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AYLOFFE, WILLIAM, son of Thomas Ayloffe, Bassingbourn, Cambs.; b.; adm.; KS 1674; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1680, adm. pens. 19 Jun 1680, aged 18, scholar 22 Apr 1681, matr. [check]; 3rd in ordo 1683/4; MA 1687; LLD 1705; Minor Fellow, Trinity 19 Apr 1687, Major Fellow from 22 Jul 1687, Tutor 1693-8, Senior Fellow 1714, Senior Bursar 1716-9, 1722-6; supported John Colbatch (qv) in his prolonged struggle against Bentley; Public Orator, Univ. Cambridge, 1696-1727; d. 1728.

AYLOFFE, JOSEPH, son of Sir William Ayloffe, Bart., MP, and his third wife Alice, dau. of James Stokes, Stoke, near Coventry, Warwicks.; b.; adm.; KS 1636; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1640, adm. pens. 18 May 1640, scholar 1641, matr. 1640; BA 1643/4; MA 1647; adm. Gray’s Inn 31 Oct 1646, called to bar 1653, ancient 18 May 1667; Savoy Manor Steward, Duchy of Lancaster 8 Aug 1660 - successor appointed Apr 1673; of Brittayns, Hornchurch, Essex; m. Frances, dau. of Henry Ayscough, Yorkshire; d. at Montpellier, France. (will proved PCC 29 Jul 1674, as of Gray’s Inn).

AYLESBURY, SIR THOMAS, BART., second son of William Aylesbury, St. Andrew’s, Holborn, London, and his first wife Anne, dau. of John Poole, Sapperton, Gloucs.; b.; adm.; QS in 1596; elected head to Ch. Ch. Oxford 1598, matr. 24 Nov 1598, aged 18, Westminster Student to 1612; BA 1602; MA 1605; MA Camb. (lit. reg. ) 1635/6; Secretary to Earl of Nottingham and Duke of Buckingham as successive Lord High Admirals; created baronet 19 Apr 1627; one of the Masters of Requests 1625 – c. 1641 (paid to 25 Mar 1641); Master of the Mint Aug 1635-42, holding post jointly with Sir Ralph Freeman until their suspension by Parliament as Royalist supporters; retired to the Low Countries after the death of Charles I; a learned mathematician, and a great “encourager of learning and learned men”; lic. to m. 3 Oct 1611 Anne, widow of William Darell, and eldest dau. of Rev. Francis Denman, Rector of West Retford, Notts.; d. at Breda, Netherlands 1657. DNB.

AUSTEN, GREAVES; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1657, subscribed 23 Oct 1657, Westminster Student; BA 16 Jan 1660/1; Master of Ottery St. Mary GS from 1662; under his mastership the school seems to have reached the height of its prosperity, “he having for many years together near 200 scholars under his care”; buried Ottery St. Mary, Devon 22 Jun 1699.

AUNGIER, JOHN, brother of Francis Aungier, 1st Baron Aungier of Longford (qv); b.; adm.; Min. Can. 1580 (aged 15); QS ; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1583, adm. scholar 1584; BA 1587/8; MA 1591; LLD 1616; Fellow Trinity Coll. 1589-1614, Junior Bursar 1603-5, Senior Fellow 1611-4; Taxor 1607; Proctor 1610; ordained; Prebendary of Peterborough from 8 Jun 1615; m. Anne, dau. of Giles Cotton, Trumpington and Harston, Cambs.; buried Peterborough Cathedral 17 Aug 1630.

AUNGIER, FRANCIS, 1ST BARON AUNGIER OF LONGFORD (I), son of Richard Aungier, Cambridge, and Anne, dau. of William Stewart, Cambridge; bapt. 14 May 1558; adm.; QS in 1570; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1573, adm. scholar 1574, matr. Easter 1574; adm. Gray’s Inn 25 Nov 1577, called to bar 17 Jun 1583; QC; Bencher, Gray’s Inn 1602; MP Newcastle-under-Lyme 1588-9, Haslemere Sep 1597 - Feb 1597/8; knighted 28 May 1609; Master of the Rolls (I) from 5 Oct 1609; Privy Councillor (I) by 1611; Joint Lord Keeper (I) Apr - May 1619; created Baron Aungier of Longford (I) 29 Jun 1621; m. 1st, by 1589, Douglas, youngest dau. of Hon. Edward Fitzgerald, and sister of Gerald Fitzgerald, 16th Earl of Kildare (I); m. 2nd, Anne, dau. of Sir George Barne, Kt; m. 3rd, Margaret, widow of Sir John Wynn, Bart., Gwydir, Caernarvonshire, and dau. of Sir Thomas Cave, Kt, Stanford, Northants.; d. 8 Oct 1632.

AUNGIER, EDWARD, son of Edward Aungier, Cambridge, and his first wife Mary Holland, Ely; nephew of Francis Aungier, 1st Baron Aungier of Longford (qv); b.; adm.; KS in 1619; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1621, adm. scholar 1622, matr. 1622; BA 1625/6; MA 1629; ordained deacon 9 Mar 1627/8, priest 10 Mar 1627/8 (both Peterborough); Rector of Dry Drayton, Cambs., from 1633; m. Margaret, dau. of John Partenson, Ashbourne, Derbs.; buried Dry Drayton, Cambs. 3 Sep 1665.

AUNGIER, HON. AMBROSE, son of Francis Aungier, 1st Baron Aungier of Longford (qv), and his first wife; b.; adm.; KS 1609; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1613, adm. scholar 1614; BA 1617/8; MA 1621; Fellow of Clare Coll. 8 Jun 1620; ordained deacon 15 Aug 1624, priest 16 Aug 1624 (both Peterborough); Prebendary of St. Patrick’s, Dublin, 1629, Treasurer 1628-32, Chancellor from 1636; m. Griselda, dau. of Most Rev. Lancelot Bulkeley DD, Archbishop of Dublin; d. 1654.

AUDELEY (alias SAMPSON), JOHN, son of Sampson Audeley, Verger of the Abbey, and his first wife; b. ; adm. ; KS 1542-4; appears in the accounts as John Sampson and once, at Mich. 1543, as John Audeley; printer and miscellaneous writer; produced ballads, news sheets and religious tracts at his printing house in Little Britain, Aldersgate, London; fined several times for printing “other men’s copy”; author and printer, The Fraternitye of Vagabondes, 1565; m. ; d. Aug (?) 1575. DNB s. v. Awdelay (and TLS 5 May 1932).

AUDELEY (alias SAMPSON), HUMPHREY, brother of John Audeley (alias Sampson) (qv); b. ; adm. ; KS 1542-4; appears in the accounts as Humphrey Sampson and once, at Mich. 1543, as Humphrey Audeley (Chapter Muniments); buried St. Margaret’s, Westminster 16 May 1550.