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BULLER, JOHN FRANCIS, eldest son of John Buller MP, Morval, Cornwall, and Anne, d. of William Lemon, Carclew, Cornwall; bapt. 14 Jan 1771; adm. 20 Jan 1784; in school list 1787; adm. Inner Temple 22 Apr 1789; Ensign, 67th Foot 11 Nov 1789; 1st Foot Guards 2 Jan 1790; of Morval, Cornwall, inherited from father 1793; MP West Looe 1796 - Nov 1796, 1826 - Mar 1827; DL JP Cornwall, High Sheriff 1835; m. 1st, 10 Apr 1799 Elizabeth, younger dau. of Hon. and Right Rev. James Yorke DD, Bishop of Ely; m. 2nd, 29 Jun 1814 Harriet, fourth dau. of Sir Edward Hulse, Bart.; d. 3 Apr 1849.

BULKELEY, RICHARD, 5TH VISCOUNT BULKELEY (I), elder son of Richard Bulkeley, 4th Viscount Bulkeley (I), MP, and Lady Bridget Bertie, eldest dau. of James Bertie, 1st Earl of Abingdon; b. 18 Apr 1707; adm. Sep 1718; left 1720; succ. father as 5th Viscount Bulkeley (I) 4 Jun 1724; Grand Tour (Italy) 1726-7; Constable of Beaumaris Castle and Chamberlain of North Wales; MP Beaumaris from 25 Mar 1730; m. 12 Jan 1731/2 Jane, dau. of Lewis Owen, Peniarth, Merioneth; d. 15 Mar 1738/9.

BULLER, SIR EDWARD, BART., brother of John Buller (qv); b. 24 Dec 1764; adm. 30 Jun 1774; entered Royal Navy 1777; acting Lieut., 15 Mar 1783; Cdr., 26 Apr 1783; Post Capt., 19 Jul 1790; Col. of Marines 9 Nov 1805-8; Rear-Adm., 28 Apr 1808; Vice-Adm., 12 Aug 1812; distinguished himself in Calder’s action against Villeneuve, 22 Jul 1805, while in command of HMS Malta; MP East Looe 1802-20; created baronet 3 Oct 1808; of Trenant Park, Cornwall; m. 15 Mar 1789 Gertrude, dau. of Col. Philip Van Cortlandt; d. 15 Apr 1824.

BURDETT, SIR ROBERT, BART., son of Robert Burdett, Foremark, Derbs., and Hon. Elizabeth Tracy, d. of William, 4th Viscount Tracy (I); b. 28 May 1716; succ. his grandfather as 4th baronet 28 May 1716; perhaps at school under Freind (occurs in list of OW baronets c. 1765, in Chapter Muniments), but this is doubtful since he was certainly at Winchester Coll. in 1730-2; New Coll. Oxford, matr. 13 Apr 1733; DCL 14 Apr 1749; MP Tamworth 12 Dec 1748-68; m. 1st, 6 Nov 1739 Elizabeth, sister of Sir Charles Sedley, Bart. (qv); m. 2nd, 18 Jun 1753 Lady Caroline Manners, widow of Sir Henry Harpur, Bart. (and mother of Sir Henry Harpur, Bart. (qv)), and dau. of John Manners, 2nd Duke of Rutland KG; d. 15 Feb 1797]

BUTLER, ---; b.; in school list 1754 (Chapter Muniments 12970); probably “Mr Butler, son to Lord Mountgarret”, who was in Mrs Hawkins’s boarding house in 1757. [If so, one of the sons of Edmund Butler, 10th Viscount Mountgarret (I), and Charlotte, second dau. of Sir Simon Bradstreet, Bart., and perhaps therefore the eldest son, Edmund Butler, 11th Viscount Mountgarret (I), b. 27 Jul 1745; MP (I) Co. Kilkenny 1776 – 9 Feb 1779; succ. father as 11th Viscount Mountgarret (I) 9 Feb 1779; m. 7 Oct 1778 Lady Henrietta Butler, second dau. of Somerset Hamilton Butler, 1st Earl of Carrick (I) (qv); d. 16 Jul 1793. ]

BYNG, JOHN, 1ST EARL OF STRAFFORD, fourth son of George Byng (adm. 1742/3, qv); b. 1772; adm. 20 Sep 1786; Ensign, 33rd Foot, 30 Sep 1793; Lieut., 1 Dec 1793; Capt., 24 May 1794; Maj., 60th Foot, 28 Dec 1799; Lieut. -Col., 29th Foot, 14 Mar 1800; Capt. and Lieut. -Col., 3rd Foot Guards, 4 Aug 1804; Col. in the Army 25 Jul 1810; Brig. -Gen. in Sep 1811; Maj. -Gen., 4 Jun 1813; Col., 2nd West India Regt., 26 Jul 1822 – Jan 1828; Lieut. -Gen., 27 May 1825; Col., 29th Foot, 23 Jan 1828 – Aug 1850; Gen., 23 Nov 1841; Col., 2nd Foot Guards, from 15 Aug 1850; Field-Marshal, 2 Oct 1855; served in Flanders 1793-5, Ireland 1798, on the Copenhagen expedition 1807, the Walcheren expedition 1809, the Peninsular War, and at Waterloo, where he commanded the 2nd Brigade, 1st Guards Division; twice received thanks for his services from both Houses of Parliament; KCB 12 Apr 1815; GCH 1826; Commander-in-Chief, Ireland, 1828-31; PC (I) 15 Jul 1828; GCB 20 Jul 1831; MP (Whig) Poole 1831 - May 1835; created Baron Strafford 12 May 1835; acted as Whig whip in House of Lords c. 1835 - Nov 1850; created Earl of Strafford 18 Sep 1847; m. 1st, 14 Jun 1804 Mary Stevens, eldest dau. of Peter Mackenzie, Grove House, Twickenham, Middlesex; m. 2nd, 9 May 1808 Mary Anne, second dau. of Sir Walter James, Bart.; d. 3 Jun 1860. DNB.

