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SYMMONS, JOHN, elder son of Charles Symmons (qv); b. 1781; adm. 31 Oct 1794 (Clapham) (see also E. B. Impey, Memoirs of Sir Elijah Impey, 1846, 376); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 11 Apr 1799, aged 18, Canoneer Student; BA 1803; MA 1806; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 21 Jan 1801, called to bar 23 Nov 1807; Welsh Circuit; FRS (by 1831); FSA (by 1831); assisted his father in a revised version of his translation of Virgil, published 1820; his translation of Aeschylus’s Agamemnon, published 1824, was much praised; his intimate friend Henry Fynes-Clinton (qv) recorded that Symmons’s extraordinary faculties “qualified him to rise to the very first rank of critical scholars” (Literary Remains, 1854, 10); Dr. Parr also speaks of his “capacious and retentive memory” and of his “various and extensive learning”; d. probably 1842. DNB.

STANHOPE, JOHN SPENCER, second son of Walter Spencer Stanhope MP, Cannon Hall, near Barnsley, Yorks., and Mary Winifred, dau. of Thomas Babington Pulleine, Carleton Hall, Richmond, Yorks.; b. 27 May 1787; adm. 8 Apr 1799 (Clapham); in school lists 1801, 1803; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 24 Oct 1804; he and his brother Edward were detained in France during the Napoleonic Wars, but obtained their freedom by undertaking to conduct archaeological researches in Greece, where they spent the year 1814; FRS 27 Jun 1816; DL JP Yorkshire; author, Topography illustrative of the Battle of Plataea, 1817, and other works; m. 5 Dec 1822 Lady Elizabeth Wilhelmina Coke, third dau. of Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester; d. 7 Nov 1873.

SOMERSET, LORD JOHN THOMAS HENRY, son of Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort (qv); b. 30 Aug 1787; adm. 1 Feb 1802 (Clapham); in school list 1803; Cornet, 7th Light Dragoons 4 Aug 1804; Lieut., 14 Aug 1805; Capt., Apr 1806; 4th Garrison Battn., 15 Apr 1808; 23rd Light Dragoons 19 May 1808; 23rd Foot 22 Jul 1813; half-pay 1814; Brevet Maj., Jun 1815; Major Watteville’s Regt., 18 Jun 1815; half-pay 25 Jul 1816; Brevet Lieut. -Col., 19 Jul 1821; Lieut. -Col., unattached, half-pay 16 Jul 1830; Brevet Col., 10 Jan 1837; served in Peninsular War and at battle of Waterloo, where he was ADC to Prince of Orange; m. 4 Dec 1814 Lady Catherine Annesley, third dau. of Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Mountnorris (I); d. 3 Oct 1846.

SOMERSET, FITZROY JOHN HENRY, 1ST BARON RAGLAN, youngest son of Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort (qv); b. 30 Sep 1788; adm. 1 Feb 1802 (Clapham); in school list 1803; Cornet, 4th Light Dragoons 9 Jun 1804; Lieut., 30 May 1805; Capt., 6th Garrison Battn., 5 May 1808; 43rd Foot 18 Aug 1808; Brevet Maj., 9 Jun 1811; Brevet Lieut. -Col., 27 Apr 1812; Capt. and Lieut. -Col., 1st Foot Guards 25 Jul 1814; Col. in the Army and ADC to Prince Regent 28 Aug 1815; Major-Gen., 27 May 1825; Col., 53rd Foot 19 Nov 1830 – May 1854 [check]; Lieut. -Gen., 28 Jun 1838; Col., Royal Horse Guards, from 8 May 1854; Gen., 20 Jun 1854; Field-Marshal 5 Nov 1854; served with Wellington in Peninsular War; wounded at battle of Busaco; lost right arm at battle of Waterloo; Secretary to Embassy, Paris 1814, Minister Plenipotentiary there Jan – Mar 1815; Secretary to Master-Gen. of the Ordnance 1815-27; MP Truro 1818-20, 1826 – Mar 1829; Military Secretary, War Office Jan 1827 – Sep 1852; Master-Gen. of the Ordnance 30 Sep 1852 – May 1855; Commander-in-Chief of British Troops in Crimea from 1854; Privy Councillor 16 Oct 1852; created Baron Raglan 20 Oct 1852; KCB 2 Jan 1815; GCB 24 Sep 1852; DCL Oxford 1834; m. 6 Aug 1814 Lady Emily Harriet Wellesley Pole, second dau. of William Wellesley Pole, 3rrd Earl of Mornington PC, Master of the Mint; d. in camp before Sevastopol 28 Jun 1855. DNB.

SMITH, ---; b.; adm. 9 Jan 1792 (Clapham); left 1794.

SHELLEY, ROBERT; b.; adm. 4 Sep 1796 (Clapham); left 1796.

SEDLEY, CHARLES HENRY, son of Henry Venables-Vernon, 3rd Baron Vernon (qv); b. 5 May 1792; adm. 7 Oct 1802 (Clapham); in school list 1803; d. at school 2 May 1804. Buried South Cloister, Westminster Abbey.

RUSSELL, SIR JOHN, BART., elder son of Sir John Russell, Bart. (qv); b. 6 May 1777; succ. father as 9th baronet 7 Aug 1783; adm. 30 Jun 1791 (Clapham); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 29 Oct 1795; d. unm. 11 Jun 1802.

RUSSELL, CLAUD, son of Claud Russell, Binfield Manor House, Berks., EICS Madras, member of Council, Madras, and Leonora, natural dau. of George Pigot, 1st Baron Pigot (I) MP, EICS Madras, Governor of Madras; b. 7 May 1779; adm. 16 Jan 1793 (Clapham); Min. Can. 1793; Writer, EICS Bengal 26 Sep 1795; arrived in India 27 Feb 1797; Assistant to Persian Translator; Senior Assistant to Persian Secretary 1801; Secretary to Lieut. -Gov. in Ceded Districts 1802; Collector, Alighar 1804; Judge and Magistrate, Kanpur 1807; Second Judge, Provincial Court of Appeal, Benares 1817; m. 12 Mar 1810 Charlotte, third dau. of Robert Grant, EICS Bengal; d. at Benares 5 May 1817.

ROSS, PETER; b.; at school 1791 (Clapham); left Easter 1794.