BOURCHER, JOHN; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1632, adm. scholar 1633, matr. Easter 1633; BA 1635/6; MA 1639; Fellow of Trinity Coll. 1637-44, when ejected by the Parliamentary Visitors; Tutor 1639-41. [Not Rector of Biscathorpe, Lincs., as stated in Record; the John Bourcher who was incumbent there was an older man, instituted in 1632]
BOURCHIER, MONK; b.; adm. (aged 8) Jun 1751 (Hawkins'); in school list 1754.
BOURKE, HON. EDWARD RODEN, sixth son of Robert Bourke, 5th Earl of Mayo (qv); b. 13 Dec 1835; adm. 31 Jan 1851 (James'); left 1854; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 4 Jul 1855, matr. Mich. 1856; Cornet, 6th Dragoons, 18 Nov 1857; Lieut., 25 Jun 1858; Capt., 30 Nov 1860; Maj., 2 Dec 1868; 3rd Hussars, 8 Dec 1869; retd. 5 Oct 1872; Military Secretary to his brother, Richard, 6th Earl of Mayo, Governor-Gen. of India 1869-72; Postmaster-Gen., Madras, 1872-6; subsequently member, London Stock Exchange; m. 20 Nov 1872 Emma Mary Augusta, eldest dau. of Lieut. -Gen. George Cliffe Hatch CSI, Bengal Staff Corps (previously EICS Bengal); d. 10 Jun 1907.
BOURKE, JOHN NICHOLAS, son of Thomas Bourke, Jamaica; b.; at school 1796; in school list 1797; KS (aged 13) 1800; probably the “Bourke” who played cricket against Eton 31 Jul 1801; m. 25 Mar 1809 Susan Wood Elliot, St. Paul, Covent Garden. [presumably John Nicholas Bourke, Capt. 3rd Yorkshire West Riding Militia, Army List 1808]
Bourke, John William Patrick, son of William Henry Bourke MD, and Annie Lees, d. of John Carver of Marple, Cheshire; b. 1 June 1909; adm. Sept. 1922 (R); left 1928; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1928, BA 1933 (sen. schol.), MA 1935; Heidelberg Univ., PhD 1936; Friends' Relief Service in Europe 1945-8; lecturer in English Munich Univ. 1948; Bundesverdienstkreuz (W. Germany) 1970; OBE 1975; author of Baroque Churches of Central Europe 1958, Englischer Humor 1965, and other educational works in German and English.
BOURKE, JOHN, son of John Bourke, Limerick, and Lucia Parker; b.; adm.; Min. Can. (aged 12) 1754; KS (Capt. ) 1755; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 22 Feb 1758; of Dromsally, co. Limerick, and St. Anne’s, Dublin; m. Sep 1774 Anne, dau. of Edmund Ryan, Dublin and Roscabell, co. Tipperary; d. 1795.
BOURNE, CHARLES JOHNSTON, son of Robert Burr Bourne (qv); b. 24 Aug 1835; adm. 4 Feb 1848 (Scott's); Min. Can. 1850; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 8 Jun 1854; BA 1859; ordained; Curate, Crawley, Hants.; d. at Nice 15 Feb 1861.
BOURNE, ROBERT BURR, son of Robert Bourne MD FRCP, Professor of Clinical Medicine, Oxford Univ., and Mary, dau. of James Burr, Ditchley, Oxfordshire, Steward to George Henry Lee, 3rd Earl of Lichfield (qv); b.; adm. 13 Sep 1809; KS 1812; Capt. of the School 1816; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1817, matr. 22 May 1817, Westminster Student; BA 1821; MA 1823; adm. Inner Temple 1821; an Usher at the School 1822-9; ordained deacon 1826, priest 1827; Rector of St. Paul’s Cray, Kent, 21 Oct 1836-52; Curate, Grimley, Worcs., 1849-56; Rector of Donhead St. Andrew, Wilts., 1856-77; m. 14 Dec 1830 Eliza Jane, dau. of John Johnston, Danson Park, Kent; d. 30 Jan 1885, aged 86.
BOURNE, ROBERT, son of Robert Burr Bourne (qv); b. 3 Jul 1832; adm. 4 Feb 1848 (Scott's); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 12 Jun 1851; Ensign, 2nd West India Regt., 11 Nov 1853; Lieut., 15 Feb 1855; Capt., 7 Dec 1855; 54th Foot, 5 Sep 1856; retd. 5 Jun 1857; Hon. Lieut. -Col., Worcestershire Volunteers, 1873-82; DL Worcestershire, JP (1861) Worcs.; High Sheriff, Herefordshire, 1890, JP Herefordshire; of Cowarne Court, Herefs.; m. 6 Jan 1857 Anna Eliza, youngest dau. of Samuel Baker, Lypiatt Park, Gloucs.; d. 30 Jun 1915.
BOURNE, VINCENT, son of Andrew Bourne, St. Martins in the Fields, Westminster, wig maker, and Ann --- (IGI); bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 22 Jul 1694 (IGI); adm.; Min. Can. (aged 14) 1709; QS 1710; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1714, adm. pens. 27 May 1714, scholar 13 May 1715, matr. 1715; BA 1717/8; MA 1721; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll., 6 Sep 1720, Major Fellow 5 Jul 1721; an Usher at the School 1720 - Sep 1747; kept a boarding house in Cowley Street 1731-40 and in College Street 1741 to death 2 Dec 1747, where he was succeeded by Mrs.Porten. First of thirty-one recorded boarders adm. Jan.1735/6, last recorded boarder adm. Oct 1745. Five further boarders, adm. between Jun 1749 and Jan 1751/2, are described in Dr.Nicoll’s admission book as boarding with “Bourne”, and it may be that these were boarders with Bourne’s widow Lucia, presumably at a different address from that in College Street; Housekeeper and Deputy Serjeant-at-Arms, House of Commons, Nov 1734; an indolent teacher and a lax disciplinarian; William Cowper (qv), who loved “the memory of Vinny Bourne” and translated a number of his old master’s Latin poems into English verse, relates seeing the Duke of Richmond “set fire to his greasy locks and box his ears to put it out again” (Southey, Life and Works of William Cowper, iv, 98); a Latin poet of great charm, “sucking from every flower, making a flower of everything, his diction all Latin and his thoughts all English” (Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1905, vi, 457); published his Poemata, Latine partim reddita partim scripta, 1734; m. 25 Mar 1727 Lucia, widow of George Jewell (qv); d. 2 Dec 1747. DNB.