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DRYDEN, CHARLES, eldest son of John Dryden (elected to Trin. Coll. Camb. 1650, qv); b. 6 Sep 1666; adm.; KS (Capt. ) 1680; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1683, adm. pens. 26 Jun 1683, aged 17, scholar 10 Apr 1684, matr. 1683; became a Roman Catholic; resident in Italy 1692-8; Chamberlain to Pope Innocent XII; translated the seventh satire of Juvenal for his father’s English version, and author of at least two published poems; drowned in the Thames, near Datchet, Bucks., 20 Aug 1704. DNB.

DRYDEN, JOHN, second son of John Dryden (elected to Trin. Coll. Camb. 1650, qv); b. 1667; adm.; KS 1682; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1685, but did not take up his election and was placed by his father under the care of Rev. Obadiah Walker, Master of Univ. Coll. Oxford and a Roman Catholic; as a Roman Catholic convert nominated Fellow of Magdalen Coll. Oxford by James II 31 Dec 1687, admitted 11 Jan 1687/8, but removed by the Visitor 25 Oct 1688; went to Rome with his brother Charles Dryden (qv), and officiated as his brother’s deputy and perhaps replacement in the Papal household; accompanied Hon. William Cecil to Naples, Sicily and Malta Oct 1700- Jan 1701, his account of their tour being published posthumously in 1776; translated the 14th satire of Juvenal for his father’s English version; author, The Husband, his own Cuckold, a play performed at the theatre in Lincoln’s Inn Fields in 1696; d. unm. at Rome 16 Apr 1703. DNB.

Berger, John Stephen, son of Major-General Ernest Archibald Berger, of Baling, by Margaret C., daughter of Thomas Brereton, of Nenagh, co. Tipperary; b. March 4, 1876; adm. Sept. 1889 (H); left July 1892; a mining engineer in S. America, and in Mines Dept., Federated Malay States, 1908-31; m. April 12, 1909, Violet Frances, daughter of Basil Grey, of Ceylon; d. Dec. 15, 1946.

DOUGLAS, JAMES ST. LEGER, brother of John St. Leger Douglas (qv); b.; adm. (aged 9) Jan 1742/3 (Smalridge's); left 1748; Ensign, 3rd Foot Guards 12 Jun 1753; Lieut. and Capt. in Army 3 Sep 1756; Lieut. and Capt., 3rd Foot Guards 5 Jun 1758; Lieut. -Col. in Army 26 Jan 1763; Capt. and Lieut. -Col., 3rd Foot Guards 25 Mar 1768; retd. 1773; British Consul in Naples 28 Aug. 1779 until his death; knighted 20 Apr. 1785; d. 6 May 1795.

Geary, Mary, d. 1796; Dame of 3 Dean’s Yard c.1780; Mary (née Smith) married Stephen Geary in 1744. [Note “Stephen Geary” listed Dean’s Yard, Boyle’s Court Guide 1808 : he d. 1 Aug 1810, aged 91, having been “a house-keeper in Dean’s Yard near 70 years” ; he was on electoral register as of Dean’s Yard, 1774-1806] [She would have been his first wife if he was her husband, since he m. as widower at Marylebone Parish Church 5 May 1796 Ann Pittman (she is said to have been aged 49 and her husband aged 84 in 1797, when she gave birth to twins)]

RUSSELL, BERTRAND, son of Peter Russell, and Hannah --- (IGI); bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 30 Apr 1747 (IGI); adm.; KS 1761; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1765, adm. pens. 5 Jun 1765, aged 18, scholar 2 May 1766, matr. 1766; BA 1769; MA 1772; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1771, Major Fellow 8 Jul 1772, Senior Fellow 1791; ordained priest (Peterborough) 19 Jul 1772; tutor to the sons of General Guy Carleton in Canada; Vicar of Eaton Bray, Beds.; Vicar of Gainford, co. Durham, from Jul 1791; m. 30 Jul 1795, Susanna (IGI), dau. of Rev. Michael Pope, Charterhouse Square, London; d. 29 Nov 1797.

Boag, Sir George Townsend, son of the Rev. George Boag, Vicar of Winster, Westmorland; by Frances Sophia, daughter of John Townsend, of Wimbledon; b. Nov. 12, 1884; adm. as Q.S.; Jan. 21, 1897; Mure Scholar 1901; Capt. of the School 1902; elected head to Trin. Coll. Camb. (with Senior Samwaies and Triplett gratuity) July 1903, matric. Michaelmas 1903; Min. scholar 1903, Jeston exhibitioner 1906; 1st class (2nd div.) Classical Trip., part 1, 1906; B.A. 1906; M.A. 1919; appointed to the Indian Civil Service after the exam. of 1907; arrived in India Nov. 24, 1908, and served in Madras as Assist. Collector and Magistrate; special Settlement Officer Sept. 1912; Sub-Collector and joint Magistrate March 1919; Superintendent of Census, Madras, April 1920 to July 1922; Secretary to the Madras Finance Dept. 1925; C.I.E. 1928; a member of the Indian Tariff Board 1931; C.S.I. 1936; Adviser to Governor of Madras 1939-43; Dewan of Cochin State 1943-7; retired 1947; K.C.I.E. Jan. 1, 1941; a Busby Trustee May 18, 1954; a donor of the Madras Cup; d. 1969.