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ATTERBURY, CHARLES LEWIS, son of Francis Atterbury (adm. 1749/50, qv); b. 31 Mar 1778; adm. ; Min. Can. 1791; KS 1792; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1796, matr. 26 May 1796, Westminster Student from 24 Dec 1796; BA 1800; MA 1803; ordained (deacon or priest ?) 24 Aug 1803 (Cloyne); Perpetual Curate, St. Thomas, Oxford 1809; Vicar of St. Mary Magdalene, Oxford, from 5 Jun 1815; killed by the overturning of the Sovereign coach, near Leamington, 26 Jul 1823.

ATTERBURY, FRANCIS, brother of Lewis Atterbury (qv); b. 6 Mar 1662/3; adm.; KS 1674; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1680, matr. 17 Dec 1680, aged 17, Westminster Student 18 Dec 1680-94 (void, perhaps on marriage), Tutor 1687-90; BA 1684; MA 1687; BD and DD 5 May 1701; replied to Obadiah Walker’s attack upon the Reformation 1687; assisted his pupil Hon. Charles Boyle in his defence of the genuineness of the Epistles of Phalaris against Bentley; ordained; Lecturer, St. Bride’s, London 1701; Chaplain in Ordinary to William III and Queen Mary, subsequently to Queen Anne; warmly opposed Erastianism and protested against the suppression of Convocation; Archdeacon of Totnes 11 Jun 1701-13; Prebendary of Exeter 6 May 1704; Dean of Carlisle 2 Oct 1704; Prolocutor of Lower House of Convocation 1710; Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, 28 Sep 1711-3; installed Dean of Westminster 16 Jun 1713 and consecrated Bishop of Rochester 15 Jul 1713; although he took part officially in the coronation of George I, he refused to sign the declaration of confidence in the government after the rebellion of 1715, and subsequently was in direct communication with the Jacobites; arrested and imprisoned in the Tower 24 Aug 1722, for his alleged connection with an attempt to restore the Stuarts; a bill of pains and penalties was passed through the House of Commons, and carried in the House of Lords by 83 votes to 43; deprived of all his ecclesiastical preferments 1 Jun 1723, and banished from the kingdom; visited in the Tower by some of the senior King’s Scholars before his departure; resided first at Brussels and afterwards in France as general adviser to the Old Pretender; a man of marked attainments, but cursed with an imperious and aggressive temper, and possessed of “a rare talent for fomenting discord”; his old friend George Smalridge (qv), who succeeded him both at Carlisle and at Christ Church, used to say that “Atterbury comes first and sets everything on fire, and I follow with a bucket of water”; regarded as one of the leading preachers of his day, and in Addison’s opinion was “one of the greatest geniuses of his age”; much to the annoyance of Old Westminsters, Atterbury removed the Election in 1718 from the School to the Jerusalem Chamber, and put down the Election Dinner (HMC Portland MSS, v, 561, vii, 275); owing to his insistence the new Dormitory was built on its present site, the first stone being laid 24 Apr 1722; Busby Trustee from 27 Feb 1705/6; m. c. 1695 Catherine Osborne; d. in exile in Paris 22 Feb 1731/2 and buried privately in the south aisle of the nave of Westminster Abbey 12 May 1732. DNB.

ATTERBURY, FRANCIS, son of Osborne Atterbury (qv); b. 15 Jun 1734; adm. Jan 1749/50 (Hutton's); KS 1750; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1755, matr. 28 May 1755, Westminster Student 5 Jan 1756 - 1 Oct 1770 (void, on expiry year of grace as P Cloyne), Tutor 1764-9, Junior Censor 1763, Senior Censor 1764-8; BA 1759; MA 1763; DCL 1768; Proctor 1767; rebuked before the Chapter of Christ Church by William Markham (qv) for a speech delivered by him as Senior Censor in Christ Church Hall 12 Dec 1768 (Thompson, Christ Church, 162-3); ordained; Prebendary of Cloyne 3 Oct 1769 - Dec 1770, Precentor of Cloyne from 1 Dec 1770; various incumbencies in Co. Cork 1769-77; Vicar of Clonmel and Templerobin, Co. Cork, from 1777; m. 1st, 21 Jan 1771 Mary, sister of Robert Berkeley (qv); m. 2nd, 23 Jan 1800 Anne Arabella Ingram, widow; d. 22 Jan 1822.

