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SUTTON, SIR RICHARD, BART., brother of John Sutton (adm. 1740/1, qv); b. 31 Jul 1733; adm. Jan 1743/4 (Morel's); the friend of William Cowper (adm. 1742, qv), with whom he read through the Iliad and the Odyssey when at school (Southey, Cowper, i, 106); Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens, 25 Jan 1749/50, scholar 11 may 1750, readm. as fellow commoner 11 Nov 1751, matr. 1750; MA 1753; when he went up to Trinity Coll. Warburton introduced him by letter to Hurd as “a perfect boy, in the simplicity of his manners, but of surprizing acquirements. Besides his knowledge of the ancient languages he speaks and writes Spanish and French with great exactness, understands Italian, and is now learning High Dutch” (Nichols, Literary Anecdotes, v, 542, note); probably Grand Tour (at Capua with brother John in 1753 ?); adm. Middle Temple 21 Aug 1754; migr. to Inner Temple 9 Feb 1759, called to bar 29 Jun 1759, sold chambers there 12 Jun 1782; Counsel to Board of Ordnance; Under-Secretary of State Aug 1766 – Sep 1772; a Commissioner of the Privy Seal Feb – Mar 1768; MP St. Albans 1768-80, Sandwich 1780-4, Boroughbridge 1784-96; succeeded brother to Norwood Park estate, Notts., 1772; created baronet 14 Oct 1772; a Lord of the Treasury 6 Sep 1780 – Mar 1782; m. 1st, 28 Jun 1765 Susanna, eldest dau. of Philip Champion de Crespigny, Proctor, Court of Arches; m. 2nd, 7 Feb 1767 Anne, dau. of William Peers Williams, Cadhay, Devon; m. 3rd, 8 Apr 1793 Margaret, dau. of John Porter, Wandsworth, Surrey; d. 10 Jan 1802.

STANHOPE, PHILIP, natural son of Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield PC, and Elizabeth du Bouchet, The Hague, Netherlands; b.; adm. (aged 10) Apr 1743 (Morel's); left 1746; Grand Tour (Italy) 1746-51 (Germany, Switzerland, Italy, France); MP Liskeard 1754-61, St. Germans 1761 – May 1765; British Resident, Hamburg 1757-63; Envoy to Imperial Diet 1763; Envoy Extraordinary at Dresden from 1764; the recipient of the Letters of Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield to his Son; at “Mr Morel’s boarding house in Cowley Street” in Aug 1743 (Letter XCIX); “the boy was encumbered with flesh, and nature had so carelessly compacted his limbs as scarcely to leave them the poer of flexure. In a word, in infancy he was shapeless, and in youth a looby. Never did a she-bear with more anxious assiduity labour to lick her cub into shape than this fond parent did to correct the errors of nature in the formation of this his darling” (Hawkins, Life of Dr. Samuel Johnson, 1787, 181-2); “Mr. Stanhope’s character has been unjustly represented as diametrically opposite to what Lord Chesterfield wished him to be. He has been called dull, gross and awkward : but I knew him at Dresden, when he was Envoy to that Court; and though he could not boast of the graces, he was in truth a sensible, civil, well-behaved man” (Boswell, Life of Johnson, ed. G. B. Hill, 1887, i, 266 note); m. c. 1759 (secretly) Eugenia Peters, natural dau. of Compton Domvile MP (I); d. at Avignon, France 16 Nov 1768.

SHELLEY, SIR JOHN, BART., only son of Sir John Shelley, Bart. MP, and his second wife Hon. Margaret Pelham, sister of Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle (qv); b.; adm. Jan 1744/5 (Morel's); left 1748; Peterhouse, Cambridge, adm. pens. 17 Sep 1748, matr. 1748; MP East Retford 24 Dec 1751-68, Newark 1768-74, New Shoreham 1774-80; Keeper of the Records, Tower of London, from 1755; Clerk of the Pipe, Exchequer, from 19 Jan 1758; Treasurer of the Household 20 Nov 1766 – Jun 1777; Privy Councillor 3 Dec 1766; succ. father as 5th baronet 6 Sep 1771; m. 1st, 27 Aug 1769 Wilhelmina, dau. of John Newnham, Maresfield Park, Sussex; m. 2nd, 14 Feb 1775 Elizabeth, dau. of Edward Woodcock, Lincoln’s Inn; d. 16 Sep 1783, aged 52.

PENNYMAN, SIR JAMES, BART., eldest son of Ralph Pennyman (qv); bapt. 6 Dec 1736; adm. Jun 1749 (Morel's); in school list 1754; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 10 May 1756; succ. uncle as 5th baronet 14 Jan 1770; MP Scarborough 27 Nov 1770-4, Beverley 1774-96; of Ormesby Hall, Yorks.; m. 1st, 7 Dec 1762 Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Henry Grey, Bart., Howick, Northumberland; m. 2nd, 14 May 1801 Mary Maleham, Westminster; d. 27 Mar 1806.

