GRAHAM, JOHN, eldest son of John Smith Graham, Bernard Street, Bloomsbury, London, and Anne Elliott (IGI); b. 12 Dec 1812; adm. 10 Jan 1825 (Stelfox's); Wadham Coll. Oxford, matr. 27 Oct 1831; Newdigate Prize for English Verse 1833; migr. to New Inn Hall; BA 1837; ordained deacon (London) 12 Jun 1840, priest 6 Jun 1841; Curate, St. John’s, Hackney; his poem on Staffa, written for the Newdigate Prize in 1832, when he was defeated by Roundell Palmer (afterwards Earl of Selborne) was published in Blackwood’s Magazine, 1832; d. 28 Nov 1845.
GRAHAM, JOHN; b.; adm. 24 Oct 1790 (Clapham); at school 1793; in school lists 1795, 1797; left Mich. 1799.
Graham, Roderic Arthur, brother of Stuart Douglas Graham (q.v.); b. July 2, 1891; adm. Jan. 18, 1906 (G); left Easter 1910; R. M.C. Sandhurst 1910-1; 2nd Lieut. unattached Sept. 6, 1911, Indian Army Nov. 4, 1912; Lieut. 31st Punjabis Dec. 6, 1913; Capt. Sept. 6, 1915; served in France 1914-5, Egypt 1916, Mesopotamia 1916-8, and Salonika 1918; mentioned in despatches; Major Sept. 6, 1928; retired, and re-employed in Great War II with local rank of Lieut.-Col. as Commandant Indian State Forces Training School; O.B.E. June 13, 1946; d. 12 Oct. 1964.
Graham, Stuart Douglas, second son of Major William Bannatyne Graham, of the Manchester Regt., by Mary Beatrice, daughter of the Rev. Edward Halifax Hansell, Rector of East Ilsley, Berks; b. Feb. 18, 1890; adm. Sept. 24, 1903 (H); migrated up Grant's; left July 1908; R.M.A. Woolwich 1909; 2nd Lieut. R. A. July 23, 1910; Lieut. July 23, 1913; Capt. July 23, 1916; acting Major Dec. 30, 1916; served in Great War I 1914-9, on the staff on the western front and in Greek Macedonia, etc.; mentioned in despatches L. G. Jan. 1, 1916, and May 21, 1918; M.C. Jan. 1, 1916; p. s. c.; staff Capt. at the War Office 1926-8; Major May 1, 1927; Ede. Major, Aldershot, 1928-30, and in India 1934; Lieut.-Col. Jan. 1, 1937; Col. Jan. 9, 1939; Brigadier; wounded 1940; M.I. 11, War Office, 1941-3; chairman, Inter-Services Security Board; retired May 1946; Jurat of the Royal Court, Jersey, 1955-60; m. July 11, 1916, Marjorie Helen, elder daughter of George Harry Le Maistre, of London; d. 15 Dec. 1980.
Graham-Dixon, Anthony Philip, brother of Michael Stuart Graham-Dixon (qv); b. 5 Nov. 1929; adm. Sept. 1943 (KS); Capt. of the Sch. 1947; left July 1948; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1948, BA 1952 (1st class hons Litt. Hum. ), MA 1956; called to the Bar, Inner Temple Feb. 1956, Bencher 1982-6; QC 1973; board member, PHLS 1987-96, dep. chmn. 1988-96; m. 15 Dec. 1956 Margaret Suzanne, d. of Edgar Hurmon Villar; d. 6 Mar. 2012.
Graham-Dixon, Michael Stuart, son of Leslie Charles Graham-Dixon QC, barrister, of Nutley, Sussex, and Dorothy, d. of Alfred Rivett of Wanstead, Essex; b. 11 Nov. 1927; adm. Sept. 1940 (KS); left July 1946; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1946, BA 1949, MA 1953; publishing 1952-73; freelance book ed. 1974-86; artist and designer 1986-; m. 22 May 1954 Anita, d. of Henri Jules Theodore Falkenstein of Wimbledon; d. 26 Jan. 2001.
