RICKETTS, SIR GEORGE WILLIAM, fourth son of George Crawford Ricketts, Ashford Hall, Ludlow, Shropshire, and Combe, Herefs., barrister, Attorney-Gen., Jamaica, and Frances, dau. of Nicholas Bourke, Speaker, Legislative Assembly, Jamaica; b. 21 Dec 1790 (IGI); adm. 16 Oct 1800; left by May 1803; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 26 Jan 1809, aged 18; adm. Middle Temple 3 Nov 1807, called to bar 27 Nov 1818; Judge of High Court, Madras, from 1825; knighted 23 Mar 1825; d. unm. 15 Jul 1831.

TRELAWNY, EDWARD, fourth son of Sir Jonathan Trelawny, Bart. (qv); bapt. 9 Jul 1699; adm.; QS (Capt. ) 1713; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1717, matr. 27 Jun 1717, Westminster Student 20 Dec 1717 - vacated 11 Jul 1721, when re-entered as gentleman commoner; adm. Inner Temple 2 Jun 1715; MP West Looe 20 Jan 1724 - Dec 1732; a Commissioner for Victualling 21 Oct 1725 – 9 Mar 1732/3; a Commissioner of Customs, Scotland 1732-7; elected MP for both West and East Looe at general election 1734, but disqualified for sitting for either, as being a Commissioner of Customs; Governor of Jamaica 30 Apr 1738 - Sep 1752; an able and efficient administrator; settled the Maroons; Col., 49th Foot, from 25 Dec 1743; took part in expedition against Cartagena 1742 and in capture of Port Louis, San Domingo 1748; returned to England 1753; m. 1st, 6 Nov 1737 Amoretta, dau. of John Crawford (and “niece to Countess of Dartmouth” (GM)); m. 2nd, 2 Feb 1752 Catherine, widow of Robert Penny, Attorney-Gen., Jamaica, and dau. of John Douce, Clarendon, Jamaica; d. 16 Jan 1754. DNB. [Perhaps Lieut., 6th Dragoons 1724-6].

AMYAND, SIR GEORGE, BART., brother of Claudius Amyand (qv); b. 26 Sep 1720; adm. Feb 1728/9; left 1735; apprenticed to John Seale 26 May 1736; a London merchant and banker; MP Barnstaple from 1754; one of the assistants of the Russia Company 1756; a Director of the East India Company 1760, 1763-4; created a baronet 4 Aug 1764; m. 9 Apr 1746 Anna Maria, dau. of John Abraham Korten, merchant, Hamburg; d. 16 Aug 1766.

COTTON, STAPLETON, 1ST VISCOUNT COMBERMERE, second son of Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, Bart. (qv); b. 14 Nov 1773; adm. 28 Jan 1785; at school four years; 2nd Lieut., 23rd Foot, 26 Feb 1790; 1st Lieut., 13 Apr 1791; Capt., 6th Dragoon Guards, 28 Feb 1793; Maj., 59th Foot, 1794; Lieut. -Col., 25th Light Dragoons, 9 Mar 1794; Brevet Col., 1 Jan 1800; Lieut. -Col., 16th Light Dragoons, 14 Feb 1800; served in Flanders 1793-4, at Cape Town 1795, in campaign against Tippoo Sahib 1799, and in Dublin during Emmett’s insurrection 1800; Brig. -Gen., 11 Feb 1804; Maj. -Gen., 30 Oct 1805; commanded allied cavalry during part of Peninsular War; wounded at Salamanca 1812; Lieut. -Gen., 1 Jan 1812; Col., 20th Light Dragoons, 27 Jan 1813 – Jan 1821 [check]; took part in Pyrenees Campaign, 1813-4; commanded allied cavalry in France, 1815-6; Governor of Barbados 1816-20; Col., 3rd Dragoons, 25 Jan 1821 – Sep 1828; Commander-in-Chief, Ireland, 1822-5; Gen., 27 May 1825; Commander-in-Chief, East Indies, 9 Feb 1825 - 1 Jan 1830; captured city of Bhurtpore, 28 Jan 1826; Col., 1st Life Guards, from 16 Sep 1829; Constable of the Tower (and Lord Lieut., Tower Hamlets) from 11 Oct 1852; Field-Marshal, 2 Oct 1855; MP Newark 1806 - 17 May 1814; succ. father as 6th baronet 24 Aug 1809; KB 21 Aug 1812; created Baron Combermere 17 May 1814, with annuity of £2000 p. a. for two generations; GCB 2 Jan 1815; GCH 1817; Governor of Sheerness 25 Jan 1821 – still 1829; Privy Councillor (I) 21 Nov 1822; created Viscount Combermere 8 Feb 1827; DCL Oxford Univ. 23 Jun 1830; Privy Councillor 16 Dec 1834; KCSI 19 Aug 1861; m. 1st, 1 Jan 1801 Lady Anne Maria Pelham-Clinton, eldest dau. of Thomas Pelham-Clinton, 3rd Duke of Newcastle, Major-Gen. in the Army; m. 2nd, 22 Jun 1814 Caroline, second dau. of Capt. William Fulke Greville RN; m. 3rd, 2 Oct 1838 Mary Woolley, dau. of Thomas Gibbings MD, Gibbings Grove, co. Cork; d. 21 Feb 1865. DNB.

