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DOUGLAS, JAMES ST. LEGER, brother of John St. Leger Douglas (qv); b.; adm. (aged 9) Jan 1742/3 (Smalridge's); left 1748; Ensign, 3rd Foot Guards 12 Jun 1753; Lieut. and Capt. in Army 3 Sep 1756; Lieut. and Capt., 3rd Foot Guards 5 Jun 1758; Lieut. -Col. in Army 26 Jan 1763; Capt. and Lieut. -Col., 3rd Foot Guards 25 Mar 1768; retd. 1773; British Consul in Naples 28 Aug. 1779 until his death; knighted 20 Apr. 1785; d. 6 May 1795.

Geary, Mary, d. 1796; Dame of 3 Dean’s Yard c.1780; Mary (née Smith) married Stephen Geary in 1744. [Note “Stephen Geary” listed Dean’s Yard, Boyle’s Court Guide 1808 : he d. 1 Aug 1810, aged 91, having been “a house-keeper in Dean’s Yard near 70 years” ; he was on electoral register as of Dean’s Yard, 1774-1806] [She would have been his first wife if he was her husband, since he m. as widower at Marylebone Parish Church 5 May 1796 Ann Pittman (she is said to have been aged 49 and her husband aged 84 in 1797, when she gave birth to twins)]

RUSSELL, BERTRAND, son of Peter Russell, and Hannah --- (IGI); bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 30 Apr 1747 (IGI); adm.; KS 1761; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1765, adm. pens. 5 Jun 1765, aged 18, scholar 2 May 1766, matr. 1766; BA 1769; MA 1772; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1771, Major Fellow 8 Jul 1772, Senior Fellow 1791; ordained priest (Peterborough) 19 Jul 1772; tutor to the sons of General Guy Carleton in Canada; Vicar of Eaton Bray, Beds.; Vicar of Gainford, co. Durham, from Jul 1791; m. 30 Jul 1795, Susanna (IGI), dau. of Rev. Michael Pope, Charterhouse Square, London; d. 29 Nov 1797.

Boag, Sir George Townsend, son of the Rev. George Boag, Vicar of Winster, Westmorland; by Frances Sophia, daughter of John Townsend, of Wimbledon; b. Nov. 12, 1884; adm. as Q.S.; Jan. 21, 1897; Mure Scholar 1901; Capt. of the School 1902; elected head to Trin. Coll. Camb. (with Senior Samwaies and Triplett gratuity) July 1903, matric. Michaelmas 1903; Min. scholar 1903, Jeston exhibitioner 1906; 1st class (2nd div.) Classical Trip., part 1, 1906; B.A. 1906; M.A. 1919; appointed to the Indian Civil Service after the exam. of 1907; arrived in India Nov. 24, 1908, and served in Madras as Assist. Collector and Magistrate; special Settlement Officer Sept. 1912; Sub-Collector and joint Magistrate March 1919; Superintendent of Census, Madras, April 1920 to July 1922; Secretary to the Madras Finance Dept. 1925; C.I.E. 1928; a member of the Indian Tariff Board 1931; C.S.I. 1936; Adviser to Governor of Madras 1939-43; Dewan of Cochin State 1943-7; retired 1947; K.C.I.E. Jan. 1, 1941; a Busby Trustee May 18, 1954; a donor of the Madras Cup; d. 1969.

