Campion, Edward, ca. 1634-1656
CAMPION, EDWARD, son of Edward Campion, Witham, Essex, and St. James, Clerkenwell, and Barbara, dau. of Thomas Chowne, Place House, Alfriston, Sussex; b.; adm.; KS (aged 14) 1648; contributed Latin verses on death of Lord Hastings to Lachrymae Musarum, 1649, 95-6; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1651, matr. 10 May 1651, Westminster Student; BA 24 Feb 1654/5; buried St. James, Clerkenwell 26 Sep 1656, unm.
CANE, WILLIAM, eldest son of James Cane, Dublin city; b. 8 Jul 1742; adm.; KS (aged 13) 1756; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1760, adm. pens. 5 Jun 1760, fellow commoner 28 Dec 1760, matr. 1760; adm. Middle Temple 13 Oct 1757; of Erith, Kent; fled to France from his creditors in Aug 1777 and took up residence at Tours; m. 3 Jun 1771 Henrietta Dorothea, dau. of Henry Johnson, Great Berkhamsted, Herts.; d. Tours 30 Apr 1818.
CANNING, RICHARD, son of Capt. Richard Canning, Royal Navy, Ipswich, Suffolk; b. (at Plymouth, Devon) 30 Sep 1708; adm. Feb 1718/9; Min. Can. 1722; KS 1723; left 1723; St. Catherine’s Hall, Cambridge, adm. pens. 13 Aug 1724, matr. 1725; BA 1728/9; MA (from Peterhouse) 1735; ordained; Perpetual Curate of St. Lawrence’s, Ipswich, 1734; Rector of Harkstead, Suffolk, 1738-69; Vicar of Rushmere St. Andrew, Suffolk, 1755-6; Rector of Freston, Suffolk, from 1755; Rector of Thornham Magna, Suffolk, 1766-8; edited Kirby’s Suffolk Traveller, 1764, and author, several tracts and pamphlets; m. 1st, 25 Jul 1739 (IGI) Cordelia Westhorp (IGI); m. 2nd, 1765 Jenny, dau. of Edmund Tyrell, Stowmarket, Suffolk; d. 8 Jan 1775. DNB.
CAPPER, FRANCIS, son of Francis Capper, Bushey, Herts., barrister, Bencher Lincoln’s Inn, and Mary, dau. of Thomas Bennet, St. Paul’s Churchyard, bookseller; b. 24 Aug 1735; adm. Sep 1742 (Clarke's); KS 1749; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1753, matr. 27 Jun 1753, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1753 - void 2 Oct 1760, expiry year of grace as R. Monk Soham from 2 Nov 1759; BA 1757; MA 1760; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 25 Feb 1746/7; ordained priest (Oxford) 23 Sep 1759; Rector of Monk Soham and East Soham, Suffolk, from 1759; author, The Faith and Belief of every sincere Christian; m. 6 Nov 1759 Elizabeth, dau. of Peter Pierson, banker; d. 13 Nov 1818. DNB.
CAREW, EDWARD; b.; adm.; QS; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1575, Westminster Student to 1577; Carew and Thomas Ravis (qv) were at first refused admittance to their studentships, but they both appealed to Lord Treasurer Burleigh and were ultimately admitted (CSP Dom Addit, 1566-79, 487; Strype, Annals, ii, pt i, 553-6; Thompson, Christ Church, 25).
