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STONE, ---, kin to the mathematician Edmund Stone FRS; b.; adm.; left 1764 (in school list 1764, June quarter only); a school contemporary of Jeremy Bentham (qv); Secretary to John Frederick Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset (qv), when Ambassador in Paris in the 1780s.

STONARD, JOHN, only son of Jonathan Stonard, Lambeth, Surrey, starchmaker, and Frances Gill, Lambeth, Surrey; b. 10 Mar 1769; adm. 19 Jan 1784; left Easter 1785; adm. Inner Temple 10 Nov 1787, left 16 Jun 1789; Brasenose Coll. Oxford, matr. 25 Jun 1789, aged 20; BA 1793; MA 1796; BD and DD 1817; ordained deacon 10 Jun 1794, priest 21 Dec 1794 (both Canterbury); Curate, Chevening, Kent; held other curacies in Kent; Rector of West Deeping, Lincs., 4 Oct 1811; Rector of Aldingham, Lancs., from 19 Aug 1814; author, Commentary on the Vision of Zechariah, 1824, and other works; d. 22 Apr 1849.

STONA, THOMAS, only son of William Stona, Whittlesey, Cambs.; b.; adm. 22 Sep 1775; in school list Jul 1779; adm. Middle Temple 23 Jan 1779. [Note Rev. Thomas Stona, Warboys, Hunts., who d. 1792, will proved PCC 29 Aug 1792]

STOKES, JOHN, son of Rev. Alexander Stokes, Rector of Barkham and Arborfield, Berks.; b.; adm.; KS (aged 14) 1661; left 1665.

STOKES, FRANCIS WILLIAM, son of John Stokes, and Elizabeth Arabella Franks (IGI); b. 16 Sep 1832; adm. 9 Oct 1846 (Rigaud's); QS 1847; left 1850; emigrated to Australia; d. 2 Aug 1889.

STOKES, DAVID; b.; adm.; KS; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1610, adm. scholar 1611, matr. Easter 1611; BA 1614/5; MA 1618; DD 1630 (incorp. Oxford 12 Aug 1645); Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge 1618-25, Tutor, Bursar 1621-2; ordained deacon 17 Mar 1621/2, priest 18 Mar 1621/2 (both Peterborough); Fellow of Eton Coll. from 7 Jun 1624; Rector of Brinklow, Warwicks., 1625; Canon of Windsor from 12 Jul 1628; Prebendary of Chichester 23 Oct 1629 – c. Oct 1631; Rector of Binfield, Berks., 1631; Rector of Everdon, Northants 19 Sep 1638-42; Vicar of Urchfont, Wilts., 1644; deprived of all preferments during Civil War, but reinstated at Restoration; author, Ann Explication of the Twelve Minor Prophets, 1659, and other works; m. 1st (?) Elizabeth Day [Stokes was married by 1628 to a wife Elizabeth : first or second marriage ?]; m. 2nd (?) ---, dau. of Right Rev. Richard Montagu DD, Bishop of Chichester; d. 10 May 1669, aged 77. DNB.

Silversmiths. Active between 1891 and 1938 in Birmingham. William Henry Stokes & Arthur George Ireland.

Stoker, Tom Thornley M'Gillycuddy, son of George Stoker, M.R.C.S., C.M.G., of Mayfair, by Agnes, eldest daughter of Richard, the M'Gillycuddy of the Reeks, co. Kerry; b. April 28, 1885; adm. Sept. 28, 1899 (H); left July 1902; served in Great War I; Capt. 3rd (Res.) Batt. Munster Fusiliers April 15, 1915; M.C. Jan. 1, 1918; emigrated to Canada 1920; m. 1922, Mary, widow of Guy Drummond, of Montreal; drowned in a yachting accident on the Hudson River 1937.