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COURTENAY, THOMAS PEREGRINE, eldest son of Hon. Thomas Peregrine Courtenay (qv); b. 21 Feb 1810; adm. 7 May 1821; Junior Clerk, Treasury, 24 Feb 1826-34, Assistant Clerk, 17 Oct 1834-52, Senior Clerk 20 Feb 1852 - res 4 Dec 1855; Private Secretary to Financial Secretary to Treasury Jan – Apr 1835, Sep 1841 – Feb 1845; Private Secretary to Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli MP, Chancellor of Exchequer Mar – Dec 1852; Secretary, Commission of Inquiry into the Customs; d. unm. 7 Jun 1861.

COURTENAY, WILLIAM REGINALD, 11TH EARL OF DEVON, elder son of William Courtenay, 10th Earl of Devon (qv); b. 14 Apr 1807; adm. (G) 16 Sep 1818; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 30 Mar 1824; President, Oxford Union 1827; 1st cl. Classics 1827; BA 1828; BCL 1831; DCL 1838; Fellow, All Souls Coll., 1828-30; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 22 Mar 1828, called to bar 27 Jan 1832; MP (Cons) South Devon 1841 - Feb 1849; a Poor Law Inspector 1849-50; Secretary, Poor Law Board 1850-9; succ. father as 11th Earl of Devon 19 Mar 1859; took Conservative whip in House of Lords; member, Public Schools Commission, 1862; Chancellor, Duchy of Lancaster, Jul 1866 - May 1867; Privy Councillor 10 Jul 1866; President, Poor Law Board, May 1867 - Dec 1868; known in Devon as “the good earl”; Chairman, Devon QS, for fifty-two years; DL JP Devon, JP co. Limerick; Busby Trustee 11 May 1861; member governing body, Westminster School, from 1869; edited with others vol. 6 of Cases decided in the House of Lords on appeal from the Courts of Scotland, 1832-3; m. 27 Dec 1830 Lady Elizabeth Fortescue, seventh dau. of Hugh Fortescue, 1st Earl Fortescue; d. 18 Nov 1888. DNB.

COURTENAY, WILLIAM, 1ST VISCOUNT COURTENAY, third son of Sir William Courtenay, Bart., MP, and Lady Anne Bertie, second dau. of James Bertie, 1st Earl of Abingdon; b. 11 Feb 1709/10; adm. Oct 1722; in under school list 1725; Magdalen Coll. Oxford, matr. 4 Jun 1729; MA 28 Jan 1730/1; DCL 16 May 1739; MP Honiton 1734-41, Devonshire 1741 - 6 May 1762; succ. father as 7th baronet 10 Oct 1735; cr. Viscount Courtenay 6 May 1762; a print after a drawing by him of School and College from Little Dean’s Yard is in the Department of Prints and Drawings, British Museum; m. 2 Apr 1741 Lady Frances Finch, youngest dau. of Heneage Finch, 2nd Earl of Aylesford (qv); d. 16 May 1762.

COURTENAY, WILLIAM, eldest son of Henry Reginald Courtenay (adm. 1724/5, qv); b. 9 Sep 1738; adm. Jun 1748 (Porten's); KS 1752; Capt. of the School 1756; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1757, matr. 8 Jun 1757, Westminster Student 5 Jan 1758 - 8 Nov 1760, void on election to Fellowship All Souls; BA 1761; MA 1774; Fellow, All Souls Coll., 1760; adm. Middle Temple 30 Dec 1761; ordained deacon 29 May 1774, priest 24 Jun 1774 (both Winchester); Rector of Kenn, Devon, 29 Jun 1774; Rector of Little Hempston, Devon, 1777; patentee of the Subpoena Office in Court of Chancery from 26 May 1778; m. 31 Dec 1764 Anne, dau. of John Downes, Otterbury, Hampshire; d. 27 Nov 1783.

COURTENAY, WILLIAM, 2ND VISCOUNT COURTENAY, only son of William Courtenay, 1st Viscount Courtenay (qv); b. 30 Aug 1742; at school under Markham (Steward, Anniversary Dinner, 1769); Magdalen Coll. Oxford, matr. 21 Mar 1761; succ. father as 2nd Viscount Courtenay 16 May 1762; m. at Edinburgh 7 May 1762 and at Powderham, Devon, 19 Dec 1763 Frances, dau. of Thomas Clack, Wallingford, Berks.; d. 14 Dec 1788.

COURTENAY, WILLIAM, 9TH EARL OF DEVON, only son of William Courtenay, 2nd Viscount Courtenay (qv); b. 30 Jul 1768; adm. 12 Apr 1779; left 1784; succ. father as 3rd Viscount Courtenay 14 Dec 1788; his claim to the Earldom of Devon was established in the House of Lords 15 Mar 1831; did not take seat in House of Lords either as Viscount or Earl; d. unm. at Paris 26 May 1835.

