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FOUNTAINE, WILLIAM NASSAU, son of (Augustus) Thomas Fountaine (qv); bapt. St. Mary, Marylebone Road 24 Apr 1777 (IGI); adm.; KS (aged 15) 1792; Cadet, EICS Bengal 1798; Ensign, 9th Bengal Native Infantry 3 Oct 1799; Lieut., 28 Oct 1799; Capt., 5 Jun 1811; Maj., 1 Feb 1820; d. at Baitool, Bengal 25 Dec 1824.

Fouracre, John Leighton, son of John Leighton Fouracre FRIBA, of Plymouth, and Cecilia Juliet Mary Fouracre; b. 5 Mar. 1912; adm. Sept. 1925 (B); left Apr. 1930; 2nd Lieut. The Manchester Regt Mar. 1933, Lieut. May 1936, Capt. Mar. 1941, Maj. July 1946; Instructor Staff Coll. Camberley 1948-50; OC 1 Battn The Manchester Regt 1956-8; retd 1959; Principal, War Office, Jan. 1960, Min. of Defence to 1974; m. 9 Mar. 1945 Elizabeth Helen Sydney, d. of Perci­val Clement Ford of Sao Paulo, Brazil; d. 29 Nov. 1982.

FOWELL, LEONARD CLIVE; b. 16 Aug 1857; adm. 23 Jun 1870 (James'); left May 1875; m.; d. 27 Mar 1933.

Fowke, Nigel Sparrow, son of Rev. Roger Henry Sparrow Fowke, Rector of Berwick St John, Wilts, and Dorothy, d. of Cecil North Arnold (qv); b 23 Apr. 1936; adm. Sept. 1949 (R); left July 1950; d. 2001.

FOWKE, RICHARD, son of John Fowke, Gunston, Staffs., and Joyce, dau. of Richard March, Stepney, Middlesex, Gentleman Usher Daily Waiter to Charles I and II; b.; adm. c. 1662; KS 1666; from a letter written by Sir Joseph Williamson (qv) to the Dean of Christ Church, dated Whitehall 6 May 1669, it appears that Richard March had petitioned the King for the election of his grandson to Christ Church, Oxford (CSP Dom 1668-9, 314-5); elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1669, adm. pens. 28 Jun 1669, scholar 1670; 5th in “ordo” 1672/3; BA 1672/3; MA 1676; Fellow, Trinity Coll., 1674; signed for deacon’s and priest’s orders 11 Jun 1674 (both London); Vicar of Great Stanmore, Middlesex, 12 Apr 1677-86; Rector of Greystoke, Cumberland, from 1686; m. 1 May 1677 Elizabeth (IGI) (or Joyce ?), dau. of Sir Humphrey Sydenham, Kt., Chelworth, Somerset; buried Greystoke 19 Feb 1692/3.

FOWKE, ROGER, brother of Richard Fowke (qv); b.; adm.; KS 1669; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1672, adm. pens. 4 Jun 1672, scholar 1673, matr. 1675; BA 1675/6; ordained priest (London) 21 May 1676.

FOWKES, BARTHOLOMEW, son of Richard Fowkes, London, citizen and grocer, and Christian ---; b.; at school under Grant (J. Venn, Biog. Hist. Gonville and Caius Coll., I, 152); Gonville and Caius Coll. Cambridge, adm. to scholars’ table 2 Jul 1594, aged 15, scholar Lady Day 1595 - Mich. 1599, matr. c. 1594; living in 1604 in the household of his uncle Sir Bartholomew Fowkes, Master of Household to Elizabeth I and James I.

FOWLER, --- , of Shropshire; b.; adm. 9 May 1655 (Busby’s Account Book); a boarder, who shared a room with Sir Richard Corbet, Bart. (qv); left 9 Aug 1656.

FOWLER, ABRAHAM, son of --- Fowler, Oxford, barber; b.; adm.; QS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1568, Westminster Student to 1572; BA 27 Feb 1571/2; contributed a poem in alternate rhymes to A Philosophical Discussion entituled The Anatomie of the Minde newlie made, and set forth by T. R., 1576. DNB.