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HARVEY, EDWARD, brother of Eliab Harvey (adm. Jan 1723/4, qv); b. 1 Aug 1718; adm. (aged 8) Jan 1726/7; left 1735; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 24 May 1736; Cornet, 10th Dragoons 19 Mar 1740/1; Lieut. , 31 Aug 1744; Capt. , 7th Dragoons 6 Feb 1747; Maj. , 8 Mar 1751; Lieut. -Col. , 6th Dragoons 25 May 1754; Equerry to George III 1760; Col. in the Army 2 Dec 1760; Maj. -Gen. , 10 Jul 1762; Adjutant-General 1763-72; Col. , 12th Dragoons 17 Mar 1763 – Sep 1764, Carabineers 28 Sep 1764 – Oct 1775, 6th Dragoons from 18 Oct 1775; Lieut. -Gen. 25 May 1772; Governor of Portsmouth 1773-7; served with distinction in Seven Years War; wounded at Wetter and Kloster Kampen; MP Gatton 5 Dec 1761-8, Harwich from 1768; described by Horace Walpole as “the King’s confidential tool for the Army” (Journal of the Reign of George III 1771-83, ed. Doran, I, 179); m. ; d. 27 Mar 1778.

PASTON, ROBERT, 1ST EARL OF YARMOUTH, eldest son of Sir William Paston, Bart. , and Lady Katherine Bertie, dau. of Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey; b. 29 May 1631; at school under Busby (GEC, Complete Peerage, viii, 210); Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 10 Mar 1645/6, but did not matr. ; knighted 27 May 1660; MP Thetford 1660, Castle Rising 1661 – 19 Aug 1673; succ. father as 2nd baronet 22 Feb 1662/3; a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber 25 Jan 1666/7; created Viscount Yarmouth 19 Aug 1673; Lord Lieut. , Norfolk, from 6 Mar 1675/6; Joint Surveyor of the Green Wax 24 Jan 1677/8; created Earl of Yarmouth 30 Jul 1679; m. c. 1650 Rebecca, second dau. of Sir Jasper Clayton, parish of St. Edmund the King, London; d. 8 Mar 1682/3. DNB.

PHILIPPS, GEORGE, brother of John Louis Philipps (adm. 1753, qv); b. ; adm. ; KS (aged 14) 1757 (as George Philips); elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1761, adm. pens. 21 May 1761, scholar 30 Apr 1762, matr. Mich. 1761; BA 1766; MA 1769; High Sheriff, Carmarthenshire 1767-8 (or 1770 ?); Mayor, Carmarthen 1773-4; MP Carmarthen 1780-4; m. ; d. 17 Apr 1784.

SCROOPE, SIR ADRIAN, son of Sir Gervase Scrope, Kt, Cockerington, Lincs. , and Catherine, dau. of John Hungerford, Hungerford, Wilts. ; b. 1615; at school under Osbaldeston (Admissions to St. John’s Coll. Camb. , i, 10); St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 18 May 1632, aged 16, matr. 1632; MA 1635/6; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 9 Jun 1634; served in Royal army throughout Civil War; he and his father were fined over £6000 by Parliament for their delinquency; MP Great Grimsby Apr 1661; KB 23 Apr 1661; m. Mary, second dau. of Sir Robert Carr, Bart. , Sleaford, Lincs. ; d. c. Sep 1666. DNB.

SMYTH, JOHN, only son of John Smyth, Heath Hall, Yorks. , and Bridget, dau. of Benjamin Foxley, London; b. 12 Feb 1748; in school lists 1764, 1765; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 19 Mar 1766, matr. 1766; of Heath Hall, Yorks. , inherited from father 1771; Grand Tour (Italy) 1773; member, Society of Dilettanti 1775; Gentleman of the Privy Chamber 1782 [check]; MP Pontefract 11 Apr 1783-1807; a Lord of the Admiralty 7 May 1794 – Jul 1802; Master of the Mint Jul 1802 – Jul 1804; Privy Councillor 22 Sep 1802; Commissioner, Board of Trade 1 May 1805-6; m. 4 Jun 1778 Lady Georgiana Fitzroy, eldest dau. of Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton KG PC; d. 12 Feb 1811.

