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COMYN, EDWARD, son of Stephen Comyn, barrister, Bencher Inner Temple, Clerk to Dean and Chapter of St. Paul’s, and Elizabeth, only child of Edward Tay, All Hallows, Honey Lane, London, and Frierning, Essex, citizen and draper; b.; adm. (aged 10) Jun 1748 (Watts'); in school list 1754; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 6 Nov 1755. scholar 14 May 1756, matr. 1756; adm. Inner Temple 1 Dec 1752, called to bar 25 Nov 1757; d. 3 Jan 1760.

COMYN, FREDERICK FITZWILLIAM, brother of Edward Comyn (adm. 1854 (qv) ); b. 18 Jan 1839; adm. (G) Jun 1854; Cadet, EICS Bombay 1859; Ensign, 30th Bombay Native Infantry, 27 Feb 1859; Lieut., 26 Sep 1860; Quartermaster and Wing Officer, 4th Native Infantry, 3 Oct 1864; Capt., 14 Nov 1868; Maj., 27 Feb 1879; Wing Commander, 8 Apr 1881; Lieut. -Col., 27 Feb 1885; retd. 23 Nov 1888; served in Afghan War 1879; m. 1869 Henrietta Frances Barrow (IGI); d. 15 Jul 1915.

COMYN, HENRY, brother of Stephen George Comyn (IGI); bapt. 5 Jun 1775 (IGI); adm.; KS (aged 15) 1792; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 11 Dec 1795; BA 1799; MA 1806; ordained; Vicar of Manaccan, Cornwall, 14 Nov 1821; Vicar of Sancreed, Cornwall, 13 Oct 1837; m. Jun 1814 Philadelphia, dau. of John Heylyn (IGI); d. 30 Jul 1851.

COMYN, ROBERT VALENS, brother of Edward Comyn (adm. 1748 (qv)); b. 9 Aug 1741 (IGI); adm.; Min. Can. (aged 15) 1756; Balliol Coll. Oxford, matr. 4 Apr 1759; adm. Inner Temple 22 Jan 1760, called to bar 25 Jun 1762, Bencher 1797; a Commissioner of Bankrupts (occurs in annual lists 1772 to death); succeeded his father as Clerk to Dean and Chapter of St. Paul’s, to resignation 1798; m. 28 Oct 1779 Elizabeth Metcalfe, Tottenham, Middlesex (IGI); d. 25 Oct 1799.

COMYN, STEPHEN GEORGE, son of Stephen Comyn [? Cornhill, London, merchant], and Mary Wilsonn (IGI); b. 29 Dec 1763; adm. 11 Oct 1775; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 2 Nov 1782, aged 18; BA 1788; ordained deacon 20 Dec 1795, priest 21 Dec 1795 (both Winchester) to curacy of Brading, Isle of Wight; Chaplain, Royal Navy 1798, still 1801; on Lord Nelson’s ship at battles of The Nile and Copenhagen; Rector of Bridgham, Norfolk, from 8 Jul 1802; Vicar of Roudham, Norfolk 28 Apr 1826-35; m. (by c. 1795) Charlotte ---; d. 3 Mar 1839.

COMYN, VALENS RICHARD, son of James Comyn, and Alice Ottley (IGI); b. 21 May 1763 (IGI); adm. 15 Jun 1773; left 1779; Lieut., Royal Navy, 6 Dec 1793; d. 28 Jun 1810, aged 45.

CONAN, AMBROSIUS, son of Cornelius Conan, London; b.; adm. 15 Jun 1767; KS (aged 15) 1769; left 1769.

CONANT, WILLIAM, second son of Sir Nathaniel Conant, Kt, Chief Magistrate, Bow Street, London, and Sarah, dau. of John Whiston, London; b. 13 Sep 1783; in school lists 1795,1797; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 15 Dec 1800, scholar 1802, matr. 1801; BA 1806; MA 1809; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 26 Apr 1806, called to bar 1811; a Commissioner of Bankrupts (occurs in annual lists 1814-31, when post abolished); d. 16 Jun 1835.

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CONDUITT, JOHN, son of Leonard Conduitt, St. Paul’s, Covent Garden, London, and Sarah ---; bapt. St. Paul’s, Covent Garden 8 Mar 1687/8; adm.; KS 1701; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1705, adm. pens. 7 Jun 1705, scholar 12 Apr 1706, matr. 1705/6; Judge Advocate with British Forces in Portugal, 1711; Capt., Brigadier Hunt Withers’ Regiment of Dragoons, 23 Mar 1712, half-pay 1713; Commissary of Stores and Provisions, Gibraltar, 6 Apr 1713, still Deputy Paymaster at Gibraltar in 1717-8; his marriage to Sir Isaac Newton’s stepniece in 1717 brought him into Newton’s circle of intimates; FRS 1 Dec 1718; purchased Cranbury Park estate, Hampshire, 1720; MP Whitchurch 26 Jun 1721- 3 Apr 1735, Southampton from 3 Apr 1735; assisting Sir Isaac Newton with his duties as Master of the Mint by Jun 1726; Master of the Mint from Apr 1727; author, Observations on the present state of our gold and silver coins, 1774 (compiled 1730); m. 26 Aug 1717 Catherine, second dau. of Robert Barton, Brigstock, Northants.; d. 23 May 1737. Buried in Nave, Westminster Abbey (monument at west end of nave). DNB.