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FLUDYER, SIR SAMUEL, BART., eldest son of Samuel Fludyer, London, clothier, and Elizabeth, dau. of Pierre de Montsallier, of a French Protestant family; b. 1705; at school under Freind (Steward, Anniversary Dinner 1763); entered father’s business, in which he made a large fortune; member, Common Council, City of London, Bassishaw Ward 1734-51; Alderman, City of London, Cheap Ward 26 Jun 1751; member, Company of Tylers and Bricklayers to 1752, when he was translated to the Clothworkers’ Company; Sheriff of London for year 1754-5; knighted 19 Sep 1755; created baronet 14 Nov 1759; Lord Mayor of London for year 1761-2; MP Chippenham from 1754; a Director, Bank of England 1753-5, 1756-8, 1759-62, and from 1763, Deputy Governor from 1766; satirised by Charles Churchill (qv) as “Dulman” in The Ghost, iii, 993-8; m. 1st, Jane Clerke, Westminster; m. 2nd, 2 Sep 1758 Caroline, dau. of Hon. James Brudenell MP; d. 18 Jan 1768. DNB.

FLUDYER, SIR SAMUEL BRUDENELL, BART., elder son of Sir Samuel Fludyer, Bart. (b. 1705, qv) and his second wife; b. 8 Oct 1759; succ. father as 2nd baronet 18 Jan 1768; adm. 17 Jan 1771; left 1777; Grand Tour; MP Aldborough 8 Jun 1781 - 4; Lieut. Col., Royal Monmouth and Brecon Militia 1 Jul 1805 (still 1808); m. 5 Oct 1796 his cousin Maria, dau. of Robert Weston; d. 17 Feb 1833.

FLUDYER, GEORGE, younger son of Sir Samuel Fludyer, Bart. (b. 1705, qv), and his second wife; b. Sep 1761; adm. 17 Jan 1771; left 1777; Grand Tour; MP Chippenham 28 Feb 1783 - 1802, Appleby 23 Jun 1818 - Apr 1819; of Ayston Hall, Rutland; High Sheriff, Rutland 1814; m. 16 Jan 1792 Lady Mary Fane, half-sister of John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland (qv); d. 15 Apr 1837.

WICKHAM, WILLIAM, son of Henry Lewis Wickham (qv); b. 10 Jul 1831; adm. 19 Jan 1844 (Benthall's); QS 1846; left Whitsun 1847; New Inn Hall, Oxford, matr. 30 May 1850; BA 1854; MA 1857; adm. Inner Temple 20 Nov 1854, called to bar 6 Jun 1857; MP (Conservative) East Hampshire from 1892; DL Hampshire, High Sheriff 1888, JP 1866; Vice-Chairman, Hampshire County Council, from 1889; member Society of Dilettanti 1894; Busby Trustee 17 Jun 1884; edited The Correspondence of the Right Hon. William Wickham from 1794, 1870; m. 9 May 1860 Sophia Emma, youngest dau. of Henry Francis Shaw-Lefevre; d. 16 May 1897.

MARKHAM, SIR CLEMENTS ROBERT, son of David Frederick Markham (qv); b. 20 Jul 1830; adm. 26 May 1842 (Benthall); Min. Can. 1843; left Jun 1844; Cadet, Royal Navy 18 Jul 1844; Midshipman 28 Jun 1846; served in Capt. Austin’s Arctic expedition in search of Sir John Franklin May 1850 – Oct 1851; left Navy 28 Dec 1851; travelled in Peru 1852-3; Clerk, Legacy Duty Office, Inland Revenue Dec 1853 – Jul 1854; Clerk, Board of Control Jul 1854; Clerk, Correspondence Dept., India Office; Private Secretary to T. G. Baring MP when Parliamentary Under-Secretary, India Office 1862-4; Assistant Secretary, Public Works Dept., India Office 1867-71, Judicial Public and Revenue Dept. 1871-7; CB 17 May 1871; KCB 20 May 1896; introduced the cultivation of cinchona into British India from Peru 1859-61; geographer with British Army in Ethiopia 1867-8; took an active interest in Polar expedition and largely responsible for the despatch of Sir George Nares’s expedition in 1874 and that of Capt. R. F. Scott in 1901; Secretary, Hakluyt Society 1858-86, President 1886-1909; Secretary to Royal Geographical Society 1863-88, Gold Medallist 1888, President 1893-1905; President, International Geographical Congress, London 1895; FSA 12 Dec 1861; FRS 12 Jun 1873; DSc Cambridge 12 Jun 1907, Leeds 11 Jun 1910; an enthusiastic Old Westminster; acted as Secretary to OW Crimean and Indian Memorial Committee, and Chairman of the Committee for the decoration of the School walls with the arms of distinguished OWW; contemplated writing his reminiscences of the School, and left in MS his recollections as a small boy up Benthall’s in 1842-4; President, Elizabethan Club 1898-1912; Busby Trustee from 16 May 1899; a Governor of the School 16 Nov 1899 – 28 Jul 1913; a voluminous writer on Peru and the history of geographical discovery; m. 23 Apr 1857 Mary Anne (Minna), dau. of Rev. James Hamilton John Chichester, Rector of Arlington, Devon; d. 30 Jan 1916, after a shock from a fire in his room by which he was seriously injured. DNB.

