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Maddy, E., fl. ca. 1810

  • GB-2014-WSA-11683
  • Person
  • fl. ca. 1810

MADDY, E.; b.; at school under Carey (name up School, 1806).

Madan, Spencer, 1791-1851

  • GB-2014-WSA-11670
  • Person
  • 1791-1851

MADAN, SPENCER, eldest son of Spencer Madan (adm. 1770, qv); b. 6 Oct 1791; adm. 13 Apr 1803; KS 1806; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1810, but went to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 8 Jun 1810, Canoneer Student; 1st cl. Mathematics 1813; BA 1814; MA 1816; tutor to the younger sons of Charles, 4th Duke of Richmond, and as such present at the Duchess of Richmond’s ball at Brussels 15 Jun 1815 (Notes and Queries, 11th Series, xii, 1, 21); ordained; Curate, Nether Seale, Leics. 1816-24; Prebendary of Lichfield from 4 Dec 1817; Vicar of Batheaston, Somerset, from 3 Oct 1824; Vicar of Twerton, Somerset 6 Oct 1825; m. 26 Jul 1825 Louisa Elizabeth, sister of Sir William Nigel Gresley, Bart. (qv); d. 27 Aug 1851.

Macleay, William Sharp, 1792-1865

  • GB-2014-WSA-11629
  • Person
  • 1792-1865

MACLEAY, WILLIAM SHARP, eldest son of Alexander Macleay FRS, Speaker, Legislative Council, New South Wales, and Elizabeth, dau. of James Barclay of Urie [county]; b. 30 Jul 1792; adm. 19 Apr 1806; left 1810; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 7 Jun 1810; BA 1814; MA 1818; attaché, British Embassy, Paris; Secretary to Board for liquidating British claims in France 1815; attached to Mixed British and Spanish Court for abolition of Slave Trade, Havana 1825-37, successively as Commissioner of Arbitration 1825, Commissary Judge 1830, and Judge 1836 – ret 1 Feb 1837; went to live in New South Wales, Australia 1839; a distinguished zoologist; author, Horae Entomologicae, 1819-21, and other works; d. unm. at Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 26 Jan 1865. DNB.

Macleay, James Robert, 1811-1892

  • GB-2014-WSA-11626
  • Person
  • 1811-1892

MACLEAY, JAMES ROBERT, brother of William Sharp Macleay (qv); b. 15 Apr 1811; adm. 8 Jul 1822; KS 1825; family correspondence indicated that he left in Christmas 1827; Secretary to British Legation, Chile 1838; Registrar, Mixed Commission at Cape of Good Hope for Suppression of Slave Trade Jan 1843- May 1858; m. 1837 Amelia Savage; d. 28 Oct 1892. DNB s. v. Alexander Macleay. [1881 Census records wife as born Mauritius]

Macleay, George, 1809-1891

  • GB-2014-WSA-11625
  • Person
  • 1809-1891

MACLEAY, SIR GEORGE, brother of William Sharp Macleay (qv); b. 29 Jul 1809; adm. 8 Jul 1822; family correspondence indicates that he was expelled Feb 1827; went out to Australia 1827; accompanied Sturt on the expedition down the Murrumbidgee and Murray rivers 1829-30; farmed Brownlow Hill estate, New South Wales 1831-59; member, Legislative Council, New South Wales 1851-6, Legislative Assembly 1856-9; CMG 30 Jun 1869; KCMG 5 Mar 1875; returned to England 1859; subsequently resident in south of France; interested in horticulture, zoology and the fine arts; member, Society of Dilettanti 1869; m. 1st, 1842 Barbara St. Clair, dau. of James Innes, Thrumster, Caithness; m. 2nd, 15 Jan 1890 Augusta Annie, dau. of William Gardner Sams, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia; d. at Menton, France 24 Jun 1891. DNB s. v. Alexander Macleay.

Ludlow, John Thomas, 1813-1873

  • GB-2014-WSA-11466
  • Person
  • 1813-1873

LUDLOW, JOHN THOMAS, second son of Ebenezer Ludlow KC, Oaklands [check], Gloucs., barrister, and Jane, dau. of Arthur Rainey, Belfast, co. Antrim; b. 17 Apr 1813; adm. 28 Mar 1827 (Singleton's); left Jun 1830; Oriel Coll. Oxford, matr. 25 Nov 1830; BA 1835; MA 1840; ordained; Curate of Cheadle, Cheshire; Rector of Compton Greenfield, Gloucs., from 1846; m. 26 Jan 1870 Harriet Mary, dau. of Rev. Henry Moseley LLD FRS, Canon of Bristol; d. 10 Oct 1873.

