STONE, JOHN, youngest son of Nicholas Stone, London, sculptor and master mason, and Mary, dau. of Hendrik de Keyser, architect and master mason, Amsterdam, Netherlands; b.; at school under Busby (Vertue, Notebooks, i, 93); “brought up at Oxford design’d for a clergyman” (ibid., 89), and therefore perhaps the John Stone who was Bible Clerk and Librarian, University Coll. Oxford 1644-8, when expelled by Parliamentary Visitors; subsequently a fugitive from Parliament, escaping to France; his father’s business as a sculptor and mason devolved on him after his brother Henry’s death in 1653, although he seems not to have been a sculptor himself; as an architect he designed Chesterton House, Warwickshire, in the late 1650s; went to Breda, Netherlands, at the Restoration to petition Charles II to appoint him to his father’s office of Master Mason to the Crown, but was appointed to the post of Master Mason at Windsor only; suffered incapacitating stroke when at Breda, and never fully recovered; became an inmate of St. Cross Hospital, Winchester; author, Enchiridion of Fortification, 1645 (published anonymously); buried St. Martin’s in the Fields, London 11 Sep 1667.
Stone, Sir John Richard Nicholas, son of Sir Gilbert Stone, Chief Justice of Nagpur, and Elsie Lawton, d. of Walter Scott of Hull; b. 30 Aug. 1913; adm. Sept. 1926 (A); left Dec. 1930; Caius Coll. Camb., matric. 1931, BA 1935 (1st class hons Law Trip. Pt 1 1933, Economics Trip. Pt 2 1935); C. E. Heath & Co., Lloyd's brokers, 1936-9; Min. of Economic Warfare 1939-40, Central Statistical Office of War Cabinet 1940-5, personal assistant to Lord Keynes; Fellow of King's 1945-; CBE 1946; Dir. Dept of Applied Economics Univ. of Cambridge 1945-55, P. D. Leake Prof. of Finance and Accounting 1955-80; FBA 1956; ScD (Cantab.) 1957; hon. doctorates at many European Univs; Kt 1978; Nobel Prize for Economics 1984; author of a large number of works on Economics and allied subjects; m. 1st 1936 Winifred Mary, d. of Hammond Jenkins; 2nd 1941 Feodora Leontinoff; 3rd 1960 Mrs Giovanna Croft-Murray, d. of Count Aurelio Saffi; d. 12 Dec. 1991.
Stone, Herbert William Degetan, brother of Waldemar Ernest Smith (q.v.); b. May 26, 1879; adm. Sept. 22, 1892 (H); exhibitioner 1893; Q.S. (non-resident) 1894; left July 1896; a clerk in the London and Westminster Bank, and in 1898 entered a marine insurance business in Shanghai; returned to London in Aug. 1913; enlisted in the Royal Fusiliers (U. and P.S. Batt.) Dec. 10, 1914; 2nd Lieut. 4th Batt. (Extra Reserve) Connaught Rangers May 26, 1915; went out to the western front in Dec. 1915, and was attached to the Royal Irish Rifles; assumed the surname of Stone in lieu of Schmidt May 5, 1915; killed in action at Mont St. Eloi April 26, 1916.
Stone, Graham Coutts Tempest, son of Lieut.-Col. Lionel George Tempest Stone CMG CBE, Roy. Fusiliers, and Alice Campbell, d. of James Walker, architect, of Edinburgh; b. 14 June 1910; adm. Sept. 1923 (H); left Mar. 1926; Roy. Fusiliers in WW2 (Capt.), wounded (Sicily); Esso Petroleum Co., retd 1974; m. 11 July 1936 Barbara, d. of Victor Rees Aronson CBE KC; d. 8 June 1989.
