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SYMNS, ROBERT CORSER MONTFORT, eldest son of Rev. John Edward Symns, Headmaster, Bancroft’s School, Woodford, Essex, and Mary, second dau. of Robert Corser, Redhill, Surrey; b. 30 Sep 1867; at St. Paul’s Sch. 1878-9; adm. 16 Jun 1881; QS 1881; left Easter 1884; went to King’s Coll. Sch.; Balliol Coll. Oxford, matr. 16 Oct 1886; Indian Civil Service 1886; arrived in Burma 12 Dec 1888; Assistant Commissioner, Burma 1888; acting Under-Secretary and acting Deputy Commissioner Feb 1901; retd. Oct 1913; m. 3 Jan 1894 Mary Pauline, second dau. of William Jones, Tunbridge Wells, Kent; d. 6 Apr 1929.

Symmons, Robert Lawrence, son of Robert William Symmons, sen. PSO Min. of Supply, and Clarimonde Athalia, d. of William Edward Henry Anthony of Cardiff, Glamorgan; b. 26 June 1937; adm. Sept. 1950 (KS); left Dec. 1954; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1955; d. 7 July 1958.

SYMMONS, JOHN, elder son of Charles Symmons (qv); b. 1781; adm. 31 Oct 1794 (Clapham) (see also E. B. Impey, Memoirs of Sir Elijah Impey, 1846, 376); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 11 Apr 1799, aged 18, Canoneer Student; BA 1803; MA 1806; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 21 Jan 1801, called to bar 23 Nov 1807; Welsh Circuit; FRS (by 1831); FSA (by 1831); assisted his father in a revised version of his translation of Virgil, published 1820; his translation of Aeschylus’s Agamemnon, published 1824, was much praised; his intimate friend Henry Fynes-Clinton (qv) recorded that Symmons’s extraordinary faculties “qualified him to rise to the very first rank of critical scholars” (Literary Remains, 1854, 10); Dr. Parr also speaks of his “capacious and retentive memory” and of his “various and extensive learning”; d. probably 1842. DNB.

Symington, Ian William Andrew, son of Andrew Symington of Surbiton, Surrey, and Mabel Elizabeth, d. of Thomas Armstrong, sheep farmer, of Australia; b. 27 May 1911; adm. Apr. 1925 (R); left July 1929; Gordon Highlanders 1940-5 (Maj.), Croix de Guerre 1945; chairman and man. dir. Ghana Aluminium Products Ltd; retd 1970; m. 18 May 1940 Elsa Marion, d. of Ernest Markham Lee MusD, composer and author, of Effingham, Surrey; d. 13 Mar. 2002.

Symington, Alexander McLeod, son of A. Harry B. G. Symington, of Hampstead, by Beatrice, daughter of Ambrose Edward Goodwin, of Birkenhead, Cheshire; b. May 25, 1902; adm. as exhibitioner Sept. 23, 1915 (G); left April 1919; d. 1974.

Sylvester, Samuel Barry, son of Harry Sylvester and Iris Hilda, d. of Samuel Breckman; b. 26 Nov. 1933; adm. Sept. 1947 (A); left July 1950; adm. solicitor Nov. 1957; a showbusiness lawyer; m. 20 Apr. 1958 Francine Carole, d. of Alec Silvert, co. dir., of Hampstead; d. 8 March 2011.

Sykes, William Joseph Arnold, son of Joseph Charles Sykes of Beckenham, Kent, and Winifred, d. of Charles Henry Arnold of Beckenham; b. 1 Aug. 1907; adm. Sept. 1921 (A); left July 1924; King's Coll. Lond., GIMechE 1931, AMIMechE 1948; an electrical engineer Southern Rly 1930-48, BR Southern Region 1948, chief mech. and elec. engineer 1956; MiEE MIMechE 1964; OBE 1968; retd 1972; m. 25 Oct. 1941 Margaret Hember, d. of Thomas Spooner Lascelles of Sevenoaks, Kent; d. 1 Mar. 1986.

SYKES, ARTHUR ALKIN, eldest son of Rev. Thomas Burr Sikes, Rector of Warbleton, Sussex, and Frances Henrietta, eldest dau. of Thomas Turner Alkin, Mount Radford, Exeter; b. 1 Apr 1861; adm. 27 May 1875 (G); QS 1876; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1880 (with Triplett), adm. pens. 1 Jun 1880, mathematical exhibitioner, matr. 1880; BA 1884; MA 1919; assumed surname of Sykes in lieu of Sikes 1884; Assistant Master, St. John’s Sch., Leatherhead, Surrey 1885-7; Army and University coach from 1887; assistant editor, Henry Blackburn’s Art Handbooks 1891-1903; member, outside staff of Punch 1893; special correspondent; examiner, Civil Service Commission; Head of Statistical Branch, Central Control Board (Liquor Traffic) 1915-21; author, A Book of Words, 1895, and other works; m. 12 Oct 1897 Ada (“Nellie Ganthony”, humorous musical monologist), youngest dau. of Robert Davey Ganthony, Eton Terrace, Richmond, Surrey, artist; d. 15 Sep 1939.

Sydney-Turner, Saxon Arnoll, son of Alfred Moxon Sydney-Turner, F.R.C.S., of Hove, Sussex, by Mary Sophia, daughter of Ryves William Graves, of Gloucester; b. Oct. 28, 1880, adm. as Q.S. Sept. 28, 1893; elected head to Trin. Coll., Camb. (with Senior Samwaies) July 1899 (adm. pensr. June 25, 1899), matric. 1899; 1st class Classical Tripos (Div. 3), pt. i, 1901; Waddington Scholar 1902; 1st class Classical Tripos, pt. ii, 1903; B.A. 1903; a civil servant in the Estate Duty Office Oct. 1904-Dec. 1912, in the Treasury Jan. 1913; d. Nov. 4, 1962.

SYDNEY, THOMAS, natural son of Hon. Thomas Sydney, and Mrs. Hall; b. c. 1729 (bapt. St. Mary le Strand, London 20 Mar 1743 “aged 14 years or thereabouts”); adm. (aged 9) Feb 1738/9 (Stephens'); left 1744.