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.
ESTE, CHARLES, son of Michael Este, St. Martin in the Fields, Westminster, apothecary, and Margaret, dau. of Charles Fabre, St. Paul’s, Covent Garden; nephew of Charles Este (QS 1711, qv); b. 18 May 1752; in school lists 1764-7, having been adm. at age 7, i. e. c. 1759; successively attracted by a career as an actor and a medical practitioner, but ultimately decided to become a clergyman; ordained deacon 27 Oct 1776, priest 21 Dec 1776 (both London); St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. sizar 12 Dec 1776, but took his name off the books 12 Mar 1782; one of the King’s Reading Chaplains at Whitehall (occurs 1780-3); afternoon preacher at Percy Chapel; took to newspaper journalism, and for some time connected with the Morning Post; obtained a share in The World newspaper, but fell out with its proprietor Edward Topham, whom he violently attacked in The Oracle; author, My Own Life, 1787, in which he refers to his “standing for College” without a “tutor”, and also A Journey in 1793 through Flanders, Brabant, and Germany to Switzerland, 1795; m.; d. 1829 (but will proved PCC 11 Nov 1828 (sic)). [perhaps m. 4 Jul 1775 Cordelia, dau. of William Croft (IGI)]
ESTE, CHARLES, son of Michael Este, St. Margaret’s, Westminster, and Frances, dau. of Richard Tighe, Alderman of Dublin; b.; adm.; QS (aged 15) 1711; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1715, matr. 23 Jun 1715, Westminster Student 12 Dec 1715 - void 1728, Tutor 1722-4; BA 1719; MA 9 Mar 1721/2; DD Trinity Coll. Dublin 9 May 1736; ordained; Chaplain to Most Rev. Hugh Boulter DD, Archbishop of Armagh 1724; Rector of Derrynoose, co. Armagh 9 Jan 1726/7 [check]; held other livings in diocese of Armagh to 1736; Archdeacon of Armagh 5 Apr 1730 - Feb 1732/3, Chancellor 13 Feb 1732/3 - Feb 1735/6; consecrated Bishop of Ossory 1 Feb 1735/6; translated to Waterford 4 Oct 1740; edited the first volume of Carmina Quadragesimalia, 1723; m. ---, widow of Francis Clements, and dau. of Francis Dobbs, Carrickmacross, co. Monaghan; d. 29 Nov 1745. DNB.