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BRISTOWE, LEONARD SYER, eldest son of John Syer Bristowe MD FRS FRCP, Old Burlington Street, London, Physician to St. Thomas’s Hospital and to the School, and Miriam Isabella, eldest surviving dau. of Joseph Philips Stearns, Dulwich, Surrey; b. 14 Oct 1857; adm. 26 Jan 1867; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1876, matr. 13 Oct 1876; 2nd cl. Cl. Mod. 1878, 1st cl. Classics 1880; BA 1880; MA 1883; adm. Inner Temple 9 Nov 1878, called to bar 17 Nov 1882; equity draughtsman and conveyancer; an authority on the law of mining leases; Puisne Judge, Supreme Court of South Africa, Transvaal Provincial Division, 1902-20; m. 17 Mar 1894 Hilda Florence, sister of Hugh Alexander Power (qv); d. 5 Apr 1935.

Bristowe, Vivian Ernest John, brother of Leonard Syer Bristowe (q.v.); b. June 12, 1874; adm. Sept. 24, 1885 (H); left July 1892; became a stock jobber and went out to South Africa shortly before Great War I; enlisted in the South African Medical Corps in Nov. 1915, and joined the East African Expeditionary Force in Jan. 1916; d. while on active service at Rug, Rufigi River, East Africa, April 14, 1917; unm.

BRITT, ---; b.; at school c. 1660.

Britten, Johnstone Fletcher, son of Harold Victor Britten, insurance co. sec., and Claudia, d. of Harold Victor Fletcher of Hove, Sussex; b. 1 Oct. 1931; adm. Sept. 1945 (kS); left July 1950; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1951, BA 1954, MA 1960; chief engineer Clockhouse Engineering Ltd. 1959-63; co. dir. 1963-; m. 1st, 9 Jan. 1960 Anne Spencer, d. of W. A. Webster; 2nd, 1971 Diana Marilyn Britten; d. 24 Nov. 2009.

Brittlebank, Michael Forster, brother of Philip Brittlebank (qv); b. 28 June 1923; adm. Sept. 1937 (R); left July 1940; RAC Aug. 1943, transf. to Reece Corps Oct. 1943, to KOR Oct. 1944; wounded (Italy) Apr. 1945; Brit. Steel Corpn. 1946-62; export sales dir. H. J. Skelton, steel merchants, 1965-74; retd. 1974 because of war wounds; m. 5 Nov. 1969 Katherine Margaret Burdett; d. 28 Mar. 2015.

Brittlebank, Philip, son of Percy Victor Brittlebank, engineer, of Blackheath, and Ada Howard, d. of Thomas Howard Foster of Glazebrook, Cheshire; b. 8 Sept. 1920; adm. May 1935 (R); left July 1938; RAC 1943, transf. to Roy. Warks/Wilts Yeomanry (Capt.); despatches (Italy) July 1945; man. dir. P. Brittlebank & Co., Bulawayo, Zimbabwe; m. 3 June 1950 Dorofred, d. of Alfred John Teague, electrical engineer, of Johannesburg; d. 5 May 2002.

BRITTON, JAMES, only son of Rev. James Britton, Head Master of Durham GS, subsequently Vicar of Bossall, Yorkshire North Riding, and Isabella, sister of Henry Forster Mills (qv); b. 25 Oct 1790; in school list 1803; KS (aged 14) 1805; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1809, matr. 17 May 1809; BA 1813; MA 1815; ordained deacon 6 Mar 1812 (Chester, lit. dim. from York), priest 18 Dec 1814 (York); Curate, Ware, Herts.; Vicar of Great Bardfield, Essex, 17 Jul 1829-40; m. 22 Aug 1818 Julia, dau. of Richard Down, Bartholomew Lane, London, banker; d. 18 May 1871.