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Butler, Eric Norman, 1902-?

  • GB-2014-WSA-04247
  • Person
  • 1902-?

Butler, Eric Norman, son of Thomas Harrison Butler, M. D., and Ellen Butler, of Leamington Spa, Warwickshire; b. Sept. 13, 1902; adm. as K.S. Sept. 21, 1916; left April 1917; King's Coll. Hospital; M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. 1927; in practice in Birmingham; a Commissioner of the Board of Control; Lieut. R.A.M.C. May 20, 1940; m. Oct. 29, 1932, Joan Bogle, daughter of Harold Alfred Squire Hickson, of Ealing.

Butler, James, ca. 1700-?

  • GB-2014-WSA-04250
  • Person
  • ca. 1700-?

BUTLER, JAMES, son of James Butler, St. Margaret’s, Westminster; b.; adm.; QS (aged 14) 1714; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1718, matr. 17 Jun 1718, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1718 - 10 Jul 1731, void; BA 1722; MA 1725.

Butler, John, ca. 1721-?

  • GB-2014-WSA-04253
  • Person
  • ca. 1721-?

BUTLER, JOHN, son of Maurice Butler, Reading, Berks.; b.; adm.; in school list 1734; KS (aged 13) 1740; left 1741.

Butler, Paul, 1821-1875

  • GB-2014-WSA-04254
  • Person
  • 1821-1875

BUTLER, PAUL, brother of William John Butler (qv); b. 20 Mar 1821; adm. (G) 30 Sep 1833; KS 1834; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1838, matr. 30 May 1838; BA 1842; MA 1844; partner in banking firm of Hugh and John Johnstone, Great Bush Lane and Cannon Street, London, 1849; purchased Wyck estate, near Stow on the Wold, Gloucs., 1875; member, Society of Dilettanti, 1875; m. 1854 Louisa, youngest dau. of George Henry Barnett, Glympton Park, Oxfordshire, banker; killed in the hunting field 21 Dec 1875.

Butley, John, ca. 1722-?

  • GB-2014-WSA-04259
  • Person
  • ca. 1722-?

BUTLEY, JOHN, son of John Butley, Westminster; b.; in school lists 1731 (surname misread by Russell Barker & Stenning as Bulkley), 1733; Min. Can. (aged 13) 1734; KS 1735; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1739, matr. 22 Jun 1739, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1739 - 23 Jun 1749, void; BA 1743; ordained; Chaplain, Royal Navy 1746; resident in Greenwich, Kent; living 1754; author, The Holy Bible illustrated and explained in a complete measure for every Christian, 5th edn., 1762; m. 2 Feb 1748 Catherine Stonestreet (IGI). [Note will of Catherine Butley, East Greenwich, Kent, widow, proved PCC 8 May 1775]

Butt, George, 1741-1795

  • GB-2014-WSA-00375
  • Person
  • 1741-1795

BUTT, GEORGE, second son of Carey Butt, Lichfield, Staffs., surgeon, and Elizabeth, dau. of John Marten, Lichfield, Staffs., apothecary; b. 26 Dec 1741; in school list 1754; KS 1756; his acting as Demea in the Adelphi in 1759 was so successful that “he was, as he declared, for the only time in his life, overflowing with money forced upon him by the liberality of his audience” (Life and Times of Mrs Sherwood, 1910, 4); Capt. of the School 1760; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1761, matr. 21 May 1761, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1761 - void 8 Oct 1772, expiry year of grace as R. Stanford and V. Clifton; BA 1765; MA 1768; BD and DD 1793; ordained deacon 2 Jun 1765, priest 20 Sep 1767 (both Oxford); Curate of Leigh, Staffs.; had leave of absence from Ch. Ch. to act as tutor in private family (Winnington of Stanford Court), 17 Dec 1765; Rector of Stanford on Teme, Worcs., from 31 Aug 1771; Vicar of Clifton, Worcs., Aug 1771 - res Mar 1787; Vicar of Newchurch, Isle of Wight, 1778-83; Rector of Notgrove, Gloucs., 1783; Chaplain in Ordinary to George III 1783 (still 1793); Vicar of Kidderminster, Worcs., from 23 Feb 1787; one of the circle of minor poets and literary ladies who gathered round Anna Seward, the “Swan” of Lichfield; author, Isaiah Versified, 1784, and other poems; in his Poems, 1793, ii, 107, he refers to his “partialities for Westminster School”; m. 26 Apr 1773 Mary Martha, dau. of Henry Sherwood, Coventry, Warwicks., a London silk merchant; d. 30 Sep 1795. DNB.

Butt, John Marten, 1774-1846

  • GB-2014-WSA-04263
  • Person
  • 1774-1846

BUTT, JOHN MARTEN, only son of George Butt (qv); b. 10 Mar 1774; adm. 18 Jan 1788; Min. Can. 1788; KS 1789; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1792, matr. 6 Jun 1792, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1792 - void 21 Sep 1807, expiry year of grace as R. Oddingley; BA 1796; MA 1799; ordained; Curate, Great Witley, Worcs., 1798; Rector of Oddingley, Worcs., from 11 Aug 1806; Vicar of East Garston, Berks., from 28 Aug 1806; author, The Last Vision of Daniel, 1808, and other works; m. 1st, 4 Nov 1806 Mary Anne Congreve; m. 2nd, 27 Dec 1821 (IGI) Jemima Hubball; d. 4 Mar 1846.

Byard, Paul Spencer, 1939-2008

  • GB-2014-WSA-04284
  • Person
  • 1939-2008

Byard, Paul Spencer, son of Dever Spencer Byard, lawyer, of New York, and Margaret, d. of John Mather of Glasgow; b. 30 Aug. 1939; adm. from Milton Acad., MA, USA, May 1956 (QS); left July 1956; Yale Univ, CT, USA; Clare Coll. Camb., BA 1963, MA 1968; Harvard Law Sch., MA, USA; Grad. Sch. Architecture, Columbia Univ., New York, USA; architect, James Stewart Polshek & Associates 1977-89, partner 1981-9; partner, Charles A. Platt Partners 1989- (Platt Byard Dovell White 2007-); pres. Architectural League of New York 1989-94; a specialist in the renovation of historic buildings in New York City; m. 1965 Rosalie Starr Warren; d. 15 July 2008.

Byerley, Philip, 1704-1734

  • GB-2014-WSA-04287
  • Person
  • 1704-1734

BYERLEY, PHILIP, brother of Robert Byerley (qv); bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields, London 21 Jul 1704 (IGI); adm.; Min. Can. (aged 13) 1718; KS 1719; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1723, adm. pens. 15 Jun 1723, scholar 17 Apr 1724, matr. 1724; BA 1726/7; adm. Inner Temple 1722; of Goldsborough, Yorks.; “was a very pretty gentleman . . . but did not make that figure that he might otherwise have done” (Works of Thomas Newton, Bishop of Bristol, 1787, i, 26); d. 20 Jan 1734.

Byne (or Bynne), Edmund, 1602-1646

  • GB-2014-WSA-04292
  • Person
  • 1602-1646

BYNE (or BYNNE), EDMUND, elder son of Sir John Byn (n)e, Kt., Rowdell, Washington, Sussex, and Audrey, dau. of Richard Weaver, Lingfield, Sussex; bapt. 2 Sep 1602; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Churtch, Oxford 1621, matr. 29 Nov 1621, aged 19, but apparently a gentleman commoner at Ch. Ch. rather than a Westminster Student; succ. father at Rowdell 1640/1; m. 26 Oct 1631 Elizabeth, dau. of Henry Goring MP, Highden, Washington, Sussex; buried 22 Oct 1646.

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