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OTWAY, FRANCIS, eldest son of Lieut. -Col. Francis Otway, St. Martin’s in the Fields, and Smarden, Kent, and Anne Taylor, St. Anne, Soho; bapt. St. Anne’s, Soho 15 Oct 1730 (IGI); adm. (aged 9) 1739/40 (Hawkins'); left 1748; adm. Inner Temple 23 Jun 1748, called to bar 4 Jul 1753, tenant chambers there from 1 May 1751; of Riverhill, Sevenoaks, Kent; a letter addressed to him at school by his uncle and godfather William Byrd, Westover, Virginia, is printed Virginia Magazine of History and Biography xxxviii, 28; m. Sarah, dau. of Richard Rowdon Baynham, London, and Riverhill, Sevenoaks, Kent, apothecary; buried St. Marylebone, London 22 Mar 1773.

WRIGHT, PEREGRINE; b.; adm. (aged 9) Feb 1739/40 (Hawkins'); left 1747.

TORRIANO, CHARLES, son of John Torriano, London, and Eleanor Mann (IGI); bapt. St. Andrew Undershaft, London 16 Nov 1726; adm. (aged 13) Jun 1740 (Hawkins'); KS (Capt. ) 1741; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1745, adm. pens. 12 Jun 1745, scholar 25 Apr 1746, matr. 1745; BA 1748/9; MA 1752; Minor Fellow 2 Oct 1751, Major Fellow 8 Jul 1752; Regius Professor of Hebrew, Cambridge Univ., 1753-7; ordained deacon (London) 10 Jun 1750; Rector of Chingford, Essex, from 30 Sep 1757; d. c. 1778 (will proved PCC 12 Mar 1778, of Bath, Somerset).

HARGRAVES, THOMAS, son of Very Rev. James Hargraves, Dean of Chichester and Prebendary of Westminster, and Mary, dau. of Ven. James Williamson, Rector of Ripe, Sussex, and Archdeacon of Lewes; b.; adm. (aged 14) Sep 1740 (Hawkins'); left 1742; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 20 Dec 1742, Canoneer Student 23 Dec 1742 – res 18 Dec 1744.

LISTER, HENRY, son of Lieut. -Col. William Lister, 3rd Foot Guards, Twickenham, Middlesex, and Sarah Nicol, Nevile House, Twickenham; b.; adm. (aged 14 ) Sep 1740 (Hawkins'); KS 1741; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1745, but never adm .; Ensign, 2nd Foot Guards 9 Mar 1744/5; Lieut. and Capt., 29 Mar 1748; Capt. and Lieut. -Col., 4 May 1758; Brevet Col., 25 May 1772; Second Major, 2nd Foot Guards 15 Dec 1773, First Major 8 Sep 1775; Maj. -Gen., 29 Aug 1777; Lieut. -Col. commanding 2nd Foot Guards 21 Nov 1777; Lieut. -Gen., 26 Nov 1782; served on expedition to Cherbourg 1759; ADC to George III; m. 23 Oct 1760 Elizabeth, dau. of Capt. Henry Stratford, Overstone Hall, Northants; d. 17 Nov 1785.

PATTON, THOMAS; b.; adm. (aged 12) Sep 1740 (Hawkins'); left 1744. [Evidently brother or close kin to Paul Patton, adm. same month].

PATTON, PAUL; b.; adm. (aged 13) Sep 1740 (Hawkins'); left 1744. [Evidently brother or close kin to Thomas Patton, adm. same month].

POWLETT, CHARLES, eldest natural son of Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton KG PC, and his mistress Lavinia Beswick (otherwise Fenton), actress; b. 27 Dec 1727; adm. (aged 12) Jan 1740/1 (Hawkins'); left 1744; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 28 Jun 1753, aged 24; MA [check] 1755; ordained deacon (Winchester) 23 Dec 1753, priest (St. Davids) 9 Jun 1754; [Chaplain, 55th Foot 15 Jan 1756 ?]; Chaplain to Duke of Bolton; Curate, Itchen Abbas, Hampshire, from 1763; Chaplain, 1st Dragoon Guards 11 Jun 1766 – [still in Army List 1790]; Rector of Winslade, Hampshire 8 Jun 1782-9; Rector of St. Martin by Looe, Cornwall 2 Jul 1785 – Apr 1790; Rector of Ludgvan, Cornwall 1789; one of the Committee which revised the laws of cricket at the Star and Garter, Pall Mall 25 Feb 1774; a well-known hunting man in Hampshire, and author many hunting songs; m. 1st, 23 Mar 1755 Elizabeth, dau. of James Gunman, Greenwich Hospital; m. 2nd, Anne ---; d. 29 Jan 1809. [perhaps m. 2nd, 25 Apr 1792 Anne Mariet (IGI)]

POWLETT, PERCY, brother of Charles Powlett (adm. 1740/1, qv); b.; adm. (aged 6) Jan 1741/2 (Hawkins'); entered Royal Navy; Lieut., 23 Mar 1756; 1st Lieut., HMS Buckingham 27 Feb 1771; m. 19 Jul 1758 Elizabeth Packham (IGI). [Percy Powlett, Winchester, Hampshire, will PCC 15 Aug 1776]

STANHOPE, EDWIN FRANCIS, son of Charles Stanhope, Hollingbourne, Kent, and Cecilia, dau. of Dutton Stede, Stede Hill, Kent; b.; adm. (aged 13) Feb 1741/2 (Hawkins'); left 1745; Queen’s Coll. Oxford, matr. 22 Mar 1745/6; DCL 13 Mar 1761; Gentleman Usher of the Privy Chamber to Queen Charlotte Sep 1761 – Feb 1783; Equerry to Queen Charlotte from 13 Feb 1783; a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber 1781-3; Commissioner, Salt Office 5 Jul 1785 – 28 Jun 1798 (when post abolished); m. 9 Aug 1753 Lady Catherine Brydges, widow of William Berkeley Lyon, and dau. of John Brydges, Marquis of Carnarvon (qv); d. 16 May 1807.