OSBORNE, THOMAS, MARQUIS OF CARMARTHEN, elder son of Thomas Osborne, 4th Duke of Leeds (qv); b. 5 Oct 1747; adm. (Morel's); at school under Markham (Bentham, Works x, 31); a friend and contemporary of Jeremy Bentham (qv), who greeted his recovery from illness with a copy of fourteen Latin couplets (Elizabethan xiv, 29); d. at school of smallpox 15 Aug 1761.
ONSLOW, GEORGE, 1ST EARL OF ONSLOW, only son of Right Hon. Arthur Onslow PC MP, Imber Court, Surrey, Speaker of the House of Commons, and Anne, dau. of John Bridges, Thames Ditton, Surrey; b. 13 Sep 1731; adm. Sep 1739 (Morel's); Peterhouse, Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 12 May 1749; MA 1766; DCL Oxford 8 Jul 1773; adm. Middle Temple 14 Nov 1739; MP Rye 1754-61, Surrey 1761-74; a Lord of the Treasury Jul 1765 – Nov 1777; Privy Councillor 23 Dec 1767; a strong opponent of election of John Wilkes 1769; awarded damages in his action for libel against John Horne Tooke (qv) 1 Aug 1770; took active part in excluding strangers from gallery of House of Commons and in calling the printers to the bar of the House for publishing the debates 1771; created Baron Cranley 20 May 1776; succ. cousin as 4th Baron Onslow 8 Oct 1776; Lord Lieut., Surrey, from 20 Nov 1776; Comptroller of the Household 1 Dec 1777 – Dec 1779, Treasurer of the Household Dec 1779 – Sep 1780; a Lord of the Bedchamber from 15 Sep 1780; created Earl of Onslow 19 Jun 1801; m. Jun 1753 Henrietta, sister of Sir John Shelley, Bart. (qv); d. 17 May 1814. DNB.
NASH, CHARLES, son of Gawen Harris Nash, Petworth, Sussex, and his second wife Mary, dau. of Sir Robert Fagg, Bart., Wiston, Sussex; half-brother of Richard Nash (qv); bapt. 2 Jan 1728; adm. (aged 12) Sep 1742 (Morel's); St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 28 May 1746; BA 1749/50; MA 1761; ordained deacon 18 Mar 1753, priest Mar 1754 (both Norwich); Curate, Little Saxham, Suffolk 1753; Rector of Alborne, Sussex, from 31 Jan 1758; Rector of Twineham, Sussex, from Feb 1758; Rector of St. John Southover, Lewes, Sussex, from 19 Feb 1767; m.; d. 1777 (will proved PCC 10 Dec 1777).
MORELL, JOHN; b.; adm. (aged 8) Apr 1740 (Morel's); left 1745. [Evidently John Morel, son of John Morel and Philippa --- (IGI); bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 20 Apr 1732; a brother of William Morel (qv)].
MOREL, WILLIAM, son of John Morel, London; b.; adm. (aged 9) Apr 1738 (Morel's); left 1745; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 18 Jun 1746, aged 17, scholar 22 May 1747, matr. 1747; BA 1749/50; MA 1761; ordained deacon (London) 2 Dec 1751, priest (Peterborough) 17 Mar 1753; Vicar of Harrowden, Northants 20 Mar 1753-80; Reading Chaplain, Whitehall (occurs 1783); presumably Rev. W. Morel who had the boarding house at 2 Little Dean’s Yard 1768 – 1781, and who is likely to have been the son of Mrs Morel who had a boarding house in Cowley Street 1738-54 and was the dame at 2 Little Dean’s Yard 1754-68; m. (widower at death); d. 23 Sep 1808. [Evidently son of John Nicolas Morel, St. James, Westminster, and Philippa Chancey, Chelsea, who m. 1727; John Nickolo Morel, St. John’s, Westminster, gentleman, will proved PCC 5 Jan 1749, Philippia Morel, widow, St. Margaret’s, Westminster, will proved PCC 3 Mar 1768]
MILLAN, SAMUEL, son of Richard Millan, Friday Street, London, and Phoebe ---; bapt. St. Matthew, Friday Street, London 19 Mar 1730 (IGI); adm. (aged 13) Jan 1743/4 (Morel's); left 1748; Trinity Coll. Oxford, matr. 9 Jul 1748; BA 1752; MA 1755.
