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PEAD, DEUEL, son of Edwin Pead, Herefordshire; b.; adm.; at school 1659; a boarder; KS (aged 15) 1661; when” about 16 years of age was baptized by the Dean [John Dolben, qv] publickly in the font then newly set up” 18 Apr 1663 (Chester, Westminster Abbey Registers, 68); elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1664, adm. pens. 1664, scholar 1665; ordained deacon (Lincoln) 17 May 1668, priest (lit. dim. from Canterbury) 1672; Chaplain, HMS Rupert 1671; Rector of St. Peter’s, Canterbury, Kent 1672; a payment of £20 was made to “Duel Pead, clerk” 14 Jun 1683, “for the charge of his transportation to Maryland” (moneys paid and received for Secret Services, Camden Society Pub., lii, 72); Chaplain to Duke of Newcastle; Vicar of St. James’s, Clerkenwell, London, from 5 Dec 1691; Rector of Newland St. Laurence, Essex 21 May 1707-16; author, Parturiunt Montes, or Lewis and Clement taken in their own snare, and other works; m. 2 Sep 1681 (IGI) Sarah Birton; d. 12 Jan 1726/7.

POPE, WALTER, son of --- Pope, and Jane, widow of Walter Wilkins, Oxford, goldsmith, and dau. of Rev. John Dod, Rector of Fawsley, Northants [or Hanwell, Oxfordshire ?]; half-brother of Right Rev. John Wilkins DD, Bishop of Chester and Master of Trinity Coll. Cambridge; b.; adm.; KS ; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1645, adm. pens. 4 Jun 1645, scholar 1645; migrated to Wadham Coll. Oxford, scholar 1648; BA 1649; MA 1651 (incorp. Cambridge 1657); MD 1661; Fellow, Wadham Coll. 9 Jul 1651 – 27 Jun 1662, Bursar 1655, 1657, Sub-Warden 1658, Dean 1660-1; Junior Proctor 1658; while Proctor suvccessfully resisted the attempt of Edward Bagshaw (qv) and others to abolish the wearing of gowns and hoods; Professor of Astronomy, Gresham Coll., London 1660 – 21 Sep 1687, res.; an original member, Royal Society 20 May 1663; obtained licence to travel 1664 and spent two years in Italy; Registrar, Diocese of Chester, from 1668; an intimate friend of Seth Ward, Bishop of Salisbury, of whom he wrote a biography, published in 1697; author, Select Novels from Cervantes and Petrarch, 1694, and other works; d. 25 Jun 1714. DNB.

PRIDEAUX, HUMPHREY, third son of Edmund Prideaux MP, Padstow, Cornwall, and Bridget, dau. of John Moyle, Bake, Cornwall; b. 3 May 1648; at school in 1660; a boarder; KS 1665; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1668, matr. 11 Dec 1668, Westminster Student 26 Dec 1668 – void by marriage 16 Feb 1686, Tutor 1673-80; ordained; Rector of Llandewi Velfrey, Pembs., c. 1677-86; Rector of St. Clement, Oxford 1679 [check]; Prebendary of Norwich 15 Aug 1681 – Jun 1702; Rector of Bladon, Oxfordshire 1682-6; Rector of Saham Tony, Norfolk, 8 Jun 1686-94; Archdeacon of Suffolk from 21 Dec 1688; Rector of Trowse and Newton, Norfolk 12 Feb 1696/7-1710; declined Regius Professorship of Hebrew, Oxford 1691; Dean of Norwich from 8 Jun 1702; author, Life of Mahomet, 1697, The Old and New Yestament connected in the History of the Jews and neighbouring nations, 1716-8, and other works; his correspondence with John Ellis (qv) was edited by Sir E. Maunde Thompson, 1875 (Camden Soc., 2nd series, vol. xv); m. 16 Feb 1686 Bridget, only child of Rev. Anthony Bokenham, Rector of Helmingham, Suffolk; d. 1 Nov 1724. DNB.