STONE, GEORGE, younger brother of Andrew Stone (qv); b. 7 Jan 1707/8; adm. apr 1720; KS 1721; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1725, matr. 2 Jun 1725, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1725 – void 14 Oct 1734 (expiry year of grace as Dean of Ferns), Tutor 1730; BA 1729; MA 1732; DD 1740; ordained; Chaplain to Lionel Cranfield Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset (qv), when Lord Lieut. Ireland; Dean of Ferns and Leighlin 22 Aug 1733 – Apr 1734; Dean of Derry 3 Apr 1734 – Aug 1740; consecrated Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin 3 Aug 1740; translated to Kildare 19 Mar 1743; Dean of Christ Church, Dublin 15 Jun 1743 – May 1745; translated to bishopric of Derry 11 May 1745; Archbishop of Armagh from 13 Mar 1747; Privy Councillor (I) 10 Apr 1747; Vice-Chancellor, Dublin Univ., from 1752; the political rival of Henry Boyle, 1st Earl of Shannon (I) (qv); served many times as one of the Lord Justices of Ireland, and for some years virtually dictator of the country; d. unm. 19 Dec 1764. Buried North Aisle, Westminster Abbey. DNB.
STONE, ARTHUR, brother of John Stone James (qv); bapt. 10 Aug 1730; adm. (aged 9) Jul 1740 (Heath's); left 1745; apprenticed to Edward Nourse, citizen and surgeon, 2 May 1746; d. unm.
STONE, ANDREW, elder son of Andrew Stone, Lombard Street, London, goldsmith, and Anne Holbrooke; b. 4 Feb 1702/3; adm. Feb 1714/5; KS 1717; Capt. of the School 1721; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1722, matr. 6 Jun 1722, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1722 – void 26 Jun 1735; BA 1726; MA 1728 (incorp. Cambridge 1749); Private Secretary to Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle (qv), 1732-4; Under-Secretary of State Jul 1734 – Apr 1751; Collector of State Papers May 1739 – Jun 1741, Keeper of State Papers from May 1741; MP Hastings 1741-61; a Commissioner of Trade Nov 1749 – Oct 1761; Sub-Governor to Prince George (the future George III) 1751-6, Secretary to Prince George as Prince of Wales 1756-60; charged before the Privy Council in Feb 1753, with William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield (qv), and James Johnson (qv), with having toasted the Pretender, but retained the confidence of the Court; Treasurer to Queen Charlotte from 2 Nov 1761; a valued confidant of the Pelham brothers, and for more than thirty years “no man was more completely behing the scenes of the political stage”; Busby Trustee 13 Apr 1752; m. 7 Jul 1743 Hannah, dau. of Stephen Mauvillain, Tooting and Morden, Surrey; d. 16 Dec 1773. Buried North Aisle, Westminster Abbey.
STONE, ---, kin to the mathematician Edmund Stone FRS; b.; adm.; left 1764 (in school list 1764, June quarter only); a school contemporary of Jeremy Bentham (qv); Secretary to John Frederick Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset (qv), when Ambassador in Paris in the 1780s.
STONARD, JOHN, only son of Jonathan Stonard, Lambeth, Surrey, starchmaker, and Frances Gill, Lambeth, Surrey; b. 10 Mar 1769; adm. 19 Jan 1784; left Easter 1785; adm. Inner Temple 10 Nov 1787, left 16 Jun 1789; Brasenose Coll. Oxford, matr. 25 Jun 1789, aged 20; BA 1793; MA 1796; BD and DD 1817; ordained deacon 10 Jun 1794, priest 21 Dec 1794 (both Canterbury); Curate, Chevening, Kent; held other curacies in Kent; Rector of West Deeping, Lincs., 4 Oct 1811; Rector of Aldingham, Lancs., from 19 Aug 1814; author, Commentary on the Vision of Zechariah, 1824, and other works; d. 22 Apr 1849.
STONA, THOMAS, only son of William Stona, Whittlesey, Cambs.; b.; adm. 22 Sep 1775; in school list Jul 1779; adm. Middle Temple 23 Jan 1779. [Note Rev. Thomas Stona, Warboys, Hunts., who d. 1792, will proved PCC 29 Aug 1792]