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FRENCH, GEERING, son of William French, St. Margaret’s, Westminster; b.; adm. (aged 9) Feb 1715/6; Min. Can. 1720; KS 1721; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1725, matr. 2 Jun 1725, but never admitted as a Westminster Student.

FRENCH, JAMES MURPHY; son of Richard Murphy, merchant, co. Roscommon, Ireland and Jane French; b. St. George's Quay, Dublin, Sept. 1725; adm. (aged 10) Mar 1736/7; left 1740; Middle Temple; playwright The Brothers and The Conjuror, or, The Enchanted Garden; d. 1759.

FRENCH, JAMES; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Mar 1736/7; left 1740.

FRENCH, JOHN ISMAY, son of Joseph French, Stockwell Hall, Essex; b. 16 Feb 1825; adm. 22 Jan 1840; left Dec 1843; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 25 Apr 1844, matr. Mich. 1844; BA 1852; MA 1856; of New Lodge. Great Burstead, Essex; d. 12 Jan 1893.

FRENCH, JOHN; b.; adm. (aged 11) Oct 1729; left 1732. [Evidently brother or close kin to Arthur French, adm. same month, qv].

FRENCH, PINKSTAN ARUNDEL, only son of Hugh French, Rathbone Place, London, “doctor”, and [his first wife ?] Sarah Arundel (IGI); b.; adm. 26 Mar 1773; KS (aged 14) 1779; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1782, matr. 30 May 1782, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1782 - void 29 May 1804, expiry year of grace as V. Odcombe; BA 1786; MA 1789; adm. Inner Temple 19 May 1786, called to bar 26 Jun 1789; subsequently ordained; Perpetual Curate of Hawkhurst, Kent 1797- Mar 1803; Rector of Odcombe, Somerset, from 21 May 1803; Rector of Thorne Falcon, Somerset, from 27 Mar 1821; m. 12 Aug 1806 Susanna Smith (IGI), Sydenham, Kent; d. 12 Apr 1836.

FRENCH, SAMPSON TOWGOOD WYNNE, eldest son of Savage Towgood French (qv); b. 19 Jul 1807; adm. (G) 3 Jun 1822; left Bartholomewtide 1825; Trinity Coll. Dublin, adm. fellow commoner 10 Feb 1826; adm. King’s Inns 1830; JP co. Cork; m. 12 Sep 1827 Phoebe Maria, youngest dau. of Samuel Perry, Woodroff, co. Tipperary; d. 12 Nov 1878.

FRENCH, SAVAGE TOWGOOD, eldest son of Savage French, Cuskinny, Queenstown, co. Cork, and Mary, d. of Rev. Thomas Millard [or Millerd ? (check)]; b.; adm. (G) 22 Feb 1788; KS (aged 14) 1791; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 20 May 1795; BA 1799; MA 1802; adm. Middle Temple 16 Apr 1795, called to bar 11 May 1804; an interesting letter written by him to his sister about the tossing of the Minor Candidates at the election of 1795 is printed in The Elizabethan, xii, 8; m. 2 Sep 1806 Clotilda Elizabeth, dau. of Rev. Robert Dring, Rock Grove, co. Cork, Vicar of Carrigtohil, co. Cork; d. 28 Nov 1834.

FRENCH, SAVAGE, eldest son of Sampson Twogood Wynne French (qv); b. 25 Jun 1840; adm. (G) Jun 1854; left (with Triplett) Whitsun 1859; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 16 Jun 1859; BA 1863; of Cuskinny, Queenstown, co. Cork; DL co. Cork, JP co. Cork 1879; m. Apr 1869 Fanny, dau. of George Gough, Rathronan, co. Tipperary; d. 18 Sep 1922.