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CHOLMONDELEY, HON. ROBERT, brother of George Cholmondeley, 2nd Earl of Cholmondeley (qv); b.; adm.; KS (Capt) 1678; d. 2 Feb 1678/9, aged 13. Buried Westminster Abbey, monument in north aisle of nave.

CHRISTIAN, ROBERT, of Hertfordshire; b.; adm.; QS ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1587, matr. 29 Nov 1588, aged 19, Westminster Student [check]; BA 1591; MA 1594; Canon commoner [sic : check], Christ Church, occurs 1597-1600.

Christie, Charles Henry, son of Lieut. -Cdr Charles Perowne Christie RN, of Chipping Ongar, Essex, and Caroline Stella, sister of Frank Palemon Dyson (qv); b. 1 Sept. 1924; adm. Sept. 1937 (KS); left Dec. 1942; elected to Trin. Coll. Camb. 1943, matric. 1946, BA 1949, MA 1954; RNVR 1943-6 (Lieut. ), despatches (Far East) June 1946; asst. master, Eton Coll. 1949-57; Under Master and Master of the Queen’s Scholars at the Sch. 1957-63; Headmaster Brighton Coll. 1963-71; Warden, St Edward’s Sch., Oxf. 1971-8; MA (Oxon. ) 1972; dir. of Studies, Roy. Naval Coll., Dartmouth 1978-86; visiting Prof. of Mathematics, US Naval Acad., Annapolis 1986-8; Prime Warden, Dyers’ Company 1983-4; m. 9 Sept. 1950 Naida Joan, d. of Frank Bentley, schoolmaster; d. 12 Apr. 1992.

CHUFFE, ---; b.; adm.; QS in 1556 (Chapter Muniments 37713).

CHURCH, JOHN, son of John Church, Lay Vicar and Master of the Choristers, Westminster Abbey, and Elizabeth Wood, Boughton Aluph, Kent; b.; in school list 1715 [“probably a chorister”]; Min. Can. (aged 13) 1718; KS 1719; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1723, matr. 18 Jun 1723, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1723 - void 18 Aug 1736 (expiry year of grace as R. Boxford from 18 Sep 1735); BA 1727; MA 1730 (incorp. Cambridge 1732); ordained; Rector of Boxford, Suffolk, from 1735; Rector of Groton, Suffolk, from 1743; known as “Honest John Church” (Bishop Newton’s Works, 1787, i, 172); m. Mary, dau. of Thomas Martin, Barrards Hall, Whatfield, Suffolk; d. 27 Oct 1785.

CHURCH, RALPH, brother of John Church (qv); b. ; adm. ; in under school list 1716 [“probably a chorister”]; KS (aged 13) 1721; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1725, matr. 2 Jun 1725, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1725 - void 26 Nov 1736 (expiry year of grace as V. Pyrton), Tutor 1729-31; BA 1727; MA 1732; ordained deacon 23 Sep 1733, priest 4 Jun 1734 (both Oxford); Vicar of Pyrton, Oxfordshire, from 20 Nov 1735; Vicar of Shirburn, Oxfordshire, from 14 Nov 1748; edited Spenser’s Faery Queen, 1738; d. Apr 1787. DNB.

CHURCHILL, CHARLES, eldest son of Charles Churchill (adm. 1717/8, qv); b. Feb 1731/2; adm. (aged 9) May 1741; KS (Capt. ) 1745; left 1748 [or 1747 ?]; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 8 Jul 1748; ordained deacon (Wells) 22 Sep 1754, priest (Rochester for London) 19 Dec 1756; Curate, South Cadbury and Sparkford, Somerset, 1754-6, and to his father at Rainham, Essex, 1756-8; Curate and Lecturer, St. John the Evangelist, Westminster, 1758-63; became involved in debt, and was in danger of imprisonment until befriended by Pierson Lloyd (qv), who induced the creditors to accept a composition; author of the poems The Rosciad and The Apology, published in 1761; by their sale he is said to have cleared no less than £2000; became an intimate friend of John Wilkes, with whom he worked on The North Briton; his poems satirised Hogarth, Bute, Sandwich, and others; his literary career, although brief, was brilliant; although he led a reckless and extravagant life, his generosity was undoubted and he remained an unwavering friend of Robert Lloyd (qv); William Cowper (qv) held him in high estimation as a poet and called him the “great Churchill” (Works of William Cowper, 1836, vi, 9-10); for an account of Byron’s visit to his grave at Dover, see Lord Broughton’s Recollections of a Long Life, i, 335; his collected works were published in two volumes, 1763-4; m. c. 1749 Martha Scott, Westminster; d. at Boulogne, 4 Nov 1764. DNB.

CHURCHILL, CHARLES, youngest son of John Churchill, Westminster; b.; adm. (aged 9) Mar 1717/8; KS 1723; left 1725; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 2 Mar 1725/6, matr. 1726; adm. Inner Temple 17 Jan 1723/4; ordained deacon 24 Dec 1732, priest 19 Feb 132/3 (both London); Curate and Lecturer, St. John the Evangelist, Westminster, from 1733; Vicar of Rainham, Essex, from 31 Mar 1742; m.; d. 7 Sep 1758. [Presumably Charles Churchill, son of John Churchill, and Mary ---, bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 13 Sep 1708 (IGI)]

CIRCUITT, GEORGE JOSEPH, brother of Robert William Perry Circuitt (qv); b. 5 Dec 1847; adm. 23 Jun 1859; QS 1862; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1866, but never adm.; d. Sep 1870.

CIRCUITT, RICHARD WILLIAM PERRY, son of George James Circuitt, Woburn, Beds., and Mary Porter (IGI); b. 3 Oct 1846; adm. 27 Jan 1859; QS 3 Oct 1861; left Whitsun 1865; King’s Coll. London, AKC 1869; ordained deacon 1869, priest 1871 (both Winchester); held several curacies 1869-78; Vicar of Cholsey, Berks., 1878-85; Rector of St. Luke’s, Heywood, Lancs., 1885-1900; Vicar of Brixham with Churston Ferrers, Devon, from 1900; m. (by 1881) Sally A. --- (1881 Census); d. 26 Sep 1920.