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VARDY, EDWARD, brother of John Vardy (qv); b.; in school list 1754; KS 1760; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1765, matr. 7 Jun 1765, aged 19, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1765 - void 12 Jul 1783 (expiry year of grace as Perp. C. Market Harborough from 8 Jul 1782); BA 1769; MA 1772; ordained deacon 23 May 1769, priest 14 Jan 1772 (both Oxford); Perpetual Curate of Market Harborough and Great Bowden, Leics., from 1780 [check]; Rector of Llan-y-Meurig, [check county] 1782-98; Rector of Yelvertoft, Northants, from 1785; d. 23 Jul 1824.

VANE, HON. FREDERICK, brother of Henry Vane, 2nd Earl of Darlington (qv); b. 26 Jun 1732; adm. Jan 1739/40 (Watts'); KS 1746; still at school 1749; Pembroke Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 30 Jan 1749/50, matr. 1750; reprimanded by Vice-Chancellor for interfering with Senior Proctor in exercise of his duties on the occasion of the Westminster club dinner, presided over by Thomas Francklin (qv), 17 Nov 1750; MP co. Durham 1761-74; Deputy Treasurer, Chelsea Hospital; of Sellaby, co. Durham; m. 1st, 15 Jun 1758 Henrietta, sister of Sir William Meredith, Bart. (qv); m. 2nd, 1796 Jane, dau. of Arthur Lysaght, and niece of John Lysaght, 1st Baron Lisle (I); d. 28 Apr 1801.

UVEDALE, ROBERT, son of Robert Uvedale, St. Margaret’s, Westminster, and Margaret ---; b. 25 May 1642; adm.; KS 1656; while at school is said to have snatched one of the escutcheons from the bier at Oliver Cromwell’s funeral Nov 1658 (G. F. Russell Barker, Memoir of Richard Busby, 17-8); elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1659, adm. pens. 10 May 1659, scholar 1659, matr. 1660; BA 1662/3; MA 1666; LLD 1682; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1664 - c. 1679; Master, Enfield GS 1664; also kept boarding school at The Old Palace, Enfield, where he is supposed to have planted the Enfield cedar c. 1670; ordained deacon (London) Mar 1665/6, priest 9 Jan 1691/2 (sic); Rector of Orpington with St. Mary Cray, Kent, from 1691/2; Rector of Barking and Needham, Suffolk 1700; famous for his skill in cultivating exotic plants, and one of the earliest possessors of hothouses in England; most of his collection of growing plants were purchased at his death by Sir Robert Walpole for his garden at Houghton, Norfolk; his Herbarium in fourteen volumes is in the Sloane collection, British Museum; the genus Uvedalia was named in his honour by Petiver; contributed the life of Dion to Dryden’s translation of Plutarch, 1683-6; m. 20 Jun 1678 Mary, second dau. of Edward Stephens, Cherington, Gloucs., and grand-daughter of Sir Matthew Hale; d. 17 Aug 1722. DNB.

UTHWATT, HENRY UTHWATT, second son of William Andrews, Inner Temple, London, and Buckingham, Bucks., barrister, and Hannah, dau. of Farmer Shillingford, Buckingham, Bucks.; b. 15 Aug 1755; adm. 29 Jan 1770; KS 1774; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1773, adm. pens. 9 Jun 1773, scholar 22 Apr 1774, matr. 1774; BA 1777; ordained priest (Peterborough) 20 Dec 1789; Curate, Plumpton, Northants 1789, afterwards Blakesley, Northants; assumed surname of Uthwatt in lieu of Andrews 18 Mar 1803, having inherited estate of Uthwatt family at Great Linford, Bucks.; m. 10 Mar 1783 Judith, dau. of Thomas Yates, Culworth, Northants; d. 1 Oct 1812.

