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SMYTHE, WILLIAM, brother of George Smythe (qv); b. 23 Jan 1803; adm. 23 Sep 1816 (Packharness'); KS 1817; Capt. of the School 1821; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1822, matr. 18 May 1822, Westminster Student; 1st cl. Classics 1825; BA 1826; MA 1828; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 24 Nov 1825, called to bar 27 Nov 1829; adm. advocate 18 Dec 1835; Secretary to Board of Supervision, Scotland 1845-52 [check]; served on several Royal Commissions; of Methven Castle, Perthshire (inherited from half-brother in 1847); DL JP Perthshire, also for more than thirty years Convener of Perthshire; m. 1st, 9 Aug 1838 Margaret, eldest dau. of James Walker FRS, Great George Street, Westminster, civil engineer, President Institution of Civil Engineers; m. 2nd, 20 Feb 1849 Emily, dau. of Gen. Sir John Oswald GCB, Dunnikier, Fifeshire; d. 17 Sep 1892.

SNELL, RICHARD HUGH, brother of William Frederick Snell (qv); b. 6 Apr 1812; adm. 17 Jan 1825 (Stikeman's); KS 1826; left 1829; at Haileybury Coll. 1829-30; Writer, EICS Bengal 1831; Assistant Revenue Officer, Benares 1832; Assistant to Magistrate and Collector, Benares 1833, Twenty-Four Parganas 1837-40; Secretary to Government Savings Bank 1842; First Assistant to Accountant-Gen.; Assistant to Collector of Customs, Calcutta 1852; Superintendent of Stamps and Stationery 1853; retd. 1 May 1860; m. 26 Sep 1832 Letitia Knox, widow of John Shum, EICS Bengal, Assistant to Collector of Customs, Patna; d. 7 Dec 1899.

SOMERSET, RAGLAN GEORGE HENRY, brother of Granville Robert Henry Somerset (qv); b. 17 Dec 1831; adm. 19 Apr 1843 (G); QS 1845; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1849, matr. 31 May 1849, Westminster Student 1849-67; BA 1853; MA 1856; Clerk, Audit Office 1853-4; Junior Clerk, Treasury Mar 1854 – Jul 1856, Third Class Clerk Jul 1856 - Apr 1857; a Gentleman Usher Quarterly Waiter to Queen Victoria 19 Mar 1873 – Jan 1901; d. 2 Sep 1924.

SOUTHBY, PHILIP, second son of Richard Worlledge Southby, Bampton, Oxfordshire; b. 3 Jan 1843; adm. 24 Jan 1856 (G); left Whitsun 1861 (with Dean Thomas); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 22 May 1861; BA 1865; MA 1868; adm. Middle Temple 1 May 1863, called to bar 17 Nov 1866; Oxford Circuit; of Bampton, Oxfordshire; JP Oxfordshire 1872; [unm. in 1881]; d. 2 Jan 1908.

SPENCE, LANCELOT MOLYNEUX DALRYMPLE, brother of Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones (qv); b. 14 Sep 1837; adm. from King’s Coll. Sch. 10 Jun 1852 (James'); QS 1853; left Aug 1855; Clerk, Board of Trade, from Nov 1855; d. 4 Jul 1865.

SPENCE-JONES, HENRY DONALD MAURICE, eldest son of George Spence QC MP, Pall Mall, London, barrister, and Caroline --- (IGI); b. 14 Jan 1836; adm. from King’s Coll. Sch. 30 May 1850 (Rigaud's); BB 6 Mar 1852; QS 18 May 1852; left 1854; entered Civil Service; Private Secretary to Sir Douglas Galton, Railway Secretary to Board of Trade; Corpus Christi Coll. Cambridge, matr. Mich. 1861; 1st cl. Theology 1865, 1866; BA 1865; MA 1868; DD 1887; ordained deacon 1865, priest 1866 (both St. Davids); Prof. of English Literature and Hebrew lecturer, St. David’s Coll., Lampeter 1865-70; Rector of St. Mary le Crypt, Gloucester 1870-7; Principal, Gloucester Theological Coll., 1875-7; Hon. Canon, Gloucester 1875-86; Vicar of St. Pancras, London 25 Sep 1877-86; Dean of Gloucester from 18 Dec 1886; Select Preacher, Cambridge 1883, 1887, 1901, 1905, Oxford 1892, 1893; Professor of Ancient History, Royal Academy, from 1905; assumed additional surname of Jones 1904; JP Cardiganshire; joint editor, Pulpit Commentary, 48 vols, 1880-94; author, Early Christianity and Paganism, 1902, and various other works; m. 11 Apr 1871 Louise Madeline Maria, younger dau. of David Jones MP, Pantglas, Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire; d. 2 Nov 1917.

