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SMYTH, SIR NEVILL MASKELYNE, younger son of Sir Warington Wilkinson Smyth (qv); b. 14 Aug 1868; adm. 8 Jun 1882 (G); left 1885; RMC Sandhurst 1886; 2nd Lieut., 2nd Dragoon Guards 22 Aug 1888; Lieut., 26 Apr 1895; Capt., 8 Dec 1897; Brevet Maj., 22 Aug 1902; Maj., 6th Dragoon Guards 28 Oct 1903; Lieut. -Col., 1 May 1909 – 30 Apr 1913; Brevet Col., 4 Dec 1912; temp. Brig. -Gen., 20 May 1915 – 27 Dec 1916; temp. Major-Gen., 28 Dec 1916 – 31 Dec 1917; Major-Gen. Jan 1918; Col., 3rd/6th Dragoon Guards 1920-5; retd. 1924; served in Zhob Valley expedition 1890-1, expedition to Dongola 1896, and Nile expeditions of 1897, 1898, 1899; severely wounded at battle of Omdurman 2 Sep 1898; mentioned in despatches LG 3 Nov 1896, and 30 Sep and 15 Nov 1898; VC 15 Nov 1898 (for gallantry at Omdurman); served in South African War 1902; during First World War served in Egypt, at Gallipoli, and on the Western Front; in command of Egyptian Army’s 1st class Military District, Sudan 1914-5, 1st Australian Infantry Brigade at Gallipoli 1915-6; mentioned in despatches LG 6 and 28 Jan and 13 Jul 1916, 4 Jan, 15 May and 11 Dec 1917, 28 May and 20 Dec 1918, 5 Jul 1919; CB 14 Jan 1916; KCB 9 Jun 1919; Commander, Order of Leopold, and Croix de Guerre, Belgium; Officier de la Légion d’Honneur, France; m. 23 Jul 1918 Evelyn Olwen, eldest dau. of Sir Arthur Osmond Williams, Bart., MP; d. at Melbourne, Australia 21 Jul 1941.

VAUGHAN, SIR WILLIAM, second son of Walter Vaughan MP, Golden Grove, Carmarthenshire, and his first wife Mary, daughter of Sir William Rice Kt, Newton, Dinefwr, Carmarthenshire ; b. ; in chapter 23 of his The Golden Grove Moralized, 1600, he refers to his being, ‘about ten years ago’ ‘a scholer at Westminster’ ; Jesus Coll.Oxford, matr. 4 Feb 1591/2 ; BA 1595 ; MA 1597 ; BCL 3 Dec 1600 ; Grand Tour (France, Italy, Germany) ; of Tor-y-Coed, Carmarthenshire (acquired on first marriage) ; High Sheriff, Carmarthenshire 1616 ; promoted the colonisation of Newfoundland ; knighted 1628 ; author, Erotopaignon Pius, 2 parts, 1597, 1598 (paraphrases of the Bible in Latin verse), Poematum Libellus, 1598, The Golden Grove Moralized, 1600, The Golden Fleece, 1626, and other publications in prose and verse ; m.1st, early 1600s, Elizabeth, dau. of David ap Robert, Llangyndeyrn, Carmarthenshire ; m.2nd, Anne, dau. of John Christmas, Colchester, Essex ; d. Aug 1641. ODNB.

WILLIS, THOMAS, only surviving son of Thomas Willis MD FRS, St,Martin’s in the Fields, Westminster, physician, Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy at Oxford University, ’the founder of clinical neuroscience’, and his first wife Mary, dau. of Samuel Fell (qv) ; b. 26 Jan 1657/8 ; at school under Busby (P.Bayle, A General Dictionary, 1741, 173 ; cf. A.Compston, All Manner of Industry and Ingenuity, a Bio-Bibliography of Thomas Willis 1621-1675, 2021, 66, quoting B.Hutchinson, Biographia Medica, 1799, vol.ii, 481-5, where it is recorded, on the authority of his son Browne Willis (qv), that ‘falling ill with consumption, he [his father] sent him to Montpellier in France, for the recovery of his health, and it proved successful, Thomas returning to his studies at Westminster School’) ; he is evidently to be identified as the unnamed ‘boy about ten years old’, whose coughing and related symptoms, medical treatment, and stay in Montpellier, are mentioned in his father’s London Practice of Physick ; Christ Church, Oxford, mat. 22 Mar 1672/3, Canoneer Student 25 Jul 1673 - void by marriage 1681 ; BA 1676 ; MA 1679 ; of Bletchley, Bucks. ; m. 26 May 1681 Alice, eldest dau. of Robert Browne, Frampton, Dorset ; d. 11 Nov 1699.

MILWARD, WILLIAM, third son of Robert Milward MP, Stafford, Staffs., and Middle Temple, London, Second Justice of Chester, and his first wife Isabel, eldest dau. and coheiress of Sir William Zouche, Kt, Codnor, Derbs.; b. ; adm. ; KS 1677 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1679, matr. 12 Dec 1679, aged 19, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1679 - void 1688 ; BA 1683 ; ordained deacon 21 Feb 1685/6 (Oxford) ; Curate, Basingstoke, Hampshire (occurs 1686, 1691, as Millward, no given name recorded) ; m. (by Jun 1688) Ann, sister of Thomas Willis (at school under Busby, qv).