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POPE, EDWARD, son of Ebenezer Pope, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, and Anna Maria, dau. of Thomas Eves, Clifford, Herefs.; bapt. St. Clement Danes 15 Feb 1794; in school lists 1801; KS (aged 14) 1808; left Christmas 1811; Brasenose Coll. Oxford, matr. 8 Apr 1812; migrated to Queen’s Coll., exhibitioner 1815-6, scholar 1816-20; BA 1816; MA 1819; BD and DD 1836; Fellow, Queen’s Coll. 1820-7; ordained; Archdeacon of Jamaica; m. 1st, 10 Jun 1825 Augusta, sister of Charles Richard Bigge (qv); m. 2nd, [?] Mary Jane, dau. of John Campbell, Jamaica; d. Feb 1855.

RICKETTS, SIR GEORGE WILLIAM, fourth son of George Crawford Ricketts, Ashford Hall, Ludlow, Shropshire, and Combe, Herefs., barrister, Attorney-Gen., Jamaica, and Frances, dau. of Nicholas Bourke, Speaker, Legislative Assembly, Jamaica; b. 21 Dec 1790 (IGI); adm. 16 Oct 1800; left by May 1803; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 26 Jan 1809, aged 18; adm. Middle Temple 3 Nov 1807, called to bar 27 Nov 1818; Judge of High Court, Madras, from 1825; knighted 23 Mar 1825; d. unm. 15 Jul 1831.

THOMSON, SAMUEL WELLS, son of David Thomson, Hanover, Jamaica, “doctor” [probably medical practitioner]; b.; adm.; at school 1791; in school list 1795; Min. Can. 1796; KS 1797; probably Thomson who played cricket v. Eton on Hounslow Heath 25 Jul 1796 and at Lord’s 8 Aug 1799; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1800, matr. 12 Jun 1800, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1800 - void 11 Apr 1808; BA 1804; MA 1811; ordained; d. 30 Apr 1812, aged 30. Buried Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.

WELCH, RICHARD, eldest son of Richard Welch, Chief Justice of Jamaica, and Lucretia Mary Favel, sister of George Dehany (qv); b.; adm. 1 Feb 1779; left Aug 1786; probably “Welsh”, who played cricket for OWW against Old Etonians at Lord’s 13-14 May 1793; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 7 Oct 1786, aged 16; BA 1790; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 10 Nov 1784; of the Hyde estate, Jamaica; m. Alice, younger dau. of Rev. Nathaniel Preston, Swainsloe [check], co. Meath, Ireland, and his first wife; d. at Swainstone [check], co. Meath 20 Apr 1809.

DEHANY, GEORGE, only son of George Dehany, Jamaica, and Mary, dau. of Matthew Gregory MD, Jamaica, and nephew of Philip Dehany (qv); b. 17 Oct 1760; adm. 28 Sep 1770; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 14 Sep 1778, but did not matr.; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 7 Oct 1779, called to bar 16 Nov 1784; member Marylebone and Hambledon Cricket Clubs, and played in many of the great matches of the day; played for OWW against Old Etonians at Lord’s 13-14 May 1793; m. 15 Aug 1786 Sarah, widow of Matthew Byndloss, Jamaica, and dau. of --- Jones; d. 1807.

WHITFIELD, WILLIAM LANCASTER; son of John Whitfield, and Mary --- (IGI); bapt. St. Martin in the Fields 21 Jan 1781 (IGI); adm. 16 Jan 1792; in school list 1795; still at school Dec 1795; a merchant in Jamaica; member, Jamaica House of Assembly; d. 17 Oct 1824, in 45th year (sic).

BAYLY, CHARLES NATHANIEL, son of Nathaniel Bayly MP, of Jamaica and of Hanwell, Middlesex, and his second wife Sophia Magdalena Lamack, Clapham, Surrey; b. 9 Apr 1777; adm. 15 Mar 1786; KS 1790; elected to Trin. Coll. Camb. 1794, adm. pens. 17 Jun 1794, aged 17, but not adm. scholar in consequence of his refusal to take statutory oath, matr. Lent 1796; BA 1798; adm. Inner Temple 26 Jun 1792, called to bar 23 Nov 1798; m. 12 Sep 1799 Lady Sarah Villiers, fifth dau. of George Villiers, 4th Earl of Jersey PC; d. 14 Dec 1853.

JARRETT, HERBERT NEWTON, son of Herbert Newton Jarrett, Jamaica, West Indies, and Maria, dau. of Charles Berners (adm. 1746/7, qv); bapt. Woolverstone, Suffolk 23 Apr 1797; adm. 13 Jun 1808; in school list 1813; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 24 May 1814, matr. Mich. 1814; BA 1818; MA 1822; of Winchester and of Orange Valley, Trelawny, Jamaica; m. Jane --- (IGI)[?]; d. 30 Jun 1879, aged 82.

FULLER, AUGUSTUS ELIOTT, eldest son of John Trayton Fuller, Ashdown Park, Sussex, and his second wife Hon. Anne Eliott, only dau. of George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield KB, Lieut. -Gen. in the Army and Governor of Gibraltar; b. 7 May 1777; in school list 1795 and sixth form list 1796; St. John’s Coll. Camb., adm. fellow commoner 2 May 1796; MP (Conservative) East Sussex 1841-57; of Rosehill, Brightling, and of Ashdown Park, Sussex; DL JP Sussex; m. 5 Sep 1801 Clara, eldest dau. of Owen Putland Meyrick (qv); d. 5 Aug 1857.

LEWIS, MATTHEW GREGORY, elder son of Matthew Lewis (qv); b. 9 Jul 1775; adm. 19 Jul 1783; a successful actor in the Town Boys’ plays; played Falconbridge in King John and My Lord Duke in High Life below Stairs to great applause (Letters and Correspondence, i, 42); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 27 Apr 1790, Canoneer Student 23 Dec 1790 – void 25 Jun 1803; BA 1794; MA 1797; attaché to British Embassy, The Hague May – Dec 1794; author, Ambrosio, or the Monk, 1795, a best-selling novel which made him famous as “Monk” Lewis; MP Hindon 1796-1802; his play, The Castle Spectre, ran for sixty nights from 14 Dec 1797 under Sheridan’s management at Drury Lane; author, Tales of Wonder, 1801, also poems and other plays; visited West Indies estates to make arrangements for welfare of his slaves 1815-6, 1817-8; d. unm. at sea on his voyage home from Jamaica 14 May 1818. DNB.