CURTEIS, HERBERT MASCALL, only son of Herbert Barrett Curteis (qv); b. 8 Jan 1824; adm. (Benthall's|Grant's) 1 Jun 1836; left Aug 1840; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 3 Jun 1840; played cricket for Oxford University 1841, 1842 and for Sussex 1846-60; MP Rye Dec 1847- Mar 1848 (unseated), Apr 1848-52; Master, East Sussex Foxhounds 1854-68; President, Sussex County Cricket Club 1869-78; m. 15 Jun 1848 Paulina, sister of Sir Godfrey John Thomas, Bart. (qv); d. 16 Jun 1895.

WILLIAMS-WYNN, HERBERT WATKIN, son of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, Bart. (adm. 1784, qv); b. 29 Aug 1822; adm. 20 Apr 1833 (Benthall's); Ensign, 10th Foot 5 Jul 1839; Lieut., 24 Sep 1841; Capt., 7th Foot 28 Apr 1846; Maj., 1 Apr 1853; retd. with rank of Lieut. -Col., 9 Jun 1854; MP Montgomeryshire from Oct 1850; m. 26 Jul 1855 Anna, dau. of Edmund Lloyd, Cefn, Denbighshire; d. 22 Jun 1862.

JAMES, WALTER CHARLES, 1ST BARON NORTHBOURNE, only son of John James, HBM Minister Plenipotentiary to the Netherlands, and Lady Emily Jane Stewart, dau. of Robert Stewart, 1st Marquis of Londonderry; b. 3 Jun 1816; adm. 24 May 1826 (recorded as Packharness', likely Stelfox's); succ. grandfather as 2nd baronet 8 Oct 1829; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 23 May 1833; BA 1836; MA 1840; MP (Cons) Kingston upon Hull 1837-47; DL JP Kent, High Sheriff 1855; created Baron Northbourne 5 Nov 1884; took Liberal whip in House of Lords; Trustee, National Gallery; a personal friend and political follower of Gladstone; m. 17 Apr 1841 Sarah Catherine, youngest dau. of Cuthbert Ellison MP, Hebburn Hall, Durham; d. 4 Feb 1893.

PETTY-FITZMAURICE, HENRY, 4TH MARQUIS OF LANSDOWNE, younger son of Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquis of Lansdowne (qv); b. 5 Jan 1816; adm. 30 Jun 1826 (recorded as Packharness', likely Stelfox's); Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 16 Dec 1833, fellow commoner 29 Jan 1834, matr. Mich. 1834; styled Earl of Shelburne 1836-63; MP (Whig) Calne 1837 – 14 Jul 1856; a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury 24 Dec 1847 – Aug 1848; Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 5 Jul 1856 – 26 Feb 1858; called up to House of Lords in father’s barony as Baron Wycombe 14 Jul 1856; Chairman, Great Western Railway 1859-63; succ. father as 4th Marquis of Lansdowne 31 Jan 1863; KG 10 Oct 1864; DL Wiltshire 1840; m. 1st, 18 Aug 1840 Lady Georgiana Herbert, fifth dau. of George Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke; m. 2nd, 1 Nov 1843 Hon. Emily Jane Mercer Elphinstone de Flahault (Baroness Nairne), eldest dau. of Auguste Charles Joseph Flahaut de la Billarderie, Comte de Flahault, French Ambassador in Vienna and London; d. 5 Jul 1866. DNB.

CADOGAN, HON. FREDERICK WILLIAM, youngest son of George Cadogan, 3rd Earl Cadogan CB, Admiral Royal Navy, and Louisa Honoria, dau. of Joseph Blake, Ardfry, co. Galway; b. 16 Dec 1821; adm. 1 Feb 1836 (boarded with Mr Hodgson); Oriel Coll. Oxford, matr. 3 Dec 1840; adm. Inner Temple 11 Nov 1841, called to bar 11 Jun 1847; MP Cricklade (Liberal) 1868-74; DL JP Middlesex; m. 29 Nov 1851 Lady Adelaide Paget, dau. of Henry William Paget, 1st Marquis of Anglesey (qv); d. 30 Nov 1904.