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Amory, Robert, fl. 1741

  • GB-2014-WSA-02121
  • Person
  • fl. 1741

AMORY, ROBERT, son of Thomas Amory, Brunalty, co. Clare, Millbank, Westminster, and Newton Hall, Wakefield, Yorks., author, and his first wife Elizabeth, dau. of Rev. John Vandeleur, co. Clare; b.; adm. (aged 12) Jan 1741/2; KS 1745; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 23 Mar 1746/7, matr. 1747; MB 1757; practised as a physician in Wakefield, Yorks.; Governor of Wakefield Grammar School 18 Apr 1768 - 4 Feb 1793; m. Anna Maria ---; d. 15 Feb 1805.

Amyand, Claudius, 1718-1774

  • GB-2014-WSA-02125
  • Person
  • 1718-1774

AMYAND, CLAUDIUS, eldest son of Claudius Amyand FRS, Serjeant-Surgeon to George II, and Mary, dau. of Daniel Rabache, St. Peter le Poer, London; b. 25 Aug 1718; adm. Jun 1726; KS 1732; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1736, matr. 25 Jun 1736, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1736 - res 26 Jun 1744; BA 1740; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 23 Jan 1733/4, called to bar 2 Jul 1742; Keeper of the King’s Libraries from 8 Nov 1745; “1749, Oct. 5, Whitehall. Treasury order for payment to Claudius Amyand, Keeper of his Majesty’s Libraries of £50 as half a year’s allowance for house rent or accommodation of the Libraries, and which allowance is to be continued until he shall be provided with the like accommodations when the said Libraries, which are now lying in the old Dormitory at Westminster, shall be removed from thence” (HMC Laing, ii, 402); MP Tregony 1747-54, Sandwich 1754 - 11 Dec 1756; Under-Secretary of State, Southern Department Apr 1750 - Nov 1756; a Commissioner of Customs Dec 1756-65; Receiver-General of the Land Tax for Middlesex from 1765; m. 26 Nov 1761 Frances, widow of George Compton, 6th Earl of Northampton, and dau. of Rev. Thomas Payne, Vicar of Holme Lacy, Herefs.; d. 1 Apr 1774.

Amyrant, Moses, d. 1751

  • GB-2014-WSA-02131
  • Person
  • d. 1751

AMYRANT, MOSES, son of Moses Amyrant LLD, Paris, France, advocate in Parlement of Paris; b.; adm.; KS (aged 15) 1698; Queen’s Coll. Oxford, matr. 7 May 1700; adm. Inner Temple [check], called to bar, Inner Temple 9 Jun 1706; lic. to m. 5 Jan 1719/20 Gertrude Abbot, St Dunstan in the West, London; d. shortly before 7 Feb 1751.

Anderson, Timothy Miles, 1949-2005

  • GB-2014-WSA-02141
  • Person
  • 1949-2005

Anderson, Timothy Miles, son of Paul Anderson, journalist, and Deidre Gara, d. of Capt. Percy MacDermot of Boyle, Roscommon, Ireland; b. 16 Mar. 1949; adm. Sept. 1962 (QS); left July 1966; New Coll. Oxf., matric. 1968; a teacher; d. 29 Aug. 2005.

Andrewes, Gerrard Heberden, 1820-1876

  • GB-2014-WSA-02150
  • Person
  • 1820-1876

ANDREWES, GERRARD HEBERDEN, eldest son of Gerrard Thomas Andrewes (qv); b. 3 Oct 1820; adm. 23 Jan 1833 (Stelfox's); KS 1834; left 1838; Magdalen Hall, Oxford, matr. 2 Jun 1838; d. unm. 26 Nov 1876.

Andrewes, Gerrard Thomas, 1794-1851

  • GB-2014-WSA-02151
  • Person
  • 1794-1851

ANDREWES, GERRARD THOMAS, only son of Gerrard Andrewes (adm 1764, qv); b. 27 Dec 1794; adm. Christmas 1808; KS 1809; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1813, adm. pens. 29 May 1813, scholar 1814, matr. Mich. 1813; BA 1817; MA 1820; ordained deacon (Canterbury) 1818, priest (Ely, lit. dim. from Canterbury) 14 May 1819; Rector of All Hallows, Bread Street, London, with St. John the Evangelist, from 24 Apr 1819; Clerk in Orders at St. James’s, Piccadilly, London, from 1819; Six Preacher, Canterbury Cathedral 1821-32; Chaplain to the House of Commons 1839-49; m. 10 Jun 1819 Elizabeth Catherine, sister of William Heberden (adm. 1810, qv); d. 22 Jun 1851.

