DONNE, JOHN, eldest son of Very Rev. John Donne DD, Dean of St. Paul’s and poet, and Anne, dau. of Sir George More MP, Loseley, Surrey, Chancellor of the Order of the Garter and Lieut. of the Tower of London; b. 1604; adm.; KS in 1619; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1622, Westminster Student to 1632; BA 1626; MA 1629; ordained; Vicar of Tillingham, Essex 1631; tried for the manslaughter of a child of eight years old before Vice-Chancellor Laud 1633, but acquitted; went abroad; LLD Padua (incorp. Oxford 30 Jun 1638); Rector of High Roding, Essex 10 Jul 1638; Rector of Ufford, Northants., 29 May 1639; Rector of Fulbeck, Lincs., 10 Jun 1639; Chaplain to Basil Feilding, 2nd Earl of Denbigh; edited his father’s Poems, 1649; author, Donne’s Satyr, 1662; m. 27 Mar 1627 [sic : check] Mary Stapley, Camberwell, Kent; buried St. Paul’s, Covent Garden, London 3 Feb 1662/3. DNB.
DUNSTER, SAMUEL, son of James Dunster, Westminster; b. Sep 1675; at Merchant Taylors’ School 1688-9; adm.; KS 1690; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1693, adm. pens. 26 Jun 1693, scholar 20 Apr 1694; BA 1696/7; MA 1700; DD 1713; ordained deacon 2 Nov 1698, priest 11 Jun 1700 (both London); Perpetual Curate of St. James, Paddington, Middlesex [by 1705 ?]; Rector of Chinnor, Oxfordshire 12 Jul 1716; Prebendary of Lincoln from 6 Jun 1720; Prebendary of Salisbury 19 Jul 1720 - res Oct 1748; Vicar of Rochdale, Lancs., from 23 Apr 1722; Chaplain in Ordinary to George I (Chamberlayne 1716); Chaplain, 13th Dragoons, to Mar 1740; author, Anglia Rediviva, 1699, The Satyrs and Epistles of Horace done into English, 1710, and other works; m. 1 Jul 1705 Mary Hammond; d. 19 Jul 1754. DNB.
DUPORT, JAMES, fourth son of Rev. John Duport DD, Master of Jesus Coll. Cambridge, and Rachel, dau. of Right Rev. Richard Cox DD, Bishop of Ely; b. 1606; adm.; KS in 1619; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1622, adm. scholar 1623; 4th in “ordo” and BA Jan 1626/7; MA 1630; BD 1637; DD 1660; Fellow of Trin. Coll. 1627-c. 1666, Tutor 1635-64, a Senior Fellow 1654, Vice-Master 1655-65; Regius Professor of Greek, Cambridge Univ., 13 Jul 1639 - 54, ejected; ordained; Archdeacon of Stow 14 Aug 1641- res 12 Nov 1641; Prebendary of Lincoln from 14 Aug 1641 (ejected by Parliamentary Visitors 1643, reinstated at Restoration); Lady Margaret Preacher 1646; at Restoration appointed Chaplain to King Charles II and reinstated as Regius Professor of Greek, but soon afterwards resigned his Professorship to make way for his pupil Isaac Barrow; Dean of Peterborough from 27 Jul 1664; Master of Magdalene Coll., Cambridge, from 1668; Vice-Chancellor, Cambridge Univ. 1669; Rector of Boxworth, Cambs., 1668; Rector of Aston Flamville, Leics., Jan 1672/3-77; the most eminent Greek scholar of his day; author, Threnothriambos (Greek translation of Book of Job), 1637, Homeri Gnomologia duplici Parallelismo illustrata, 1660 (of which the preface contains an enthusiastic and grateful address to the School), and other works; d. 17 Jul 1679. DNB.
FITZGERALD, THOMAS, son of Gerald Fitzgerald, Westminster, Copying Clerk, House of Lords, and Anne ---; b.; adm.; Min. Can. (aged 14) 1709; QS 1710; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1714, adm. pens. 27 May 1714, scholar 13 May 1715; BA 1717/8; MA 1721; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll., 6 Sep 1720, Major Fellow 5 Jul 1721; ordained deacon 9 Mar 1717/8, priest 18 Dec 1718 (both Rochester); an Usher at the School c. 1720 - c. 1745 (?); Curate and Lecturer, St. John the Evangelist, Westminster 1728; Vicar of Brigstock, Northants., 24 Aug - Nov 1737; Rector of Wotton, Surrey, from 24 Dec 1739; Rector of Abinger, Surrey, from 11 Jun 1743; edited Martial and Terence for use at the School; his Poems on several Occasions, 1733, dedicated to Charles Sackville, 2nd Duke of Dorset (qv), includes the prologue to the school performance of Julius Caesar at which the latter acted; the Poems were reprinted in 1781 by his grandson Thomas Wintour (qv); m. 1st, 2 Jan 1727/8 Anne, dau. of Henry Playford, London, music publisher (her mother, Mrs Playford, was the Dame of a boarding house at the School c. 1719 - c. 1743); 2nd, 25 Aug 1741 Frances Weston, St. George’s, Hanover Square, London; d. 15 Aug 1752.
