LEWIS, MATTHEW, younger son of William Lewis, Jamaica, and Jane, eldest dau. of Matthew Gregory MD, Jamaica; b.; in school lists 1764; left May 1765; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 13 Jun 1765, Canoneer Student 23 Dec 1767 – res 23 Dec 1772; BA 1769; MA 1772; adm. Inner Temple 8 May 1765; First Clerk and Deputy Secretary of War 1773-1804; m. 22 Feb 1773 Anna Maria, dau. of Right Hon. Sir Thomas Sewell Kt PC, Master of the Rolls; d. 17 May 1812.

HUGHES, JOHN CUMBERLAND, brother of William Hughes (qv); b. 31 Mar 1767; adm. 27 Mar 1775; left 1779; entered Royal Navy as powder monkey on board HMS Victory 7 Jun 1779; when serving on HMS Rover was captured by a French frigade and taken into Grenada Sep 1780, but exchanged at Martinique three months later; Midshipman 14 Feb 1781; ADC to Capt. Lord Cranstoun on HMS Formidable during action against French on 12 Apr 1782; retd. from Navy 1783; plantation management in Grenada with his elder brother George Hughes (qv) from 1785; m. May 1805 Elizabeth, elder dau. of George Edward Stanley, Ponsonby Hall, Cumberland; d. at Bath 5 Feb 1833.

JOHNSON, GODSCHALL, eldest son of Godschall Johnson, Putney Hill, Surrey, and Antigua, West Indies, and his first wife Elizabeth, only dau. of Anthony Hodges, Bolney Court, Oxfordshire; b.; adm. 3 Apr 1788; Oriel Coll. Oxford, matr. 13 Jul 1797, aged 17; Cornet, 10th Light Dragoons 25 Sep 1800; Lieut., 27 Sep 1801; half-pay 1802; Lieut., 7th Foot 21 Feb 1805; 9th Light Dragoons Feb 1805; 16th Light Dragoons 13 Jun 1805; retd. 3 Apr 1806; subsequently HBM Consul, Antwerp; living at Bath, Somerset 1819; moved to Quebec City, Canada 1834; m. 1st, [by 1819] Lucy Bishop; m. 2nd, ---; d. 1859 [check].

JOHNSTON, THOMAS GREGORY, son of Thomas Johnston, Spanish Town, Jamaica, West Indies; b.; adm.; KS (aged 13) 1763; d. 12 Oct 1787.

JORDAN, WILLIAM WALKER, brother of Gibbes Walker Jordan (qv); b. 2 Mar 1803; adm. 29 Mar 1815; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 3 Dec 1821, matr. Lent 1822; BA 1826; adm. Inner Temple 28 Jun 1824, called to bar 3 Jul 1829; Oxford Circuit; d. 14 Oct 1846.

MITCHELL, FRANCIS HENRY, brother of John Mitchell (qv); b. 23 Oct 1794; adm.; probably the TB of this surname who played cricket for TBB v KSS 1809; KS 1809; left 1811; a sugar broker in London; m. 1820 Frances Elizabeth, dau. of John Johnstone, Dumfries, barrister, sometime Private Secretary to Governor of Jamaica; d. 2 Aug 1891.

MITCHELL, JOHN, son of David Mitchell, Carshalton House, Surrey, and Jamaica, West Indies, plantation owner, and Anne Hewitt Smith; b. Jamaica 1781; adm.; in school list 1795; KS 1796; probably Mitchell who played cricket v. Eton at Lords’s 8 Aug 1799; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 5 Feb 1800; BA 1804; MA 1808; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 1803, called to bar 1808; MP Kingston upon Hull 1818-26; of Doune Lodge, Perthshire; m. 11 Sep 1824 Eliza, eldest dau. of John Elliott, Pimlico Lodge, Westminster, porter brewer; d. 24 Jun 1827 [ or 29 Aug 1859 ?].

ERLE-DRAX-GROSVENOR, RICHARD, son of Thomas Grosvenor (adm. 1749, qv); b. 5 Oct 1762; adm. 29 Nov 1773; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 30 Oct 1779; MP East Looe 4 Sep 1786 - Apr 1788, Clitheroe 15 Sep 1794-6, Chester 15 Dec 1802-7, New Romney from 18 Jun 1818; assumed additional surnames of Erle-Drax on marriage; High Sheriff, Dorset 1800; m. 11 Mar 1788 Sarah Frances, dau. of Edward Drax MP, Charborough Park, Dorset; d. 8 Feb 1819.

SHARPE, FANE WILLIAM, eldest son of John Sharpe MP, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, Solicitor to the Treasury, and Olive Cartwright, Holborn; nephew of Gregory Sharpe (qv); b.; adm. (aged 11) Jan 1737/8; KS (Capt. ) 1743; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1747, matr. 26 Jun 1747, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1747 – void by marriage 26 Mar 1752; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 14 Aug 1747; MP Callington from 11 Feb 1756; FRS 5 Jul 1764; FSA 17 Dec 1767; bequeathed £500 for the use of the King’s Scholars elected annually to the Universities; m. 17 Mar 1752 Mary, only child of George Newport, London, merchant; d. 21 Oct 1771.

By his will dated 30 Sep 1771 (proved 8 Nov 1771) he gave to William Markham (adm.1733, qv), formerly Head Master of the School and then Bishop of Chester, and to John Thomas, Dean of Westminster, “the sum of £500 to be by them disposed of [for] the benefit of Westminster School or College as they shall think fit”. The fund was subsequently consolidated with the School Exhibition Fund, and the benefaction was commemorated by an exhibition known as the F.W.Sharpe exhibition.

WALTER, JOHN, son of Abel Walter (qv); bapt. Godalming, Surrey 26 Oct 1733 (IGI); adm. (aged 8) Apr 1742 (Levett's); left 1749; of Farley Hill, Swallowfield, Berks.; High Sheriff, Berkshire 1764; m. 17 Nov 1757 Newton, only child of Alexander Walker, Farley Hill, Berks., and Mount Wilton plantation, Barbados, West Indies; d. 1811.