Andrewes, Gerrard, 1704-1764

  • GB-2014-WSA-02152
  • Person
  • 1704-1764

ANDREWES, GERRARD, second son of John Andrewes, Basinghall Street, London, solicitor, and Frances, dau. of Roger Gray, Bread Street, London; b. 27 Jun 1704; at Merchant Taylors Sch. 1714-6; adm. Jun 1718; in under school lists 1718-9 (as Andrews); KS 1720; Capt. of the School 1724; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1725, but went to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 10 May 1725; migrated to Balliol Coll.; BA 21 Jan 1730/1; MA 1738; Fellow of Balliol; ordained; Rector of Kirkby Mallory, Leics. 1736-7; Vicar of Syston, Leics. 25 Dec 1744; Rector of St. Nicholas, Leicester 1757; Master of Leicester GS 1759-62 [but a “Mr. Andrews” was already master of a school there by 1745 : same individual ?]; m. Isabella, dau. of John Ludlam, Leicester, and sister of Sir George Ludlam, Kt, Chamberlain of the City of London; d. 29 Feb 1764.

Andrewes, Gerrard, 1750-1825

  • GB-2014-WSA-02153
  • Person
  • 1750-1825

ANDREWES, GERRARD, son of Gerrard Andrewes (qv); b. 14 Apr 1750; adm. Jan 1764; KS 1764; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge (with Titley gratuity) 1769, adm. pens. 23 May 1769, scholar 4 May 1770, matr. Mich. 1769; BA 1773; MA 1776; DD 1807; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 4 Sep 1774, Major Fellow 4 Jul 1775; Usher at the School 1771 [check] - 84; ordained deacon (Peterborough) 15 Dec 1776; occasional preacher at St. Bride’s Fleet Street, and later at St. James’s Chapel, Hampstead Road; Rector of Zeal Monachorum, Devon 1788 [no longer 1801]; preacher at The Magdalene Hospital 1791, at The Foundling Hospital 1799; Rector of Mickleham, Surrey 1800-9; Rector of St. James’s, Piccadilly, London, from 10 Aug 1802; Dean of Canterbury from 8 Nov 1809; declined Bishopric of Chester on account of his age 1812; Vicar of Great Bookham, Surrey, from 1820; composed a school song entitled “Dean’s Yard and Queen Eliza” recited at the Anniversary Dinner of 1836 (Forshall, 255-7); among his cherished possessions was the jawbone of King Richard II, given to him by a schoolfellow who had fished it out of Richard’s tomb in 1766 (Archaeologia xlv, 304, note, and Elizabethan xvii, 99-100); four of his letters written while he was at school were published in The Treasury, ix, 131-6; m. 1 Dec 1788 Elizabeth Maria, dau. of Rev. Thomas Ball, Rector of Wymondham, Norfolk; d. 2 Jun 1825. DNB.

Andrewes, Theophilus, d. 1656

  • GB-2014-WSA-02154
  • Person
  • d. 1656

ANDREWES, THEOPHILUS, son of John Andrewes, Greenwich, Kent, a servant of James I; b.; adm.; recommended for admission into College by Sir Edward Conway, Secretary of State, 18 May 1624 (CSP Dom 1623-5, 249); KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1631, matr. 24 Feb 1631/2, aged 20, Westminster Student to 1641. [will proved PCC 28 Jan 1656]

Andrews, Archibald Maclagan, 1874-1920

  • GB-2014-WSA-02158
  • Person
  • 1874-1920

Andrews, Archibald Maclagan, third son of the . Rev. John Marshall Andrews, Vicar of St. Michael's, Highgate; b. Oct. 28, 1874; adm. as Q.S. Sept. 25, 1888; left April 1892; emigrated to British Columbia; d. at Victoria, B.C., April 17, 1920.

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