SYNGE, SIR EDWARD, BART., eldest son of Sir Edward Synge, Bart. (in school list 1801, qv); b. 19 Nov 1809; adm. 23 Sep 1824 (G); left Mar 1828; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 29 Nov 1828; succ. father as 3rd baronet 22 Jul 1843; DL JP co. Cork, High Sheriff 1844; m. 1st, 16 Feb 1836 Margaret Jemima, younger dau. of Owen Saunders, Newton Saunders, co. Wicklow; m. 2nd, 18 Aug 1846 Anne, only dau. of Henry Irwin, Streamstown, co. Sligo; d. 13 Jan 1884.

Symons, Hugh Francis Brady, son of Percival Washington Symons MRCS, med. practitioner, of Crouch End, Middx, and Dorothy Cathleen, d. of James Brady IA, of Chiswick; b. 23 Sept. 1916; adm. Sept. 1931 (A); left July 1935; St Mary's Hosp. Med. Sch., MRCS LRCP 1942; house appts 1942-3; RAMC 1943-6 (Capt.); DPhysMed (Lond.) 1950; first asst Physical Medicine Middx Hosp. and consult. rheumatologist St George's Hosp. 1949-81; d. 13 June 2009.

SYMONDS, THOMAS, son of Samuel Symonds, Moreton, Berks.; b. 23 Jul 1709; adm. (aged 8) Jun 1719; Min. Can. 1724; KS 1725; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1729, adm. pens. 10 Jun 1729, scholar 17 Apr 1730, matr. 1729; BA 1732/3; MA 1736; BD and DD 1773; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1735, Major Fellow 3 Jul 1736; ordained priest (Norwich) Mar 1733/4; Vicar of Kendal, Westmorland, from 1745; m. Esther ---; d. 16 Feb 1789. [presumably m. 16 Nov 1773 Esther Scott (IGI)]

Symonds, Kenneth Morland, son of James William Guy Symonds (qv); b. 5 Sept. 1907; adm. Sept. 1921 (R); left July 1925; Cadet RN Jan. 1926, Midshipman (E) Jan. 1927, Sub­ Lieut. Jan. 1929, Lieut. Oct. 1931, Lieut.-Cdr Oct. 1939, Cdr June 1943, Capt. June 1953; DSC (Med.) Nov. 1942, Bar to DSC Mar. 1944; dep. Dir. Underwater Weapons Material, Admiralty, 1957; m. 14 Mar. 1936 Anne Ryder, d. of John Basil Armitage of Bowdon, Cheshire; d. 3 Dec. 1968.

Symonds, James William Guy, only son of James Sexton Simonds, Superintendent of the London Fire Brigade, by Annie Guy Spence; b. Nov. 29, 1877; adm. Sept. 25, 1890 (R); left July 1895; assumed the surname of Symonds in lieu of Simonds; temp. Lieut.-Col. R.F.A. May 1, 1915; served in British East Africa and France; wounded at Flers Oct. 1916; employed Ministry of Munitions; demob. June 1919; mentioned in despatches L.G. Jan. 4, May 18, and Dec. 14, 1917; D.S.O. June 4, 1917; served during Great War II as Fire Adviser Grade I at the Home Office; C.B.E. Jan. 1, 1945; m. Anne Morland, daughter of Thomas Richardson, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne; d. Aug. 1951.

SYMONDS, ---; b.; adm.; KS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1655 (Buttery Book), but did not matr. and his name is not found in Alum. Oxon.

SYMNS, ROBERT CORSER MONTFORT, eldest son of Rev. John Edward Symns, Headmaster, Bancroft’s School, Woodford, Essex, and Mary, second dau. of Robert Corser, Redhill, Surrey; b. 30 Sep 1867; at St. Paul’s Sch. 1878-9; adm. 16 Jun 1881; QS 1881; left Easter 1884; went to King’s Coll. Sch.; Balliol Coll. Oxford, matr. 16 Oct 1886; Indian Civil Service 1886; arrived in Burma 12 Dec 1888; Assistant Commissioner, Burma 1888; acting Under-Secretary and acting Deputy Commissioner Feb 1901; retd. Oct 1913; m. 3 Jan 1894 Mary Pauline, second dau. of William Jones, Tunbridge Wells, Kent; d. 6 Apr 1929.

Symmons, Robert Lawrence, son of Robert William Symmons, sen. PSO Min. of Supply, and Clarimonde Athalia, d. of William Edward Henry Anthony of Cardiff, Glamorgan; b. 26 June 1937; adm. Sept. 1950 (KS); left Dec. 1954; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1955; d. 7 July 1958.

SYMMONS, JOHN, elder son of Charles Symmons (qv); b. 1781; adm. 31 Oct 1794 (Clapham) (see also E. B. Impey, Memoirs of Sir Elijah Impey, 1846, 376); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 11 Apr 1799, aged 18, Canoneer Student; BA 1803; MA 1806; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 21 Jan 1801, called to bar 23 Nov 1807; Welsh Circuit; FRS (by 1831); FSA (by 1831); assisted his father in a revised version of his translation of Virgil, published 1820; his translation of Aeschylus’s Agamemnon, published 1824, was much praised; his intimate friend Henry Fynes-Clinton (qv) recorded that Symmons’s extraordinary faculties “qualified him to rise to the very first rank of critical scholars” (Literary Remains, 1854, 10); Dr. Parr also speaks of his “capacious and retentive memory” and of his “various and extensive learning”; d. probably 1842. DNB.

Symington, Ian William Andrew, son of Andrew Symington of Surbiton, Surrey, and Mabel Elizabeth, d. of Thomas Armstrong, sheep farmer, of Australia; b. 27 May 1911; adm. Apr. 1925 (R); left July 1929; Gordon Highlanders 1940-5 (Maj.), Croix de Guerre 1945; chairman and man. dir. Ghana Aluminium Products Ltd; retd 1970; m. 18 May 1940 Elsa Marion, d. of Ernest Markham Lee MusD, composer and author, of Effingham, Surrey; d. 13 Mar. 2002.