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BLACKWOOD, JOHN, brother of Shovel Blackwood (qv); b.; adm. (aged 9) Jun 1742 (Bainbrigg's); left 1745; Col. in Dutch service; of Pitreavie, Dunfermline, Fifeshire, and Cheshunt Nunnery, Herts.; m. 22 Jul 1767 Catherine Anne, dau. of William Janssen, Hill Street, St. George’s, Hanover Square; buried Crayford, Kent 14 Dec 1780.

JAMES, RICHARD, brother of Jonathan James (qv); bapt. All Hallows, Bread Street, London 9 Aug 1730 (IGI); adm. (aged 9) Nov 1739 (Bainbrigg's); KS 1744; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1748, matr. 14 Jun 1748, Westminster Student 23 Dec 1748 – expelled 19 Jun 1750; his expulsion was for “providing entertainment both of dinner and supper for several persons” in celebration of the Pretender’s birthday, for “forcing himself out of the College Gate at a very late hour, by threatening to kill the porter”, and for failing to appear before the Dean and Chapter when cited (see Thompson, Christ Church, 153-4); ordained; Curate, Mortlake, Surrey, in 1765-6; Vicar of Broad Hinton, Wilts., from 1772; d. 16 May 1781.

LEIGH, JAMES, son of William Leigh, Adlestrop, Gloucs., and Mary, dau. of Robert Lord, York Buildings, Villiers Street, Strand, London; b. 22 Jun 1724; adm. (aged 14) Oct 1738 (Bainbrigg's); left 1739; Balliol Coll. Oxford, matr. 18 Mar 1740/1; Grand Tour (Italy); of Adlestrop, Gloucs.; m. 10 Mar 1755 Lady Caroline Brydges, dau. of Henry Brydges, 2nd Duke of Chandos (qv); d. 31 Mar 1774 (M. I. Adlestrop, Gloucs. ).

MANGEY, JOHN, son of Rev. Thomas Mangey DD, Rector of St. Mildred’s, Bread Street, London, and Prebendary of Durham, and Dorothy, dau. of Most Rev. John Sharp DD, Archbishop of York; b.; adm. (aged 8) Apr 1737 (Bainbrigg's); St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 10 Jan 1744/5; migrated to St. Mary Hall, Oxford, matr. 22 Jul 1745; BA 1749; MA 1752; ordained priest (London) 10 Mar 1754; Vicar of Great Dunmow, Essex, from 29 Aug 1754; Prebendary of St. Paul’s from 6 Oct 1775; d. 1 Nov 1782.

SKINNER, MATTHEW, son of Matthew Skinner (QS 1704, qv); b.; adm. (aged 9) Nov 1739 (Bainbrigg's); left 1747; Worcester Coll. Oxford, matr. 12 Mar 1746/7; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 28 Nov 1747, called to bar 20 Nov 1753, invited to Bench 14 Dec 1782; a Commissioner of Bankrupts (occurs in annual lists 1758-68); m. 11 May 1761 Ann, dau. of Hatch Moody, Carpenters, Herts.; d. 2 Jul 1814.

SKYNNER, THOMAS, brother of Sir John Skynner (qv); b.; adm. (aged 11) Jan 1738/9 (Bainbrigg's); KS 1742; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1746, matr. 6 Jun 1746, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1746 – void 8 Jun 1775 (expiry year of grace as R. Bratton Clovelly from 17 Jun 1774), Tutor 1753-63, Junior Censor 1760-2; BA 1750; MA 1753; DCL 1772; ordained deacon 24 May 1752, priest 17 Jun 1753 (both Oxford); Curate, Drayton, Oxfordshire 1759; Prebendary of Exeter from 9 Jan 1769, Archdeacon of Totnes 10 Mar 1772-5, Precentor of Exeter from 8 Jun 1775; Rector of Bratton Clovelly, Devon, from 1774; Vicar of Pinhoe, Devon, from 25 Jan 1781; m. 18 Apr 1785 Martha Stooke, The Close, Exeter; d. 7 Aug 1789.

SOMERVILLE, JAMES, 13TH BARON SOMERVILLE (S), eldest son of James Somerville, 12th Baron Somerville (S), and his first wife Anne, widow of Edward Rolt MP, Sacombe Park, Herts., and only dau. of Henry Bayntun MP, Spye Park, Chittoe, Wilts.; b. 22 Jun 1727; adm. Jun 1742 (Bainbrigg's); left Christmas 1743; Cornet, 2nd Dragoon Guards 9 Sep 1743; 2nd Lieut., Marines 31 Aug 1744; half-pay 25 Dec 1748; Capt., 2nd Dragoon Guards 26 Jan 1750/1; Maj., 31 Dec 1761; retd. 17 Aug 1763; served at battles of Preston Pans, Falkirk and Culloden; succ. father as 13th Baron Somerville (S) 14 Dec 1765; a Representative Peer for Scotland from 7 Aug 1793; d. unm. 19 Apr 1796.

TILLIE, JAMES, son of James Tillie (formerly Woolley), Pentillie Castle, Pillaton, Cornwall, and Esther (Belsire ? (IGI)); bapt. Pillaton, Cornwall 26 Dec 1722 (IGI); adm. (aged 16) Oct 1739 (Bainbrigg's); left 1740; Exeter Coll. Oxford, matr. 28 Jun 1740; m. 2 Feb 1750/1 Mary Buckhurst, Fulham, Middlesex; d. 17 Apr 1772.

TROLLOPE, JOHN, son of Henry Trollope, London, merchant, and Elizabeth, dau. of John Barne, London, merchant; b. 1 Aug 1729; adm. Apr 1739 (Bainbrigg's); left 1747; Magdalen Coll. Oxford, matr. 28 Jul 1747; BA 1751; MA 1754; ordained; Vicar of Hartford and Rector of Sawtry St. Andrew, Hunts.; Rector of Little Marcle, Herefs., from 26 Jan 1766; m. 1st, by 1756, Anne Guyon, Dines Hall, Essex; m. 2nd, 1 Jan 1761 Catherine, dau. of Rev. Martin Annesley DD, Vicar of Bucklebury, Berks.; d. 10 Jul 1794.

GLASSE, JOHN, son of John Glasse, Carey Street, Lincoln’s Inn, London; b.; adm. (aged 12) Jan 1741/2 (Bainbrigg's); left 1744; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 20 Nov 1746; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 27 Mar 1749, matr. 1750; author, A Funeral Eclogue on the Death of the Prince of Wales, 1751, and Poems on several Occasions, 1763.