ATWOOD, GEORGE, eldest son of Rev. Thomas Atwood, Curate, St. Clement’s Danes, London, subsequently Curate and Lecturer, St. Margaret’s, Westminster, and Isabella, dau. of J[ohn ?] Sells, Inglesham, Wilts. ; bapt. 15 Oct 1745; in school list 1754; KS (aged 13) 1759; Capt. of the School 1764; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1765, adm. pens. 5 Jun 1765, scholar 2 May 1766, matr. Lent 1766; 3rd Wrangler and 1st Smith’s Prizeman 1769; BA 1769; Member’s (second) prize for Middle Bachelors 1770; MA 1772; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1770, Major Fellow 8 Jul 1772, Assistant Tutor 1773-9; FRS 13 June 1776; Copley Medal 1796; one of the patent Searchers of the Customs from 1784; Inspector of Tontine Certificates 21 Jun 1790; a distinguished mathematician to whom Pitt was indebted for services of great value; author, A treatise on the rectilinear motion and rotation of bodies, 1784, and other works; d. unm. Jul 1807. DNB.
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ATWOOD, GEORGE, eldest son of Rev. George Atwood, Vicar of Milverton, Somerset, and Sarah, dau. of N. Gresley, and first cousin of George Atwood (qv); b.; in school lists 1764; KS (aged 13) 1765; d. from the results of an accident 5 Sep 1768.
AUBIN, JOHN, son of J. Aubin; b.; adm.; KS 1694; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1699, matr. 21 Jun 1699, aged 22 [sic : check], Westminster Student 23 Dec 1699-1740 (void), Tutor 1707; BA 1703; MA 12 Mar 1705/6; ordained deacon 9 Dec 1708, priest 24 Sep 1709 [or 1710 ?] (both Oxford). [note will of John Aubin, surgeon, Marenne, St. Anne’s, Soho, proved PCC 4 Dec 1704 : father of this individual ?]
AUBREY, SIR JOHN, BART., eldest son of Sir Thomas Aubrey, Bart., and Martha, sister of Thomas Richard Carter (qv); b. 4 Jul 1739; adm. May 1752 (Hart's); KS 1754; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1758, matr. 24 May 1758, but not adm. as Westminster Student; DCL 8 Jul 1763; Grand Tour (Italy) 1764-5; MP Wallingford 1768-74, Aylesbury 1774-80, Wallingford 1780-4, Buckinghamshire 1784-90, Clitheroe 1790-6, Aldeburgh 1796-1812, Steyning 1812-20, Horsham from 1820; a Lord of the Admiralty Jul 1782 - Apr 1783; a Lord of the Treasury Dec 1783 - Apr 1789; succ. father as 6th baronet 4 Sep 1786; of Boarstall and Dorton, Bucks.; “father” of the House of Commons; m. 1st, 9 Mar 1771 Mary, dau. of Sir James Colebrooke, Bart., MP; m. 2nd, 26 May 1783 his cousin Martha Catherine, dau. of George Richard Carter, Chilton, Bucks.; d. 14 Mar 1826.
AUBREY, RICHARD, brother of Sir John Aubrey, Bart. (qv); b. 26 May 1744; adm.; KS 1759; Exeter Coll. Oxford, matr. 23 May 1765; migrated to All Souls Coll.; BA 1771; MA 1775; Fellow of All Souls 1768; of Ashill, Glamorgan; Col., Royal Glamorgan Militia, from 19 May 1797; m. 20 Feb 1780 Frances, third dau. of Hon. Wriothesley Digby; d. 31 Mar 1808. [perhaps Richard Gough Aubrey, Yuiskedwin, Breconshire, will proved PCC 21 Apr 1808]
AUBREY, WILLIAM AUBREY LLOYD PHILLIPS, son of Rev. John Evans, Crickhowell, Breconshire, and Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Smith Philipps, Milford Haven, Pembs.; b. 28 Aug 1855; adm. 3 Feb 1869 (James'); BB 10 Feb 1869; QS 1870; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1874, matr. 28 May 1874; BA 1878; assumed surname of Aubrey in lieu of Evans 1879; a journalist; on staff Westminster Gazette; living Llanwnda, Pembrokeshire, in 1881 (1881 Census).
AUDELEY (alias SAMPSON), HUMPHREY, brother of John Audeley (alias Sampson) (qv); b. ; adm. ; KS 1542-4; appears in the accounts as Humphrey Sampson and once, at Mich. 1543, as Humphrey Audeley (Chapter Muniments); buried St. Margaret’s, Westminster 16 May 1550.
AUDELEY (alias SAMPSON), JOHN, son of Sampson Audeley, Verger of the Abbey, and his first wife; b. ; adm. ; KS 1542-4; appears in the accounts as John Sampson and once, at Mich. 1543, as John Audeley; printer and miscellaneous writer; produced ballads, news sheets and religious tracts at his printing house in Little Britain, Aldersgate, London; fined several times for printing “other men’s copy”; author and printer, The Fraternitye of Vagabondes, 1565; m. ; d. Aug (?) 1575. DNB s. v. Awdelay (and TLS 5 May 1932).
AUNGIER, HON. AMBROSE, son of Francis Aungier, 1st Baron Aungier of Longford (qv), and his first wife; b.; adm.; KS 1609; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1613, adm. scholar 1614; BA 1617/8; MA 1621; Fellow of Clare Coll. 8 Jun 1620; ordained deacon 15 Aug 1624, priest 16 Aug 1624 (both Peterborough); Prebendary of St. Patrick’s, Dublin, 1629, Treasurer 1628-32, Chancellor from 1636; m. Griselda, dau. of Most Rev. Lancelot Bulkeley DD, Archbishop of Dublin; d. 1654.
AUNGIER, EDWARD, son of Edward Aungier, Cambridge, and his first wife Mary Holland, Ely; nephew of Francis Aungier, 1st Baron Aungier of Longford (qv); b.; adm.; KS in 1619; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1621, adm. scholar 1622, matr. 1622; BA 1625/6; MA 1629; ordained deacon 9 Mar 1627/8, priest 10 Mar 1627/8 (both Peterborough); Rector of Dry Drayton, Cambs., from 1633; m. Margaret, dau. of John Partenson, Ashbourne, Derbs.; buried Dry Drayton, Cambs. 3 Sep 1665.