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BLADEN, MARTIN, son of Nathaniel Bladen, Bolton Percy, Yorks., and Isabella, dau. of Sir William Fairfax, Kt., Steeton, Yorks.; b.; adm.; KS 1695; left 1697; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 17 Apr 1697, aged 16, matr. 1697; adm. Inner Temple, 23 Mar 1696/7; Ensign, Col. T. Fairfax’s Regt. of Foot, 12 Dec 1697; Ensign of a company added to this Regt. in Ireland, 1 Mar 1702; Capt., Sir Charles Hotham’s new Regt. of Foot, 25 Mar 1705; served in Low Countries and Spain; ADC to Lord Galway; attained rank of Brevet Col.; Col. of a British Regt. raised in Spain, 26 Oct 1709; sold out 26 Jun 1710; Comptroller of the Mint, 23 Dec 1714-27; MP Stockbridge 1715-34, Maldon 1734-41, Portsmouth from 1741; Joint Secretary to Lord Justices of Ireland and to Lord Lieut. of Ireland Sep 1715 - Apr 1717; MP (I) Bandon Bridge 1715-27; Privy Councillor (I) 1 Nov 1715; director, Royal African Company, 1717-26; a Commissioner of Trade and Plantations from 13 Jul 1717; Joint Commissioner to Court of France for settling plantation boundaries in America, 1719-20; First Commissioner and Plenipotentiary to the Conference for settling commerce at Antwerp, Jun 1732 - Feb 1742; one of Sir Robert Walpole’s steadiest supporters in the House of Commons; author of Solon (a tragi-comedy), 1705, and of an English translation of Caesar’s Commentaries, 1712; m. 1st, Mary, dau. of Col. --- Gibbs; m. 2nd, 29 Mar 1728 Frances, widow of John Foche, Aldborough Hatch, Essex, and niece of Col. Joseph Jory, West India merchant; d. 15 Feb 1745/6. DNB.

LENNOX, LORD WILLIAM PITT, brother of Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond (qv); b. 20 Sep 1799; adm. 18 Jul 1808; gazetted Cornet, Royal Horse Guards 13 May 1813, while still at school; left 1813; attaché to Duke of Wellington on embassy to Paris 8 Aug 1814; Lieut., 3 Nov 1814; on Sir Peregrine Maitland’s staff 1815; present at his mother’s memorable ball on eve of battle of Waterloo; ADC to Duke of Wellington 1815-8; Capt., 22 Mar 1822; retd. 25 Mar 1829; MP (Whig) King’s Lynn 1831-4; devoted to horse racing and private theatricals; contributor to periodicals; author, Percy Hamilton, or the Adventures of a Westminster Boy, 1851, and other novels and volumes of recollections, containing allusions to his school career; m. 1st, 7 May 1824 (div. 1831) Mary Anne Paton, singer, eldest dau. of George Paton, The High School, Edinburgh; m. 2nd, 1854 Ellen, dau. of John Smith; m. 3rd, 17 Nov 1863 Maria Jane, eldest dau. of Rev. Capel Molyneux, Vicar of St. Paul’s, Onslow Square, Kensington; d. 18 Feb 1881. DNB.

ADAIR, SIR ROBERT, only son of Robert Adair, Stratford Place, Marylebone, London, Serjeant-Surgeon to George III and Surgeon-Gen. to the Forces, and Lady Caroline Keppel, sister of George Keppel, 3rd Earl of Albemarle (qv); b. 24 May 1763; adm. 7 Jul 1773; left 1778; Göttingen Univ; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 16 Feb 1780, called to bar 27 Apr 1785; MP Appleby 18 Jun 1799-1802, Camelford 1802-12; Minister Plenipotentiary to Austria 7 May 1806-8 and to Turkey 5 Jul 1808, Ambassador Extraordinary Apr 1809-10; on special mission to Belgium 3 Aug 1831-5, and Prussia 28 Jul 1835-6; Privy Councillor 23 Jul 1828; GCB 3 Aug 1831; a consistent Whig and intimate friend of Charles James Fox; author, Historical Memoir of a Mission to the Court of Vienna in 1806, with a selection of dispatches, 1844, and other works; m. 27 Jul 1805 Gabrielle Angélique, dau. of Charles Joseph, Marquis de L’Escuyer, Seigneur de Hagnicourt, Maréchal de Camp in the French army; d. 3 Oct 1855. DNB.

AMYAND, CLAUDIUS, eldest son of Claudius Amyand FRS, Serjeant-Surgeon to George II, and Mary, dau. of Daniel Rabache, St. Peter le Poer, London; b. 25 Aug 1718; adm. Jun 1726; KS 1732; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1736, matr. 25 Jun 1736, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1736 - res 26 Jun 1744; BA 1740; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 23 Jan 1733/4, called to bar 2 Jul 1742; Keeper of the King’s Libraries from 8 Nov 1745; “1749, Oct. 5, Whitehall. Treasury order for payment to Claudius Amyand, Keeper of his Majesty’s Libraries of £50 as half a year’s allowance for house rent or accommodation of the Libraries, and which allowance is to be continued until he shall be provided with the like accommodations when the said Libraries, which are now lying in the old Dormitory at Westminster, shall be removed from thence” (HMC Laing, ii, 402); MP Tregony 1747-54, Sandwich 1754 - 11 Dec 1756; Under-Secretary of State, Southern Department Apr 1750 - Nov 1756; a Commissioner of Customs Dec 1756-65; Receiver-General of the Land Tax for Middlesex from 1765; m. 26 Nov 1761 Frances, widow of George Compton, 6th Earl of Northampton, and dau. of Rev. Thomas Payne, Vicar of Holme Lacy, Herefs.; d. 1 Apr 1774.

