CLEAVER, WILLIAM, son of Euseby Cleaver (qv); b. 24 Mar 1789; adm. 18 Jan 1800; in school lists 1801, May 1803; KS 1803; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1807, matr. 13 May 1807, Westminster Student; Chancellor’s Prize for Latin Verse, 1808; BA 1812; MA 1818; Perpetual Curate of Tring, Herts.; Prebendary of St. Patrick’s, Dublin, 16 Jan - Jul 1819; Rector of Delgany, co. Wicklow, 1819-37; m. 22 Feb 1819 Mary, second dau. of Sir Digby Mackworth, Bart. (adm. 1778, qv); d. 28 Dec 1860.
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Clegg, Hugh Anthony, son of the Rev. John Clegg, of Lowestoft, Suffolk, Head Master of Lowestoft College, by Gertrude, daughter of John Wilson, of Hull; b. June 19, 1900; adm. as K.S. Sept. 24, 1914; elected to Trin. Coll. Camb. (with Samwaies and Triplett) July 1919, matric. Michaelmas 1919; scholar; 1st class Nat. Sci. Trip., part 1, 1922; B.A. 1922; M.B., B. Ch. 1928; St. Bartholomew's Hospital; M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. 1925; M.R.C.P. 1929; subeditor of the British Medical Journal 1931, deputy editor 1934, editor 1947; m. Sept. 7, 1932, Kira, daughter of Baron Arthur Engelhardt, of Smolensk, Russia; d. 6 July 1983.
CLELAND, HENRY, brother of John Cleland (qv); bapt. Kingston upon Thames 13 Oct 1711; adm. Apr 1721 (as “Cleavland”); in under school list 1722; Min. Can. (aged 13) 1723, 1724; KS (Capt. ) 1725; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1728, matr. 25 Jun 1728, Westminster Student 23 Dec 1728 - void for absence 28 May 1733; see Pope’s letter to Lord Oxford, 3 Nov 1730, asking for “a recommendatory letter” to some worthy man at Ch. Ch. who “would countenance and have an eye” over his friend’s son (Elwin & Courthope, viii, 274-5). [Presumably Ensign, 2nd Foot Guards 11 Jun 1730, out of Regt. Feb 1733/4]
CLELAND, JOHN, son of [Col. ?] William Cleland, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, Commissioner of Taxes, and Lucy du Pass; bapt. Kingston upon Thames 24 Sep 1710; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1720/1; KS 1722; left 1723; Consul at Smyrna, “very early in life” [but check : this seems unlikely]; in Bombay as soldier 1728; Writer, EICS Bombay 1731; Secretary to Council, Bombay, 1738; left EICS 1740; left India in a destitute condition, and for many years wandered round Europe; author, Fanny Hill, or the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, 1750; summoned before the Privy Council for writing it, but escaped punishment on pleading his poverty as an excuse; subsequently pensioned by Government, and took to writing for newspapers and the stage; d. 23 Jan 1789. DNB.
CLEMENT, JOSEPH; b. ; adm. ; KS 1673.
CLENT, MILES, second son of Miles Clent, Gloucester; b.; adm.; Min. Can. 1637; KS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1642, adm. pens. 16 May 1642, scholar 1643, matr. Easter 1642; d. 7 Jun 1658.
CLERK, SAMUEL, son of Christopher Clerk, London; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1657, adm. pens. 22 May 1657, scholar 1658, but did not matr. [Perhaps ordained priest 15 Jan 1662/3 (Chichester), as Clerke].
CLERKE, EDMUND, son of Edmund Clerke, Hungerford Park, Berks.; bapt. Hungerford, Berks. 10 Apr 1678 (IGI, sic); adm.; KS 1694; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1697, adm. pens. 19 Jun 1697, aged 17, scholar 6 May 1698, matr. 1697.
CLETHERALL, ---; b.; adm.; QS in 1556 (Chapter Muniments 37713).
Cleveland-Stevens, William, elder son of William Richard Stevens, of Westminster, solicitor: b. Oct. 21, 1880; adm. Sept. 27, 1894; Q.S. 1895; elected to Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1899; 1st class Classics (Mods.) 1901; B.A. 1904; B.C. L. 1907; M.A. 1907; called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn June 12, 1907; equity draftsman and conveyancer; served in Great War I; Lieut. R. N. V. R. mentioned in despatches; K.C. 1930; a bencher of Lincoln's Inn 1935; Chancellor of the diocese of Birmingham 1937, of Truro 1940, of Gloucester 1946; Director of Legal Education to the Council of Legal Education 1939; Deputy Chairman of the Enemy Export Committee 1939, and of the Contraband Committee 1940; Treasurer of Lincoln's Inn 1955; C.M.G. Jan. 1, 1953; m. Jan. 6, 1914, Ann Felicia, third daughter of Alphonse Henry Strauss, of London; d. June 10, 1957.