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AMORY, ROBERT, son of Thomas Amory, Brunalty, co. Clare, Millbank, Westminster, and Newton Hall, Wakefield, Yorks., author, and his first wife Elizabeth, dau. of Rev. John Vandeleur, co. Clare; b.; adm. (aged 12) Jan 1741/2; KS 1745; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 23 Mar 1746/7, matr. 1747; MB 1757; practised as a physician in Wakefield, Yorks.; Governor of Wakefield Grammar School 18 Apr 1768 - 4 Feb 1793; m. Anna Maria ---; d. 15 Feb 1805.

Amos, Andrew James Arthur, son of the Rev. Andrew Amos, Vicar of St. Anne's, South Lambeth, by Susan Constance, daughter of the Rev. Robert James Charles Connolly, Rector of Foynes, Limerick; b. Aug. 1, 1900; adm. Sept. 25, 1913 (A); left July 1918; Clare Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1919; B.A. 1921; a chartered accountant with F. Claudet Ltd., Assayers to the Bank of England; served in Royal Army Pay Corps in Great War II; m. July 6, 1927, Margaret Winifred, daughter of David Johnston, of Lurgan, Co. Armagh.

AMYAND, CLAUDIUS, eldest son of Claudius Amyand FRS, Serjeant-Surgeon to George II, and Mary, dau. of Daniel Rabache, St. Peter le Poer, London; b. 25 Aug 1718; adm. Jun 1726; KS 1732; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1736, matr. 25 Jun 1736, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1736 - res 26 Jun 1744; BA 1740; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 23 Jan 1733/4, called to bar 2 Jul 1742; Keeper of the King’s Libraries from 8 Nov 1745; “1749, Oct. 5, Whitehall. Treasury order for payment to Claudius Amyand, Keeper of his Majesty’s Libraries of £50 as half a year’s allowance for house rent or accommodation of the Libraries, and which allowance is to be continued until he shall be provided with the like accommodations when the said Libraries, which are now lying in the old Dormitory at Westminster, shall be removed from thence” (HMC Laing, ii, 402); MP Tregony 1747-54, Sandwich 1754 - 11 Dec 1756; Under-Secretary of State, Southern Department Apr 1750 - Nov 1756; a Commissioner of Customs Dec 1756-65; Receiver-General of the Land Tax for Middlesex from 1765; m. 26 Nov 1761 Frances, widow of George Compton, 6th Earl of Northampton, and dau. of Rev. Thomas Payne, Vicar of Holme Lacy, Herefs.; d. 1 Apr 1774.

AMYAND, THOMAS HANS, brother of Claudius Amyand (qv); bapt. St. Anne, Soho 15 May 1728 (IGI); adm. (aged 8) Feb 1736/7 (Majendie's); Min. Can. 1743; left 1745; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 17 Mar 1745/6; BA 1749; MA 1752; ordained; Rector of Hambleden, Bucks. 23 May 1753-60; Rector of Fawley, Bucks., from 29 Apr 1758; m. 17 Aug 1758 Frances, third dau. of Thomas Ryder, director, EI Company; d. 1762 (will proved PCC 22 Jun 1762).

AMYRANT, MOSES, son of Moses Amyrant LLD, Paris, France, advocate in Parlement of Paris; b.; adm.; KS (aged 15) 1698; Queen’s Coll. Oxford, matr. 7 May 1700; adm. Inner Temple [check], called to bar, Inner Temple 9 Jun 1706; lic. to m. 5 Jan 1719/20 Gertrude Abbot, St Dunstan in the West, London; d. shortly before 7 Feb 1751.

Anderson, Aubrey Thallon, son of Joseph Anderson, of Kensington; b. Feb. 13, 1870; adm. Jan. 24, 1884 (H); left Dec. 1885.

Anderson, Godfrey Howard Parry, son of Edgar Anderson of Bedford and Mabel, d. of Edward Parry; b. 4 Oct. 1908; adm. Jan. 1922 (H); left July 1925; a journalist; war correspondent (Ethiopia and Middle East) in WW2; p.o.w. Italy Nov. 1941; represented Assoc. Press of America for 38 years, with appointments in Paris, Berlin, Brussels and Stockholm; Dallas, Texas, 1971-4; a freelance journalist representing British papers in USA; m. 4 Oct. 1946 Nadeane, d. of Charles Walker of Canton, Texas; d. 20 Apr. 1999.

Anderson, Kenneth Belben, brother of Stuart Milligan Anderson (q.v.); b. May 5, 1881; adm. Jan. 17, 1895 (H); migrated up Rigaud's; left July 1900; Clare Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1900; B.A. 1904; M.A. 1909; a member of Lloyds and a director of the Exchange Telegraph Companv; Lieut. Dorsetshire R.G.A. (T. F.) June 1, 1916; m. April 10, 1912, Denys, daughter of Arthur John Rhodes, of Weybridge, Surrey; d. Nov. 13, 1925.

Anderson, Laurence, eldest son of William Anderson, F.R.C.S., of St. Marylebone; b. July 25, 1874; adm. Jan. 18, 1888 (H); left. July 1892; Ch. Ch. Oxon., matric. Oct. 14, 1892; B.A. 1895; went into business in Eastern Asia, but returned home on the outbreak of the war; 2nd Lieut. 4th Batt. Lincolnshire Regt. Sept. 19, 1914, attached 1st Batt.; served on the western front; killed in action in France Oct. 11, 1915; unm.

Anderson, Ronald George, son of Ronald Anderson MB, med. practitioner, and Isabella Paterson, d. of James Fraser of Daviot, Inverness; b. 17 May 1929; adm. Sept. 1942 (B); left July 1947; Trin. Coll Camb., matric. 1949, BA 1952, MB 1956 BCh 1955; St Thomas’ Hosp. Med. Sch. 1957; gen. med. practitioner Wickford, Essex, 1958-2001; m. 22 Sept. 1956 Iona Hollingsworth, d. of William Alexander Gordon-Brown of Daventry; d. 9 July 2002.