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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.

FENDALL, CHARLES WHITELOCKE, youngest son of Rev. Henry Fendall, Rector of Nunburnholme, Yorks.; b. 27 Apr 1835; adm. 26 Apr 1848 (Scott's); QS 1850; left 1851; emigrated to New Zealand; drowned in the Rangitata, Canterbury, New Zealand 1859.

BOURNE, CHARLES JOHNSTON, son of Robert Burr Bourne (qv); b. 24 Aug 1835; adm. 4 Feb 1848 (Scott's); Min. Can. 1850; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 8 Jun 1854; BA 1859; ordained; Curate, Crawley, Hants.; d. at Nice 15 Feb 1861.

BOURNE, ROBERT, son of Robert Burr Bourne (qv); b. 3 Jul 1832; adm. 4 Feb 1848 (Scott's); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 12 Jun 1851; Ensign, 2nd West India Regt., 11 Nov 1853; Lieut., 15 Feb 1855; Capt., 7 Dec 1855; 54th Foot, 5 Sep 1856; retd. 5 Jun 1857; Hon. Lieut. -Col., Worcestershire Volunteers, 1873-82; DL Worcestershire, JP (1861) Worcs.; High Sheriff, Herefordshire, 1890, JP Herefordshire; of Cowarne Court, Herefs.; m. 6 Jan 1857 Anna Eliza, youngest dau. of Samuel Baker, Lypiatt Park, Gloucs.; d. 30 Jun 1915.

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.

KARSLAKE, HENRY JOHN, son of Henry Karslake, Regent Street, London, solicitor, and ---, dau. of Richard Preston QC MP, Ashburton, Devon; b. 14 Feb 1832; adm. from King’s Coll. Sch. 3 Jun 1847 (Scott's); left Midsummer 1848; adm. solicitor Hilary 1855; Roman Catholic convert 1862; took priest’s orders in Roman Catholic Church; Religious Inspector of Schools, Archdiocese of Westminster; secular priest at Dartmouth, Devon; d. 3 Jan 1902.

UPPERTON, CLEMENT, brother of Charles Stuart Upperton (qv); b. 11 Mar 1834; adm. 3 Jun 1847 (Scott's); QS 1849; left 1853; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 19 May 1853; BA 1858; MA 1865; adm. Middle Temple 14 May 1857; adm. solicitor, Hilary 1865; practised in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, firm Baker Folder & Upperton; m. 19 Dec 1871 Emily, widow of James Lillyman Martel Lees, and dau. of John Brady MD MRCS LSA MP, Ely, Cambridgeshire; d. 12 Apr 1918.

WEBBER, WILLIAM GEORGE EVERARD, son of William Charles Webber (qv); b. 12 Aug 1832; adm. 30 Jan 1847 (Scott's); left Christmas 1848; Ensign, 42nd Foot 23 Nov 1852; Lieut., 11 Aug 1854; Capt., 10 Aug 1855; served in Crimean War 1854-5; m. 4 May 1858 Catherine, only dau. of Col. --- Hammond, Lauriston House, Dover, Kent; d. at Sukkur, India 9 Jul 1866.

JENNINGS, AMBROSE DAWSON, only son of Rev. John Jennings, Canon of Westminster and Rector of St. John’s, Smith Square, Westminster, and Jane, youngest dau. of Pudsey Dawson, Langcliffe Hall, Yorks.; b. 19 Sep 1833; adm. 1 Oct 1848 (Scott's); QS 1848; left Aug 1849; Cadet, EICS Bengal 1850; Cornet, 10th Light Cavalry 6 Dec 1850; Lieut., 27 Nov 1853; 2nd European Cavalry 18 May 1858; Capt., 4 Jul 1862; Maj., unattached, 12 Oct 1863 – 16 May 1867; served in Indian Mutiny.