BERNERS, RALPH, brother of John Berners (qv); b. 8 Feb 1803; adm. 16 Sep 1816 (Packharness'); Trinity Coll. Oxford, matr. 12 Feb 1820; migr. to Magdalen Coll.; BA 1823; MA 1826; ordained; Rector of Harkstead, Suffolk, 1 Feb 1833; Rector of Erwarton and Woolverstone, Suffolk, 6 May 1834; m. 27 Jun 1831 Eliza, dau. of Gen. Sir Cornelius Cuyler, Bart.; d. at Nice 31 Jan 1858.
BERNERS, WILLIAM; b.; at school under Freind; Richard Wood (in under school lists 1715, 1716, qv) recounts in his “common place book” that in 1718 “while playing at tagg at Westminster on the garden walls Billy Berners and I mett, and tumbled off in each other’s arms, and [were] only bruised”. [Perhaps William Berners, son of William Berners, and Elizabeth ---, bapt. All Hallows, Staining, London 5 Jun 1707 (IGI), but see next]
Berners, William, ca. 1710-1783
BERNERS, WILLIAM, second son of William Berners, Moore’s Place, Much Hadham, Herts., by Elizabeth, dau. of Richard Raworth, All Hallows, Staining, London; b.; adm. (aged 12) Jan 1722/3; in under school list 1725; of Woolverstone Hall, Suffolk; m. 11 Jun 1732 Mary, dau. of Henry Bendysh, South Town, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, a great-granddaughter of Oliver Cromwell; d. 18 Sep 1783.
BERNERS, WILLIAM, eldest son of William Berners, banker, London, and Rachel Allen, dau. of John Jarrett, Freemantle, Hants.; grandson of Charles Berners (adm. 1746/7, qv); b.; adm. 20 Jul 1808; left 1810; Gentleman Cadet, R. A. 9 Jun 1812; 2nd Lieut., 16 Dec 1816; 1st Lieut., 29 Jul 1825; 2nd Capt., 10 Jan 1837; Capt., 18 May 1843; retd. on full pay 21 May 1845; Barrack Master at Croydon, Surrey; Brevet Maj., 28 Nov 1854; m. 25 Mar 1845 Elizabeth Jane, eldest dau. of Hon. Sir Charles Paget (qv); d. 10 May 1855.
BERNEY, ROBERT; b.; adm. 26 Sep 1770 (paid £2-2-0 at entrance); left 1776. [Perhaps Robert Berney, son of William Berney, bapt. St. John, Hackney 30 Nov 1760]
BERNIER, GEORGE; b.; adm. (aged 12) Nov 1744; left 1746.
BERNIER, JAMES; b.; adm. (aged 8) Jul 1743; left 1746. [Evidently James Bernier, son of Henry Bernier, and Elizabeth ---, bapt. St. George in the East, London 24 Dec 1734 (IGI); father probably Henry Bernier, Clerk, Annuity Office, Exchequer (Chamberlayne 1748)]
BERRY, ---; b.; at school 1656-7 (Busby’s Account Book : a boarder).
Berry, John; eldest son of Rev.John Berry, Nonconformist minister, formerly Rector of East Down, Devon ; b. Barnstaple, Devon c.1662 ; ed Barnstaple School ; Sidney Sussex Coll.Cambridge, matr.1680 ; BA 1683/4 ; MA 1687 ; ordained deacon 14 Jun 1685, priest 28 Feb 1685/6 (both Lincoln) ; Curate, Knebworth, Herts. ; Vicar of Watton, Norfolk, from 26 Aug 1691 (also Rector of Griston, Norfolk 9 Nov 1694- Sep 1699, Threxton, Norfolk 1698) ; he and his wife are said to have “boarded young gentlemen belonging to the school [Westminster School]” (A.Clarke, Memoirs of the Wesley family, 1823, 458), and it is suggested that this is how his daughter and her future husband became acquainted ; m. 21 Sep 1691 Ursula, dau. of Rev.Samuel Bentham, Rector of Knebworth, Herts., and half-sister of Rev.Samuel Bentham, Minor Canon of Westminster ; buried 28 Sep 1730. Father-in-law of Samuel Wesley (qv), Usher. [But note that the statement by Adam Clarke in his book of 1823 seems to be the only evidence that Berry and his wife conducted a boarding house for Westminster pupils, and a complication is that they would been doing this while Berry was also a Church of England clergyman in Norfolk]