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BRETT, --- ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1640 (Chapter Muniments 32460).

BRETT, ARTHUR, son of John Brett, Middlesex; b.; adm.; KS (aged 14) 1650; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1653, matr. 20 Jul 1654, Westminster Student; BA 6 Feb 1656/7; MA 1659; ordained; Rector of Templeton, Devon, 1662; Vicar of Market Lavington, Wilts., 10 May 1670, but shortly afterwards resigned his living and came up to London, where he fell into poverty and begged in the street; author, A Poem on the Restoration of King Charles II, 1660, and other poems; d. c. 1677. DNB.

BRETT, THOMAS, son of Arthur Brett, Ghent, Flanders; b.; adm. (aged 8) Apr 1722; Min. Can. 1728; KS 1729.

BRETT, WILFORD GEORGE, eldest son of Rev. Joseph George Brett, Ranelagh House, Chelsea, Vicar of Lenham, Kent, and Perpetual Curate of Hanover Chapel, Regent Street, London, and Dorothy, second dau. of George Best MP, Chilston Park, Kent; b. 5 Aug 1814; adm. (G) 14 Sep 1829; Magdalene Coll. Cambridge, adm. 11 Oct 1834, scholar 1835, matr. Mich. 1834; BA 1839; MA 1842; adm. Middle Temple 18 Jan 1837, called to bar 24 Apr 1840; conveyancer and equity draughtsman; private secretary to Lord Romilly, Master of the Rolls; Secretary, Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, 2 Apr 1869; JP Middlesex; d. 1 Dec 1871.

BRETT, WILLIAM BALIOL, 1ST VISCOUNT ESHER, brother of Wilford George Brett (qv); b. 13 Aug 1815; adm. (G) 11 Jan 1830; Gonville and Caius Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 25 Jun 1835, matr. Mich. 1835; rowed in Cambridge eight against Leander 1837, 1838, and against Oxford 1839; stroked the Cambridge Subscription Rooms eight which won the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley 1841; BA 1840; MA 1845; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 30 Apr 1839, called to bar 29 Jan 1846, Bencher 1861-8; Northern circuit; QC 22 Feb 1861; contested (Cons) Rochdale 1865; MP (Cons) Helston 5 Jul 1866 - Aug 1868; Solicitor-Gen., 10 Feb - Aug 1868; knighted 29 Feb 1868; Serjeant-at-law; Justice of the Common Pleas 24 Aug 1868-75; Judge of the High Court, Queen’s Bench Division, 1875-6; Lord Justice of Appeal 27 Oct 1876 - Apr 1883; Privy Councillor 28 Nov 1876; Master of the Rolls 3 Apr 1883 - Oct 1897; cr. Baron Esher 24 Jul 1885; cr. Viscount Esher 11 Nov 1897; Hon. Fellow, Gonville and Caius Coll., 7 Oct 1886; a Busby Trustee 18 May 1886 - Jun 1890; m. 3 Apr 1850 Eugénie, only dau. of Louis Mayer, Lyon, France, and step-dau. of Col. John Gurwood CB; d. 24 May 1899. DNB.

BREVAL, JOHN DURANT, son of Rev. Francis Durant de Bréval DD, Rector of Milton, Kent, and Prebendary of Westminster, formerly a Roman Catholic priest, and Susanna Samoline; b. ; KS (aged 12) 1693; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1697, adm. pens. 9 Jun 1697, scholar 6 May 1698; BA 1700/1; MA 1704; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. , 2 Oct 1703, Major Fellow 28 Apr 1704 - expelled 5 Apr 1708, having become involved with a married woman ; enlisted as volunteer in British Army in Flanders, and employed by Duke of Marlborough on diplomatic missions to various German courts; Lieut. , 5th Foot, 10 Nov 1713 (commission renewed, 1 Jun 1715); wrote for the London booksellers, chiefly under the name of Joseph Gay; travelling tutor to George, Viscount Malpas, on his Grand Tour in early 1720s, and subsequently tutor to John Crawley, in Italy in 1725; ridiculed Pope, who retaliated in the Dunciad; author, Remarks on several parts of Europe, 1723-8, and various poetical and dramatic works; d. in Paris Jan 1738/9. DNB.

BREWER, HARRIS HEAL, eldest son of Alfred Brewer, Watford, Herts., and Anne, dau. of John Harris Heal, Tottenham Court Road, London, furniture manufacturer; b. 12 Dec 1863; adm. 28 May 1875 (James'); left May 1881; adm. solicitor Feb 1887; m. 1 Sep 1887 Amy Elizabeth, younger dau. of Stephen Salter, Watford, Herts.; d. 22 Nov 1891.

BRICKENDEN, ALEXANDER; b.; adm.; QS; a pensioner 1564-7 (tutor, Prebendary Wiborne) (Chapter Muniments 54005-54015).

Bridgeman-Williams, Hewitt, son of R. A. Bridgeman-Williams of Harrow, and Rose Agnes, d. of Hewitt Bridgeman of Yokohama, Japan; b. 11 Sept. 1910; adm. Sept. 1924 (H); left Dec. 1925; a dental surgeon, LDS 1938; practised in London; hon. consult. surgeon Queen Victoria Hosp.; m. 23 Apr. 1943 Sylvia Muriel, d. of Bertie Gough of Charlton Adam, Somerset; d. 15 June 1978.

BRIDGES, BROOK EDWARD, fifth son of Sir Brook Bridges, Bart., MP, Goodnestone Park, Kent, and Fanny, dau. of Edmond Fowler, Graces, Essex; b. 7 Sep 1779; adm. 7 Oct 1790; KS 1793; Emmanuel Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 6 Jul 1797, matr. Mich. 1797; BA 1801; MA 1805; ordained deacon 1802, priest 1803 (both lit. dim. from Canterbury); Perpetual Curate of Goodnestone, Kent, 27 Apr 1804-14, again 1816; Rector of Orlingbury, Northants., 24 Apr 1805-7; Rector of Bonnington, Kent, from 18 Jun 1807; Prebendary of Lichfield, 13 Apr 1810; Vicar of Lenham, Kent, from 2 Aug 1810; Perpetual Curate of Wingham, Kent, from 15 May 1817; m. 22 Nov 1809 Harriet, second dau. of John Foote, Lombard Street, London, banker; d. 23 Apr 1825.