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FITZHARDING, WILLIAM GEORGE AUGUSTUS, recorded on baptism at St. Mary’s, Marylebone Road, London, as son of William Fitzharding, and Jane --- (IGI), (but said to have been an illegitimate son of William Berkeley, 1st Earl Fitzhardinge, and Jane Baldwin, niece of Maj. -Gen. Thomas Hawkshaw, EICS Bengal); b. 8 Jun 1810; adm. 23 Sep 1823 (Stelfox's); KS 1825; left 1826; articled to Thomas Clarke, Solicitor to the Ordnance, 1827; emigrated to Australia 1838; adm. solicitor, New South Wales 1 Apr 1840; practised in Sydney; m. 1st, c. 1833 Mary Anne Gahen; m. 2nd, 18 Nov 1844 Anna Amelia, dau. of William Hyde; m. 3rd, 16 Aug 1866 Harriet Ellen, dau. of Alfred Elyard, Sydney, solicitor; d. at Paddington, New South Wales, Australia 12 Sep 1884.

FOX-STRANGWAYS, STEPHEN, brother of Edward Fox-Strangways (qv); b. 10 Aug. 1811; adm. 30 Sep 1823 (Stelfox's); KS 1825; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1829, matr. 2 Jun 1829, Westminster Student; BA 1833; MA 1835; d. at Malta 4 Mar 1839

FROUDE, JAMES ANTHONY, brother of William Froude (qv); b. 13 Apr 1818; adm. 15 Jan 1830 (Stelfox's); KS 1830; left 1833; Oriel Coll. Oxford, matr. 10 Dec 1835; Chancellor’s Prize for English Essay 1842; BA 1842; MA 1843; Devon Fellow, Exeter Coll. Oxford, 1842 - 27 Feb 1849, when his book Nemesis of Faith was burnt by Dr Sewell in Exeter College Hall; ordained deacon 1844, but availed himself of the provisions of the Clerical Disabilities Relief Act 19 Jul 1872; after his first marriage he devoted himself to historical and literary work; editor, Fraser’s Magazine, 1860-74; sent as Commissioner to Cape of Good Hope to report upon South African confederation 1874-5; Rector of St. Andrew’s Univ., 1868-71, LLD St. Andrew’s 1869; Hon. Fellow, Exeter Coll. Oxford 1882, Oriel Coll. Oxford 1892; Hon. LLD Edinburgh 1884; Regius Professor of Modern History, Oxford Univ., from 18 Apr 1892; author, A History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 1856-70, and other works; in his Shadows of the Clouds, 1847, Froude tells the melancholy story of Edward Fowler, a Westminster boy, which may contain reminiscences of his own far from happy school career (Paul, Life of Froude, 1905, 10-1); m. 1st, 3 Oct 1849 Charlotte Maria, fifth dau. of Pascoe Grenfell MP, Taplow Court, Bucks.; m. 2nd, 12 Sep 1861 Henrietta Elizabeth, dau. of John Ashley Warre MP, West Cliff House, Ramsgate, Kent; d. 20 Oct 1894. DNB.

FROUDE, WILLIAM, fourth son of Ven. Robert Hurrell Froude, Archdeacon of Totnes and Rector of Dartington, Devon, and Margaret Spedding, Mirehouse; b. 28 Nov 1810; adm. 28 May 1823 (Stelfox's); KS 1824; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1828, adm. pens. 16 May 1828, but went to Oriel Coll. Oxford, matr. 23 Oct 1828; 1st cl. Mathematics and 3rd cl. Lit. Hum. 1832; BA 1832; MA 1837; pupil of Henry Robinson Palmer, civil engineer, 1833; joined engineering staff of Isambard Kingdom Brunel on the Bristol and Exeter Railway 1837; while working for Brunel he propounded the “curve of adjustment”; gave up active involvement in civil engineering in mid 1840s, owing to failing health of his father; undertook research into ship design; devised bilge-keels to prevent the rolling of ships; conducted experiments at the Admiralty Experiment Works, Torquay, on the resistance and propulsion of ships; invented a dynamometer to determine the power of large marine engines; MICE 7 Apr 1846, member Council 1877; FRS 2 Jun 1870, Royal Medal 1876; LLD Glasgow 27 Apr 1876; m. 4 May 1839 Catherine Henrietta Easterbrook, youngest dau. of Arthur Howe Holdsworth MP, Widdicombe and Brooke Hill, Devon; d. at Admiralty House, Simonstown, Cape Colony 4 May 1879. DNB.