Carey, David Macbeth Moir, 1917-2000
Carey, David Macbeth Moir, son of Godfrey Mohun Carey, asst master Sherborne Sch., and Agnes Charlotte, d. of Very Rev. William Milligan DD, Prof. of Theology Univ. of Aberdeen; b. 21 Jan. 1917; adm. Sept. 1930 (KS); left July 1935; St Edmund Hall Oxf., matric. 1935, BA 1938, MA 1948; RNVR 1940-5 (Lieut.-Cdr); adm. a solicitor Jan. 1948; Legal Sec. to the Bishop of Ely 1953-82, to the Bishop of Gloucester 1957-82; Legal Sec. to the Archbishop of Camerbury and Principal Registrar to the Province of Canterbury 1958-82; retd 1982; DCL (Lambeth) 1975; CBE 1983; chairman Westminster Sch. Soc. Council 1957-75; a Governor of the school 1960-; a Busby Trustee 1975-; pres. Elizabethan Club 1978-81; m. 10 Sept. 1949 Margaret Ruth, d. of Rev. Canon William Riches Mills, HM of Highfield Sch. Liphook, Hants.; 21 Jan. 2000
CAREY, WILLIAM, son of Richard Carey, Worcester, and Margaret --- (IGI); b. 18 Nov 1769; adm. 9 Sep 1783; KS 1784; Capt. of the School 1788; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1789, matr. 12 Jun 1789, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1789 - res 23 Dec 1803, Tutor 1794-1800, Junior Censor 1798-1801; BA 1793; MA 1796; BD 1804; DD 1807; ordained; Curate, Cowley, Oxfordshire, 1800; Head Master of the School Jan 1803 - Dec 1814; Prebendary of York 22 May 1802 – res 15 May 1815; Sub-Almoner to the King 16 Feb 1808 - c. 1815; Prebendary of Westminster 18 Mar 1809 - Apr 1830; Vicar of Sutton in the Forest, Yorks., 15 Apr 1813-20; consecrated Bishop of Exeter 12 Nov 1820; translated to St. Asaph, 7 Apr 1830; gave the scenery for the Latin Play that was in use between 1808 and 1858; gave during his lifetime £20, 000 Consols for the better maintenance of the bachelor students at Christ Church, Oxford, elected from Westminster; Busby Trustee 3 May 1804; m. 2 Jan 1804 Mary, only dau. of Rev. William Sheepshanks, Minister of St. John’s, Leeds, and Prebendary of Lincoln and Carlisle; d. 13 Sep 1846. DNB.
By an indenture dated 17 Feb 1842 he gave £10,000 3 per cent Consolidated Bank Annuities, which, by an indenture dated 13 Feb 1843, he afterwards increased to £20,000, to trustees, the income from which was to be applied “to found certain exhibitions (the same to continue after his own death and that of his wife) for the better education and advancement in sound learning and religious knowledge of such Students of [Christ Church, Oxford] elected from Westminster School, as have their own way to make in the world”. In 1846 he gave £200 towards the fund for the improvement of the College Dormitory. In addition he gave the set of scenery for the Play which was in use from 1808 until 1858.
CARKESSE, JAMES, son of James Carkesse, Hackney, Middlesex, and of City of London, Turkey merchant, and Mary, dau. of Rowland Beresford, London; b.; adm.; KS (aged 13) 1648; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1652, matr. 26 Jan 1652/3, Westminster Student; BA 3 Feb 1656/7; MA 1659; refused grace for BA four times, and before his admission was compelled to apologise for some insult which he had offered his college; in 1658 Busby certified that Carkesse “is of the same standing as those Westminster scholars who take the MA degree this Act 1658”, and that he “was only hindered from residence by the tenuity of his fortunes, which compelled him to reside in Westminster College for a maintenance, and to wait five terms for admission to a student’s place, to which he was elected” (CSP Dom 1658-9, 40); Usher, Magdalen Coll. Sch. 1655, 5 Jan 1662/3-3, Head Master 1663-4; a clerk in the Seamen’s Ticket Office, Navy Office, Aug 1665 - Mar 1667, Mar 1668 - Sep 1670, Mar 1672 - Jun 1673; confined to Bedlam, but released in 1678; Head Master, Chelmsford Sch., 1683; FRS 23 Mar 1663/4, expelled 18 Nov 1675; author, Lucida Intervalla, containing divers miscellaneous poems written at Finsbury and Bethlem by the doctor’s patient extraordinary, 1679; lic. to m. 23 Nov 1663 Arabella Walesson, St. Faith’s, London. DNB.
Carkesse, Thomas, ca. 1713-1741
CARKESSE, THOMAS, son of Charles Carkesse, Battersea, Surrey, Secretary, Board of Customs, and Mary ---; b.; adm. (aged 11) Apr 1724; KS 1727. [will Charles Carkesse, Battersea, Surrey, proved PCC 25 Sep 1741; Charles Carkesse, St. John’s, Westminster, proved PCC 21 Feb 1760]
CARKETT, ROBERT; b.; GS 1540; KS 1540-2 (Chapter Muniments 6478; PRO, Exch. Aug. Office, Misc. Books, 24).