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BOSANQUET, NICHOLAS WILLIAM TINDAL, third son of James Whatman Bosanquet (qv), and his first wife; b. 2 May 1844; adm. (G) 24 Sep 1857; QS 1859; left Whitsun 1863; Ensign, 2nd Foot, 3 May 1864; Lieut., 25 Dec 1867; d. 2 Oct 1877.

BOSANQUET, RICHARD ARTHUR, youngest son of Samuel Richard Bosanquet (qv); b. 25 May 1852; adm. (G) 15 Jun 1865; QS 1867; left Mar 1870; a coffee planter and visiting agent, Ceylon, 1870-9; a merchant at Colombo, Ceylon, 1879-89; member, Ceylon Legislative Council; returned to England 1889; m. 15 Nov 1888 Ruth Rivers, eldest dau. of Sir Augustus Rivers Thompson KCSI CIE, Lieut. -Gov. Bengal; d. 20 Oct 1936.

BOSANQUET, WILLIAM HENRY FRANCIS, brother of Samuel Richard Bosanquet (qv); b. 5 Feb 1805; adm. (G) 19 Jun 1816; adm. Inner Temple 13 May 1825, called to bar Trinity 1836; equity draughtsman and conveyancer; of Knockane and Kilmagemogue, co. Waterford; m. 6 May 1861 Amelia Mary Georgiana, eldest dau. of John Sherlock, Kilmagemogue, co. Waterford; d. 29 Sep 1878. .

Worthington, Lawrence Valentine, brother of Arthur Little Worthington (qv); b. 6 Mar. 1920; adm. Sept. 1933 (R); left July 1938; Princeton Univ.; USNR 1943-6; Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst., res. asst 1946-50, res. assoc. 1950-8, physical oceanographer 1958-63, sen. scientist 1963, chairman Dept of Physical Oceanography 1974; m. 1952 Ruth Scott, d. of R. C. Mc Guinness of Denver, Colorado; d. May 1986.

Worthington, Arthur Little, son of Bond Valentine Thomas Worthington (qv); b. 11 Nov. 1917; adm. Sept. 1930 (R); left Mar. 1936; Harvard Univ.; Field Artillery US Army in WW2 (Lieut.); manager Côte D'Azur-Monaco region First Nat. City Bank of New York; Chevalier Ordre de la Couronne (Belgium); m. 17 May 1941 Burdeene, d. of Paul Hill Irvin of Forest Hills NY; d. 8 Aug. 1983.

Worthington, Harold, brother of Bond Valentine Thomas Worthington (q.v.); b. Nov. 25, 1890; adm. Sept. 24, 1903 (H); left July 1906; Yale Univ. 1909; A.B.; an electrical engineer 1915-7; served with the first U.S. Div. of Field Artillery as Lieut. in France in Great War I; director of New York Travel Courses since 1924; m. Feb. 19, 1926, Sada Elizabeth, daughter of Peter Van Schuyver Hoyt, of New York; d. 8 Mar. 1978.

Summerhays, Reginald Sherriff, elder son of Thomas Charles Summerhays, of Wimbledon, solicitor, by Marian Edith, eldest daughter of Edwin Sherriff, of Wimbledon; b. April 5, 1881; adm. Jan. 16, 1896 (H); left April 1899; adm. a solicitor Jan. 1905, practices in London; served in Great War I; temp. 2nd Lieut. A.S.C. May 25, 1917; Civilian Remount Purchas­ing Officer, Expeditionary Force; afterwards Legal Adviser to the Controller of Aircraft Contracts, Ministry of Munitions; joint author of Summerhays and Toogood's Precedents of Bills of Costs, 9th and 10th editions; author of Summerhays' Encyclopædia for Horsemen, The Observor's Book of Horses and Ponies, and many other authoritative works and articles on horses and horsemanship; judge, breeder and exhibitor of horses; m. 1st July 25, 1906, Annie May, elder daughter of Arthur Owen, of Eastbourne, Sussex; 2nd Sept. 18, 1944, Winifred Edna, elder daughter of Walter Varley, of Bessacarr, Yorks; d. 25 Oct. 1976.

Wells, William Thomas, son of William Thomas Wells, professional boxer known as "Bombar­dier" Billy Wells and Ellen Kilroy; b. 9 Feb. 1915; adm. Jan. 1929 (R); left Oct. 1930.

DRYDEN, CHARLES, eldest son of John Dryden (elected to Trin. Coll. Camb. 1650, qv); b. 6 Sep 1666; adm.; KS (Capt. ) 1680; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1683, adm. pens. 26 Jun 1683, aged 17, scholar 10 Apr 1684, matr. 1683; became a Roman Catholic; resident in Italy 1692-8; Chamberlain to Pope Innocent XII; translated the seventh satire of Juvenal for his father’s English version, and author of at least two published poems; drowned in the Thames, near Datchet, Bucks., 20 Aug 1704. DNB.

DRYDEN, JOHN, second son of John Dryden (elected to Trin. Coll. Camb. 1650, qv); b. 1667; adm.; KS 1682; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1685, but did not take up his election and was placed by his father under the care of Rev. Obadiah Walker, Master of Univ. Coll. Oxford and a Roman Catholic; as a Roman Catholic convert nominated Fellow of Magdalen Coll. Oxford by James II 31 Dec 1687, admitted 11 Jan 1687/8, but removed by the Visitor 25 Oct 1688; went to Rome with his brother Charles Dryden (qv), and officiated as his brother’s deputy and perhaps replacement in the Papal household; accompanied Hon. William Cecil to Naples, Sicily and Malta Oct 1700- Jan 1701, his account of their tour being published posthumously in 1776; translated the 14th satire of Juvenal for his father’s English version; author, The Husband, his own Cuckold, a play performed at the theatre in Lincoln’s Inn Fields in 1696; d. unm. at Rome 16 Apr 1703. DNB.