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SMITH, EDMUND, only son of Edmund Neale, London, merchant, and Margaret, dau. of Sir Nicholas Lechmere, Kt, Baron of the Exchequer; bapt. St. Bartholomew Exchange, London 29 Jan 1671 (IGI); adopted by a kinsman named Smith, whose surname he assumed; adm.; KS 1684; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1688, but went to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 25 Jun 1688, aged 16, Canoneer Student 9 Jul 1688 – expulsion 20 Dec 1705; BA 1692; MA 1696; his irregular behaviour frequently brought him into conflict with the authorities at Oxford; admonished for profligate behaviour 24 Dec 1694, conditionally expelled for riotous behaviour 24 Apr 1700 and eventually deprived of his Studentship for lampooning Henry Aldrich (qv), then Dean of Christ Church; adm. Inner Temple 1690; his tragedy Phaedra and Hippolytus, with a prologue by Addison and an epilogue by Prior, was produced at the Haymarket Theatre 21 Apr 1707; Johnson declared that Smith’s Latin ode on the death of Dr. Pococke was unequalled among modern writers, and that his Elegy on John Philips was “among the best elegies which our language can show” (Lives of the Poets, ed. Hill, ii, 12, 16); his Works, with a life by William Oldisworth, were published in 1719; buried Hartham, Wilts., Jul 1710. DNB.

SHERIDAN, THOMAS, third son of Rev. Thomas Sheridan DD, King’s Mint House, Capel Street, Dublin, schoolmaster, and Elizabeth, only child of Charles MacFadden, Quilca House, co. Cavan; b.; adm. (aged 11) Feb 1732/3; KS 1734; left 1734; Trinity Coll. Dublin, matr. 26 May 1735, scholar 1738; BA 1739; became an actor; appeared as Richard III at Dublin Jan 1743; for several years manager of Theatre Royal, Smock Alley, Dublin; played at Covent Garden 1754-5 and at Drury Lane 1744, 1763; ranked by Churchill in the Rosciad as next to Garrick as a tragic actor; a successful lecturer on elocution; gave readings with Henderson in London; procured the grant of a government pension to Samuel Johnson and also to himself (G. B. Hill, ed, Boswell’s Johnson, i, 372-7, 385-6); MA Oxford 28 Nov 1758, Cambridge 16 Mar 1769; hon. freeman, City of Edinburgh 8 Jul 1761; a voluminous writer; author, A General; Dictionary of the English Language, 1780; father of Right Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan PC MP, politician and playwright; m. 1747 Frances, dau. of Ven. Philip Chamberlayne DD, Archdeacon of Glendalough; d. 14 Aug 1788. DNB.

SMEDLEY, EDWARD, son of Edward Smedley (KS 1764, qv); b. 12 Sep 1788; adm. 1795; KS 1800; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1805, adm. pens. 27 May 1805, scholar 18 Apr 1806; BA 1809; MA 1812; First Members’ Prize for Lain Essay (Middle Bachelors) 1810, Second Members’ Prize for Latin Essay (Senior Bachelors) 1811; Fellow, Sidney Sussex Coll, . 1812-6; Seatonian Prize for English Sacred Poem 1813, 1814, 1827, 1828; ordained deacon 22 Sep 1811, priest 20 Sep 1812 (both Winchester); Curate, Meopham, Kent; Preacher at St. James’s Chapel, Tottenham Court Road, London; Clerk in Orders, St. James’s, Westminster 1815-9, afterwards Preacher there; Evening Lecturer, St. Giles’s, Camberwell; Prebendary of Lincoln from 21 Jul 1829; editor, Encyclopaedia Metropolitana, from 1822; frequent contributor to British Critic and Penny Encyclopaedia; his Poems, with a selection from his correspondence and a short memoir, were published in 1837; m. 8 Jan 1816 Mary, sister of John Deacon Hume (qv); d. 29 Jun 1836. DNB.

STEPNEY, GEORGE, son of George Stepney, Groom of the Chamber to Charles II [sic, but check], and Mary, eldest dau. of Sir Bernard Whetstone, Kt, Woodford, Essex; b. 1663; adm.; KS 1676; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1682, adm. pens. 28 Jun 1682, scholar 9 May 1683, matr. 1682; 4th in “ordo” 1685/6; BA 1685/6; MA 1689; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 6 Jul 1689 – c. 1698; entered on a successful diplomatic career with the aid of his friend and schoolfellow Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax (qv); Envoy to Brandenburg 1692, 1693, Vienna 1693, Saxony 1695, German Princes and Congress at Frankfurt 1696-7, Vienna again 1702-5; a Commissioner of Trade from 9 Jun 1699; Envoy to the Hague from 1706; taken ill and returned to England Aug 1707; FRS 30 Nov 1697; contributed to Dryden’s Miscellany Poems, 1684, and to Dryden’s translation of Juvenal, 1693; his poems were reprinted in Chalmers’s English Poets; d. unm. 15 Sep 1707. Buried South Aisle, Westminster Abbey. DNB.

