VAUGHAN, ROBERT; b.; Min. Can. 1636; KS in 1638 (WAM 34165).
VAUGHAN, RICHARD, of London (“pleb. f. ”); b.; adm.; KS 16 Nov 1610; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1614, matr. 14 Mar 1616/7, aged 19, Westminster Student to 1623; BA 1618; MA 1622; ordained deacon 23 May 1619, priest 11 Jun 1620 (both Oxford).
VAUGHAN, JAMES; b.; adm.; KS 1679; buried Cloisters, Westminster Abbey 27 Aug 1680.
VATAS, PETER, son of Peter Vatas MD, Wardour Street, London, medical practitioner, and Mary Anne, dau. of Jean Henri Hervart du Fort, The Hague, Netherlands; b.; adm. (aged 13) Sep 1730; KS 1732; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1737, matr. 14 Jun 1737, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1737 - void 22 Nov 1780 (expiry year of grace as Perp. C. Caversham from 18 Nov 1779); BA 1741; MA 7 Mar 1743/4; ordained deacon Dec 1742, priest Dec 1743 (both Oxford); Chaplain, 14th Light Dragoons, from 24 Dec 1745; Perpetual Curate of Caversham, Oxfordshire, from 1747; Rector of Whitton-cum-Thurlston, Suffolk 1780; Rector of Little Warley, Essex, from 1780; d. 4 Jan 1800.
VARDY, EDWARD, brother of John Vardy (qv); b.; in school list 1754; KS 1760; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1765, matr. 7 Jun 1765, aged 19, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1765 - void 12 Jul 1783 (expiry year of grace as Perp. C. Market Harborough from 8 Jul 1782); BA 1769; MA 1772; ordained deacon 23 May 1769, priest 14 Jan 1772 (both Oxford); Perpetual Curate of Market Harborough and Great Bowden, Leics., from 1780 [check]; Rector of Llan-y-Meurig, [check county] 1782-98; Rector of Yelvertoft, Northants, from 1785; d. 23 Jul 1824.
VANE, HON. FREDERICK, brother of Henry Vane, 2nd Earl of Darlington (qv); b. 26 Jun 1732; adm. Jan 1739/40 (Watts'); KS 1746; still at school 1749; Pembroke Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 30 Jan 1749/50, matr. 1750; reprimanded by Vice-Chancellor for interfering with Senior Proctor in exercise of his duties on the occasion of the Westminster club dinner, presided over by Thomas Francklin (qv), 17 Nov 1750; MP co. Durham 1761-74; Deputy Treasurer, Chelsea Hospital; of Sellaby, co. Durham; m. 1st, 15 Jun 1758 Henrietta, sister of Sir William Meredith, Bart. (qv); m. 2nd, 1796 Jane, dau. of Arthur Lysaght, and niece of John Lysaght, 1st Baron Lisle (I); d. 28 Apr 1801.
UVEDALE, ROBERT, son of Robert Uvedale, St. Margaret’s, Westminster, and Margaret ---; b. 25 May 1642; adm.; KS 1656; while at school is said to have snatched one of the escutcheons from the bier at Oliver Cromwell’s funeral Nov 1658 (G. F. Russell Barker, Memoir of Richard Busby, 17-8); elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1659, adm. pens. 10 May 1659, scholar 1659, matr. 1660; BA 1662/3; MA 1666; LLD 1682; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1664 - c. 1679; Master, Enfield GS 1664; also kept boarding school at The Old Palace, Enfield, where he is supposed to have planted the Enfield cedar c. 1670; ordained deacon (London) Mar 1665/6, priest 9 Jan 1691/2 (sic); Rector of Orpington with St. Mary Cray, Kent, from 1691/2; Rector of Barking and Needham, Suffolk 1700; famous for his skill in cultivating exotic plants, and one of the earliest possessors of hothouses in England; most of his collection of growing plants were purchased at his death by Sir Robert Walpole for his garden at Houghton, Norfolk; his Herbarium in fourteen volumes is in the Sloane collection, British Museum; the genus Uvedalia was named in his honour by Petiver; contributed the life of Dion to Dryden’s translation of Plutarch, 1683-6; m. 20 Jun 1678 Mary, second dau. of Edward Stephens, Cherington, Gloucs., and grand-daughter of Sir Matthew Hale; d. 17 Aug 1722. DNB.
UTHWATT, HENRY UTHWATT, second son of William Andrews, Inner Temple, London, and Buckingham, Bucks., barrister, and Hannah, dau. of Farmer Shillingford, Buckingham, Bucks.; b. 15 Aug 1755; adm. 29 Jan 1770; KS 1774; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1773, adm. pens. 9 Jun 1773, scholar 22 Apr 1774, matr. 1774; BA 1777; ordained priest (Peterborough) 20 Dec 1789; Curate, Plumpton, Northants 1789, afterwards Blakesley, Northants; assumed surname of Uthwatt in lieu of Andrews 18 Mar 1803, having inherited estate of Uthwatt family at Great Linford, Bucks.; m. 10 Mar 1783 Judith, dau. of Thomas Yates, Culworth, Northants; d. 1 Oct 1812.
Usher, Cyril George, son of Samuel Lawry Usher, of Clifton, Bristol, solicitor, by Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Woodfin, of London; b. April 22, 1892; adm. as K.S. Sept. 28, 1905; left July 1909; Ch. Ch. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1912; Lieut. South Wales Borderers Feb. 12, 1915; served in Gallipoli, Egypt, and Mesopotamia; M.C. Aug. 16, 1917, Bar Aug. 25, 1917; m. Sept. 22, 1923, Dorothy Margaret, daughter of John H. Worsfold, of London.
Usher, Charles Glyn, son of Gilbert Lewis Dumper of St Cross, Winchester, Hants, and Hilda Dorothea, d. of Col. Gerald Henry Farrell of Alverston Hall, Cheshire; b. 12 May 1925; adm. Sept. 1938 (B), (KS) 1939; left July 1943; assumed the name of Usher in lieu of Dumper 1943; RNVR in WW2; Corpus Christi Coll. Oxf., matric. 1946, BA 1950; joined Lloyd’s 1950; dep. sec. Bombay Chamber of Commerce and Industry 1953; man. T&N Ltd. Bombay, India 1956; sen. admin. officer BSI 1966; m. 1967 Diana, d. of Nigel Oliver Willoughby Steward OBE, HM Foreign Service, of Beckley, Oxford; d. 16 Feb 2010.