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STUDLEY, JOHN; b.; adm.; QS ; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1561 (the first scholar elected from the School under the Statutes of Elizabeth I), adm. scholar 1563, matr. Easter 1563; BA 1566/7; MA 1570; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1567 – c. 1574; summoned before the heads of the Colleges on a charge of nonconformity 1 Feb 1572/3; said to have joined the army of Prince Maurice in the Netherlands; author, The Pageant of the Popes, 1574; his translations of four of Seneca’s tragedies were included in Thomas Newton’s edition of Seneca his tenne tragedies translated into English, 1581; said to have been killed at siege of Breda, Netherlands 1590. DNB.

STUBBS, THOMAS, brother of George Stubbs (qv); b. 1740; adm. (aged 11) Jan 1750/1; Lieut., 95th Foot 1760; 52nd Foot, 1765; Capt. and Adjt., 1771; retd. 1773; of Basingstoke, Hampshire; m.; d. 28 Sep 1782, aged 42.

STUBBS, MARK; b.; adm. (aged 15) Feb 1735/6 (as Stubb); apprenticed to George Coffin, St. Clement Danes, Westminster, attorney, 31 Mar 1737.

STUBBS, GEORGE, son of George Stubbs, Parliament Street, Westminster, Keeper of the Records, Court of Common Pleas; b. c. 1738; adm. Mar 1747/8; left 1751; an attorney practising in Suffolk Street and Great George Street, Westminster; of Harewood Hall, Upminster, Essex; m. 7 Aug 1777 Mary, dau. of Sir James Esdaile, Alderman and Lord Mayor of London; d. 19 Aug 1808. [Perhaps FSA 19 Dec 1793].

STUBBS, CUTHBERT; b.; adm. (aged 9) Jan 1750/1; in school list 1752; Royal Naval Academy, Portsmouth, adm. 25 Jul 1753. [Presumably brother of, or close kin to, Thomas Stubbs (qv), adm. same month].

STUBBINGS (or STUBBENS), JOHN, of Hertfordshire, “cler. fil. ”, i. e. son of a Church of England clergyman; b.; adm.; KS; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1609, matr. 14 Nov 1609, aged 18, Westminster Student to 1641; BA 1613; MA 1616; BD and DD 1630 (incorp. Cambridge 1614); subscribed for deacon’s orders (Bristol) 19 Sep 1619; Vicar of Ambrosden, Oxfordshire, from 4 Jul 1635; imprisoned under the Commonwealth ( (Walker Revised, 300); d. 18 Jul 1655.

STUBBE, WOLFRAN, son of Edmund Stubbe (elected to Cambridge 1610, qv); b.; adm.; in school lists 1656; KS; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1657, adm. pens. 13 May 1657, scholar 1658, matr. Easter 1659; 9th in “ordo” 1660/1; BA 1660/1; MA 1664 (incorp. Oxford 14 Jul 1674); DD 1681; Fellow, Trinity Coll., from 1661, Junior Bursar 1678-81, Junior Dean 1683-5, Senior Bursar 1698-1701, Vice-Master 1703-12; headed petition to Bishop of Ely against Richard Bentley 1709; Regius Prof. of Hebrew, Cambridge Univ. 1688-99; ordained deacon 1664, signed for priest’s orders (London) 16 Dec 1664; Chaplain to Duke of Albemarle 1664; Rector of Tunstall, Suffolk 1679; Rector of Guiseley, Yorks., 1703; Rector of Orwell, Cambs., from 1703; d. Oct 1719, aged 82.

STUBBE, RICHARD, of Gloucestershire; b.; adm.; QS; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1596, matr. Feb 1597/8, aged 19, Westminster Student to 1603; BA 1600.

STUBBE, HENRY, son of Rev. Henry Stubbe, Rector of Partney, Lincs.; b. 28 Feb 1631/2; adm.; KS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1649, matr. 13 Feb 1650/1, Westminster Student to ejection 1660; according to Wood, Sir Henry Vane (qv) “got him to be a King’s Scholar” and also “got him to be sped for a Student’s place in Christ Church, where shewing himself too forward, pragmatical and conceited (being well stock’d with impudence at school), was often kick’d and beaten”; whipped in the Public Refectory in 1651 for abusing the Censor Morum, and for “his impudence in other respects” (Wood, Ath. Oxon., iii, 1068); BA 1653; MA 1656; served in the Parliamentary Army in Scotland 1653-5; Second Keeper of the Bodleian Library, Oxford 1657–9, when deprived of post for writing A Light shining out of Darkness, a “pestilent book” against the clergy and universities; retired to Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, where he practised medicine; King’s Physician, Jamaica 1661; afterwards practised at Warwick and Bath; imprisoned for denouncing the Duke of York’s marriage with Mary of Modena in the Paris Gazette, 1673; an intimate friend of Thomas Hobbes; described by Wood as “the most noted Latinist and Grecian of his age” (ibid., iii, 1071); author, The Commonwealth of Oceana put into a Balance and found too light, 1660, and other works; drowned near Bath, Somerset 12 Jul 1676. DNB.

STUBBE, EDMUND, son of Francis Stubbe, Scottowe, Norfolk, and Anne, dau. of Robert Coke, Mileham, Norfolk, and sister of Sir Edward Coke, Kt, Chief Justice of the King’s Bench; b.; adm.; KS ; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1610, adm. scholar 1611, matr. Easter 1611; BA 1614/5; MA 1618; BD 1631; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1616 – c. 1621; ordained; Rector of Huntingfield, Suffolk, from 1621; Rector of Longford, Derbyshire 1630; Rector of Cookley, Suffolk 1635; adm. Gray’s Inn 16 Nov 1635 [sic : check]; author, Fraus Honesta, a Latin comedy acted at Cambridge, afterwards published in 1635; m. 15 Oct 1627 (IGI) Margaret, dau. of Wolfran Smith, Lackfield, Suffolk; d. 9 Apr 1659.