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POLLARD, WILLIAM; b.; adm. (aged 12) Sep 1750 (Hawkins').

PERRYN, SIR RICHARD, son of Benjamin Perryn, Flint, Flintshire, merchant, and Jane, eldest dau. of Richard Adams, Town Clerk of Chester; b. 9 Aug 1723; ed Ruthin GS; adm. (aged 16) Oct 1739 (Hawkins'); left 1741; Queen’s Coll. Oxford, matr. 13 Mar 1740/1; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 6 Nov 1740; migrated to Inner Temple 27 Apr 1746, called to bar 3 Jul 1747, Bencher 1771; built up an extensive practice at the Chancery Bar; KC Duchy of Lancaster 23 Mar 1766 – Apr 1766; Vice-Chamberlain, Chester 1770; KC 1770; knighted 6 Apr 1776; Baron of the Exchequer and Serjeant-at-Law 26 Apr 1776 to retirement autumn 1799; m. 30 Nov 1752 Mary, eldest dau. of Henry Browne, Skelbrooke, Yorks.; d. 2 Jan 1803. DNB.

PATTON, THOMAS; b.; adm. (aged 12) Sep 1740 (Hawkins'); left 1744. [Evidently brother or close kin to Paul Patton, adm. same month].

PATTON, PAUL; b.; adm. (aged 13) Sep 1740 (Hawkins'); left 1744. [Evidently brother or close kin to Thomas Patton, adm. same month].

PARKYNS, SIR THOMAS, BART., elder son of Sir Thomas Parkyns, Bart. (bapt. 1662, qv) and his second wife; bapt. 8 Dec 1728; succ. father as 3rd baronet 29 Mar 1741; adm. (aged 14) Feb 1742/3 (Hawkins'); Queen’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 12 Nov 1744, matr. 1744; DL Leicestershire; DL JP Nottinghamshire, High Sheriff 1755-6; m. 1st, 7 Apr 1747 his cousin Jane, dau. of Thomas Parkyns (adm. 1717/8, qv); m. 2nd, 1765 Sarah, dau. of Daniel Smith, Bunny, Notts.; m. 3rd, 1 Sep 1796 Jane, dau. of Joseph Boultbee, Leicester; d. 17 Mar 1806.

PARKYNS, GEORGE, son of Sir Thomas Parkyns, Bart. (bapt. 1662, qv), and his second wife; b. 30 Dec 1729; adm. Feb 1742/3 (Hawkins'); Queen’s Coll. Oxford, adm. fellow commoner 30 Oct 1746; Cornet, 15th Dragoons 15 May 1759; Lieut., 15 Jul 1761; Capt., 28 May 1770; [not in Army List 1773]; m. 16 Apr 1749 Anne, dau. of Elton Levett MD, Nottingham.

PALMER, CHARLES; b.; adm. (aged 12) Jul 1742 (Hawkins'); left 1747. [perhaps Ensign, 2nd Foot Guards 26 Jan 1750/1 – Jan 1753]

OTWAY, JOHN; b.; adm. (aged 12) Jan 1742/3 (Hawkins'); left 1744.

OTWAY, FRANCIS, eldest son of Lieut. -Col. Francis Otway, St. Martin’s in the Fields, and Smarden, Kent, and Anne Taylor, St. Anne, Soho; bapt. St. Anne’s, Soho 15 Oct 1730 (IGI); adm. (aged 9) 1739/40 (Hawkins'); left 1748; adm. Inner Temple 23 Jun 1748, called to bar 4 Jul 1753, tenant chambers there from 1 May 1751; of Riverhill, Sevenoaks, Kent; a letter addressed to him at school by his uncle and godfather William Byrd, Westover, Virginia, is printed Virginia Magazine of History and Biography xxxviii, 28; m. Sarah, dau. of Richard Rowdon Baynham, London, and Riverhill, Sevenoaks, Kent, apothecary; buried St. Marylebone, London 22 Mar 1773.

OSBORN, JOHN, younger son of Sir Danvers Osborn, Bart. (qv); b. 16 Jul 1743; adm. Jun 1751 (Hawkins'); in school list 1754; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 20 May 1760, Canoneer Student 4 Jul 1760 – res 23 Dec 1767; BA 1764; DCL 29 Apr 1777; Private Secretary to Sir James Porter, HBM Minister at Brussels 1764-5, Chargé d’Affaires 1765; Chargé d’Affaires, Naples Jan – Apr 1768; HBM Minister at Dresden May 1771 – Sep 1775; FRS 17 Apr 1777; member, Society of Dilettanti 1779; d. at Rudolstadt, Saxony 12 Jan 1814.