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LOWER, RICHARD, second son of Humphrey Lower, Tremeere, Bodmin, Cornwall, and Margery, dau. of Richard Billing, Hengar, St. Tudy, Cornwall; bapt. 29 Jan 1631/2; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1649, matr. 27 Feb 1650/1, Westminster Student; BA 17 Feb 1652/3; MA 1655; MB and MD 1665; assisted Dr. Willis in the preparation of his book Cerebri Anatome Nervorumque Descriptio et Usus, 1664; left Oxford in 1666 and commenced medical practice in London; the most noted physician of his day; FRS 17 Oct 1667; FRCP 29 Jul 1675; a pronounced Whig in politics; a skilful anatomist and experimental physiologist; the first to transfuse blood from one animal into the veins of another; author, Tractatus de Corde, 1669, and two other medical treatises; m. 17 Nov 1666 (IGI) his cousin Elizabeth, widow of Samuel Trelawny, and dau. of John Billing, Hengar, St. Tudy, Cornwall; d. 17 Jan 1690/1. DNB.

MAPLETOFT, JOHN, son of Rev. Joshua Mapletoft, Vicar of Margaretting and Rector of Wickford, Essex, and Susanna, dau. of John Collett, Bourn, Cambs.; b. 15 Jun 1631; adm.; KS in 1645; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1648, adm. pens. 20 May 1648, scholar 1649, matr. Mich. 1649; 9th in “ordo” 1651/2; BA Jan 1651/2 (incorp. Oxford 11 Jul 1654); MA 1665; MD 1667 (incorp. Oxford 13 Jul 1669); DD 1690; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1 Oct 1653 – c. 1662, Tutor 1656; adm. Gray’s Inn 12 May 1652; tutor in family of Earl of Northumberland 1658-60; went abroad to study medicine; subsequently medical practitioner in London to 1679, when he retired from practice; Professor of Physic, Gresham College 1675-9; ordained deacon and priest 3 Mar 1682/3; Rector of Braybrooke, Northants 5 Mar 1682/3-6; Vicar of St. Lawrence Jewry, London, from 10 Jan 1685/6; the last survivor of the community at Little Gidding founded by Nicholas Ferrar; author, The Principles and Duties of the Christian Religion, 1710, and other works; m. 18 Nov 1679 Rebecca, dau. of Lucy Knightley, Hackney, Middlesex, Hamburg merchant; d. 10 Nov 1721. DNB.

MEAD, ROBERT, son of Robert Mead, The Black Lion, Fleet Street, London, stationer; b. 1616; adm.; KS 1630; contributed some commendatory verses to the Poeticall Blossomes of Abraham Cowley (qv) 1633; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1634, matr. 1 Sep 1634, Westminster Student to expulsion by Parliamentary Visitors “upon statutable grounds” 1648 (Burrows, 329); BA 1638; MA 1641; MD 1646; Capt. in Royalist Army; distinguished himself at siege of Oxford and in assault on Abingdon; one of the Commissioners for negotiating the surrender of Oxford 17 May 1646; Agent for Charles II in Sweden 1649-51; his comedy, The Combat of Love and Friendship, written by him when an undergraduate, was acted at Christ Church but not published until 1654; d. 21 Feb 1652/3. DNB.

MATY, PAUL HENRY, only son of Matthew Maty MD FRS, Principal Librarian, British Museum, and his first wife Elizabeth, dau. of Louis Chevalleau, Sieur de Boisragon; b. 18 Dec 1744; adm.; Min. Can. 1757; Edward Gibbon (adm. 1747/8, qv), in a letter to his father of 14 Dec 1758, writes that “I saw at her [Mrs Porten’s] house Dr Maty’s son, a little odd cur, and by an unexampled generosity I tipped the boy with a crown, and the father with a coal of fire” (Private Letters of Edward Gibbon, ed. Prothero, 1896, i, 18); KS (aged 13) 1758; Capt. of the School 1762; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1763, adm. pens. 1 Jun 1763, scholar 25 Jun 1764, Worts travelling scholar 1767; 11th Wrangler 1767; BA 1767; MA 1770; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 3 Oct 1768, Major Fellow 4 Jul 1770-5; Grand Tour (Italy) 1767-8; ordained deacon 23 Sep 1770, priest 26 May 1771 (both London); Chaplain to David Murray, 7th Viscount Stormont (S) (afterwards 2nd Earl of Mansfield) (qv), when British Ambassador at Paris; did not seek clerical preferment after 1776 owing to doubts about the Thirty-Nine Articles; FRS 16 May 1771, Foreign Secretary 13 Feb 1772 – 30 Jun 1774, Principal Secretary 30 Nov 1778 – 5 May 1778; Assistant Librarian, British Museum 1776-82, Under Librarian, Dept. of Natural History and Antiquities 1782; started The New Review 1782; compiler, A General Index to the Philosophical Transactions, vols 1-70; author of two translations and a volume of sermons; lic. to m. 15 Sep 1775 Harriet, dau. of Joseph Clerke, Wethersfield, Essex; d. 16 Jan 1787. DNB.

Milne, Alan Alexander, brother of Kenneth John Milne (q.v.); b. Jan. 18, 1882; adm. as Q.S. Sept. 28, 1893; elected to Trin. Coll. Camb. (with Junior Samwaies) July 1900 (adm. sub-sizar Sept. 30, 1900); B.A. 1903; asst. editor of Punch 1906-14; served in Great War I; 2nd Lieut. 4th Batt. Royal Warwicks Regt. Feb. 17, 1915; author of The Stepmother (1921), and other plays; his nursery books Winnie the Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner achieved a world-wide success and have been translated into numerous foreign languages; author of an autobiography It's too Late Now (1937); m. June 1913, Dorothy, daughter of Martin de Selincourt; d. Jan. 31, 1956; his widow presented to the school the original M.S. of Winnie the Pooh 1961.