BYDE, THOMAS PLUMER, son of Thomas Byde, Ware Park, Herts., and his second wife Catherine, dau. of John Plumer, Blakesware, Herts.; bapt. St. Andrew, Holborn 31 Aug 1720 (IGI); adm. (aged 14) Apr 1735; left 1737; Pembroke Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 30 Jan 1737/8, matr. 1738; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 15 Mar 1739/40, and to Gray’s Inn 2 Feb 1746/7; of Ware Park, Herts.; DL Hertfordshire 1745, JP 1742-78; MP Hertfordshire 1761-8; bankrupt, May 1779; m. 16 Sep 1749 Eleanor, dau. of Andrew Hope, Norton Folgate, London, brewer; d. at Naples 26 May 1789, where he had been living since 1786.

CECIL, WILLIAM, 2ND EARL OF SALISBURY, eldest son of Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury KG, Secretary of State to Elizabeth I and James I, and Hon. Elizabeth Brooke, dau. of William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham KG; b. 28 Mar 1591; at school under Ireland (Dalton, Life and times of Viscount Wimbledon, 1885, i, 204, note); St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, fellow commoner, matr. Mich. 1602; MA 1605 (also created MA Oxford, 30 Aug 1605); KB 6 Jan 1604/5; adm. Gray’s Inn, 2 Feb 1604/5; MP Weymouth and Melcombe Regis 1610-1; succ. father as 2nd Earl of Salisbury 24 May 1612; Lord Lieut., Hertfordshire, 10 Jul 1612; KG 31 Dec 1624; carried Sceptre with the Cross at coronation of Charles I, 2 Feb 1626; Privy Councillor 22 Jul 1626; Captain, Band of Gentlemen Pensioners, 1635-42; one of the noblemen named by the King to treat with the Scots at Ripon, 1640; Lord Lieut., Dorset, 15 May 1641; took the Parliamentary side in the Civil War; one of the four Earls sent to treat with the King at Oxford Jan 1642/3; member, Assembly of Divines, 7 Jun 1643; a Commissioner at Conference of Uxbridge, 1645; voted a Marquisate by Parliament, 1 Dec 1645; MP King’s Lynn 1645, Hertfordshire 1654, 1656; a Commissioner of the Great Seal Jul - Oct 1646; a Commissioner at Conference at Newport, 1648; a Councillor of State, Feb 1649; High Steward of St. Alban’s 1663; m. 1 Dec 1608 Lady Catherine Howard, youngest dau. of Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk KG; d. 3 Dec 1668.

CECIL, HON. ALGERNON, fifth son of William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury (qv); b.; adm.; KS (Capt. ) 1641; among the Steward’s accounts at Hatfield for the year 1640-1 are payments “to Mr Busby for diet for the two gentlemen [William and Algernon Cecil] at the rate of £60 per ann., and their servant at £15 per ann. ”, for “potation money” at Easter 5s., and on “Mr Algernon’s admittance to be a King’s Scholar” £3. 15s. 9d.; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 28 Apr 1645, MA 1644 (check); MP Old Sarum 1660, but his election was disputed and he did not take his seat; m. Dorothy, dau. of Sandford Nevile, Chevet, Yorks.; d. Nov. 1676.

CLEAVER, EUSEBY, brother of John Cleaver (qv); b. 8 Sep 1745; adm.; KS 1759; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1763, matr. 9 Jun 1763, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1763 – void 10 May 1775 (expiry year of grace as R. Spofforth from 12 May 1774), Tutor 1767-74; BA 1767; MA 1770; BD and DD 1783; DD Trinity Coll. Dublin 1788; tutor to Earl of Egremont at Christ Church 1767; ordained deacon (Oxford) 20 Dec 1772; Rector of Spofforth, Yorks., 9 May 1774-83; Rector of Tillington, Sussex, 13 Mar 1783-9; Rector of Petworth, Sussex, 5 Apr 1783-9; Prebendary of Chichester 21 Feb 1787 – res by May 1789; Chaplain to Marquis of Buckingham when Lord Lieut. Ireland, 1787-9; consecrated Bishop of Cork and Ross 28 Mar 1789, translated to Ferns and Leighlin 13 Jun 1789; suffered heavy losses during rebellion of 1798, having his palace plundered and his library destroyed; Archbishop of Dublin from 25 Aug 1809; m. 2 May 1788 Catherine, dau. of Right Hon. Owen Wynne PC (I) MP (I), Hazlewood, co. Sligo; d. 10 Dec 1819. DNB.