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MILLAN, SAMUEL, son of Richard Millan, Friday Street, London, and Phoebe ---; bapt. St. Matthew, Friday Street, London 19 Mar 1730 (IGI); adm. (aged 13) Jan 1743/4 (Morel's); left 1748; Trinity Coll. Oxford, matr. 9 Jul 1748; BA 1752; MA 1755.

MOREL, WILLIAM, son of John Morel, London; b.; adm. (aged 9) Apr 1738 (Morel's); left 1745; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 18 Jun 1746, aged 17, scholar 22 May 1747, matr. 1747; BA 1749/50; MA 1761; ordained deacon (London) 2 Dec 1751, priest (Peterborough) 17 Mar 1753; Vicar of Harrowden, Northants 20 Mar 1753-80; Reading Chaplain, Whitehall (occurs 1783); presumably Rev. W. Morel who had the boarding house at 2 Little Dean’s Yard 1768 – 1781, and who is likely to have been the son of Mrs Morel who had a boarding house in Cowley Street 1738-54 and was the dame at 2 Little Dean’s Yard 1754-68; m. (widower at death); d. 23 Sep 1808. [Evidently son of John Nicolas Morel, St. James, Westminster, and Philippa Chancey, Chelsea, who m. 1727; John Nickolo Morel, St. John’s, Westminster, gentleman, will proved PCC 5 Jan 1749, Philippia Morel, widow, St. Margaret’s, Westminster, will proved PCC 3 Mar 1768]

MORELL, JOHN; b.; adm. (aged 8) Apr 1740 (Morel's); left 1745. [Evidently John Morel, son of John Morel and Philippa --- (IGI); bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 20 Apr 1732; a brother of William Morel (qv)].

NASH, CHARLES, son of Gawen Harris Nash, Petworth, Sussex, and his second wife Mary, dau. of Sir Robert Fagg, Bart., Wiston, Sussex; half-brother of Richard Nash (qv); bapt. 2 Jan 1728; adm. (aged 12) Sep 1742 (Morel's); St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 28 May 1746; BA 1749/50; MA 1761; ordained deacon 18 Mar 1753, priest Mar 1754 (both Norwich); Curate, Little Saxham, Suffolk 1753; Rector of Alborne, Sussex, from 31 Jan 1758; Rector of Twineham, Sussex, from Feb 1758; Rector of St. John Southover, Lewes, Sussex, from 19 Feb 1767; m.; d. 1777 (will proved PCC 10 Dec 1777).

ONSLOW, GEORGE, 1ST EARL OF ONSLOW, only son of Right Hon. Arthur Onslow PC MP, Imber Court, Surrey, Speaker of the House of Commons, and Anne, dau. of John Bridges, Thames Ditton, Surrey; b. 13 Sep 1731; adm. Sep 1739 (Morel's); Peterhouse, Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 12 May 1749; MA 1766; DCL Oxford 8 Jul 1773; adm. Middle Temple 14 Nov 1739; MP Rye 1754-61, Surrey 1761-74; a Lord of the Treasury Jul 1765 – Nov 1777; Privy Councillor 23 Dec 1767; a strong opponent of election of John Wilkes 1769; awarded damages in his action for libel against John Horne Tooke (qv) 1 Aug 1770; took active part in excluding strangers from gallery of House of Commons and in calling the printers to the bar of the House for publishing the debates 1771; created Baron Cranley 20 May 1776; succ. cousin as 4th Baron Onslow 8 Oct 1776; Lord Lieut., Surrey, from 20 Nov 1776; Comptroller of the Household 1 Dec 1777 – Dec 1779, Treasurer of the Household Dec 1779 – Sep 1780; a Lord of the Bedchamber from 15 Sep 1780; created Earl of Onslow 19 Jun 1801; m. Jun 1753 Henrietta, sister of Sir John Shelley, Bart. (qv); d. 17 May 1814. DNB.

OSBORNE, THOMAS, MARQUIS OF CARMARTHEN, elder son of Thomas Osborne, 4th Duke of Leeds (qv); b. 5 Oct 1747; adm. (Morel's); at school under Markham (Bentham, Works x, 31); a friend and contemporary of Jeremy Bentham (qv), who greeted his recovery from illness with a copy of fourteen Latin couplets (Elizabethan xiv, 29); d. at school of smallpox 15 Aug 1761.

PARTINGTON, THOMAS WALLEY, eldest son of Edward Partington, Chester, attorney, and Gertrude ---; b. 19 Mar 1728/9; adm. (aged 12) Apr 1742 (Morel's); left 1746; adm. Inner Temple 15 Dec 1746; articled clerk to Elisha Biscoe, London, solicitor; subsequently practised as an attorney in London; agent for the management of the Grosvenor estate in Mayfair; Lottery Commissioner; a witness at the trial of William Byron, 5th Baron Byron (qv), before the House of Lords Apr 1765 (Howell, State Trials, xix, col. 1219); Deputy Receiver-Gen., Jamaica 24 Aug 1776 (to hold post during lifetime of George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville (qv)); of Offham, Sussex; m. 1st, 11 Jul 1754 Elizabeth, sister of Robert Andrews (adm. 1742, qv); m. 2nd, 11 Dec 1756 Sarah, sister of James Trebeck (adm. 1741, qv); d. 8 Mar 1791.

PENNYMAN, SIR JAMES, BART., eldest son of Ralph Pennyman (qv); bapt. 6 Dec 1736; adm. Jun 1749 (Morel's); in school list 1754; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 10 May 1756; succ. uncle as 5th baronet 14 Jan 1770; MP Scarborough 27 Nov 1770-4, Beverley 1774-96; of Ormesby Hall, Yorks.; m. 1st, 7 Dec 1762 Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Henry Grey, Bart., Howick, Northumberland; m. 2nd, 14 May 1801 Mary Maleham, Westminster; d. 27 Mar 1806.

PHILIPPS, JOHN LOUIS, son of John Philipps, Coedgain, Carmarthenshire, and Elizabeth, widow of Rees Lloyd, Altycadas [county ?], and dau. of Thomas Bevan, Glasfryn, Denbighshire; b.; adm. (aged 14) Feb 1753 (as John Philips) (Morel's); KS 1753; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1758, matr. 24 May 1758, aged 18, Westminster Student 5 Jan 1759 – void 3 Jan 1769 (expiry year of grace as V. St. Clears from 11 Jan 1768); ordained priest (Oxford) 29 Jun 1763; Vicar of St. Clears, Carmarthenshire 1768; Vicar of Llangynin, Carmarthenshire; Vicar of Lampeter, Cardiganshire; Prebendary of St. David’s from 11 Aug 1768; Prebendary of Brecon 1787; d. 3 May 1795.

PHILIPS, PHILIP; b.; adm. (aged 16) Jun 1752 (Morel's).