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Squib, ---, fl. 1640

  • GB-2014-WSA-019512
  • Person
  • fl. 1640

SQUIB, ---; b. ; adm. ; KS 1640 (Bodleian Library, Tanner MSS lxix, f. 140).

Stafferton, William, fl. 1542

  • GB-2014-WSA-019514
  • Person
  • fl. 1542

STAFFERTON, WILLIAM; b. ; adm. ; KS in 1542 (Chapter Muniments 6478).

Stanhope, Henry, d. 1764

  • GB-2014-WSA-019516
  • Person
  • d. 1764

STANHOPE, HENRY, natural son of Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Chesterfield (qv); b. ; QS 1702 (as Henry Willott); elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1706 (as Henry Willott), adm. pens. 28 May 1706 (as Henry Stanhope, son of Henry Stanhope, Derby), aged 19, scholar 25 Apr 1707; BA 1709/10; assumed surname of Stanhope in lieu of Willott 1706; ordained deacon 25 Feb 1710/1, priest 27 Apr 1711 (both London); Rector of Bingham, Notts. , from 5 May 1711; under his father’s will he received nothing but a very remote reversion to the family estates, and is said to have become mentally deranged in consequence; a tradition survived at Bingham that he always wore white breeches and rode about on a large white mule; m. 7 Dec 1714 Jane Villers, Nottingham; buried Bingham, Notts. , 28 Apr 1764.

Stedman, Edward, fl. 1683

  • GB-2014-WSA-019518
  • Person
  • fl. 1683

STEDMAN, EDWARD; b. ; adm. ; KS 1683. [Note that Edward Stedman was a barrister, Inner Temple, in 1728].

Steele, Thomas, 1753-1823

  • GB-2014-WSA-019519
  • Person
  • 1753-1823

STEELE, THOMAS, son of Thomas Steele, Chichester, Sussex, Recorder of Chichester, and Elizabeth Madgwick, Cuckfield, Sussex; bapt. 17 Nov 1753; in school list 1764; KS (Capt. ) 1766; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1771, adm. pens. 29 May 1771, scholar 15 May 1772, matr. 1772; adm. Middle Temple 18 Jan 1772; MP Chichester 1780-1807; Secretary to Master-Gen. of Ordnance 1782; Joint Secretary to Treasury 27 Dec 1783-91; Joint Paymaster-Gen. of the Forces 7 Mar 1791 – Jul 1804; Privy Councillor 9 Mar 1791; Commissioner, Board of Control 16 May 1791 – Jun 1793; Receiver-Gen. , Alienation Office 1793-7; King’s Remembrancer, Court of Exchequer from 7 Nov 1797; the discovery in 1807 that he had not accounted for two large sums of money withdrawn by him from the Pay Office brought about his withdrawal from public life; m. 3 Sep 1785 Charlotte Amelia, sister of William Lindsay (qv); d. 8 Dec 1823.

Stevens, James, fl. 1658

  • GB-2014-WSA-019520
  • Person
  • fl. 1658

STEVENS, JAMES, son of Thomas Stevens, Kent; b. ; adm. ; KS (aged 15) 1658 (Chapter Muniments 43060).

Stevens, Robert, d. 1870

  • GB-2014-WSA-019521
  • Person
  • d. 1870

STEVENS, ROBERT, son of Robert Stevens, Norwich; b. ; adm. ; KS 1793 (aged 15); played in the cricket match v. Eton on Hounslow Heath 25 Jul 1796; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1797, adm. pens. 27 Jun 1797, scholar 1798; BA 1801; MA 1804; BD and DD 1821; ordained deacon 1801, priest 1802; Lecturer at St. Margaret’s Westminster Oct 1808-20; Prebendary of Lincoln from 13 Aug 1814; Rector of St. James’s, Garlickhythe, London 29 Oct 1814-21; Chaplain to Speaker of House of Commons 1816; Dean of Rochester from 17 Oct 1820; Vicar of West Farleigh, Kent, from 23 Dec 1820; author, Discourses on the Apostles’ Creed, 1817, and other works; m. 15 Jul 1806 Elizabeth Mason; d. 3 Feb 1870.

Stockwell, Carr (or Charles), d. 1648?

  • GB-2014-WSA-019524
  • Person
  • d. 1648?

STOCKWELL, CARR (or CHARLES), son of Richard Stockwell, St. Giles, Northampton, and Judith ---; b. ; adm. ; KS 16 Jan 1608/9; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1612, matr. 4 Jun 1616, aged 20, Westminster Student to 1617; BA 1616; MA 1619; BD 5 Mar 1626/7; ordained; Vicar of Hardingstone, Northants, 5 Aug 1625; Rector of Little Billing, Northants 17 Nov 1630 – sequestered by Westminster Assembly 20 Aug 1646; “of a scandalous life and conversation, being a common frequenter of alehouses, as well as on the Lord’s day as other days, and very negligent of his cure” (British Library, Additional MSS 15670, f. 379); a prisoner in the Fleet Jan 1645/6; dead by 12 Apr 1648.

Sutton, John, fl. 1629

  • GB-2014-WSA-019527
  • Person
  • fl. 1629

SUTTON, JOHN, son of Rev. John Sutton, Rector of Caston, Norfolk; b. ; at school under Osbaldeston four years (J. Venn, Biog. Hist. of Gonville and Caius Coll. , i, 296); KS (aged 14) 1629; Gonville and Caius Coll. , adm. pens. 2 Mar 1630/1, scholar 25 Mar 1633 – 29 Sep 1634, matr. Easter 1631.

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