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NEVILL, HENRY, 2ND EARL OF ABERGAVENNY, eldest son of George Nevill, 1st Earl of Abergavenny (qv); b. 22 Feb 1755; adm. 15 Jun 1766; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 29 May 1773; MA 1776; MP Seaford 30 Mar 1784 –84, Monmouthshire 1784 – 9 Sep 1785; Recorder of Harwich; succ. father as 2nd Earl of Abergavenny 9 Sep 1785; KT 23 May 1814; m. 3 Oct 1781 Mary, only child of John Robinson MP, Wyke House, Middlesex, Secretary to the Treasury; d. 27 Mar 1843.

NICHOLL, JOHN, only son of Right Hon. Sir John Nicholl Kt PC FRS MP, Judge of Admiralty Court, and Judy, youngest dau. of Peter Birt, Wenvoe Castle, Glamorgan; b. 21 Aug 1797; adm. 23 Sep 1806; in school list Oct 1814; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 12 Jun 1815, Canoneer Student 1816-22; 1st cl. Classics 1818; BCL 1823; DCL 1825; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 15 Nov 1819, called to bar 1 Jul 1824; adm. advocate, Doctors’ Commons 1826; MP (Cons) Cardiff Boroughs 1832-52; a Lord of the Treasury Mar - Apr 1835; Vicar-General, Province of Canterbury 1838-44; Judge Advocate-General 1841-6; Privy Councillor 14 Sep 1841; member, Board of Trade 21 Jan 1846; DL JP Glamorgan; chairman, Glamorgan QS; m. 14 Dec 1821 Jane Harriot, second dau. of Thomas Mansel Talbot, Margam Abbey, Glamorgan; d. at Rome 27 Jan 1853.

NOEL, HON. JAMES, third son of Baptist Noel, 3rd Earl of Gainsborough, and Lady Dorothea Manners, second dau. of John Manners, 1st Duke of Rutland PC; b. 18 Sep 1712; adm. (aged 11) Jan 1723/4; in school list Feb 1727/8; Grand Tour (Italy) 1731-2; MP Rutland from 1734; member, Society of Dilettanti 1736; d. unm. 17 Jun 1752.

O’GRADY, STANDISH DARBY, 2ND VISCOUNT GUILLAMORE (I), eldest son of Standish O’Grady, 1st Viscount Guillamore (I) PC (I), Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer (I), and Katherine, second dau. of John Thomas Waller, Castletown, co. Limerick; b. 26 Dec 1792; adm.; left 1809; Trinity Coll. Dublin, adm. fellow commoner 4 Jul 1809; Cornet, 7th Light Dragoons 21 Mar 1811; Lieut., 6 Aug 1812; Capt., 20 Jul 1815; half-pay 25 May 1816; 18th Light Dragoons 22 Jul 1819; half-pay 10 Nov 1821; Maj., unattached, half-pay 29 Oct 1825; 24th Foot 1 Feb 1827; Lieut. -Col., unattached, half-pay 14 Apr 1829; Col. and ADC to Queen Victoria 29 Jul 1842; commanded troop of 7th Light Dragoons in skirmish with French Lancers at Genappe 17 Jun 1815, and served at battle of Waterloo the following day; MP Co. Limerick 1820-6, 1830-4; succ. father as 2nd Viscount Guillamore (I) 21 Apr 1840; m. 16 Oct 1828 Gertrude Jane, eldest dau. of Hon. Berkeley Thomas Paget MP, and niece of Henry William Paget, 1st Marquis of Anglesey (qv); d. 22 Jul 1848. DNB.

O’HARA, CHARLES; eldest son of Charles O’Hara MP (I), Nymphsfield, co. Sligo, and Lady Mary Carmichael, dau. of James Carmichael, 2nd Earl of Hyndford (S); b. 26 Apr 1746; he would have been at school under Markham and he matr. at Christ Church, Oxford, a likely college for an OW, on 26 Nov 1763; BA 1767; MA 4 Dec 1771; adm. Middle Temple 19 Oct 1765; called to bar, Kings’ Inns, Dublin 1770; LLD Trinity Coll. Dublin 1777; MP (I) Dungannon 1776-83, Co. Sligo 1783-1800, MP (UK) Co. Sligo 1801-22; Lord Commissioner of Treasury (I) Apr 1806-7; Governor, co. Sligo, from 1784; High Sheriff, co. Sligo 1785-6; m. 1780 Margaret, dau. of John Cookson MD, Leeds, Yorks; d. 19 Sep 1822.

[Seemingly incorrectly identified by Russell Barker and Stenning as natural son of James O’Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawley (I), Field-Marshal in the Army; b.; at school under Nicoll (Steward, Anniversary Dinner 1771); Ensign, 8th Foot 20 Apr 1751; Cornet, 3rd Dragoons 23 Dec 1752; Lieut. and Capt., 2nd Foot Guards 14 Jan 1756; Brevet Lieut. -Col., 10 Feb 1762; Lieut. -Col. commandant of a new corps of foot at Goree (and Governor of Senegambia) 25 Jul 1766 – 28 Sep 1776; Capt. and Lieut. -Col., 2nd Foot Guards 3 Nov 1769; Brevet Col., 29 Aug 1777; Maj. -Gen., 19 Oct 1781; Col., 22nd Foot 18 Apr 1782 – Apr 1791, 74th Foot from 1 Apr 1791; Lieut. -Gen., 12 Oct 1793; Gen., 1 Jan 1798; ADC to Marquis of Granby when commanding British forces in Germany after battle of Minden; Quartermaster-Gen. under Lord Tyrawley in Portugal 1762; Brig. -Gen. in America and dangerously wounded at Guilford Court House 15 Mar 1781; taken prisoner at Yorktown 19 Oct 1781; Lieut. -Governor, Gibraltar 1787-90, 1792-5, Governor from 1795; known at Gibraltar as “Old Cock of the Rock”; commanded British troops before Toulon, where wounded and taken prisoner 23 Nov 1793; a friend of Horace Walpole and Henry Seymour Conway, and engaged for some years to Miss Mary Berry; in Italy for financial reasons in 1784-5, again there 1792; d. at Gibraltar 21 Feb 1802. DNB. This Charles O’Hara is not in Nicoll’s admission register and as Governor of Senegambia in 1771 was presumably out of the country at the Anniversary Dinner both in that year and in the previous year when Stewards were appointed]