Legge, William. 2nd Earl of Dartmouth, 1731-1801
LEGGE, WILLIAM. 2ND EARL OF DARTMOUTH, younger son of George Legge, Viscount Lewisham MP, and Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Arthur Kaye, Bart., MP; grandson of William Legge, 1st Earl of Dartmouth (qv); b. 20 Jun 1731; adm. Mar 1741/2 (Morel's); left 1748; Trinity Coll. Oxford, matr. 14 Jun 1749; MA 21 Mar 1750/1; DCL 28 Apr 1756; succ. grandfather as 2nd Earl of Dartmouth 15 Dec 1750; Grand Tour (France, Italy) 1752-4; took seat, House of Lords 31 May 1754; President, Board of Trade and Foreign Plantations 19 Jul 1765 – Jul 1766, 31 Aug 1772 – Nov 1775; Privy Councillor 26 Jul 1775; Secretary of State for the Colonies 27 Aug 1772 – Nov 1775; Lord Privy Seal 4 Nov 1775 – Mar 1782; Lord Steward of the Household 11 Apr – Dec 1783; High Steward, Oxford Univ., from 1786; FRS 7 Nov 1754; FSA 1754; DL Yorkshire West Riding 1757; Busby Trustee 10 Apr 1766; an amiable and pious man, but without any obvious administrative capacity; known as the “Psalm-singer”, and referred to by his schoolfellow William Cowper (qv) as “one who wears a coronet and prays”; m. 11 Jul 1755 Frances Catherine, only dau. of Sir Charles Gounter Nicoll (qv); d. 15 Jul 1801. DNB.
Hotham, Sir Charles, 1729-1794
HOTHAM, SIR CHARLES, BART. , eldest son of Sir Beaumont Hotham, Bart. , Commissioner of Customs, and his cousin Frances, eldest dau. of Rev. Stephen Thompson, Vicar of Welton, Yorks. ; first cousin of Sir Charles Hotham, Bart. (adm. 1745, qv); b. 18 Jun 1729; adm. Oct 1741 (Morel's); left 1745; adm. Middle Temple 22 Dec 1742; Ensign, 1st Foot Guards 24 Sep 1746; Lieut. and Capt. , 6 Feb 1750; Capt. and Lieut. -Col. , 5 May 1758; Col. in the Army 19 Feb 1762; Lieut. -Col. , 63rd Foot 10 Jul 1765; Col. , 63rd Foot, 13 Sep 1765 – Sep 1768, 15th Foot from 21 Sep 1768; Maj. -Gen. , 25 May 1772; Lieut. -Gen. , 29 Aug 1777; Gen. , 12 Oct 1793; served in Flanders towards end of War of Austrian Succession, on expedition to St. Malo 1758, and in Germany during Seven years War; MP St. Ives 1761-8; a Groom of the Bedchamber to George III 5 May 1763 – 20 Jan 1788; a favourite at Court; succ. father as 8th baronet 29 Aug 1771; assumed surname of Thompson in lieu of Hotham 25 Dec 1772, on succeeding to the Thompson family’s estates at Hambleton and Ebberston, Yorks. , but resumed surname of Hotham 2 Jul 1787, after these estates had been resettled; many interesting particulars of his school life and school fellows are given in The Hothams, 1918, ii, 1-18; m. 21 Oct 1752 Lady Dorothy Hobart, only dau. of John Hobart, 1st Earl of Buckinghamshire (qv), and his first wife; d. 25 Jan 1794.
HOTHAM, SIR JOHN, BART., brother of Sir Charles Hotham, Bart. (adm. 1741, qv); b. 16 Mar 1734/5; adm. Jun 1744 (Morel's); left 1752; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 27 Jan 1752, scholar 24 Apr 1753, matr. Easter 1753; BA 1756; MA 1760; ordained deacon 1757, priest 1759 (both Rochester); Vicar of Aston Abbotts, Bucks., 4 Apr 1759-67; Chaplain to British Staff in Germany for a few months, but returned to England with Lord George Germain (qv) after battle of Minden; Chaplain in Ordinary to George III 1760 (still 1774); Prebendary of St. Paul’s 25 May 1763 – Feb 1780, also Archdeacon of Middlesex 1 May 1764 – Jan 1780; Vicar of Northolt, Middlesex 14 Dec 1763-79; Vicar of St. Leonard’s, Shoreditch 14 Oct 1767-80; Chaplain to John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire (qv), when Lord Lieut. Ireland 1776-9; DD Trinity Coll. Dublin 1777; consecrated Bishop of Ossory 14 Nov 1779; translated to Clogher 17 May 1782; succeeded brother as 9th baronet 25 Jan 1794; m. 11 Apr 1765 Susannah, dau. of Herbert Mackworth (b. 1687, qv); d. 3 Nov 1795.
HOTHAM, SIR CHARLES, BART., only son of Col. Sir Charles Hotham, Bart. MP, Groom of the Bedchamber to George II, and Lady Gertrude Stanhope, eldest dau. of Philip Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Chesterfield (qv); b. Sep 1735; succ. father as 6th baronet 15 Jan 1737/8; adm. Oct 1745 (Morel's); left 1751; Grand Tour (France, Italy, Germany, Russia, Scandinavia) 1751-7; gave himself up to melancholy and to Methodism; in poor health from 1759; m. 31 Oct 1757 Caroline Anne, only surviving dau. of Thomas Clutterbuck (qv); d. at Stavelot, near Spa 13 Oct 1767, from the effects of a fall from his horse.