WROTTESLEY, JOHN, 1st BARON WROTTESLEY, eldest son of Sir John Wrottesley, Bart. (qv); b. 25 Oct 1771; adm. 31 Jan 1782; expelled as one of the ringleaders in the rebellion up School in Dr. Smith’s time (two letters in the Wrottesley MSS giving an account of the rebellion, calendared HMC Report, ii, 48, were destroyed in a fire at Wrottesley Hall 16 Dec 1897); succ. father as 9th baronet 23 Apr 1787; Ensign, 35th Foot 24 Sep 1787; Lieut., 19th Foot 2 Jun 1790; 29th Foot 25 Jun 1790; Capt., 16th Light Dragoons 26 Feb 1793; Maj., 32nd Foot 28 Apr 1794; retd. Aug 1795; served in Flanders 1793-5; a partner in a banking firm at Wolverhampton, Staffs., c. 1816-34; MP Lichfield 2 Mar 1799-1806, Staffordshire 23 Jul 1823-32, South Staffordshire 1832-7; created Baron Wrottesley 11 Jul 1838; initially a supporter of Pitt, but took Whig whip in House of Commons and House of Lords from 1823 onwards; FSA (by 1831); m. 1st, 23 Jun 1795 Lady Caroline Bennet, eldest dau. of Charles Bennet, 4th Earl of Tankerville; m. 2nd, 19 May 1819 Julia, widow of Capt. Hon. John Astley Bennet, Royal Navy, and dau. of John Conyers (qv); d. 16 Mar 1841. DNB.

WYNN, ELLIS, son of Maurice Wynn, Gwydir, Caernarvonshire, and his first wife Jane, dau. of Sir Richard Bulkeley, Kt, Beaumaris, Anglesey; b. before 1559; at school under Grant (Calendar of Wynn Papers, 429); entered household of Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury; Gentleman Harbinger, Royal Household, by 1596; MP Saltash 1597; Clerk of the Petty Bag from 14 Nov 1603; m. Ann, dau. of --- Gage, Alderman, City of London [check]; d. 27 Sep 1623. Buried South Aisle of Nave, Westminster Abbey.

BANKES, GEORGE, third son of Henry Bankes (qv); b. 1 Dec 1787; in school lists 1795,1797,1801,1803; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm. pens. 29 Jun 1805, scholar, matr. Lent 1806; LLB 1812; Fellow of Trin. Hall 19 Feb 1814 -22; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 22 May 1810, called to bar 2 Jul 1813; Inner Temple 1815; Commissioner of Appeals of Excise 6 May 1815 – Feb 1816; a Commissioner of Bankrupts 1822 (occurs in annual lists 1823-8); MP Corfe Castle 13 Feb 1816 - Mar 1823, 23 Feb 1826-32, Dorset from 1841; Recorder of Weymouth from 1823; Cursitor Baron of the Exchequer from 16 Jul 1824; Secretary, Board of Control 1828 - Feb 1830; member, Board of Control Feb - Nov 1830; a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury Apr - Nov 1830; Judge Advocate-General 28 Feb - Dec 1852; Privy Councillor 27 Feb 1852; chairman, Dorset Quarter Sessions; a Conservative politician; author, The Story of Corfe Castle, 1853; m. 8 Jun 1822 Georgina Charlotte, only child of Adm. of the Fleet Sir Charles Edmund Nugent GCH MP; d. 6 Jul 1856. DNB.

BROOKE, ROBERT; b. ; adm. ; KS 1633. [Note Robert Brooke, of Suffolk, St. Catherine’s Coll. Cambridge, matr. fellow commoner Mich. 1637. Possibly Sir Robert Brooke, knighted 1660, MP Aldeburgh 1660-1, d. 25 Feb 1693/4]

CAULFIELD, HON. THOMAS, seventh son of William Caulfield, 2nd Baron Charlemont (I), Master-Gen. of the Ordnance (I), and Mary, dau. of Sir John King, Kt. , Boyle Abbey, co. Roscommon; b. ; at school under Busby (Adm. Reg. , Magd. Coll. Camb. ); a letter from his aunt Dorothy, widow of Arthur Moore, Dunmoghan, co. Louth, apparently written in 1644, asks for Hartlib’s help on behalf of her nephew at “an ellection of some scollers at Westminster” (Hartlib MSS in possession of Lord Delamere, as quoted H. G. Turnbull, Hartlib, Dury and Comenius, 1947, 247, note); Magdalene Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 6 Jun 1645, aged 14, matr. 1645; a Master in Chancery (I), 29 Mar 1655, continued in office 26 Feb 1660; MP (I) Charlemont 1661-5; attainted and estate sequestered 1689; m. 1657 Hon. Anne Moore, dau. of Charles Moore, 2nd Viscount Moore (I); d. 1690.