BARWELL, JOHN BROOKE, brother of William Barwell (qv); bapt. 20 Jul 1743; adm. (aged 8) Jun 1751 (Grant's); KS 1757; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1760, adm. pens. 5 Jun 1760, scholar 17 Apr 1761, matr. Mich. 1760; BA 1764; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 26 Jul 1764.
RIDGE, THOMAS, son of Humphrey Ridge, Kilmeston, Hampshire, and Elizabeth, dau. of Rev. Richard Bentley DD, Master of Trinity Coll. Cambridge; b.; adm. (aged 14) Feb 1750/1 (Grant's) (see trial of John Ward for theft, Old Bailey Records Feb 1754); Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 30 May 1754, aged 17, scholar 18 Apr 1755, matr. 1755; BA 1758; MA 1761; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1759, Major Fellow 8 Jul 1761; of Kilmeston, Hampshire; m. 17 Apr 1767 (IGI) his cousin Mary, dau. of John Ridge, Portsea, Hampshire; d. 3 Feb 1801.
GRANT, RICHARD, son of John Grant, London, and Mary --- (dame of Grant’s boarding house c. 1746-87); b.; adm. (aged 6) Jan 1750/1 (Grant's); KS (Capt. ) 1757; Capt. of the School 1761; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1762, matr. 9 Jun 1762, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1762 – void 1 Jun 1772, expiry year of grace as V. Black Bourton; BA 1766; MA 1770; an Usher at the School 1764-72; ordained priest (Oxford) 26 May 1771; “Chaplain to St. John’s, Newfoundland” (MS note in copy of Welch); Vicar of Black Bourton, Oxfordshire, from 30 May 1771; Rector of Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex, from 1782; he and his wife kept the boarding house, 2 Little Dean’s Yard, for many years to 1813; Rector of Wennington, Essex, from 1812; m.; d. 13 Aug 1826.
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.
Bigge, Thomas Charles, 1739-1794
BIGGE, THOMAS CHARLES, son of William Bigge, Little Benton, Northumberland, one of the Six Clerks in Chancery, and Mary, dau. of Charles Clarke, Ovingham, Northumberland; b. 24 Jan 1739; adm. Oct. 1750 (Grant's); in school list 1754; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 31 Mar 1757; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 14 Apr 1755; Grand Tour (Italy) 1764-5; High Sheriff Northumberland 1771; contested Morpeth 1774; m. 6 Nov 1772 Jemima, dau. of William Ord MP, Fenham, Northumberland; d. 10 Oct 1794.
Horton, Christopher, 1741-1769
HORTON, CHRISTOPHER, brother of Walter Buswell Horton (qv); bapt. Croxall, Derbs. 28 Jul 1741 (IGI); adm. (aged 9) Sep 1750 (Grant's); in school list 1754; of Catton Hall, Derbs.; m. 4 Aug 1765 Lady Anne Luttrell (who subsequently m. HRH Prince Henry Frederick, Duke of Cumberland), sister of Henry Lawes Luttrell, 2nd Earl of Carhampton (I) (qv); buried Croxall, Derbs. 13 Aug 1769.
BARWELL, WILLIAM, son of William Barwell, EICS Bengal, Governor of Bengal, a director of the East India Company, and his third wife Elizabeth Pierce, Calcutta; bapt. 13 Oct 1740; adm. (aged 9) Jan 1749/50 (Grant's); in school list 1754.
BARWELL, RICHARD, brother of William Barwell (qv); b. 8 Oct 1741; adm. Jan 1749/50 (Grant's); in school list 1754; Writer, EICS Bengal 1756; Sub-Accomptant 1763; Resident, Malda, 1766, Rampur Boalia, 1769; member, Supreme Council 1769-75; chief at Dacca, 1772; member of Bengal Council, Calcutta, 20 Oct 1774 - res 3 Mar 1780; a supporter of Warren Hastings (qv) against the party on the Council led by Philip Francis; returned to England 1780 with a substantial fortune; purchased Stansted estate, Sussex 1781; MP Helston 12 Mar 1781-4, St. Ives 1784-90, Winchelsea 1790-6; m. 1st, 13 Sep 1776 Elizabeth Jane (the “reigning beauty” of Calcutta), dau. of Robert Sanderson; m. 2nd, 24 Jun 1785 Catherine, dau. of Nathaniel Coffin, Bristol, formerly Cashier of Customs, Boston, Mass., USA; d. 2 Sep 1804. DNB.
CUFFE, OTWAY, 1ST EARL OF DESART (I), second son of John Cuffe, 1st Baron Desart (I), and his second wife Dorothea, sister of Richard Gorges (adm. 1721, qv); b.; adm. (aged 13) Oct 1749 (Grant's); left 1752; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 11 Jul 1752; adm. Middle Temple 31 Jan 1756; succ. brother as 3rd Baron Desart (I) 25 Nov 1767; took seat in Irish House of Lords 22 Dec 1767; Grand Tour (Italy) 1769-70; created Viscount Desart (I) 6 Jan 1781 and Earl of Desart (I) 20 Dec 1793; an Irish Representative Peer from 1801; m. 18 Aug 1785 Lady Ann Browne, eldest dau. of Peter Browne, 2nd Earl of Altamont (I) (perhaps OW, qv); d. 9 Aug 1804.
WALCOT, JOHN, brother of Charles Walcot (adm. 1748, qv); bapt. 20 Nov 1740; adm. (aged 8) Oct 1749 (Grant's); Post Office Agent for the Packets at Dover and Yarmouth c. 1762-98; Accountant-General, Post Office 1766-70; m. 1st, Eliza, widow of Capt. Charles Coleby, Royal Navy; m. 2nd, 25 Sep 1805 Isabella Douglas, widow [or Jemima, dau. of Adm. Sir James Douglas, Bart., Royal Navy : check]; d. 1819. [perhaps John Walcot, will proved PCC 27 Jul 1820]