CULLIN, WILLIAM; b.; adm. (aged 8) Feb 1724/5.
CULLING, WILLIAM, son of William Culling, London; b.; adm.; Min. Can. (aged 12) 1732, (aged 14) 1733 (where surname is spelled Cullen); left 1734. [perhaps son of William Culling, who m. at St. Katherine by the Tower Jun 1719 Mary Scott (IGI)]
Cullingford, Frederick Robert, son of Frederick Robert Cullingford, perfume manufacturer, of Chelsea, and Harriette, d. of Ascher Simmons; b. 8 Oct. 1914; adm. Jan. 1928 (R); left July 1933; joined family perfume firm; exhibited paintings RA Summer Exhibition 1960, 1962 and 1963; m. 1st 1939 Mary, Viscountess Ratendone, d. of Basil Samuel Foster. world open racquets champion; 2nd 1951 Rosemary Montgomery, d. of Ralph Urquhart Rutherford, farmer, of Bexhill-on-Sea; d. Jan. 1995.
CULPEPPER, HON. FRANCIS, son of John Colepeper, 1st Baron Colepeper PC, successively Chancellor of the Exchequer and Master of the Rolls, and his second wife Judith, dau. of Sir Thomas Culpepper, Hollingbourne, Kent; b.; at school 1659 (Busby’s Account Book); KS (Capt. ) 1662; buried in the Cloisters, Westminster Abbey 1 Nov 1663.
CULVERDEN, WILLIAM; b.; adm.; a bell-founder in London in 1510; by his will dated 1522 and proved 1523 he bequeathed “to the Abbey of Westmynster where I was brought upp in my youth to be bestowed in the same church for the welth of my soule xxxiiis viiid”. Included in Supplement, but it seems illogical to include him but to exclude all pre-dissolution monks, presumably all educated in the Abbey as novices]
CUMBERBACH, JAMES; b.; adm. (aged 9) 10 Jan 1714/5; in under school list 1718.
CUMBERLAND, ---; b.; in school list May 1803; left 1803.
CUMBERLAND, ---; natural son of HRH Henry Frederick, Duke of Cumberland KG, and Fräulein Knissel, a Hanoverian actress; b.; stated by Russell Barker and Stenning to have been at school under Vincent, but possibly at school under Smith (although not in Smith’s surviving admission book); a cripple who “was brought up in the Duke’s apartments in St. James’s, and educated at Westminster, as a day scholar, whither he went and returned in the Duke’s carriage” (Papendiek, Court and Private Life in the time of Queen Charlotte, ii, 258); d. young.
Cumberland, Bentinck Howard, son of Walter Bertie Cumberland, GPO engineer, of Hendon, and Edith Howard, d. of Edmund Rawles of Hampstead; b. 6 Sept. 1917; adm. Apr. 1931 (R); left July 1936; The Loyal Regt 1940-3 (Capt.); killed in action (N. Africa) 30 Apr. 1943.
Bentinck Howard “Benty” Cumberland was born at Hampstead, London on the 6th of September 1917 the only son of Walter Bertie Cumberland, an engineer for the General Post Office, and Edith Howard (nee Rawles) Cumberland of 26, Shirehall Lane, Hendon in Middlesex. He was christened at St Mark’s Church, Marylebone on the 20th of October 1917. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Rigaud’s from April 1931 to July 1936. He was a member of the 1st Rowing VIII in 1935 and 1936 where he rowed at No. 6. On leaving school he was articled to a firm of chartered accountants. He was elected as a member of the London Rowing Club in 1936.
He attended the 163rd Officer Cadet Training Unit (Artists Rifles) before being commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire) on the 3rd of August 1940 where he was later appointed as Battalion Transport Officer.
On the 29th of April 1943 the 1st Battalion, The Loyal Regiment was near Djebel Rhaouas in Tunisia where they had been involved in heavy fighting the previous day and were preparing to renew their attack. At 6am that morning 14 enemy tanks passed through the Gabgab gap towards the Battalion but soon came under British artillery fire and withdrew at 8am. Later than morning B Company was ordered to join C Company to reinforce 117 Metre Hill where enemy tanks had been seen. At 1.30pm 20 enemy tanks managed to infiltrate a gap in the British positions and established themselves on a nearby ridge where they dominated the approaches to 117 Metre Hill. As soon as this move had been completed a further 20 enemy tanks, supported by infantry, advanced through the Gabgab Gap and headed towards The Loyals’ positions on 117 Metre Hill. C Company called down artillery fire on the enemy force but this did not deter them and they continued to advance. At 2.30pm, tanks of the 145th Royal Tank Regiment began moving forward to attack the enemy tanks but they lost six of their number in a short space of time and so they took up static positions some two miles from 117 Metre Hill where they fired in support of the infantry but this was largely ineffective.
The German force closed and overran the The Loyals’ Support Company on the western side of the hill, and destroyed most of the Battalion’s transport. The Battalion had also lost all of its anti tank guns. Having suffered very heavy casualties, the survivors formed into small groups on the perimeter of their position while the German tanks dug in where they were and continued firing on the British positions for the rest of the day. Just before dawn, rations were brought up to the forward British troops and it was at this time that Bentinck Cumberland was killed by mortar fire.
At dawn on the 30th of April 1943, the Germans began withdrawing through the Gabgab Gap and new anti tank guns were brought forward to defend the gap should they return.
He is commemorated on the war memorial at the London Rowing Club.
He is buried at Massicault War Cemetery Plot V, Row M Grave 3.
CUMBERLAND, CHARLES, third son of Richard Cumberland (adm. 1745/6, qv); b. 21 May 1764; adm. 16 Jun 1772; left Aug 1775; Ensign, 10th Foot 31 Aug 1781; Lieut. , 24 Sep 1787; Capt. , Independent Co. Foot 18 May 1793; retd. 10 Sep 1793; member MCC; played cricket twice for Kent in 1791 and 1793, and for OWW against Old Etonians at Lord’s 13-14 May 1793; m. 23 Oct 1799 Penelope Susannah, widow of David Dewar, Enham House, Hants. , mother of George Edward Mathew Dewar (qv) and dau. of Gen. Edward Mathew, Governor of Grenada; d. 12 May 1835.