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Stannus, Anthony Carey; son of James Stannus, Carrickfergus, co.Antrim, Ireland, builder and harbour master, and Margaret, dau. of Anthony Carrey, Carrickfergus, co.Antrim ; b. 16 Apr 1830 ; ed. Royal Belfast Academical Institution and Belfast School of Design ; studied art in London ; exhibited at Royal Academy 1862-80 ; Drawing Master Jan – Dec 1865 ; subsequently artist attached to Mexican Army ; correspondent for Illustrated London News ; returned to Belfast 1882 ; President, Belfast Ramblers Sketching Club 1885-90 ; m.1st, 14 Dec 1878 Alice Trophy, youngest dau. of Donald Keith, Kensington ; m.2nd, 1899 Emily Louisa, second dau. of William Primrose Mills, Kensington, barrister ; d. 3 Aug 1919.

Sarjent, George Reid; b. c.1788 ; landscape artist ; living in Charlotte Street, Fitzroy Square, London, c.1835 – c.1849 ; exhibitor at Royal Academy ; Drawing Master from c.1830 ; m. 27 Sep 1821 Ann Elizabeth Biddell (IGI) ; death registered St.Giles fourth quarter 1851.

Ranalow, Joseph George Miles Parker; son of William Ranalow, Organist of St.Canice Cathedral, Kilkenny, co.Kilkenny, Ireland, and Mary Anne, eldest dau. of Joseph Parker, Henry Street, Limerick, co.Limerick, Ireland, painter and glazier ; b. Ireland c.1844 ; successively organist, St.Mary’s, Kilkenny, and the Mariners’ Church, Kingstown, Dublin ; living in Dublin in 1873 ; Music Master Jan 1877 – Dec 1919 ; m. 1 Jan 1873 Ellen Frances, dau. of Francis Baring Atkinson, Morland Hall, Westmorland ; d. 18 May 1920. Father of Frederick Baring Ranalow (Record, vol.III, qv).

Radford, James; son of Joseph Radford, Red Bank Foundry, Salford, iron founder, and Elizabeth Caroline Harvey ; b. Salford, Lancs., c.1810 ; landscape painter (already described as such in 1851 Census) ; Drawing Master Jan 1866 – Aug 1884 ; described by Sir Charles Fortescue-Brickdale (qv) as “a fine old fellow named Radford – over 6ft. high and broad in proportion – with one of the immense beards that those who could grow them delighted to display … a competent artist in water-colour .. also a quarter-master sergeant in the Artists Rifles” (Elizabethan, July 1939, 378) ; also taught at a school in Kensington and at Hyde Park College for Ladies ; living at 16 Sheffield Terrace, Campden Hill, Kensington, Middlesex, by 1851 (still there, widower, aged 61, 1871 Census, aged 70, 1881 Census, and aged 81, 1891 Census) ; m. 15 Jun 1844 Charlotte Ella, dau. of Robert Rickards MP, EICS Bombay, later East India merchant in London ; d. 24 Dec 1894.

Pierce, William; living in Dean’s Yard in Mar 1790 ; a teacher of book-keeping and arithmetic.

Petit, T.; Music Master Jun 1881 – Aug 1884. [evidently Thomas Pettit, musician ; student, Royal Academy of Music, in 1867 ; A.R.A.M. ; living 75 Mornington Road, Middlesex, aged 30, 1881 Census ; Professor, Guildhall School of Music ; pianist and organist with Bach Choir 1876-85 ; Organist and Choirmaster, St.Peter’s, Cranley Gardens, Kensington, Middlesex ; d. unm. 5 July 1894, aged 43]

Perry, George William; b. Gravesend c.1833 (1881 Census) ; Secretary, Church Schoolmasters & Mistresses Benevolent Institution (by 1866, still in 1890s) ; Writing Master Jun 1873 – Aug 1884 ; Sub-Librarian Jun 1884 – Jul 1898 ; kept Ginger’s shop in Great College Street Jan 1875 – May 1884 ; latterly living at Morella Road, Wandsworth, Surrey ; m. 1st, --- ; m.2nd, Eliza Alice Collins (marriage registered Kensington third quarter 1874) ; d. 29 Nov 1899. [presumably son of Thomas Perry, and Sarah Hayes, bapt. St.George, Gravesend, Kent 2 Sep 1832]

Payne, John Burnell; eldest son of Joseph Payne, Leatherhead, Surrey, schoolmaster, and Eliza, headmistress of a girl’s school, dau. of Rev.John Dyer, Secretary, Baptist Missionary Society ; b. 24 Oct 1838 ; ed. University Coll.London, BA 1858, Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.sizar 18 Jun 1860, matr.Mich.1860, and Downing Coll.Cambridge, migr. 10 Jun 1862 ; BA 1864 ; MA 1868 ; Assistant Master, Wellington Coll. 1864-7 ; ordained deacon 1865 (Oxford), priest 1867 (London) ; Curate, Christ Church, Marylebone, from 1867 ; French Master from Jan 1869 ; friend of George Eliot and of G.H.Lewes ; d. of enteric fever 27 Aug 1869.

Middleton, J-; Writing Master Jan – May 1873.

Masse, Joseph Francois Paulin; b. France 5 Nov 1834 ; French Master at Dulwich College Nov 1858 – Dec 1863, Merchant Taylors’ School 1864-75 ; visiting French Master at the School Sep 1869 – Dec 1883 ; subsequently Principal, London School of Commerce, Finchley, Middlesex ; Examiner in Modern Languages to Oxford and Cambridge Schools Examination Board, Board of Intermediate Education for Ireland, College of Preceptors, and Civil Service Commission ; author, A Grammar of Colloquial French and French Spare Moments ; m. 11 Jun 1859 Margaret, dau. of John Bowack, Montrose ; d. 13 Mar 1899, as a result of a street accident.