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Baker-Cresswell, Gilfrid Edward, son of Henry Gilfrid Baker-Cresswell AMICE, GPO engineer, and Vera Mabel, d. of Edward Foote Ward of Salhouse Hall, Norfolk, and niece of Gerald Charles Fanshawe (qv); b. 15 July 1914; adm. Sept. 1927 (R); left Apr. 1932; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1932, BA 1935; RMA Woolwich 1935-7; RE 1937-42 (Maj.); m. 27 Sept. 1938 Anne Sylvia, d. of Sir John Charrington, coal merchant, of Crockham Hill, Kent; killed in action (Middle East) Oct. 1942; despatches (posthumous) June 1943.

Gilfrid Edward Baker-Cresswell was born at Edinburgh on the 15th of July 1914 the elder son of Henry Gilfred Baker-Cresswell AMICE, an engineer for the General Post Office, and Vera Mabel (nee Ward) Baker-Cresswell of Salthouse Hall, Norfolk, later of The Post House, Ellingham, Chathill in Northumberland. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Rigaud’s from September 1927 to April 1932 He won a O.W.W. Masonic Lodge Prize for Science (practical) in 1930. He was a member of the Officer Training Corps and was promoted to Lance Corporal in September 1930. He won the Long Distance Race at Putney in 1931 and the Long Distance Race on the 8th of March 1932 and won a number of other cups for running during his time at the school.
On leaving school he attended the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich from where he was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers on the 30th of August 1934. He was admitted as a pensioner at Trinity College, Cambridge on the 1st of October 1934 where he read engineering and graduated with a BA in 1936. He was promoted to Lieutenant on the 30th of August 1937 and to Captain on the 30th of August 1942.
He was married on the 27th of September 1938 to Anne Sylvia (nee Charrington) of Broad Oak End, Hertford. They had two children, Sally and Gilfred John, born on the 12th of December 1939. Shortly after he was married he was posted to Mauritius for garrison duty.
He was Mentioned in Despatches: - “In recognition of distinguished services in the Middle East during the period 1st May 1942 to 22nd October 1942”, which was announced by the War Office on the 24th of June 1943.
He is commemorated on a stone plaque in St Maurice’s Church, Ellingham and on the war memorial at Ellingham. He is also commemorated on the memorial at Trinity College, Cambridge.
He is buried at El Alamein War Cemetery Plot XI, Row E, Grave 1.

Baker-Cresswell, Thomas Henry, brother of Gilfrid Edward Baker-Cresswell (qv); b. 13 Mar. 1917; adm. Sept. 1930 (R); left Dec. 1934; RM 1935-1957 (Maj.); served with 41 RM Commando at Salerno; retd 1957; JP; DL (Northumberland) 1971; m. 23 Oct. 1946 Anne Sylvia, widow of Gilfrid Edward Baker-Cresswell (qv); d. 14 Nov. 2011.

Balfour, Archibald Edward, second son of Archibald Balfour (q.v.); b. April 15, 1870; adm. as exhibitioner April 1884 (R); left (with Triplett) July 1888; Trin. Coll. Camb. adm. pensr. Oct. 6, 1888; 2nd class Law Tripos, part 1, 1890, 1st class, part 2, 1892; LL. B. 1892; LL. M. 1906; called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn Nov. 19, 1894; adm. a solicitor March 1912; practised in London, firm Bircham and Co.; m. Dec. 2, 1909, Hylda Snow, second daughter of Sir Richard Homer Paget, Bart; d. March 22, 1951.

Balfour, Arthur Montague, eldest son of Archibald Balfour (q.v.); b. Oct. 15, 1868; adm. Sept. 28, 1883 (R); left July 1887; Trin. Hall Camb., matric. Lent 1889; served in Great War I; Lieut.-Col. R. F. A.; D.S.O.; d. April 20, 1936.

Balguy, Corbin, b. Nov. 8, 1893; adm. Sept. 24, 1908 (R); left Dec. 1909.

Ball, Robert Edward, son of James Ball, solicitor, of Purley, Surrey, and Mabel Louise, d. of Wil­liam Laver of Beckenham; b. 8 Mar. 1911; adm. May 1924 (R); left Dec. 1927; Lycée de Vendôme, France, 1928-9; Univ. of Lond. (Law Society's Prize Studentship) 1929-32, LLB (1st class hons); adm. a solicitor 1933; practised in London and Chester; The Queen's Royal Regt 1940-5 (Lieut.-Col.); served in France and India; MBE Jan. 1946; a Master of the Supreme Court, Chancery Divn, 1954-68, Chief Chancery Master 1969-79; CB Jan. 1977; m. 15 June 1935 Edith Margaret Barbara, d. of Patrick Edward Campbell MB, of Caterham, Surrey; d. 7 Feb. 1990.

BANKS, CHARLES EDMUND, son of John Tatam Banks MD MRCP, Louth, Lincs., and Susanna Maria --- (IGI); b. 31 Jan 1832; adm. BB 29 Jan 1847 (Rigaud's); the first boy on the foundation of Archbishop Williams who did not wear the purple gown, the use of which had been abolished by Liddell; left Christmas 1847; Steward, Grays’ Inn (1881 Census, then unm. ); d. 1899.

Barclay, George Reinhold, only son of Sir Thomas Barclay, Kt., M. P., by Therese, daughter of Reinhold Teusscher, M. D., of Rio de Janeiro; b. Dec. 9, 1881; adm. Sept. 27, 1895 (R); left July 1897; temp. 2nd Lieut. 7th (Serv.) Batt. Suffolk Regt. Sept. 9, 1914; Capt. Intelligence Service; killed by a bomb at Courtrai, Belgium, Oct. 18, 1918.

Barnby, Arthur Charles, brother of Laurence Yorke Barnby (q.v.); b. Sept. 10, 1881; adm. Sept. 28, 1893 (R); left July 1900; R. M.C. Sandhurst; 2nd Lieut. R. M. L. I. Sept. 1, 1900; Lieut. July 1, 1901; Capt. Sept. 1, 1911; Major June 6, 1917; employed under the Admiralty (temp. Major May 27, 1915 - June 5, 1917; temp. Lieut.-Col. Dec. 31, 1917 - March 31, 1918); employed under the Air Ministry April 1, 1918 -June 20, 1919; O.B.E. July 3, 1926; m. Sept. 3, 1915, Allis Mary Keeling; d. Oct. 30, 1937.

Barnby, Laurence Yorke, elder son of Sir Joseph Barnby, of Westminster, Principal of the Guildhall School of (Music, by Edith Mary, daughter of Lieut.-Col. James Watson Silverthorne, of Ashurst, Sussex; b. Aug. 13, 1880; adm. Sept. 28, 1893 (R); left July 1898; a clerk in the Bank of England 1898-1914; served in the R. N. R. during Great War I; Paymaster­ Commander Dec. 31, 1922; Manager of the Slough Trading Co. (Egypt) 1920-2; pen-and-ink illustrator for New York publications; m. Nov. 13, 1909, Jess, second daughter of James Clunes, of London; d. May 3, 1937.