RANDOLPH, THOMAS, second son of William Randolph, Hamsey, near Lewes, Sussex, Steward to Edward, 11th Baron Zouch, and his first wife Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Smith, Newnham-cum-Badby, Northants; b. 15 Jun 1605; adm.; KS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1623, adm. scholar 1624, matr. Easter 1624; BA Jan 1627/8; MA 1631 (incorp. Oxford 1631); Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 22 Sep 1629, Major Fellow 23 Mar 1631/2; showed early talent as a writer; became acquainted with Ben Jonson (qv), who is said to have always called him his son after their first meeting; became famous at Cambridge as a writer of English and Latin verse, and as an organiser of dramatic performances by the students of pieces of his own composition; went to London in 1632; “accounted one of the most pregnant witts of his age” (Wood, Ath. Oxon., i, 565); author, Aristippus or the Jovial Philosopher, and The Jealous Lovers, 1630; his Poems with the Muses’ Looking Glass and Amyntas were published posthumously in 1638; the loss of one of his little fingers in a duel is the subject of an elegy by William Hemming (qv); buried Blatherwycke, Notrthants 17 Mar 1634/5, aged 29. DNB.

SAUNDERS, CHARLES, son of William Saunders, Brentford, Middlesex; b.; adm.; KS 1674; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1680, adm. pens. 19 Jun 1680, aged 17, scholar 22 Apr 1681; author of tragedy Tamerlane the Great, written when at school and published in 1681; it was performed at the Theatre Royal, London, and also at Oxford before Charles II, with an epilogue written by John Dryden (qv).

SETTLE, ELKANAH, son of Josias Settle, Dunstable, Beds., and Sarah ---; b. 1 Feb 1647/8; adm.; KS 1663; Trinity Coll. Oxford, matr. 13 Jul 1666; his first play, Cambyses, King of Persia, was performed at Lincoln’s Inn Fields in 1666; his bombastic plays became so popular that Dryden’s jealousy was aroused and a fierce literary warfare ensued between them; at first a violent Whig, but afterwards an equally violent Tory; City Laureate 1691; writer of drolls for Bartholomew Fair; a Poor Brother of the Charterhouse from 1718; author, Minervae Sacellum, or the Muses’ Address to the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Burlington, on the erecting the New Dormitory for King’s Scholars at Westminster, 1722; author, numerous dramatical and poetic works; m. 28 Feb 1673/4 Mary Warner; d. 12 Feb 1723/4. DNB.

SAVAGE, JOHN, son of William Savage, Westminster; b.; adm.; KS (aged 14) 1687; left 1690; Emmanuel Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 13 Feb 1691; 3rd in “ordo” 1694/5; BA 1694/5; MA 1698 (incorp. Oxford 24 May 1705); migr. to Christ Church, Oxford; BD and DD 24 Jun 1707 (incorp. Cambridge 1730); ordained; Rector of Bigrave, Herts., 31 Jan 1700/1 –1708; Rector of Clothall, Herts., from 30 Sep 1708; travelling tutor on European continent with James Cecil, 5th Earl of Salisbury c. 1705 – c. 1710 (?), and subsequently in France and Italy at intervals to 1716; JP Hertfordshire (occurs 1728-46); Lecturer, St. George’s, Hanover Square, London 31 Mar 1732; a “very jolly convivial priest” and much devoted to his old school; wrote the first volume of A Compleat History of Germany, published 1702, and author of a number of translations and other works; d. 24 Mar 1746/7, from the effects of a fall from the stairs of the scaffold erected for the trial of Lord Lovat in Westminster Hall. Tablet to his memory erected in the East Cloisters, Westminster Abbey, by the King’s Scholars 1750, now in Dark Cloister. DNB. [Probably John Savage, son of William Savage and Anne ---, bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 9 Oct 1672 (IGI)].

