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CLEMENT, JOSEPH; b. ; adm. ; KS 1673.

CLELAND, JOHN, son of [Col. ?] William Cleland, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, Commissioner of Taxes, and Lucy du Pass; bapt. Kingston upon Thames 24 Sep 1710; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1720/1; KS 1722; left 1723; Consul at Smyrna, “very early in life” [but check : this seems unlikely]; in Bombay as soldier 1728; Writer, EICS Bombay 1731; Secretary to Council, Bombay, 1738; left EICS 1740; left India in a destitute condition, and for many years wandered round Europe; author, Fanny Hill, or the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, 1750; summoned before the Privy Council for writing it, but escaped punishment on pleading his poverty as an excuse; subsequently pensioned by Government, and took to writing for newspapers and the stage; d. 23 Jan 1789. DNB.

CLELAND, HENRY, brother of John Cleland (qv); bapt. Kingston upon Thames 13 Oct 1711; adm. Apr 1721 (as “Cleavland”); in under school list 1722; Min. Can. (aged 13) 1723, 1724; KS (Capt. ) 1725; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1728, matr. 25 Jun 1728, Westminster Student 23 Dec 1728 - void for absence 28 May 1733; see Pope’s letter to Lord Oxford, 3 Nov 1730, asking for “a recommendatory letter” to some worthy man at Ch. Ch. who “would countenance and have an eye” over his friend’s son (Elwin & Courthope, viii, 274-5). [Presumably Ensign, 2nd Foot Guards 11 Jun 1730, out of Regt. Feb 1733/4]

Clegg, Hugh Anthony, son of the Rev. John Clegg, of Lowestoft, Suffolk, Head Master of Lowestoft College, by Gertrude, daughter of John Wilson, of Hull; b. June 19, 1900; adm. as K.S. Sept. 24, 1914; elected to Trin. Coll. Camb. (with Samwaies and Triplett) July 1919, matric. Michaelmas 1919; scholar; 1st class Nat. Sci. Trip., part 1, 1922; B.A. 1922; M.B., B. Ch. 1928; St. Bartholomew's Hospital; M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. 1925; M.R.C.P. 1929; sub­editor of the British Medical Journal 1931, deputy editor 1934, editor 1947; m. Sept. 7, 1932, Kira, daughter of Baron Arthur Engelhardt, of Smolensk, Russia; d. 6 July 1983.

CLEAVER, WILLIAM, son of Euseby Cleaver (qv); b. 24 Mar 1789; adm. 18 Jan 1800; in school lists 1801, May 1803; KS 1803; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1807, matr. 13 May 1807, Westminster Student; Chancellor’s Prize for Latin Verse, 1808; BA 1812; MA 1818; Perpetual Curate of Tring, Herts.; Prebendary of St. Patrick’s, Dublin, 16 Jan - Jul 1819; Rector of Delgany, co. Wicklow, 1819-37; m. 22 Feb 1819 Mary, second dau. of Sir Digby Mackworth, Bart. (adm. 1778, qv); d. 28 Dec 1860.

CLEAVER, WILLIAM, eldest son of Right Rev. William Cleaver DD, Bishop of St. Asaph, and Anne, dau. of Ralph Assheton (qv); nephew of John Cleaver (qv); b. 11 Dec 1785; adm.; KS 1799; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1803, matr. 23 May 1803; BA 1807; MA 1809; ordained; Rector of Llanfawr, Merionethshire (still 1829), Vaynol, Flints. [check], and Corwen, Merionethshire, 27 Nov 1809; Precentor of St. Asaph, 11 Dec 1809-46; Perpetual Curate of Drelincourt [check], Denbighshire, 3 Sep 1811; Rector of Newtown, Montgomeryshire, 12 Oct 1811-4; Vicar of Bettws, Montgomeryshire, 26 May 1814; Rector of Denbigh, 17 Sep 1814-8; Rector of Wanlip, Leics., 17 Sep 1818-31; d. unm. 7 Dec 1854.

CLEAVER, JOHN, son of Rev. William Cleaver, Twyford, Bucks., Master of Buckingham School, and Martha, dau. of Rev. John Lettice, Vicar of Bozeat, Northants.; b. (Banbury, Oxfordshire); adm. (aged 13) Nov 1749 (Levett's); KS 1750; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1754, matr. 18 Jun 1754, Westminster Student from 27 Feb 1755, Catechist 1767, Junior Censor 1772, Librarian 1775; BA 1758; MA 1761; leave of absence from Ch. Ch. to be private tutor at Westminster Sch. 1760; ordained; Chaplain in Ordinary to George III from 1770; Curate, Cowley, Oxfordshire, 1773; Vicar of Frodsham, Cheshire, from 19 Oct 1774; Prebendary of Chester from 25 Apr 1775; d. unm. 24 Apr 1776.

CLEAVER, JOHN FRANCIS, brother of William Cleaver (KS 1799, qv); b. 16 Mar 1788; adm.; KS (Capt) 1801; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1805, matr. 25 May 1805, Westminster Student; 1st cl. Classics & 2nd cl. Math., 1808; BA 1809; MA 1811; ordained; Rector of Corwen, Merionethshire, 21 Apr 1812 (still 1829); Rector of Newtown, Montgomeryshire, 16 Jun 1814-5; Prebendary of St. Asaph from 6 Jan 1815; Vicar of Great Coxwell, Berks., from 23 Oct 1815; d. unm. 12 Mar 1861.

CLEAVER, HENRY OWEN, son of Euseby Cleaver (qv); b. 12 Aug 1796; adm. 30 Sep 1806; KS 1810; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1814, matr. 23 May 1814, Westminster Student; BA 1818; MA 1820; ordained; Perpetual Curate of Hawkhurst, Kent, 3 Feb 1826-32; m. 24 May 1826 Carolina Charlotte Wilhelmina, dau. of Count --- de Spaen [and Lady Louisa Eleanor King, dau. of Robert King, 2nd Earl of Kingston (I)]; d. 4 Jun 1837.

CLEAVER, EUSEBY, brother of John Cleaver (qv); b. 8 Sep 1745; adm.; KS 1759; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1763, matr. 9 Jun 1763, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1763 – void 10 May 1775 (expiry year of grace as R. Spofforth from 12 May 1774), Tutor 1767-74; BA 1767; MA 1770; BD and DD 1783; DD Trinity Coll. Dublin 1788; tutor to Earl of Egremont at Christ Church 1767; ordained deacon (Oxford) 20 Dec 1772; Rector of Spofforth, Yorks., 9 May 1774-83; Rector of Tillington, Sussex, 13 Mar 1783-9; Rector of Petworth, Sussex, 5 Apr 1783-9; Prebendary of Chichester 21 Feb 1787 – res by May 1789; Chaplain to Marquis of Buckingham when Lord Lieut. Ireland, 1787-9; consecrated Bishop of Cork and Ross 28 Mar 1789, translated to Ferns and Leighlin 13 Jun 1789; suffered heavy losses during rebellion of 1798, having his palace plundered and his library destroyed; Archbishop of Dublin from 25 Aug 1809; m. 2 May 1788 Catherine, dau. of Right Hon. Owen Wynne PC (I) MP (I), Hazlewood, co. Sligo; d. 10 Dec 1819. DNB.