CHURCHILL, ARTHUR LINDSAY MAURY; b. Ceylon 21 May 1865; adm. (J) 25 Sep 1879; left Aug 1881; Westminster Hospital; LSA 1895, LMSSA 1907; Assistant Medical Officer, Wonford Hospital, and County Asylum, Lancaster; general medical practitioner at Mevagissey, Cornwall; Lieut., RAMC, attached Hampshire RHA (TF), 17 Dec 1914; Capt., attached 18th (Co. of London) Batt., London Regt. (London Irish Rifles), 17 Jun 1915; d. on active service 24 Jun 1917.

CHURCHILL, CHARLES, eldest son of Charles Churchill (adm. 1717/8, qv); b. Feb 1731/2; adm. (aged 9) May 1741; KS (Capt. ) 1745; left 1748 [or 1747 ?]; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 8 Jul 1748; ordained deacon (Wells) 22 Sep 1754, priest (Rochester for London) 19 Dec 1756; Curate, South Cadbury and Sparkford, Somerset, 1754-6, and to his father at Rainham, Essex, 1756-8; Curate and Lecturer, St. John the Evangelist, Westminster, 1758-63; became involved in debt, and was in danger of imprisonment until befriended by Pierson Lloyd (qv), who induced the creditors to accept a composition; author of the poems The Rosciad and The Apology, published in 1761; by their sale he is said to have cleared no less than £2000; became an intimate friend of John Wilkes, with whom he worked on The North Briton; his poems satirised Hogarth, Bute, Sandwich, and others; his literary career, although brief, was brilliant; although he led a reckless and extravagant life, his generosity was undoubted and he remained an unwavering friend of Robert Lloyd (qv); William Cowper (qv) held him in high estimation as a poet and called him the “great Churchill” (Works of William Cowper, 1836, vi, 9-10); for an account of Byron’s visit to his grave at Dover, see Lord Broughton’s Recollections of a Long Life, i, 335; his collected works were published in two volumes, 1763-4; m. c. 1749 Martha Scott, Westminster; d. at Boulogne, 4 Nov 1764. DNB.

CHURCHILL, CHARLES, youngest son of John Churchill, Westminster; b.; adm. (aged 9) Mar 1717/8; KS 1723; left 1725; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 2 Mar 1725/6, matr. 1726; adm. Inner Temple 17 Jan 1723/4; ordained deacon 24 Dec 1732, priest 19 Feb 132/3 (both London); Curate and Lecturer, St. John the Evangelist, Westminster, from 1733; Vicar of Rainham, Essex, from 31 Mar 1742; m.; d. 7 Sep 1758. [Presumably Charles Churchill, son of John Churchill, and Mary ---, bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 13 Sep 1708 (IGI)]

Circuitt, Arthur John Langdale, brother of George Francis Langdale Circuitt (q.v.); b. June 14, 1888; adm. May 3, 1900 (H); left July 1907; temp. 2nd Lieut. 12th (Serv.) Batt. the Royal Fusiliers Nov. 14, 1914; Lieut. Sept. 1, 1916; wounded; m. Jan. 2, 1915, Marie Rose, only daughter of George Vincent Emsell.

Circuitt, Clifford Marmaduke Langdale, brother of George Francis Langdale Circuitt (q.v.); b. March 22, 1890; adm. April 26, 1901 (H); left July 1909; 2nd Lieut. 16th Batt. London Regt. (T. F.) April 11, 1915; Lieut. June 1, 1916; adm. a member of the London Stock Exchange 1923; m. April 10, 1920, Winifred, only daughter of H. W. Crocker, of London; d. Oct. 3, 1937.

Circuitt, George Francis Langdale, eldest son of Arthur John Wright Circuitt, of Pimlico, by Edith, youngest daughter of Alfred Langdale, of Churt, Farnham, Surrey; b. Dec. 30, 1886; adm. April 28, 1898 (H); left July 1905; formerly a bill broker in London; joined the ranks of 28th Batt. London Regt. in Sept. 1914; Capt. R. A. S. C. May 15, 1918; demob. March 1919; mentioned in despatches L. G. Jan. 6, 1919; M.B.E. June 3, 1918; m. July 18, 1919, Helen Rosamund Hope, eldest daughter of Alfred Septimus Powell, of Hampstead.

CIRCUITT, GEORGE JOSEPH, brother of Robert William Perry Circuitt (qv); b. 5 Dec 1847; adm. 23 Jun 1859; QS 1862; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1866, but never adm.; d. Sep 1870.

CIRCUITT, RICHARD WILLIAM PERRY, son of George James Circuitt, Woburn, Beds., and Mary Porter (IGI); b. 3 Oct 1846; adm. 27 Jan 1859; QS 3 Oct 1861; left Whitsun 1865; King’s Coll. London, AKC 1869; ordained deacon 1869, priest 1871 (both Winchester); held several curacies 1869-78; Vicar of Cholsey, Berks., 1878-85; Rector of St. Luke’s, Heywood, Lancs., 1885-1900; Vicar of Brixham with Churston Ferrers, Devon, from 1900; m. (by 1881) Sally A. --- (1881 Census); d. 26 Sep 1920.

CLABON, WILLIAM MONTAGU ROBERT, only son of John Moxon Clabon, Sevenoaks, Kent, solicitor, and Jane Lewis, dau. of John Alfred Wigan, Clare House, East Malling, Kent; b. 5 Jan 1858; adm. (G) 12 Jun 1868; left Dec 1868; went to Market Bosworth Sch.; at Radley Coll. Mich 1871 - Easter 1876; articled to firm of solicitors, Maidstone, Kent; accidentally killed while getting in to a train at Gravesend Railway Station 15 Jul 1876.

CLAPCOTT, HENRY, son of George Bunter Clapcott, Tarrant Keyneston, Dorset, and Eliza, dau. of Rev. James Dowland DD, Whitchurch, Dorset; b. 28 Nov 1830; adm. 12 Jan 1844 (Scott's); QS 1845; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1849, adm. pens. 19 May 1849, scholar 1850, matr. Mich. 1849; BA 1853; emigrated to Dunedin, New Zealand, where he took up sheep farming; JP New Zealand; m. 8 Dec 1858 Mary Jane, second dau. of Maj. --- Power, 60th Foot.