FRANCKLIN, THOMAS, son of Richard Francklin, Covent Garden, Westminster, bookseller; b.; adm. (aged 6) Jun 1727; KS 1735; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1739, adm. pens. 21 Jun 1739, scholar 2 May 1740; BA 1742/3; MA 1746; DD 1770; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1745, Major Fellow 2 Jul 1746 - c. 1759; Regius Professor of Greek, Cambridge Univ., 27 Jun 1750-9; presided at the Westminster Club Dinner at The Three Tuns, Cambridge 17 Nov 1750, and in consequence of the interference of the Senior Proctor was involved in a dispute with the University authorities (Wordsworth, Social Life at the English Universities in the Eighteenth Century, 70-5); an Usher at the School c. 1743-6 (?) (but still in Chamberlayne 1748); ordained deacon (Ely) May 1746, priest (Rochester) 6 Mar 1746/7; Vicar of Ware, Herts., 2 Jan 1759-77; lecturer, St. Paul’s, Covent Garden (by 1765); Chaplain in Ordinary to George III Sep 1767 - still 1780; Professor of Ancient History, Royal Academy, from 1774; Rector of Brasted, Kent, from 1 Apr 1777; author, translations of The Letters of Phalaris, 1749, Sophocles, 1759, and Lucian, 1780, also of four plays and other publications; m. 20 Jan 1759 Mary, dau. of --- Venables, St. Paul’s, Covent Garden, wine merchant; d. 15 Mar 1784. DNB.
FREIND, ROBERT, eldest son of William Freind (elected to Ch. Ch. Oxford 1656, qv); b.; adm.; KS 1680; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1686, matr. 17 Dec 1686, aged 19, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1686 - void 1701 (expiry year of grace as R. Turvey), Tutor 1693-9, Junior Censor 1698; BA 1690; MA 1693; BD and DD 1709; Under Master, Westminster School 1699-1711, Head Master 9 Aug 1711 - May 1733; ordained; Rector of Turvey, Beds., Mar 1699/1700 - res 1705; Prebendary of Exeter 17 Jan 1705/6 –16 [check]; Rector of Witney, Oxfordshire 1710/1 - 26 Mar 1739; Chaplain in Ordinary to George I (Chamberlayne 1716); Canon of Windsor 29 Apr 1729-37; Prebendary of Westminster 8 May 1731 - res Oct 1744; Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, from 29 Mar 1737; Busby Trustee from 8 Mar 1711/2; assisted Boyle in his attack on Bentley; wrote Latin verses, epitaphs and a translation of Cicero’s De Oratore, 1724; he and George Smalridge (KS 1678, qv) married sisters; m. 21 May 1713 Jane, dau. of Rev. Samuel De L’Angle DD, Prebendary of Westminster and Rector of Steventon, Berks.; d. 9 Aug 1751. DNB.
GELL, ROBERT, son of Rev. William Gell, Rector of Frindsbury, Kent; b. 19 Feb 1594/5; at school under Camden and Wilson eight years (Notes and Queries, 8th series, xii, 401); KS ; Christ’s Coll. Cambrtdge, sizar, matr. Easter 1615; BA 1617/8; MA 1621; BD 1628; DD 1641; Fellow of Christ’s Coll. before Christmas 1623 - after 1638; held several college offices; ordained; preached frequently before the University; Chaplain to Archbishop of Canterbury; Rector of St. Mary Aldermary, London, from 27 Jan 1640/1; bequeathed £5 to the King’s Scholars “to buy them bookes”; author, An Essay towards the Amendment of the last Translation of the Bible, 1659; his Remaines were “collected and set in order” by R. Bacon 1676; m. 7 Nov 1641 Elizabeth Lowvenir, Pampisford, Cambs.; d. 25 Mar 1665, aged 69. DNB.
GUNTER, EDMUND, son of --- Gunter, Herts., originally from Gunterstown, Breconshire; b.; adm.; QS in 1596; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1599, matr. 25 Jan 1599/1600, aged 18, Westminster Student to 1616; BA 1603; MA 1606; BD 1615; ordained; Incumbent, St. George’s, Southwark, Surrey 1615; Professor of Astronomy, Gresham College, London, from 6 Mar 1619; applied to navigation and other parts of mathematics his rule of proportion, known as “Gunter’s Line”; discovered the variation of the magnetic needle by experiments at Deptford 1622; introduced “Gunter’s Chain”, used in land surveying, and was proably the inventor of the “decimal separator”; author, Canon Triangulorum, or Table of Artificial Sines and Tangents, 1620, and other works, published in a collected edition 1624; d. 10 Dec 1626. DNB.
HANBURY, NATHANIEL, son of Philip Hanbury, London; b.; adm.; KS 1673; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1677, adm. pens. 20 Jun 1677, aged 18, scholar 1678, matr. 1680; BA 1680/1; MA 1684; BD 1703; Fellow, Trinity Coll., from 1683, Junior Dean 1706-8, Senior Dean 1712-4; signed the petition against Bentley 1709; ordained; Curate, St. Michael’s, Cambridge; author Horologia Scioterica, 1683, and Supplementum analyticum ad Aequationes Cartesianos, 1691; buried Trinity Coll. Chapel 10 Nov 1715.
GOSTWYCKE, WILLIAM, son of William Gostwycke, St. Mary Bothaw, London, merchant, and Sibylla ---; b. 8 Jul 1650; at Merchant Taylors’ School 1656-9; adm.; KS 1664; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1668, adm. pens. 5 Jun 1668, scholar 1669; BA 1671/2; MA 1675; Fellow, Trinity Coll., from 1674, Junior Dean 1695-7, 1701-2; the first Reader in Philosophy, King’s William Coll., Isle of Man 1676; ordained deacon (London) 26 May 1678; Vicar of St. Michael’s, Cambridge 1681-93, Great St. Mary’s, Cambridge from 1693; also Vicar of Bottisham, Cambs., 1693-6; d. 4 Feb 1702/3. Buried Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge.