SMALRIDGE, GEORGE, son of Thomas Smalridge, Lichfield, Staffs., dyer; b. 18 May 1662; adm.; KS 1678; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1682, matr. 18 Dec 1682, Westminster Student 18 Dec 1682 – void 1700, Tutor 1687-97, Junior Censor 1693, Senior Censor 1694-5; BA 1686; MA 1689; BD 1698; DD 1701; author, Auctio Davisiana, 1689; with Francis Atterbury (qv) and Anthony Alsop (qv) assisted Charles Boyle in the production of Dr. Bentley’s Dissertations on the Epistles of Phalaris, 1698; ordained; Prebendary of Lichfield 12 Jun 1693-1714; Minister of Broadway Chapel, Westminster 1698-1713; Deputy to Regius Prof. Divinity, Oxford 1700-7; Chaplain in Ordinary to Queen Anne 1710; Canon of Christ Church, Oxford 6 Sep 1711 – Jul 1713, Dean from 18 Jul 1713; Dean of Carlisle 3 Nov 1711 – Jul 1713; consecrated Bishop of Bristol 4 Apr 1714; Lord Almoner Mar 1714 – Nov 1715, when he was dismissed for refusing to sign declaration against the Pretender; the “famous Dr. Smalridge”, as Swift called him, was the most popular bishop of his day; Steele speaks of him in The Tatler as “abounding in the sort of virtue and knowledge which makes religion beautiful”, while Whiston declared him to be one of the most learned and excellent persons in the kingdom; Busby Trustee 14 Feb 1701/2; an edition of sixty of his sermons was published in 1726; he and Robert Freind (KS 1680, qv) married sisters; m. 18 Jul 1700 (IGI) Mary, dau. of Rev. Samuel De L’Angle DD, Prebendary of Westminster and Vicar of Steventon, Berks.; d. 27 Sep 1719. Buried Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. DNB.
SMALLWELL, EDWARD, of London; b.; adm.; QS 1706; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1710, matr. 9 Jun 1710, Westminster Student 18 Dec 1710 – void 1724; BA 1714; MA 1717; ordained deacon 20 Dec 1719, priest 12 Jun 1720 (both Oxford); Perpetual Curate, Benson, Oxfordshire, from 16 Jul 1720; m. 2 Feb 1724/5 Ann Goodchild, St. Martin’s in the Fields, London; d. 1730 (will proved PCC 11 Jul 1730).
SMALLWELL, EDWARD, son of John Smallwell, Westminster; b.; adm. (aged 13) Mar 1733/4; KS (Capt. ) 1735; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1739, matr. 22 Jun 1739, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1739 – void 13 May 1775 (Canon), Tutor 1751-68, Junior Censor 1752, Senior Censor 1753-9, Librarian 1763-75; BA 1743; MA 13 Mar 1746/7; BD 1755; DD 1775; Proctor 1754; ordained deacon 25 May 1746, priest 24 Jun 1747 (both Oxford); Vicar of Rye, Sussex 25 Feb 1762-8; Chaplain in Ordinary to King George III 1766-77; Rector of Batsford, Gloucs., from 6 Nov 1767; Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, from 13 May 1775; consecrated Bishop of St. David’s 6 Jul 1783; translated to Oxford 15 Apr 1788; Busby Trustee 18 Apr 1793; bequeathed £1000 to the School and £2000 to Christ Church, Oxford; d. 26 Jun 1799.
By his will dated 14 May 1799 (proved 23 Jul 1799), he bequeathed £1000 4 per cent annuities to his executor, “ to be paid by him for the benefit of the King’s Scholars of Westminster School”. By a codicil dated 3 Jul 1799 he directed that if a fund charged by him with payment of his debts and legacies was not thereby exhausted, the surplus should be divided between the King’s Scholars and certain other designated trusts. The fund was later consolidated with the School Exhibition Fund, and the benefaction was commemorated by an exhibition known as the Bishop Smallwell exhibition.
SMALLWELL, EDWARD, son of Edward Smallwell (QS 1706, qv); b. 11 Nov 1726; adm. (aged 11) Jan 1737/8; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1745, but went to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 12 Jun 1745; BA 1749; MA 1752; ordained; Vicar of Easton Maudit, Northants, from 1751; d. 1752 (adm. of his estate granted Apr 1752).
SMALLBROOKE, HEZEKIAH; only son of John Smallbrooke, Birmingham and Temple, Wolvey, Warwicks., and Sarah ---; b.; at school 1657-9 (Busby’s Account Book); m. Elizabeth, dau. of William Whitehall, Oldbury, Warwicks.; buried Wolvey, Warwicks., 19 Aug 1670.
SMALL, JOHN; b.; adm. (aged 11) May 1722.
SMALL, DAVID HENRY, son of David Henry Small MRCS, Belvedere Road, Upper Norwood, Surrey, Surgeon-Maj., Bengal Army (previously EICS Bengal), and Isabella --- (1881 Census); b. 11 Oct 1866; adm. 26 Jan 1882 (H); left Dec 1884; m. 9 May 1893 Jeanetta, youngest dau. of Major-Gen. Ernest Augustus Green, Bombay Army (previously EICS Bombay).
SMALL, CHARLES; b.; adm. 8 May 1786.
SMALE, WILLIAM ADDERLEY, son of Henry Lewis Smale (qv); b. 25 Apr 1816; adm. 15 Jan 1830 (Stikeman's); adm. attorney, practising in Arundel Street, Strand until 1845 (not in Law List 1861).
SMALE, HENRY LEWIS, son of Henry Smale, Fludyer Street, Westminster, and Anne --- (IGI); bapt. St. Paul’s, Covent Garden 17 Feb 1790; at school under Vincent; adm. proctor, Court of Arches 1811; of firm H. L. Smale & Son, Dean’s Court, Doctors’ Commons, London; member committee, Old Westminster Cricket Club, in 1828 (Elizabethan xii, 84); m. Eliza --- (IGI); d. 24 Mar 1871, aged 81.