MEARS, JOHN, son of Henry Mears, St. Margaret’s, Westminster, and Anne Lindsey (IGI); b.; adm. (aged 10) Jun 1734; apprenticed to Charles Hore, St. Clement Danes, attorney, 10 Feb 1736; d. 3 Dec 1745.
MEARS, JAMES, brother of John Mears (qv); b.; adm. (aged 10) Apr 1736; KS 1740; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1743, adm. pens. 2 Jun 1743, scholar 20 Apr 1744, matr. 1743.
Meares, Devon, son of Capt. Aubrey Meares DSO RE, of Harrow, and Edna Clara Amethyst, d. of Capt. Edmund Wigley Burt RN, of Ryde, I. of Wight; b. 28 June 1907; adm. Sept. 1921 (H); left July 1926; d. 8 Dec. 1926.
MEADES, WILLIAM, son of Richard Meades, Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucs., and Katherine (Nichols ?) (IGI); bapt. Wotton under Edge, Gloucs. 27 Mar 1700 (IGI); adm. (aged 15) Nov 1715; Hart Hall, Oxford, matr. 5 Jun 1717; BA 17 Feb 1720/1; ordained; Rector of Rampton, Cambs., from 1736; m. 20 Jul 1730 Frances, dau. of Robert Blachford, Osborne, Isle of Wight; d. 20 May 1780.
Meade, Thomas Wilson, son of James Edward Meade FBA, Prof. of Political Economy, Univ. of Camb., and Elizabeth Margaret Meade BA, social worker, d. of Alexander Cowan Wilson, engineer; b. 21 Jan. 1936; adm. Sept. 1949; (KS) Capt. of the Sch. 1953; left July 1954; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1954, BA 1958, MA BM BCh 1960; MRCP 1964; FFCM 1973, FRCP 1979; DM (Oxon. ) 1980; FRS 1996; physician, Medical Research Council 1960-2001; dir. MRC Epidemiol. and Med. Care Unit, Northwick Park Hosp. 1970-2001; Prof. of Epidemiology, Barts Hosp. Med. Coll. 1992-2001; Prof. Emeritus, Lond. Sch. of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine 2001-16; Balzan Prize 1997; FMedSci 1998; Hon. DSc QMUL 2010; m. 23 June 1962 Helen Elizabeth Perks BSc, social worker; d. 24 Oct. 2022.
MEADE, CHRISTOPHER; b.; adm.; QS 1565-9 (Chapter Muniments 54006-18).
MEAD, ROBERT, son of Robert Mead, The Black Lion, Fleet Street, London, stationer; b. 1616; adm.; KS 1630; contributed some commendatory verses to the Poeticall Blossomes of Abraham Cowley (qv) 1633; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1634, matr. 1 Sep 1634, Westminster Student to expulsion by Parliamentary Visitors “upon statutable grounds” 1648 (Burrows, 329); BA 1638; MA 1641; MD 1646; Capt. in Royalist Army; distinguished himself at siege of Oxford and in assault on Abingdon; one of the Commissioners for negotiating the surrender of Oxford 17 May 1646; Agent for Charles II in Sweden 1649-51; his comedy, The Combat of Love and Friendship, written by him when an undergraduate, was acted at Christ Church but not published until 1654; d. 21 Feb 1652/3. DNB.
MEAD, ROBERT WILLIAM, son of Elisha Preston Mead MD MRCS LSA, Whitby, Yorks., and Catherine --- (IGI); b. 2 Jan 1858; adm. 12 Jun 1871 (G); QS 22 Jul 1872; left Dec 1874; MB CM Edinburgh 1879; MD 1882; St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; MRCS 1880; surgeon with P. & O. Steamship Co.; practised at Whitby, Yorks.; m. 3 Jun 1890 Alice Mary, only dau. of George James Rigg, Buckhurst Hill, Essex; d. 15 Dec 1926.
MEAD, RIVIS, brother of Robert William Mead (qv); b. 5 May 1860; adm. 26 Sep 1872 (G); QS 1875; left Dec 1877; MB CM Edinburgh 1882; Univ. Hospital, Edinburgh; MRCS 1883; Surgeon to Seaside Home, Whitby, Yorks.; emigrated to Australia; practised at Quirindi, New South Wales; d. at Waitara, New South Wales 1 Oct 1934.