Tanner, Ralph Eyre, elder son of Ralph Tanner, senior asst. master at the school, by Lucy Lawrence Le Grice, daughter of George Lewis Phipps Eyre, of Regents Park, and sister of Charles Lewis Eyre (q.v.); b. July 16, 1885; adm. Sept. 22, 1898 (G); left Dec. 1903; R.M.C. Sandhurst 1904; 2nd Lieut. the King's (Liverpool) Regt. Aug. 16, 1905; Lieut. Sept. 25, 1908; Capt. Sept. 16, 1912; went out to the western front Aug. 1914; m. June 11, 1913, Edith Vere Marjorie, youngest daughter of John Henry Brogie, of Westerham, Kent; d. in hospital at Versailles Sept. 23, 1914, of wounds received in action at the battle of the Aisne Sept. 14.

Tanner, Richard, son of Mrs E. M. M. Tanner of Esher, Surrey; b. 26 Sept. 1906; adm. Sept. 1920 (R); left Mar. 1923.

TANQUERAY, DAVID, elder son of David Tanqueray, St. Martin’s in the Fields, Westminster, goldsmith, and Anne, elder dau. of David Willaume, Pall Mall, London, goldsmith; b.; adm. (aged 10) Feb 1730/1; Min. Can. 1736; KS 1737; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1741, but went to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 14 May 1741; BA 1745; MA 1749; ordained; [Chaplain, 32nd Foot 10 Oct 1744 - still 1759 ?]; Rector of Cranley, Surrey 18 Aug 1751-60; Rector of Bow Brickhill, Bucks., from 2 Dec 1760; buried Woburn, Beds., 20 Jul 1780.

Tansley, Leonard Beaumont, only son of John Beaumont Tansley, of Purley, Surrey, by Alice Emily, daughter of Henry Measures, of Brighton, Sussex; b. July 1, 1894; adm. Sept. 24, 1908 (A); elected toTrin. Coll. Camb. (with Samwaies) July 1912, matric. Michaelmas 1912; B.A. 1915; M.A. 1919; London Univ.; M.Sc. 1923; F.R.I.C. 1936; 2nd Lieut. R.F.A. July 15, 1915; gassed in Aug. 1917; served in France and Flanders from 1915 and was demob. as Capt. April 1919; M.C. June 3, 1918; asst. to director of British Cotton Industry Research Association, Didsbury, Manchester, Jan. 1924; asst. director of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce Testing House and Laboratory 1937; director 1946-59; Capt. R.A. (T.A. Res.) Jan. 1940; commissioned (H. Guard) June 1940-5; m. April 9, 1927, Nancy Charlotte, elder daughter of George Herbert Lancashire, M.D., of Manchester; d. 11 June 1984.

TARRANT, JOHN BENJAMIN, son of John Evans Tarrant, Dean Street, Soho, solicitor, and Matilda Perrin (IGI); b. 20 Dec 1807; adm. 16 Jan 1822 (G); m. 7 Aug 1830 Charlotte Assey Perrin.

Tasker, John Mellis, son of Sir Theodore James Tasker CIE OBE, ICS, of Swanage, Dorset, and Jessie Helen Mellis-Smith, d. of Rev. George Smith, Anglican missionary, of Swatow, China; b. 18 Jan. 19 19; adm. Sept. 1932 (R), non-res. KS Sept. 1933; left July 1937; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1937, 1st class hons Math. Tri Pt 1 1938, BA 1946; RA 1939-46 (Capt.), despatches (NW Europe) Apr. 1946; HM CoIonial Service 1947-69; Asst Sec. Gibraltar 1947-51; Admin. Officer The Gambia 1951-3, Colony Commissioner 1953-6; MBE 1955; Under Sec. Kenya 1956-69; Milton Keynes Devel. Corpn 1969-81, sec. to Board 1971; m. 8 Oct. 1949 Juliet, d. of George Walter Frederick McGwire of Hayes, Swanage; d. 24 July 2003.

Tasker, Theodore Henry Grant, brother of John Mellis Tasker (qv); b. 27 Apr. 1920; adm. Sept. 1933 (R); left Apr. 1938; de Havilland Aeronautical Tech. Sch. 1939-42; RNVR (A) 1942-6 (Sub-Lieut.); an aeronautical engineer, ARAeS 1946; de Havilland Aircraft Co. 1946-58; Avery Hardoll Ltd 1958-62; a civil servant 1962-84, MOD (Navy), retd 1984; m. 7 June 1947 Doreen Ellen, d. of James Frederick Davey of Swanage, Dorset; d. 10 May 2013.

TASWELL, EDWARD, eldest son of William Taswell (adm. 1660, qv); bapt. St. Mary at Hill, London 26 Apr 1696 (IGI); adm.; Min. Can. (aged 12) 1709, 1710; QS 1711; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1715, matr. 23 Jun 1715, aged 19, Westminster Student 12 Dec 1715 - expelled 1718, “for strange crimes” (Hearne, Remarks and Collections, vii, 335).

TASWELL, JAMES, son of William Taswell (adm. 1660, qv); b.; adm.; QS (aged 12) 1713; failed to obtain election to either University 1718; University Coll. Oxford, matr. 30 May 1718, aged 17; denied BA degree Mar 1721/2 as having been “guilty of strange robberies, and indeed, of all manner of wickedness” (Hearne, Remarks and Collections, vii, 334).

TASWELL, WILLIAM, second son of James Taswell, Cowes, Isle of Wight, merchant, and his first wife Elizabeth Upsal; b. 1 May 1652; adm. 1660; KS 4 May 1667; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1667, matr. 8 Jul 1670, Westminster Student 30 Dec 1670 ñ void 1694, Tutor 1678-87, Junior Censor 1682-3, Catechist 1687-8; BA 1674; MA 1677; BD 1685 (incorp. Cambridge 1685); DD 1698; ordained deacon 2 Mar 1681/2, priest 11 Jun 1682 (both Oxford); Rector of Wood Norton, Norfolk 1691/2-8; Rector of St. Maryís, Newington Butts, Surrey, from 1698; Rector of Bermondsey, Surrey 10 Feb 1723/4 - 1726/7; referred to by Sir Richard Steele in no. 55 of the Tatler as ìMr. Caswellî; his Autobiography, printed Camden Miscellany II (Camden Soc. Pub., 1st ser., lv), contains many interesting references to his school life; author, Antichrist revealed among the Sect of Quakers, 1723, and other works; m. 21 May 1695 Frances, dau. of Rev. Edward Lake DD, Archdeacon and Prebendary of Exeter; d. 16 Jun 1731.