Usher, Cyril George, son of Samuel Lawry Usher, of Clifton, Bristol, solicitor, by Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Woodfin, of London; b. April 22, 1892; adm. as K.S. Sept. 28, 1905; left July 1909; Ch. Ch. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1912; Lieut. South Wales Borderers Feb. 12, 1915; served in Gallipoli, Egypt, and Mesopotamia; M.C. Aug. 16, 1917, Bar Aug. 25, 1917; m. Sept. 22, 1923, Dorothy Margaret, daughter of John H. Worsfold, of London.

Usher, Charles Glyn, son of Gilbert Lewis Dumper of St Cross, Winchester, Hants, and Hilda Dorothea, d. of Col. Gerald Henry Farrell of Alverston Hall, Cheshire; b. 12 May 1925; adm. Sept. 1938 (B), (KS) 1939; left July 1943; assumed the name of Usher in lieu of Dumper 1943; RNVR in WW2; Corpus Christi Coll. Oxf., matric. 1946, BA 1950; joined Lloyd’s 1950; dep. sec. Bombay Chamber of Commerce and Industry 1953; man. T&N Ltd. Bombay, India 1956; sen. admin. officer BSI 1966; m. 1967 Diana, d. of Nigel Oliver Willoughby Steward OBE, HM Foreign Service, of Beckley, Oxford; d. 16 Feb 2010.

Urquhart, Sir Brian Edward, son of Murray McNeil Urquhart, artist, of Portpatrick, Wigtownshire, and Bertha Rendell, teacher, d. of Edward Pratt Rendell of Bridport, Dorset; b. 28 Feb. 1919; adm. Jan. 1932 (KS); left July 1937; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1937, hon. student 1985; 2nd Lieut. Dorsetshire Regt. Jan. 1940, served 1st Airborne Divn. (Maj. ), severely injured 1942 when his parachute failed to open completely in practice; served North Africa, Sicily and NW Europe, despatches (NW Europe) Mar. 1945, MBE Oct. 1945; United Nations official Aug. 1945; private sec. to the sec. -gen. 1946-9; Chief of Specialised Agencies Section 1949-51; dir. Office of Special Political Affairs 1952-71; Under sec. -gen. for Special Political Affairs 1974-86; set up the Internat. Atomic Energy Agency; organised and directed UN peacekeeping ops. in Middle East, Kashmir, Congo, Cyprus, Lebanon etc.; KCMG 1986; scholar-in-residence Ford Foundn. 1986-96; Carnegie Foundn. Wateler Peace Prize; Grand Officer, Order of Cedars, Govt. of Lebanon; Order of the Rising Sun, Emperor of Japan; Franklin Delano Roosevelt Freedom Medal; Dag Hammarskjold Medal; published numerous articles for New York Review of Books, New Yorker Magazine, Ford Foundation and Foreign Affairs Magazine; author of Dag Hammarskjold: A Biography 1972, Ralph Bunche: An American Life, and A Memoir, A Life in Peace and War 1987; numerous hon. degrees; hon. Fellow of the Sch. 1989; m. 1st, 31 Mar. 1944 Alfreda, d. of Constant Huntington, publisher, of Amberley, Sussex; 2nd, 26 Apr. 1963 Sidney Damrosch Howard, journalist, d. of Sidney Coe Howard, writer, New York City, USA; d. 2 Jan. 2021.

UPTON, JAMES, second son of John Upton, Faversham, Kent, and Westminster, and Margaret Seth; b. (aged 1 in 1619); adm.; KS 1633; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1637, adm. pens. 15 May 1637, scholar 1638, matr. 1637; BA 1641/2; under his father’s will he was to receive £100 on taking MA degree.

UPPERTON, GEORGE, brother of Charles Stuart Upperton (qv); b. 3 Jul 1842; adm. 21 Jul 1855 (James'); QS 1856; left 1859; Ensign, 3rd Foot 27 Feb 1862; 91st Foot 3 May 1864; Lieut., 97th Foot 23 Oct 1867; ret. 20 Sep 1871; m. 29 Sep 1871 Augusta E. C., only dau. of Major-Gen. Sir John Jones KCB; d. 23 Aug 1875.

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.