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CHEERE, SIR WILLIAM, BART., eldest surviving son of Sir Henry Cheere, Bart., sculptor, and Helen, dau. of Sauvignion Randall; b.; adm. (aged 11) Jun 1742 (Bourne's); left 1744; Magdalene Coll. Cambridge, adm. 11 Feb 1747/8, matr. 1748; migrated to Trinity Coll., adm. pens. 20 Feb 1749, scholar 1750; LLB 1754; ordained deacon (Lincoln) 22 Dec 1754; Rector of White Roding, Essex, 20 Sep 1762; succ. father as 2nd baronet 15 Jan 1781; d. unm. 28 Feb 1808.

CHELSUM, JAMES, son of James Chelsum, a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal and one of the Singing Men at Westminster Abbey and St. Paul’s, and Mary Ward; b. 13 Apr 1738; in school list 1746; BB Mich. 1748 - still 1754; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. sizar 28 May 1755, matr. Easter 1756; migrated to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 30 Jun 1758, Canoneer Student 7 Jul 1758 - void 29 May 1781 (expiry year of grace as PC Lathbury from 22 May 1780), Tutor 1765-79, Catechist 1768-80, Junior Censor 1769-70, Senior Censor 1771; BA 1759; MA 1762; BD 1772; DD 1773; Usher 1759, still 1762 (having received leave of absence as Student of Christ Church, Oxford 12 Dec 1759 on being made Usher at the School), shown as taking the Fifth form in an undated list of the teaching staff assignable to 1762 or 1763; ordained deacon (Chester) 7 Mar 1762, priest (Oxford) 2 Jun 1765; Curate, St. Thomas, Oxford, 1777; Perpetual Curate of Lathbury, Bucks., c. 1773 - 80; Vicar of Duffield, Derbs., 20 Feb 1773 - May 1780; Rector of Badger, Shropshire, 29 May 1780 - May 1795; Rector of Droxford, Hampshire, from 21 Mar 1782; Whitehall Preacher (occurs 1774-81); author of two pamphlets on Gibbon’s treatment of Christianity in the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1776, 1785, and of a History of the Art of Engraving in Mezzotinto, 1786; m.; buried Droxford, Hampshire 1 May 1801. DNB.

Chelsum, James; a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal from 1718 ; a Lay Vicar of Westminster Abbey from Dec 1736 and of St.Paul’s Cathedral from Mar 1736/7 ; took boarders from c.1732 ; only recorded boarder during his lifetime adm. Oct 1735 ; m. 21 Jun 1731 Mary Ward ; d. 3 Aug 1743, aged 43. Buried West Cloister, Westminster Abbey. [perhaps James Chelsome (sic), son of John Chelsome, and Anne ---, b. 5 Mar 1699, bapt. St.Martin, Vintry 10 Mar 1699 (IGI)]

Chelsum, Mary; daughter of --- Ward ; m. 21 Jun 1731 James Chelsum (qv, fl. 1743) ; continued to take boarders after his death, “with the assistance of a maiden sister whose name was Ward” ; first of three recorded boarders adm. Jun 1744, last adm. Jan 1747/8 ; her address between 1749 and 1766 was what is now 16 Lord North Street, and she is likely to have taken further boarders there during the period after the beginning of 1753 for which boarding data ceases to be available ; later went to live in Hampshire with her son James Chelsum (qv) ; living 1793.

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CHELTENHAM, NICHOLAS, son of Nicholas Cheltenham, Staffs.; b.; at school (aged 13) 1655; in an undated petition his father asks the Governors for a Bishop’s Boy place for him “these five yeares or thereabouts at the school “ (Chapter Muniments 43112, 43084). [perhaps m. at Aylesford, Kent 24 Jun 1674 Elizabeth Pemble (IGI)]

CHEPMELL, CHARLES JOHN HEINEKER, brother of William Philip Chepmell (qv); b. 15 Feb 1844; adm. (G) 26 May 1853; QS 1859; left (with Triplett) Whitsun 1863; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 16 Oct 1863; BA 1866; MA 1871; left England Jul 1867; Senior Classical Master, The King’s School, Parramatta, NSW, Australia; Head Master, The Bishop’s School, Nelson, New Zealand; Head Master of own school at Hobart, Tasmania; m. 1 Jul 1873 Katharine Isabella, dau. of Henry Douglas, Latrobe, Tasmania, police magistrate; d. 25 Nov 1930.

CHEPMELL, EDWARD JAMES, brother of William Philip Chepmell (qv); b. 10 Dec 1845; adm. (G) 23 Jun 1859; QS 8 Apr 1861; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1864, but was never adm.; d. 28 Feb 1865.