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CLARKE, FREDERICK GARNETT, brother of Francis Richard Clarke (qv); b. 16 Jan 1862; adm. (G) 27 May 1875; left Aug 1880; in nitrate industry at Valparaiso, Chile; m. 1st, 14 Sep 1886 Penelope, dau. of George Petrie, De Vere Gardens, Kensington, shipowner; m. 2nd, Laura, dau. of Alberto Alibaud, Santiago, Chile.

COTTON, GEORGE EDWARD LYNCH, only son of Capt. Thomas D’Avenant Cotton, 7th Foot, and Mary Headley Burnley, Halifax, Nova Scotia; grandson of George Cotton (qv); b. 29 Oct 1813; adm. (G) 17 Jan 1825; KS 1828; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1832, adm. pens. 11 Jun 1832, scholar 1833, matr. Mich. 1832; 8th Classic and 40th Senior Optime 1836; BA 1836; MA 1839; DD 1858 (incorp. Oxford 3 Jun 1858); Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1838, Major Fellow 1839; Assistant Master, Rugby School, 1837-52 (the “young master” of Tom Brown’s Schooldays); Headmaster, Marlborough Coll., 1852-8; ordained deacon 1 Feb 1839, priest 9 Jun 1839 (both Worcester); Bishop of Calcutta from 1858; consecrated in Westminster Abbey 13 May 1858; established schools for the education of poor European and Eurasian children; m. 26 Jun 1845 his cousin Sophia Anne, dau. of Rev. Henry Tomkinson, Reaseheath Hall, Cheshire, Vicar of Acton, Cheshire; accidentally drowned in the Ganges at Kushtia 6 Oct 1866. DNB.

COVENTRY, HON. THOMAS HENRY, fourth son of George William Coventry, 7th Earl of Coventry (qv) and his second wife; b. 18 Sep 1792; adm. 18 Jan 1805; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 17 Oct 1811; BA 1815; MA 1827; ordained deacon and priest, 1816; Rector of Pirton with Croome D’Abitot, Worcs., 1 Nov 1816-33; Rector of Hill Croome, Worcs., from 19 Feb 1827; Rector of Severn Stoke, Worcs., from 2 Mar 1833; d. 20 Aug 1869.

CROFT, SIR ARCHER DENMAN, BART., brother of Sir Thomas Elmsley Croft, Bart. (qv); b. 7 Dec 1801; adm. Mich. 1813; left 8 Aug 1816; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 21 Aug 1820, called to bar 30 Apr 1839 [check]; succ. his brother as 8th baronet 29 Oct 1835; a Master, Court of Queen’s Bench 1837-64; m. 31 Aug 1837 Julia Barbara, widow of Athelstan Corbet, Ynys-y-Maengwyn, Merionethshire, and youngest dau. of Major-Gen. John Garstin, EICS Bengal, successively Surveyor-Gen. and Chief Engineer, Bengal; d. 10 Jan 1865.

CROFT, SIR THOMAS ELMSLEY, BART., third but eldest surviving son of Sir Richard Croft, Bart., MD, and Margaret, dau. of Thomas Denman MD; b. 2 Sep 1798; adm. Lady Day 1811; left 1813; Ensign, 1st Foot Guards 28 Apr 1814, half-pay 2 Mar 1820, retd. 29 Mar 1831; severely wounded at battle of Quatre Bras 16 Jun 1815; succ. father as 7th baronet 13 Feb 1818; FSA; m. 9 Sep 1824 Sophia Jane, only child of Richard Lateward-Lateward, Grove House, Perivale, Middlesex; d. 29 Oct 1835.

DAY, GEORGE, son of John Day, Norwich, Norfolk, and Catherine, dau. of Rev. George Sandby DD, Chancellor of Norwich and Rector of Denton, Norfolk; b. 15 Jun 1788; adm. 24 Jan 1801 (Clapham); KS 1802; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1806, but went to Merton Coll. Oxford, matr. 17 May 1806; BA 1810; ordained; Rector of Earsham, Norfolk, from 24 Jul 1812; m. 9 Feb 1810 Mary Jones (IGI); d. 10 Jul 1831. [perhaps George Day, MA, Minor Canon, Norwich from 1817 (still 1829)]

DUNLOP, JAMES, son of John Dunlop, Petersburg, Virginia, USA, and Mary Ruffin Gillian; b. 7 Aug 1805; adm. (G) 15 Jan 1816; lived for some years in Netherlands and afterwards settled in USA; agent of the Clyde Ironworks owned by the Dunlop family in America; d. 1870.

DUNLOP, DONALD MACKENZIE, brother of James Dunlop (qv); b. 29 Oct 1806; adm. (G) 15 Jan 1816; KS 1821; Capt. of the School 1825; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1826, adm. pens. 9 Jun 1826, scholar 1827, matr. Mich. 1826; adm. advocate 16 Dec 1829; adm. Inner Temple 10 May 1827, called to bar 6 Jun 1834; practised as a barrister in Bath; m. 3 Jun 1845 Eliza Herculina, eldest dau. of Col. William Swinton, EICS Bengal; d. 30 Dec 1874.

ELIOT, RICHARD, second son of Rev. Edward Eliot, Vicar of Norton Bavant, Wilts., and Prebendary of Salisbury, sometime Archdeacon of Barbados, and ---, d. of --- Skeats [or Skeet ?], Barbados, West Indies; b. 6 Apr 1831; adm. (G) 7 Jan 1844; QS 1845; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1849, matr. 31 May 1849, Westminster Student; BA 1853; MA 1856; ordained 1857; d. 14 May 1862.

ELLISON, HENRY JOHN, brother of George Thomas Ellison (qv); b. 7 Jun 1813; adm. 30 Jun 1820; KS 1827; rowed against Eton 12 May 1831; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1831, adm. pens. 26 May 1831, scholar 1832, matr. Mich. 1831; BA 1835; MA 1838; ordained deacon (Ely) 27 May 1838, priest (Norwich) 5 Jan 1840; Perpetual Curate of All Saints, Brighton, Sussex 15 Jul 1843; Vicar of Edensor, Derbs., 1845-55; Vicar of New Windsor, Berks., 6 Oct 1855-75; Rector of Great Haseley, Oxfordshire 1875-94; Prebendary of Lichfield 1854-73; Hon. Canon, Christ Church, Oxford 1873-94; Hon. Canon, Canterbury, from 1894; Reader at Windsor Castle 1856-75; Chaplain in Ordinary to Queen Victoria from 1879; founder, Church of England Temperance Society; author, Sermons and Addresses on Church Temperance Work, 1895; m. 27 Apr 1854 Mary Dorothy, eldest dau. of Maj. -Gen. Sir Joshua Jebb, Surveyor-Gen. of HM Prisons; d. 25 Dec 1899.