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Bourne, Vincent, 1694-1747

  • GB-2014-WSA-00332
  • Person
  • 1694-1747

BOURNE, VINCENT, son of Andrew Bourne, St. Martins in the Fields, Westminster, wig maker, and Ann --- (IGI); bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 22 Jul 1694 (IGI); adm.; Min. Can. (aged 14) 1709; QS 1710; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1714, adm. pens. 27 May 1714, scholar 13 May 1715, matr. 1715; BA 1717/8; MA 1721; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll., 6 Sep 1720, Major Fellow 5 Jul 1721; an Usher at the School 1720 - Sep 1747; kept a boarding house in Cowley Street 1731-40 and in College Street 1741 to death 2 Dec 1747, where he was succeeded by Mrs.Porten. First of thirty-one recorded boarders adm. Jan.1735/6, last recorded boarder adm. Oct 1745. Five further boarders, adm. between Jun 1749 and Jan 1751/2, are described in Dr.Nicoll’s admission book as boarding with “Bourne”, and it may be that these were boarders with Bourne’s widow Lucia, presumably at a different address from that in College Street; Housekeeper and Deputy Serjeant-at-Arms, House of Commons, Nov 1734; an indolent teacher and a lax disciplinarian; William Cowper (qv), who loved “the memory of Vinny Bourne” and translated a number of his old master’s Latin poems into English verse, relates seeing the Duke of Richmond “set fire to his greasy locks and box his ears to put it out again” (Southey, Life and Works of William Cowper, iv, 98); a Latin poet of great charm, “sucking from every flower, making a flower of everything, his diction all Latin and his thoughts all English” (Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1905, vi, 457); published his Poemata, Latine partim reddita partim scripta, 1734; m. 25 Mar 1727 Lucia, widow of George Jewell (qv); d. 2 Dec 1747. DNB.

Brady, Nicholas, 1659-1726

  • GB-2014-WSA-00336
  • Person
  • 1659-1726

BRADY, NICHOLAS, son of Maj. Nicholas Brady, Bandon, co. Cork, and Martha, dau. of Luke Gernon, Second Justice, Presidentiary Court of Munster, Ireland; b. 28 Oct 1659; adm.; KS (Capt. ) 1673; elected to Ch. Ch. Oxford 1678, matr. 4 Feb 1678/9, Westminster Student 26 Dec 1678 - deprived 1682; Trinity Coll. Dublin; BA 1685; MA 1686; BD and DD 1699; ordained priest (Cork) 28 Sep 1687; Chaplain to Right Rev. Edward Wetenhall (qv), Bishop of Cork; actively resisted the pro-Roman Catholic policy of James II; Prebendary of Cork, 9 Jul 1688- Sep 1692; held incumbencies in co. Cork 1688-92; Rector of St. Catherine Cree, London, 13 Jul 1691 – 30 Jun 1696; Chaplain to William III and Mary II, and to Queen Anne; Perpetual Curate of Richmond, Surrey, from 1696; kept a private school there, referred to in no. 168 of The Spectator; Rector of Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, 10 Nov 1702 – Jun 1705; Rector of Clapham, Surrey, from 21 Feb 1705/6; Chaplain to Caroline, Princess of Wales; joint author with Nahum Tate of a metrical version of the Psalms; author, The Rape, or the Innocent Impostors, 1692, and other works; m. 29 Jun 1690 Letitia, dau. of Ven. Richard Synge, Archdeacon of Cork; d. 20 May 1726. DNB.

Bramston, James, 1694?-1744

  • GB-2014-WSA-00338
  • Person
  • 1694?-1744

BRAMSTON, JAMES, son of Francis Bramston, Chelmsford, Essex, and Sarah, dau. of Sir William Glascock, Kt; b.; adm.; BB in 1704; QS (aged 14) 1708; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1713, matr. 23 Jun 1713, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1713-22 (void); BA 1717; MA 1720; adm. Middle Temple 20 May 1718; ordained deacon (Oxford) 12 Jun 1720, priest (Winchester) 5 Mar 1720/1; chaplain to a regiment; Vicar of Lurgashall, Sussex, from 10 Mar 1723/4; Domestic Chaplain to John Ashburnham, 2nd Earl of Ashburnham (qv), 5 Nov 1739; Vicar of Harting, Sussex, from 7 Nov 1739; a poet; author, The Art of Politicks, 1729, The Man of Taste, 1733, and other poems; m. (by 1 Mar 1723/4) Elizabeth ---; d. 16 Mar 1743/4. DNB.

