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CHURCHILL, ARTHUR LINDSAY MAURY; b. Ceylon 21 May 1865; adm. (J) 25 Sep 1879; left Aug 1881; Westminster Hospital; LSA 1895, LMSSA 1907; Assistant Medical Officer, Wonford Hospital, and County Asylum, Lancaster; general medical practitioner at Mevagissey, Cornwall; Lieut., RAMC, attached Hampshire RHA (TF), 17 Dec 1914; Capt., attached 18th (Co. of London) Batt., London Regt. (London Irish Rifles), 17 Jun 1915; d. on active service 24 Jun 1917.

CHURCHILL, BARTHOLOMEW, son of John Churchill, Chertsey, Surrey, and Harriet Susannah Steele (IGI); b. 29 Mar 1809; adm. 18 Feb 1817. [perhaps m. 20 Jan 1834 Susannah Fitzpatrick (IGI)]

CHURCHILL, CHARLES, eldest son of Charles Churchill (adm. 1717/8, qv); b. Feb 1731/2; adm. (aged 9) May 1741; KS (Capt. ) 1745; left 1748 [or 1747 ?]; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 8 Jul 1748; ordained deacon (Wells) 22 Sep 1754, priest (Rochester for London) 19 Dec 1756; Curate, South Cadbury and Sparkford, Somerset, 1754-6, and to his father at Rainham, Essex, 1756-8; Curate and Lecturer, St. John the Evangelist, Westminster, 1758-63; became involved in debt, and was in danger of imprisonment until befriended by Pierson Lloyd (qv), who induced the creditors to accept a composition; author of the poems The Rosciad and The Apology, published in 1761; by their sale he is said to have cleared no less than £2000; became an intimate friend of John Wilkes, with whom he worked on The North Briton; his poems satirised Hogarth, Bute, Sandwich, and others; his literary career, although brief, was brilliant; although he led a reckless and extravagant life, his generosity was undoubted and he remained an unwavering friend of Robert Lloyd (qv); William Cowper (qv) held him in high estimation as a poet and called him the “great Churchill” (Works of William Cowper, 1836, vi, 9-10); for an account of Byron’s visit to his grave at Dover, see Lord Broughton’s Recollections of a Long Life, i, 335; his collected works were published in two volumes, 1763-4; m. c. 1749 Martha Scott, Westminster; d. at Boulogne, 4 Nov 1764. DNB.

CHURCHILL, CHARLES, youngest son of John Churchill, Westminster; b.; adm. (aged 9) Mar 1717/8; KS 1723; left 1725; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 2 Mar 1725/6, matr. 1726; adm. Inner Temple 17 Jan 1723/4; ordained deacon 24 Dec 1732, priest 19 Feb 132/3 (both London); Curate and Lecturer, St. John the Evangelist, Westminster, from 1733; Vicar of Rainham, Essex, from 31 Mar 1742; m.; d. 7 Sep 1758. [Presumably Charles Churchill, son of John Churchill, and Mary ---, bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 13 Sep 1708 (IGI)]

CHURCHILL, CHARLES, illegitimate son of Lieut. -Gen. Charles Churchill MP, and Anne Oldfield, actress; b.; adm. (aged 9) Apr 1730; left 1730; Grand Tour (Italy) 1735-9; Geneva Univ 1739; Cornet, 8th Dragoons, 6 May 1726; 10th Dragoons, 13 Apr 1732; Lieut., 29 Oct 1736; 2nd Foot Guards, 3 Jan 1738/9; retd Jun 1745; MP Stockbridge 1741-7, Milborne Port 2 Dec 1747-54, Great Marlow 1754-61; Deputy Ranger, St. James and Hyde Parks, 1745 -c. 1751; Searcher in Port of London; of Chalfont House, Bucks.; m. 17 Feb 1745/6 Lady Maria Walpole, Housekeeper of Windsor Castle, illegitimate dau. of Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford PC KG, Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury; d. 13 Apr 1812.

CHURCHILL, JOHN, son of Charles Churchill (adm. 1717/8, qv); b. 12 Jun 1735; adm. Nov 1745; left 1750; practised as a surgeon-apothecary in Westminster; medical attendant to John Wilkes, 1778; as executor of his brother Charles, published several editions of his Collected Works, the fifth of which appeared in 1774; lic. to m. 23 Jul 1763 Susan Tuttridge, St. Margaret’s, Westminster; d. 7 May 1799.

CHURCHILL, ROBERT, son of Robert Churchill, St. Margaret’s, Westminster, carpenter, and Elizabeth ---; bapt. 10 Feb 1708/9; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1719/20; in under school list 1723; apprenticed to Edward Heath, citizen and apothecary, 3 Mar 1723; carpenter, Chelsea, Middlesex; m. 31 Oct 1734 Dorothy, dau. of William Tufnell, St. Margaret’s, Westminster, builder and bricklayer; d. before Jul 1738 (will proved PCC 16 Jun 1738).

CHURCHILL, WILLIAM, son of Charles Churchill (adm. 1717/8, qv); b. ; in school lists 1750-2; ordained; Vicar of Orton on the Hill, Leics. , from 23 Oct 1789; buried there 3 Feb 1804.