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AYLESBURY, SIR THOMAS, BART., second son of William Aylesbury, St. Andrew’s, Holborn, London, and his first wife Anne, dau. of John Poole, Sapperton, Gloucs.; b.; adm.; QS in 1596; elected head to Ch. Ch. Oxford 1598, matr. 24 Nov 1598, aged 18, Westminster Student to 1612; BA 1602; MA 1605; MA Camb. (lit. reg. ) 1635/6; Secretary to Earl of Nottingham and Duke of Buckingham as successive Lord High Admirals; created baronet 19 Apr 1627; one of the Masters of Requests 1625 – c. 1641 (paid to 25 Mar 1641); Master of the Mint Aug 1635-42, holding post jointly with Sir Ralph Freeman until their suspension by Parliament as Royalist supporters; retired to the Low Countries after the death of Charles I; a learned mathematician, and a great “encourager of learning and learned men”; lic. to m. 3 Oct 1611 Anne, widow of William Darell, and eldest dau. of Rev. Francis Denman, Rector of West Retford, Notts.; d. at Breda, Netherlands 1657. DNB.

AUSTEN, GREAVES; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1657, subscribed 23 Oct 1657, Westminster Student; BA 16 Jan 1660/1; Master of Ottery St. Mary GS from 1662; under his mastership the school seems to have reached the height of its prosperity, “he having for many years together near 200 scholars under his care”; buried Ottery St. Mary, Devon 22 Jun 1699.

AUNGIER, JOHN, brother of Francis Aungier, 1st Baron Aungier of Longford (qv); b.; adm.; Min. Can. 1580 (aged 15); QS ; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1583, adm. scholar 1584; BA 1587/8; MA 1591; LLD 1616; Fellow Trinity Coll. 1589-1614, Junior Bursar 1603-5, Senior Fellow 1611-4; Taxor 1607; Proctor 1610; ordained; Prebendary of Peterborough from 8 Jun 1615; m. Anne, dau. of Giles Cotton, Trumpington and Harston, Cambs.; buried Peterborough Cathedral 17 Aug 1630.

AUNGIER, FRANCIS, 1ST BARON AUNGIER OF LONGFORD (I), son of Richard Aungier, Cambridge, and Anne, dau. of William Stewart, Cambridge; bapt. 14 May 1558; adm.; QS in 1570; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1573, adm. scholar 1574, matr. Easter 1574; adm. Gray’s Inn 25 Nov 1577, called to bar 17 Jun 1583; QC; Bencher, Gray’s Inn 1602; MP Newcastle-under-Lyme 1588-9, Haslemere Sep 1597 - Feb 1597/8; knighted 28 May 1609; Master of the Rolls (I) from 5 Oct 1609; Privy Councillor (I) by 1611; Joint Lord Keeper (I) Apr - May 1619; created Baron Aungier of Longford (I) 29 Jun 1621; m. 1st, by 1589, Douglas, youngest dau. of Hon. Edward Fitzgerald, and sister of Gerald Fitzgerald, 16th Earl of Kildare (I); m. 2nd, Anne, dau. of Sir George Barne, Kt; m. 3rd, Margaret, widow of Sir John Wynn, Bart., Gwydir, Caernarvonshire, and dau. of Sir Thomas Cave, Kt, Stanford, Northants.; d. 8 Oct 1632.

AUNGIER, EDWARD, son of Edward Aungier, Cambridge, and his first wife Mary Holland, Ely; nephew of Francis Aungier, 1st Baron Aungier of Longford (qv); b.; adm.; KS in 1619; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1621, adm. scholar 1622, matr. 1622; BA 1625/6; MA 1629; ordained deacon 9 Mar 1627/8, priest 10 Mar 1627/8 (both Peterborough); Rector of Dry Drayton, Cambs., from 1633; m. Margaret, dau. of John Partenson, Ashbourne, Derbs.; buried Dry Drayton, Cambs. 3 Sep 1665.

AUNGIER, HON. AMBROSE, son of Francis Aungier, 1st Baron Aungier of Longford (qv), and his first wife; b.; adm.; KS 1609; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1613, adm. scholar 1614; BA 1617/8; MA 1621; Fellow of Clare Coll. 8 Jun 1620; ordained deacon 15 Aug 1624, priest 16 Aug 1624 (both Peterborough); Prebendary of St. Patrick’s, Dublin, 1629, Treasurer 1628-32, Chancellor from 1636; m. Griselda, dau. of Most Rev. Lancelot Bulkeley DD, Archbishop of Dublin; d. 1654.

AUDELEY (alias SAMPSON), JOHN, son of Sampson Audeley, Verger of the Abbey, and his first wife; b. ; adm. ; KS 1542-4; appears in the accounts as John Sampson and once, at Mich. 1543, as John Audeley; printer and miscellaneous writer; produced ballads, news sheets and religious tracts at his printing house in Little Britain, Aldersgate, London; fined several times for printing “other men’s copy”; author and printer, The Fraternitye of Vagabondes, 1565; m. ; d. Aug (?) 1575. DNB s. v. Awdelay (and TLS 5 May 1932).

AUDELEY (alias SAMPSON), HUMPHREY, brother of John Audeley (alias Sampson) (qv); b. ; adm. ; KS 1542-4; appears in the accounts as Humphrey Sampson and once, at Mich. 1543, as Humphrey Audeley (Chapter Muniments); buried St. Margaret’s, Westminster 16 May 1550.

AUBREY, WILLIAM AUBREY LLOYD PHILLIPS, son of Rev. John Evans, Crickhowell, Breconshire, and Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Smith Philipps, Milford Haven, Pembs.; b. 28 Aug 1855; adm. 3 Feb 1869 (James'); BB 10 Feb 1869; QS 1870; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1874, matr. 28 May 1874; BA 1878; assumed surname of Aubrey in lieu of Evans 1879; a journalist; on staff Westminster Gazette; living Llanwnda, Pembrokeshire, in 1881 (1881 Census).

AUBREY, RICHARD, brother of Sir John Aubrey, Bart. (qv); b. 26 May 1744; adm.; KS 1759; Exeter Coll. Oxford, matr. 23 May 1765; migrated to All Souls Coll.; BA 1771; MA 1775; Fellow of All Souls 1768; of Ashill, Glamorgan; Col., Royal Glamorgan Militia, from 19 May 1797; m. 20 Feb 1780 Frances, third dau. of Hon. Wriothesley Digby; d. 31 Mar 1808. [perhaps Richard Gough Aubrey, Yuiskedwin, Breconshire, will proved PCC 21 Apr 1808]