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Vanneck, Arthur Louis, brother of Richard Grant Vanneck (q.v.); b. June 16, 1900; adm. Jan. 16, 1913 (G); left July 1918; Air-Mechanic R.A.F. June 26, 1918, Photographic Section; demob. Jan. 1919; a telephone equipment engineer on the staff of the General Electric Co.; A.M.I.E.E. 1946; m. Dec. 12, 1929, Nancye Helen, daughter of Walter Ross-Reynolds, of Hobart, Tasmania; d. April 6, 1950.

Van Straubenzee, Sir William Radcliffe, son of Brig. Arthur Bowen van Straubenzee DSO MC RA, and Margaret Joan, d. of Alexander Nelson Radcliffe of Bag Park, Widecombe-in-the­Moor, Devon; b. 27 Jan. 1924; adm. Sept. 1937 (G); left July 1942; RA 1939-45 (Maj. DAA and QMG Far East); adm. solicitor Mar. 1952, practised in London; chmn. Young Conservatives 1951-3; hon. sec. Westminster Boys’ Club 1952-65, chmn. 1965-8; MBE 1954; contested (Cons. ) Clapham 1955; MP (Cons. ) Wokingham 1959-87; PPS to Min. of Education 1960-2; Parliamentary under-sec. State, Ministry of Education and Science 1970-2; Minister of State, Northern Ireland 1972-4; knighted 1981; member, House of Laity, Church Assembly, Church of England 1965-70, General Synod 1975-87; a Church commissioner 1968-87, Second Church Estates Commissioner 1979-87; d. 2 Nov. 1999.

Valentine, Walter Jacob; b. April 17, 1904; adm. Jan. 17, 1918 (G); left Easter 1920.

Usher, Philip Charles Alexander, son of Thomas Charles Usher, of Melksham, Wilts, by Constance Emma, daughter of Alexander Bell, of Highbury, London; b. March 18, 1899; adm. Sept. 26, 1912 (G); elected to Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1917, matric. Trin. 1919; B.A. 1922; M.A. 1925; 2nd Lieut. R.G.A. (S.R.) Feb. 25, 1918; served at Salonika 1918-9; ordained 1923; Domestic Chaplain to the Bishop of Gloucester 1923-4; Chaplain of the Collegiate Church of St. George the Martyr, Jerusalem, 1924-5, of H.M. Legation at Athens 1926-30; domestic Chaplain to the Bishop of Gloucester 1930-7; Warden of Liddon House, London, 1937; Sqdn.-Ldr. (Chaplain) R.A.F.V.R. Nov. 12, 1940; d. on active service at Jerusalem June, 1941.

Philip Charles Alexander Usher was born at Trowbridge, Wiltshire on the 18th of March 1899 the only son of Thomas Charles Usher, of the Wiltshire Brewery, and Constance Emma (nee Bell) Usher “Sunny Croft”, Trowbridge, later of Seend Green House, Seend, Melksham in Wiltshire. He was christened in Wiltshire on the 25th of May 1899. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Grant’s from the 26th of September 1912 to July 1917. He was a member of the Debating Society from 1916 and was appointed as a Monitor in January 1917. He had won a place at Christ Church, Oxford but deferred it, instead he attended an Officer Cadet Unit before being commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Garrison Artillery on the 25th of February 1918. He served overseas and relinquished his commission on the 1st of April 1920.
He matriculated for Christ Church, Oxford on a MAM Scholarship in 1919 and was awarded a BA in 1922. He was ordained in 1923, was appointed as Assistant Curate of All Saints Church, Gloucester and also served as Domestic Chaplain to the Bishop of Gloucester at the same time. He was awarded a MA in 1925. He was appointed as the Chaplain to St George’s Cathedral, Jerusalem in 1924 and, from 1928 to 1930, he served as Chaplain to HM Legation in Athens where he ministered to the British Community there. He was fluent in Greek and could converse with people of: - “every class, occupation and type of culture”. He became a great student of Greek life, its language and of the Greek Orthodox Church.
He invalided home to England in 1930 where, on his recovery, he once again became Domestic Chaplain to the Bishop of Gloucester. He chaired the Committee on Relations with Episcopal Churches and was appointed as an Honorary Secretary to the Council on Foreign Relations in 1932. A short time later he was appointed as Warden of Liddon House, where Orthodox clergy would stay while in London, from where he led large Anglican delegations abroad including to Romania in 1935 and to Bulgaria in 1940. He served as the Editor of the “Church Quarterly Review” for nine years. In 1937, he was appointed as the Chaplain of Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley Street.
After war broke out in 1939 he worked for the Interior Ministry as an advisor on the Eastern regions. However, having become - “increasingly dissatisfied with staying at home', he joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve where he had hoped to serve in Greece. He was commissioned as a Squadron Leader in the Chaplains Branch of the Royal Air Force Reserve on the 12th of November 1940 and was posted to Palestine.
He died from a cerebral haemorrhage in a hospital at Jerusalem.
A memorial communion service was held in his memory at the Grosvenor Chapel at 11am on the 13th of June 1941. The Philip Usher Memorial Fund was established in his memory to - “Give others an opportunity of living in an Orthodox country in order to absorb its ideological atmosphere”.
He is commemorated on the war memorial at Christ Church, Oxford.
He is buried at Ramleh War Cemetery Row P, Grave 1.

