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Fortescue, ---, fl. 1805
GB-2014-WSA-07321 · Person · fl. 1805

FORTESCUE, ---; b.; adm.; left 1805.

GB-2014-WSA-01864 · Person · 1857-1944

FORTESCUE-BRICKDALE, SIR CHARLES, eldest son of Matthew Inglett Fortescue-Brickdale (qv); b. 1 Mar 1857; adm. 16 Jun 1870 (James'); QS 1871; one of the founders of The Elizabethan in 1874, designing its original headpiece, and also an illuminated school prayer book, which he presented “curae monitorum” (Elizabethan, I, 63, and xvii, 192); left (with Triplett) Whitsun 1875; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 20 May 1875; BA 1879; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 2 May 1877, called to bar 17 Nov 1883; Assistant barrister, Land Registry Office 1888, Assistant Registrar 1894, Registrar and Chief Registrar 1900-23; knighted 1 Jan 1911; JP Gloucestershire; a Busby Trustee from 16 May 1916; author, various publications on transfer of land; m. 5 Sep 1888 Mabel Beatrice, eldest dau. of George Louis Monck Gibbs, Bramley, Surrey; d. 20 Sep 1944.

GB-2014-WSA-07322 · Person · 1788-1867

FORTESCUE-BRICKDALE, JOHN FORTESCUE, eldest son of John Brickdale (qv); b. 17 Feb 1788; adm.; KS 1801; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1805, matr. 25 May 1805, Westminster Student; BA 1809; MA 1811; adm. Middle Temple 2 May 1811, called to bar 5 Jun 1818; Western circuit; assumed surname of Fortescue before that of Brickdale 9 Feb 1861; of Birchamp House, Newland, Gloucs.; JP Devon, Gloucestershire, Monmouthshire, Somerset; m. 7 Jul 1813 Catherine, dau. of George Gregorie; d. 28 Mar 1867.

GB-2014-WSA-07323 · Person · 1817-1894

FORTESCUE-BRICKDALE, MATTHEW INGLETT, eldest son of John Fortescue Fortescue-Brickdale (qv); b. 15 Apr 1817; adm. (G) 28 Jun 1830; KS 1831; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1835, matr. 4 Jun 1835, Westminster Student; BA 1839; MA 1841; adm. Middle Temple 27 Oct 1841, called to bar 22 Nov 1844; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 13 Jan 1845; Secretary, Statute Law Commission 1853; a Conveyancing Counsel to Court of Chancery from Apr 1861; m. 25 Mar 1856 Sarah Anna, dau. of Edward John Lloyd QC, Judge of the Bristol County Court; d. 24 May 1894, from the effects of a fall over a precipice near Biasca, Ticino, Switzerland.

Forth, Philip, fl. 1671
GB-2014-WSA-07324 · Person · fl. 1671

FORTH, PHILIP; b.; adm.; KS 1671; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 31 Jul 1672, scholar 1676, matr. 1675; first in “ordo” 1676/7; BA 1676/7; MA 1680.

Forth, William, d. 1671
GB-2014-WSA-07325 · Person · d. 1671

FORTH, WILLIAM, son of William Forth, Nayland, Suffolk, and Mary, dau. of Richard Barker, Nayland, Suffolk; b.; adm.; KS 1630; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1632, adm. scholar 1633, matr. Easter 1632; migrated to Trinity Hall, adm. scholar 1635; LLB 1638; LLD 1646; Fellow, Trinity Hall, 10 Aug 1639-49; adm. advocate, Doctors’ Commons 29 Jan 1646/7; a Commissioner of Excise; of St. Giles in the Fields, London; m.; buried Highgate, Middlesex 27 May 1671.

GB-2014-WSA-07326 · Person · 1803-1829

FORTUNE, FITZFREDERICK NEWTON BARTON VON BURR, son of Rev. Joseph Fortune, Rector of New Moat, Pembs., and Harriet Sophia, dau. of Maj. Newton Barton Burr, EICS Bombay; b. 17 Aug 1803; at Charterhouse Sch. c. 1810-1; adm. 26 Jun 1811; in school list Oct 1814; Cadet, EICS Bombay 1819; Lieut., 26th Native Infantry 4 May 1820; d. at Ratnagiri, Bombay 2 Dec 1829.

GB-2014-WSA-07327 · Person · 1898-?

Forward, Francis Charles Miller, son of Francis Edward Forward, F.R.C.S., of Holloway, by Jane Elizabeth Miller, daughter of John Scotland McDonald, of Antigua, Leeward Islands; b. April 7, 1898; adm. Sept. 28, 1911 (A); left July 1915; R. M.C. Sandhurst Jan. 1917; 2nd Lieut. Indian Army Dec. 21, 1917; served in the third Afghanistan campaign N. W. Frontier 1919, in Egypt Jan.- Dec. 1920, and in the Waziristan Campaign N. W. Frontier 1921-2; retired July 1922; adm. a solicitor June 1925; m. April 14, 1923, Irene Brundle, daughter of James Knight Pearce, of Lowestoft, Suffolk.

GB-2014-WSA-07328 · Person · 1911-1995

Forwood, Christopher Robert, son of Stanley Muspratt Forwood of Hampstead and Kitty, d. of Robert Scott of Dumfries; b. 24 Mar. 1911; adm. Jan. 1925 (H); left Apr. 1927; Univ. of Poitiers 1927-8; Intell. Corps 1940-5 (Maj.); HM Foreign Service 1946-56; an importer-exporter San Francisco, retd 1986; m. 18 Dec. 1936 Constance Phyllis Maureen, sister of George Edward Desmond Halahan (qv); d. 28 Aug. 1995.

GB-2014-WSA-07329 · Person · 1829-1899

FOSS, CHARLES HERBERT, eldest son of George Smith, Canterbury Villas, Paddington, Middlesex, and Sophia Mary --- (IGI); b. 14 Jun 1829; adm. 19 Jul 1842; went to King’s Coll. London; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 27 Mar 1846, matr. Mich. 1846; BA 1850; MA 1853; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 29 Apr 1850, called to bar 1 May 1854 (still at bar 1885); assumed surname of Foss in lieu of Smith 20 Nov 1885; m. 27 Aug 1859 Charity May, dau. of John Digenes, Foxley, Sussex; d. 30 Mar 1899.