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FOX-STRANGWAYS, STEPHEN, brother of Edward Fox-Strangways (qv); b. 10 Aug. 1811; adm. 30 Sep 1823 (Stelfox's); KS 1825; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1829, matr. 2 Jun 1829, Westminster Student; BA 1833; MA 1835; d. at Malta 4 Mar 1839

FOX-STRANGWAYS, WILLIAM THOMAS HORNER, 4TH EARL OF ILCHESTER, eldest son of Henry Fox-Strangwways, 2nd Earl of Ilchester, and his second wife Juliana, dau. of Hon. William Digby (qv); b. 7 May 1795; adm. Lady Day 1807; KS (Capt. ) 1809; his “Diary of the Challenge of 1809” is printed in F. H. Forshall, Westminster School Past and Present, 1884, pp 575-84; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1813, matr. 1 Jun 1813, Westminster Student; BA 1816; MA 1820; attaché, British Embassies at St. Petersburg 1816-20, Constantinople 1820-2, Naples 1822-4, and The Hague 1824; Secretary of Legation, Florence 1825-8, Naples 1828-32; Secretary to Embassy, Vienna 1832; Under Secretary, Foreign Office Aug 1835- Mar 1840; Envoy Extraordinasry at Frankfurt Mar 1840- Jan 1849; succ. half-brother as 4th Earl of Ilchester 3 Jan 1858; m. 21 Jul 1857 Sophia Penelope, second dau. of Sir Robert Sheffield, Bart. (qv); d. 10 Jan 1865.

FOXTON, GEORGE LARDNER, son of Rev. George Foxton, Vicar of Coxwell Magna, Berks., and of Newtown, Montgomeryshire, and Sarah Lardner (IGI); bapt. Great Coxwell, Berks. 24 Dec 1794 (IGI); adm. Lady Day 1807; KS (aged 14) 1809; left 1811; Worcester Coll. Oxford, matr. 11 Dec 1812; migrated to Christ’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 5 Jun 1816, matr. Mich. 1816; BA 1823; MA 1826; ordained deacon and priest 1818; Perpetual Curate of St. Peter’s Chapel, Blackburn, Lancs., 18 Mar 1829; Vicar of St. Peter, Worcester 20 Sep 1839-52; Vicar of Kempsey, Worcs., from 1852; m. 22 Aug 1822 Anne, dau. of William Hardman, Chaucher Hall, Lancs.; d. 12 Apr 1879.

FOXWELL, PHILIP; b.; adm.; KS (Capt. ) 1670; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1673, adm. pens. 29 May 1673, scholar 1674, matr. 1676; BA 1676/7; ordained priest (Norwich) Nov 1679; Rector of Tostock, Suffolk, from 1679; also Rector of Norton, Suffolk 1708-10; m. 17 Apr 1682 Catherine Brydon, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk; buried Tostock, Suffolk 28 May 1736.

FOYLE, EDWARD, brother of Gorges Foyle (qv); bapt. St. Mary the Virgin, Oxford 10 Jul 1726; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1736/7; left 1743; Merton Coll. Oxford, matr. 5 May 1743; BA 20 Jan 1746/7; MA 1749; ordained priest (Winchester) 17 Jul 1750; Rector of Kimpton, Hants., from 27 Jul 1750; Prebendary of Salisbury from 1 Sep 1779; m. 1st, 12 Jan 1755 Anne, dau. of Thomas Hayter, The Close, Salisbury, Wilts.; m. 2nd, 24 Aug 1773 Elizabeth Thomas, Southampton; d. 7 May 1784.

FOYLE, GEORGE SOLEY, son of Gorges Foyle (qv); b.; adm. 23 Feb 1785; Queen’s Coll. Oxford, matr. 14 Oct 1785, aged 16; BA 1789; m. 4 Sep 1802 Ann Webb, Hursley, Hampshire; d. 14 Oct 1839.

FOYLE, GORGES, son of Edward Foyle, Westminster and Somerford Keynes, Wilts., and Constance Lloyd (IGI); b.; adm. (aged 11) Jan 1736/7; left 1743; Queen’s Coll. Oxford, matr. 5 May 1743; migr. to Merton Coll. Oxford; MA 1749; of Somerford Keynes, Wilts.; m. 25 Jun 1767 Mary Soley, St. Lawrence, Winchester. [presumably George or Gorges Foyle, Southampton, Hampshire, will proved PCC 14 Jun 1802]

FRAIGNEAU, WILLIAM, son of John Fraigneau, First Yeoman of Confectionery, Royal Household, and Madeleine Liege; b.; adm. (aged 10) Jul 1727; KS 1731; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1736, adm. pens. 24 Jun 1736, scholar 6 May 1737; 1st in “ordo” 1739/40; BA 1739/40; MA 1743; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll., 2 Oct 1742, Major Fellow 8 Jul 1743, Tutor 1743-8; Regius Professor of Greek, Camb. Univ., 1744-50; ordained deacon Mar 1739, priest 23 Oct 1748 (both Winchester); Curate, Wotton, Surrey 1739; tutor to Frederick St. John, 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke, with whom he travelled in Italy 1753-4; Vicar of Battersea, Surrey, from 18 Mar 1758; Rector of Beckenham, Kent, from 1765; m. 31 Mar 1758 Kitty Smith, Mortlake, Surrey; d. 12 Sep 1778. DNB.