SPRAT, THOMAS, only surviving son of Right Rev. Thomas Sprat DD, Bishop of Rochester and Dean of Westminster, and Helen, eldest dau. of Devereux Wolseley, Ravenstone, Staffs.; b. 5 Apr 1679; adm.; KS (Capt. ) 1692; Capt. of the School 1696; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1697, matr. 10 Jul 1697, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1697 – void 1707; BA 1701; MA 1704 (incorp. Cambridge 1715); adm. Middle Temple 13 Jun 1700; ordained; Prebendary and Archdeacon of Rochester from 4 Dec 1704; Vicar of Boxley, Kent, from 1704/5; Rector of Stone, Kent, from 1707; Prebendary of Winchester from 18 Nov 1712, and of Westminster from 29 Sep 1713; Chaplain in Ordinary to George I (Chamberlayne 1716); FRS 20 Mar 1711/2; Busby Trustee 19 Feb 1710/1; m. 9 Apr 1716 Frances, fourth dau. of John Horden (qv); d. 10 May 1720. Buried Westminster Abbey, monument in St. Nicholas’s Chapel.

ST. JOHN, AMBROSE, second son of Henry St. John, and Catherine, dau. of Rev. Henry Wigley, Pensham House, Worcs.; nephew of St. Andrew St. John (qv); b. 29 Jun 1815; adm. 13 Jan 1829 (Scott's); KS 1830; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1834, matr. 15 May 1834, Westminster Student; BA 1838; MA 1840; ordained deacon (Oxford) 20 Dec 1840, priest (Canterbury) 22 May 1842; Curate, Walmer, Kent 1840-5; received into Roman Catholic Church Oct 1845; accompanied J. H. Newman to Rome 1846, where they joined the Oratorians and were ordained RC priests 1847; one of original Oratorian community which Newman established at Maryvale Jan 1848 and which moved to Hagley Road, Edgbaston 1852; volunteered with Newman to assist the Catholic priests at Bilston during cholera epidemic 1849; Head Master, Oratory School, Edgbaston, from 1862; went on mission to Rome 1867 about the Oratory School and the proposed Oratory at Oxford; broke down from overwork while translating Fessler’s book True and False Infallibility; called in Rome Newman’s “Angel Guardian”, and, “certainly”, Newman wrote, “he has been to me Azarias, the son of Ananias” (Ward, Life of J. H. Newman, 1912, ii, 410, 412); his name is singled out in the concluding paragraphs of the Apologia; d. 24 May 1875. Buried Rednal, Shropshire, where Newman was later buried in the same grave.

STEDMAN, JOHN, only son of John Stedman, Chester [presumably adm. 1800, qv]; b. 20 Jul 1817; adm. 18 Jan 1831 (Stikeman's); KS 1831; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1835, adm. pens. 27 Jun 1835, scholar 1836; adm, . Lincoln’s Inn 10 Jun 1835, called to bar 15 Jun 1840; equity draftsman and conveyancer; signed Play Protest 1847 as “John Stedman, jun. ”; d. 4 May 1872.

SUTHERLAND, ALEXANDER JOHN, eldest son of Alexander Robert Sutherland (qv), and his first wife; b. 7 Apr 1811; adm. 14 Sep 1818; KS 1825; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1829, matr. 2 Jun 1829, Westminster Student; BA 1833; MA 1835; MB 1836; MD 1838; St. George’s Hospital; MRCP 1840; FRCP 1847; succeeded father as Physician, St. Luke’s Hospital, Old Street; FRS 18 Jun 1846; m. Alison Johanna, dau. of John Wilson Carmichael (IGI); d. 31 Jan 1867.