ANNESLEY, WILLIAM, 1ST VISCOUNT GLERAWLY (I), brother of Francis Annesley (QS 1714, qv); b.; adm. (aged 12) Jan 1720/1; adm. Inner Temple 12 Feb 1721/2, called to bar 3 Jul 1731, sold tenancy of chambers there Jun 1741; called to bar, King’s Inns, Dublin 1738; MP (I) Midleton 1741-58 [check]; inherited father’s estate of Castlewellan, Co. Down 1750; created Baron Annesley (I) 20 Sep 1758; created Viscount Glerawly (I) 14 Nov 1766; m. 16 Aug 1738 Lady Anne Beresford, eldest dau. of Marcus Beresford, 1st Earl of Tyrone (I); d. 12 Sep 1770.

BACON, SIR EDWARD, third son of Sir Nicholas Bacon Kt, Lord Keeper, and his first wife Jane, dau. of William Fernley, West Creeting, Suffolk; b.; it is stated in Al. Cant. that he matr. at Cambridge Univ Mich. 1561 (aged 12), as a fellow commoner of Trinity Coll., but if so he then went to the School; adm.; QS in 1564; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1566, Westminster Student to 1573; BA 1569/70; adm. Gray’s Inn 1566, ancient 21 Nov 1576; MP Great Yarmouth 1576 - Apr 1583, Tavistock Nov 1584 - Sep 1585, Weymouth and Melcombe Regis Oct 1586 - Mar 1586/7; High Sheriff, Suffolk 1600-1; knighted 11 May 1603; m. Helen, dau. of Thomas Littell, Shrubland Hall, Suffolk; d. 8 Sep 1618, aged 70. DNB, s. v. Sir Nicholas Bacon.

BAGWELL, CHARLES; b.; in school lists 1764, 1765, 1767; left 1768; was living at Clonmel, Tipperary, when he served as Steward of the Anniversary Dinner in 1803, and was doubtless a relative of William Bagwell (qv). [But this entry seems to be a conflation of Charles Bagwell, Steward in 1803, with a Bagwell, Christian name unspecified, who appears in school lists 1764, 1765, 1767, and left 1768; the latter could well have been John Bagwell (c. 1752-1816), Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 10 Mar 1768, aged 16, MA 22 Jun 1771, MP Co. Tipperary (I) 1792-1800 (UK) 1801-6, father of William Bagwell (qv)]

BANKES, HENRY, only surviving son of Henry Bankes KC MP, Kingston Lacy, Dorset, a Commissioner of Customs, barrister, and his second wife Margaret, dau. of Right Rev. John Wynne DD, Bishop of Bath and Wells; b. 19 Dec 1756; adm. 27 Apr 1767; left Dec 1773; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 22 Dec 1773, matr. Lent 1777; BA and 14th Wrangler 1778; first Chancellor’s Classical Medal 1778; MA 1781; Grand Tour (Italy) 1778-80; MP Corfe Castle 1780 - Jan 1826, Dorset 16 Feb 1826 - 1831; a prominent backbench member of the House of Commons; a Trustee of the British Museum; author, The Civil and Constitutional History of Rome, 1818; m. 18 Aug 1784 Frances, dau. of William Woodley MP, Lieut. -Gov. Leeward Islands; d. 17 Dec 1834. DNB.

BARNE, BARNE, second son of Miles Barne MP, Sotterley, Suffolk, and his second wife and cousin Mary, eldest dau. of George Thornhill, Diddington, Hunts.; b. 25 Aug 1754; adm. 12 Jan 1768; left 1771; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm. pens. 26 May 1772, scholar 1773, matr. Mich. 1772; LLB 1780; Fellow of Trinity Hall 1 Dec 1781 - 1814; adm. Inner Temple 16 May 1770, called to bar 5 Feb 1779, tenant chambers from Feb 1779, Bencher 1811, Treasurer 28 Jan 1820-1; MP Dunwich 10 Dec 1777- Feb 1791; a Commissioner of Taxes 9 Apr 1791 –Mar 1820, superannuated; d. unm. 19 Jun 1828.

BATTIE, ---; b.; in school lists 1764, 1765, 1767; left 1768. [presumably William Wrightson Battie (afterwards Wrightson), son of John Battie, Sprotborough, Yorks., and Isabella, dau. of William Wrightson, Cusworth, Yorks., bapt. Sprotborough, Yorks., 20 May 1752 (IGI); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 31 Oct 1768, aged 16; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 1771; assumed surname of Wrightson; of Cusworth, Yorks.; MP Aylesbury 1784-90; High Sheriff, Yorkshire 1819; m. 1st, 1 Jan 1781 Barbara, dau. of James Bland, Hurworth, co. Durham; m. 2nd, 20 Jul 1787 Henrietta, dau. of Richard Heber, Marton Hall, Yorks.; d. 26 Dec 1827]