Dean of Westminster (also Bishop of Lincoln and Archbishop of York). Second son of Edmund Williams, Conway, Caernarvonshire, and Mary, dau. of Owen Wynn, Eglwsfach, Cardiganshire ; b. 25 Mar 1581/2 ; educ. Ruthin Sch. and St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, matr.sizar Easter 1598 ; BA 1601/2 ; MA 1605 (incorp. Oxford 1608) ; BD 1613 ; DD 1616 ; Junior Proctor 1610, Senior Proctor 1611 ; Fellow, St.John’s Coll.Cambridge 14 Apr 1603 ; ordained priest 22 Dec 1605 (London) ; incumbent, Honington, Suffolk 17 Oct 1605-12 ; Archdeacon of Cardigan 1610 ; incumbent, Grafton Underwood, Northants 1612 ; Chaplain to Lord Ellesmere, Lord Chancellor c.1612-7 ; Prebendary of Hereford Jul 1612 ; Prebendary of Lincoln 10 Oct 1613, Precentor 29 Dec 1613 – resignation 1641, also Canon Residentiary Sep 1614-41; Rector of Walgrave, Northants 1614 ; Prebendary of Peterborough Jun 1616 – resignation 1621 ; Chaplain in Ordinary to James I ; Dean of Salisbury Sep 1619-20 ; Dean of Westminster 10 Jul 1620-42 ; Lord Keeper of the Great Seal 15 Jun 1621- Oct 1625 ; Privy Councillor 18 Jun 1621, dismissal Feb 1631/2 ; Bishop of Lincoln 3 Aug 1621-41 ; suspended from benefices and offices and imprisoned in Tower of London Jul 1637 ; released by order of House of Lords 16 Nov 1640 ; Archbishop of York from Dec 1641 ; again imprisoned in Tower of London Jan-May 1642 ; resident on his estates and with friends in North Wales from Oct 1642 ; d.unm. 25 Mar 1649/50. ODNB.
In 1623, while Dean of Westminster, he purchased two fee farm rents of £14 and £13 6s 8d respectively, issuing respectively out of the manors of Sudbury and of Great Stanmore, both in Middlesex. By a deed dated 26 Apr 1624 he declared that the Dean and Chapter of Westminster should hold these rents in trust for four scholars of his own foundation, two of whom should be natives of Wales and two natives of the diocese of Lincoln, “to be educated and maintained in the Grammar School of St.Peter’s College in Westminster, and there to have their free education until they shall be from thence elected and transplanted into St.John’s College, Cambridge”. Amongst other provisions he ordered that each of the four scholars should be paid £5 annually “towards their diet and maintenance”, and 20s. should be allowed each scholar for “a gown of cloth which shall be purple in colour”.
By letters patent dated 30 Dec 1623, having previously given certain benefices and lands for their support, he founded two fellowships and four scholarships in St.John’s College, Cambridge, and ordained that the four scholars of the foundation should be chosen from the scholars of his foundation at Westminster, two to be natives of Wales and two of the diocese of Lincoln, or for want of boys so qualified boys born within the liberties of Westminster.
Adequate funds were not, however, provided to carry out the scheme, and although four boys, known first as Lord’s Scholars and afterwards as Bishop’s Boys, were annually elected at the School, few of them were afterwards admitted to the scholarships at St.John’s College.
Investigation was made into the trust in the Court of Exchequer, and in 1836 the Master entrusted with the inquiry found that the original deed of foundation, if ever executed, was lost or not to be discovered, but that certain of its intended provisions were recited in a deed conveying a rent charge for the benefit of the foundation. A subsequent order of the Court directed the election of four scholars from boys born in Wales or in the diocese of Lincoln alternately, and, in default of these, from Westminster. The boys were to be provided with their gowns, and to receive the rest of their dividends in books.
Dr Liddell, when Head Master, abolished the purple gowns and agreed to remit the tuition and entrance fees of the Bishop’s Boys on condition that the money payable to each boy was added yearly to the School’s funds. In 1872 the Governors of the School repealed the trusts relating to this benefaction by statute, and the endowment was then consolidated with the School Exhibition Fund, and commemorated with three exhibitions known as the Bishop Williams exhibitions.
By a statute made by the Cambridge University Commissioners, dated 22 May 1857, all preferences in favour of particular schools in the election to scholarships at St.John’s College were abolished in cases where such right to preference had not been exercised within the three years prior to the passing of the Cambridge University Act 1856

Trench, Richard Chenevix; Dean of Westminster (afterwards Archbishop of Dublin). Third son of Richard Trench, Dublin, Ireland, barrister at law, and Melesina, dau. of Philip Chenevix ; b. 5 Sep 1807 ; educ. Harrow Sch. and Trinity Coll.Cambridge ; BA 1829 ; MA 1833 ; BD 1850 ; ordained deacon 7 Oct 1832 (Norwich), priest 5 Jul 1835 ; successively Curate, Hadleigh, Suffolk, St.Peter’s, Colchester, Essex and Alverstoke, Hampshire ; Rector of Itchenstoke, Hampshire 1844-56 ; Professor of Divinity, King’s Coll.London 1847-56 ; Dean of Westminster 14 Oct 1856 – Dec 1863 ; consecrated Archbishop of Dublin 1 Jan 1864, resigning on account of failing health Nov 1884 ; author, works on divinity, philology, history and literature, as well as volumes of verse ; m. 31 May 1832 his cousin Frances Mary, dau. of Francis Trench, Sopwell Hall, co.Tipperary, Ireland ; d. 26 Mar 1886. Buried in nave, Westminster Abbey. ODNB.
From 1857 to 1863, while Dean of Westminster, he made an annual gift of ten guineas in books as prizes for knowledge of the Greek Testament, and this was continued by his successors as Dean.