Service, Alastair Stanley Douglas, son of Douglas William Service (qv); b. 8 May 1933; adm. Sept. 1947 (W); left July 1951; The Queen’s Coll. Oxf., matric. 1953 but did not graduate; trainee Lazard Bros 1956-8; import and export trader McKinlay Watson & Co., 1958-64; publisher Seeley Service & Co., 1965-79; national committee member Birth Control Campaign, Population Concern 1973-2004, chmn. 1971-7; and campaigner various causes, incl. Abortion Law Reform 1963-7, Divorce Law Reform Union 1967-9, The Children’s Act 1975, and Public Lending Rights for Authors Act 1979; national committee member Victorian Soc. 1975-95; vice-chmn. Health Education Council 1976-87, Health Education Authority 1987-9; gen. sec. Family Planning Assn. 1980-9; chmn. Wessex Regional Health Authority 1993-4, Wiltshire Health Authority 1992-2000; co-founder Action for the River Kennet, 1991-2007, Hon. Sec. 1991-2; CBE 1995; MVO 2007; author various publications on birth control and architecture; librettist Sky Speaker 1999, The Angel Cantata 2003, Brunel’s Kingdom 2005; m. 1st, 28 Feb 1959 Louisa Ann Hemming OBE, publisher and magistrate, d. of Col. Henry Harold Hemming OBE MC; m. 2nd, 21 Feb 1992 Zandria Madeleine, d. of John Ernest Pauncefort, of Kent; d. 20 Mar. 2013.
SERS, PETER, son of John Sers, St. Martin’s, London; b.; adm. (aged 15) May 1719; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 20 Feb 1720/1; BA 22 Jan 1724/5.
SERRIER, CHARLES, son of Charles Serrier; b. ; at school under Knipe (Admissions to Trin. Coll. Camb. , ii, 604); Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 22 Nov 1698, aged 18, scholar 1702, matr. 1698; BA 1702/3; ordained deacon (London) 4 Jun 1721.
SERJEANTSON, WILLIAM, only son of Robert Serjeantson, Hanlith, Yorks., and his first wife Mary, dau. of John Smith, Eccleshall, Yorks.; bapt. Kirkby Malham, Yorks. 26 Apr 1716 (IGI) [or 5 Apr ?]; adm. (aged 12) Jul 1728; left 1733; of Hanlith, Yorks.; m. 29 Apr 1736 Susanna, widow of John Walker, Hungerhill [check county], and dau. of Thomas Moore MD, Wakefield, Yorks.; d. Sep 1759.
SERCOMBE, RUPERT THEODORE WALTON, only son of Rupert Clampit Sercombe, Fairpark, near Exeter, Devon, merchant, and Louisa, third dau. of William Henry Smith, London, and Walton House, Bournemouth, Hampshire, founder of W. H. Smith & Son, newsagents; b. 3 Jan 1861; adm. 4 Jun 1874 (James'); QS Dec 1875; left Feb 1879; Exeter Coll. Oxford, matr. 22 Jan 1880; BA 1883; adm. Middle Temple 28 Oct 1881, called to bar 17 Nov 1885; emigrated to New Zealand by 1901; m. 8 Aug 1893 Sophia Maria Eleanor, widow of Charles Ernest Lavie, Ceylon, and dau. of Rev. Walter Maude Cosser, Vicar of Titchfield, Hampshire; d. Mar 1944.
SENTRICK, ---; b.; in school list Aug 1733.
SENIOR, THOMAS, of London; b.; adm.; KS 1641; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1646, adm. pens. 19 Jun 1646, scholar 1647, matr. Mich. 1646; BA 1649/50; MA 1653 (incorp. Oxford 10 Jul 1655); BD 1660; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1650 –1662, Tutor 1653-8; Lecturer, Trinity Church, Cambridge; removed from Fellowship and Lecturership on refusing to conform; became a dissenting lecturer at Hackney, Middlesex; licensed as Presbyterian preacher, Clapton, Middlesex 12 Apr 1672; lic. to m. 31 May 1671 Anne Johnstone, Hackney, widow; will dated 18 Dec 1680, proved PCC 17 Feb 1680/1.
SENHOUSE, JAMES LOWTHER, ninth son of William Senhouse, Surveyor-Gen. of Barbados, and Elizabeth, dau. of Samson Wood, Speaker, House of Assembly, Barbados; b.; adm. Midsummer 1808; left 1811; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 8 Jun 1811, aged 17; BA 1815; MA 1818; ordained; Vicar of Sawley, Derbs., from 1823; Rector of Gosforth, Cumberland 9 Aug 1827-35; m. 1824 Elizabeth Brooks; d. 5 Sep 1844.