STANYAN, TEMPLE, younger son of Lawrence Stanyan, Monken Hadley, Middlesex, merchant, farmer and Commissioner of Revenue (I), and Dorothy, dau. of Henry Knapp, Woodcote, South Stoke, Oxfordshire; b.; adm.; KS 1691; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1695, matr. 18 Jun 1695, aged 18, Westminster Student 30 Dec 1695 – void 1700; Clerk, Secretary of State’s Office Feb 1708 – Feb 1709, Chief Clerk Feb 1709 – Jul 1711, Sep 1713 – Aug 1715, Under-Secretary Oct 1715 – Jun 1729; Clerk in Ordinary, Privy Council, from 3 Feb 1719/20 [previously Clerk Extraordinary from 1717 ?]; FRS 12 May 1726; author, Grecian History, 1739; m. 1st, Elizabeth, widow of William Boys, Hawkhurst, Kent, and dau. of Sir Anthony Shirley, Bart.; m. 2nd, 2 Jan 1720/1 Susanna, only dau. of Dr. Thomas Hobbs, Asley, Hampshire; m. 3rd, 28 Apr 1726 Grace, dau. of Grimbold Pauncefort, Clater Park, Herefs.; d. 29 Mar 1752. DNB.

STRODE, WILLIAM, elder son of Philip Strode, Plympton, Devon, and Wilmot, dau. of William Houghton, Houghton Towers, Lancs.; bapt. 11 Jan 1602/3; adm.; KS; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1617, matr. 1 Jun 1621, aged 19, Westminster Student; BA 1621; MA 1624 (incorp. Cambridge 1628); BD 1631; DD 1638; Public Orator, Oxford Univ. from 1629; Proctor 1629; ordained; Rector of East Bradenham, Norfolk, 1633; Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, from 1 Jul 1638; Vicar of Black Bourton, Oxfordshire 1638; Vicar of Badby, Northants 22 Aug 1639-42; author The Floating Island, a tragi-comedy acted by the Students of Christ Church before Charles I 29 Aug 1636 (a published version appeared in 1655), and of some occasional verse; m. 17 Jul 1642 Mary, dau. of Rev. John Sympson DD, Prebendary of Canterbury; d. 10 Mar 1644/5. Buried Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. DNB.

STUBBE, EDMUND, son of Francis Stubbe, Scottowe, Norfolk, and Anne, dau. of Robert Coke, Mileham, Norfolk, and sister of Sir Edward Coke, Kt, Chief Justice of the King’s Bench; b.; adm.; KS ; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1610, adm. scholar 1611, matr. Easter 1611; BA 1614/5; MA 1618; BD 1631; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1616 – c. 1621; ordained; Rector of Huntingfield, Suffolk, from 1621; Rector of Longford, Derbyshire 1630; Rector of Cookley, Suffolk 1635; adm. Gray’s Inn 16 Nov 1635 [sic : check]; author, Fraus Honesta, a Latin comedy acted at Cambridge, afterwards published in 1635; m. 15 Oct 1627 (IGI) Margaret, dau. of Wolfran Smith, Lackfield, Suffolk; d. 9 Apr 1659.

STUBBE, HENRY, son of Rev. Henry Stubbe, Rector of Partney, Lincs.; b. 28 Feb 1631/2; adm.; KS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1649, matr. 13 Feb 1650/1, Westminster Student to ejection 1660; according to Wood, Sir Henry Vane (qv) “got him to be a King’s Scholar” and also “got him to be sped for a Student’s place in Christ Church, where shewing himself too forward, pragmatical and conceited (being well stock’d with impudence at school), was often kick’d and beaten”; whipped in the Public Refectory in 1651 for abusing the Censor Morum, and for “his impudence in other respects” (Wood, Ath. Oxon., iii, 1068); BA 1653; MA 1656; served in the Parliamentary Army in Scotland 1653-5; Second Keeper of the Bodleian Library, Oxford 1657–9, when deprived of post for writing A Light shining out of Darkness, a “pestilent book” against the clergy and universities; retired to Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, where he practised medicine; King’s Physician, Jamaica 1661; afterwards practised at Warwick and Bath; imprisoned for denouncing the Duke of York’s marriage with Mary of Modena in the Paris Gazette, 1673; an intimate friend of Thomas Hobbes; described by Wood as “the most noted Latinist and Grecian of his age” (ibid., iii, 1071); author, The Commonwealth of Oceana put into a Balance and found too light, 1660, and other works; drowned near Bath, Somerset 12 Jul 1676. DNB.

THURMAN, HENRY, son of Rev. Edward Thurman, Vicar of Great Hallingbury, Essex; b.; adm.; KS 1643; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1648, Westminster Student; Craven Scholar in 1651; BA 24 Feb 1651/2; MA 1654; ordained; Rector of St. Peter and St. Mary Westout, Lewes, Sussex, from 29 Nov 1662; Rector of St. John sub Castro, Lewes, Sussex, from 5 Apr 1666; Prebendary of Chichester from 30 Sep 1667; author, A Defence of Humane Learning in the Ministry, 1659, and other works; m.; dead by 12 Oct 1669.

TATNALL, ROBERT, of Lincolnshire; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1648, adm. pens. 20 May 1648, scholar 1649, matr. Mich. 1651; BA 1651/2; MA 1655 (incorp. Oxford 10 Jul 1655); mandate for his DD rejected by Cambridge Univ. 1668; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1653 - c. 1659; Minister of St. John the Evangelist, Westminster 1651 until ejectment for nonconformity 1662; subsequently kept a school; author An Antidote against Sinfull Palpitation of the Heart, or Fear of Death, 1655; licensed as Presbyterian preacher at his house in Broad Street 2 Apr 1672; m. 24 Mar 1658/9 Margaret ---.