MURRAY, WILLIAM DAVID, 3RD EARL OF MANSFIELD (cr. 1776) and 4TH EARL OF MANSFIELD (cr. 1792), eldest son of David William Murray, 3rd Earl of Mansfield (qv); b. 21 Feb 1806; styled Viscount Stormont 1806-40; adm. 19 Sep 1816 (Packharness'); left Christmas 1822; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 14 Apr 1823; MP (Cons) Aldborough 1830-1 New Woodstock 1831-2 Norwich 1832-7 Perthshire 1837 – 18 Feb 1840; a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury 1834-5; succ. father as 4th Earl of Mansfield (cr. 1792) 18 Feb 1840, and grandmother as 3rd Earl of Mansfield (cr. 1776) 11 Jul 1843; took Conservative whip, House of Lords; Lord High Commissioner to General Assembly, Church of Scotland 1852, 1858-9; Lord Lieut., Clackmannanshire, from 1852; KT 13 Jun 1843; “father” of the House of Lords; m. 8 Apr 1829 Louisa, dau. of Cuthbert Ellison MP, Hepburn Hall, co. Durham; d. 2 Aug 1898.

JEPHSON, WILLIAM, second son of William Jephson, Froyle, Hampshire; b.; at school in 1657; KS 1663; adm. Middle Temple 8 May 1665, called to bar 9 May 1673; MP East Grinstead Oct 1679 – Jan 1681, Chipping Wycombe from 1689; Private Secretary to William III Nov 1688-Jul 1689; Secretary to the Treasury from Apr 1689; m. c. 1674 Mary, dau. of William Lewis MP, The Van, Glamorgan; d. 7 Jun 1691.

KEMP, THOMAS READ, younger but only surviving son of Thomas Kemp MP, Lewes, Sussex, wool-stapler, and Anne, dau. of Henry Read, Brookland, Kent; b. 1782; adm. 31 Mar 1796 (Clapham); in school list 1797; left Christmas 1797 (?); St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. 5 Nov 1800; BA 1805; MA 1810; adm. Middle Temple 16 May 1804; MP Lewes 10 May 1811 – Mar 1816, Arundel 21 Feb 1823-6, Lewes 1826 – Apr 1837; the developer of the Kemp Town suburb of Brighton; m. 1st, 12 Jul 1806 Frances, fourth dau. of Sir Francis Baring, Bart. MP; m. 2nd, 26 Nov 1832 Frances Margaretta, widow of Vigors Harvey, Killaine Castle, co. Wexford, and dau. of Charles William John Shakerley (qv); d. at Paris 20 Dec 1846. DNB.

MACKINNON, LAUGHLAN BELLINGHAM, brother of William Alexander Mackinnon (qv); b. 21 Apr 1815; adm. 2 Jul 1828 (Stelfox's); entered Royal Navy 1 Oct 1829; Lieut., 10 Feb 1842; Cdr., 1 Nov 1847; retd. 1 Jul 1864; MP Rye 1865-8; m. 9 Aug 1842 Augusta, younger dau. of John Entwistle MP, Foxholes, Rochdale, Lancs.; d. 10 Jul 1877.

MARSH, MATTHEW HENRY, eldest son of Rev. Matthew Marsh, Canon Residentiary of Salisbury, and Margaret, dau. of Rev. Peter Bellinger Brodie, Rector of Winterslow, Wilts.; b. 12 Sep 1810; adm. 3 Jun 1822 (G); KS 1824; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1828, matr. 16 May 1828, Westminster Student, subsequently Faculty Student; BA 1833; MA 1835; adm. Inner Temple 25 Jan 1833, called to bar 29 Apr 1836; KC Duchy of Lancaster Dec 1837 – Jan 1840; emigrated to Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1840, where he made a large fortune and was a member of the Legislative Council 1851-5; returned to England 1855; MP (Liberal) Salisbury 1857-68; DL JP Wiltshire; m. 25 Jul 1844 Eliza Mary Anne, sister of Sir William Lockyer Merewether (qv); d. 26 Jan 1881.

MARTON, GEORGE, eldest son of Col. George Richard Marton, Capernwray Hall, Lancs., and Anne, dau. of Col. --- Pocklington, Chelsworth, Suffolk; b. 31 Mar 1800; adm. 29 Mar 1815 (Best's); left 11 Dec 1817; Trinity Hall, Cambridge; MP (Cons) Lancaster 1837-47; DL JP Lancashire, High Sheriff 1858; JP Westmorland; a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber 1843; m. 26 Nov 1833 Lucy Sarah, sister of Robert William Dallas (qv); d. 24 Nov 1867.

