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Milbanke, Aclomb, ca. 1731-1766
MILBANKE, ACLOMB, brother of Sir Ralph Milbanke, Bart. (adm. 1733, qv); b.; adm. (aged 9) Jun 1740 (Gibson's); left 1747; Ensign, 22nd Foot 15 Mar 1748; Lieut., 22 Jan 1755; Capt. -Lieut., 28th Foot 27 Apr 1756; Capt., 8 Mar 1757; wounded at capture of Quebec 1759; d. unm. 26 Jun 1766.
HASTINGS, WARREN, second son of Rev. Penyston Hastings, Vicar of Bledington, Gloucs., and Hester, dau. of Thomas Warren, Stubhill, near Twining, Gloucs.; b. 6 Dec 1732; adm. May 1743 (Gibson's); KS (Capt.) 1747; left 1749; Writer, EICS Bengal 1749; landed at Calcutta 8 Oct 1750; Resident, Murshidabad 1757-60; member of council, Calcutta 1761-4; returned to England 1764; gave evidence on India to a committee of the House of Commons 1766; Second on Council, Madras 1769-72; Governor of Bengal 13 Apr 1772 – Oct 1774, Governor-Gen. of Bengal 20 Oct 1774 – Feb 1785; reorganised financial and judicial system in Bengal, Bihar and Orissa; assisted Nawab of Oudh against the Rohillas; took measures against dacoits; named as first Governor-General of Bengal in Act of 1773; opposed by majority on new Council; charged with corruption by Nuncomar, who was subsequently arrested on a charge of forgery in a private suit instigated by an Indian, and hanged; took measures to improve the EI Company’s finances; supported by Supreme Court, Calcutta, which ignored the acceptance by the Company’s directors of his provisional resignation; fought a duel with Sir Philip Francis, who had persistently opposed him in Council, 17 Aug 1780; drove Haidar Ali out of the Carnatic; deposed Chait Singh, Zemindar of Benares, and seized his treasure 1781; suspected of conniving at the imprisonment of the Begums of Oudh and the seizure of their property; concluded treaty with Tippoo Sultan in 1783 which laid foundation for British supremacy in India; founded Asiatic Society of Bengal and the Calcutta Madrisa; left India Feb 1785; returned to England 13 Jun 1785; his impeachment on ground of corruption and cruelty in his administration of Bengal voted by a large majority in the House of Commons 3 Apr 1787; his trial in Westminster Hall occupied 145 days between 13 Feb 1788 and 23 Apr 1795, but resulted in an acquittal; retired to estate at Daylesford, Worcs., purchased by him in 1788; Privy Councillor 6 May 1814; FRS 25 Jun 1801; DCL Oxford 30 Jun 1813; one of donors of Warren Hastings Cup; m. 1st, 1757 Mary, widow of Capt. John Buchanan, Craigieven; m. 2nd, 8 Aug 1777 Anna Maria Apollonia, mother of Sir Charles Imhoff (qv), widow of Baron Christopher Adam Carl von Imhoff, and dau. of Baron von Chapuset; d. 22 Aug 1818. DNB. Monument in North Transept, Westminster Abbey.
HARPER, WILLIAM; b.; adm. (aged 9) Jan 1743/4 (Gibson's); left 1745 (Harpur in school lists).
BLAKE, HENRY; b.; adm. (aged 16) Jan 1743/4 (Gibson's); left 1747. [Probably only son of Henry Blake, Lelinch, co. Clare, and Charity, widow of Francis Palmer, and dau. of Maurice Annesley, Rath, co. Meath; adm. Middle Temple 27 Feb 1748/9; of Lelinch]. [Russell Barker and Stenning record that the OW was buried Bromley, Kent 22 May 1780 : but how is it known that the Henry Blake who was buried at Bromley was the OW?]
DELAVAL, ROBERT, brother of Sir Francis Blake Delaval (qv); b. 5 Mar 1733; adm. May 1744 (Gibson's); left 1747; Cornet, Royal Horse Guards 29 Apr 1754 - retirement 14 Oct 1755; Capt., European Grenadier Co. (raised by him personally), EICS Bengal 26 Apr 1758; d. on voyage to India 11 Dec 1758.
BLAKE, ROBERT, eldest son of Sir Francis Blake, Bart. (adm. 1725, qv); b.; adm. (aged 10) Jun 1744 (Gibson's); left 1751; Hertford Coll. Oxford, matr. 13 Dec 1751; d. 25 Jan 1754; buried in North Cloister, Westminster Abbey.
BACON, WILLIAM; b.; adm. (aged 11) Jan 1744/5 (Gibson's); left 1750.
SAWELL, THOMAS, son of Robert Sawell, Woburn, Beds., schoolmaster; b.; adm. (aged 12) Feb 1745/6 (Gibson's); KS 1749; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1753, adm. pens. 20 Jun 1753, scholar 3 May 1754; BA 1757; MA 1770; usher at his father’s school at Apsley, Beds.; ordained; Rector of Wavendon, Bucks., 2 Apr 1768, but resigned same year; Rector of Battlesden with Potsgrove, Beds., from 2 Jul 1775; Rector of Milbrooke, Beds. (disp. to hold with Battlesden 1775); lic. to m. 25 Oct 1775 Fanny Davies, St. Giles in the Fields, London; d. 6 Aug 1784.
WILLAUME, EDWARD, eldest son of David Willaume, Tingrith, Beds., and Elizabeth, dau. of Charles Dymoke, Ampthill, Beds.; bapt. Tingrith, Beds. 7 Oct 1736; adm. (aged 9) Feb 1745/6 (Gibson's); KS 1750; Capt. of the School 1754; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1755, adm. pens. 28 May 1755, scholar 14 May 1756, matr. 1756; BA 1759; MA 1770; adm. Middle Temple 7 Jul 1753; ordained priest (Winchester) Dec 1760; Rector of Cranley, Surrey 23 Dec 1760-4; Rector of Great Holland, Essex 1770; Rector of Bow Brickhill, Bucks., 1 Jun 1782 – Mar 1783; Rector of Tingrith, Beds., from May 1782; Prebendary of Lincoln from 11 May 1782; m. 11 Mar 1776 Essex, dau. of Charles Blackwell, The Strand, London; d. 13 Oct 1787.
BROWN, PETER; b.; adm. (aged 16) Feb 1746/7 (Gibson's); left 1748. [Probably Peter Browne-Kelly, 2nd Earl of Altamont (I), son of John Browne, 1st Earl of Altamont (I), and Anne, eldest surviving dau. of Sir Arthur Gore, Bart.; b.; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 26 Oct 1748, aged 17; assumed surname of Kelly on his marriage; MP (I) Co. Mayo [check]; succ. father as 2nd Earl of Altamont (I) 4 Jul 1776; m. 16 Apr 1752 Elizabeth, only dau. of Denis Kelly, Lisduffe, co. Galway, Ireland, Chief Justice of Jamaica; d. 28 Dec 1780] [Whitmore also thinks so]