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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.

Airy, Ronald William, son of Eustace William Airy FCA and Elsie Catherine, d. of C. L. Grant; b. 31 Jan. 1911; adm. Sept. 1924 (H); left Apr. 1929; Guildhall Sch. of Music; a church organist and market gardener in Kent; RNVR 1942 (Lieut.), discharged with disability pension 1945; d. 21 Aug. 1968.

AISKEW, JOHN, son of Michael Aiskew, Westminster, Clerk Assistant, House of Commons, and Elizabeth Horsley (IGI); b.; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1728/9; in school list 1729 (as Askey); left 1729; Brasenose Coll. Oxford, matr. 27 Mar 1735/6; BA 1738; ordained deacon and priest (Winchester) Dec 1741; Rector of Blendworth, Hampshire, from 1741; Vicar of Catherington, Hampshire, from 1778; m. 19 Jul 1750 Elizabeth Pafford, Rowner, Hampshire; d. 1789 (will proved PCC 9 Dec 1789). [possibly Chaplain, Royal Navy 1777]

AISLABIE, WILLIAM, eldest son of Robert Aislabie, Rotherham, Yorks., solicitor, and Martha, dau. of Timothy Kiplin, Badsworth, Yorks.; b.; adm. (aged 9) May 1735; KS (aged 14) 1738; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1742, adm. pens. 9 Jul 1742, did not matr.; ordained; licensed to curacy of Borden and Halstow, Kent 1749/50; Chaplain Royal Navy 1758, HMS Winchester; d. unm. 2 Oct 1759.

AISLABIE, WILLIAM, eldest son of Rev. William Aislabie, Rector of Birkin, Yorks., and Anne Huton, Cotton, Woodchurch [check county]; b.; adm. (aged 9) Jun 1738 (Wynniate's); left 1743; d. unm. 18 Jan 1761.

Aitken, Andrew John, son of Major Alexander Pearsall Aitken TA, bank man., and Gwendolyn Margaret, d. of John Henry Hills, master printer; b. 27 Feb. 1954; adm. Sept. 1967 (W); left Dec. 1971; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1972, BA 1975; solicitor

Aitken, James Douglas, son of James Aitken, M.B., of Ilford, Essex, by Isabella Muir, daughter of David Gilmour, of Glasgow; b. Aug. 10, 1895; adm. Sept. 22, 1910 (H); left July 1913; 1st class diploma Royal School of Mines 1922; member of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy and of the Indian Institute of Mining Engineers; representative in Hyderabad of John Taylor and Sons and Superintendent of the Nizam's gold mines 1937-55; served in Gallipoli in Great War I; 2nd Lieut. 14th Batt. Middlesex Regt. Nov. 27, 1914; Lieut. Machine Gun Corps July 6, 1916; Capt. March 5, 1918; wounded in Gallipoli; m. March 5, 1927, Marjorie, daughter of Octavius Edward Lambert, of Lewisham; d. Oct. 28, 1955

Aitken, Sir John William Maxwell Bt, son of William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook PC, newspaper proprietor, and his first wife Gladys, d. of Brig.-Gen. Charles William Drury CB of Halifax, Nova Scotia; b. 15 Feb. 1910; adm. Jan. 1924 (R); left July 1928; Pemb. Coll. Camb., matric. 1928; played football for Cambridge 1930 and 1931; dir. Beaverbrook Newspapers Ltd, chairman 1964-77, pres. 1977; RAuxAF 1935, RAF 1939-45 (Group Capt.); DFC 1940, DSO 1942, Czech War Cross, despatches; fighter pilot during Battle of Britain, commanded night fighter squadron 1941-2, strike Mosquito wing Norwegian waters 1943; succ. father as 2nd Baronet 9 June 1964, but disclaimed succession to Barony; MP (C) Holborn 1945-50; dir. Assoc. TV Corpn and Price Bros Ltd; m. 1st 26 Aug. 1939 Cynthia, d. of Col. Hugh Glencairn Monteith OBE DSO RAMC; 2nd 15 Aug. 1946 Jane (formerly wife of Peter Lindsay), d. of Maj. Robert Orlando Rudolph Kenyon-Slaney, of Halton Grange, Shropshire; 3rd 1 Jan. 1951 Vio­let, d. of Sir Humphrey de Trafford, Bt; d. 30 Apr. 1985.

Aitken, Hon. Peter Rudyard, brother of Sir John William Maxwell Aitken (qv); b. 22 Mar. 1913; adm. Sept. 1925 (R); left Apr. 1930; Roy. Fusiliers 1940-2, Pioneer Corps 1942, Roy. Fusiliers Aug. 1942-5 (Capt.); m. 1st 25 Jan. 1934 Janet, d. of Murray Macneill, Prof. of Mathematics Dalhousie Univ., Halifax, NS; 2nd 1943 Marie Patricia, d. of Michael Maguire, of Melbourne, Australia; d. 3 Aug. 1947.