May, William Vassall, ca. 1762-1811
MAY, WILLIAM VASSALL, son of Rose Herring May, Spanish Town, Jamaica, member of council, Jamaica, and Mary Trelawny, dau. of John Wigan (qv); nephew of Florentius May (qv); b.; adm. 12 Jun 1770; KS (aged 13) 1775; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1779, adm. pens. 2 Jun 1779, but did not matr.; adm. Inner Temple 20 Feb 1777; Ensign, 94th Foot 26 Dec 1781; half-pay, 60th Foot 1783; d. 6 Dec 1811.
MAYNE, WILLIAM, eldest son of Robert Mayne MP, Upper Gatton, Surrey, banker and merchant, and his second wife Sarah, second dau. of Francis Otway (qv); b.; adm. 27 Jun 1787; Ensign, Queen’s Rangers 21 Mar 1792; Lieut., Independent Co., 3 Feb 1795; Capt. -Lieut. and Capt., Queen’s Rangers 4 Feb 1795; Capt., 14 Apr 1798; Maj., 21st Light Dragoons 17 May 1798; retd. 29 Jul 1802; served in North America 1797; Lieut. -Col., Loyal Lusitanian Legion, Portugal Dec 1808 – Oct 1809, under command of Sir Robert Thomas Wilson (qv); Commandant, Almeida 1809; re-entered Army as Cornet, 12th Light Dragoons 27 Jun 1811; Lieut., 1st Life Guards 26 Sep 1811; Capt., 14 Dec 1815; 7th Light Dragoons 8 Mar 1820; retd. 29 Mar 1820; present at battle of Waterloo; m. 17 Jan 1805 Elizabeth, dau. of Sir John Taylor, Bart., Lysson Hall, Jamaica; d. at Brussels 11 Dec 1843, aged 68.
Mitchell, Francis Henry, 1794-1891
MITCHELL, FRANCIS HENRY, brother of John Mitchell (qv); b. 23 Oct 1794; adm.; probably the TB of this surname who played cricket for TBB v KSS 1809; KS 1809; left 1811; a sugar broker in London; m. 1820 Frances Elizabeth, dau. of John Johnstone, Dumfries, barrister, sometime Private Secretary to Governor of Jamaica; d. 2 Aug 1891.
MONCKTON, HON. ROBERT, brother of William Monckton-Arundell, 2nd Viscount Galway (I) (qv); b. 24 Jun 1726; adm. Sep 1737; in school lists 1737-41; Ensign, 3rd Foot Guards 22 Apr 1741; Capt., 34th Foot 27 Jun 1744; Maj., 5 Feb 1746/7; Lieut. -Col., 47th Foot 28 Feb 1751; Col. commandant 60th Foot (Royal American Regt. ), 20 Dec 1757- Oct 1759; Brig. -Gen., 1759; Col., 17th Foot, from 24 Oct 1759; Major-Gen., 20 Feb 1761; Lieut. -Gen., 30 Apr 1770; served in Flanders 1742-5; present at battles of Dettingen and Fontenoy; sent to Nova Scotia 1752; Lieut. -Gov., Annapolis Royal 1754 (still 1769); captured Forts Beauséjour and Gaspereau (renamed Fort Monckton) from the French 1755; Lieut. -Gov., Nova Scotia Dec 1755; second in command of Wolfe’s expedition to Quebec, where he was wounded 13 Sep 1759; Governor and Commander-in-Chief, New York 20 Mar 1761; sailed with Rodney to West Indies and captured Martinique, Grenada, St. Lucia and St. Vincent 1761-2; returned to England 1763; Governor of Berwick-upon-Tweed 14 Jun 1765-78, Portsmouth from 1778; MP Pontefract 26 Nov 1751-4, 24 Mar – 30 Sep 1774, Portsmouth from 10 Aug 1778; d. unm. 3 May 1782. DNB.
POPE, EDWARD, son of Ebenezer Pope, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, and Anna Maria, dau. of Thomas Eves, Clifford, Herefs.; bapt. St. Clement Danes 15 Feb 1794; in school lists 1801; KS (aged 14) 1808; left Christmas 1811; Brasenose Coll. Oxford, matr. 8 Apr 1812; migrated to Queen’s Coll., exhibitioner 1815-6, scholar 1816-20; BA 1816; MA 1819; BD and DD 1836; Fellow, Queen’s Coll. 1820-7; ordained; Archdeacon of Jamaica; m. 1st, 10 Jun 1825 Augusta, sister of Charles Richard Bigge (qv); m. 2nd, [?] Mary Jane, dau. of John Campbell, Jamaica; d. Feb 1855.
Ricketts, George William, 1790-1831
RICKETTS, SIR GEORGE WILLIAM, fourth son of George Crawford Ricketts, Ashford Hall, Ludlow, Shropshire, and Combe, Herefs., barrister, Attorney-Gen., Jamaica, and Frances, dau. of Nicholas Bourke, Speaker, Legislative Assembly, Jamaica; b. 21 Dec 1790 (IGI); adm. 16 Oct 1800; left by May 1803; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 26 Jan 1809, aged 18; adm. Middle Temple 3 Nov 1807, called to bar 27 Nov 1818; Judge of High Court, Madras, from 1825; knighted 23 Mar 1825; d. unm. 15 Jul 1831.
Skeete, John Brathwaite, 1775-1862
SKEETE, JOHN BRATHWAITE, eldest son of John Brathwaite Skeete, St. Peter’s, Barbados, West Indies, and Agnes, dau. of Henry Bishop and sister of Hon. William Bishop, President of Barbados; b. 4 Nov 1775; at school under Vincent one year (Adm. Reg. of Sidney Sussex Coll. ); Sidney Sussex Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 14 Jun 1793; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 24 Mar 1795; Chief Justice of Barbados to res. 1830; President of Barbados 1820, 1825, 1827, 1829, 1830, 1832; m. 11 Nov 1799 Mary Bishop; d. before 1862.
Thomson, Samuel Wells, ca. 1782-1812
THOMSON, SAMUEL WELLS, son of David Thomson, Hanover, Jamaica, “doctor” [probably medical practitioner]; b.; adm.; at school 1791; in school list 1795; Min. Can. 1796; KS 1797; probably Thomson who played cricket v. Eton on Hounslow Heath 25 Jul 1796 and at Lord’s 8 Aug 1799; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1800, matr. 12 Jun 1800, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1800 - void 11 Apr 1808; BA 1804; MA 1811; ordained; d. 30 Apr 1812, aged 30. Buried Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.
Trent, Francis Onslow, 1797-1846
TRENT, FRANCIS ONSLOW, son of John Trent (qv); b. 8 Feb 1797; adm. 6 Jan 1807; left 1810; Cornet, 14th Light Dragoons 8 Dec 1814; ret. 15 Jan 1818; m. 19 Feb 1818 Judith, eldest dau. of Sampson Wood Sober, The Polygon, Southampton, and Barbados, West Indies; d. 10 Apr 1846.
TRENT, JOHN, son of John Trent, Westminster, and Mary, dau. of Constantine Phipps, St. Kitts, West Indies; b.; adm. 29 Mar 1780; in school lists 1786; Queen’s Coll. Oxford, matr. 31 Aug 1787, aged 16; BA 1791; DCL 1793; of Dillington House, Ilminster, Somerset; m. 14 Dec 1792 Elizabeth, dau. of Constantine Phipps; d. 6 Aug 1796.