UNIACKE-PENROSE-FITZGERALD, SIR ROBERT UNIACKE, BART., eldest son of Robert Uniacke Penrose-Fitzgerald (formerly Penrose), Corkbeg Island, co. Cork, Ireland, and Frances Mary, dau. of Rev. Robert Austin LLD, Prebendary of Cloyne; b. 10 Jul 1839; adm. 26 May 1853 (G); Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm. pens. 30 Jan 1859, matr. Lent 1859; won the University Pairs with James Penrose Ingham (qv) 1860; rowed v. Oxford 1861, 1862; LLB 1863; LLM 1872; travelled in India and Tibet 1863-7; MP (Conservative) Cambridge 1885-1906; assumed additional surname of Uniacke 26 Jun 1896; created baronet 4 Aug 1896; President, Yacht Racing Association; of Corkbeg Island, co. Cork; DL JP co. Cork; Busby Trustee 25 May 1889; m. 13 Sep 1867 Jane Emily, eldest dau. of Gen. Sir William John Codrington GCB; d. 10 Jul 1919.

UNDERWOOD, CHARLES CRADDOCK, eldest son of Charles Underwood, Gloucester Place, Portman Square, London, solicitor, and Sarah Lansdown, dau. of John Whittle, Bristol; b. 27 Apr 1856; adm. 22 Jan 1869 (G); left Aug 1871; adm. solicitor Jul 1878; practised in London; m. 1st, 28 Aug 1879 Katharine Anne, eldest dau. of Edmund Plane Middleton, Hindringham, Norfolk, landowner; m. 2nd, 16 Jul 1930 Clara Maria, widow of Herbert Edward Wells, and dau. of Christian Gjertsen, Porsgrund, Norway; d. 30 Aug 1930.

TYSSEN, WILLIAM HOUGHAM, brother of Charles Tyssen (qv); b. 3 Jan 1817; adm. 19 Jan 1827 (G); Ensign, 80th Foot 30 Jan 1835; Lieut., 23 Jun 1838; Capt., 86th Foot 27 Mar 1840; retd. 28 Jul 1843; d. unm. at St. Francis Bay, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa 28 Sep 1847.

TYSSEN, HENRY, brother of Charles Tyssen (qv); bapt. 13 Dec 1814; adm. 26 Jan 1826 (G); emigrated to Australia; practised as solicitor at Geelong, Victoria, from Nov 1840; d. unm. at Geelong 6 Mar 1842.

TYSSEN, CHARLES, eldest son of Samuel Tyssen, Narborough Hall, Norfolk, and Sophia, youngest dau. of John Baker, Deal, Kent; b. 5 Mar 1810; adm. 31 Jan 1823 (G); Ensign, 49th Foot 8 Apr 1826; Lieut., 75th Foot 17 Jan 1828; Capt., 15 Jun 1832; ret. 17 Feb 1837; of Weyhill, Hampshire; d. unm. 1 Dec 1863.

TYRWHITT-DRAKE, EDWARD, third son of Thomas Tyrwhitt-Drake (at school under Vincent, qv); b. 16 May 1832; adm. 1 Jul 1846 (G); left Whitsun 1849; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 11 Oct 1849, matr. Mich. 1850; migrated to Magdalene Coll. 15 Oct 1851; BA 1854; MA 1857; played cricket for Cambridge Univ. 1852-4, Gentlemen v. Players 1854-9, 1864; the best amateur lob bowler of his day, and a slashing hitter; ordained deacon 1860, priest 1861 (both Oxford); Curate, Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks., 1860-3; Rector of Amersham with Coleshill, Bucks., from 1863; JP Buckinghamshire 1865; a very successful steeplechase rider, under the name of “Mr. Ekard”, and a keen follower of the Old Berkeley Hunt; d. 20 Jun 1904.