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CHAMBERLAYNE, WILLIAM, brother of Stanes Brocket Brocket (qv); b. 12 Aug 1788; in school lists 1797, 1801; left Mar 1803; Cornet, 2nd Dragoon Guards, 19 Aug 1806; Lieut., 18 Dec 1806; Capt., 9 May 1811; Maj., 1 Jul 1824; Lieut. -Col., half pay 30 Dec 1826; Col., 23 Nov 1841; Maj. -Gen., 11 Nov 1851; Lieut. -Gen., 17 Jul 1859; Gen., 14 Jan 1866; m. 1832 Sarah, fourth dau. of Rev. John Preston, Vicar of Flasby, Yorks.; d. 21 Jul 1869.

CHAMBERS, ---; b.; adm.; a pensioner 1562 (tutor, The Dean).

CHAMBERS, NEWTON, son of George Chambers MP, Capt. 40th Foot, and Hon. Jane Rodney, dau. of George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney KB, Vice-Adm. Royal Navy; grandson of Sir William Chambers, architect; bapt. St. Mary, St. Marylebone Road, London 10 Nov 1791 (IGI); in school list May 1803; left 1809; Ensign, 1st Foot Guards, 26 Jan 1809; Lieut. and Capt., 7 Apr 1813; ADC to Lieut. -Gen. Sir Thomas Picton at Waterloo; killed at battle of Waterloo, 18 Jun 1815, aged 22.

CHAMBERS, RICHARD; b.; adm. 31 Jan 1787. [Not in school list Dec 1788]

CHAMBERS, ROBERT HARCOURT, younger son of William Frederick Chambers (KS 1800, qv); b. 4 Jan 1830; adm. 2 Jun 1842 (Benthall's); Clare Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 29 Apr 1850, matr. Mich. 1850; BA 1854; adm. Inner Temple 31 Jan 1851, called to bar 30 May 1856; Junior Examiner, Audit Office Nov 1854; transferred to War Office Jun 1856; 2nd class Clerk, Accountant General’s Dept., War Office Jul 1865; Senior Clerk, War Office; m. 4 Dec 1855 Julia Eliza Dormer, younger dau. of Rev. Thomas Robinson, Vicar of Milford, Hants.; d. 26 Sep 1907.

CHAMBERS, ROBERT, of Middlesex; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1654, adm. pens. 11 May 1654, scholar 1654.

Chambers, Sharon Turner, son of James Chambers, M. D., of Roehampton, Surrey, by Evelyn Mary, daughter of Sharon Grote Turner, of Great Missenden, Bucks; b. Jan. 9, 1898; adm. Sept. 28, 1911 (R); left Easter 1915; 2nd Lieut. Coldstream Guards Aug. 29, 1917; relinquished his commission on account of ill health Aug. 18, 1918.

CHAMBERS, SIR CHARLES HARCOURT, brother of William Frederick Chambers (KS 1800, qv); b. 31 Aug 1789; in school list 1801; Min. Can. 1802; KS 1803; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1807, adm. pens. 3 May 1807, scholar 1808, matr. Mich. 1807; 5th Wrangler 1811; BA 1811; MA 1814; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1813, Major Fellow 1814, Assistant Tutor 1813-4; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 13 Jan 1812, called to bar 26 Nov 1816; knighted 21 Nov 1823; Puisne Judge, Supreme Court of Bombay from 8 Dec 1823, acting Chief Justice Aug 1828; edited A Treatise on Estates and Tenures by the late Sir Robert Chambers, 1824; m. 12 Nov 1823 Isabella, dau. of Maj. William Wilson, Polmailie, Glen Urquhart, Inverness-shire; d. at Bombay 13 Oct 1828.

CHAMBERS, THOMAS, son of Thomas Chambers, Westminster; b.; adm.; KS 1685; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1690, matr. 12 Jul 1690, aged 18, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1690 - void 1704.

CHAMBERS, SIR WILLIAM FREDERICK, eldest son of William Chambers, EICS Bengal, Oriental scholar, and Charity, dau. of Sir Thomas Fraser, Balmain, Inverness-shire [or Thomas Fraser MD, Antigua ?]; b. 10 Oct 1786; adm.; KS 1800; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1804, adm. pens. 12 May 1804, scholar 26 Apr 1805, matr. Mich. 1804; BA 1808; MA 1811; Lic. Med. 1814; MD 1818; Members’ (Second) Prize for Senior Bachelors 1810; medical student at St. George’s Hospital and Edinburgh; Physician to St. George’s Hospital, 20 Apr 1816-39; FRCP 30 Sep 1818; Physician in Ordinary to Queen Adelaide 25 Oct 1836, William IV 1 Jun 1837, Queen Victoria 8 Aug 1837 and Duchess of Kent 1839; the leading physician in London until his retirement from practice in 1848; FRS 13 Mar 1828; KCH 8 Aug 1837; m. 10 Feb 1821 Mary, dau. of William Mackinnon Fraser MD, Lower Grosvenor Street, London; d. 16 Dec 1855. DNB.