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Ahrens, Theodore Emil Joseph, son of J. Ahrens, of Bayswater; b. April 26, 1898; adm. April 26, 1912 (H); left Easter 1913.

AIKENHEAD, JOHN LAWRENCE, only son of William Aikenhead, St. Thomas in the Vale, Jamaica; b.; adm. (aged 10) Jun 1745; left 1752; Trinity Coll. Oxford, matr. 14 May 1752, aged 17; BCL 1759; DCL 8 Jul 1773; adm. Middle Temple 8 May 1752, called to bar 24 Nov 1758; d. 1780 (will proved PCC 30 Mar 1780, as of Grosvenor Place]

Aikman, Anthony Robert, son of William Robert Aikman, member of Lloyds, and Marjorie Roberta Amanda, d. of Hugh Fraser Macmillan, curator Roy. Botanical Gardens, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka; b. 3 Feb. 1942; adm. Sept. 1958 (L); left July 1959; Univ. Coll. of North Wales, Bangor, 1959-62, BA (forestry); career incl. working as a forestry officer, teaching and writing in Rome and Venice 1967-70, screenwriting in Hollywood 1970-2, running an Outward Bound Sch. in Italy, the Melanesian mission to the Solomon Is. 1975, exploring in S. America and the Far East; author of The Caves of Segada 1985, Eye of Itza 1986, Brokers of Doom 1987, Treehouses 1988, The Farang 1992, The Black Swan 1999, Boy, Doc, and the Green Man: also The Fire-Eater: a short story 2000; d. 8 July 2011.

AINSLIE, SIR PHILIP, eldest son of George Ainslie, Bordeaux, France, merchant, and Jane, dau. of Sir Philip Anstruther, Bart., Anstrutherfield, Fife; b.; adm. (aged 13) Sep 1742 (Hawkins'); subsequently boarded with a Ms Douglas; left 1745; Adjt. and Sub-Lieut., 2nd Troop Horse Grenadier Guards 23 Mar 1754; Guidon and Capt. 7 Feb 1759; Lieut. and Capt. 17 Jan 1763; Maj. 24 Jun 1768; Brevet Lieut. -Col. 11 Sep 1775; Lieut. -Col., 4th Horse (Ireland) 12 Dec 1777, still 1781; knighted 25 Feb 1778; of Pilton, Midlothian; m. 1771 Hon. Elizabeth Gray, dau. of John, 11th Baron Gray (S); d. 19 May 1802.

Ainsworth-Davis, John Creyghton, son of Professor James Richard Ainsworth-Davis, sometime Principal of the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, Gloucs., by Jessie, daughter of James Coutts, of Edinburgh; b. April 23, 1895; adm. Jan. 14, 1909 (H); left (with Triplett) July 1914; Christ's Coll. Camb., exhibitioner, matric. Michaelmas 1914; ran second in the hundred yards and in the quarter-mile at the Special Camb. Univ. Sports in May 1919; ran against Oxford in the quarter-mile in 1920; ran for England in the Olympic Games 1920; Gold Medal for 4 x 400 metres relay; B.A. 1920; St. Bartholomew's Hospital; M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., 1923; M.A., B. Ch. 1924; M.B. 1925; F.R.C.S. (Edin.) 1926; F.R.C.S. 1929; M. D. 1933; a consulting urological surgeon practising in London; sometime president of the Hunterian Society; author of Essentials of Urology (1952); 2nd Lieut. 4th Batt. Rifle Brigade Dec. 16, 1914, attached to 6th Batt.; Capt.; Royal Flying Corps; served 1914-19 in France, Salonika, Egypt and Palestine and was taken prisoner; Sqdn. Ldr. (Medical) R.A.F.V.R., Sept. 18, 1939; Wing-Cdr. Sept. 1, 1941; in charge of surgical division of a R.A.F. hospital 1939-45; m. rst 1920; wd 1947, Irene, daughter of Alfred Hope, of Wolverhampton.

Airy, Alan Guy, brother of Ronald William Airy (qv); b. 18 July 1914; adm. May 1928 (H); left July 1932; Wye Agric. Coll.; a nurseryman; RA 1939-45 (Capt.), despatches (NW Europe) 4 Apr. 1946; emigrated to New Zealand 1961; m. 30 Mar. 1964 Margaret Brenda, d. of Albert Birkby; d. Jan. 2001.

Airy, Reginald, second son of the Rev. Basil Reginald Airy, Vicar of St. John's, Torquay, Devon, by Emma, daughter of Shepley Watson, of York; b. May 15, 1877; adm. as Q.S. Sept. 24, 1891; elected to Trin. Coll. Camb. (with Junior Sarnwaies and Triplett) 1896 (adm. sub­ sizar Oct. 1, 1896); B.A. 1899; M.A. 1911; assist. master Bristol Grammar School 1903; Bede Collegiate School, Sunderland, 1905-9, and City of London School 1909-11; head master of County School, Bromley, Kent, 1911-26; author of Westminster in Bell's Series of Handbooks to the Great Public Schools (1902); m. April 18, 1906, Winifrid Edgcumbe, daughter of Henry Edgcumbe Eliot, of Paignton, Devon; d. 1952.