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Bowman, Nicholas, 1634-?

  • GB-2014-WSA-03643
  • Person
  • 1634-?

BOWMAN, NICHOLAS, second son of Nicholas Bowman, Westminster, and Susan Barron, Kent; bapt. St. Margaret’s, Westminster 21 Jul 1634; adm.; KS; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1652, matr. 2 Oct 1652; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 3 Jul 1655.

Bowyer, John, fl. 1606

  • GB-2014-WSA-03648
  • Person
  • fl. 1606

BOWYER, JOHN; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1606, adm. scholar 1607, matr. 1606. [Presumably the John Bowyer ordained deacon 26 May 1616, priest 27 May 1616 (both Peterborough), described as MA Trin. Coll. Camb. ]

Boyce, Augustus Robert, 1822-1842

  • GB-2014-WSA-03653
  • Person
  • 1822-1842

BOYCE, AUGUSTUS ROBERT, son of Capt. Henry Pytches Boyce, 3rd Foot Guards, Upper Wimpole Street, Cavendish Square, London, and Lady Amelia Sophia Spencer Churchill, dau. of George Spencer Churchill, 4th Duke of Marlborough KG PC; nephew of William Boyce (qv) [according to Whitmore]; b. 19 Apr 1822; adm. 9 Feb 1835 (Benthall's); KS 1836; left 1840; Cadet, EICS Bombay 1840; Ensign, 11th Native Infantry, 19 Nov 1840; d. at Ahmedabad, Bombay, 21 Oct 1842.

Boycott, Stephen James Branthwa1te, 1915-1965

  • GB-2014-WSA-03655
  • Person
  • 1915-1965

Boycott, Stephen James Branthwaite, son of Rev. George Alfred Branthwaite Boycott, Rector of West Halton, Lincs, and Eily St Clair, d. of Capt. George Osborn Springfield, 5th Dragoon Guards, of Holt, Norfolk; b. 26 Dec. 1915; adm. Sept. 1929 (KS); left July 1934; Peterhouse Camb., matric. 1934, BA 1937; 2nd Lieut. RA Jan. 1936, Lieut. Jan. 1939, Capt. Jan. 1944, Maj. Jan. 1949; retd 1958; wounded (France) May 1940, despatches Dec. 1940; asst master The King's Sch. Gloucester 1958-62; bred and trained horses; m. 1st 1941 Edna Marion, d. of Sqdn Ldr James Stanley Curtis RAF; 2nd Rosemary, widow of Donald Landels Henderson and d. of Thomas Rawling Bridgwater, barrister-at-law; d. circa 1965.

Boyle, Hamilton, 1730-1764

  • GB-2014-WSA-03666
  • Person
  • 1730-1764

BOYLE, HAMILTON, 6TH EARL OF CORK AND ORRERY (I), younger son of John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork and Orrery (qv), and his first wife; b. 3 Feb 1729/30; adm. Jul 1741; KS (Capt. ) 1744; Capt. of the School 1747; played the part of Ignoramus in the play of 1747 with great success (The Orrery Papers, 1903, ii, 9, 11, 13); elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1748, matr. 14 Jun 1748, Westminster Student 23 Dec 1748 - Dec 1762, Faculty Student from 10 Dec 1762; BCL 15 May 1755; DCL 6 Jul 1763; High Steward, Oxford Univ., from 1762; adm. Inner Temple 19 Nov 1748; MP (I) Charleville 1759-60; MP Warwick 1761 - 23 Nov 1762; succ. his father as 6th Earl of Cork and Orrery 23 Nov 1762; d. unm. 17 Jan 1764.

Boyle, Henry, ca. 1686-1764

  • GB-2014-WSA-03667
  • Person
  • ca. 1686-1764

BOYLE, HENRY, 1ST EARL OF SHANNON (I), second son of Lieut. -Col. Hon. Henry Boyle, and Lady Mary O’Brien, d. of Murrough O’Brien, 1st Earl of Inchiquin (I); b.; adm.; QS 1702; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 5 Mar 1704/5, aged 18; of Castle Martyr, co. Cork; MP (I) Midleton 1707-13, Kilmallock 1713-4, co. Cork 1715-56; successfully resisted the attempt of the government in 1729 to obtain a vote for a continuation of supplies to the Crown for twenty-one years; Privy Councillor (I) 13 Apr 1733; Chancellor of the Exchequer (I) 19 Nov 1733 - Nov 1735, 1739-54, 1755-6; opposed the government proposal for appropriating the Irish surplus, 1753; Speaker of the Irish House of Commons 4 Oct 1733 - 31 Mar 1756; LLD Trinity Coll. Dublin 1735; the parliamentary leader of the Whig party in Ireland; styled by Walpole “the King of the Irish Commons”; acted no less than fifteen times as a Lord Justice in the absence of the Lord Lieutenant; on resigning the Speakership he was granted a government pension and created Earl of Shannon (I) 7 Apr 1756; m. 1st, 1715, Catherine, dau. of Chidley Coote, Kilmallock, co. Limerick; m. 2nd, Sep 1726 Lady Henrietta Boyle, dau. of Charles Boyle, 3rd Earl of Cork (I) and 2nd Earl of Burlington; d. at Dublin 28 Dec 1764. DNB.

Boyle, Walter Julian Algernon, 1918-1994

  • GB-2014-WSA-03670
  • Person
  • 1918-1994

Boyle, Walter Julian Algernon, son of Hon. Walter John Harry Boyle CBE, Sen. Official Receiver in Bankruptcy, and Ethel Horatia, d. of Capt. Edward Rowe Fisher Rowe DL, 4th Dragoon Guards, of Thorncombe, Surrey; b. 26 Nov. 1918; adm. Sept. 1932 (KS); left July 1937; elected to Ch. Ch. Oxf., but did not matriculate; RNVR 1939-5 (Lieut.); dir. Fell & Briant Ltd 1972-; m. 30 July 1941 Anita Diana, d. of W. H. Greenhow of Cobham, Surrey; d. 25 Nov. 1994

Boyle, William, fl. 1590

  • GB-2014-WSA-03671
  • Person
  • fl. 1590

BOYLE, WILLIAM; b.; adm.; QS; elected head to Trin. Coll. Camb. 1590, adm. scholar 1591, matr. c. 1591.

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