DEVAUX, WILLIAM, third son of Thomas Devaux, St. Paul’s, Covent Garden, London, apothecary, and Magdalen ---; brother of Sir Theodore Devaux MD FRS; bapt. 6 Dec 1629; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1648, matr. 27 Feb 1650/1, Westminster Student; ordered by the Dean and Chapter of Ch. Ch. in 1650 to be “publicly whipped in the House and afterwards sent home to his father for twelve months” for “divers gross and scandalous acts” (Thompson, Christ Church, 75) : BA 1652; adm. Middle Temple 17 Nov 1651; Secretary to Col. John Reynolds on his expedition to Mardike; drowned near the Goodwin Sands on his passage back from Mardike 12 Dec 1657.
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Houses
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