AYLOFFE, SIR JOSEPH, BART., son of Joseph Ayloffe, barrister, Gray’s Inn, Recorder of Kingston-upon-Thames. and Mary, dau. of Brian Ayliffe, citizen and merchant, London; grandson of Joseph Ayloffe (qv); b. 1709; adm. Jun 1719; in under school list 1723; St. John’s Coll. Oxford, matr. 23 Apr 1726; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 24 Oct 1724, called to bar 29 Oct 1730; succ. cousin as 6th baronet 10 Dec 1730; Methodiser of State Papers, Secretary of State’s Office, from 16 Jul 1764; FSA 10 Feb 1731/2, Vice-Pres.; FRS 27 May 1731; an eminent antiquary; employed William Blake to copy paintings in Westminster Abbey presbytery; author, Calendars of the Ancient Charters . . . now remaining in the Tower, 1772, and other works; m. Jan 1734 Margaret, dau. of Charles Railton, Carlisle, Cumberland; d. 19 Apr 1781. DNB.
AYLOFFE, JOSEPH, son of Sir William Ayloffe, Bart., MP, and his third wife Alice, dau. of James Stokes, Stoke, near Coventry, Warwicks.; b.; adm.; KS 1636; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1640, adm. pens. 18 May 1640, scholar 1641, matr. 1640; BA 1643/4; MA 1647; adm. Gray’s Inn 31 Oct 1646, called to bar 1653, ancient 18 May 1667; Savoy Manor Steward, Duchy of Lancaster 8 Aug 1660 - successor appointed Apr 1673; of Brittayns, Hornchurch, Essex; m. Frances, dau. of Henry Ayscough, Yorkshire; d. at Montpellier, France. (will proved PCC 29 Jul 1674, as of Gray’s Inn).
AYLOFFE, WILLIAM, son of Thomas Ayloffe, Bassingbourn, Cambs.; b.; adm.; KS 1674; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1680, adm. pens. 19 Jun 1680, aged 18, scholar 22 Apr 1681, matr. [check]; 3rd in ordo 1683/4; MA 1687; LLD 1705; Minor Fellow, Trinity 19 Apr 1687, Major Fellow from 22 Jul 1687, Tutor 1693-8, Senior Fellow 1714, Senior Bursar 1716-9, 1722-6; supported John Colbatch (qv) in his prolonged struggle against Bentley; Public Orator, Univ. Cambridge, 1696-1727; d. 1728.
AYLWORTH, RICHARD, eldest son of Richard Aylworth, Aylworth, Naunton, Gloucs., and Mary, dau. of Sir Thomas Sackville, Kt, Bibury, Gloucs.; b.; adm.; KS 1671; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1673, adm. pens. 28 Jun 1673, scholar 1674; adm. Middle Temple 23 Jun 1675; buried 3 Apr 1677, aged 23.
AYRE, ---; b.; at school 1554.
AYRES, PHILIP, of Cottingham, Northants.; b. 1638; at school under Busby (monumental inscription in Amersham Church, cited Lipscomb, Bucks., iii, 172); lived for some years in Spain; tutor in the family of Montagu Garrard Drake, Amersham, Bucks., where he lived until his death; resident at St. John’s Coll. Oxford as tutor to Drake’s son when an undergraduate there; author, Lyric Poems made in imitation of the Italians, 1687, and other works; dedicated his Mythologia Ethica, or Three Centuries of Aesopian Fables in English, 1689, to his “kinsman” Lewis Maidwell (qv); d. 1 Dec 1712. DNB.
AYSCOUGH, SIR EDWARD, eldest son of Sir Edward Ayscough, Kt MP, South Kelsey, Lincs., and Frances, dau. of Sir Nicholas Clifford, Kt.; bapt. South Kelsey St. Mary, Lincs. 29 Sep 1618; at school under Osbaldeston (Al. Cant. ); Sidney Sussex Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 16 Sep 1635, aged 17; MP Grimsby 1659; knighted 2 Jun 1660; JP Lincolnshire 1657, High Sheriff 1665; m. 11 Sep 1645 Isabel, dau. of Sir John Bolles, Bart., Scampton, Lincs.; d. 13 Aug 1668.