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ERSKINE, JOHN FRANCIS, 7TH EARL OF MAR (S), elder son of James Erskine, Knight Marischal, advocate, and Frances, only dau. of John Erskine, 6th Earl of Mar (S), by his second wife, and half-sister of Thomas Erskine, Lord Erskine (qv); b.; adm. (aged 9) Apr 1751 (Hawkins'); in school list 1754; Cornet, 9th Dragoons 27 May 1757; Lieut., 1st Horse 31 Dec 1759; Capt., 15 Jun 1764; 18th Dragoons 5 Jun 1771; retired 1776; inherited family estates at Alloa on death of his mother 20 Jun 1776; restored to “the dignity and title of Earl of Mar” by Act of Parliament 17 Jun 1824; m. 17 Mar 1770 Frances, dau. of Charles Floyer, EICS Madras, Governor of Madras; d. 20 Aug 1825.

ERSKINE, JOHN, second son of Lieut. -Gen. Sir Henry Erskine, Bart., MP, and Janet, dau. of Peter Wedderburn, Lord Chesterhall SCJ, of Chesterhall, Haddingtonshire, and sister of Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of Rosslyn PC, Lord Chancellor; b.; adm. 17 Sep 1773; Min. Can. 1776; KS (Capt., aged 13) 1777; Capt. of the School 1780; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1781, matr. 30 Jun 1781, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1781 - Jun 1792, Faculty Student 12 Jun 1792 - void by marriage 13 Nov 1802; BA 1785; MA 1788; BCL and DCL 1802; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 30 May 1780, called to bar 30 May 1788; Filazer in Court of Common Pleas for Middlesex 1794; Commissary-General at Toulon 1793, in Corsica 1794, and in Portugal 1797; Comptroller of Army Accounts from 9 Oct 1802; m. Nov 1802 Mary, dau. of Sir John Mordaunt, Bart., MP; d. at Malta 10 Feb 1817.

Erskine, Keith David, son of Sir James Malcolm Monteith Erskine MP and Cicely Grace, d. of Rev. Charles Penrose Quicke, Rector of Ashbrittle, Somerset; b. 11 June 1907; adm. Sept. 1920 (KS), (A) Jan. 1921; left July 1924; adm. a solicitor Oct. 1933; RA 1940-5, despatches (Italy) Aug. 1944 and Nov. 1945; sen. partner Hextall Erskine & Co., solicitors; chairman Metal Closures group 1959; man. dir. Kensington Palace Hotels Ltd; chairman Multiple Sclerosis Soc. National Appeal; m. 1st 21 Oct. 1936 Kathleen Diana, d. of Charles William Keyser of Eaton Hall, Retford; 2nd 23 Nov. 1944 Audrey Rosemary, d. of John Skinner; d. 23 Apr. 1974 after a road accident in Argyll.

ERSKINE, THOMAS, LORD ERSKINE, eldest son of John Erskine, 6th Earl of Mar (S) PC KT, Secretary of State, and his first wife Lady Margaret Hay, eldest dau. of Thomas Hay, 6th Earl of Kinnoull (S); bapt. Alloa, Clackmannanshire 3 Nov 1706 (IGI); adm. (aged 8) May 1715; acted Monimia in Otway’s The Orphan, performed by some Westminster boys in Jan 1719/20 (HMC Portland, v, 593; see also Stuart Papers, ii, 98-9 and iii, 143 for some account of him at the School); had company in an Irish Regiment in French Army 1724; a Captain of Foot in British Army 1729-34; Commissary of Stores, Gibraltar 1729; MP Stirling Burghs 16 Mar 1728-34, Stirlingshire 6 Feb - 18 Jun 1747, Clackmannanshire 1747-54; owing to his father’s attainder on 17 Feb 1715/6 for complicity in the rebellion of 1715, Erskine did not inherit the Earldom of Mar on his father’s death in May 1732, but the family estate at Alloa was repurchased from the Government by his friends and conveyed to him in 1739; m. 1 Oct 1741 Lady Charlotte Hope, eighth dau. of Charles Hope, 1st Earl of Hopetoun (S) KT; d. 16 Mar 1766.

ERVIN, ---; b.; adm. 12 Jan 1767 (“paid no entrance fee”). [Name also appears as Irwin or Erwin].

ERVIN, JOHN; b.; adm. 13 Jan 1766. [Name also appears as Irwin or Erwin].

ESCOMBE, WILLIAM, son of William Escombe, Little Abingdon Street, Westminster, coal merchant; b. 11 Dec 1808; adm. 13 Jan 1817; BB; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. sizar 16 May 1825, but did not matr.; obtained the Writership offered to the School for competition by Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn (adm. 1784, qv) in 1826, and entered EICS Bombay; Third Assistant to Collector and Magistrate, Northern Concan 1828; after holding a number of official posts he became Secretary to the General and Persian Departments, Government of Bombay 1843; Secretary, Judicial Department, and member Mint Committee, Bombay 1844; m.; d. at Marseilles on his way home from India 23 Oct 1847. [perhaps m. 26 Jul 1831 Jane Chapman (IGI)]

Essex, Barrington David, son of Lionel Essex of Ealing and Phyllis Sybil, d. of Edward Harrison of Ealing; b. 29 Apr. 1936; adm. Sept. 1949 (B); left July 1954; Peterhouse Camb., matric. 1954, but did not graduate; a chartered accountant, FCA 1962; m. 1st, Nov. 1960 June Conrad; 2nd, July 1976 Sandra Raeburn of Angmering, Sussex; d. 27 Feb. 2008.

Estall, Arthur Cecil, only son of Thomas Estall, of Kensington, by Emily, daughter of George Tilly, of Kingston-on-Thames, Surrey; b. Oct. 3, 1890; adm. April 26, 1901 (H); left July 1902; readm. Sept. 28, 1905; left July 1909; became a clerk in the Bank of England and subsequently went into the bill broking business; joined the H. A. C. in 1909, and was promoted Corporal 1914; went out to the western front in Sept. 1914 and was invalided home in Jan. 1915; 2nd Lieut. A. S. C. March 22, 1915; Lieut. Sept. 16, 1915; Capt. May 2, 1916; returned to the front Sept. 18, 1916; d. Aug. 8, 1917, at the 7th Stationary Hospital, Boulogne, of wounds received in action, north of Ypres, Aug. 6, 1917; in 1935 his mother gave £1000 to the War Memorial Fund, the interest to be used in assisting in the education of boys at the school; unm.