SMALRIDGE, GEORGE, son of Thomas Smalridge, Lichfield, Staffs., dyer; b. 18 May 1662; adm.; KS 1678; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1682, matr. 18 Dec 1682, Westminster Student 18 Dec 1682 – void 1700, Tutor 1687-97, Junior Censor 1693, Senior Censor 1694-5; BA 1686; MA 1689; BD 1698; DD 1701; author, Auctio Davisiana, 1689; with Francis Atterbury (qv) and Anthony Alsop (qv) assisted Charles Boyle in the production of Dr. Bentley’s Dissertations on the Epistles of Phalaris, 1698; ordained; Prebendary of Lichfield 12 Jun 1693-1714; Minister of Broadway Chapel, Westminster 1698-1713; Deputy to Regius Prof. Divinity, Oxford 1700-7; Chaplain in Ordinary to Queen Anne 1710; Canon of Christ Church, Oxford 6 Sep 1711 – Jul 1713, Dean from 18 Jul 1713; Dean of Carlisle 3 Nov 1711 – Jul 1713; consecrated Bishop of Bristol 4 Apr 1714; Lord Almoner Mar 1714 – Nov 1715, when he was dismissed for refusing to sign declaration against the Pretender; the “famous Dr. Smalridge”, as Swift called him, was the most popular bishop of his day; Steele speaks of him in The Tatler as “abounding in the sort of virtue and knowledge which makes religion beautiful”, while Whiston declared him to be one of the most learned and excellent persons in the kingdom; Busby Trustee 14 Feb 1701/2; an edition of sixty of his sermons was published in 1726; he and Robert Freind (KS 1680, qv) married sisters; m. 18 Jul 1700 (IGI) Mary, dau. of Rev. Samuel De L’Angle DD, Prebendary of Westminster and Vicar of Steventon, Berks.; d. 27 Sep 1719. Buried Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. DNB.

SMITH, EDMUND, only son of Edmund Neale, London, merchant, and Margaret, dau. of Sir Nicholas Lechmere, Kt, Baron of the Exchequer; bapt. St. Bartholomew Exchange, London 29 Jan 1671 (IGI); adopted by a kinsman named Smith, whose surname he assumed; adm.; KS 1684; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1688, but went to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 25 Jun 1688, aged 16, Canoneer Student 9 Jul 1688 – expulsion 20 Dec 1705; BA 1692; MA 1696; his irregular behaviour frequently brought him into conflict with the authorities at Oxford; admonished for profligate behaviour 24 Dec 1694, conditionally expelled for riotous behaviour 24 Apr 1700 and eventually deprived of his Studentship for lampooning Henry Aldrich (qv), then Dean of Christ Church; adm. Inner Temple 1690; his tragedy Phaedra and Hippolytus, with a prologue by Addison and an epilogue by Prior, was produced at the Haymarket Theatre 21 Apr 1707; Johnson declared that Smith’s Latin ode on the death of Dr. Pococke was unequalled among modern writers, and that his Elegy on John Philips was “among the best elegies which our language can show” (Lives of the Poets, ed. Hill, ii, 12, 16); his Works, with a life by William Oldisworth, were published in 1719; buried Hartham, Wilts., Jul 1710. DNB.

SHERIDAN, THOMAS, third son of Rev. Thomas Sheridan DD, King’s Mint House, Capel Street, Dublin, schoolmaster, and Elizabeth, only child of Charles MacFadden, Quilca House, co. Cavan; b.; adm. (aged 11) Feb 1732/3; KS 1734; left 1734; Trinity Coll. Dublin, matr. 26 May 1735, scholar 1738; BA 1739; became an actor; appeared as Richard III at Dublin Jan 1743; for several years manager of Theatre Royal, Smock Alley, Dublin; played at Covent Garden 1754-5 and at Drury Lane 1744, 1763; ranked by Churchill in the Rosciad as next to Garrick as a tragic actor; a successful lecturer on elocution; gave readings with Henderson in London; procured the grant of a government pension to Samuel Johnson and also to himself (G. B. Hill, ed, Boswell’s Johnson, i, 372-7, 385-6); MA Oxford 28 Nov 1758, Cambridge 16 Mar 1769; hon. freeman, City of Edinburgh 8 Jul 1761; a voluminous writer; author, A General; Dictionary of the English Language, 1780; father of Right Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan PC MP, politician and playwright; m. 1747 Frances, dau. of Ven. Philip Chamberlayne DD, Archdeacon of Glendalough; d. 14 Aug 1788. DNB.