Skeffington-Lodge, Thomas Cecil, son of Thomas Robert Lodge of Settle, Yorks, and Winifred Marian, sister of Harold Ernest Skeffington (qv); b. 15 Jan. 1905; adm. Apr. 1920 (H); left Aug. 1922; advertising and publicity work in London and N. England; RNVR 1941-5 (Lieut.); MP (Lab.) Bedford 1945-50; contested (Lab.) York 1951, Mid-Beds 1955, Grantham 1959, Brighton Pavilion Mar. 1969; PA to chairman Colonial Devel. Corpn 1950-2; vice-pres. Social­ist Christian Movement; chairman Brighton Committee Sussex branch CPRE; d. 23 Feb. 1994.

SKINNER, MATTHEW, third son of Robert Skinner, Welton, Northants, Judge of the Marshalsea Court, and Anne, eldest dau. of William Buckby, Chief Justice of Carmarthen, Serjeant-at-Law and Recorder of Daventry; b. 22 Oct 1689; adm.; QS 1704; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1709, matr. 18 Jun 1709, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1709 – void 1720; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 20 Jun 1709, called to bar 21 Apr 1716; Oxford Circuit; one of the four Common Pleaders, City of London 1719-22; Recorder of Oxford from 30 May 1721; Serjeant-at-Law 1 Feb 1724; one of King’s Serjeants 11 Jun 1728; King’s Prime Serjeant 12 May 1734; MP Oxford 1734 – Nov 1738; Chief Justice of Chester from 26 Nov 1738; m. 8 Sep 1719 Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Whitfield, Watford Place, Herts.; d. 21 Oct 1749. Buried Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. DNB.

SOMERS-COCKS, JOHN SOMERS, 2ND EARL SOMERS, second son of John Somers Cocks, 1st Earl Somers (qv); b. 19 Mar 1788; in school lists 1797; left Whitsun 1799; Cornet, 16th Light Dragoons 27 Aug 1803; Lieut., 20 Jun 1805; Capt., 3 Dec 1806; 2nd Dragoon Guards 9 Jul 1807; retd. 1812; MP Reigate 1812-8, Hereford 1818-32, Reigate 1832 – 5 Jan 1841; succ. father as 2nd Earl Somers 5 Jan 1841; took Conservative whip both in Commons and in Lords; Lord Lieut., Herefordshire, from 6 Aug 1845; m. 4 Mar 1815 Lady Caroline Harriet Yorke, fourth dau. of Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke KG PC; d. 5 Oct 1852.

SOMERSET, CHARLES NOEL, 4TH DUKE OF BEAUFORT, brother of Henry Scudamore (formerly Somerset), 3rd Duke of Beaufort (qv); b. 12 Sep 1709; adm. Jun 1717; in under school list 1720; at school in 1722; University Coll. Oxford, matr. 19 Jun 1725; MA 1727; DCL 1736; MP Monmouthshire 17 May 1731-4, Monmouth 1734 – 24 Feb 1744/5; succ. brother as 4th Duke of Beaufort 24 Feb 1744/5; one of the acknowledged leaders of the English Jacobites; Busby Trustee 26 Apr 1751; m. 1 May 1740 Elizabeth, sister of Norborne Berkeley, 3rd Baron Botetourt (qv); d. 28 Oct 1756.

SOMERSET, HENRY CHARLES, 6TH DUKE OF BEAUFORT, eldest son of Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort (qv); b. 22 Dec 1766; styled Marquis of Worcester 1766-1803; adm. 22 Feb 1780 (sic, but already at the School 27 Jun 1778 : see Hon. Mrs. Boscawen to Mrs Delany, 27 Jun 1778, Delany Correspondence, 2nd series, ii, 358); Trinity Coll. Oxford, matr. 4 Feb 1784; MA 1786; MP Monmouth 1 Apr 1788-90, Bristol 1790-6, Gloucestershire 1796 – 11 Oct 1803; succ. father as 6th Duke of Beaufort 11 Oct 1803; Lord Lieut., Monmouthshire and Breconshire, from 4 Nov 1803, and of Gloucestershire from 15 Sep 1810; KG 7 Jan 1805; carried crown of Queen Consort at Coronation of William IV 8 Sep 1831; DL Breconshire 1793; Col., Royal Monmouth Militia 26 Oct 1803 – still 1820; High Steward of Bristol from 1834; Busby Trustee 3 May 1804; m. 16 May 1791 Lady Charlotte Sophia Leveson Gower, dau. of Granville Leveson Gower, 1st Marquis of Stafford (qv), and his third wife; d. 23 Nov 1835.