BA 1672; MA 1675; BD 1683; DD 1694; Proctor 1682; ordained deacon 17 Dec 1681, priest 12 Mar 1681/2 (both Oxford); Chaplain to John Dolben, Archbishop of York (qv); Prebendary of York from 19 Oct 1683, of Southwell from 1 Aug 1685, and of Ripon from 1688/9; Rector of Nunburnholme, Yorks., 1685-7; Vicar of Finedon, Northants., from 7 Jun 1688; Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, and Regius Professor of Hebrew 6 Nov 1691-7, and from 12 Mar 1702/3; m. Frances, dau. of Christopher Hodgson, New Hall, Beeston, Yorks.; d. 15 Aug 1714. Buried Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.

ALVEY, ---; probably a son of Rev. Richard Alvey BD, Prebendary of Westminster and Master of the Temple; b.; adm.; charged for commons Christmas quarter 1564 to Christmas quarter 1567 (Chapter Muniments 54004-16).

ALWORTH, ST. LEGER; b.; adm. 21 Jul 1766 (in Record, incorrectly, under St. Leger, Alworth); left Whitsun 1767. [Presumably St. Leger Aldworth, eldest son of Boyle Aldworth, Newmarket, co. Cork, and his second wife Martha, dau. of Col. Christopher Rogers, Lota, co. Cork; b. Cork; Trinity Coll. Dublin, adm. pens. 3 Nov 1773, aged 17 (Mr. Jessop) : BA 1778]

AMBROSE, JOHN, son of John Ambrose, London, and Carolina ---; bapt. 30 Mar 1768; adm. 16 Jan 1776; went to Charterhouse Sch., foundation scholar Jun 1778-84; Univ. Coll. Oxford, matr. 26 Apr 1784, aged 16; BA 14 Jan 1791; MA 23 Jun 1791; ordained deacon 1791, priest 1792; Rector of Blisworth, Northants, from 9 Apr 1797; m. Juliana ---; d. 2 Jun 1839. [Perhaps m. at British Embassy Chapel, Paris, 15 Jul 1834 Juliana Catherine Colyear (IGI)]