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BERESFORD, MARCUS, eldest son of Most Rev. William Beresford (afterwards 1st Baron Decies (I)), Archbishop of Tuam, and Elizabeth, second dau. of John Fitzgibbon, barrister, Mount Shannon, Co. Limerick, and sister of John Fitzgibbon, 1st Earl of Clare PC (I), Lord Chancellor of Ireland; b. 1 Jun 1764; adm. 13 Jan 1777; left 1779; Trinity Coll. Dublin, adm. fellow commoner 7 Nov 1780, aged 16; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 14 Apr 1785; Ensign, 9th Foot, 26 Oct 1786; Lieut., 30 Jun 1787; Capt., 27th Foot, 30 Nov 1789; Maj., 102nd Foot, 31 Oct 1793; Lieut. -Col., 135th Foot, 26 Nov 1794; half-pay 1798-1803; Brevet Col. 1 Jan 1801; local rank of Brig. -Gen. in Windward, Leeward and Caribbean Islands, 27 Jun 1802; MP (I) St. Canice 1790 - Jan 1794, Swords 1798; d. unm. at Barbados, West Indies, 1803.

BERESFORD, MARCUS, eldest son of Right Hon. John Beresford PC (I) MP (I), First Commissioner of Irish Revenue Board, and his first wife Anne Constantia Ligondes, grand-dau. of Comte de Ligondes, Gen. in the French Army; b. 14 Feb 1764; adm. 13 Feb 1778; left 1780; Trinity Coll. Dublin, adm. fellow commoner 13 Oct 1781, aged 17; BA 1784; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 19 Oct 1779; called to Irish bar, King’s Inns, Dublin, 1786; first Counsel to Commissioners of Irish Revenue; joint Taster of Wines with his father; MP (I) Dungarvan from 1783; of Abbeville, co. Dublin; m. 25 Feb 1791 Lady Frances Arabella Leeson, youngest dau. of Joseph Leeson, 1st Earl of Milltown (I); d. 16 Nov 1797.

BERTIE, LORD VERE, son of Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven PC, Lord Great Chamberlain, and his second wife Albinia, dau. of Maj. -Gen. William Farrington, Chislehurst, Kent; b.; adm. (aged 12) Jan 1723/4; in school list 1727/8; Ensign, 2nd Foot Guards, 19 Mar 1728/9; retd. 9 Jul 1737; MP Boston 1741-54; m. 4 Oct 1736 Anne Casey, Branston, Lincs., illegitimate dau. of Sir Cecil Wray, Bart. MP; d. 13 Sep 1768.

BINGHAM, RICHARD, 2ND EARL OF LUCAN (I), eldest son of Charles Bingham, 1st Earl of Lucan (I), and Margaret, dau. of James Smith MP, Black Torrington, Devon, and Common Leigh, Somerset; b. 4 Dec 1764; adm. 13 Jan 1777; left 1779; Ch. Ch. Oxford, matr. 11 Apr 1781; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 18 Nov 1784; MP St. Albans 1790 - Jun 1800; succ. father as 2nd Earl of Lucan (I) 29 Mar 1799; an Irish Representative Peer from 1801; m. 27 May 1794 Lady Elizabeth Belasyse, formerly wife of Bernard Howard (afterwards 12th Duke of Norfolk), and dau. of Henry Belasyse, 2nd Earl Fauconberg; d. 30 Jun 1839.

BLACKETT, SIR WALTER, BART., only son of Sir Walter Calverley, Bart., Calverley, Yorks., and Julia, eldest dau. of Sir William Blackett, Bart., MP, Wallington, Northumberland; b. 18 Dec 1707; adm. Oct. 1717; in under school list 1720; Balliol Coll. Oxford, matr. 28 Feb 1723/4; his marriage brought him the Wallington estate, together with the business and coal trade interests of the Blackett family; Alderman, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1729, Mayor 1735, 1748, 1756, 1764, 1771; High Sheriff, Northumberland, 1731; assumed surname of Blackett 1733; MP Newcastle upon Tyne from 1734; succ. father as 2nd baronet 15 Oct 1749; m. 29 Sep 1729 Elizabeth Orde, natural dau. of his uncle Sir William Blackett, Bart., MP; d. 14 Feb 1777.

