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ALMACK, ---; b.; in school lists 1764, 1765, 1767; left Whitsun 1767.

Almond, Basil George, son of Sir James Almond, Kt, Judicial Commissioner, North-West Provinces, India, and May Victoria Howard, d. of Rev. Samuel Howard Baker, Vicar of Donnington, Berks; b. 21 July 1926; adm. Sept. 1939 (G); left July 1940 for Bishop Cotton Sch., Simla; aboard SS City of Cairo when she was torpedo by German forces, 1942; re-adm. Jan. 1943; left July 1944; New Coll. Oxf., matric. 1944, BA and MA 1951; RAF 1945-8; asst. master Aldenham Sch. 1951; partner musical instrument makers 1971; dialysis administrator Roy. Infirmary Dundee 1974; m. 1st, 12 Apr. 1950 Anne Delicia de la Chapelle, d. of Charles Ewing Prior, asst. master Harrow Sch., of St Jean-de-Luz, France, and Ross-on-Wye, Heref; 2nd, 7 Sept. 1979 Alison Sturrock Webster Pickard, pharmacist; d. 10 Oct. 2001.

Almond, David Laurence, brother of Basil George Almond (qv); b. 31 July 1930; aboard SS City of Cairo when she was torpedo by German forces, 1942; adm. Sept. 1943 (G); left July 1948; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1948, BA 1951, MA 1965, MB BCh 1954; Univ. Coll. Hosp., house appts. 1954-5; RAMC (Capt. ) 1955-7; house surgeon (obstetrics) North Middlesex Hosp. 1958; DObst RCOG 1958, MRCGP 1966; gen. med. practitioner, Potters Bar 1958-; m. 22 Nov 1958 Judith Veronica Paine, med. sec., d. of Leslie Paine, estate agent; d. 26 Jan. 2011.

Almond, Francis Robert Howard, brother of Basil George Almond (qv); b. 11 July 1929; aboard SS City of Cairo when she was torpedo by German forces, 1942; adm. Sept. 1943 (G); left July 1947; regional man. British-American Tobacco Co. 1950-63; IBM (UK) 1963-87, financial adviser 1987-9; MBCS 1970; IT consult., self-employed 1989-92; retd. 1993; m. 1st, 6 Nov. 1954 Heather Katherine, d. of Rev. Kenneth William Seymour Jardine of Haslemere, Surrey, hon. Canon of Lahore; 2nd, 29 Apr. 1961 Margaret Rosemary, d. of Rev. William Oscar Cosgrove, Rector of Brasted, Kent; d. 4 Apr. 2007.

ALNWICK, AMON, a native of London; b.; adm.; QS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1586, matr. 17 Dec 1586, aged 18, Westminster Student to 1598; BA 1590; MA 1594; ordained deacon and priest 3 Jul 1597; Rector of Didcot, Berks., from 1597; Prebendary of Lincoln from 31 Dec 1612; m. (son bapt. 3 Apr 1614, IGI]; buried Didcot 29 Sep 1621.

Alport, Claude Mashiter, younger son of Laurence Alport, of Kensington, by Mary Ann Frances, daughter of Thomas Augustus Sackville Manning; b. Oct. 29, 1888; adm. Jan. 14, 1904 (R); left Easter 1906; went out to China; Cipher Officer H. B. M. Legations, Pekin and Hankow 1934; Temp. Sec. H. B. M. Embassy, Ankara, 1940; M.B.E. Jan. 1, 1941; 2nd Lieut. 8th Batt. Black Watch Feb. 18, 1916, Lieut. Sept. 18, 1917, Capt. May 24, 1918, attached R.A.F.; m. June 26, 1918, Violet, only daughter of Leslie Charles Wintle, of Eastbourne, Sussex; d. Dec. 18, 1945

ALPRESS, ---; b.; adm. 19 Apr 1765; d. 1765.

ALSOP, ANTHONY, son of Anthony Alsop, Darley, Derbs., by Anne Lowe; bapt. 4 Jan 1668/9; adm.; KS 1686; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1690, matr. 12 Jul 1690, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1690 - void 12 Aug 1713 (expiry year of grace as R. Nursling), Tutor 1698-1709, Junior Censor 1701-2, Senior Censor 1703-5, Catechist 1706-7, 1711; BA 29 Jan 1694/5; MA 23 Mar 1696/7; BD 1706 (incorp. at Camb. 1707); ordained; Rector of Nursling, Hants. 31 Jul 1712-5; Rector of Alverstoke, Hants. 25 Mar 1715 (dispensation to hold with Nursling, 1715); Rector of Brightwell, Berks. 1715; Prebendary of Winchester from 21 May 1715; left England in 1718 on losing an action brought against him for breach of promise of marriage, but returned in 1720; is alluded to in the Dunciad; with Francis Atterbury (KS 1674 (qv)) and George Smalridge (qv) assisted Charles Boyle in the production of Dr. Bentley’s Dissertations on the Epistles of Phalaris, 1698; editor, Fabularum Aesopicarum Delectus, 1698, in the preface to which he attacked Bentley; his Latin Odes were published posthumously by Sir Francis Bernard (qv) in 1752; m. c. Dec. 1715 Margaret, widow of Rev. Francis Bernard, Rector of Brightwell, Berks. (and mother of Sir Francis Bernard (qv)), and dau. of Richard Winlowe, Lewknor, Oxfordshire; accidentally drowned 16 Jun 1726. DNB.