BLENMAN, TIMOTHY, second son of Jonathan Blenman, Solicitor-Gen. and Judge of Vice-Admiralty, Barbados, and Anna Maria Cobham; grandson of William Blenman (qv); bapt. St. Michael, Barbados 14 Jan 1796 (IGI); adm. 18 Sep 1809; left 1811; d. 28 Dec 1829, aged 35.

BOUGHTON, WILLIAM EDWARD ROUSE, 2nd Bart.; only son of Sir Charles Rouse Boughton, 1st Bart. and Catherine Pearce Hall; b. 14 Sept. 1788; in school list May 1803 as 'Boughton' (see Betham, Baronetage of England, 1804, vol. iv, 225, where it is stated that William Edward Boughton, as he then was, is “now at Westminster School”); left 1805; Christ Church, Oxford; Member of Parliament (Evesham); m. Charlotte, dau. of Thomas Knight, horticulturalist; d. 22 May 1856.

BUDGEN, JOHN SMITH, only son of Thomas Budgen MP, London and West Newdigate, Surrey, and Penelope, second dau. of Daniel Smith, Governor of Nevis; b. 28 Jun 1741; adm. (aged 8) Jan 1749/50 (Jackson's); in school list 1754; Trinity Coll. Oxford, matr. 21 Apr 1758; MA 1761; adm. Middle Temple 8 Jan 1756; of Twickenham, Middlesex; m. 9 Aug 1764 Lucretia, sister of Peter Matthew Mills (qv); d. 25 May 1805.

GORDON, CHARLES, son of Charles Gordon, Braco, Jamaica, and Berkhamstead House, Herts., and Mary, eldest dau. of Thomas Howorth, Worcester; b.; in school list 1801; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 21 Oct 1802, aged 18; of Newtimber Place, Sussex; m. 28 Jul 1827 Anne Sarah, third dau. of James Pitman, Dunchideock, Devon; d. 28 Apr 1839.

GALLOWAY, JAMES, son of James Galloway, Jamaica, West Indies; b. 4 Oct 1801; adm. 23 Sep 1815 (Packharness'); left Bartholomewtide 1818; Exeter Coll. Oxford, matr. 12 Mar 1818; BA 1821; MA 1824; ordained deacon and priest 1826; Rector of Spaxton, Somerset, from 1846; m. 2 Jun 1827 Margaret Bridget Goodrich, third dau. of George Shedden, Paulerspury Park, Northants; d. 9 Oct 1874.

HUME, JAMES DEACON, younger son of James Hume, Secretary of the Customs, and Elizabeth Capps; nephew of Nathaniel Hume (qv); b. 28 Apr 1774; adm. 13 Jan 1783; was victorious in a “mill’ with Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, Bart. (adm. 1784, qv), “who, though the bigger boy of the two, was not so good a gladiator” (Badham, Life of J. D. Hume, 1859, 9); left 1791; Indoor clerk, Custom House 1791; rose to position Controller of the Customs; drafted Consolidated Customs Acts which received royal assent Jul 1825; Joint Secretary, Board of Trade 15 Jul 1829 – 4 Jan 1840; one of founders of Political Economy Club; a founder and Deputy Chairman, Atlas Assurance Company; a convinced Free Trader; author, Thoughts on the Corn Laws, 1815, and other works; m. 4 Jun 1799 Frances Elizabeth, widow of Charles Ashwell, Grenada, West Indies, and dau. of Edward Whitehouse, Customs House, Gentleman Usher Quarterly Waiter to George III; d. 12 Jan 1842. DNB.