LUTTRELL, HENRY LAWES, 2ND EARL OF CARHAMPTON (I), eldest son of Simon Luttrell, 1st Earl of Carhampton (I) MP, and Maria, dau. of Sir Nicholas Lawes, Kt, Governor of Jamaica; b. 7 Aug 1737; adm. (aged 13) Jan 1750/1 (Porten's); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 13 Jan 1755; Ensign, 48th Foot 21 Nov 1757; Lieut., 34th Foot 27 Mar 1759; Capt., 16th Dragoons 6 Aug 1759; Deputy Adjutant-Gen. to Forces in Portugal and Brevet Maj., 14 Apr 1762; local rank of Lieut. -Col. in Portugal 8 Oct 1762; Lieut. -Col., 1st Horse 13 Feb 1765; Brevet Col., 29 Aug 1777; Maj. -Gen., 20 Nov 1782; Col., 6th Dragoon Guards, from 10 Jul 1788; Lieut. -Gen., 12 Oct 1793; Gen., 1 Jan 1798; Adjutant-Gen., Ireland 8 Sep 1770-83; Lieut. -Gen. of Ordnance (I) 12 Oct 1789—Jul 1797, Master Gen. 19 Jul 1797- Aug 1800; entrusted with suppression of the “Defenders” and the pacification of Connaught 1795; Commander-in-Chief, Ireland 1796-7; MP Bossinney 1768 – Mar 1769, Middlesex 15 Apr 1769-74, Bossinney 1774-84, Plympton Erle 1790 – Feb 1794, Ludgershall from 28 Jun 1817; he was defeated by John Wilkes in the celebrated contest for Middlesex in 1769, but was declared elected by the House of Commons; MP (I) Old Leighton 1783 – 14 Jan 1787; succ. father as 2nd Earl of Carhampton (I) 14 Jan 1787; m. 25 Jun 1776 Jane, dau. of George Boyd, Dublin; d. 25 Apr 1821. DNB.
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HEATH, JOHN, son of Thomas Heath, Alderman of Exeter, and his first wife Ann Pyne, Exeter; b.; adm. (aged 12) Jul 1748 (Porten's); KS 1749; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1754, matr. 18 Jun 1754, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1754 – Nov 1764, Faculty Student 2 Nov 1764 – 12 Jul 1781; BA 1758; MA 1762; adm. Inner Temple May 1759, called to bar 25 Jun 1762; Serjeant at Law 17 May 1775; Recorder of Exeter 25 Sep 1779 – Jul 1780; a Judge of the Common Pleas from 19 Jul 1780; refused knighthood, preferring to remain “plain John Heath”; d. unm. 16 Jan 1816. DNB.
HARENC, BENJAMIN, only son of Roger Harenc, Foots Cray Place, Kent, and Susanna, dau. of Daniel Hays, Wimbledon, Surrey; b.; adm. (aged 14) Jun 1748 (Porten's); in school list 1752; High Sheriff, Kent 1777; m. 1771 Sarah, dau. of Salusbury Cade (QS 1709, qv); d. 15 Apr 1812.
GIBBON, EDWARD, only son of Edward Gibbon (qv), and his first wife; b. 27 Apr 1737; adm. Jan 1747/8 (Porten's); left Aug 1750, on account of ill-health; Magdalen Coll. Oxford, adm. fellow commoner 3 Apr 1752; received into Roman Catholic church 8 Jun 1752, but returned to Protestantism at Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1753; became attached to Susanne Curchod (afterwards Mme Necker), but at his father’s wish the engagement was broken off; adm. to Academy, Lausanne 1 Dec 1756; officer in Hampshire Militia 12 Jun 1759-70; author, Essai sur l’Etude de la Litterature, 1761; met John Baker Holroyd (afterwards Lord Sheffield) at Lausanne 1764; in Italy 1764-5; the idea of writing on the decline and fall of the Roman Empire first occurred to him when in Rome on 15 Oct 1764; author, Mémoires Littéraires de la Grande Bretagne, 1767-8, jointly with his Swiss friend Deyverdun; author, Critical Observations on the Sixth Book of the Aeneid, 1770, attacking Warburton; settled in London 1772; elected to The Club 1774; MP Liskeard 1774-80, Lymington 25 Jun 1781-4; a Commissioner for Trade and Foreign Plantations 6 Jul 1779 - Jun 1782; Professor of Ancient History, Royal Academy, from 1787; FSA 20 Nov 1788, FRS 27 Nov 1788; author, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1776-87, 4 vols.; defended the chapters on Christianity in a Vindication, 1779; retired to Lausanne 1783; his Miscellaneous Works, edited by his friend Lord Sheffield, and including his Memoirs of My Life and Writings, were published in 1796; d. unm. 16 Jan 1794. DNB.
