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OTWAY, FRANCIS, eldest son of Lieut. -Col. Francis Otway, St. Martin’s in the Fields, and Smarden, Kent, and Anne Taylor, St. Anne, Soho; bapt. St. Anne’s, Soho 15 Oct 1730 (IGI); adm. (aged 9) 1739/40 (Hawkins'); left 1748; adm. Inner Temple 23 Jun 1748, called to bar 4 Jul 1753, tenant chambers there from 1 May 1751; of Riverhill, Sevenoaks, Kent; a letter addressed to him at school by his uncle and godfather William Byrd, Westover, Virginia, is printed Virginia Magazine of History and Biography xxxviii, 28; m. Sarah, dau. of Richard Rowdon Baynham, London, and Riverhill, Sevenoaks, Kent, apothecary; buried St. Marylebone, London 22 Mar 1773.

OTWAY, JOHN; b.; adm. (aged 12) Jan 1742/3 (Hawkins'); left 1744.

PALMER, CHARLES; b.; adm. (aged 12) Jul 1742 (Hawkins'); left 1747. [perhaps Ensign, 2nd Foot Guards 26 Jan 1750/1 – Jan 1753]

PARKYNS, GEORGE, son of Sir Thomas Parkyns, Bart. (bapt. 1662, qv), and his second wife; b. 30 Dec 1729; adm. Feb 1742/3 (Hawkins'); Queen’s Coll. Oxford, adm. fellow commoner 30 Oct 1746; Cornet, 15th Dragoons 15 May 1759; Lieut., 15 Jul 1761; Capt., 28 May 1770; [not in Army List 1773]; m. 16 Apr 1749 Anne, dau. of Elton Levett MD, Nottingham.

PARKYNS, SIR THOMAS, BART., elder son of Sir Thomas Parkyns, Bart. (bapt. 1662, qv) and his second wife; bapt. 8 Dec 1728; succ. father as 3rd baronet 29 Mar 1741; adm. (aged 14) Feb 1742/3 (Hawkins'); Queen’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 12 Nov 1744, matr. 1744; DL Leicestershire; DL JP Nottinghamshire, High Sheriff 1755-6; m. 1st, 7 Apr 1747 his cousin Jane, dau. of Thomas Parkyns (adm. 1717/8, qv); m. 2nd, 1765 Sarah, dau. of Daniel Smith, Bunny, Notts.; m. 3rd, 1 Sep 1796 Jane, dau. of Joseph Boultbee, Leicester; d. 17 Mar 1806.

PATTON, PAUL; b.; adm. (aged 13) Sep 1740 (Hawkins'); left 1744. [Evidently brother or close kin to Thomas Patton, adm. same month].

PATTON, THOMAS; b.; adm. (aged 12) Sep 1740 (Hawkins'); left 1744. [Evidently brother or close kin to Paul Patton, adm. same month].

PERRYN, SIR RICHARD, son of Benjamin Perryn, Flint, Flintshire, merchant, and Jane, eldest dau. of Richard Adams, Town Clerk of Chester; b. 9 Aug 1723; ed Ruthin GS; adm. (aged 16) Oct 1739 (Hawkins'); left 1741; Queen’s Coll. Oxford, matr. 13 Mar 1740/1; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 6 Nov 1740; migrated to Inner Temple 27 Apr 1746, called to bar 3 Jul 1747, Bencher 1771; built up an extensive practice at the Chancery Bar; KC Duchy of Lancaster 23 Mar 1766 – Apr 1766; Vice-Chamberlain, Chester 1770; KC 1770; knighted 6 Apr 1776; Baron of the Exchequer and Serjeant-at-Law 26 Apr 1776 to retirement autumn 1799; m. 30 Nov 1752 Mary, eldest dau. of Henry Browne, Skelbrooke, Yorks.; d. 2 Jan 1803. DNB.

POLLARD, WILLIAM; b.; adm. (aged 12) Sep 1750 (Hawkins').

POWLETT, CHARLES, eldest natural son of Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton KG PC, and his mistress Lavinia Beswick (otherwise Fenton), actress; b. 27 Dec 1727; adm. (aged 12) Jan 1740/1 (Hawkins'); left 1744; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 28 Jun 1753, aged 24; MA [check] 1755; ordained deacon (Winchester) 23 Dec 1753, priest (St. Davids) 9 Jun 1754; [Chaplain, 55th Foot 15 Jan 1756 ?]; Chaplain to Duke of Bolton; Curate, Itchen Abbas, Hampshire, from 1763; Chaplain, 1st Dragoon Guards 11 Jun 1766 – [still in Army List 1790]; Rector of Winslade, Hampshire 8 Jun 1782-9; Rector of St. Martin by Looe, Cornwall 2 Jul 1785 – Apr 1790; Rector of Ludgvan, Cornwall 1789; one of the Committee which revised the laws of cricket at the Star and Garter, Pall Mall 25 Feb 1774; a well-known hunting man in Hampshire, and author many hunting songs; m. 1st, 23 Mar 1755 Elizabeth, dau. of James Gunman, Greenwich Hospital; m. 2nd, Anne ---; d. 29 Jan 1809. [perhaps m. 2nd, 25 Apr 1792 Anne Mariet (IGI)]