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RANDOLPH, JOHN JAMES, son of Thomass Randolph (KS 1801, qv); b. 8 Nov 1816; adm. 16 Jan 1828 (Stelfox's); KS (Capt. ) 1829; Capt. of the School 1832; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1834, matr. 15 May 1834, Westminster Student; Chancellor’s Prize for Latin Verse 1837; 1st cl. Classics and 2nd cl. Mathematics 1837; BA 1838; MA 1841; Fellow, Merton Coll. 1840, Tutor and Dean 1841, Bursar 1842, Sub-Warden 1846; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 19 Apr 1838, called to bar 7 Jun 1844; d. 6 Jul 1899.

RANDOLPH, JOHN, eldest son of John Honywood Randolph (qv); b. 15 May 1821; adm. 10 Apr 1833 (Stelfox's); KS 1835; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1839, adm. pens. 24 May 1839, but went to Brasenose Coll. Oxford, matr. 13 Jun 1839; played cricket for Oxford v. Cambridge 1843; BA 1843; MA 1847; ordained deacon 1845, priest 1846 (both Chichester); Curate, Bradwell, Bucks., 1850-66; Rector of Sanderstead, Surrey, from 1866; played cricket for Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and MCC, and Auditor, MCC 1875-81; m. 29 Apr 1851 Harriet, youngest dau. of John Thomas Bell, Gloucester Place, Hyde Park, London; d. 11 Jul 1881.

REID, GEORGE, son of George Reid, Watlington Hall, Norfolk, and Louisa, sister of Sir Herbert Oakeley, Bart. (qv); b. 29 Apr 1808; adm. 17 Jan 1821 (Stelfox's); left 1823; Cadet, EICS Bengal 1824; Cornet, 1st Light Cavalry 28 Sep 1825; Lieut., 7 Dec 1827; Brevet Capt., 28 Sep 1840; Superintendent, Mysore Princes at Calcutta 3 Jul 1845; served in First Afghan War and Gwalior campaign; d. at Calcutta 16 Oct 1845.

RICHARDS, ALFRED BATE, eldest son of John Richards MP, Wassell Grove, Hagley, Worcs., and Frances Smith; b. 17 Feb 1820; at Charterhouse Sch. 1829-30; adm. 18 Jan 1831 (Stelfox's); at Harrow Sch. 1832; Exeter Coll. Oxford, matr. 19 Oct 1837; BA 1841; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 16 May 1839, called to bar 20 Nov 1845; author of an anonymous pamphlet, Oxford Unmasked, 1841, which rapidly passed through five editions; edited The British Army Despatch 1848-50, and The Mirror of the Time, a weekly founded 3 Aug 1850 which only lasted a year; one of chief promoters of volunteer movement of 1859 and became Col., 3rd City of London Rifle Corps; editor, The Morning Advertizer, from 1870; author of a number of plays and poems, and of the novel So Very Human, 1871; m. 15 Feb 1849 Emma Camilla Angela Maria, only dau. of Camillo Gaggiotti, Minister of War at Rome; d. 12 Jun 1876. DNB.

RICKMAN, WILLIAM CHARLES, only son of John Rickman, Clerk Assistant, House of Commons, and Susanna, dau. of Joseph Postlethwaite, Harting, Sussex; b. 12 Jan 1812; adm. 4 Jul 1825 (Stelfox's); left Dec 1828; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 21 Oct 1829; BA 1835; civil engineer; living Empshott, Hampshire, in 1881, income from land and dividends (1881 Census); m. (by 1881) Isabella ---; killed in a carriage accident at Empshott, Hampshire 21 Jun 1886.

ROBINSON, JOHN ELLIL, brother of Francis Robinson (qv); b. 11 Sep 1807; adm. 17 Sep 1819 (Stelfox's); KS 1821; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1825, but went to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 21 May 1825; BA 1829; MA 1832; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 12 Mar 1829; ordained deacon 1832, priest 2 Jun 1833 (both Oxford); Curate, Kirtlington, Oxfordshire 1832-4, Bicester, Oxfordshire 1834-5, Charlton on Otmoor, Oxfordshire 1835-7; Vicar of Chieveley, Berks., 13 May 1837-82; m. 16 Jul 1834 Maria, third dau. of Rev. Edward Rowden, Vicar of Highworth, Wilts.; d. 17 Jul 1899.

ROE, WILLIAM DERING ADAIR, son of William Thomas Roe (qv); b. 1 Feb 1816; adm. 19 Nov 1827 (Stelfox's); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 15 May 1834; Ensign, 15th Foot 21 Oct 1836; d. from injuries received during a fire which destroyed the barracks at Chambly, Canada 19 Oct 1838.

ROWLEY, HENRY JOSHUA, son of Rev. Joshua Rowley, Rector of East Bergholt, Suffolk, and Mary, dau. of Henry Scurfield, The Mote, Pembrokeshire; b. 20 Dec 1806; adm. 17 Jan 1820 (Stelfox); d. from effects of falling from a window of Mrs. Stelfox’s boarding house in Dean’s Yard 10 Apr 1821 (inquest in Times 11 Apr 1821).

SHAW, SAMUEL, brother of Charles James Shaw (qv); b. 6 May 1815; adm. 14 Jun 1827 (Stelfox's); Cadet, EICS Madras 1836; Ensign, unattached, 28 Feb 1836; 16th Native Infantry 29 Nov 1836; Lieut., 8 Oct 1839; Capt., 4 Oct 1847; m. 23 Jan 1844 Kate, dau. of Col. --- Archer, Indian Army [perhaps David Archer, Madras Native Infantry]; d. at Bangalore, India 28 Jun 1848.

SMITH, HENRY, son of Samuel Smith (adm. 1772, qv); b. 9 Apr 1819; adm. 21 Jun 1832 (Stelfox); KS 1833; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1837, matr. 5 May 1837, Westminster Student; BA 1841; MA 1843; ordained deacon 22 May 1842, priest 1843 (both Oxford); Vicar of Butlers Marston, Warwicks. , 1844-6; Vicar of Easton Maudit, Northants 1847-74; m. 1st, 2 Sep 1847 Frances Bell, eldest dau. of Rev. William Macbean, Rector of St. Peter Tavy, Devon; m. 2nd, 4 Jun 1861 Eliza Catherine, eldest dau. of Col. Forbes Macbean, Royal Artlllery, Kirkleatham, Yorks. ; m. 3rd, 17 May 1894 Fanny, eldest dau. of Rev. Daniel Brent DD, Vicar of Grendon, Northants; d. 31 Mar 1904.