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Ash, William Claudius Casson, elder son of William Henry Ash, of Heathfield, Sussex, by Mary Esther, daughter of Joseph Wellington Casson, of Dublin; b. Feb. 6, 1870; adm. Sept. 28, 1883 (D); migrated up Rigaud's; left July 1888; entered the Militia; 2nd Lieut. 2nd Batt. The Duke of Cambridge's Own (The Middlesex Regt.) Sept. 28, 1892; Lieut. July 31, 1895; Capt. March 14, 1900; served in the South African War 1902; Adjutant 5th Batt. Jan. 13, 1902- Jan. 12, 1907; Major April 1, 1909; temp. Lieut.-Col. Dec. 30, 1914 - Feb. 7, 1915; temp. Lieut.-Col. commanding 23rd (Service) Batt. of his Regt. Oct. 30, 1915; went out to the western front Nov. 4, 1914, was wounded at Loos Sept. 25, 1915, and invalided home; returned to the front May 3, 1916; mentioned in despatches L. G. Jan. 1, 1916, and Jan. 4, 1917; D.S.O. Jan. 1, 1916; m. March 1, 1894, Edith Learoyd, second daughter of Edward Wright Barnett, of Selly Oak; d. at Etaples Sept. 29, 1916, of wounds received at Fiers Sept. 15.

Aston, John, son of the Rev. John Walter Aston, Vicar of Ambleside, Westmorland, by Constance Helena, daughter of William Hinkes Cox, of Wimbledon; b. Nov. 18, 1879; adm. from Harrow School Sept. 28, 1893 (R); Q.S. Sept. 27, 1894; elected to an exhibition at Ch. Ch. Oxon. (with Triplett) July 1898, matric. Michaelmas 1898; B.A. 1902; M.A. 1908; asst. master at Hill Side School, Godalming, 1902-6, and at St. Clare, Walmer, 1906-9, Head Master at St. Clare from 1910; served in France as 2nd Lieut. 12th Batt. East Surrey Regt. Sept. 1916 -July 1917; dangerously wounded near Hollebeke, July 27, 1917 and was discharged for wound Feb. 1918 and gazetted Lieut.; author of sketches of Christ Church, Oxford (1902) and other works; d. Jan. 12, 1937.

ATHERLEY, EDWARD GAMBIER ELIOT, third son of Rev. Arthur Atherley, Vicar of Heavitree, Devon, and Prebendary of Chichester, and Amelia Elizabeth, dau. of Richard Dawkins, Commissioner of Excise; b. 18 Dec 1834; adm. 4 Oct 1849 (Rigaud's); Ensign, 45th Foot 3 Nov 1852; Lieut., 13 Oct 1854; Capt., 6 Nov 1860; 60th Rifles 2 Dec 1862; retd. 25 Oct 1864; d. 10 Oct 1898.

ATHERLEY, SIDNEY KERR BULLER, brother of Edward Gambier Eliot Atherley (qv); b. 22 Oct 1837; adm. 4 Oct 1849 (Rigaud's); went to Eton; Trin. Coll. Camb., adm. pens. 4 Apr 1854, readm. 23 Feb 1855, matr. Mich. 1855; m. 3 Apr 1877 Georgiana Louise, youngest dau. of Grenville Charles Lennox Berkeley, Commissioner of Customs; d. 27 Feb 1878.

Atherley-Jones, Ernest Egbert Stanley Bright, son of His Hon. Llewellyn Archer Atherley­ Jones, K . C., of Brayswick, Berks, Judge of the City of London Court, by Elizabeth Fanny, daughter of James David Lambert, of Chapel House, Durham; b. May 5, 1883; adm. May 6, 1897 (R); left July 1902; Magd. Coll. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1902; subsequently migrated to Worcester Coll.; called to the bar at the Inner Temple May 10, 1911; Midland Circuit; asst. private sec. to Lord Rhondda, Ministry of Food, and sometime Grain Officer, South Midlands, during Great War I; m. 1st June 29, 1911, Charlotte Abney, only child of Col. H. Walker, of the West Yorks Regt.; wd Oct. 26, 1922, Betty Fanny, daughter of the Rev. Henry William Richards, Rector of Stanwick, Northants; d. Feb. 25, 1936.

Atkinson, Edgar Hamilton, eldest son of Frederick William and Evelyn Margaret Atkinson, of Bayswater; b. July 22, 1883; adm. Sept. 30, 1897 (R); left Feb. 1900; served in Great War I; Gunner R. A.; a merchant in London; m. Oct. 14, 1924, Hilda Mary, daughter of Dr. F. S. Hardwick, of Charing, Kent; d. as the result of an accident Oct. 4, 1945.

Attenborough, Gerald Ralph, son of Ralph Ernest Attenborough, solicitor, of Bromley, Kent, and Dorothy Frances, d. of John Williams of Bromley; b. 28 Apr. 1911; adm. Sept. 1926 (R); left Dec. 1927 with serious illness; d. 30 June 1942.

Auld, Richard William Douglas, son of William Douglas Auld of Blackheath, Kent, and Edith Mary, d. of Rev. John Robinson Porter, Vicar of Warding, Sussex; b. 13 Jan. 1910; adm. Jan. 1924 (R); left Dec. 1926; adm. a solicitor 1932; staff of Port of Lond. Authority, later sen. legal asst Official Solicitor's Dept; d. 19 Dec. 1995.

Bailey, Geoffrey Grierson, son of Norman Coles Bailey (q.v.); b. March 10, 1899; adm. Sept. 26, 1912 (R); left April 1917; served in the R. F. C. May 2, 1917 - Sept. 23, 1919; D. F. C. June 8, 1918.

Bailey, William Lewis, only son of William Henry Bailey, M. D., of Southall, Middlesex; b. July 15, 1894; adm. Sept. 26, 1907 (R); exhibitioner 1908; left Easter 1911; admitted to the Middle Temple Oct. 4, 1920; employed at the League of Nations, Geneva; later of Featherstone Hall, Southall, Middx.; d. 1947.