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SIMPSON (or SIMSON), EDWARD, son of Rev. Edward Simpson, Rector of Tottenham, Middlesex; b. 9 May 1578; adm.; QS; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1596, scholar 1597; BA 1600/1; MA 1604; BD 1611; DD 1624; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1602-28 (sic); ordained; Chaplain to Sir Moyle Finch, Eastwell, Kent 1611-5; Rector of Eastling, Kent, from 1618 (sic); Prebendary of Lincoln from 4 Aug 1628; Rector of Pluckley, Kent 1628-49; author Chronicon Historiam Catholicam complectans, 1652; m. 1st, ---, dau. of Richard Barham, Kent; m. 2nd, ---; buried Eastling, Kent 9 Jun 1651. DNB.

SIMPKINSON, JOHN NASSAU, elder son of Sir John Augustus Francis Simpkinson (qv); b. 1 Jan 1817; adm. 27 Jan 1830 (Stelfox's); KS 1830; went to Rugby Sch. 1831; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 30 Oct 1834; 10th Classic and 27th Junior Optime 1839; BA 1839; MA 1842; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 22 Mar 1839; ordained deacon 1840, priest 6 Jun 1841 (both Chichester); Curate, Herstmonceux, Sussex 1840-5; Assistant Master, Harrow Sch. 1845-55; Rector of Brington, Northants 11 Apr 1855-68; Rector of North Creake, Norfolk, from 9 Jun 1868; author, The Washingtons, a Tale of the Seventeenth Century, 1860; m. 6 Dec 1849 Sarah Dorothea, dau. of Rev. Edward Thomas Vaughan, Vicar of St. Martin’s, Leicester; d. 17 Apr 1894.

SIMPKINSON, SIR JOHN AUGUSTUS FRANCIS, only son of Rev. John Simpkinson, Rector of Cliffe, Kent, and Renée, dau. of Abraham de Wesselow, Russian Ambassador at Vienna; b. 30 Nov 1780; adm.; KS 1794; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1798, but went to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 19 May 1798, Canoneer Student 25 Jun 1800 – void 26 Jun 1809; BA 1802; MA 1804; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 26 Jan 1803, called to bar 15 Nov 1806, Bencher 1831, Treasurer 1845; practised in Chancery courts; KC Trinity 1831; knighted on opening by Queen Victoria of new Hall of Lincoln’s Inn 30 Oct 1845; FRS 22 Apr 1847; FSA; m. 14 Apr 1814 Mary, third dau. of John Griffin, Bedford Place, Russell Square, London; d. 8 Jul 1851.

SIMONS, MATTHEW, son of Nicholas Simons, Ingoldsby, Lincs., and Eliza ---; bapt. Ingoldsby, Lincs. 3 Jan 1748 (IGI); adm. 14 Jan 1765 (as Simmonds); Christ’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 17 Apr 1766, aged 17, scholar 1767, matr. Easter 1767, resided until Mich. 1770.

SIMONS, HENRY, son of William Simons, Middlesex, barrister; b. ; at school under Freind (J. E. B. Mayor & R. F. Scott, Admissions to St. John’s Coll. Camb. , ii, 217); St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 14 Feb 1714/5, aged 18, matr. 1715; BA [check]; MA 1728.

SIMONS, ---; b.; in school lists Christmas 1764, 1765.

SIMON, ---; b.; in under school list 1715.