ONSLOW, GEORGE, 1ST EARL OF ONSLOW, only son of Right Hon. Arthur Onslow PC MP, Imber Court, Surrey, Speaker of the House of Commons, and Anne, dau. of John Bridges, Thames Ditton, Surrey; b. 13 Sep 1731; adm. Sep 1739 (Morel's); Peterhouse, Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 12 May 1749; MA 1766; DCL Oxford 8 Jul 1773; adm. Middle Temple 14 Nov 1739; MP Rye 1754-61, Surrey 1761-74; a Lord of the Treasury Jul 1765 – Nov 1777; Privy Councillor 23 Dec 1767; a strong opponent of election of John Wilkes 1769; awarded damages in his action for libel against John Horne Tooke (qv) 1 Aug 1770; took active part in excluding strangers from gallery of House of Commons and in calling the printers to the bar of the House for publishing the debates 1771; created Baron Cranley 20 May 1776; succ. cousin as 4th Baron Onslow 8 Oct 1776; Lord Lieut., Surrey, from 20 Nov 1776; Comptroller of the Household 1 Dec 1777 – Dec 1779, Treasurer of the Household Dec 1779 – Sep 1780; a Lord of the Bedchamber from 15 Sep 1780; created Earl of Onslow 19 Jun 1801; m. Jun 1753 Henrietta, sister of Sir John Shelley, Bart. (qv); d. 17 May 1814. DNB.

HOTHAM, SIR CHARLES, BART. , eldest son of Sir Beaumont Hotham, Bart. , Commissioner of Customs, and his cousin Frances, eldest dau. of Rev. Stephen Thompson, Vicar of Welton, Yorks. ; first cousin of Sir Charles Hotham, Bart. (adm. 1745, qv); b. 18 Jun 1729; adm. Oct 1741 (Morel's); left 1745; adm. Middle Temple 22 Dec 1742; Ensign, 1st Foot Guards 24 Sep 1746; Lieut. and Capt. , 6 Feb 1750; Capt. and Lieut. -Col. , 5 May 1758; Col. in the Army 19 Feb 1762; Lieut. -Col. , 63rd Foot 10 Jul 1765; Col. , 63rd Foot, 13 Sep 1765 – Sep 1768, 15th Foot from 21 Sep 1768; Maj. -Gen. , 25 May 1772; Lieut. -Gen. , 29 Aug 1777; Gen. , 12 Oct 1793; served in Flanders towards end of War of Austrian Succession, on expedition to St. Malo 1758, and in Germany during Seven years War; MP St. Ives 1761-8; a Groom of the Bedchamber to George III 5 May 1763 – 20 Jan 1788; a favourite at Court; succ. father as 8th baronet 29 Aug 1771; assumed surname of Thompson in lieu of Hotham 25 Dec 1772, on succeeding to the Thompson family’s estates at Hambleton and Ebberston, Yorks. , but resumed surname of Hotham 2 Jul 1787, after these estates had been resettled; many interesting particulars of his school life and school fellows are given in The Hothams, 1918, ii, 1-18; m. 21 Oct 1752 Lady Dorothy Hobart, only dau. of John Hobart, 1st Earl of Buckinghamshire (qv), and his first wife; d. 25 Jan 1794.

HERVEY, HON. WILLIAM, youngest son of John Hervey, 1st Baron Hervey of Ickworth (qv); b. 13 May 1732; adm. Jan 1744/5 (Morel's); left 1747; Corpus Christi Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 8 Feb 1750/1, matr. Lent 1750/1; MA 1753; Ensign, 44th Foot 1755; Lieut., 4 Jul 1755; Capt. 27 Dec 1756; served for some years in North America, returning to England 1763; Capt. -Lieut. and Lieut. -Col., 1st Foot Guards 6 Aug 1766 – 13 Jun 1774; Brevet Col., 29 Aug 1777; Major-Gen., 20 Nov 1782; Lieut. -Gen., 12 Oct 1793; Gen., 1 Jan 1798; MP Bury St Edmunds 24 Feb 1763-8; amiable and benevolent, described by Arthur Young as “one of the most charitable men living”; a great traveller; in Italy 1766, 1772-3 and 1788-90; his Journals in North America and Europe from 1755 to 1814 form vol. xiv of the Suffolk Green Books, 1906; d. unm. 15 Jan 1815.

HAY, THOMAS, eldest son of William Hay MP, Glyndebourne, Sussex, and Elizabeth, second d. of Thomas Pelham MP, Catsfield Place, Sussex; b. 3 Jul 1734; adm. Jun 1747 (Morel's); left 1751; Cornet, 9th Dragoons 19 Jun 1751; Lieut., 7th Dragoons 25 Dec 1755; Capt., 14 Mar 1757; Maj., 14 Oct 1761; Lieut. -Col., 14 Jun 1765; Brevet Col., 21 May 1762; unattached list 27 Feb 1771; Deputy Adjutant-Gen. in Germany; MP Lewes 1768-80; d. 9 Feb 1786.

EVELYN, WILLIAM GLANVILLE, elder son of William Evelyn (afterwards Glanville) MP, Ightham, Kent, a Commissioner of the Revenue (I), and his second wife Bridget, dau. of Hugh Raymond, Saling Hall, Essex; b. 1734; adm. (aged 10) Feb 1743/4 (Morel's); left 1751; High Sheriff, Kent 1757; MP Hythe 1768-1802; m. 2 Aug 1760 Susannah, dau. of Thomas Ba[o ?]rrett, Shoreham, Kent; d. 3 Nov 1813.

COTTON, SIR ROBERT SALUSBURY, BART. , eldest son of Sir Lynch Salusbury Cotton, Bart. , MP, and Elizabeth Abigail, younger sister of William Cotton (adm. 1733/4, qv); b. ; adm. (aged 9) Mar 1749/50 (as Robert Cotton) (Morel's); in school list 1754; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 11 May 1756; succ. father as 5th baronet 14 Aug 1775; MP Cheshire 1 Mar 1780-96; Maj. , Cheshire Militia 15 Apr 1771; FRS 24 Nov 1774; m. 1767 Frances, dau. of Col. James Russell Stapleton, Bodrhyddan, Flintshire; d. 24 Aug 1809, aged 70.