NOWELL, LAURENCE, son of Alexander Nowell, Read Hall, Whalley, Lancs., and Grace, dau. of Rafe Catherall, Mitton, Lancs.; a kinsman of Alexander Nowell, Head Master; b. c. 1531 (aged 19 at 12 Apr 1550); adm.; KS; left 1549 (Chapter Muniments); Christ Church, Oxford, residing 1550-3, Student in 1552-3 (name in college buttery books to 24 Dec 1554); BA 1552; studying and travelling in France and Flanders 1553-4; tutor to “Mr. Harringeton’s sons” (perhaps sons of Sir James Harington, Exton, Rutland) in France and at Padua, Italy, before Dec 1558; probably the individual of this name who was MP Knaresborough Jan – May 1559; joined household of William Cecil c. 1562; a pioneer cartographer and one of the earliest scholars to take a serious interest in manuscripts of the Anglo-Saxon period; left England 25 Mar 1567; subsequent travels on the European continent took him to Paris, Venice, Padua, Vienna, Basel, Leipzig (by Aug 1569) and Freiburg im Breisgau (Oct 1569); not subsequently heard of; his chattels in England had been left by him in the possession of his close friend and fellow antiquary William Lambarde, who was asked to hand them over to Nowell’s family in a complaint filed in the Court of Requests in 1571; his Vocabularium Saxonicum, surviving in manuscript, was first published in 1952; William Camden describes him as “vir rara doctrina insignis, & qui Saxonicam maiorum nostrorum linguam … primus nostra aetate resuscitavit”; for his career and scholarly achievement see Carl T. Berkhout, “Laurence Nowell (1530 – ca. 1570)”, in Helen Damico (and others) (ed), Medieval scholarship, Biographical, Studies on the Formation of a Discipline, New York, 1998.

PAGET, HON. SIR ARTHUR, brother of Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey (qv); b. 15 Jan 1771; adm. 10 Apr 1780; KS 1783; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1787, matr. 8 Jun 1787, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1787 – void by absence 22 Dec 1792 (not having resided since 1790); Secretary to Embassy, St. Petersburg 1791-4; MP Anglesey 22 Nov 1794-1807; Envoy Extraordinary to Berlin 1794, to Elector Palatine 1798-9, to Naples 1800-1 and to Vienna 1801-5; Privy Councillor 4 Jan 1804; Ambassador to Constantinople Jun – Oct 1807; KB 21 May 1804; GCB 2 Jan 1815; m. 16 Feb 1809 Lady Augusta Fane, divorced wife of John Parker, 2nd Baron Boringdon (afterwards 1st Earl of Morley), and second dau. of John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland (qv); d. 26 Jul 1840. DNB.

MORDAUNT, HON. HARRY, brother of Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough and 1st Earl of Monmouth (qv); b. 29 Mar 1663; adm.; KS (Capt. ) 1676; tried at the Old Bailey 15 Oct 1679, with David Jones and John Osbaldeston (qvv), for murder of a bailiff, but acquitted (Elizabethan xviii, 83); elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1680, matr. 17 Dec 1680, Westminster Student 18 Dec 1680 – void 1687; BA 1684; Lieut. of a corps of Christ Church and other men who trained privately in Peckwater Quadrangle during the panic caused by Monmouth’s rebellion (Wood, Ath. Oxon., i, cii-ciii); adm. Middle Temple 12 Feb 1673/4; Col. of a Regt. of Foot 25 Apr 1694; Commander in Chief, Guernsey 1 Apr 1697; Treasurer of the Ordnance 8 Jun 1699 – Jun 1702, 28 May 1705 – Jun 1712, and from 2 Dec 1714; Brig. -Gen., 29 Aug 1704; Maj. -Gen., 1 Jan 1706; Lieut. -Gen., 1 Jan 1709; MP Brackley Jan 1691/2-8, Jan 1700/1-2, 1705-8, Richmond from 1708; m. 1st, Margaret, natural dau. of Sir Thomas Spencer, Bart.; m. 2nd, Penelope, dau. of William Tipping, Ewelme, Oxfordshire; d. 4 Jan 1719/20 (M. I. Dauntsey, Wilts. ).

LOW, SIR FREDERICK, eldest son of Stephen Philpot Low, Sydenham, Kent, banker, and Hannah, dau. of Arthur Austin, Little Shelford, Cambs.; b. 21 Nov 1856; adm. 22 Sep 1870 (G); left Aug 1871; adm. solicitor Apr 1878; practised in King Street, Cheapside, City of London, firm Turner and Low; adm. Middle Temple 16 May 1889, called to bar 30 Apr 1890, Bencher 26 Jan 1911; South-Eastern Circuit; KC 1902; Recorder of Ipswich 1906-15; a Commissioner of Assize 1912-5; contested (Liberal) Salisbury 1900 Clapham 1906; MP (Liberal) Norwich Jan 1910 – Jan 1915; knighted 1909; a Judge of the High Court, King’s Bench Division, from Jan 1915; m. 28 Jun 1882 Katherine, fourth dau. of Charles Thompson, Park Square, Regent’s Park, London; d. 4 Sep 1917.