ATTERBURY, OSBORNE, son of Francis Atterbury (KS 1674, qv); b. 30 Mar 1705; adm. ; in under school list 1716 (paid no fees); KS (Capt) 1718; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1722, matr. 19 Jun 1722, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1722 - 11 Dec 1725 (void, he having been admonished for neglect of duty and exercises 4 Sep 1725); got into financial difficulties, and went into merchant navy; 5th Mate, E. I. Maritime Service 1728; 3rd Mate 1730; ordained deacon (Winchester) 21 Dec 1744; Rector of Oxhill, Warwicks. , from 1746; m. 1st, 10 Aug 1732 (IGI) Sarah, dau. of John Ashley, Isleworth, Middlesex; m. 2nd, ; d. 3 Sep 1752.

ATWOOD, GEORGE, eldest son of Rev. Thomas Atwood, Curate, St. Clement’s Danes, London, subsequently Curate and Lecturer, St. Margaret’s, Westminster, and Isabella, dau. of J[ohn ?] Sells, Inglesham, Wilts. ; bapt. 15 Oct 1745; in school list 1754; KS (aged 13) 1759; Capt. of the School 1764; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1765, adm. pens. 5 Jun 1765, scholar 2 May 1766, matr. Lent 1766; 3rd Wrangler and 1st Smith’s Prizeman 1769; BA 1769; Member’s (second) prize for Middle Bachelors 1770; MA 1772; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1770, Major Fellow 8 Jul 1772, Assistant Tutor 1773-9; FRS 13 June 1776; Copley Medal 1796; one of the patent Searchers of the Customs from 1784; Inspector of Tontine Certificates 21 Jun 1790; a distinguished mathematician to whom Pitt was indebted for services of great value; author, A treatise on the rectilinear motion and rotation of bodies, 1784, and other works; d. unm. Jul 1807. DNB.

ATWOOD, GEORGE, eldest son of Rev. George Atwood, Vicar of Milverton, Somerset, and Sarah, dau. of N. Gresley, and first cousin of George Atwood (qv); b.; in school lists 1764; KS (aged 13) 1765; d. from the results of an accident 5 Sep 1768.

Atwood, Wilfrid Murray, son of Frederick Atwood, of Kew, Surrey, by Lilian, daughter of Charles Nicholson Hunt, of Challow, Berks; b. Dec. 13, 1900; adm. Sept. 25, 1913 (A); left July 1919; A. C. A. Feb. 1925; F. C. A. 1936; practises in London; m. Aug. 28, 1926, Adela, daughter of Thomas Roland Francis, of London.

AUBER, CHARLES BRANSBY, younger son of Henry Peter Auber, London, Secretary to Directors of East India Co., and Jane, dau. of Rev. John Auber, Rector of Blaisdon, Gloucs.; b. 6 Apr 1820; adm. 30 Sep 1833 (Stelfox's); Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 18 Aug 1840, matr. Mich. 1840; BA 1845; ordained deacon 1845, priest 1846; Curate of Moreton Pinkney, Northants., in 1848; Rector of Clannaborough, Devon, 1853; m. 16 Nov 1847 Zoe Adelaide, only dau. of Charles Henry Barber QC, Bencher Grays’ Inn; d. 18 Jan 1867.

AUBIN, JOHN, son of J. Aubin; b.; adm.; KS 1694; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1699, matr. 21 Jun 1699, aged 22 [sic : check], Westminster Student 23 Dec 1699-1740 (void), Tutor 1707; BA 1703; MA 12 Mar 1705/6; ordained deacon 9 Dec 1708, priest 24 Sep 1709 [or 1710 ?] (both Oxford). [note will of John Aubin, surgeon, Marenne, St. Anne’s, Soho, proved PCC 4 Dec 1704 : father of this individual ?]

AUBREY, SIR JOHN, BART., eldest son of Sir Thomas Aubrey, Bart., and Martha, sister of Thomas Richard Carter (qv); b. 4 Jul 1739; adm. May 1752 (Hart's); KS 1754; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1758, matr. 24 May 1758, but not adm. as Westminster Student; DCL 8 Jul 1763; Grand Tour (Italy) 1764-5; MP Wallingford 1768-74, Aylesbury 1774-80, Wallingford 1780-4, Buckinghamshire 1784-90, Clitheroe 1790-6, Aldeburgh 1796-1812, Steyning 1812-20, Horsham from 1820; a Lord of the Admiralty Jul 1782 - Apr 1783; a Lord of the Treasury Dec 1783 - Apr 1789; succ. father as 6th baronet 4 Sep 1786; of Boarstall and Dorton, Bucks.; “father” of the House of Commons; m. 1st, 9 Mar 1771 Mary, dau. of Sir James Colebrooke, Bart., MP; m. 2nd, 26 May 1783 his cousin Martha Catherine, dau. of George Richard Carter, Chilton, Bucks.; d. 14 Mar 1826.