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AGAR, HENRY, brother of James Agar, 1st Viscount Clifden (qv); b.; adm. (aged 8) Dec 1750 (Grant's); KS 1757; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1761, matr. 21 May 1761, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1761 – void by marriage 12 Jun 1765; BA 1765; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 27 May 1761; ordained; Prebendary of Cloyne from 30 Jul 1768; Vicar of Templebodane, co. Cork 30 Jul 1768 – Oct 1769; Rector of Agabulloge, co. Cork, from 4 Jul 1770; m. c. 1765 Mary, dau. of Benjamin Tyrrell, Oxford; d. 14 May 1798.

AGAR, JAMES, 1ST VISCOUNT CLIFDEN (I), eldest son of Henry Agar MP (I), Gowran Castle, co. Kilkenny, by Anne, only surviving dau. of Welbore Ellis (KS 1676, qv); b. 25 Mar 1734; adm. Nov. 1746 (Grant's); left 1752; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 20 Apr 1752; MP (I) Gowran 1753-60, Co. Kilkenny 1761-76, Gowran 1776; a Commissioner of the Irish Revenue 3 Feb 1772-85, and of the Irish Excise 13 Jul 1776-85; created Baron Clifden (I) 27 Jan 1776; Viscount Clifden (I) 12 Jan 1781; joint Postmaster-General, Ireland 16 Jul 1784-9; Privy Councillor (I) 16 Oct 1784; m. 20 Mar 1760 Lucy, widow of Hon. Henry Boyle Walsingham MP (I), and eldest dau. of Col. John Martin, Dublin; d. 1 Jan 1789.

AGAR, WELBORE ELLIS, brother of James Agar, 1st Viscount Clifden (qv); b.; adm. (aged 10) Jun 1747 (Grant's); in school list 1754; Deputy Commissary-Gen. of Musters, England, from Nov 1763; a Commissioner of Customs from 31 Oct 1776; a well-known picture collector; FRS 22 Mar 1781; m. 21 Oct 1769 Gertrude, sister of Sir Charles Hotham (adm. 1745, qv); d. 30 Oct 1805.

Aggs, Daniel, son of William Hanbury Aggs, barrister-at-law, and Sylvia Marie, d. of Silvanus Phillips Thompson, DSc FRS, Prof. of Applied Physics, Univ. of Lond.; b. 21 June 1917; adm. Sept. 1930 (G); left July 1935; Univ. Coll. Lond. 1935-6; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1936, BA 1939, MA 1943; a farmer in Sussex; m. 18 Sept. 1948 Jessica Alison, d. of Louis Alexander Wright, retd tea planter, of Storrington, Sussex; d. 31 Oct. 2010.

Aldwinckle, Granville James, second son of Thomas William Aldwinckle, F.R.I.B.A., of Forest Hill; b. April 20, 1880; adm. Sept. 27, 1894 (G); left July 1898; d. March 26, 1920.

Alexander, Richard James Pickersgill, son of Robert Middleton Alexander, asst. solicitor, Min. of Agriculture, and Dorothy Anne, d. of Peter Wilson, inventor, of Stockton-on-Tees, Co. Durham; b. 18 June 1925; adm. Sept. 1939 (G); left July 1941; RN 1944 (Writer 1st class); an antique dealer, successively in London and in Brighton, Sussex; m. 1st, 22 June 1960 d. of Capt. B. O. F. Gregory RN, of Ringwood, Hants; 2nd, 23 June 1976 Doreen Molly, d. of Oscar Rendell, architect; d. 26 May 2001.

Allan, Alastair John, brother of James McAllister Allan (qv); b. 20 Sept. 1931; adm. Sept. 1945 (G); left July 1948; m. 12 Oct. 1961 Celia Ann, d. of Frederick Thomas Harry Heathman Doidge of Okehampton, Devon; d. 2019

Allen, Charles Pratley, son of Charles H. Allen and Annie Louise, d. of George Pratley of Mans­field, Notts; b. 24 Feb. 1906; adm. Sept. 1920 (G); left Apr. 1925; a schoolmaster 1926-32; House Sec. Lond. Clinic 1932-9; RASC 1940 (Lieut.), p.o.w. Greece 1941; d. 10 Apr. 1973.

Allen, Ian Cameron, son of George Henry Allen, barrister-at-law, and Mary Charlotte, d. of John Cameron of Kirkintilloch, Dumbartonshire; b. 27 Apr. 1910; adm. Sept. 1923 (G), KS 1924; left July 1929; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1929, BA 1932; St Thom. Hosp., MRCS LRCP 1935; practised at Framlingham, Suffolk; RAMC 1942 (Lieut.-Col.); author of several books on the history of railways in East Anglia; m. 8 Oct. 1939 Margaret, d. of Thomas Stephen Lock, engineer; d. 25 Dec. 1989.

Almond, Basil George, son of Sir James Almond, Kt, Judicial Commissioner, North-West Provinces, India, and May Victoria Howard, d. of Rev. Samuel Howard Baker, Vicar of Donnington, Berks; b. 21 July 1926; adm. Sept. 1939 (G); left July 1940 for Bishop Cotton Sch., Simla; aboard SS City of Cairo when she was torpedo by German forces, 1942; re-adm. Jan. 1943; left July 1944; New Coll. Oxf., matric. 1944, BA and MA 1951; RAF 1945-8; asst. master Aldenham Sch. 1951; partner musical instrument makers 1971; dialysis administrator Roy. Infirmary Dundee 1974; m. 1st, 12 Apr. 1950 Anne Delicia de la Chapelle, d. of Charles Ewing Prior, asst. master Harrow Sch., of St Jean-de-Luz, France, and Ross-on-Wye, Heref; 2nd, 7 Sept. 1979 Alison Sturrock Webster Pickard, pharmacist; d. 10 Oct. 2001.