COURTENAY, WILLIAM, 10TH EARL OF DEVON, elder son of Henry Reginald Courtenay (adm. 1751, qv); b. 19 Jun 1777; adm. ; in school list Dec 1788; KS 1790; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1794, matr. 18 Jun 1794, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1794 - 15 Dec 1804, void by marriage; BA 1798; MA 1801; DCL 1837; patentee of the Subpoena Office in Court of Chancery 1784-1852, when office abolished; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 3 Dec 1793, Tancred Law Scholar, called to bar 11 Jun 1799; a Commissioner of Bankrupts (appears in annual lists 1801-17); Recorder of Exeter 1814; a Master in Chancery 30 Jul 1817 - 23 Mar 1826; MP Exeter 1812 - Jan 1826; Clerk Assistant, House of Lords 8 Feb 1826 - 26 May 1835; succ. cousin as 10th Earl of Devon 26 May 1835; High Steward, University of Oxford, from 1838; an Ecclesiastical Commissioner 21 Jan 1842 - Aug 1850; Busby Trustee 26 May 1826; m. 1st, 29 Nov 1804 Lady Harriet Leslie, dau. of Sir Lucas Pepys, Bart. , MD FRS FRCP, by the Countess of Rothes; m. 2nd, 30 Jan 1849 Elizabeth Ruth, dau. of Rev. John Middleton Scott, Ballygrannon, co. Wicklow; d. 19 Mar 1859.

COURTHOP, SIR GEORGE, eldest son of Sir George Courthop, Kt., Whiligh, Toicehurst, Kent, and his first wife Alice, dau. of Sir George Rivers, Kt., Chafford House, Kent; bapt. 3 Jun 1616; at Merchant Taylors’ Sch. in 1630, subsequently at Westminster under Osbaldeston (The Memoirs of Sir George Courthop, Camden Miscellany xi, 103, Camden Society Publications, 3rd Series, vol. xiii); University Coll. Oxford, matr. 22 Jun 1632, aged 16; BA 1635; travelled abroad 1636-9; a Commissioner of the Alienation Office; MP Sussex Sep 1656 - Feb 1657/8, East Grinstead Apr 1660 - Jan 1678/9; knighted 24 Apr 1661; a Gentleman Pensioner; m. 12 Jul 1643 Elizabeth, only dau. of Edward Hawes, a London merchant; d. 18 Nov 1685.

Court-Treatt, Chaplin, son of Richard Court Treatt, of Kensington, by Florence Blanche, daughter of William Edward Bartlett, of Kensington; b. Sept. 1888; adm. Jan. 14, 1904 (A); left July 1908; studied art; enlisted in the Artists' Rifles 1914; joined the R. F. C. in 1915 and, served in France; severely injured in 1916; Flight-Lieut. R.A.F. April 1, 1918; afterwards on the staff in Egypt until the Armistice; acting Major May 1, 1919; African survey party; with his wife and four companions crossed Africa in motor cars, left Cape Town Sept. 23, 1924, and after surmounting innumerable obstacles reached Cairo Jan. 24, 1926 (see Cape to Cairo [1926], by Stella Court Treatt, and Elizabethan, vol. xviii, pp. 92-4); assumed the name of Court as an additional surname in lieu of a Christian name; technical director of a cinematograph studio in America 1931-41; served in Great War II as a Technical Officer, R.A.F. Photographic Dept. 1942-6; returned to America on demobilisation and operated his own studio in California; m. Dec. 9, 1913, Cecile Joyce, younger daughter of the Rev. Henry Trevor Williamson, Vicar of Bullinghope, co. Hereford; d. July 11, 1952.

Cousins, Edmund Richard John Ratcliffe, son of John Ratcliffe Cousins, of Dulwich, Metropolitan Police Magistrate at Marylebone, by Eleanor Fanny, daughter of the Rev. James Edmund Law, Rector of Little Shelford, Cambs; b. April 22, 1888; adm. as exhibitioner Sept. 26, 1901 (G); K.S. (non-resident) Sept. 24, 1903; elected to an exhibition at Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1906, matric. Michaelmas 1906; B.A. 1910; appointed to the Indian Civil Service after the exam. of 1910; arrived in India Nov. 25, 1911, and served in Bengal as Assist. Magistrate and Collector; transferred to Bihar and Orissa April 1912; Joint Magistrate and Deputy Collector Dec. 1918; Secretary, Board of Revenue 1920-2; District Magistrate and Collector 1925-7; Commissioner, Chota Nagpur, Bihar, 1937-9; Adviser to Governor of Bihar 1939; Asst. Secretary, Ministry of Aviation 1947; Special Commissioner of Lands, Kenya, 1949; C. I. E. 1938; C. S. I. 1942; m. July 22, 1912, Henrietta Mary Colebrooke, widow of Frank Yewdall, I. C. S., and second daughter of Alexander Chalmers Marshall; d. July 16, 1955.