WICKHAM, HENRY LEWIS, only son of Right Hon. William Wickham PC DCL MP, Bingley, Yorkshire, politician and administrator, Chief Secretary for Ireland, and Eléonore Madeleine, dau. of Louis Bertrand, Professor of Mathematics, Geneva Univ.; b. 19 May 1789; adm. 29 Mar 1799; in school list 1801; KS 1803; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1807, matr. 13 May 1807, Westminster Student; BA 1811; MA 1813; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 30 Apr 1811, called to bar 13 may 1817; Receiver-Gen., Gibraltar; Private Secretary to Viscount Althorp MP when Chancellor of the Exchequer Dec 1830 – Jun 1833; a Commissioner of Excise Dept. Inquiry 1833; a Commissioner for the French Claims 1838; Chairman, Board of Stamps and Taxes 1838-48; Busby Trustee 16 Jun 1846; joint author with his cousin John Antony Cramer (qv) of Dissertation on the Passage of Hannibal over the Alps; m. 19 Jun 1830 Lucy, youngest dau. of William Markham (adm. 1767, qv); d. 27 Oct 1864. DNB.

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.

THELWALL, SIR EUBULE, fifth son of John Wynn Thelwall, Batharfan Park, near Ruthin, Denbighshire, and Jane, dau. of Thomas Griffith, Pant-y-Llongdu, Denbighshire; b.; adm.; a pensioner 1563 (tutor, the Dean); QS; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1572, adm. scholar 1573; BA 1576/7 (incorp. Oxford 14 Jul 1579 ); MA Oxford 1580; adm. Gray’s Inn 2 Jul 1590, called to bar 13 May 1599, Bencher 7 Feb 1623/4, Treasurer 1625; a Master in Chancery from 11 Jan 1617; knighted 29 Jun 1619; Principal, Jesus Coll. Oxford, from May 1621; obtained a new charter for his college in 1622, and rebuilt the Principal’s Lodgings there at his own expense; MP Denbighshire 1623-4, 1625-6, 1627-8; d. unm. 8 Oct 1630. DNB.

TOMLINSON, SIR WILLIAM EDWARD MURRAY, BART., eldest son of Thomas Tomlinson, Heysham, Lancs., barrister, Bencher Inner Temple, and Sarah, only child of Rev. Roger Mashiter, Bolton-le-Sands, Lancs.; b. 4 Aug 1838; adm. 29 Jan 1852; QS Mar 1854; left 1855; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 15 May 1856; BA 1860; MA 1863; adm. Inner Temple 30 Mar 1860, called to bar 26 Jan 1865; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 4 Apr 1878; law reporter in Chancery Division for Incorporated Council; member, Inns of Court Board of Examiners 1877; MP (Conservative) Preston Nov 1882-1906; created baronet 11 Aug 1902; of Heysham House, Morecambe, Lancs.; DL JP Lancashire; Senior Grand Deacon, Grand Lodge (Freemasons), from 1896; first Master, Old Westminster Lodge, which was consecrated 20 Jan 1888; Busby Trustee 16 Jun 1896; d. unm. 17 Dec 1912.

TRELAWNY, EDWARD, fourth son of Sir Jonathan Trelawny, Bart. (qv); bapt. 9 Jul 1699; adm.; QS (Capt. ) 1713; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1717, matr. 27 Jun 1717, Westminster Student 20 Dec 1717 - vacated 11 Jul 1721, when re-entered as gentleman commoner; adm. Inner Temple 2 Jun 1715; MP West Looe 20 Jan 1724 - Dec 1732; a Commissioner for Victualling 21 Oct 1725 – 9 Mar 1732/3; a Commissioner of Customs, Scotland 1732-7; elected MP for both West and East Looe at general election 1734, but disqualified for sitting for either, as being a Commissioner of Customs; Governor of Jamaica 30 Apr 1738 - Sep 1752; an able and efficient administrator; settled the Maroons; Col., 49th Foot, from 25 Dec 1743; took part in expedition against Cartagena 1742 and in capture of Port Louis, San Domingo 1748; returned to England 1753; m. 1st, 6 Nov 1737 Amoretta, dau. of John Crawford (and “niece to Countess of Dartmouth” (GM)); m. 2nd, 2 Feb 1752 Catherine, widow of Robert Penny, Attorney-Gen., Jamaica, and dau. of John Douce, Clarendon, Jamaica; d. 16 Jan 1754. DNB. [Perhaps Lieut., 6th Dragoons 1724-6].

