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STAFFORD, WILLIAM, son of William Stafford, and Anne, dau. of Thomas Gryme, Antingham, Norfolk; b. 1593; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1610, matr. 8 Nov 1611, Westminster Student to 1624; BA 1614; MA 5 Mar 1617/8; inherited Marlewood Park, Thornbury, Gloucs., on death of his uncle Sir John Stafford in 1624; author, The Reason of the War with the Progress and Accidents thereof, written by an English subject, 1646; m. 1st, Lucy, dau. of Sir William Eyre, Great Chalfield, Wilts.; m. 2nd, 10 Feb 1672/3 Ursula, widow of George Moore, and dau. of --- Hayward; buried Thornbury, Gloucs., 4 Jul 1684. DNB.

STAFFERTON, WILLIAM; b. ; adm. ; KS in 1542 (Chapter Muniments 6478).

Stack, George Hall, son of Richard Theodore Stack, M.D., of Dublin; b. Aug. 1, 1879; adm. as Q.S. Sept. 28, 1893; lift April 1894; R.M.A. Woolwich; 2nd Lieut. R.E. June 23, 1898; Lieut. April 1, 1901; Capt. June 23, 1907; Major Jan. 26, 1915; Brevet Lieut.-Col. June 3, 1917; served in South Africa 1901-2, and Great War I 1914-5; wounded; mentioned in despatches L.G. Jan. 1, 1916, and Aug. 15, 1917; D.S.O. Jan. 1, 1916; m.; d. Sept. 16, 1919.

STACEY, JOHN, son of Henry Stacey (qv); b.; adm.; KS ; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1647, adm. pens. 5 Jul 1647, scholar 1648, matr. Mich. 1647; BA 1650/1; MA 1654; ordained; Rector of Ridley, Kent (disp. to hold with Ifield 1666, Hartley 1667); Rector of Ifield, Kent 1666-7; Rector of Hartley, Kent 1667; buried Ridley, Kent 5 Dec 1680.

STACEY, HENRY; b.; adm.; KS ; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1610, adm. scholar 1611, matr. Easter 1611; BA 1614/5; MA 1618; ordained; Rector of Hartley, Kent 1617-42; Rector of Ridley, Kent; m.; buried Ridley, Kent 8 Aug 1648.

ST. LEGER, ARTHUR, son of Sir John St. Leger (qv), and his second wife; b. 11 Apr 1727; adm. Jun 1737; KS 1741; Trinity Coll. Dublin, adm. pens. 2 Feb 1743/4; Capt. in Ruth’s Regt.; served with French army in War of Austrian Succession; killed in action near Tournai, Flanders 11 May 1745.

ST. JOHN, WILLIAM; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1628, Westminster Student by 25 Mar 1629 – still 1636.

ST. JOHN, AMBROSE, second son of Henry St. John, and Catherine, dau. of Rev. Henry Wigley, Pensham House, Worcs.; nephew of St. Andrew St. John (qv); b. 29 Jun 1815; adm. 13 Jan 1829 (Scott's); KS 1830; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1834, matr. 15 May 1834, Westminster Student; BA 1838; MA 1840; ordained deacon (Oxford) 20 Dec 1840, priest (Canterbury) 22 May 1842; Curate, Walmer, Kent 1840-5; received into Roman Catholic Church Oct 1845; accompanied J. H. Newman to Rome 1846, where they joined the Oratorians and were ordained RC priests 1847; one of original Oratorian community which Newman established at Maryvale Jan 1848 and which moved to Hagley Road, Edgbaston 1852; volunteered with Newman to assist the Catholic priests at Bilston during cholera epidemic 1849; Head Master, Oratory School, Edgbaston, from 1862; went on mission to Rome 1867 about the Oratory School and the proposed Oratory at Oxford; broke down from overwork while translating Fessler’s book True and False Infallibility; called in Rome Newman’s “Angel Guardian”, and, “certainly”, Newman wrote, “he has been to me Azarias, the son of Ananias” (Ward, Life of J. H. Newman, 1912, ii, 410, 412); his name is singled out in the concluding paragraphs of the Apologia; d. 24 May 1875. Buried Rednal, Shropshire, where Newman was later buried in the same grave.

SQUIBB, ARTHUR, son of John Squibb, Winterborne Whitchurch, Dorset, and Lucy, dau. of Henry Harbin, Duntish, Buckland Norton, Dorset [thus Whitmore]; b.; adm.; KS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1656, matr. 18 Mar 1656/7, Westminster Student (to c. 1674); BA 17 Jan 1659/60; MA 1662; ordained; Vicar of Netherbury, Dorset, from 1673; d. 1697. [Alternatively, Arthur Squib, son of Richard Squib, and Ann ---, bapt. St. Botolph Bishopsgate 9 Oct 1641 (IGI)].

SQUIB, ---; b. ; adm. ; KS 1640 (Bodleian Library, Tanner MSS lxix, f. 140).