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SMART, THOMAS GREGORY, brother of John Henry Smart (qv); b. 29 May 1827; adm. 17 Sep 1839 (Scott's); QS 1841; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1845, adm. pens. 30 Apr 1845, scholar 1848 (sic); BA 1849; MA 1856; ordained deacon 1856, priest 1858 (both London); Curate, Enfield, Middlesex 1856-9; Minor Canon, Wells 1859; Curate, Banbury, Oxfordshire 1860, Brill, Bucks., 1861; Curate, St. John’s, Lytham, Lancs., 861-70, Vicar from 1870; [unm. in 1881]; d. 29 May 1896.

SMEDLEY, EDWARD HUME, son of Edward Smedley (adm. 1795, qv); b. 3 Nov 1817; adm. 1 Oct 1833 (Scott's); left May 1835; Assistant Examiner, Audit Office Sep 1835; acting Sub-Collector of Customs, Barbaryn, Ceylon 1841; acting Assistant Government Agent, Jaffna 1843; Commissioner of Requests, Galle 1845; District Judge, Kurnegalle 1847; District Judge and Commissioner of Requests, Trincomalee 1850; District Judge, Manaar 1854, Trincomalee 1855; District Judge and Joint Comnmissioner, Kandy 1859; m. 20 Jul 1842 Clara, third dau. of Samuel Curgenven; d. during passage home on ship Bengal 5 Jun 1862.

SOUTHEY, WILLIAM, son of Henry Herbert Southey MD FRCP FRS, Queen Anne Street, Cavendish Square, London, Physician in Ordinary to George IV, and his first wife Louisa Gonne (IGI) [perhaps dau. of William Gonne, Lisbon, Portugal (IGI)]; nephew of Robert Southey (qv); b. 16 Nov 1824; adm. 24 Jan 1837 (Scott's); Cadet, EICS Madras 1840; arrived in India 5 Jun 1841; Ensign, 47th Native Infantry 22 Dec 1840; 48th Native Infantry 23 Jun 1841; Lieut., 24 Jan 1845; Capt., 28 Nov 1854; Maj., Indian Staff Corps 18 Feb 1861; Lieut. -Col., 22 Dec 1866; m. 18 Nov 1845 Mary Magdalene, sister of Edward Kent Strathearn Stewart (qv); d. during passage home on SS Candia 13 Dec 1871.

ST. JOHN, AMBROSE, second son of Henry St. John, and Catherine, dau. of Rev. Henry Wigley, Pensham House, Worcs.; nephew of St. Andrew St. John (qv); b. 29 Jun 1815; adm. 13 Jan 1829 (Scott's); KS 1830; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1834, matr. 15 May 1834, Westminster Student; BA 1838; MA 1840; ordained deacon (Oxford) 20 Dec 1840, priest (Canterbury) 22 May 1842; Curate, Walmer, Kent 1840-5; received into Roman Catholic Church Oct 1845; accompanied J. H. Newman to Rome 1846, where they joined the Oratorians and were ordained RC priests 1847; one of original Oratorian community which Newman established at Maryvale Jan 1848 and which moved to Hagley Road, Edgbaston 1852; volunteered with Newman to assist the Catholic priests at Bilston during cholera epidemic 1849; Head Master, Oratory School, Edgbaston, from 1862; went on mission to Rome 1867 about the Oratory School and the proposed Oratory at Oxford; broke down from overwork while translating Fessler’s book True and False Infallibility; called in Rome Newman’s “Angel Guardian”, and, “certainly”, Newman wrote, “he has been to me Azarias, the son of Ananias” (Ward, Life of J. H. Newman, 1912, ii, 410, 412); his name is singled out in the concluding paragraphs of the Apologia; d. 24 May 1875. Buried Rednal, Shropshire, where Newman was later buried in the same grave.

STEBBING, JOHN, son of Rev. Henry Stebbing DD FRS, Rector of St. Nicholas Cole Abbey, London, and Mary, dau. of William Griffin, Norwich; b. 23 Sep 1829; adm. 25 Jan 1844 (Scott's); Magdalen Hall, Oxford, matr. 29 Nov 1849; solicitor, non-practising (1881 Census, then unm. ); d. 5 Nov 1887.

STEBBING, WILLIAM, brother of John Stebbing (qv); b. 16 May 1832; adm. 25 Jan 1844 (Scott's); QS 1845; left 1846; went to King’s Coll. Sch.; Lincoln Coll. Oxford, matr. 18 Mar 1850, scholar 1850-2; migr. to Worcester Coll., scholar 1852-6; 1st cl. Classics (Mods) 1852, 1st cl. Lit. Hum. 1853, 1st cl. Law and Modern History 1854; BA 1854; MA 1856; Fellow, Worcester Coll. 1856-70, subsewquently Hon. Fellow; Hon. Fellow, King’s Coll. London 1853; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 15 Jan 1856, called to bar 17 Nov 1858; equity draftsman and conveyancer; for nearly thirty years on staff of Times newspaper as leader writer and assistant editor; contributor to Saturday Review, Edinburgh Review; author, Some Verdicts of History Reviewed, 1887, and other works; left the sum of £150 to the School to provide a prize for English prose or verse; m. 1 Oct 1870 Anne Pinckard, third dau. of John Sills Pidgeon, Warley Elms, Essex; d. 16 May 1926.

STORKS, ROBERT REEVE, son of Henry Storks, Serjeant-at-Law, Judge of Shoreditch County Court, and Mary Anne, dau. of Thomas Trundle; b. 1 Sep 1820; adm. 24 Sep 1834 (Scott's); MRCS 1842; practised in Gower Street, London; surgeon, non-practising, living at Twickenham, Middlesex (1881 Census); m. Josepha --- (1881 Census, born Spain).

TEMPLER, CHARLES COPLAND, brother of John Charles Templer (qv); b. 28 Mar 1825; adm. 28 May 1839 (Scott's); left 1843; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 12 Jul 1847, but did not reside; general agent, living Leeds, Yorks. (1881 Census); m. 12 Apr 1855 Florence, third dau. of John Nicholetts, South Petherton, Somerset; d. 7 Feb 1895.

TEMPLER, ROBERT BARON, brother of John Charles Templer (qv); b. 9 Oct 1830; adm. 16 Jan 1845 (Scott's); left 1847; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 26 May 1849; BA 1853; adm. Middle Temple 30 May 1853, called to bar 30 Apr 1856; Western Circuit; land agent in Ireland; m. 29 Feb 1860 Geraldine, youngest dau. of Capt. Francis Manley Shawe-Taylor, Castle Taylor, co. Galway; d. 26 Oct 1886.

TEMPLER, WILLIAM CHRISTOPHER, brother of John Charles Templer (qv); b. 28 May 1823; adm. 15 Jan 1838 (Scott's); QS 1838; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1842, adm. pens. 12 May 1842, scholar 1843; BA 1846; MA 1850; ordained deacon 1846, priest 1847 (both Salisbury); Curate, Burton Bradstock, Dorset 1846-9; Vicar of Walditch, Dorset 1849; Rector of Burton Bradstock, with Shipton Gorge, Dorset, from 1860; m. 10 Dec 1863 Sophia Frances, second dau. of Capt. Francis Manley Shawe-Taylor, Castle Taylor, co. Galway; d. 2 Jul 1885.