Brett, Arthur, ca. 1636-1677

  • GB-2014-WSA-00341
  • Person
  • ca. 1636-1677

BRETT, ARTHUR, son of John Brett, Middlesex; b.; adm.; KS (aged 14) 1650; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1653, matr. 20 Jul 1654, Westminster Student; BA 6 Feb 1656/7; MA 1659; ordained; Rector of Templeton, Devon, 1662; Vicar of Market Lavington, Wilts., 10 May 1670, but shortly afterwards resigned his living and came up to London, where he fell into poverty and begged in the street; author, A Poem on the Restoration of King Charles II, 1660, and other poems; d. c. 1677. DNB.

Browne, Thomas Gunter, 1756-1834

  • GB-2014-WSA-00351
  • Person
  • 1756-1834

BROWNE, THOMAS GUNTER, second son of Thomas Gunter Browne, St. John’s, Antigua, and Ann, dau. of William Dickinson, Antigua; b. 3 Nov 1756; adm. 17 Jan 1770; KS 1771; elected to Trin. Coll. Camb. 1775, adm. pens. 15 Jun 1775, scholar 26 Apr 1776, did not matr.; Cornet, 3rd Dragoons, 24 Nov 1777; Lieut., 37th Foot 28 Mar 1778; Capt., 102nd Foot, 9 Oct 1781; 60th Foot, 24 Oct 1781; half-pay from 1783; subsequently resided in France; author, Hermes Unmasked, 1795; d. 1834.

Brydges, Henry, 1675-1728

  • GB-2014-WSA-00352
  • Person
  • 1675-1728

BRYDGES, HON. HENRY, brother of James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos (qv); b. 20 Jan 1674/5; adm. 1686; KS 1688; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1691, matr. 4 Jul 1691, aged 15, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1691-9 (void); BA 1695; MA 1698; BD and DD 1711; ordained; Rector of Broadwell with Adlestrop, Gloucs., 1699-1717; Chaplain to Factory at Aleppo, 1701; Proctor in Convocation for Diocese of Gloucester, 1705; Chaplain in Ordinary to Queen Anne and George I; Archdeacon and Prebendary of Rochester from 24 May 1720; Rector of Amersham, Bucks., from 1721; Prebendary of St. Paul’s from 26 Apr 1722; Visitor of Balliol Coll., Oxford, 17 Jun 1723; Busby Trustee from 28 Jan 1719/20; m. 7 Jun 1705 Annabella, dau. of Edward Atkyns (qv); d. 9 May 1728.

Burke, William, 1730-1798

  • GB-2014-WSA-00365
  • Person
  • 1730-1798

BURKE, WILLIAM, eldest son of John Burke (or Bourke), Middle Temple and St. James’s, London, and his first wife Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Burke, London, vintner; b.; adm. (aged 13) Sep 1742 (Durand's); KS 1743; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1747, matr. 26 Jun 1747, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1747 - 26 Jun 1761 (void), leave of absence on appt. as Secretary, Guadeloupe, 25 Aug 1759; BCL 1755; adm. Middle Temple 26 May 1750, called to bar 28 Nov 1755; Secretary and Registrar, Guadeloupe, 1759-63; Under-Secretary of State, Jul 1765 - Feb 1767; MP Great Bedwyn 16 Jun 1766-8, 29 May 1768-74; lost substantial sums of money in speculations on the Stock Exchange, 1769; in India 1777-8, becoming agent for Rajah of Tanjore; again in India 1780-93, initially at Madras, subsequently at Calcutta; Deputy Paymaster of the Forces, East Indies, 1782-93; present at OWW dinner at Calcutta 1783 (Hickey, Memoirs, iii, 245-6); figures in Goldsmith’s Retaliation; lived on intimate terms with his distant kinsman Edmund Burke, with whom he wrote An Account of the European Settlements in America, 1757; author of two pamphlets on the peace negotiations, 1759 and 1761; d. Mar 1798. DNB.

