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SOMERSET, LORD JOHN THOMAS HENRY, son of Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort (qv); b. 30 Aug 1787; adm. 1 Feb 1802 (Clapham); in school list 1803; Cornet, 7th Light Dragoons 4 Aug 1804; Lieut., 14 Aug 1805; Capt., Apr 1806; 4th Garrison Battn., 15 Apr 1808; 23rd Light Dragoons 19 May 1808; 23rd Foot 22 Jul 1813; half-pay 1814; Brevet Maj., Jun 1815; Major Watteville’s Regt., 18 Jun 1815; half-pay 25 Jul 1816; Brevet Lieut. -Col., 19 Jul 1821; Lieut. -Col., unattached, half-pay 16 Jul 1830; Brevet Col., 10 Jan 1837; served in Peninsular War and at battle of Waterloo, where he was ADC to Prince of Orange; m. 4 Dec 1814 Lady Catherine Annesley, third dau. of Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Mountnorris (I); d. 3 Oct 1846.

STANHOPE, JOHN SPENCER, second son of Walter Spencer Stanhope MP, Cannon Hall, near Barnsley, Yorks., and Mary Winifred, dau. of Thomas Babington Pulleine, Carleton Hall, Richmond, Yorks.; b. 27 May 1787; adm. 8 Apr 1799 (Clapham); in school lists 1801, 1803; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 24 Oct 1804; he and his brother Edward were detained in France during the Napoleonic Wars, but obtained their freedom by undertaking to conduct archaeological researches in Greece, where they spent the year 1814; FRS 27 Jun 1816; DL JP Yorkshire; author, Topography illustrative of the Battle of Plataea, 1817, and other works; m. 5 Dec 1822 Lady Elizabeth Wilhelmina Coke, third dau. of Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester; d. 7 Nov 1873.

SYMMONS, JOHN, elder son of Charles Symmons (qv); b. 1781; adm. 31 Oct 1794 (Clapham) (see also E. B. Impey, Memoirs of Sir Elijah Impey, 1846, 376); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 11 Apr 1799, aged 18, Canoneer Student; BA 1803; MA 1806; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 21 Jan 1801, called to bar 23 Nov 1807; Welsh Circuit; FRS (by 1831); FSA (by 1831); assisted his father in a revised version of his translation of Virgil, published 1820; his translation of Aeschylus’s Agamemnon, published 1824, was much praised; his intimate friend Henry Fynes-Clinton (qv) recorded that Symmons’s extraordinary faculties “qualified him to rise to the very first rank of critical scholars” (Literary Remains, 1854, 10); Dr. Parr also speaks of his “capacious and retentive memory” and of his “various and extensive learning”; d. probably 1842. DNB.

TIPPING, WILLIAM; b.; adm. 14 Sep 1796 (Clapham); left about Christmas 1796.

TREDCROFT, GEORGE, brother of Henry Tredcroft (qv); b. 14 Aug 1790; adm. 12 Jun 1800 (Clapham); in school list 1801; left Christmas 1802; living 1828.

TREDCROFT, HENRY, second son of Nathaniel Tredcroft, Horsham, Sussex, Deputy Paymaster-General, and Sarah, sister of Thomas Steele (qv); b. 27 Oct 1788; adm. 12 Jun 1800 (Clapham); in school list 1801; left 1806; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 3 Feb 1807; BA 1810; MA 1813; m. 13 Dec 1827 Mary, widow of James Eversfield, Denne Park, Sussex, and eldest dau. of Robert Hawgood Crewe, Secretary to Board of Ordnance; d. 14 Feb 1844.

TREDCROFT, ROBERT, brother of Henry Tredcroft (qv); b. 3 Dec 1791; adm. 12 Jun 1800 (Clapham); in school list 1801; left 1809; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 8 Jun 1810; BA 1814; MA 1818; ordained; Curate, Oving, Sussex 27 Mar 1815; Rector of Whatlington, Sussex 1818-21; Rector of Coombes, Sussex 14 Jul 1819; Prebendary of Lincoln 11 Oct 1821 ñ Nov 1822, Chichester from 9 Oct 1822; Vicar of Fittleworth, Sussex, from 2 Apr 1824; Rector of West Itchenor, Sussex, from 22 Jun 1824; Rector of Tangmere, Sussex, from 6 Jun 1828; m. 3 Aug 1824 Frances Katherine, only dau. of Sir Thomas Brooke-Pechell, Bart. (qv); d. 18 Dec 1846.

TURBERVILL, GERVAS POWELL, brother of Richard Turbervill Turbervill (qv); b. 1790; adm. 23 Feb 1801 (Clapham); in school list 1801; left Christmas 1804; RMC Great Marlow; Ensign, 12th Foot 12 Feb 1807; Lieut., 13 Aug 1807; Capt., 14 Mar 1811; Maj., 27 Aug 1825; Lieut. -Col., 8 Oct 1830; retd. 28 Aug 1835; KH 1836; of Ewenny Priory, Glamorgan; DL JP Glamorgan, High Sheriff 1851; m. 1st, 27 Oct 1840 Elizabeth, eldest dau. of Stephen Dowell, Braywick Grove, Berks.; m. 2nd, 23 Oct 1845 Sarah Anne, youngest dau. of George Warry, Shapwick, Somerset; d. 16 Jun 1861.

TURBERVILL, RICHARD TURBERVILL, eldest son of Richard Turbervill Picton Turbervill (formerly Picton), Ewenny Priory, Glamorgan, and Elizabeth, eldest dau. of Rev. Gervas Powell, Rector of Llanvegan, Breconshire; b.; adm. 11 Mar 1801 (Clapham); left 1801; of Ewenny Priory, Glamorgan; DL JP Glamorgan; d. 19 Jan 1848. [move entry]

VANE, JOHN, natural son of William Henry Vane, 1st Duke of Cleveland KG; grandson of Henry Vane, 2nd Earl of Darlington (qv); b. 1792; at school 1799; up Clapham’s in 1800, 1801; in school list 1801; had the reputation of being one of the best fighters of his time at the School; left 1808; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 27 Apr 1809; BA 1814; migr. to Magdalene Coll. Cambridge; MA 1817; Fellow, Magdalene Coll.; ordained; Vicar of Wroxeter, Shropshire 22 Aug 1823 - Jun 1828; Vicar of Burrington, Somerset, from 6 Oct 1831; Rector of Wrington, Somerset, from 16 Feb 1832; Deputy Clerk of the Closet 1839; Chaplain to Speaker, House of Commons, 1835-9; Fellow, Dulwich Coll.; d. 29 Dec 1870.