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CLEAVER, WILLIAM, son of Euseby Cleaver (qv); b. 24 Mar 1789; adm. 18 Jan 1800; in school lists 1801, May 1803; KS 1803; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1807, matr. 13 May 1807, Westminster Student; Chancellor’s Prize for Latin Verse, 1808; BA 1812; MA 1818; Perpetual Curate of Tring, Herts.; Prebendary of St. Patrick’s, Dublin, 16 Jan - Jul 1819; Rector of Delgany, co. Wicklow, 1819-37; m. 22 Feb 1819 Mary, second dau. of Sir Digby Mackworth, Bart. (adm. 1778, qv); d. 28 Dec 1860.

Clegg, Hugh Anthony, son of the Rev. John Clegg, of Lowestoft, Suffolk, Head Master of Lowestoft College, by Gertrude, daughter of John Wilson, of Hull; b. June 19, 1900; adm. as K.S. Sept. 24, 1914; elected to Trin. Coll. Camb. (with Samwaies and Triplett) July 1919, matric. Michaelmas 1919; scholar; 1st class Nat. Sci. Trip., part 1, 1922; B.A. 1922; M.B., B. Ch. 1928; St. Bartholomew's Hospital; M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. 1925; M.R.C.P. 1929; sub­editor of the British Medical Journal 1931, deputy editor 1934, editor 1947; m. Sept. 7, 1932, Kira, daughter of Baron Arthur Engelhardt, of Smolensk, Russia; d. 6 July 1983.

CLELAND, HENRY, brother of John Cleland (qv); bapt. Kingston upon Thames 13 Oct 1711; adm. Apr 1721 (as “Cleavland”); in under school list 1722; Min. Can. (aged 13) 1723, 1724; KS (Capt. ) 1725; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1728, matr. 25 Jun 1728, Westminster Student 23 Dec 1728 - void for absence 28 May 1733; see Pope’s letter to Lord Oxford, 3 Nov 1730, asking for “a recommendatory letter” to some worthy man at Ch. Ch. who “would countenance and have an eye” over his friend’s son (Elwin & Courthope, viii, 274-5). [Presumably Ensign, 2nd Foot Guards 11 Jun 1730, out of Regt. Feb 1733/4]

CLELAND, JOHN, son of [Col. ?] William Cleland, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, Commissioner of Taxes, and Lucy du Pass; bapt. Kingston upon Thames 24 Sep 1710; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1720/1; KS 1722; left 1723; Consul at Smyrna, “very early in life” [but check : this seems unlikely]; in Bombay as soldier 1728; Writer, EICS Bombay 1731; Secretary to Council, Bombay, 1738; left EICS 1740; left India in a destitute condition, and for many years wandered round Europe; author, Fanny Hill, or the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, 1750; summoned before the Privy Council for writing it, but escaped punishment on pleading his poverty as an excuse; subsequently pensioned by Government, and took to writing for newspapers and the stage; d. 23 Jan 1789. DNB.

Clemence, William Herbert, son of Herbert Clemence, of West Acton, by Caroline Sternberg, daughter of John Ainsworth, of Kensington; b. Feb. 23, 1893; adm. Jan. 16, 1908 (A); left Easter 1909; a shipbroker's clerk; served with 5th Batt. London Regt. on the western front until he was discharged as medically unfit Feb. 1915.

CLEMENS, MICHAEL; b.; in school list Aug 1733; BB 1733-9.

CLEMENT, ---; b.; adm.; a boarder 1656-7 (Busby’s Account Book).

CLEMENT, JOSEPH; b. ; adm. ; KS 1673.