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ANNESLEY, ARTHUR, brother of Francis Annesley (QS 1714, qv); b.; adm. (aged 15) Jul 1726; Queen’s Coll. Oxford, matr. 5 Jul 1727, aged 16; Leyden Univ., adm. 26 Jul 1729; adm. Inner Temple 10 Nov 1724, called to bar 29 Jun 1734, tenant chambers there 1730-45, Bencher 10 Jun 1763, Treasurer 1774/5; d. unm. 10 Jan 1786.

ANNESLEY, FRANCIS, eldest son of Francis Annesley MP, Thorganby, Yorkshire, barrister, Bencher and Treasurer Inner Temple, and his first wife Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Joseph Martin Kt MP; bapt. St. Andrew, Holborn 4 Sep 1699 (as Francis Ansley) (IGI); adm.; QS (aged 13) 1714; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1718, matr. 17 Jun 1718, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1718 – void 21 May 1719; migrated to St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 21 May 1719; Trinity Coll. Dublin, LLD 1725 [check]; adm. Inner Temple 6 Feb 1714/5; ordained; Rector of Winwick, Lancs. 1725; gave £50 to building of New Dormitory; m. 1st, Sep 1721 (dissolved by Act of Parliament) Elizabeth Sutton; m. 2nd, Anne, dau. of Sir Robert Gayer KB, Stoke Poges, Bucks.; d. 1 May 1746.

ANNESLEY, FRANCIS, son of Francis Annesley (qv) and his second wife; b.; adm. (aged 13) Jan 1746/7 (Ludford's); left 1751; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 13 Sep 1751; BCL 1758; adm. Inner Temple 30 Mar 1753; ordained deacon 5 Jun 1757, priest 1 Jun 1760 (both Oxford); Rector of Chedzoy, Somerset; FSA 1 Feb 1759; m. 6 Nov 1760 (IGI) Mary, dau. of John Walker, Bicester, Oxfordshire; d. 28 Feb 1811.

ANNESLEY, HON. GEORGE, son of Francis Annesley, 2nd Viscount Valentia (I), and his second wife Jane, widow of Sir Peter Courteen, Bart., Aldington, Worcs., and dau. of Sir John Stanhope Kt, Shelford, Notts.; b. 28 Oct 1632; adm.; KS in 1645; mentioned in The Diaries and Letters of Philip Henry, ed. M. H. Lee, 1882, p. 11; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1647, but was detained at school “through the exigence of warre” (Register of the Visitors of the University of Oxford 1647 to 1658, Camden Soc., 2nd ser., xxix, 268), Westminster Student; apparently expelled the University for non-submission, but afterwards submitted; BA 1650; MA 24 Mar 1652/3; admonished by Dean and Chapter of Christ Church in Sep 1653 for being “at a tippling house in this city of Oxon on the Lord’s Day” and also for publicly affronting “the Dean and Chapter in the Hall and at their coming out” (Thompson, Christ Church, 77-8); became a Maj. in the Army; drowned in the Thames as he was stepping into a packet-boat with letters for Charles II from his brother Arthur; buried St. Margaret’s, Westminster 18 Apr 1660.

ANNESLEY, JAMES, 2ND EARL OF ANGLESEY, son of Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey PC, Lord Privy Seal, and Elizabeth, dau. of Sir James Altham, Kt, Oxhey, Herts., Baron of the Exchequer; nephew of Hon. George Annesley (qv); b.; at school 1658-60 (Busby’s Account Book); left Dec 1661; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 4 Dec 1661, aged 16; Capt. of Horse, Ireland 1663-70; FRS 20 May 1663-82; MP (I) Co. Waterford 1666; JP Hampshire and Surrey 1674-81, DL Hampshire 1680-1; Col. Militia Foot, Hampshire, c. 1675-81; Custos Rotulorum, Hampshire 1676-81; MP Winchester Feb 1679-81; succ. his father as 2nd Earl of Anglesey 6 Apr 1686; joined the Bishops in their celebrated petition to James II 17 Nov 1688; m. 1669 Lady Elizabeth Manners, fourth dau. of John Manners, 8th Earl of Rutland; d. 1 Apr 1690.

ANNESLEY, JAMES, son of Francis Annesley (QS 1714, qv), and his second wife; b.; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1746/7 (Ludford's); left 1751; Brasenose Coll. Oxford, matr. 30 May 1753; buried Bletchingdon, Oxfordshire 9 Dec 1777.

ANNESLEY, WILLIAM, 1ST VISCOUNT GLERAWLY (I), brother of Francis Annesley (QS 1714, qv); b.; adm. (aged 12) Jan 1720/1; adm. Inner Temple 12 Feb 1721/2, called to bar 3 Jul 1731, sold tenancy of chambers there Jun 1741; called to bar, King’s Inns, Dublin 1738; MP (I) Midleton 1741-58 [check]; inherited father’s estate of Castlewellan, Co. Down 1750; created Baron Annesley (I) 20 Sep 1758; created Viscount Glerawly (I) 14 Nov 1766; m. 16 Aug 1738 Lady Anne Beresford, eldest dau. of Marcus Beresford, 1st Earl of Tyrone (I); d. 12 Sep 1770.

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ANSELL, ---; b.; adm.; a pensioner 1568-9; QS 1570 (Chapter Muniments 54017-8).

ANSELL, JOHN, only son of Rev. Reginald Ansell, Rector of Stowting, Kent, and Magdalen ---; b.; at school under Busby (Al. Cant. pt. 3, i, 33); afterwards went to Canterbury School; Sidney Sussex Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 9 May 1663, aged 15, matr. 1663; BA 1666/7; MA 1670; signed for deacon’s orders 18 Sep 1669 (London, lit. dim. from Canterbury), ordained priest (London) 22 Sep 1672; Rector of Brooke, Kent 16 Nov 1672, and of Stowting, Kent, from 8 Jan 1679/80; d. 1725.