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FORSHALL, FREDERICK HALE, son of Rev. Josiah Forshall FRS, Chaplain, Foundling Hospital, and Keeper of Department of Manuscripts, British Museum, and Frances, only dau. of Richard Smith, Harborne Heath, Staffs.; b. 18 Nov 1829; adm. 3 Feb 1843 (Scott's); QS 1844; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1848, adm. pens. 5 Jul 1848, scholar 1849, matr. Mich. 1848; emigrated to Australia 1849; a private tutor at Sydney, New South Wales; Sydney Univ., matr. 1852, Chancellor’s Prize for Greek Iambics 1853; Librarian, Sydney Univ.; returned to England 1855; followed the occupation of a coach; ordained deacon 1885, priest 1886 (both Bath and Wells); held various curacies, but gave up holy orders 20 Nov 1894, under the provisions of the Clerical Disabilities Act; author, Westminster School past and present, 1884; d. 11 Aug 1901.

FOSTER, ALGERNON CRAWFORD, eldest son of Morgan Hugh Foster CB, Brickhill, Bedfordshire, Principal Financial Officer, HM Treasury, subsequently Governor and Dir. -Gen. Imperial Ottoman Bank, Constantinople, and Mary, dau. of George Flint; b. 1 Dec 1839; adm. 8 Jun 1853 (Scott's); d. unm. in India 26 Aug 1869.

FRANCIS, WILLIAM LEWIS, eldest son of Rev. James Francis, Lampeter, Cardiganshire, and Mary --- (IGI); b. 8 Dec 1833; adm. (Scott’s) 22 Sep 1848, BB; mentioned in F. Markham, Recollections of a Town Boy at Westminster, pp 62, 168; Oriel Coll. Oxford, adm. bible clerk 3 Mar 1852, matr. 3 May 1852.

FRITH, JAMES, second son of Rev. Edward Cockayne Frith, Bexley, Kent, and his second wife Margaretta, dau. of Rev. James Armetriding, Rector of Steeple Aston, Oxfordshire; b. 18 Apr 1821; adm. 10 Apr 1833 (Scott's); KS 1835; left 1835; went to Winchester Coll., scholar 1836; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 21 Oct 1840; BA 1844; MA 1848; ordained deacon 1845, priest 1846 (both Worcester); Curate, Martley, Worcs., 1845-8, Bishop’s Itchington, Warwicks., 1848-50, South Moreton, Bucks., 1852-65, Bisley, Gloucs., 1868-74; Vicar of St. Saviour’s, Coalpit Heath, Bristol 1874-81; Vicar of Alwington, Devon, from 1881; m. 10 May 1849 Eliza Cockayne, second dau. of Rev. William Cockayne Frith DCL, Rector of Wallingford, Berks.; d. 24 Sep 1901.

FYNES-CLINTON, HENRY, only son of Clinton James Fynes-Clinton (qv); b. 5 Feb 1826; adm. 31 Jan 1840 (Scott's); QS 1840; left 1844; University Coll. Durham; BA 1848; MA 1851; ordained deacon 1849, priest 1850 (both Lincoln); Vicar of Keddington, Lincs., 1850; Perpetual Curate of Bothamsall, Notts., 17 Feb 1851-69; Vicar of Hawthorn, co. Durham, 1870-2; Rector of Cromwell, Notts., from 1872; m. 9 Jul 1850 Sarah Catherine, youngest dau. of Rev. John Bainbridge Smith DD, Perpetual Curate of Baumber, Lincs., and Headmaster, Horncastle GS; d. 17 Oct 1911.

HARRISON, THOMAS, brother of William Bassett Harrison (qv); b. 13 Feb 1816; adm. 8 Apr 1829 (Scott's).

HEALE, HENRY NEWTON, brother of James Newton Heale (qv); b. 29 Mar 1843; adm. Jun 1854 (Scott's); d. 17 Jun 1859.

HEALE, JAMES NEWTON, son of James Newton Heale MD FRCS, Winchester, Hampshire, and Agnes Benson; b. 22 Jun 1837; adm. 30 May 1850 (Scott's); QS 1852; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1856, adm. pens. 5 May 1856, scholar 1857, matr. Mich. 1856; BA 1860; MA 1863; ordained deacon 1861, priest 1862 (both Lichfield); Curate, Wombourne, Staffs., 1861-3, Woodbury Salterton, Devon, 1866-9, Sible Hedingham, Essex 1869; Vicar of Swindon, Staffs., 1869; Rector of Addington, Kent 1869-83; Vicar of Orpington, Kent 1883-92; Rector of Harbledown, Kent 1892-9; Vicar of St. Thomas’s, Bethnal Green, London 1899-1908; m. 14 Jan 1868 Isabella Margaret, eldest dau. of John Wingfield-Stratford, Addington Place, Maidstone, Kent; d. 26 Dec 1921.

HENTY, FREDERICK, brother of George Alfred Henty (qv); b. 25 Jan 1835; adm. 24 Sep 1847 (Scott's); BB 14 Mar 1849; volunteered with brother for active service on outbreak of Crimean War; entered Hospital Commissariat Service, Army, and went out to Crimea spring 1855; d. of cholera at Scutari 1855.

HENTY, GEORGE ALFRED, son of James Henty, Godmanchester, Hunts., stockbroker, and Mary Bovill, dau. of Dr. --- Edwards, Wandsworth, Surrey; b. 8 Dec 1832; adm. 24 Sep 1847 (Scott's); Gonville and Caius Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 4 Apr 1851, matr. Mich. 1851, resided three terms; volunteered on outbreak of Crimean War and entered Hospital Commissariat Service, Army, serving in Crimea in 1855, later invalided home; Purveyor of the Forces 1 Oct 1855 – c. 1857; sent to Italy in 1859 to organise hospitals of Italian Legion during Austro-Italian war; later in charge of Belfast and Portsmouth districts, Commissariat Department; became a journalist in 1865; special war correspondent, The Standard 1866, reporting on Austro-Italian war of 1866, Franco-German and Turco-Servian wars, and accompanying Abyssinian and Ashanti expeditions; editor, The Union Jack, 1880-3; author, The March to Magdala, 1868, a number of novels, and some eighty books for boys, including Capt. Bayley’s Heir, in which there is an interesting account of the School in Liddell’s time; m. 1st, 1858 Elizabeth Finucane; m. 2nd, 1889 Elizabeth Keylock (his housekeeper); d. on board his yacht Egeria in Weymouth harbour, 16 Nov 1902. DNB Supp.