Lowther, William, 1757-1844

  • GB-2014-WSA-11436
  • Person
  • 1757-1844

LOWTHER, WILLIAM, 1ST EARL OF LONSDALE, eldest son of Rev. Sir William Lowther, Bart., Rector of Swillington, Yorks., and Anne, eldest dau. of Rev. Charles Zouch, Vicar of Sandal, Yorks.; b. 29 Dec 1757; at Felsted Sch. 1769-71; adm. 26 Mar 1771; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 25 Jan 1776, matr. 1776; MP Carlisle 1780-4, Cumberland 1784-90, Rutland 1796-1802; succ. father as 2nd baronet 15 Jun 1788; Ensign, 80th Foot 17 May 1794; Brevet Lieut. -Col., 1 Jan 1800; succ. cousin as 2nd Viscount Lowther 24 May 1802; Col., Royal Cumberland Militia 24 May 1802 – still 1820; Lord Lieut., Cumberland and Westmorland, from 26 Jun 1802; created Earl of Lonsdale 7 Apr 1807; KG 18 Jul 1807; a patron of the fine arts; Wordsworth dedicated his poem The Excursion to him in Jul 1814; DL Yorkshire West Riding 1796, Rutland 1797; FSA (by 1831); m. 12 Jul 1781 Lady Augusta Fane, dau. of John Fane, 9th Earl of Westmorland (qv), and his first wife; d. 19 Mar 1844. DNB (s. v. William Lowther, 2nd Earl of Lonsdale).

Longley, Charles Thomas, 1794-1868

  • GB-2014-WSA-00935
  • Person
  • 1794-1868

LONGLEY, CHARLES THOMAS, sixteenth child of John Longley, Boley Hill, Rochester, Kent, barrister, Recorder of Rochester and Magistrate, Thames Police Court, and Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Bond, Battersea Rise, Surrey; b. 28 Jul 1794; adm. Christmas 1807 (G); KS (Capt. ) 1808; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1812, matr. 9 May 1812, Westminster Student, Tutor and Censor 1825-8; 1st cl. Classics 1815; BA 1815; MA 1818; BD and DD 1829; Examiner, Classical Schools 1825, 1826; Proctor 1827; Whitehall Preacher 1829; ordained deacon 1818, priest 1819 (both Oxford); Vicar of Cowley, Oxfordshire 1 Nov 1823; Rector of West Tytherley, Hampshire 30 Aug 1827; Head Master, Harrow Sch., Easter 1829 – Easter 1836; consecrated Bishop of Ripon 6 Nov 1836; the first to hold this see; translated to Durham 13 Oct 1856; Archbishop of York 1 Jun 1860 – Oct 1862; Privy Councillor 9 Jun 1860; Archbishop of Canterbury from 20 Oct 1862; presided over Pan-Anglican Synod 1867; FSA 24 Nov 1831; Busby Trustee 27 Jun 1848; m. 15 Dec 1831 Hon. Caroline Sophia Parnell, dau. of Henry Parnell, 1st Baron Congleton PC, politician and economist; d. 27 Oct 1868. DNB.

Locke, John, 1632-1704

  • GB-2014-WSA-00006
  • Person
  • 1632-1704

LOCKE, JOHN, elder son of John Locke, Pensford, Somerset, attorney, and Agnes, dau. of Edmund Keene, Wrington, Somerset, tanner; b. 29 Aug 1632; adm. 1647 (lodging with Mrs. Susan Bates); KS 1650 (WAM 43057); elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1652, matr. 27 Nov 1652, Westminster Student to Jan 1674/5, Faculty Student Jan 1674/5 – expulsion 15 Nov 1684, Tutor and Censor; BA 14 Feb 1655/6; MA 1658 (incorp. Cambridge 1663); MB 6 Feb 1674/5; adm. Gray’s Inn 10 Dec 1656; Secretary to Sir Walter Vane, Envoy to Elector of Brandenburg 1665-6; obtained royal dispensation to retain his Studentship at Christ Church, notwithstanding his failure to take orders, 14 Nov 1666; practised medicine; resident physician to Lord Ashley (afterwards 1st Earl of Shaftesbury) 1667; FRS 26 Nov 1668; Secretary to the Lords Proprietor of Carolina 1669 – Jun 1675; Secretary of Presentations to Lord Shaftesbury when Lord Chancellor in 1672-3; Secretary to Council of Trade Oct 1673 – Mar 1674/5; lived in France 1675-9; expelled from his Faculty Studentship 15 Nov 1684 for his supposed complicity in Shaftesbury’s plots; lived in Netherlands 1683-9; returned to England in Feb 1688/9; from spring 1691 lived mostly in retirement at the seat of Sir Francis Masham at Oates, Essex; a Commissioner of Appeals in Excise from 20 May 1689; member, Board of Trade 15 May 1696 – Jun 1700; his first letter on Toleration was published in 1689, his Essay concerning Human Understanding and his The Treatises of Government appeared in 1690, and his treatise On Education in 1693; called by J. S. Mill “the unquestioned founder of the analytic philosophy of mind”; his Collected Works were published in 1714; d. unm. 28 Oct 1704. DNB.

Littledale, Charles Richard, 1807-1892

  • GB-2014-WSA-11167
  • Person
  • 1807-1892

LITTLEDALE, CHARLES RICHARD, eldest son of Charles Littledale (qv); b. 1 Jan 1807; adm. 14 Apr 1819 (Packharness'); KS (Capt. ) 1820; Capt. of the School 1824; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1825, matr. 16 May 1825, Westminster Student; BA 1830; MA 1831; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 16 Jun 1829, called to bar 22 Nov 1833; Northern Circuit and Liverpool Sessions; JP Berkshire 1863; m. 16 Jun 1835 Emily Charlotte, dau. of Charles Hammersley, Park Crescent, London; d. 19 Jan 1892.

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