MEREDITH, EDWARD, son of Rev. Edward Meredith, Rector of Landulph, Cornwall, and Alice, fourth dau., of William Kekewich, Catchfrench, Cornwall; b. 1648; adm.; KS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1665, matr. 14 Jul 1665, aged 17, Westminster Student 19 Dec 1665 – void 1675; BA (Christ Church Act Book) 1669; MA (same) 1672; Secretary to Sir William Godolphin (qv) during his Embassy to Spain; a Roman Catholic convert; present at the conference between Tenison and Andrew Pulton 29 Sep 1687; went abroad after Revolution of 1688; living in Italy after 1700; joined Jesuit community in Rome, but prevented by ill-health from taking final vows; controversialist; author, Some Remarques upon a late popular piece of nonsense called Julian the Apostate, etc. 1682, and other works; d. in Italy c. 1715. DNB.

OWEN, CORBET, eldest son of Rev. William Owen, Rector of Pontesbury (second portion), Shropshire, and Prebendary of Worcester, and Ann ---; bapt. Pontesbury, Shropshire 5 May 1646; touched for the King’s evil by Charles II in Flanders; adm. May 1658; KS 1659; according to Wood, it was usual for him at the School “to speak 40 or 50 smooth and elegant verses extempore in little more than half an hour” (Ath. Oxon., iii, 924); elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1663, matr. 3 Jul 1663, Westminster Student from 22 Dec 1663; BA 1667; MA 23 Mar 1669/70; said by Wood to have been “the most forward person of his age in the university for polite learning” (Ath. Oxon., ibid. ); adm. Lincoln’s Inn 20 Apr 1665; author, Carmen Pindaricum in Theatro Sheldoniano in solemnibus magnifici operis encoeniis recitatum, 1669, and of Divers Poems, etc.; d. 18 Jan 1670/1. DNB.

OLDISWORTH, GILES, brother of Nicholas Oldisworth (qv); b. 1619; adm.; KS ; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1639, adm. pens. 17 May 1639, scholar 17 Apr 1640; BA 1642/3; deprived of his scholarship for royalist opinions; MA Oxford 20 Jul 1646; ordained; Rector of Bourton on the Hill, Gloucs., from 1645; author, The Stone Rolled Away, 1663, A Holy Royalist, 1664, The Father of the Faithful Tempted, 1674, and of a manuscript in prose and verse, A Westminster Scholar, or the Patterne of Pietie (Bodleian Library, Cod. Rawl., c. 422); m. Margaret Warren; d. 24 Nov 1678. DNB.

NEEDHAM, WALTER, son of Rev. Gervase Needham, Vicar of Bishop’s Castle, Shropshire, and Ann Stephens (IGI); bapt. Bishop’s Castle, Shropshire 28 Dec 1632 (IGI); adm.; KS ; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1650, adm. pens. 17 Jun 1650, scholar 1650; 7th in “ordo” 1653/4; BA 1653/4; MA 1657; Lic. Med. 1659; MD 1664; Fellow, Queens’ Coll. Cambridge 25 Jul 1655; Hon. FRCP Dec 1664, FRCP 12 Apr 1687; FRS 20 Jun 1667; Physician to the Charterhouse 7 Nov 1672; author, Disquisitio Anatomica de formato Foetu, 1667; d. 5 Apr 1691. DNB.

NARES, ROBERT, elder son of James Nares, Mus. Doc., Master of the Children of the Chapel Royal, and Organist and Composer to the King, and Jane, dau. of --- Bacon, York; b. 9 Jun 1753; adm.; KS (Capt. ) 1767; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1771, matr. 30 May 1771, Westminster Student 23 Dec 1771 – void 18 Jun 1783 (expiry year of grace as R. Easton Maudit from 21 Jun 1782), Tutor 1778; BA 1775; MA 1778; tutor to Williams-Wynn family at Wynnstay 1779-83; ordained deacon 22 Dec 1776, priest 21 Dec 1777 (both Oxford); Rector of Easton Maudit, Northants 15 Jun 1782-1805; Vicar of Great Doddington, Northants 6 Aug 1784-99; Usher at the School 1786-8; Assistant Preacher, Lincoln’s Inn 1788-1803; Assistant Librarian, British Museum 1795-9, Keeper of Manuscripts 1799-1807; Rector of Sharnford, Leics., 1798-9; Prebendary of St. Paul’s from 14 Nov 1798; Prebendary of Lichfield 19 Dec 1798 –1812; Vicar of Dalby, Derbs. 1796; Archdeacon of Stafford from 28 Apr 1801; Vicar of St. Mary’s, Reading, Berks., 23 May 1805-18; Vicar of All Hallows, London Wall, from 21 Jan 1818; FSA 4 Jun 1795; FRS 10 May 1804; founded The British Critic 1793; author, A Glossary, or Collection of Words, etc., 1822, and other works; m. 1st, 24 Aug 1784 Elizabeth, youngest dau. of Thomas Bayley, Chelmsford, Essex; m. 2nd, 1 Jan 1794 Frances Maria, dau. of Charles Fleetwood, Edgware Road, Paddington, previously EICS [check Presidency]; m. 3rd, 14 May 1800 Elizabeth, youngest dau. of Samuel Smith (adm. 1774, qv); d. 23 Mar 1829. DNB.