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CLIFFORD, MARTIN; b.; KS (Capt. ); elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1640, adm. scholar 1641, matr. 1640; a buffoon about the Court, 1660; employed by the Duke of Buckingham in producing The Rehearsal (together with Samuel Butler and Thomas Sprat); attacked John Dryden (qv) in a series of letters; Master of the Charterhouse from 1671; author, A Treatise of Human Reason, 1674; d. 10 Dec 1677. DNB.

CLIFTON, BENJAMIN, brother of James Maillard Clifton (qv); b. 3 Jul 1776; adm. 11 Apr 1785; KS (aged 14) 1789; a physician at St. Kitts, West Indies.

CLIFTON, JAMES MAILLARD, son of Benjamin Clifton MD, St. Kitts, West Indies; b. 3 Jul 1772; adm. 7 Apr 1785; KS 1786; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1790, adm. pens. 8 Jun 1790, scholar 1791, matr. 1790; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 12 Nov 1788; Ensign, 38th Foot, 29 Apr 1797; Lieut., 47th Foot, 22 Sep 1797; Capt., 1st West India Regt., 21 Feb 1801; Maj., 4 Apr 1808; Lieut. -Col., 13 May 1813; retd. 24 Dec 1818.

CLUTTERBUCK, JOHN, of London; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1616, Westminster Student to c. 1649, matr. 10 Jun 1618, aged 16; BA 1620; MA 1623; BD 1642. [presumably ordained]

CLUTTERBUCK, WILLIAM, fourth son of Jasper Clutterbuck, King’s Stanley, Gloucs., and his second wife Margaret, dau. of Laurence Halliday; bapt. 17 Jun 1604; adm.; KS in 1619; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1623, adm. scholar 9 Apr 1624; BA 1627/8; MA 1631; BD 1639; Librarian, Trinity Coll., 27 Apr 1631-41; ordained deacon (Peterborough) 18 Feb 1637/8, priest (Norwich) 22 Dec 1639; Rector of Woodham Ferris, Essex, from 1641 (ejected 1645, but restored 1660); Rector of Danbury, Essex, from 1662; d. 1665.

CLUTTON, RICHARD, second son of John Clutton, Pensax, Worcs., and his second wife Mary Jobber, Shropshire; bapt. Pensax, Worcs. 15 Jun 1683 (IGI); adm.; KS 1696; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1702, matr. 12 Jun 1702, Westminster Student from 22 Dec 1702; d. 29 May 1703, aged 19. Buried Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.

COBBY, FREDERICK EDWARD, son of Edward John Cobby, Wandsworth, Surrey, Chancery Registrars’ Office, and Catherine --- (IGI); b. 16 Jan 1861; adm. 22 Jan 1874 (James'); QS Jan 1876; left Christmas 1878; Keble Coll. Oxford, matr. 14 Oct 1879; BA 1883; MA 1886; “solicitors’ managing clerk “, Wakefield, Yorkshire (1901 Census); d. Feb 1924.

COCK, ROBERT, only son of Francis Cock, Norwich, and ---, dau. of Ralph Blennerhasset, Pockthorpe, Norwich; b.; adm.; KS 1680; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1685, matr. 17 Dec 1685, aged 18, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1685 - void 1707, expiry year of grace as V. Chippenham from 1 Sep 1705; BA 1689; MA 1692; Master of the Grammar School at Christ Church, Oxford; ordained; Vicar of Chippenham, Wilts., 1705-16, when he resigned as a non-juror; subsequently a schoolmaster in Chippenham; m.; d. 4 Oct 1724, aged 57 (M. I. Chippenham, Wilts. ).

COCKBURN, THOMAS, son of James Cockburn MD, Kingston, Jamaica, and Sarah ---; b.; adm. (aged 12) Jun 1722; Min. Can. 1723; KS 1724; left 1727; a physician at York; subsequently Physician, Greenwich Hospital (Chamberlayne 1748); a friend of Charles Wesley (qv); m. 1st, 1737 Prudence Lewis; m. 2nd, 1740 Rachel Moore, widow; m. 3rd, 23 Oct 1747 (IGI), at Royal Hospital, Greenwich, Sarah Drinkwater; d. 1763. [Thomas Cockburn, “late Doctor of Physic now Lodger”, St. James, Westminster, will proved PCC 6 Nov 1769 (sic)]

COCKERELL, SAMUEL PEPYS, seventh son of Charles Robert Cockerell (qv); b. 19 Dec 1844; adm. 27 Jan 1857 (James'); QS 1858; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1862, matr. 12 Jun 1862; BA 1866; an artist; edited his father’s Journal of Travels in Southern Europe and the Levant 1810-1817, 1903; m. 13 Aug 1878 his cousin Anne Frances, dau. of Capt. Henry Craufurd RN; d. 12 Mar 1921.