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Agar, Harold Evelyn Talbot, brother of Charles Talbot Agar (q.v.); b. Aug. 14, 1876; adm. Sept. 25, 1888 (G); Exhibitioner 1890; left July 1892; Trin. Coll. Camb. ladm. pensr. June 25, 1894), matric. Michaelmas 1894; a member of the London Stock Exchange from 1911; Major 3rd London Field Co. Divisional Engineers R.E. June 1, 1916; m. June 22, 1904 Beatrice Frances Jervis, only daughter of C. W. Jervis-Smith, of Doveridge, Derbyshire; d. at Vence, France, June 18, 1962.

AGAR, HON. CHARLES BAGENAL, third son of James Agar, 1st Viscount Clifden (qv); b. 13 Aug 1769; adm. 18 May 1778; KS 1784; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1788, matr. 22 May 1788, Westminster Student 23 Dec 1788 – void 25 Jun 1800; BA 1792; MA 1795; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 14 Jul 1788, called to bar 9 Jun 1796; a Commissioner of Bankrupts 1799 (occurs in annual lists 1801-4); Commissioner of Appeals of Excise 10 Mar 1800 – 7 Jul 1806; Deputy Recorder of Oxford 1801; High Sheriff of Cornwall 1809; m. 2 Nov 1804 Anna Maria, only dau. of Thomas Hunt MP, Mollington, Cheshire, and Lanhydrock, Cornwall, and sole heiress of her great-uncle Henry, 3rd Earl of Radnor; d. 16 Jun 1811.

WATSON, LEWIS, 1ST BARON SONDES, brother of John Monson, 2nd Baron Monson (qv); b. 28 Nov 1728; adm. Apr 1737 (as Lewis Monson); (Taylor's); left 1745; assumed surname of Watson in lieu of Monson on inheriting estates in Northamptonshire and Kent of his cousin Thomas Watson, 3rd Earl of Rockingham 26 Feb 1745/6; Grand Tour (Italy, Germany) 1749-50; MP Boroughbridge 23 Apr 1750-4, Kent 1754 – 20 May 1760; Joint Auditor of the Imprest Feb 1754 – Jul 1785, when post abolished; created Baron Sondes 20 May 1760; DL Kent 1746, Northamptonshire 1756 and 1792; member, Society of Dilettanti 1751; m. 12 Oct 1752 Frances, second dau. of Hon. Henry Pelham (b. 1696, qv); d. 30 Mar 1795.

BERTIE, WILLOUGHBY, 4TH EARL OF ABINGDON, second son of Willoughby Bertie, 3rd Earl of Abingdon, and Anna Maria, dau. of Sir John Collins, Kt.; nephew of William Bertie (qv); b. 16 Jan 1740; adm. Jun 1750; (Porten's, Jones); in school list 1754; Magdalen Coll. Oxford, matr. 29 Jan 1759; MA 20 Jan 1761; succ. his father as 4th Earl of Abingdon 10 Jan 1760; in Italy and Switzerland 1763-5 and again 1770; a friend and supporter of John Wilkes MP; spoke frequently in House of Lords in defence of popular rights, and opposed Government policy on America; sympathised with the French Revolution; sentenced to three months’ imprisonment and a fine of £100 for libelling an attorney whom he had once employed, 12 Jan 1795; a curious satire on the Earl’s career, entitled An Adieu to the Turf, was published anonymously in 1778 (see Notes and Queries, 12th ser., iv, 16, 55); author of Thoughts on Mr Burke’s Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol on the Affairs in America, 1777, and other pamphlets; m. 7 Jul 1768 Charlotte, dau. of Vice Adm. Sir Peter Warren KB MP; d. 26 Sep 1799. DNB.

St. John, Hon. Ambrose, younger brother of Hon. Henry St. John (qv); b. 17 Oct 1743; at school in 1757 (Porten's); Brasenose Coll. Oxford, matr. 15 Oct 1762; ordained deacon 11 Aug 1771, priest 22 Sep 1771 (both Lincoln); Rector of Bledsoe, Bedfordshire, from 23 Sep 1771 ; d. unm. 18 Jul 1775.

