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Symonds, Kenneth Morland, son of James William Guy Symonds (qv); b. 5 Sept. 1907; adm. Sept. 1921 (R); left July 1925; Cadet RN Jan. 1926, Midshipman (E) Jan. 1927, Sub­ Lieut. Jan. 1929, Lieut. Oct. 1931, Lieut.-Cdr Oct. 1939, Cdr June 1943, Capt. June 1953; DSC (Med.) Nov. 1942, Bar to DSC Mar. 1944; dep. Dir. Underwater Weapons Material, Admiralty, 1957; m. 14 Mar. 1936 Anne Ryder, d. of John Basil Armitage of Bowdon, Cheshire; d. 3 Dec. 1968.

Symonds, James William Guy, only son of James Sexton Simonds, Superintendent of the London Fire Brigade, by Annie Guy Spence; b. Nov. 29, 1877; adm. Sept. 25, 1890 (R); left July 1895; assumed the surname of Symonds in lieu of Simonds; temp. Lieut.-Col. R.F.A. May 1, 1915; served in British East Africa and France; wounded at Flers Oct. 1916; employed Ministry of Munitions; demob. June 1919; mentioned in despatches L.G. Jan. 4, May 18, and Dec. 14, 1917; D.S.O. June 4, 1917; served during Great War II as Fire Adviser Grade I at the Home Office; C.B.E. Jan. 1, 1945; m. Anne Morland, daughter of Thomas Richardson, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne; d. Aug. 1951.

SYMONDS, ---; b.; adm.; KS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1655 (Buttery Book), but did not matr. and his name is not found in Alum. Oxon.

SYMNS, ROBERT CORSER MONTFORT, eldest son of Rev. John Edward Symns, Headmaster, Bancroft’s School, Woodford, Essex, and Mary, second dau. of Robert Corser, Redhill, Surrey; b. 30 Sep 1867; at St. Paul’s Sch. 1878-9; adm. 16 Jun 1881; QS 1881; left Easter 1884; went to King’s Coll. Sch.; Balliol Coll. Oxford, matr. 16 Oct 1886; Indian Civil Service 1886; arrived in Burma 12 Dec 1888; Assistant Commissioner, Burma 1888; acting Under-Secretary and acting Deputy Commissioner Feb 1901; retd. Oct 1913; m. 3 Jan 1894 Mary Pauline, second dau. of William Jones, Tunbridge Wells, Kent; d. 6 Apr 1929.

Symmons, Robert Lawrence, son of Robert William Symmons, sen. PSO Min. of Supply, and Clarimonde Athalia, d. of William Edward Henry Anthony of Cardiff, Glamorgan; b. 26 June 1937; adm. Sept. 1950 (KS); left Dec. 1954; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1955; d. 7 July 1958.

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.

SYMMONS, CHARLES, younger son of John Symmons MP, Llanstinan, Pembrokeshire, and Maria, dau. of Charles Philipps, Sandyhaven, Pembrokeshire; b. 1749; adm. 14 Jan 1765; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 20 Nov 1765; Glasgow Univ. 1767; Clare Hall, Cambridge, adm. sizar 14 Feb 1776; BD 1786 (incorp. Oxford 24 Mar 1794); DD Oxford 26 Mar 1794; ordained 1775; Chaplain, 75th Foot 25 Jun 1778; Rector of Narberth with Robeson, Pembrokeshire, from 13 Aug 1778; Prebendary of St. David’s from 11 Oct 1789; aroused considerable hostility by a Whig sermon at St. Mary’s, Cambridge 1793 (Gunning, Reminiscences, 1855, i, 285-90); Rector of Lampeter Velfry, Pembrokeshire, from 2 Apr 1794; author poetical works, lives of Milton and Shakespeare, and The Aeneis of Virgil translated, 1817; m. 1779 Elizabeth, dau. of John Foley, Ridgeway, Pembrokeshire, and sister of Adm. Sir Thomas Foley GCB, Royal Navy; d. 27 Apr 1826. DNB.

SYMMONDS, HENRY; b.; adm. (aged 12) Apr 1728; left 1730.