Grahame, Malcolm Claud Russell, son of William Francis Grahame, of the Madras Civil Service, by Mary, daughter of Edward Russell, of Dublin; b. May 16, 1878; adm. Sept. 22, 1892 (G); left July 1897; served as a trooper in the Sharpshooters in the South African War March 1900 to July 1901; L.R.C.P. and L.R.C.S. (Edin.) 1906; L.F.P.S. (Glasgow) 1906; M.B. and Ch.B. (Edin.) 1911; D.P.H. (Edin. and Glasgow) 1913; D.T.M. (Liverpool) 1913; served in the R.A.M.C. from Aug. 1914 to May 1919, when he was demob. with the rank of Capt.; was M.O.H. at Baghdad 1918; Deputy M.O.H. at Burnley, Lancs, from 1921; m. May 16, 1915, Olive Mary, daughter of Robert Brassey, of Cholmondeley, Cheshire; d. March 11, 1940.
Graham-Jones, Edward Christopher, son of the Rev. Charles Edward Graham-Jones, Rector of Cowden, Kent; b. Aug. 4, 1887; adm. Sept. 25, 1902 (A); left Dec. 1905; a civil engineer on the Canadian Northern Railways; drowned in the Fraser River Sept. 18, 1913.
Graham-Little, Esmond Birch, son of Sir Ernest Gordon Graham-Little MD MP and Sarah Helen, d. of Maurice Kendall; b. 9 Apr. 1915; adm. Sept. 1928 (B); left July 1933; Corpus Christi Coll. Camb., matric. 1933, BA 1936; called to the Bar (Gray's Inn) May 1938; RAFVR 1940-1 (FO); killed on active service 10 June 1942.
Esmond Birch “Bep” Graham-Little was born at Marylebone, London on the 9th of April 1915 the only son of Sir Ernest Gordon Graham-Little MD, FRCP, MRCS MP and Lady Sarah Helen (nee Kendall) Graham–Little of 19, Upper Wimpole Street, Marylebone and of 1, St George’s Gardens, Lynwood Road, Epsom in Surrey. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Busby’s from September 1928 to July 1933. He was awarded the Goodenough Medal for Modern Languages in 1933. He matriculated for Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in 1933 where he read Engineering and graduated with a BA in 1936. He later trained as a barrister and was called to the Bar at Gray’s Inn in May 1938.
He enlisted in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in May 1939 where he trained as a pilot and rose to the rank of Sergeant (754494) before being commissioned as a Pilot Officer on the 7th of September 1940. He was promoted to Flying Officer on the 7th of September 1941.
On the 10th of June 1942, Esmond Graham-Little took off from RAF Castle Camps in Mosquito NF Mk IIF DD603 with his observer, Warrant Officer Wilfrid Arthur Clement Walters, for a night flying exercise. The aircraft had been undertaking Air Indication exercises at around 10,000 feet and when the exercise was completed it turned and went into a shallow dive down through cloud towards the base. The cloud was 10/10ths with tops at between 4,000 and 6,000 feet. It was flying over Stansted Mountfitchet in Essex when it disintegrated in mid air and crashed at Bentfield Bury near Bishops Stortford at 5.05pm, killing both men.
The wreckage was spread over a large area with the aircrafts forward section and starboard engine both catching fire and burning out on the ground.
His funeral took place on the 13th of June 1942.
He is commemorated on the war memorial at Grays Inn and on the memorial at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
He is buried at Saffron Walden Cemetery Compt 39, Grave 10.
Graham-Maw, Nigel Nawton, son of Frederick Graham Maw, solicitor, of Dulwich, and Thelma Valentine, d. of Francis Shepherd Crisp of West Norwood; b. 4 July 1933; adm. Sept. 1946 (G); left July 1951; Pembroke Coll. Camb., matric. 1954, BA 1957, LLB 1958, MA 1961; adm. solicitor 1961; partner Rowe-Moore LLP, solicitors, 1961-93, sen. partner 1976-93; dep. chmn. Decca Ltd., chmn. 1979-80; m. 1st, June 1961 Elizabeth Jane Werry, professional musician, d. of Roy James Werry, headmaster; 2nd, 20 July 1984 Mrs Gillian Hunter, née Bradbury; d. 12 Apr. 2005.