BENTHAM, JEREMY, son of Jeremiah Bentham, attorney-at-law, Red Lion Street, Houndsditch, London, and his first wife Alicia, widow of --- Whitehorne, and sister of George Woodward Grove (qv); b. 15 Feb 1747/8; adm. 1755; (Morel's according Bentham's memoir); elected KS 1759, but remained a Town Boy; left Aug 1760; Queen’s Coll. Oxford, matr. 28 Jun 1760; BA 1764; MA 1767; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 26 Jan 1763, called to bar 6 Nov 1769; did not practise his profession, but resident in chambers in Middle Temple 1766-9, Lincoln’s Inn from 1769; turned his mind to science and to speculations on politics and jurisprudence; his Fragment on Government, a masterly criticism of Blackstone’s Commentaries, appeared anonymously in 1776; friend and protege of Earl of Shelburne (later 1st Marquis of Lansdowne); a successful promoter of law reform and one of the ablest propagandists of the doctrine of utilitarianism; exercised great influence in the fields of ethics and jurisprudence; his published works were collected and edited by Sir John Bowring and John Hill Burton, in an eleven-volume edition published in 1843; his reminiscences of his school-days at Westminster appear in vol. x, 26-35, where it will be seen that his opinion of the instruction, discipline and usages of the School in his day was by no means flattering; two small MS volumes containing school and college exercises by him are preserved in the School Library; d. unm. 6 Jun 1832; his skeleton is preserved at University Coll., London. DNB.

Norris, Forster Jerningham, brother of Peter John Bedingfield Norris (qv); b. 29 July 1913; adm. May 1927 (H); left July 1931; RASC 1940-5 (Maj.); BBC staff; m. 8 Jan. 1947 Molly, d. of John Lee Hunt of Norbury, Middx; d. 21 July 1981.

DEMAINBRAY, STEPHEN CHARLES TRIBOUDET, son of Stephen Triboudet de Mainbray, St. Martin’s in the Fields, Huguenot refugee, and Marie, dau. of Rev. Alexandre de Schivac, Minister of French Church, Bristol; b. 20 Feb 1710; at school under Freind (Lysons, Environs of London, iii, 317); (Desaguliers'); Leiden Univ.; Edinburgh Univ., LLD; lectured at Edinburgh on experimental philosophy; fought as volunteer in English army at Prestonpans 21 Sep 1745; kept boarding school for young ladies, Edinburgh; afterwards went to Dublin, Bordeaux, Montpelier and Lyon; tutor in mathematics, physics and natural history to the future King George III when Prince of Wales 1754-60; Astronomer, Royal Observatory, Kew, from 1768; held “three remunerative offices in the Custom House”, as Examiner of Out-Port Books (by 1769), Surveyor of the East India Warehouse (appointed Jul 1765), and Inspector of Un-rated East India Goods (by 1760); m. 1st, before leaving school, Mary Warshare, Embden [sic : in Netherlands ?]; m. 2nd, 1 Feb 1755 Sarah, sister of John Horne Tooke (qv); d. 20 Feb 1782. DNB.

RUSSELL, SIR WILLIAM, BART., only son of Sir Francis Russell, Bart., and Anne Gee; b.; adm. (aged 7) Feb 1742/3 (Gibson's); succ. father as 7th baronet 1744; left 1747; Page of Honour to Duke of Cumberland (Chamberlayne 1748); Ensign, 1st Foot Guards 24 Apr 1751; Lieut. and Capt., 6 Nov 1755; the “favourite friend” at school of William Cowper (adm. 1742, qv), who lamented his death in verses printed in his Collected Works; drowned in river Thames, unm. 21 Sep 1757.

AINSLIE, SIR PHILIP, eldest son of George Ainslie, Bordeaux, France, merchant, and Jane, dau. of Sir Philip Anstruther, Bart., Anstrutherfield, Fife; b.; adm. (aged 13) Sep 1742 (Hawkins'); subsequently boarded with a Ms Douglas; left 1745; Adjt. and Sub-Lieut., 2nd Troop Horse Grenadier Guards 23 Mar 1754; Guidon and Capt. 7 Feb 1759; Lieut. and Capt. 17 Jan 1763; Maj. 24 Jun 1768; Brevet Lieut. -Col. 11 Sep 1775; Lieut. -Col., 4th Horse (Ireland) 12 Dec 1777, still 1781; knighted 25 Feb 1778; of Pilton, Midlothian; m. 1771 Hon. Elizabeth Gray, dau. of John, 11th Baron Gray (S); d. 19 May 1802.