Van Straubenzee, Sir William Radcliffe, son of Brig. Arthur Bowen van Straubenzee DSO MC RA, and Margaret Joan, d. of Alexander Nelson Radcliffe of Bag Park, Widecombe-in-the­Moor, Devon; b. 27 Jan. 1924; adm. Sept. 1937 (G); left July 1942; RA 1939-45 (Maj. DAA and QMG Far East); adm. solicitor Mar. 1952, practised in London; chmn. Young Conservatives 1951-3; hon. sec. Westminster Boys’ Club 1952-65, chmn. 1965-8; MBE 1954; contested (Cons. ) Clapham 1955; MP (Cons. ) Wokingham 1959-87; PPS to Min. of Education 1960-2; Parliamentary under-sec. State, Ministry of Education and Science 1970-2; Minister of State, Northern Ireland 1972-4; knighted 1981; member, House of Laity, Church Assembly, Church of England 1965-70, General Synod 1975-87; a Church commissioner 1968-87, Second Church Estates Commissioner 1979-87; d. 2 Nov. 1999.

VENABLES-VERNON, GEORGE, 2ND BARON VERNON, eldest son of George Venables-Vernon, 1st Baron Vernon, and his first wife Hon. Mary Howard, dau. of Thomas Howard, 6th Baron Howard of Effingham; b. 9 May 1735; adm. Jul 1742 (Stephens'); left 1745; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm. 12 Jan 1753, matr. Easter 1755; MP Weobley 7 Dec 1757-61, Bramber 4 May 1762-8, Glamorgan 1768 - 21 Aug 1780; succ. father as 2nd Baron Vernon 21 Aug 1780; m. 1st, 16 Jul 1757 Hon. Louisa Barberina Mansel, dau. of Bussey Mansel, 4th Baron Mansel (qv, ?); m. 2nd, 25 May 1786 Georgiana, dau. of William Fauquier, St. Georgeís, Hanover Square, London; d. 18 Jun 1813.

WYCHE, SIR CYRIL, second son of Right Hon. Sir Peter Wyche, PC, Kt, English Ambassador at Constantinople, and Jane, dau. of Sir William Meredith, Kt, Wrexham, Denbighshire; b.; a godson of Cyril Loukaris, Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople, after whom he was named; adm.; KS in 1649; contributed a copy of verses to Lacrimae Musarum, 1649; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 27 Nov 1650; BA 17 Feb 1652/3; MA 1655; DCL 1665; LLD Dublin 1692; adm. Gray’s Inn 1 May 1657, called to bar 15 Jun 1670; knighted at The Hague May 1660; one of the Six Clerks in Chancery 28 Jan 1662-75; MP Callington May 1661 – Jan 1678/9, East Grinstead Feb – Mar 1680/1, Saltash 1685-7, Preston 1702-5; Chief Secretary to Duke of Ormonde, Lord Lieut. Ireland 1677-82, and to Henry Sidney, Lord Lieut. Ireland, Sep 1692 – Jul 1693; MP (I) Dublin University 17 Sep 1692 – 26 Jun 1693; Privy Councillor (I) 1692; one of the Lord Justices of Ireland 1693-5; a Commissioner for Irish Forfeitures 1700; FRS 20 May 1663, President 30 Nov 1683 – 30 Nov 1684; lic. to m. 1st, 2 Aug 1663 Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Thomas Jermyn, Rushbrooke, Suffolk; lic. to m. 2nd, 29 Jul 1684 Susanna, dau. of Sir Herbert Perrott, Kt, MP, Haroldstone, Pembs., and dau. of Sir Francis Norreys, Kt, Weston on the Green, Oxfordshire; m. 3rd, 15 May 1692 Mary, eldest dau. of George Evelyn, Wotton, Surrey; d. 29 Dec 1707. DNB.

WYNDHAM, HON. PERCY CHARLES, second son of Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont (qv); b. 23 Sep 1757; adm. 17 Oct 1765; KS (Capt. ) 1769; Capt. of the School 1773; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1774, but did not matr.; Chancery Registrar, Jamaica 1763 (still 1780); Secretary and Clerk of the Courts, and Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas, Barbados May 1763 - 1820; MP Chichester 11 Mar 1782-4, Midhurst 1790-6; d. unm. 5 Aug 1833.

COURTENAY, HON. THOMAS PEREGRINE, younger son of Henry Reginald Courtenay (adm. 1751, qv); b. 31 May 1782; adm. ; KS 1796; a Junior Clerk, Treasury, 23 May 1799-1802; Cashier of the Stationery Office, 13 Jul 1802; Principal Registrar under Land Tax Redemption Acts 1806-13; Deputy Paymaster-General of the Forces 1807-11; MP Totnes 22 Oct 1811-32; Secretary to Board of Control 20 Aug 1812-28; Vice-President, Board of Trade, 30 May 1828 -Nov 1830; Privy Councillor 30 May 1828; member, Board of Control, 31 Jul 1828 - Nov 1830; author, Memoir of the Life and Works of Sir William Temple, Bart. , 1836, and other works; m. 5 Apr 1805 Anne, dau. of Mayow Wynell-Mayow, Sydenham, Kent; drowned while bathing in sea near Torquay, Devon, 8 Jul 1841. DNB.