BOOTH, ROBERT, son of Hon. and Very Rev. Robert Booth DD, Dean of Bristol, and his second wife Mary, sister of Charles Hales (qv); b.; adm.; QS (aged 15) 1712; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1716, matr. 8 Jun 1716, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1716 - 1 Jul 1729 (void); BA 1720; MA 1723; adm. Middle Temple 20 Jun 1716, called to bar 7 May 1725; MP Bodmin from 1727; d. 25 Jan 1732/3.

BOSANQUET, RICHARD GODFREY, second son of Jacob Bosanquet, Broxbourne Bury, Herts., Chairman East India Company, and Henrietta, widow of Thomas Grady, Harley Street, London, and second dau. of Sir George Armytage, Bart., MP; b. 29 Sep 1793; at school under Vincent (L. C. Meyer, Genealogy of the Family of Bosanquet, 1877); of Benham, Berks.; m. 26 Jun 1852 Grace Isabella, dau. of William Browne MP (I), Browne’s Hill, co. Carlow, and grand-daughter of John Toler, 1st Earl of Norbury (I) PC (I), Chief Justice of Common Pleas (I); d. 15 May 1875.

BRODRICK, LAURENCE, only surviving son of Rev. Laurence Brodrick DD, Rector of Mixbury, Oxfordshire, Chaplain to House of Commons and Prebendary of Westminster, and Anne Humphrys; bapt. 11 Oct 1715; adm.; in school list 1729; KS (aged 14) 1730; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1735, matr. 9 Jun 1735, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1735 - res 26 Mar 1746; BA 1739; MA 1742; adm. Middle Temple 26 Oct 1733; ordained; Rector of Callan, co. Kilkenny, 15 Jul 1745; Treasurer of Lismore, 16 Aug 1745-78; Vicar of Derragarth and Ballybeacon, 16 Aug 1745; Vicar of Tubrid; Rector of Stradbally, 1774; m. (settlement dated 21 Apr 1748) his cousin Jane, youngest dau. of Right Hon. St. John Brodrick PC (I) MP MP (I); d. Apr 1786.

BRODERICK, THOMAS; b.; adm. (aged 10) Jul 1718; left 1721. [Perhaps Thomas Brod (e)rick, son of William Brod (e)rick, Judge of King’s Bench, Ireland; Lieut. Royal Navy 11 Jan 1727; distinguished himself at Porto Bello in 1739, while serving under the command of Edward Vernon (qv); Cdr. 1741; Capt. 27 Mar 1741; also saw service on expeditions to Cartagena and Cuba; Rear Adm., 4 Jun 1756; member court martial on Adm. Byng Jan 1757; second-in-command, Mediterranean Fleet Jan 1758; rescued from sea after destruction of his flagship, HMS Prince George, by an accidental fire 13 Apr 1758; Vice-Adm., 14 Feb 1759; present at blockade of Toulon and action in Lagos Bay; commanded British fleet in blockade of Cadiz; MP Middleton (I) 1761-8; m. 29 May 1728 (IGI) Mary, dau. of Benjamin Robins; d. 1 Jan 1769. DNB (as THOMAS BRODRICK)].

BROOKE, PHILIP; b.; adm. (aged 11) Jun 1720; left 1721. [Perhaps Philip Brooke (or Broke), second son of Robert Brooke (or Broke), Nacton, Suffolk, and his second wife Elizabeth, dau. of Sir John Hewitt, Bart., Waresley, Hunts., bapt. Nacton, Suffolk 30 Sep 1708; Pembroke Coll. Cambridge, matr. 1726 [check exact date]; MP Ipswich 27 Jan 1730-4; of Broke Hall, Suffolk; m. 1st, 1 Feb 1732 Ann, dau. of Martin Bowes, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk; m. 2nd, Alice, widow of Sir John Barker, Bart., Sproughton, Suffolk, and dau. of Sir Comport Fytche, Bart., Eltham, Kent; d. 21 Sep 1762] [Perhaps “Brooks” in under school list 1721]