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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.

Barnes, John Darell, son of John Francis Lovel Barnes MRCS LRCP MRCPsych, psychiatrist, of Beaconsfield, Bucks, and Anna Etheldreda Margaret, d. of Capt. Leonard Tinne Berthon, Roy. Warks Regt, of Selsey, Sussex, and grand-daughter of Marmaduke Robert Jeffreys (qv); b. 13 Oct. 1934; adm. Sept. 1948 (R); left July 1952; Sir John Cass Coll., Univ. of Lond., BA 1959, MA 1960; an automation technologist; dir. Crossflight Ltd.; m. 3 Feb. 1962 Eleanor Jean, d. of Harold Kenneth Ashworth TDMB BCh FFARCS DA, consult. anaesthetist; d. 25 Aug. 2008.

Barnes, Sir Kenneth Ralph, brother of Reginald Walter Ralph Barnes (q.v.); b. Sept. 11, 1878; adm. May 8, 1891 (R); left July 1895; Ch. Ch. Oxon., matric. Jan. 1897; B.A. 1899; M.A. 1904; a clerk in the Land Registry Office 1900; Principal of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art 1909; journalist and dramatist; served in Great War I in India and Siberia; Capt. 9th (Cyclist) Batt. Hampshire Regt. June 1, 1916; mentioned in despatches; author of two plays, Undercurrents (1921) and The Letter of the Law (1924); knighted 1938; retired from R. A. D. A. 1955; brother of two great actresses, Irene and Violet Vanbrugh, he did more than any one man in the whole history of the theatre to secure sound training for the young actor and actress; m. Dec. 12, 1925, Daphne, daughter of Sir Richard Graham, Bart; d. Oct. 16, 1957.

Barnes, Sir Reginald Walter Ralph, son of the Rev. Reginald Henry Barnes, Vicar of Heavitree, Devon, by Fanny Mary Emily, daughter of William Nation, of Rockbeare, Devon; b. April 13, 1871; adm. April 29, 1886 (R); left Dec. 1886; 2nd Lieut. 4th Hussars (from the Militia) Dec. 31, 1890; Lieut. May 10, 1894; Adjutant May 20, 1896 - May 19, 1900; Capt. Dec. 31, 1899; Major 17th Lancers July 17, 1907; Lieut.-Col. 10th Hussars Feb. 4, 1911; Col. June 15, 1914; temp. Brig.-Gen. April 9, 1915 - Nov. 21, 1916; temp. Major-Gen. Nov. 22, 1916; Major-Gen. June 3, 1918; Col. 4th Hussars Jan. 18, 1919; retired April 1, 1921; served with the Spanish army in the Cuban insurrection 1895, in the South African War as Adjutant Imperial Light Horse 1899-1900, with the Remount Department, and as Lieut­Col. 2nd Imperial Yeomanry 1900-2, and was severely wounded; on the western front in Great War I, he was twice wounded, in Oct. and Nov. 1914; commanded 11th Brigade 1915-6, 32nd Division 1916-7, and 57th Division 1917-9; mentioned in despatches L. G. April 16, 1901, June 15, 1916, Jan. 4 and Dec. 11, 1917, May 20 and Dec. 20, 1918, and July 5, 1919; D.S.O. Nov. 29, 1900; C. B. June 3, 1916; K.C. B. June 3, 1919; French War Cross with Palms; commanded West Lancashire Division 1919-21; retired April 1, 1921; m. Aug. 28, 1919, Gunilla, widow of C. D. Wijk; d. Dec. 19, 1946.

Barnett-Smith, Louis Reginald, son of George Reginald Barnett-Smith of Hampstead and Hilda Beatrice, d. of Alexander McBean of Tettenhall, Staffs; b. 20 Apr. 1905; adm. Jan. 1919 (R); left Dec. 1922; Customs Officer Fed. Malay States 1925, Asst Superintendent 1929, sen. Customs Officer 1934; Asst Controller of Customs Sierra Leone 1946; Freeman City of London 1938; Commissioner of Customs N. Borneo 1947; ISO 1955; retd 1955 and lived in New Zealand; m. 20 Jan. 1945 Esmee Ellen, d. of J. A. Louisson of Christchurch, NZ; d. 13 Jan. 1991.

Barradale, John Geoffrey, son of Charles Geoffrey Barradale, solicitor, of Leicester, and Dorothy Victoria Garth; b. 7 Feb. 1918; adm. May 1932 (R); left Apr. 1935; RAFVR 1941 (PO); d. 1964.

Bartlett, James Henry, son of Lieut.-Col. Basil Sorley Bartlett DSO RAMC, of Bodmin; b. 8 June 1909; adm. Apr. 1923 (R); left July 1927; Univ. Coll. Oxf., matric 1927, BA 1931, BM 1934; Guy's Hosp. Med. Sch.; Colonial Med. Service, Kenya, 1937; RAMC 1939-45 (Capt.); d. in Kenya 15 Sept. 1953.