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CRAMER, JOHN ANTHONY, son of John Anthony Cramer, Mittoden, Switzerland, and Henrietta Courtet; b.; adm.; KS (aged 14) 1807; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1811, matr. 28 May 1811, Westminster Student, Tutor; 1st cl., Classics and Mathematics, 1814; BA 1814; MA 1817; BD 1830; DD 1831; ordained; Curate, Binsey, Oxfordshire 1822-45; Vice-Principal, St. Alban Hall, Oxford 1823-5; Select Preacher 1826, 1831; Public Orator 1829-42; Principal, New Inn Hall (which he rebuilt) 1831-47; Regius Professor of Modern History from 1842; Dean of Carlisle from 21 Dec 1844; author, A Description of Ancient Italy, 1826, and other works; m. 27 May 1823 (IGI) Henrietta [or Harriet ?] Ashton; d. 24 Aug 1848. DNB.

CRAMER, HENRY ELLIS, eldest son of John Anthony Cramer (qv); b. 2 Apr 1824; adm. (G) 27 Sep 1836; KS 1837; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1841, matr. 26 May 1841, Westminster Student to 1854; BA 1845; MA 1847.

CRAKE, ---; b. ; adm. ; KS 1640 (Bodleian Library, Tanner MSS, lxix, f. 140).

CRAIG, JAMES, brother of Philip Craig (qv); bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 21 May 1724 (IGI); adm. (aged 8) Jul 1732; Min. Can. 1737; KS 1738; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1742, matr. 13 Jun 1742, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1742 - void 30 Jun 1750; BA 1746; Ensign, 2nd Foot Guards 26 Feb 1746/7; Lieut., 23 Dec 1752; Capt. -Lieut., 23 Sep 1763; Capt. and Lieut. -Col. 23 Dec 1763; retd. 15 May 1767; living 1769.

CRAGGE, RICHARD; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1618, Westminster Student to 1623; BA 22 Feb 1622/3; ordained; Perpetual Curate, Badsey, Worcs. 1645-61; Perpetual Curate, South and Middle Littleton, Worcs., from c. 1661; lic. to m. Jan 1631/2 Anne Bingham, St. Giles in the Fields, Middlesex, spinster; d. 1666.

CRACHERODE, CLAYTON MORDAUNT, son of Col. Mordaunt Cracherode, Governor of Minorca, of Taplow, Bucks., and Mary, sister of Charles Morice (qv); b. 23 Jun 1730; adm. Jun 1737; KS 1742; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1746, matr. 6 Jun 1746, Westminster Student from 24 Dec 1746; BA 1750; MA 1753; ordained priest (Oxford) 25 May 1755; Curate, Binsey, Oxfordshire 1762; did not seek or obtain further religious preferment; spent his life in collecting books, engravings, gems and coins, bequeathed by him to the British Museum; Trustee, British Museum, from 1784; FRS 15 Dec 1785; FSA 8 Mar 1787; member Society of Dilettanti from 1787; left legacies of £1000 each to Christ Church, Oxford, and to the School; d. unm. 5 Apr 1799. Buried in East Cloister, Westminster Abbey. DNB.

By his will dated 9 Apr 1792 (proved 17 Apr 1799), he bequeathed to Westminster School “the sum of £500, the interest to be divided as is done in the case of a benefaction left by my excellent friend Fane Sharpe, Esq. about the year 1771 for the advantage of the King’s Scholars elected to the two Universitities, the management to be under the same trustees”. The fund was subsequently consolidated with the School Exhibition Fund, and the benefaction commemorated by an exhibition known as the Cracherode exhibition.

COXETER, RICHMOND; b. ; adm. ; KS 1682. [Perhaps = Richard Coxeter, son of Richard Coxeter, Bampton, Oxfordshire, adm. Middle Temple 25 Jan 1685/6, called to bar 30 Jun 1704] [note Richard Coxeter, Bampton, Oxfordshire, will proved PCC 28 Apr 1741]

COXETER, CHARLES, son of Thomas Coxeter, London; b.; adm. (aged 11) Jun 1739 (Hawkins'); KS 1743; buried Bampton, Oxfordshire 26 Feb 1746. [mother perhaps Elizabeth White (IGI)]

COXE, RICHARD HIPPISLEY, son of John Hippisley Coxe, Stoneaston, Somerset, and Mary, dau. of Stephen Northleigh MP, Peamore, Devon; b. 22 Sep 1742; adm.; KS (aged 13) 1754; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1759, matr. 19 Jun 1759, Westminster Student 5 Jan 1760 - 2 Jul 1763, res.; BA 1763; MP Somerset 1768-84; Col., Somerset Militia 24 Oct 1778, with rank Col. in Army 2 Jul 1779; d. unm. 26 Aug 1786.

COXE, JOHN; b. ; adm. ; KS 26 Jun 1549 (Acts of Chapter).