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ALSOP, ANTHONY, son of Anthony Alsop, Darley, Derbs., by Anne Lowe; bapt. 4 Jan 1668/9; adm.; KS 1686; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1690, matr. 12 Jul 1690, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1690 - void 12 Aug 1713 (expiry year of grace as R. Nursling), Tutor 1698-1709, Junior Censor 1701-2, Senior Censor 1703-5, Catechist 1706-7, 1711; BA 29 Jan 1694/5; MA 23 Mar 1696/7; BD 1706 (incorp. at Camb. 1707); ordained; Rector of Nursling, Hants. 31 Jul 1712-5; Rector of Alverstoke, Hants. 25 Mar 1715 (dispensation to hold with Nursling, 1715); Rector of Brightwell, Berks. 1715; Prebendary of Winchester from 21 May 1715; left England in 1718 on losing an action brought against him for breach of promise of marriage, but returned in 1720; is alluded to in the Dunciad; with Francis Atterbury (KS 1674 (qv)) and George Smalridge (qv) assisted Charles Boyle in the production of Dr. Bentley’s Dissertations on the Epistles of Phalaris, 1698; editor, Fabularum Aesopicarum Delectus, 1698, in the preface to which he attacked Bentley; his Latin Odes were published posthumously by Sir Francis Bernard (qv) in 1752; m. c. Dec. 1715 Margaret, widow of Rev. Francis Bernard, Rector of Brightwell, Berks. (and mother of Sir Francis Bernard (qv)), and dau. of Richard Winlowe, Lewknor, Oxfordshire; accidentally drowned 16 Jun 1726. DNB.

ALSOPP, GEORGE; b.; adm. 25 Feb 1782; left 1784.

ALSTON, SIR ROWLAND, BART., brother of Sir Thomas Alston, Bart. (qv); b.; adm. (aged 8) Jan. 1735/6 (Hawkins'); left 1743; Clare Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 28 Sep 1743, matr. 1743; Ensign, 1st Foot Guards 11 Apr 1745; Lieut. and Capt. 26 Feb 1748; Capt. and Lieut. -Col. 2 May 1758; retd. 30 Jul 1762, after reprimand by court martial; succeeded his brother Thomas as 6th baronet 18 Jul 1774; of Odell, Beds.; High Sheriff Bedfordshire 1779; m. 2 Oct 1753 Gertrude, dau. of Rev. Thomas Durnford, Rector of Rockbourne and Whitsbury, Hampshire [DD ?] [sister of Stillingfleet Durnford, Tower of London]; d. 29 Jun 1791.

ALSTON, SIR THOMAS, BART., elder son of Sir Rowland Alston, Bart., MP, Odell, Beds., and Elizabeth, dau. of Capt. Thomas Reynes; b.; adm. (aged 11) Jan 1735/6 (Hawkins'); left 1739; Queen’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 21 Apr 1740; Ensign, 1st Foot Guards 16 Apr 1741; Lieut. and Capt. 23 Apr 1743; retd. 11 Apr 1745; MP Bedfordshire 1747-61; intermittently insane from 1750s; succ. as 5th baronet 2 Jan 1759; of Odell, Beds.; m. 30 Aug 1750 Catherine, dau. of Rev. Thomas Davies Bovey, Longstowe, Cambridgeshire; d. 18 Jul 1774.

ALT, HENRY, son of Just Henry Alt, Minister for Landgraf of Hesse Kassel in London, by Jeanetta, only child of Sir John Preston, Bart.; b.; adm. (aged 11) Oct 1741; left 1746; Lieut. 51st Foot 21 Oct 1754; 22nd Foot 8 Mar 1757; Capt. 12 Sep 1760; 44th Foot 19 Sep 1761; living 1767, when granted 5000 acres in Nova Scotia.

ALT, JUST, brother of Henry Alt (qv); b.; adm. (aged 9) Oct 1741 (as Justinian Alt); KS 1747; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1751, adm. pens. 5 Jun 1751, scholar 24 Apr 1752, matr. 1751; BA 1755; MA 1758; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1756, Major Fellow 5 Jul 1758; ordained deacon 24 Apr 1758, priest 21 May 1758 (both Lincoln); Rector of Mixbury, Oxfordshire, from 20 Nov 1759; Prebendary of York from 19 May 1797; m. 30 May 1763 Elizabeth, dau. of Rev. Thomas Bowles DD, Vicar of Brackley, Northants.; buried 21 Jun 1801.

ALT, WILLIAM GERARD, brother of Henry Alt (qv); b.; adm. (aged 11) Jan 1747/8 (as Gerard Alt) (Lloyd's); in school list 1752; Ensign, 8th Foot 29 Aug 1756; Lieut., 22nd Foot 4 Oct 1757; d. in the West Indies c. 1759. [Not in Army List 1759]

ALTHAM, ---; at school in 1664 (Busby’s Account Book); a boarder.

ALTHAM, JAMES, son of James Altham, Epping, Essex; nephew of Roger Altham (KS 1675, qv); b.; adm.; QS (aged 14) 1713; left 1716. [Presumably James Altham, bapt. Epping, Essex 1 Mar 1697, son of James Altham, and Anne --- (IGI)]