Burnaby, Andrew, 1732-1812

  • GB-2014-WSA-00366
  • Person
  • 1732-1812

BURNABY, ANDREW, eldest son of Rev. Andrew Burnaby, Brampton Manor House, Hunts., Prebendary of Lincoln and Rector of Asfordby, Leics., and Hannah, dau. of George Beaumont, Darton, Yorks.; b. 16 Aug 1732 (IGI); adm. (aged 14) Jan 1746/7 (Preston's); Min. Can. 1747; KS 1748; left 1748; Queen’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 8 Mar 1749/50, matr. 1750; BA 1754; MA 1757; DD 1776; ordained deacon 23 Feb 1755, priest 19 Sep 1756 (both Lincoln); travelled in North America 1759-60; Chaplain at Leghorn, 1762-7; Vicar of Greenwich, Kent, from 1769; Archdeacon of Leicester from 25 Jan 1786; author, Travels through the Middle Settlements of North America, 1775, A Jounal of a Tour in Corsica in the Year 1766, 1804, and other works; m. 26 Feb 1770 Anna, dau. of John Edwyn, Baggrave Hall, Leics.; d. 9 Mar 1812. DNB.

Butt, George, 1741-1795

  • GB-2014-WSA-00375
  • Person
  • 1741-1795

BUTT, GEORGE, second son of Carey Butt, Lichfield, Staffs., surgeon, and Elizabeth, dau. of John Marten, Lichfield, Staffs., apothecary; b. 26 Dec 1741; in school list 1754; KS 1756; his acting as Demea in the Adelphi in 1759 was so successful that “he was, as he declared, for the only time in his life, overflowing with money forced upon him by the liberality of his audience” (Life and Times of Mrs Sherwood, 1910, 4); Capt. of the School 1760; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1761, matr. 21 May 1761, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1761 - void 8 Oct 1772, expiry year of grace as R. Stanford and V. Clifton; BA 1765; MA 1768; BD and DD 1793; ordained deacon 2 Jun 1765, priest 20 Sep 1767 (both Oxford); Curate of Leigh, Staffs.; had leave of absence from Ch. Ch. to act as tutor in private family (Winnington of Stanford Court), 17 Dec 1765; Rector of Stanford on Teme, Worcs., from 31 Aug 1771; Vicar of Clifton, Worcs., Aug 1771 - res Mar 1787; Vicar of Newchurch, Isle of Wight, 1778-83; Rector of Notgrove, Gloucs., 1783; Chaplain in Ordinary to George III 1783 (still 1793); Vicar of Kidderminster, Worcs., from 23 Feb 1787; one of the circle of minor poets and literary ladies who gathered round Anna Seward, the “Swan” of Lichfield; author, Isaiah Versified, 1784, and other poems; in his Poems, 1793, ii, 107, he refers to his “partialities for Westminster School”; m. 26 Apr 1773 Mary Martha, dau. of Henry Sherwood, Coventry, Warwicks., a London silk merchant; d. 30 Sep 1795. DNB.

Carkesse, James, ca. 1635-?

  • GB-2014-WSA-00401
  • Person
  • ca. 1635-?

CARKESSE, JAMES, son of James Carkesse, Hackney, Middlesex, and of City of London, Turkey merchant, and Mary, dau. of Rowland Beresford, London; b.; adm.; KS (aged 13) 1648; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1652, matr. 26 Jan 1652/3, Westminster Student; BA 3 Feb 1656/7; MA 1659; refused grace for BA four times, and before his admission was compelled to apologise for some insult which he had offered his college; in 1658 Busby certified that Carkesse “is of the same standing as those Westminster scholars who take the MA degree this Act 1658”, and that he “was only hindered from residence by the tenuity of his fortunes, which compelled him to reside in Westminster College for a maintenance, and to wait five terms for admission to a student’s place, to which he was elected” (CSP Dom 1658-9, 40); Usher, Magdalen Coll. Sch. 1655, 5 Jan 1662/3-3, Head Master 1663-4; a clerk in the Seamen’s Ticket Office, Navy Office, Aug 1665 - Mar 1667, Mar 1668 - Sep 1670, Mar 1672 - Jun 1673; confined to Bedlam, but released in 1678; Head Master, Chelmsford Sch., 1683; FRS 23 Mar 1663/4, expelled 18 Nov 1675; author, Lucida Intervalla, containing divers miscellaneous poems written at Finsbury and Bethlem by the doctor’s patient extraordinary, 1679; lic. to m. 23 Nov 1663 Arabella Walesson, St. Faith’s, London. DNB.

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