St. John, Hon. Ambrose, younger brother of Hon. Henry St. John (qv); b. 17 Oct 1743; at school in 1757 (Porten's); Brasenose Coll. Oxford, matr. 15 Oct 1762; ordained deacon 11 Aug 1771, priest 22 Sep 1771 (both Lincoln); Rector of Bledsoe, Bedfordshire, from 23 Sep 1771 ; d. unm. 18 Jul 1775.

SQUIRE, RALPH TYNDALL, second son of William Stevens Squire PhD, St. John’s Wood Park, London, chemical engineer, and Annie, dau. of Rev. Robert Littler; b. 10 Sep 1863; adm. 27 Jan 1876 (G); left Aug 1882; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, matr. Mich. 1882; BA 1885; MA 1889; played Association Football for Cambridge 1884, 1886, and for England v. Scotland, Wales and Ireland 1886; President, Corinthian Football Club 1933; yeast merchant (1901 Census); President, Elizabethan Club 1933-7; m. 15 Apr 1891 Constance, younger dau. of Joseph Allen, Abercorn Place, St. John’s Wood; d. 22 Aug 1944.

Squire, John Rupert, son of Alfred Eustace Squire of Kingston-on-Thames and Elsie Mary, d. of Moses Charles Le Brun of Jersey; b. 20 Aug. 1915; adm. Sept. 1928 (H), non-res. KS Sept. 1929; left July 1933; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1933, BA 1936 (1st class hons Nat. Sci. Trip. Pt2), MA 1949; MRCS LRCP MB 1939; MRCP 1941, MD 1949, FRCP 1950; RAMC in WW2 (temp. Lieut.-Col.), despatches (Burmal Sept. 1946; Leith Prof. in Experimental Pathology Univ. of Birmingham; Dir. MRC Clinica Res. Centre; author of numerous publications in scientific and medical journals; m. 21 June 1940 Marguerite Mary, d. of George R. Lewty, engineer; d. 6 Jan. 1966.

SQUIBB, ARTHUR, son of John Squibb, Winterborne Whitchurch, Dorset, and Lucy, dau. of Henry Harbin, Duntish, Buckland Norton, Dorset [thus Whitmore]; b.; adm.; KS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1656, matr. 18 Mar 1656/7, Westminster Student (to c. 1674); BA 17 Jan 1659/60; MA 1662; ordained; Vicar of Netherbury, Dorset, from 1673; d. 1697. [Alternatively, Arthur Squib, son of Richard Squib, and Ann ---, bapt. St. Botolph Bishopsgate 9 Oct 1641 (IGI)].

SQUIB, ---; b. ; adm. ; KS 1640 (Bodleian Library, Tanner MSS lxix, f. 140).

SPURWAY, WILLIAM, eldest son of Rev. John Spurway, Rector of Pitt Tiverton, Devon, and his first wife Elizabeth, dau. of Rev. Thomas Hole, Rector of Georgeham, Devon; b. 3 Dec 1824; adm. 28 Jan 1841 (Benthall's); left May 1843; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 9 Jun 1843; BA 1847; MA 1850; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 5 Jun 1847, called to bar 13 Jun 1851; of Spurway and Oakford, Devon; d. unm. 8 Dec 1893.

Spurgin, Anthony Martin, son of Percy Bertram Spurgin MRCS and Hilda Gertrude, d. of Wil­liam Mildred of Chigwell, Essex; b. 11 Nov. 1910; adm. Sept. 1924 (A); left July 1929; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1929; took part in notable OUDS productions of Shakespeare 1931-2; appeared in Giles Playfair's "Oxford Blazers" 1932-3; Roy. Coll. of Music 1934-6; a composer and per­former; original pianist for "Ridgway's Late Joys" at the Players' Theatre; RA in WW2, drafted into "Stars in Battledress", touring European bases 1944-5; has composed sundry works for orchestra, brass and military bands, including an orchestral setting in waltz time of the song "Nos Elizae laudibus nomen cumulamus" for performance at a Westminster Ball; m. 1st 23 Feb. 1943 Eileen Stanton, Sgt ATS, of Topsham, Devon; 2nd 11 Nov. 1960 Lily Louise, d. of Charles Alexander Narvige, master butcher, of Paddington; d. 6 Feb. 2001.

Spry, Robert Graham Michel, son of Graham Spry OC LLD, Agent-Gen. for the Province of Saskatchewan in UK and Europe, and Prof. Irene Mary Biss Spry, political economist, d. of Evan East Biss of Wookey Hole, Somerset; b. 25 Oct. 1939; adm. Sept. 1953 (G); left July 1957; Univ. Coll. Oxf., matric. 1958; BA 1961, MA 1967; LSE, MSc 1964; film maker, Nat. Film Board of Canada; Robert Flaherty award, Soc. of Film & TV Arts and Blue Ribbon award American Film Festival 1969; m. 15 June 1973 Carmel, d. of John Dumas, civil servant, of Quebec, Canada; d. 28 Mar. 2005.

Spry, Richard Daniel Evan, brother of Robert Graham Michel Spry (qv); b. 27 Feb. 1944; adm. May 1957 (G); left July 1962; Univ. of Grenoble, France 1962-3; Univ. Coll. Oxf., matric. 1963, BA 1967, MA 1971; office man. for Pierre Trudeau during Canadian election campaign 1968; worked for CBC Montreal and Radio News & Public Affairs Winnipeg, Canada; m. Deirdre Heggtreit; d. 3 Aug. 1973.

Spry, Charles Gordon Arthur Purkis, son of Charles Gordon Spry CB, Special Commissioner Inland Revenue, of Putney, and Thyra Letitia, d. of Samuel Purkis, tea merchant, of Gerrards Cross, Bucks; b. 3 May 1897; adm. May 1911 (H); left Dec. 1915; RAF 1918-9 (Lieut.), attd Admiralty Central Hydrogen Dept; a consulting engineer, FCIBSE AIMechE 1920; acted pro fessionally for Viscount Mountbatten of Burma at Brook House, Park Lane, and at Broadlands, Hants, and for the late Duke of Westminster on his yacht Flying Cloud; installed all-electric heat­ing at Barclays Bank head office; sen. Trustee United Westminster Almshouses; d. 14 Jan. 1990.