CAVENDISH-BENTINCK, WILLIAM HENRY, 3RD DUKE OF PORTLAND, elder son of William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland, and Lady Margaret Cavendish Harley, only dau. of Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford (qv); b. 14 Apr 1738; styled Marquis of Titchfield to 1762; adm. May 1747 (Watts'); left Dec 1754; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 4 Mar 1755; MA 1 Feb 1757; DCL 7 Oct 1792; LLD Tinity Coll. Dublin 18 May 1782; assumed additional surname of Cavendish 1755; MP Weobley 1761 - 1 May 1762; succ. father as 3rd Duke of Portland 1 May 1762; Lord Chamberlain 15 Jul 1765 - 26 Nov 1766; Privy Councillor 10 Jul 1765; Lord Lieut., Ireland, 10 Apr - 15 Sep 1782; Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury 21 Apr - 19 Dec 1783; although previously a committed Whig politician, he became alarmed by the French Revolution and joined William Pitt’s government in 1794; Secretary of State for Home Affairs, 11 Jul 1794 - 30 Jul 1801, Lord President of the Council 30 Jul 1801 - 14 Jan 1805; KG 16 Jul 1801; Prime Ministry and First Lord of the Treasury 31 Mar 1807 - 28 Sep 1809, when he resigned through ill-health; Chancellor of Oxford University from 27 Sep 1792; Lord Lieut., Nottinghamshire, from 19 Jun 1795; FRS 5 Jun 1766; a Busby Trustee from 14 Mar 1765; m. 8 Nov 1766 Lady Dorothy Cavendish, only dau. of William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire PC KG; d. 30 Oct 1809. DNB.
CAVENDISH-BENTINCK-SCOTT, WILLIAM HENRY, 4TH DUKE OF PORTLAND, eldest son of William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (qv); b. 24 Jun 1768; styled Marquis of Titchfield to 1809; adm. 16 Jun 1783; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 25 Jan 1785; DCL 1793; MP Petersfield 29 Dec 1790 - Apr 1791, Buckinghamshire 18 Apr 1791 - Oct 1809; Lord Lieut., Middlesex 6 Aug 1794 - 29 Dec 1841; assumed additional surname of Scott 5 Sep 1795 [check order of surnames]; a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury 31 Mar - Sep 1807; succ. father as 4th Duke of Portland 30 Oct 1809; he took no active part in politics between his father’s death in 1809 and 1827, when he was asked to join the administration being formed by his wife’s brother-in-law George Canning; Lord Privy Seal 30 Apr - Aug 1827, Lord President of the Council 17 Aug 1827 - 26 Jan 1828; Privy Councillor 30 Apr 1827 (an original member of Judicial Committee of Privy Council 14 Aug 1833); m. 4 Aug 1795 Henrietta, eldest dau. of Maj. -Gen. John Scott MP, Balcomie, Fife; d. 27 Mar 1854.
CAVERLY, ---; b.; in under school list 1715.
Caw, John Morrison, son of Capt. Alec Ruan Caw, Fleet Surgeon RAN, and Lily, d. of Col. Sir John Hewat MB CM, med. practitioner, of Cape Town; b. 17 Mar. 1919; adm. Sept. 1932 (R); left Apr. 1933; Assoc. Camborne Sch. of Mines 1939; RE 1941-5 (Maj.), Bengal Sappers and Miners; gold mining engineer Champion Reef Gold Mine, S. India; m. 18 Nov. 1943 Ann Cyprienne, d. of Albert John McKee of Thornford, Dorset; d. 20 Sept. 1990.
Gawthorne, Peter Patrick, son of Peter Alfred Gawthorne, actor and playwright, and Ethel Marie, d. of George Siddle of Penshurst, Kent; b. 15 July 1919; adm. Sept. 1932 (H); left July 1938; BNC Oxf., matric. 1938; HM Colonial Service Tanganyika 1940; E. African Artillery 1940 (Capt.); asst DO Tanganyika 1942, DO 1950; District Commr 1954, dep. Provincial Commr 1958; Principal Asst Sec. Min. of Local Govt & Housing 1959, retd 1963; Public Notary (Gloucs) 1968; adm. a solicitor Dec. 1969; m. 6 Feb. 1943 Jane Margaret, d. of Lieut-Col. Erling Knapp DSO, of Makonikop, Rusaki, S. Rhodesia; d. 15 July 1991.
Cazeaux, Edward Maximilian, son of Edward R. Cazeaux, of Bromley, Kent; b. Jan. 3, 1901; adm. Jan. 14, 1915 (H); left 1919.
CECIL, HON. ALGERNON, fifth son of William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury (qv); b.; adm.; KS (Capt. ) 1641; among the Steward’s accounts at Hatfield for the year 1640-1 are payments “to Mr Busby for diet for the two gentlemen [William and Algernon Cecil] at the rate of £60 per ann., and their servant at £15 per ann. ”, for “potation money” at Easter 5s., and on “Mr Algernon’s admittance to be a King’s Scholar” £3. 15s. 9d.; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 28 Apr 1645, MA 1644 (check); MP Old Sarum 1660, but his election was disputed and he did not take his seat; m. Dorothy, dau. of Sandford Nevile, Chevet, Yorks.; d. Nov. 1676.
CECIL, HON. CHRISTOPHER, fourth son of Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter KG, and his first wife Hon. Dorothy Nevill, dau. of John Nevill, 4th Baron Latymer; b. 4 May 1576; at school under Grant; Pembroke Coll. Camb., adm. fellow commoner, matr. c. 1593; adm. Gray’s Inn 4 Nov 1597; a Latin letter written by Cecil to his grandfather, Lord Burghley, dated from Westminster School 6 Apr 1591, is among the Lansdowne MSS, British Library; drowned in Germany before 12 Jan 1603/4.
CECIL, JAMES, 6TH EARL OF SALISBURY, elder son of James Cecil, 5th Earl of Salisbury, and Lady Anne Tufton, second dau. of Thomas Tufton, 6th Earl of Thanet; b. 20 Oct 1713; adm. Sep 1724; in school list 1729; succ. father as 6th Earl of Salisbury 9 Oct 1728; High Steward of Hertford from 1735; a Governor of the Foundling Hospital, 7 Aug 1739; m. 28 Jun 1744/5 Elizabeth, elder dau. of Edward Keet, Canterbury, Kent; d. 19 Sep 1780.