PADDEY, JAMES, son of Francis Paddey, Shifnal, Shropshire, and Mary ---; b. 19 Sep 1756; went to Eton Coll. (KS there 1767-9); adm. 29 Jan 1770; KS 1770; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1775, adm. pens. 14 Jun 1775, scholar 26 Apr 1776; d. c. 1776.
PADDEY, FRANCIS, son of Thomas Paddey, Tottenham, Middlesex, and Catherine Byworth, St. Dunstan in the West, London; b.; adm. (aged 8) Jun 1751; Min. Can. 1757; KS 1758; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1762, adm. pens. 9 Jun 1762, scholar 6 May 1763, matr. Mich. 1762; BA 1766; MA 1769; ordained deacon (London) 21 Sep 1766; Chaplain, Trinity Coll. 1768-83; Vicar of Kellington, Yorks., from Jul 1770; m. 24 Apr 1783 Jane Wilson, widow; d. 26 Jan 1811.
PACKER, JOHN, son of Thomas Packer, Twickenham, Middlesex, Clerk of the Privy Seal, and Margaret Mauntlow; b. 12 Nov 1572; adm.; QS; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1589, adm. scholar 1590; BA 1593/4; Grand Tour (France); Secretary to Sir Henry Nevill, Ambassador in Paris; Envoy to Denmark 1610; Secretary to Earl of Somerset 1612, and subsequently to Sir George Villiers (1st Duke of Buckingham); Prothonotary of the Chancery, jointly with Francis Godolphin 13 Mar 1614; Clerk of Privy Seal 6 Sep 1618 – suspended by 13 Nov 1643 (holding post under reversionary grant dated 11 Jul 1604); a favourite at Court, and “was offered many times to be made Secretary of State, but always refused it” (HMC 10th report, pt. vi, 174); purchased manor of Groombridge, Speldhurst, Kent, and rebuilt Groombridge Chapel in gratitude for the safe return from Spain of Charles, Prince of Wales; MP West Looe 1628-9; a Commissioner for enquiring into abuses of the Fleet Prison 1635; declined to loan money to Charles I 1640, and thenceforth an ally of the parliamentary opposition; a Visitor of the University of Oxford 1 May 1647; a liberal benefactor to religious and charitable causes; a collection of letters and state papers formed by Packer was calendared HMC 2nd Report, 49-63, when in the possession of J. B. Fortescue, and a selection of them was edited for the Camden Society by S. R. Gardiner under the title The Fortescue Papers; a book of Greek and Latin verses composed by Packer when at Cambridge is Lansdowne MS 693 in the British Library; lic. to m. 3 Jul 1613 Philippa, sister of John Mylles (qv); d. 9 Feb 1648/9. DNB.
PACK, JOHN CHRISTOPHER, eldest son of Richard Pack, Flore Hall, Northants, and Mary Freeman (IGI); b. 22 Jul 1807; adm. 19 Jan 1821 (Stelfox's); left Bartholomewtide 1823; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 7 Dec 1825; BA 1829; adm. Middle Temple 23 Feb 1825; d. 17 Feb 1879.
PACE, WILLIAM, son of William Pace, London; b.; adm. 11 Jul 1770; KS (aged 14) 1777; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1781, adm. pens. 14 Jun 1781, scholar 19 Apr 1782, matr. Mich. 1781; BA 1785; MA 1819; ordained; Rector of Rampisham with Wraxall, Dorset, from 1794; d. 22 Mar 1845. [Perhaps bapt. Ingatestone, Essex, 17 Apr 1763, son of William Pace, and Ann --- (IGI)]
Oxley, Geoffrey Harold, son of Harold Oxley, stockbroker, of Sewardstonebury, Essex, and Lillian Tracey Butler; b. 29 Mar. 1914; adm. Jan. 1928 (R); left Dec. 1929; a stockbroker 1944-52; investment man. Wm Brandt Sons & Co. 1952, dir. 1969, retd from board 1975; a consultant and private co. director 1975-; m. 1st 14 Feb. 1942 Mary Beatrice, d. of John E. Foreman, med. practitioner, of Southbourne, Hants; 2nd 3 Sept. 1960 Gillian Iris Judd, d. of Capt. Gerald A. G. Young, of I. of Wight; d. 14 Sept. 1990.
OXENBRIDGE, DANIEL, only son of Rev. John Oxenbridge, Minister at Southam and at Gloucester, Puritan preacher; b.; adm.; QS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1589, matr. 30 Oct 1590, aged 19, Westminster Student to 1601, afterwards Faculty Student; BA 1593; MA 1596 (incorp. Cambridge 1612); MB and MD 1620; FRCP 1627; practised at Daventry, Northants, and afterwards in London; m. Katherine, second dau. of Thomas Harby, Adstone, Northants, and sister of Sir Job Harby, Bart., Commissioner of Customs; d. 24 Aug 1642.
OWEN, WILLIAM; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1611, Westminster Student 10 Jan 1611/2-20; BA 1615; MA 1618.
OWEN, WILLIAM, only son of Sir Richard Owen KCB FRS FRCS, Hunterian Professor, Royal Coll. of Surgeons, and Caroline Amelia, only dau. of William Clift FRS, Hampstead Road, Middlesex, Curator of Hunterian Museum, Royal College of Surgeons, and naturalist; b. 6 Oct 1837; adm. 25 Sep 1847 (Rigaud's); QS 1852; left 1852; Clerk, Foreign Office, from Dec 1854; m. 5 Jan 1867 Sarah Emily Fretwell, eldest dau. of Richard R. Frecheville; drowned at Kingston, Surrey 14 Mar 1886.
OWEN, WILLIAM, brother of Corbet Owen (qv); bapt. 6 Feb 1647/8; adm.; KS 1663; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1666, matr. 13 Jul 1666, aged 18, Westminster Student 3 Feb 1668 [sic : check] – void 1673; BA 1670; MA 1673; ordained deacon and priest 1672; Rector of Pontesbury (second portion), Shropshire, from 23 Sep 1672; Rector of Mucklestone, Staffs., 1672/3; m. 1679 Jane Niccolls; d. May 1682.