GOOLD, WYNDHAM HENRY, third son of Thomas Goold, Dromadda and Rosbrien, co. Limerick, Master in Chancery (I), and Elizabeth, dau. of Rev. Brinsley Nixon, Rector of Painstown, co. Meath; b. 8 Jul 1812; adm. 14 Jan 1824 (Stelfox's); Trinity Coll. Dublin, adm. fellow commoner 6 Dec 1830; BA 1834; adm. King’s Inns 1833, called to Irish bar 1837; adm. Gray’s Inn 8 May 1835; Munster circuit; Crown Prosecutor, Limerick 1843; MP Co. Limerick from Dec 1850; d. unm. 27 Nov 1854.

GRAHAM, CAROLUS JAMES HOME, brother of Thomas James Graham-Stirling (qv); b. 24 May 1812; adm. 22 Sep 1824 (Stelfox's); at Haileybury Coll. 1830-1; Writer, EICS Bengal 1831; arrived India 14 Sep 1831; Assistant to Commissioner of Revenue and circuit, Cuttack 27 Dec 1832; held various subsequent appointments; resigned in India 1 May 1846 and returned home; d. 30 Oct 1877.

GRAHAM, JOHN, eldest son of John Smith Graham, Bernard Street, Bloomsbury, London, and Anne Elliott (IGI); b. 12 Dec 1812; adm. 10 Jan 1825 (Stelfox's); Wadham Coll. Oxford, matr. 27 Oct 1831; Newdigate Prize for English Verse 1833; migr. to New Inn Hall; BA 1837; ordained deacon (London) 12 Jun 1840, priest 6 Jun 1841; Curate, St. John’s, Hackney; his poem on Staffa, written for the Newdigate Prize in 1832, when he was defeated by Roundell Palmer (afterwards Earl of Selborne) was published in Blackwood’s Magazine, 1832; d. 28 Nov 1845.

GRAHAM-STIRLING, THOMAS JAMES, second son of Thomas Graham-Stirling (formerly Graham), Airth, Stirlingshire, Convener of Stirlingshire, and Caroline Mary, only dau. of Lieut. -Col. James Home, Blackadder, Berwickshire; b. 11 Jun 1811; adm. 22 Sep 1824 (Stelfox's); left Nov 1827; Ensign, 42nd Foot 8 Nov 1827; Lieut., 16 Nov 1832; retd. 15 Dec 1837; DL JP Perthshire; m. 1st, 4 Jul 1844 Mary, eldest dau. of William Stirling, Kenmare House, Lanarkshire; m. 2nd, 3 Feb 1858 Jane, youngest dau. of William Hugh Hunter, Auchterarder, Perthshire; d. 15 Aug 1896.

GRIME, EDWARD HATTON HALL, only son of Rev. Edward Grime, Warrington, Lancs., Perpetual Curate of Hindley, Lancs.; b. 22 Feb 1809; adm. 19 Jan 1820 (Stelfox's); in under second form list 1821; Queen’s Coll. Oxford, matr. 18 Nov 1827. [mother perhaps Ann Hall (IGI)]

HALL, ARTHUR, son of Charles Henry Hall (qv); b. 25 Nov 1809; adm. 19 Oct 1822 (Stelfox's); Clerk, Board of Control; Cadet, EICS Bengal 1827; Cornet, unattached 10 Jan 1829; 5th Bengal Light Cavalry 17 May 1829; Lieut., 1 Mar 1836; Capt., 14 Jan 1842; Maj., 1 Apr 1854; Lieut. -Col., 5 May 1856; 3rd Bengal Light Cavalry 1860; retd. as Maj. -Gen., 31 Dec 1861; m. at Ghazipur, India 3 Oct 1842 Anne, second dau. of Col. John Mackenzie, EICS Bengal [but Russell Barker & Stenning record him as having m. 23 Aug 1843 Mary Ann Rosa, second dau. of Maj. M. C. Chase, Nottingham Place, Regent’s Park, London : her father would have been Lieut. -Col. Morgan Charles Chase, EICS Madras]; d. 13 Nov 1879.