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TOWERS, WILLIAM, eldest son of Right Rev. John Towers DD, Bishop of Peterborough, and Mary ---; b.; adm.; Min. Can. 1629; KS 1630; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1634, matr. 1 Sep 1634, aged 17, still Westminster Student c. 1642 (no longer 1650); BA 1638; MA 1641; BD 1646; ordained deacon 16 Apr 1641, priest 19 Apr 1641 (both Peterborough); Prebendary of Peterborough 20 Apr 1641; Rector of Barnack, Northants 1644; took refuge in Oxford until its surrender; ejected from his preferments; served as Curate, Upton, Northants; restored to preferments at Restoration; Rector of Fiskerton, Lincs., from 1662; author, Atheismus Vapulans, 1654, and other works; m. Frances ---; d. 20 Oct 1666. DNB.

Towers, William George, brother of Robert Montagu Towers (q.v.); b. Oct. 2, 1876; adm. Sept. 25, 1890 (H); elected head to Trin. Coll. Camb. (with senior Samwaies and a Triplett gratuity) July 1895 (adm. pensr. Oct. 1, 1895); 1st class Classical Tripos, pt. i, 1898; B.A. 1898; M.A. 1907; asst. master at Oundle School 1901-5, at Trent Coll. 1906-14; d. June 13, 1934.

TOWERS, ROBERT MONTAGU, eldest son of Rev. Robert Towers, Vicar of St. Andrew and St. Philip, Notting Hill, London, and Catherine Lucinda, dau. of Rev. John Heming, Minister of St. Paul’s Chapel, Kilburn, London; b. 11 Dec 1867; adm. 31 May 1883 (G); elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1886, matr. 15 Oct 1886; BA 1889; MA 1901; Assistant Master, Trinity Coll. Glenalmond 1893-5, Campbell Coll. Belfast 1895-8, Monmouth GS 1898, Cheltenham Coll. 1899-1928; d. 11 May 1938.

TOWERS, GEORGE, only son of Rev. George Towers, Vicar of Fordingbridge, Hampshire, and Elizabeth, dau. of John Tarrant, Fordingbridge, Hampshire, attorney; b.; in school list 1754; KS (aged 14) 1759; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1763, matr. 9 Jun 1763, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1763 - void 1767; adm. Middle Temple 31 Jul 1762; d. 5 Jun 1767.

TOWERS, ---; b.; adm. Christmas 1810; left 1810.

TOWERS, ---; b.; in school lists 1801, May 1803; left 1803.

TOVEY, THOMAS, of London; b.; adm.; KS 1639; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1645, adm. pens. 4 Jun 1645, scholar 1645, matr. Easter 1646; BA 1648/9.

TOVEY, RICHARD; b.; adm. (aged 14) Mar 1733/4. [Presumably elder brother of, or close kin to, last].

TOVEY, BERNERS; b.; adm. (aged 9) Mar 1733/4; left 1737; m. 30 Aug 1750 (as Barnes Tovey) Mary Oldham, St. Andrew’s, Holborn. [Presumably younger brother of, or close kin to, next]. [note will Barnes Tovey, St. Luke, Chelsea, Middlesex, proved PCC 11 Feb 1808]

Tourrier, Jean Furcy; son of Jean Louis Thomas Tourrier, and Sophie Honorine Turban ; b. Paris ; teaching French in London by Feb 1830 ; French Master at the School c.1841 – c.1852 (he claimed to have taught French at Westminster School for fourteen years) ; Reader to Princess Sophia ; author, textbooks on learning French, including The Model-Book, or One Hundred Lessons on the True Principles of the Pronunciation and Construction of the French Language, written for the Use of Westminster School, 3rd ed., nd (c.1845), 106 Familiar and Easy Dialogues in French and English, and Guide to Paris and its Environs (etc), 1855 ; m. 20 Jun 1833 Constantia Eleonora, teacher of singing, youngest dau. of Matthias von Holst, London (originally from Riga, Latvia), musician ; d. 26 Jan 1867, aged 68. Father of Alfred Holst Tourrier (adm.1849, qv).