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FLETCHER, ARCHIBALD, son of Andrew Fletcher, Edinburgh [presumably Andrew Fletcher, Lord Milton SCJ, Lord Justice Clerk]; b.; adm. (aged 12) Sep 1743 (Preston's); KS 1746; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1750, matr. 20 Jun 1750, but did not live to be adm. as a Westminster Student; buried Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford 25 Jun 1750.

Fletcher, Donald Edward, son of Donald Vernon Fletcher (qv); b. 17 Dec. 1939; adm. Sept. 1953 (R); left July 1957; RAC Cirencester 1958-60; dir. Edward Fletcher & Partners, scientific instrument makers; FISE 1972; m. 1962 Wendy Jean, d. of Harry Lauder of Lagos, Nigeria; d. 19 Oct. 1999.

Fletcher, Donald Vernon, only son of Arthur William Fletcher, of Thirsk, Yorks, by Lilian, daughter of John Lowe. of Manchester; b. May 8, 1899; adm. Sept. 25, 1913 (R); left April 1917 and joined the 16th Batt. London Regt.; obtained a commission in 3rd Batt. West Yorks Regt. in Aug. 1918 and served with the 8th Batt. in France and on the Rhine until demob. in April 1919; farmed in Yorkshire; m. 1st June 14, 1923, Esme Watts, younger dacghter of Edward Barker Jackson, of Thirsk; 2nd Jan. 30, 1935, Eleanor Gwendolen, widow of Flight-Lieut. E. V. S. Lacey, R.A.F., and daughter of Albert Eduard Carr, of Westhorpe House, Westwood, Scarborough, solicitor; d. April 19, 1950.

Fletcher, Eric Longsdon, son of Charles Eric Longsdon Fletcher CBE, Asst Sec. Customs & Excise, and Mabel, d. of Thomas Crampton of Warrington, Lancs; b. 28 Jan. 1920; adm. Jan. 1932 (H); left July 1938; Corp. Christi Coll. Camb., matric. 1938, BA 1941, MA 1962; Roy. Signals in WW2 (Capt.); Asst Principal Customs & Excise 1948, Principal 1950; m. 18 June 1949 Doreen Moira, d. of Albert Noel Hansel Baines DL JP; d. 29 Sept. 1977.

Fletcher, George Bernard Hillman, son of William Fletcher MD and Mary Beatrice, d. of Wil­liam Hillman of Keresley Hall, Warks; b. 5 Mar. 1918; adm. Jan. 1932 (H); left July 1936; King's Coll. Camb., matric. 1936, fenced against Oxford 1939, BA 1940, MA 1944; d. 25 Jan. 1987.

FLETCHER, GILES, younger son of Giles Fletcher LLD, ecclesiastical lawyer, Remembrancer City of London, and sometime Ambassador to Russia, and Joan, dau. of Thomas Sheafe, Cranbrook, Kent; b.; at school under Ireland (Fuller, Worthies, 1840 edn., ii, 381); Trinity Coll. Cambridge, matr. Mich. 1601, scholar 12 Apr 1605; BA 1605/6; MA 1609; BD 1619; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll., 17 Sep 1608 - c. 1618, Reader in Greek Grammar 1615, in Greek Language 1618; ordained deacon 18 Sep 1613, priest 19 Sep 1613 (both Peterborough); Rector of Helmingham, Suffolk 1617; Rector of Alderton, Suffolk; “his clownish and low-parted parishioners (having nothing but their shoes high about them) valued not their pastor according to his worth, which disposed him to melancholy, and hastened his dissolution ” (Fuller, loc. cit. ); author, Christ’s Victorie, a Triumph in Heaven and Earth over and after Death, 1610, and other poems; m. Anne --- (afterwards wife of John Ramsey); d. 1623. DNB.

FLETCHER, JEREMIAH; b.; adm. (aged 8) Jan 1727/8; left 1732. [Perhaps Jeremiah Fletcher, bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 14 Oct 1719, son of Jeremiah Fletcher, and Rebecca --- (IGI)]

FLETWOOD, EDWARD, second son of Sir William Fletwood MP, Aston Sampford, Bucks., Recorder of London, Serjeant-at-law, and Marian, dau. of John Barley, Kingsey, Oxfordshire; b.; at school (aged 11) 2 Jul 1582 (Chapter Muniments 43050); QS ; a contributor to the congratulatory verses by QSS to Queen Elizabeth c. 1586 (Salisbury MSS, Hatfield); Trinity Coll. Oxford, matr. 24 May 1605, aged 34 (sic); adm. Gray’s Inn 15 Jul 1594; started for Virginia 8 May 1609; d. abroad 1609.

Fleuret, Frank Stuart, younger son of Alfred Cronin Fleuret, of South Godstone, Surrey, by Eliza Joie Harman, of London; b. Aug. 11, 1885; adm. May 4, 1899 (R); left July 1904; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1904; B.A. 1907; LL. B. 1908; adm. a solicitor Feb. 1912; practised in London; 2nd Lieut. 5th Batt. East Kent Regt. Sept. 12, 1914; Lieut. Sept. 26, 1916; served in the British Expeditionary Force in India, and Mesopotamia, where he was wounded; secretary of the Governing Body 1942-4; m. Oct. 5, 1916, Katherine Elizabeth, only daughter of Col. Charles Edward Morgan, of South Godstone; d. March 1, 1945.