SYMMONS, JOHN, elder son of Charles Symmons (qv); b. 1781; adm. 31 Oct 1794 (Clapham) (see also E. B. Impey, Memoirs of Sir Elijah Impey, 1846, 376); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 11 Apr 1799, aged 18, Canoneer Student; BA 1803; MA 1806; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 21 Jan 1801, called to bar 23 Nov 1807; Welsh Circuit; FRS (by 1831); FSA (by 1831); assisted his father in a revised version of his translation of Virgil, published 1820; his translation of Aeschylus’s Agamemnon, published 1824, was much praised; his intimate friend Henry Fynes-Clinton (qv) recorded that Symmons’s extraordinary faculties “qualified him to rise to the very first rank of critical scholars” (Literary Remains, 1854, 10); Dr. Parr also speaks of his “capacious and retentive memory” and of his “various and extensive learning”; d. probably 1842. DNB.
SYMMONS, CHARLES, younger son of John Symmons MP, Llanstinan, Pembrokeshire, and Maria, dau. of Charles Philipps, Sandyhaven, Pembrokeshire; b. 1749; adm. 14 Jan 1765; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 20 Nov 1765; Glasgow Univ. 1767; Clare Hall, Cambridge, adm. sizar 14 Feb 1776; BD 1786 (incorp. Oxford 24 Mar 1794); DD Oxford 26 Mar 1794; ordained 1775; Chaplain, 75th Foot 25 Jun 1778; Rector of Narberth with Robeson, Pembrokeshire, from 13 Aug 1778; Prebendary of St. David’s from 11 Oct 1789; aroused considerable hostility by a Whig sermon at St. Mary’s, Cambridge 1793 (Gunning, Reminiscences, 1855, i, 285-90); Rector of Lampeter Velfry, Pembrokeshire, from 2 Apr 1794; author poetical works, lives of Milton and Shakespeare, and The Aeneis of Virgil translated, 1817; m. 1779 Elizabeth, dau. of John Foley, Ridgeway, Pembrokeshire, and sister of Adm. Sir Thomas Foley GCB, Royal Navy; d. 27 Apr 1826. DNB.
SYMMONDS, HENRY; b.; adm. (aged 12) Apr 1728; left 1730.
Symington, Ian William Andrew, son of Andrew Symington of Surbiton, Surrey, and Mabel Elizabeth, d. of Thomas Armstrong, sheep farmer, of Australia; b. 27 May 1911; adm. Apr. 1925 (R); left July 1929; Gordon Highlanders 1940-5 (Maj.), Croix de Guerre 1945; chairman and man. dir. Ghana Aluminium Products Ltd; retd 1970; m. 18 May 1940 Elsa Marion, d. of Ernest Markham Lee MusD, composer and author, of Effingham, Surrey; d. 13 Mar. 2002.
Symington, Alexander McLeod, son of A. Harry B. G. Symington, of Hampstead, by Beatrice, daughter of Ambrose Edward Goodwin, of Birkenhead, Cheshire; b. May 25, 1902; adm. as exhibitioner Sept. 23, 1915 (G); left April 1919; d. 1974.
Sylvester, Samuel Barry, son of Harry Sylvester and Iris Hilda, d. of Samuel Breckman; b. 26 Nov. 1933; adm. Sept. 1947 (A); left July 1950; adm. solicitor Nov. 1957; a showbusiness lawyer; m. 20 Apr. 1958 Francine Carole, d. of Alec Silvert, co. dir., of Hampstead; d. 8 March 2011.
Sykes, William Joseph Arnold, son of Joseph Charles Sykes of Beckenham, Kent, and Winifred, d. of Charles Henry Arnold of Beckenham; b. 1 Aug. 1907; adm. Sept. 1921 (A); left July 1924; King's Coll. Lond., GIMechE 1931, AMIMechE 1948; an electrical engineer Southern Rly 1930-48, BR Southern Region 1948, chief mech. and elec. engineer 1956; MiEE MIMechE 1964; OBE 1968; retd 1972; m. 25 Oct. 1941 Margaret Hember, d. of Thomas Spooner Lascelles of Sevenoaks, Kent; d. 1 Mar. 1986.
SYKES, SIR TATTON, BART., brother of Sir Mark Masterman Sykes, Bart. (qv); b. 22 Aug 1772; adm. 7 Jun 1784; left Aug 1785; Brasenose Coll. Oxford, matr. 10 May 1788; articled clerk to Atkinson & Farrer, attorneys, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London; subsequently clerk in banking house at Hull; succ. brother as 4th baronet 16 Feb 1823; commenced sheepfarming and breeding 1803; held his fifty-eighth and last sale of sheep in 1861; one of the largest breeders of bloodstock in Britain; racehorse owner from 1803 but never bred a winner of the three great races; Master, Lord Middleton’s Hounds, for many years; DL Yorkshire East Riding, High Sheriff 1828; m. 19 Jun 1822 Mary Anne, sister of Sir William Foulis, Bart. (qv); d. 21 Mar 1863. DNB.