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ALT, HENRY, son of Just Henry Alt, Minister for Landgraf of Hesse Kassel in London, by Jeanetta, only child of Sir John Preston, Bart.; b.; adm. (aged 11) Oct 1741; left 1746; Lieut. 51st Foot 21 Oct 1754; 22nd Foot 8 Mar 1757; Capt. 12 Sep 1760; 44th Foot 19 Sep 1761; living 1767, when granted 5000 acres in Nova Scotia.

ALT, JUST, brother of Henry Alt (qv); b.; adm. (aged 9) Oct 1741 (as Justinian Alt); KS 1747; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1751, adm. pens. 5 Jun 1751, scholar 24 Apr 1752, matr. 1751; BA 1755; MA 1758; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1756, Major Fellow 5 Jul 1758; ordained deacon 24 Apr 1758, priest 21 May 1758 (both Lincoln); Rector of Mixbury, Oxfordshire, from 20 Nov 1759; Prebendary of York from 19 May 1797; m. 30 May 1763 Elizabeth, dau. of Rev. Thomas Bowles DD, Vicar of Brackley, Northants.; buried 21 Jun 1801.

ALT, WILLIAM GERARD, brother of Henry Alt (qv); b.; adm. (aged 11) Jan 1747/8 (as Gerard Alt) (Lloyd's); in school list 1752; Ensign, 8th Foot 29 Aug 1756; Lieut., 22nd Foot 4 Oct 1757; d. in the West Indies c. 1759. [Not in Army List 1759]

ALTHAM, ---; at school in 1664 (Busby’s Account Book); a boarder.

ALTHAM, JAMES, son of James Altham, Epping, Essex; nephew of Roger Altham (KS 1675, qv); b.; adm.; QS (aged 14) 1713; left 1716. [Presumably James Altham, bapt. Epping, Essex 1 Mar 1697, son of James Altham, and Anne --- (IGI)]

ALTHAM, ROGER, son of Rev. Michael Altham DD, Rector of Eastwick, Herts., and of Latton, Essex; nephew of Roger Altham (KS 1664, qv); b. 1658; adm.; KS 1675; elected to Ch. Ch. Oxford 1677, matr. 4 Dec 1677, aged 19, Westminster Student 17 Dec 1677 – void 1698, Tutor 1690-3, Junior Censor 1689, Senior Censor 1690-1; one of the students who plucked “old Lady Lovelace” out of her coach 6 Jun 1681 (Wood, Ath. Ox., i, xci); BA 1681; MA 1684; BD 1694; DD 1701; Proctor and Professor of Moral Philosophy 1693; ordained (by 1692); Chaplain to Bishop of London; Prebendary of St. Paul’s from 30 Aug 1695; Rector of St. Andrew Undershaft, with St. Mary Axe, London 23 Oct 1697-1701; Rector of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, from 7 Oct 1701; Vicar of Latton, Essex, from 1705; Archdeacon of Middlesex from 9 Feb 1716/7; m. 31 May 1705 Mary, dau. of James Altham, Mark Hall, Essex; d. 28 Feb 1729/30.

ALTHAM, ROGER, son of Roger Altham, Settle, Yorks.; b.; apparently adm. to Christ’s Coll. Camb. from Giggleswick School 6 Jun 1663, aged 15, but if so was at Westminster subsequently; KS (Capt. ) 1664; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1668, matr. 17 Dec 1668, aged 19, Westminster Student 26 Dec 1668 – void 1690, Tutor 1675-82, Junior Censor 1681; BA 1672; MA 1675; BD 1683; DD 1694; Proctor 1682; ordained deacon 17 Dec 1681, priest 12 Mar 1681/2 (both Oxford); Chaplain to John Dolben, Archbishop of York (qv); Prebendary of York from 19 Oct 1683, of Southwell from 1 Aug 1685, and of Ripon from 1688/9; Rector of Nunburnholme, Yorks., 1685-7; Vicar of Finedon, Northants., from 7 Jun 1688; Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, and Regius Professor of Hebrew 6 Nov 1691-7, and from 12 Mar 1702/3; m. Frances, dau. of Christopher Hodgson, New Hall, Beeston, Yorks.; d. 15 Aug 1714. Buried Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.

ALVEY, ---; probably a son of Rev. Richard Alvey BD, Prebendary of Westminster and Master of the Temple; b.; adm.; charged for commons Christmas quarter 1564 to Christmas quarter 1567 (Chapter Muniments 54004-16).

ALWORTH, ST. LEGER; b.; adm. 21 Jul 1766 (in Record, incorrectly, under St. Leger, Alworth); left Whitsun 1767. [Presumably St. Leger Aldworth, eldest son of Boyle Aldworth, Newmarket, co. Cork, and his second wife Martha, dau. of Col. Christopher Rogers, Lota, co. Cork; b. Cork; Trinity Coll. Dublin, adm. pens. 3 Nov 1773, aged 17 (Mr. Jessop) : BA 1778]