GAMBIER, ROBERT, brother of John Gambier (adm. 1735, qv); b. 22 Dec 1736; adm. Mar 1747/8 (Porten's); left 1749; Writer, EICS Bombay 1753; Senior Merchant and Second in Council, Surat 1768; member, Council of Governor of Bombay 1776; First in Council, Broach 1780; d. 25 Jun 1787.
FOLEY, THOMAS, 2ND BARON FOLEY, eldest son of Thomas Foley, 1st Baron Foley (qv); b. 24 Jun 1742; adm. Jan 1753 (Porten's); in school list 1754; Magdalen Coll. Oxford, matr. 2 May 1759; MP Herefordshire 18 May 1767-74, Droitwich 1774 - 18 Nov 1777; succ. father as 2nd Baron Foley 18 Nov 1777; joint Postmaster-General 1 May 1783 - Jan 1784; m. 20 Mar 1776 Lady Harriet Stanhope, fourth dau. of William Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Harrington; d. 2 Jul 1793.
FARREL, GEORGE; b.; adm. (aged 12) Jun 1749 (Porten's); in school list 1752.
DONELLAN, JOHN, son of Lieut. -Col. --- Donellan; b. 6 Nov 1737; adm. Jan 1750/1 (Porten's); in school list 1752; RMA Woolwich; Gent. Cadet 4 Mar 1753; Ensign, 39th Foot 13 Nov 1755; Capt. Company of Foot, EICS Bengal 15 Dec 1757; served on expedition to Golconda and wounded at Chumbole 14 Dec 1758; court-martialled and dismissed the service 28 Apr 1759; on return to England became known as “Diamond” Donellan from a stone which he brought back from India; Master of Ceremonies at Brighton, and at The Pantheon, Oxford Street, London; restored to rank of Capt, half-pay, 39th Foot, c. 1772; convicted at Warwick Assizes Mar 1781 of having poisoned his brother-in-law Sir Theodosius Edward Allesley Boughton, Bart., at Lawford Hall, Warwickshire, with a dose of laurel water; m. Jun 1777 Theodosia, only dau. of Sir Edward Boughton, Bart.; hanged at Warwick 2 Apr 1781. [Perhaps bapt. Saddleworth, Yorks., 3 Nov 1737 (sic), son of Richard Donellan and Mary Whitehead (IGI)]
DERING, CHARLES, elder son of Sir Edward Dering, Bart. (adm. 1719, qv), and his second wife; bapt. 13 Jul 1738; adm. (aged 11) Jan 1749/50 (Porten's); in school list 1754; Ensign, 1st Foot Guards 5 Sep 1756; Lieut. and Capt. 22 Feb 1761; retired 12 Jan 1763; a Commissioner of Taxes 9 Jun 1769 – 26 Feb 1798; of Barham Court, Kent; m. 21 May 1770 Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Thomas Farnaby, Bart.; d. 2 Dec 1815.
DENNIS, SAMUEL, son of Thomas Dennis, St. Mary’s at Hill, London, dry cooper, and Mary --- (IGI); b. 20 Nov 1738; adm. Mar 1751 (Porten's); St. John’s Coll. Oxford, matr. 30 Jun 1757; BA 1761; MA 1765; BD 1770; DD 1774; Fellow of St. John’s Coll., President from 2 Dec 1772; Vice-Chancellor, Oxford Univ., 1780-4; ordained deacon 4 Oct 1761, priest 29 Jun 1763 (both Oxford); Rector of Hanborough, Oxfordshire, from 19 Dec 1772; m. 11 Sep 1777 Elizabeth Charlton (IGI); d. 4 Mar 1795.