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SNELL, VYNER, second son of John Snell, Shenley, Herts., and Elizabeth, eldest dau. of Very Rev. Thomas Vyner DD, Dean of Gloucester; bapt. St. Mary Woolnoth, London 7 May 1682 (IGI); adm.; KS 1699; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1702, adm. pens. 6 Jun 1702, aged 18, scholar 23 Apr 1703, matr. 1702/3; BA 1705/6; MA 1709; BD 1716; Minor Fellow 1 Oct 1708, Major Fellow 15 Apr 1709, Junior Bursar 1715-6; refused to sign petition to Bishop of Ely against Richard Bentley; ordained deacon 25 Feb 1710/1, priest 16 Mar 1711/2 (both London); Rector of Doddington, Cambs., from 12 Aug 1719; m. 8 May 1726 Margaret, dau. of Col. Peter Hall, Leventhorpe Hall, Swillington, Yorks.; d. 19 Mar 1751.

SNELL, RICHARD HUGH, brother of William Frederick Snell (qv); b. 6 Apr 1812; adm. 17 Jan 1825 (Stikeman's); KS 1826; left 1829; at Haileybury Coll. 1829-30; Writer, EICS Bengal 1831; Assistant Revenue Officer, Benares 1832; Assistant to Magistrate and Collector, Benares 1833, Twenty-Four Parganas 1837-40; Secretary to Government Savings Bank 1842; First Assistant to Accountant-Gen.; Assistant to Collector of Customs, Calcutta 1852; Superintendent of Stamps and Stationery 1853; retd. 1 May 1860; m. 26 Sep 1832 Letitia Knox, widow of John Shum, EICS Bengal, Assistant to Collector of Customs, Patna; d. 7 Dec 1899.

SNELL, POWELL, eldest son of Powell Snell (adm. Feb. 1725/6, qv), and his first wife; bapt. Guiting Power, Gloucs. 16 Mar 1737 (IGI); adm. (aged 10) Sep 1748 (Porten's); in school list 1754; Balliol Coll. Oxford, matr. 19 Jun 1755; MA 1759; adm. Inner Temple 28 Feb 1759, left 19 Nov 1764; migr. to Middle Temple, adm. 22 Nov 1764, called to bar 8 Feb 1765; JP Gloucestershire, Worcestershire; FSA 12 Jun 1777; m. 31 May 1768 Mary, dau. of Thomas Phillipps, Eaton Bishop, Herefs., barrister; d. 8 Apr 1804.

SNELL, POWELL, eldest son of John Snell MP, Guiting Grange, Lower Guiting, Gloucs., and Anna Maria, dau. of Right Rev. Robert Huntingdon DD, Bishop of Raphoe; bapt. St. Mary le Crypt, Gloucester 3 May 1716 (IGI); adm. (aged 9) Feb 1725/6; in school list 1729 [and 1731 ?]; Balliol Coll. Oxford, matr. 9 Feb 1732/3; MA 1736; DCL 5 Jul 1754; m. 1st, 21 May 1737 Dorothy, dau. of Charles Yate, Colethrop, Haresfield, Gloucs.; lic. to m. 2nd, 18 Apr 1748 Susanna, sister of Thomas Bathurst (qv); d. 2 Jul 1768.

SNELL, JOHN, brother of Powell Snell (adm. 1725/6, qv); b.; adm. (aged 8) Oct 1727; left 1729; d. before 1767.

SNELL, ---; b.; adm.; left 1656 (school list 1656, first quarter).

SNEAD, WILLIAM; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1626, adm. scholar 1627, matr. 1626; BA 1630/1.

SNAPLIN, ---; b.; at school c. 1660 (Busby’s Account Book).

SMYTHE, WILLIAM, brother of George Smythe (qv); b. 23 Jan 1803; adm. 23 Sep 1816 (Packharness'); KS 1817; Capt. of the School 1821; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1822, matr. 18 May 1822, Westminster Student; 1st cl. Classics 1825; BA 1826; MA 1828; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 24 Nov 1825, called to bar 27 Nov 1829; adm. advocate 18 Dec 1835; Secretary to Board of Supervision, Scotland 1845-52 [check]; served on several Royal Commissions; of Methven Castle, Perthshire (inherited from half-brother in 1847); DL JP Perthshire, also for more than thirty years Convener of Perthshire; m. 1st, 9 Aug 1838 Margaret, eldest dau. of James Walker FRS, Great George Street, Westminster, civil engineer, President Institution of Civil Engineers; m. 2nd, 20 Feb 1849 Emily, dau. of Gen. Sir John Oswald GCB, Dunnikier, Fifeshire; d. 17 Sep 1892.

SMYTHE, WILLIAM MYNORS, third son of Patrick Murray Smythe (qv); b. 13 Jun 1850; adm. 23 Jan 1863 (G); left Whitsun 1866; adm. solicitor Easter 1872; practised at Birmingham, firm Smythe, Etches and Jackson; m. 11 Sep 1890 Mary Anne, third dau. of William Charles Alston, Elmdon Hall, Birmingham, Warwicks.; d. 3 Sep 1917.