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BAYNES, JOHN, son of John Baynes, Westminster; b.; adm.; KS 1674; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1676, adm. pens. 27 Jun 1676, aged 17, scholar 1677; BA 1679/80; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 28 May 1677.

BEALE, THEODORE, second son of Bartholomew Beale, Walton, near Bletchley, Bucks., Clerk of the Signet; b.; adm.; KS 1612; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1614, adm. scholar 1615, matr. Mich. 1615; BA 1618/9; migrated to Pembroke Coll.; MA 1622; Fellow of Pembroke Coll. 1624; ordained; Vicar of Pattishall, Northants, 13 Mar 1638/9, res. 1639; Vicar of Ash Bocking, Suffolk, 1639, sequestered 30 Jul 1644; Rector of Walton, Bucks., from 1643; m.; buried Walton, Bucks. 23 Dec 1652.

BEALE, WILLIAM, of Oxfordshire; brother of Rev. Jerome Beale DD, Master of Pembroke Coll. Cambridge; b.; adm.; QS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1605, adm. scholar 1606, matr. Easter 1606; 9th in ordo 1609/10; BA 1609/10; migrated to Jesus Coll.; Fellow of Jesus 1611-25; MA 1613 (incorp. Oxford 15 Jul 1617); BD 1620; DD 1627 (incorp. Oxford 1645); ordained; Archdeacon of Carmarthen 1623; Master of Jesus Coll. Cambridge 14 Jul 1632-4, Master of St. John’s Coll. Cambridge 20 Feb 1633/4; Vice-Chancellor, Cambridge Univ. 1634; Rector of Cottingham, Northants., from 4 Feb 1624/5; Rector of Paulerspury, Northants., 31 Oct 1637; sinecure Rector of Aberdaron, Caernarvonshire, 1639; got into trouble with the Puritan party for embellishing St. John’s Coll. Chapel with “Romish adornments”; arrested Sep 1642 for sending away the college plate to the King at Nottingham, and imprisoned in the Tower of London; deprived of Mastership of St. John’s 13 Mar 1643/4, and of his other eccclesiastical preferments, but liberated from the Tower after three years’ imprisonment and joined the King at Oxford; nominated by the King Dean of Ely c. Mar. 1646, but never installed; chaplain to Sir Edward Hyde (afterwards Lord Clarendon) in his embassy to Spain 1649-50; a very successful tutor, and, according to Baker, “one of the best governors the University or College ever had”; d. at Madrid 1 Oct 1650. DNB.

BEAMOND, EDWARD; b. ; adm. ; KS 1542-4 (Chapter Muniments); a draft of a letter from the Head Master recommending him and William Clere (qv) to Robert Herricke, Physician to Henry VIII, was offered in a Hodgson book sale of 28 Apr 1939. [Presumably Edward Beaumont, at Christ Church, Oxford 1550, who d. 1552, at age of 21, whose will divides his collection of “strange coyness in silver” equally between Laurence Nowell (qv) and John Bridges (perhaps --- Brydges, KS 1547-9 (qv))].

BEANE, SAMUEL, son of John Beane, Canterbury, Kent; b.; adm.; KS 1689; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1693, matr. 30 Jun 1693, aged 17, Westminster Student 14 Dec 1693-1715 (void), although conditionally expelled for riotous behaviour 24 Apr 1700; BA 1697; MA 1700; ordained deacon (Oxford) 14 Mar 1707/8.

BEARCROFT, COVENTRY BROOK, brother of Henry St. George Bearcroft (qv); bapt. 30 Apr 1785; at school 1794; in school list 1795; KS (aged 14) 1799; probably the Bearcroft who played against Eton in the cricket matches at Lord’s 31 Jul 1800 and 31 Jul 1801; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1802, adm. pens. 1 Jun 1802, but did not matr. ; “had some employment with the Government”; living 1821; m. Louisa O’Neil.

Beard, Charles Henry, son of Arthur John Wells Beard (qv); b. 14 Aug. 1938; adm. Sept. 1952 (QS); Capt. of the Sch. 1956; left July 1957; Gonville & Caius Coll. Camb., matric. 1957, BA 1960; St Thomas’ Hosp. Med. Sch., BChir 1963, MB 1964, MRCP 1966, FRCS 1969; consult. plastic surgeon, Lancs Area Health Authority; m. 24 Mar. 1962 Patricia Anne Johnston, LRAM LRCM, flautist, d. of Michael Errington Johnston, Under-Sec. Min. of Agriculture, and granddaughter of Claude Errington Longden Johnston (qv); d. 27 Nov. 1980.

BEARE, HENRY, son of Henry Beare, Bideford, Devon, and St. Giles in the Fields, London, and Mary ---; b.; adm.; Min. Can. (aged 13) 1713; QS 1714; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1718, matr. 17 Jun 1718, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1718-25 (void, marriage or expiry year of grace); BA 1722; Master of the Free School at Ripon 1721; ordained; Rector of Bildeston, Suffolk, from 1723; m. 5 Nov 1723 (IGI) Mary, sister of Jacob Brand (qv); d. 30 Oct 1733, aged 34.

BEAUCHAMP, THOMAS; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1638, adm. pens. 2 May 1638, scholar 1639; BA 1641/2; MA 1645.

BEAUFORT, SIR LEICESTER PAUL, younger son of Rev. Daniel Augustus Beaufort, Rector of Lymm with Warburton, Cheshire, and Emily Nowell, second dau. of Sir John Francis Davis, Bart., KCB DCL FRS, EICS Canton, Governor of Hong Kong; b. 13 Dec 1853; adm. 21 Jun 1867 (James'); QS 29 Jan 1869; left Nov 1871; Queen’s Coll. Oxford, matr. 22 Oct 1872; BA 1878; BCL and MA 1879; adm. Inner Temple 30 Jun 1876, called to bar 7 May 1879; Northern Circuit; member, London School Board 1888-9; Governor, Secretary and Judicial Commissioner, North Borneo 1889-95; Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Labuan and North Borneo 1895-1900; Chief Justice of Northern Rhodesia 1901-18; acting administrator, North-Eastern Rhodesia 1905-11; knighted 18 Feb 1919; m. 29 Mar 1883 Edith Mary, dau. of Rev. Charles Higman Griffith, Rector of Stratfield Turgis, Hampshire; d. at Wynberg, South Africa, 12 Aug 1926.