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GB-2014-WSA-20814 · Person · 1769-1856

Slade, Grace Annabella; Daughter of Richard Slade (adm.1721/2, qv) ; b. c.1769 ; d. unm. 13 Oct 1856.
To commemorate the education of her father Richard Slade and of her brothers Richard Slade and Samuel Slade at the School, she gave £1000 to fund an exhibition at Christ Church, Oxford, preference to be given, in the case of an equality of merit among the candidates, to a person educated at Westminster School. In addition, she gave, on 30 Mar 1846 £1000 to the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, the interest on which was to be laid out in the purchase of books for prizes. By an order of the Chapter dated 21 Apr 1856, £10 of the income was to be applied to the purchase of prizes for a Latin essay or of Greek verses on a set subject, and the balance in the purchase of prizes to be given at the annual examinations.

GB-2014-WSA-15776 · Person · 1801-1863

SLADE, SIR FREDERICK WILLIAM, BART., brother of John Henry Slade (qv); b. 22 Jan 1801; adm. 25 May 1812; left Bartholomewtide 1818; Brasenose Coll. Oxford, matr. 12 Apr 1820; BA 1824; MA 1857; adm. Middle Temple 8 May 1820, called to bar 25 Jun 1830, Bencher 1852; Western Circuit; QC 11 Jul 1851; succ. father as 2nd baronet 13 Aug 1859; DL JP Somerset; m. 23 Dec 1833 Barbara Maria, formerly wife of Carl, Baron von Krober, dau. of Charles Browne Mostyn, Kidlington Hall, Oxfordshire, and sister of George, 6th Baron Vaux of Harrowden; d. 8 Aug 1863.

Slade, Edward, 1776-?
GB-2014-WSA-15775 · Person · 1776-?

SLADE, EDWARD, son of Richard Slade (adm. 1721/2, qv); bapt. 11 Jun 1776; adm. 15 Sep 1784; left 1786.

GB-2014-WSA-15774 · Person · ca. 1799-1839

SLADE, CHARLES GEORGE, brother of John Henry Slade (qv); b.; adm. 27 Sep 1811; left 1814; Cornet, 3rd Dragoons 25 Apr 1816; Lieut., 23 May 1822; Capt., 22 Oct 1825; Maj., 1 Jul 1837; d. on passage home from India 10 Feb 1839, aged 40.

GB-2014-WSA-15773 · Person · 1837-1897

SLADE, CHARLES GEORGE, brother of Sir Alfred Frederick Adolphus Slade, Bart. (qv); b. 16 Jul 1837; adm. 28 Jun 1850 (G); left 1854; Ensign, Rifle Brigade 18 Feb 1855; Lieut., 6 Jul 1855; Capt., 8 Oct 1861; Maj., 1 Sep 1878; Lieut. -Col., 1 Jul 1881; Col., 1 Jul 1885; Commandant, School of Musketry, Hythe 1890; retd. 17 Jul 1894; served in Ashanti War 1873-4; d. 6 Sep 1897.

GB-2014-WSA-15772 · Person · 1807-1829

SLADE, ALFRED ROBERT, brother of John Henry Slade (qv); b. 13 Oct 1807; adm. 9 Feb 1817 (Packharness'); left 24 Jul 1818; d. unm. 20 Dec 1829.

GB-2014-WSA-15771 · Person · 1834-1890

SLADE, SIR ALFRED FREDERICK ADOLPHUS, BART., eldest son of Sir Frederick William Slade, Bart. (qv); b. 28 May 1834; adm. 25 Jun 1846 (G); QS 1849; cut “A. Slade” in huge letters on the Dryden form, and is said to have got 500 lines for each letter (Elizabethan vi, 190); left 1853; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 12 May 1853, matr. Mich. 1853; Ensign, 57th Foot 15 Sep 1854; Lieut., 9 Feb 1855; Capt., 23 Aug 1859; 100th Foot 17 Apr 1860; retd. 9 Jun 1865; served in Crimean War, wounded in attack on the Redan 18 Jun 1855, and in Indian Mutiny; succ. father as 3rd baronet 8 Aug 1863; adm. Middle Temple 9 Nov 1866; Receiver-Gen., Inland Revenue, from 1875; one of founders of Primrose League 1883; m. 6 Sep 1860 Mary Constance, second dau. of William Cuthbert, Beaufront Castle, Northumberland; d. 19 Jul 1890.

GB-2014-WSA-20613 · Person · 1922-2009

Slack, John Braithwaite, son of Sidney Howard Slack, Midland Bank official, and Rosemary Anne, d. of William Braithwaite of Paignton, Devon; b. 10 Dec. 1922; adm. Apr. 1936 (R); left Dec. 1939; Mercantile Bank of India 1940-52; RNVR 1941-6 (Lieut.); Levin & Co., Blenheim, NZ, 1952-5; in business Midhurst, Sussex, 1955-66; American Express Co., Haywards Heath and Brighton, 1966-85; retd 1985; m. 1st 20 Mar. 1948 Maureen Isobel, d. of Thomas Alexan­der Burns, civil engineer, of Ceylon; 2nd 16 Mar. 1985 Sheila Claire Lee, d. of Aldwin Anthony de Ryck of Georgetown, Brit. Guiana; d. 1 Aug 2009.

GB-2014-WSA-15770 · Person · ca. 1720-1796

SKYRME, WILLIAM, eldest son of John Skyrme, Llawhaden, Pembrokeshire, and Frances, dau. of Griffith Hawkwell, Talybont, Llawhaden, Pembrokeshire; b.; adm. (aged 14) Sep 1734; left 1737; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 3 Mar 1737/8, matr. 1738; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 18 May 1737. [Perhaps m. Jane Abra Hughes, Alltgoch, Cardiganshire; perhaps William Skyrme, Vaynor, Pembrokeshire, will proved PCC 20 May 1796]

Skyrme, Peter, fl. 1736
GB-2014-WSA-15769 · Person · fl. 1736

SKYRME, PETER; b.; in school lists Dec 1736, 1737. [probably an error]