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ANNESLEY, HON. GEORGE, son of Francis Annesley, 2nd Viscount Valentia (I), and his second wife Jane, widow of Sir Peter Courteen, Bart., Aldington, Worcs., and dau. of Sir John Stanhope Kt, Shelford, Notts.; b. 28 Oct 1632; adm.; KS in 1645; mentioned in The Diaries and Letters of Philip Henry, ed. M. H. Lee, 1882, p. 11; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1647, but was detained at school “through the exigence of warre” (Register of the Visitors of the University of Oxford 1647 to 1658, Camden Soc., 2nd ser., xxix, 268), Westminster Student; apparently expelled the University for non-submission, but afterwards submitted; BA 1650; MA 24 Mar 1652/3; admonished by Dean and Chapter of Christ Church in Sep 1653 for being “at a tippling house in this city of Oxon on the Lord’s Day” and also for publicly affronting “the Dean and Chapter in the Hall and at their coming out” (Thompson, Christ Church, 77-8); became a Maj. in the Army; drowned in the Thames as he was stepping into a packet-boat with letters for Charles II from his brother Arthur; buried St. Margaret’s, Westminster 18 Apr 1660.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.