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HUGGINS, CHARLES PELHAM, only son of Hastings Charles Huggins DCL, Middle Temple, barrister, Attorney-Gen., British Honduras; b. 18 Dec 1861; adm. 24 Sep 1874 (James'); left Aug 1879; adm. Inner Temple 4 Nov 1879, called to bar 21 Jun 1882; practised in Jamaica, West Indies.

PETROCOCHINO, EMMANUEL DEMETRIUS, son of Demetrius Petrocochino, Lancaster Gate, Bayswater, London, East India merchant, and Despina ---; b. 24 Nov 1859; adm. 24 Sep 1874 (James'); left May 1878; a London merchant, firm Petrocochino Brothers; d. unm. 20 Feb 1886.

GERMAN, HANWAY, son of James German, Sevenoaks, Kent, barrister, and Marion E. --- (1881 Census); b. 18 Nov 1861; adm. 24 Sep 1874 (James'); left Dec 1878; King’s Coll. Hospital; LSA 1884; emigrated to Virginia, USA; m. 11 Mar 1890 Emma Clarence, dau. of George Samuel Major Payne; d. at Rixeyville, Virginia, USA 13 Jul 1911.

KIDSON, ALFRED BOWMAN, son of William Kidson, merchant trading with Mauritius, and Ernestine --- (1881 Census); b. 23 Oct 1863; adm. 6 Jun 1874 (James'); left Dec 1880; solicitor’s articled clerk (1881 Census); adm. solicitor 1886; emigrated to Western Australia; member, Upper House of Legislature, Western Australia; m. 27 Apr 1887 Constance Caroline, dau. of Lieut. -Col. Charles D’Oyley Forbes; d. 23 May 1937.

FAWCETT, HENRY C., son of William Whalley Fawcett, Lawrie Park, Sydenham Hill, Kent, and Caroline E. Stafford; b. 16 Dec 1860; adm. 4 Jun 1874 (James'); left Jun 1878; “undergraduate” (1881 Census, parents then living at Hastings, Sussex); d. 5 May 1944 [Whitmore]. [But Burke’s Colonial Gentry records Robert Arthur Fawcett (sic), son of William Whalley Fawcett, Meadow Bank, West Norwood, Surrey, and Caroline E. Stafford, b. 14 Dec 1860 (sic)].

WILKS, CHARLES VINCENT, only son of William Henry Wilks, Headingley, Yorks., and Harriet Roberts, dau. of Vincent Barker (IGI); b. 13 Oct 1860; adm. 4 Jun 1874 (James'); left Aug 1879; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 31 May 1879; BA 1884; MA 1887; m. Beatrice ---; d. 25 Apr 1933.

REEKS, JAMES ALBERT, brother of Charles Frederick Reeks (qv); b. 9 Aug 1860; adm. 4 Jun 1874 (James'); left Apr 1877; RMC Sandhurst 1879; 2nd Lieut., 45th Foot 11 Aug 1880; Lieut., Derbyshire Regt., 4 May 1881; Capt., 19 May 1886; Adjutant, 5 Aug 1886; Maj., 1 Jan 1899; retd. 21 Sep 1904; re-employed in command depot of Sherwood Foresters in 1914-8 War; Hon. Lieut. -Col., 25 Dec 1917; OBE 1 Jan 1918; m. 24 Aug 1907 Elwena Grace, dau. of Sir Francis Norie Miller, Bart., MP, Cleeve, Perthshire; d. 7 Jan 1944.

SERCOMBE, RUPERT THEODORE WALTON, only son of Rupert Clampit Sercombe, Fairpark, near Exeter, Devon, merchant, and Louisa, third dau. of William Henry Smith, London, and Walton House, Bournemouth, Hampshire, founder of W. H. Smith & Son, newsagents; b. 3 Jan 1861; adm. 4 Jun 1874 (James'); QS Dec 1875; left Feb 1879; Exeter Coll. Oxford, matr. 22 Jan 1880; BA 1883; adm. Middle Temple 28 Oct 1881, called to bar 17 Nov 1885; emigrated to New Zealand by 1901; m. 8 Aug 1893 Sophia Maria Eleanor, widow of Charles Ernest Lavie, Ceylon, and dau. of Rev. Walter Maude Cosser, Vicar of Titchfield, Hampshire; d. Mar 1944.

BURY, OLIVER ROBERT HAWKE, son of Edward Bury, Westbourne Square, Hyde Park, London, barrister, and Mary Elizabeth, dau. of Henry Dowker, Laysthorpe, Helmsley, Yorks.; b. 3 Nov 1861; adm. 23 Jan 1874 (James'); left Dec 1878; a railway engineer, AMICE 5 Apr 1887, MICE 27 Feb 1894; began career in Locomotive Department, London and North-Western Railway Co.; General Manager and Chief Engineer, Entre Rios Railway, Argentina, 1894; General Manager, Buenos Aires and Rosario Railway, 1900-2; General Manager, Great Northern Railway (afterwards LNER) 1902-12, director 1912-45; one of Commissioners appointed to enquire into working and management of Egyptian State Railways, 1904; chairman, London Electricity Supply Corporation, and London Power Co.; JP (1917) Hertfordshire; d. 21 Mar 1946.

ROXBY-BEVERLY, WILLIAM LE VANE ROBERT, only son of William Roxby-Beverly, Russell Square, London, artist and scene painter, and Sophia Burbidge (IGI); b. 18 Apr 1860; adm. 23 Jan 1874 (James'); Pembroke Coll. Oxford, matr. 6 Feb 1878; ran in the mile v. Cambridge 1880; adm. Inner Temple, called to bar 19 May 1886; d. c. 1896.