NEDHAM, WILLIAM DANDY, son of Hampson Nedham, Mount Olive, Jamaica, barrister, and Martha, dau. of John Dubber, Witney, Oxfordshire; b. 23 Sep 1730; adm. Jun 1746 (Preston's); left 1748; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 25 Jun 1748, aged 17; adm. Inner Temple 3 Aug 1748; Speaker, House of Assembly, Jamaica 1766; m. 1st, 4 Jun 1760 Mary, widow of Vere Hicks, Jamaica, and dau. of John Morant, Brockenhurst, Hampshire; m. 2nd, 7 Apr 1769 Eleanor, dau. of Archibald Aikenhead, Stirling Castle, Jamaica; d. 1811.

LOSACK, RICHARD HAWKSHAW, son of James Losack, Speaker, member of Council and Judge of Vice-Admiralty Court, St. Kitts, West Indies, and Mary, dau. of Richard Hawkshaw, St. Kitts, West Indies, merchant; b.; adm. (aged 12) Oct 1744 (Hawkins'); adm. Middle Temple 5 Nov 1756; Chief Justice of St. Kitts (occurs 1769); Lieutenant-Gov., Leeward Islands (occurs 1769-1783); m. 17 Mar 1753 Christiana Maclure, St. Anne, Soho, Westminster; d. 2 Nov 1813.

MARTIN, SAMUEL, eldest son of Samuel Martin, Greencastle, Antigua, West Indies, and his first wife Frances, dau. of John Yeomans, Attorney-Gen., Antigua; b. 1 Sep 1714; adm. (aged 7) Oct 1722; in under school list 1727; Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1729; adm. Inner Temple 1730, called to bar 12 Jul 1736, Bencher 31 Jan 1766; Deputy Agent, Antigua 1742-4; Agent for Montserrat 1742-9 and for Nevis 1744-50; MP Camelford 1747-68, Hastings 1768-74; Secretary to Right Hon. Henry Bilson Legge MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer Apr 1754 – Nov 1755; Secretary of Treasury Nov 1756 – Apr 1757, May 1758 – May 1763; Treasurer to Augusta, Princess of Wales Oct 1757 – Feb 1772; inherited Greencastle plantation from father 1776; d. unm. 20 Nov 1788.

MAYNE, WILLIAM, eldest son of Robert Mayne MP, Upper Gatton, Surrey, banker and merchant, and his second wife Sarah, second dau. of Francis Otway (qv); b.; adm. 27 Jun 1787; Ensign, Queen’s Rangers 21 Mar 1792; Lieut., Independent Co., 3 Feb 1795; Capt. -Lieut. and Capt., Queen’s Rangers 4 Feb 1795; Capt., 14 Apr 1798; Maj., 21st Light Dragoons 17 May 1798; retd. 29 Jul 1802; served in North America 1797; Lieut. -Col., Loyal Lusitanian Legion, Portugal Dec 1808 – Oct 1809, under command of Sir Robert Thomas Wilson (qv); Commandant, Almeida 1809; re-entered Army as Cornet, 12th Light Dragoons 27 Jun 1811; Lieut., 1st Life Guards 26 Sep 1811; Capt., 14 Dec 1815; 7th Light Dragoons 8 Mar 1820; retd. 29 Mar 1820; present at battle of Waterloo; m. 17 Jan 1805 Elizabeth, dau. of Sir John Taylor, Bart., Lysson Hall, Jamaica; d. at Brussels 11 Dec 1843, aged 68.

SKEETE, JOHN BRATHWAITE, eldest son of John Brathwaite Skeete, St. Peter’s, Barbados, West Indies, and Agnes, dau. of Henry Bishop and sister of Hon. William Bishop, President of Barbados; b. 4 Nov 1775; at school under Vincent one year (Adm. Reg. of Sidney Sussex Coll. ); Sidney Sussex Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 14 Jun 1793; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 24 Mar 1795; Chief Justice of Barbados to res. 1830; President of Barbados 1820, 1825, 1827, 1829, 1830, 1832; m. 11 Nov 1799 Mary Bishop; d. before 1862.

WALTER, ABEL, eldest son of John Walter MP, Woking, Surrey, and Lucy, dau. of Col. Abel Alleyne, Speaker of Assembly, Barbados, West Indies; b.; adm. (aged 14) Nov 1715; in under school list 1717; of Baddesley, Hampshire; lic. to m. 23 Jan 1729 Hon. Jane Nevill, dau. of George Nevill, 11th Baron Abergavenny; buried Bath Abbey 15 Oct 1767.

TRENT, JOHN CONSTANTINE, son of John Trent (qv); b. 8 Aug 1793; adm. Christmas 1807; left 1807; Queen’s Coll. Oxford, matr. 5 May 1813; Cornet, Royal Horse Guards 16 Nov 1815; Lieut, 22 Jun 1820; Capt., 2 Aug 1826; Brevet Maj., 23 Nov 1841; of Ovens Mouth, Barbados; m. 1834 Frances Sophia, second dau. of Edward Swainston-Strangwayes, Alne Hall, Yorks.; d. 15 Dec 1846.

WELCH, RICHARD, eldest son of Richard Welch, Chief Justice of Jamaica, and Lucretia Mary Favel, sister of George Dehany (qv); b.; adm. 1 Feb 1779; left Aug 1786; probably “Welsh”, who played cricket for OWW against Old Etonians at Lord’s 13-14 May 1793; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 7 Oct 1786, aged 16; BA 1790; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 10 Nov 1784; of the Hyde estate, Jamaica; m. Alice, younger dau. of Rev. Nathaniel Preston, Swainsloe [check], co. Meath, Ireland, and his first wife; d. at Swainstone [check], co. Meath 20 Apr 1809.

MILLS, PETER MATTHEW, only son of Matthew Mills, St. Kitts, West Indies, and Cornelia, elder dau. of Col. Peter Soulegre, St. Kitts; b. 23 Mar 1743; at school under Markham (J. Peile, Biog. Reg. of Christ’s Coll. , ii, 271); Christ’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 23 Oct 1760, resided to Dec 1761; of St. Kitts, West Indies; m. 1762 Catherine, dau. of Dr. William Hamilton; d. 15 Dec 1791.