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ALT, JUST, brother of Henry Alt (qv); b.; adm. (aged 9) Oct 1741 (as Justinian Alt); KS 1747; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1751, adm. pens. 5 Jun 1751, scholar 24 Apr 1752, matr. 1751; BA 1755; MA 1758; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1756, Major Fellow 5 Jul 1758; ordained deacon 24 Apr 1758, priest 21 May 1758 (both Lincoln); Rector of Mixbury, Oxfordshire, from 20 Nov 1759; Prebendary of York from 19 May 1797; m. 30 May 1763 Elizabeth, dau. of Rev. Thomas Bowles DD, Vicar of Brackley, Northants.; buried 21 Jun 1801.

ALSOP, ANTHONY, son of Anthony Alsop, Darley, Derbs., by Anne Lowe; bapt. 4 Jan 1668/9; adm.; KS 1686; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1690, matr. 12 Jul 1690, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1690 - void 12 Aug 1713 (expiry year of grace as R. Nursling), Tutor 1698-1709, Junior Censor 1701-2, Senior Censor 1703-5, Catechist 1706-7, 1711; BA 29 Jan 1694/5; MA 23 Mar 1696/7; BD 1706 (incorp. at Camb. 1707); ordained; Rector of Nursling, Hants. 31 Jul 1712-5; Rector of Alverstoke, Hants. 25 Mar 1715 (dispensation to hold with Nursling, 1715); Rector of Brightwell, Berks. 1715; Prebendary of Winchester from 21 May 1715; left England in 1718 on losing an action brought against him for breach of promise of marriage, but returned in 1720; is alluded to in the Dunciad; with Francis Atterbury (KS 1674 (qv)) and George Smalridge (qv) assisted Charles Boyle in the production of Dr. Bentley’s Dissertations on the Epistles of Phalaris, 1698; editor, Fabularum Aesopicarum Delectus, 1698, in the preface to which he attacked Bentley; his Latin Odes were published posthumously by Sir Francis Bernard (qv) in 1752; m. c. Dec. 1715 Margaret, widow of Rev. Francis Bernard, Rector of Brightwell, Berks. (and mother of Sir Francis Bernard (qv)), and dau. of Richard Winlowe, Lewknor, Oxfordshire; accidentally drowned 16 Jun 1726. DNB.

ALNWICK, AMON, a native of London; b.; adm.; QS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1586, matr. 17 Dec 1586, aged 18, Westminster Student to 1598; BA 1590; MA 1594; ordained deacon and priest 3 Jul 1597; Rector of Didcot, Berks., from 1597; Prebendary of Lincoln from 31 Dec 1612; m. (son bapt. 3 Apr 1614, IGI]; buried Didcot 29 Sep 1621.

ALLIN, RICHARD; b. ; adm. ; KS in 1619 (Chapter Muniments 32451).

ALLIN, RICHARD; b. ; adm. ; KS in 1619 (Chapter Muniments 32451).

ALLEYNE (alias GRAY), CHARLES, son of Walter Alleyne, Westminster, and Ann Gray; b.; adm.; Min. Can. (aged 13) 1629; KS 1630 (Tanner MSS lxix, f. 224, Bodleian Library, Oxford); adm. English College, Douai 28 Oct 1632.

ALLETT (or ALLEN), RICHARD, a native of Staffordshire; b.; adm.; QS; elected to Ch. Ch. Oxford 1564, aged 18, Westminster Student to 1571; BA 18 Feb 1568/9; adm. Gray’s Inn 1571.

ALLESTRY, JAMES, son of James Allestry, bookseller, London; b. 1653; adm.; KS (Capt. ) 1667; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1672, matr. 3 Jul 1672, aged 18, Westminster Student from 24 Dec 1672; BA 1676; MA 1679 (incorp. at Camb. 1680); Music Reader 1679; Terrae Filius 1682; philologist and poet; principal contributor to Verses and Pastoral spoken before James, Duke of York, 21 May 1681, and published in Examen Poeticum, 1693; d. 15 Oct 1686, “of the French pox”. DNB, s. v. Jacob Allestry. [Perhaps bapt. St. Augustine, Watling Street 13 Apr 1654, son of James Allistraw (sic), and Ruth --- (IGI)]

ALLEN, WILLIAM, son of Mundeford Allen, London, and Frances Weston, Norfolk Street, London; b. Dec 1773; adm. 3 Jun 1785; KS (aged 15) 1789; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1793, adm. pens. 23 May 1793, scholar 2 May 1794, matr. Mich. 1793; BA 1797; MA 1800; ordained deacon (Norwich) 12 Mar 1797, priest 1 Apr 1798; Vicar of Narburgh with Narford, Norfolk, from 31 Oct 1799; d. 31 May 1864. [note will Mundeford Allen, Queen Square, Middlesex, merchant, proved PCC 27 Jun 1775]

Allen, Philip John, son of Rev. Solomon Wall Allen, Chaplain to Central Lond. District Sch., Hanwell, and Clara Beckett, d. of Henry George Gervase Cutler of Brixham, S. Devon; b. 5 Nov. 1902; adm. Sept. 1916 (KS); left July 1920; Univ. of Lond., BSc 1923; AMIMechE 1934, MIMechE 1968; staff of Crown Agents for Overseas Govts and Administrations, MBE 1957, retd 1967; m. 1st 18 Feb. 1928 Grace Brenda, d. of Alfred William Arthurton, railway officer; 2nd 4 Oct 1957 Helen, d. of Howarth Barnes, electrical engineer; d. May 1992.