COURTENAY, WILLIAM, eldest son of Henry Reginald Courtenay (adm. 1724/5, qv); b. 9 Sep 1738; adm. Jun 1748 (Porten's); KS 1752; Capt. of the School 1756; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1757, matr. 8 Jun 1757, Westminster Student 5 Jan 1758 - 8 Nov 1760, void on election to Fellowship All Souls; BA 1761; MA 1774; Fellow, All Souls Coll., 1760; adm. Middle Temple 30 Dec 1761; ordained deacon 29 May 1774, priest 24 Jun 1774 (both Winchester); Rector of Kenn, Devon, 29 Jun 1774; Rector of Little Hempston, Devon, 1777; patentee of the Subpoena Office in Court of Chancery from 26 May 1778; m. 31 Dec 1764 Anne, dau. of John Downes, Otterbury, Hampshire; d. 27 Nov 1783.

COURTENAY, WILLIAM, 10TH EARL OF DEVON, elder son of Henry Reginald Courtenay (adm. 1751, qv); b. 19 Jun 1777; adm. ; in school list Dec 1788; KS 1790; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1794, matr. 18 Jun 1794, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1794 - 15 Dec 1804, void by marriage; BA 1798; MA 1801; DCL 1837; patentee of the Subpoena Office in Court of Chancery 1784-1852, when office abolished; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 3 Dec 1793, Tancred Law Scholar, called to bar 11 Jun 1799; a Commissioner of Bankrupts (appears in annual lists 1801-17); Recorder of Exeter 1814; a Master in Chancery 30 Jul 1817 - 23 Mar 1826; MP Exeter 1812 - Jan 1826; Clerk Assistant, House of Lords 8 Feb 1826 - 26 May 1835; succ. cousin as 10th Earl of Devon 26 May 1835; High Steward, University of Oxford, from 1838; an Ecclesiastical Commissioner 21 Jan 1842 - Aug 1850; Busby Trustee 26 May 1826; m. 1st, 29 Nov 1804 Lady Harriet Leslie, dau. of Sir Lucas Pepys, Bart. , MD FRS FRCP, by the Countess of Rothes; m. 2nd, 30 Jan 1849 Elizabeth Ruth, dau. of Rev. John Middleton Scott, Ballygrannon, co. Wicklow; d. 19 Mar 1859.

Court-Treatt, Chaplin, son of Richard Court Treatt, of Kensington, by Florence Blanche, daughter of William Edward Bartlett, of Kensington; b. Sept. 1888; adm. Jan. 14, 1904 (A); left July 1908; studied art; enlisted in the Artists' Rifles 1914; joined the R. F. C. in 1915 and, served in France; severely injured in 1916; Flight-Lieut. R.A.F. April 1, 1918; afterwards on the staff in Egypt until the Armistice; acting Major May 1, 1919; African survey party; with his wife and four companions crossed Africa in motor cars, left Cape Town Sept. 23, 1924, and after surmounting innumerable obstacles reached Cairo Jan. 24, 1926 (see Cape to Cairo [1926], by Stella Court Treatt, and Elizabethan, vol. xviii, pp. 92-4); assumed the name of Court as an additional surname in lieu of a Christian name; technical director of a cinematograph studio in America 1931-41; served in Great War II as a Technical Officer, R.A.F. Photographic Dept. 1942-6; returned to America on demobilisation and operated his own studio in California; m. Dec. 9, 1913, Cecile Joyce, younger daughter of the Rev. Henry Trevor Williamson, Vicar of Bullinghope, co. Hereford; d. July 11, 1952.

Cousins, Edmund Richard John Ratcliffe, son of John Ratcliffe Cousins, of Dulwich, Metropolitan Police Magistrate at Marylebone, by Eleanor Fanny, daughter of the Rev. James Edmund Law, Rector of Little Shelford, Cambs; b. April 22, 1888; adm. as exhibitioner Sept. 26, 1901 (G); K.S. (non-resident) Sept. 24, 1903; elected to an exhibition at Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1906, matric. Michaelmas 1906; B.A. 1910; appointed to the Indian Civil Service after the exam. of 1910; arrived in India Nov. 25, 1911, and served in Bengal as Assist. Magistrate and Collector; transferred to Bihar and Orissa April 1912; Joint Magistrate and Deputy Collector Dec. 1918; Secretary, Board of Revenue 1920-2; District Magistrate and Collector 1925-7; Commissioner, Chota Nagpur, Bihar, 1937-9; Adviser to Governor of Bihar 1939; Asst. Secretary, Ministry of Aviation 1947; Special Commissioner of Lands, Kenya, 1949; C. I. E. 1938; C. S. I. 1942; m. July 22, 1912, Henrietta Mary Colebrooke, widow of Frank Yewdall, I. C. S., and second daughter of Alexander Chalmers Marshall; d. July 16, 1955.

Covington, Crescens Kingsley, son of Walter George Covington, C. V. O., of Ealham, secretary of Coutts' Bank, by his first wife, Jeanne, daughter of C. Robinson; b. Sept. 19, 1890; adm. April 26, 1901 (A); K.S. Sept. 22, 1904; elected to an exhibition at Ch. Ch. Oxon. (with a Triplett gratuity) July 1909, matric. Michaelmas 1909; B.A. 1913; served in France in the Great War; 2nd Lieut. 6th Batt. the Sherwood Foresters Oct. 25, 1916; Lieut. April 25, 1918; wounded at Dernancourt March 28, 1918, and lost his right leg; M.C. July 26, 1918; French Croix de Guerre Nov. 1917; director of the Civic Co. Ltd., Fulham Palace Road; m. Aug. 3, 1921, Rosalind Eve, daughter of Henry C. Merillier, of St. John's Wood, d. Oct. 25, 1947.

Covington, William Henry Walter, only son of the Rev. William Covington, Prebendary of St. Paul's and Rector of St. Giles's in the Fields, London; b. Aug. 8, 1871; adm. Jan. 24, 1884 (G); elected to Trin. Coll. Camb. July 1890 (adm. pensr. June 17, 1890); B.A. 1893; d. July 10, 1894.

Cowan, Eric William Lindsay, only son of Sir William Henry Cowan, Kt., M. P., of Westminster, by Winifrede, daughter of Daniel Smith, of Edinburgh; b. Nov. 20, 1901; adm. from Rugby School Sept. 27, 1917 (R); left July 1920; Caius Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1920; m. April 22, 1925, Hylda Dorothea, elder daughter of J. H. Marlow, of Sedgebrook, Northampton; 31 Oct. 1959.

Cowan, Horatio Alexander, son of Horatio William Alexander Cowan, M. D., of St. Pancras, by Alma Beatrice, daughter of John Whaley, of Bayswater; b. Aug. 4, 1901; adm. April 29, 1915 (R); left July 1918; Univ. Coll. Hospital; M.R.C.S. (Eng.) and L.R.C.P. (Lond.) 1924; practised in London and at Bournemouth; surgeon of the Royal Victoria Hospital, Bournemouth.

COWDELL, HENRY SEWARD, son of Alfred Burton Cowdell, Croydon, Surrey, solicitor, and Helen --- (1881 Census); b. 5 Jun 1855; adm. (G) 23 Sep 1869, left Whitsun 1872; adm. solicitor May 1878; practised in Budge Row, London, firm Cowdell and Son; m. 1st, 2 Feb 1889 Ethel Bertha, dau. of Thomas Reid, Addiscombe, Surrey; m. 2nd, 4 Jun 1903 Georgina Checas, widow of Joseph Westwood MICE, Hampstead, Middlesex; d. 14 Aug 1924.