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STANLEY, HON. EDWARD, brother of James Smith-Stanley, Lord Strange (qv); b. Jun 1732; adm. Feb 1741/2 (Morel's); left 1744; d. 20 Apr 1745.

STANHOPE, PHILIP, natural son of Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield PC, and Elizabeth du Bouchet, The Hague, Netherlands; b.; adm. (aged 10) Apr 1743 (Morel's); left 1746; Grand Tour (Italy) 1746-51 (Germany, Switzerland, Italy, France); MP Liskeard 1754-61, St. Germans 1761 – May 1765; British Resident, Hamburg 1757-63; Envoy to Imperial Diet 1763; Envoy Extraordinary at Dresden from 1764; the recipient of the Letters of Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield to his Son; at “Mr Morel’s boarding house in Cowley Street” in Aug 1743 (Letter XCIX); “the boy was encumbered with flesh, and nature had so carelessly compacted his limbs as scarcely to leave them the poer of flexure. In a word, in infancy he was shapeless, and in youth a looby. Never did a she-bear with more anxious assiduity labour to lick her cub into shape than this fond parent did to correct the errors of nature in the formation of this his darling” (Hawkins, Life of Dr. Samuel Johnson, 1787, 181-2); “Mr. Stanhope’s character has been unjustly represented as diametrically opposite to what Lord Chesterfield wished him to be. He has been called dull, gross and awkward : but I knew him at Dresden, when he was Envoy to that Court; and though he could not boast of the graces, he was in truth a sensible, civil, well-behaved man” (Boswell, Life of Johnson, ed. G. B. Hill, 1887, i, 266 note); m. c. 1759 (secretly) Eugenia Peters, natural dau. of Compton Domvile MP (I); d. at Avignon, France 16 Nov 1768.

SMITH, GEORGE; b.; adm. (aged 13) Feb 1750/1 (Morel's); in school list 1754.

SHELLEY, THOMAS, brother of Henry Shelley (adm. 1737/8, qv); bapt. St. Clement Danes, London 6 Mar 1729 (IGI); adm. (aged 9) Jan 1740/1 (Morel's); left 1745; Clerk, Secretary of State’s Office, Southern Dept., from Mar 1752; d. 2 Aug 1758.

SHELLEY, SIR JOHN, BART., only son of Sir John Shelley, Bart. MP, and his second wife Hon. Margaret Pelham, sister of Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle (qv); b.; adm. Jan 1744/5 (Morel's); left 1748; Peterhouse, Cambridge, adm. pens. 17 Sep 1748, matr. 1748; MP East Retford 24 Dec 1751-68, Newark 1768-74, New Shoreham 1774-80; Keeper of the Records, Tower of London, from 1755; Clerk of the Pipe, Exchequer, from 19 Jan 1758; Treasurer of the Household 20 Nov 1766 – Jun 1777; Privy Councillor 3 Dec 1766; succ. father as 5th baronet 6 Sep 1771; m. 1st, 27 Aug 1769 Wilhelmina, dau. of John Newnham, Maresfield Park, Sussex; m. 2nd, 14 Feb 1775 Elizabeth, dau. of Edward Woodcock, Lincoln’s Inn; d. 16 Sep 1783, aged 52.

ROBERTS, HUGH; b.; adm. (aged 9) Jan 1753 (Morel's).

PHILIPS, PHILIP; b.; adm. (aged 16) Jun 1752 (Morel's).

PHILIPPS, JOHN LOUIS, son of John Philipps, Coedgain, Carmarthenshire, and Elizabeth, widow of Rees Lloyd, Altycadas [county ?], and dau. of Thomas Bevan, Glasfryn, Denbighshire; b.; adm. (aged 14) Feb 1753 (as John Philips) (Morel's); KS 1753; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1758, matr. 24 May 1758, aged 18, Westminster Student 5 Jan 1759 – void 3 Jan 1769 (expiry year of grace as V. St. Clears from 11 Jan 1768); ordained priest (Oxford) 29 Jun 1763; Vicar of St. Clears, Carmarthenshire 1768; Vicar of Llangynin, Carmarthenshire; Vicar of Lampeter, Cardiganshire; Prebendary of St. David’s from 11 Aug 1768; Prebendary of Brecon 1787; d. 3 May 1795.

PENNYMAN, SIR JAMES, BART., eldest son of Ralph Pennyman (qv); bapt. 6 Dec 1736; adm. Jun 1749 (Morel's); in school list 1754; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 10 May 1756; succ. uncle as 5th baronet 14 Jan 1770; MP Scarborough 27 Nov 1770-4, Beverley 1774-96; of Ormesby Hall, Yorks.; m. 1st, 7 Dec 1762 Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Henry Grey, Bart., Howick, Northumberland; m. 2nd, 14 May 1801 Mary Maleham, Westminster; d. 27 Mar 1806.

PARTINGTON, THOMAS WALLEY, eldest son of Edward Partington, Chester, attorney, and Gertrude ---; b. 19 Mar 1728/9; adm. (aged 12) Apr 1742 (Morel's); left 1746; adm. Inner Temple 15 Dec 1746; articled clerk to Elisha Biscoe, London, solicitor; subsequently practised as an attorney in London; agent for the management of the Grosvenor estate in Mayfair; Lottery Commissioner; a witness at the trial of William Byron, 5th Baron Byron (qv), before the House of Lords Apr 1765 (Howell, State Trials, xix, col. 1219); Deputy Receiver-Gen., Jamaica 24 Aug 1776 (to hold post during lifetime of George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville (qv)); of Offham, Sussex; m. 1st, 11 Jul 1754 Elizabeth, sister of Robert Andrews (adm. 1742, qv); m. 2nd, 11 Dec 1756 Sarah, sister of James Trebeck (adm. 1741, qv); d. 8 Mar 1791.