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COKER, HEARST, second son of Rev. Thomas Coker, Bicester, Oxfordshire, Canon Residentiary of Salisbury, and Mary, dau. of William Hearst, Salisbury; b.; adm.; KS (aged 14) 1715; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1719, matr. 28 May 1719, but died before his admission as a Westminster Student; adm. Inner Temple 16 Apr 1719; d. 5 Nov 1719.

COLBATCH, JOHN, son of John Colbatch, Ludlow, Shropshire, and Jane ---; bapt. 27 Dec 1663; adm.; KS 1680; rejected 1682, but elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1683, adm. pens. 19 Jun 1683, aged 18, scholar 10 Apr 1684; BA 1686/7; MA 1690; BD 1701; DD 1706; Minor Fellow, Trin. Coll., 2 Oct 1689-90, Major Fellow 1 Jul 1690-1715, Senior Fellow from 1715; ordained priest (London) 20 Dec 1691; Chaplain to British Factory, Lisbon 1688 [check]-96; a protege of Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury; tutor, Trinity Coll., 1700, Senior Dean 1705-7; travelling tutor in Italy with Earl of Hertford (later 7th Duke of Somerset) 1706; Knightsbridge Professor of Moral Theology, Cambridge, 1707-44; an opponent of Richard Bentley in internal Trinity College disputes, becoming involved in several resulting lawsuits; Prebendary of Salisbury 7 Aug 1702 - res May 1720; Rector of Orwell, Cambs., from 1720; author, three pamphlets; d. 11 Feb 1747/8. DNB.

COLBATCH, JOSEPH; b. 1669; adm. ; KS 1686 (as Colebatch); left 1689; d. 1735. [“see new slip”] [perhaps Rev. Joseph Colbatch, Anglican clergyman, All Hallows parish, Maryland, buried 13 Jan 1734, in Maryland by 1704]

COLE, GEORGE, son of George Cole, Westminster; b.; adm. (aged 8) Jan 1715/6; Min. Can. 1721; KS 1722; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1726, adm. pens. 10 Jun 1726, scholar 14 Apr 1727; BA 1729/30. [perhaps son of George Cole, Clerk without Doors, House of Commons]

COLE, THOMAS, sixth son of William Cole, London, and Elizabeth, dau. of Nathaniel Deards, London, silkman; b. ; adm. ; KS 1642 (“Thomas Coale maior”), still 1644; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1646, but detained at school “through the exigence of warre” (Register of Visitors of Univ. of Oxford 1647-58, Camden Society, 2nd Series, xxix, 268), matr. 1 Feb 1646/7, aged 18, Westminster Student; BA 1649; MA 1651 (incorp. Camb. 1653); tutor of John Locke (qv); Principal, St. Mary Hall, Oxford, 15 Oct 1656 - ejected June 1660; opened school at Nettlebed, Oxfordshire; licensed as Congregational preacher at Henley on Thames 22 Apr 1672; Minister of Independent Congregation, Silver Street, London, Feb 1674; his congregation subsequently met at Tallow Chandlers’ Hall, Dowgate Hill, and at Pinners’ Hall, Old Broad Street, where he preached his last sermon 22 Aug 1697; d. 16 Sep 1697. DNB.

COLEBRON, WILLIAM; b.; adm.; KS 1683; left 1685; Wadham Coll. Oxford, adm. servitor 3 Mar 1685, matr. 26 Mar 1686; BA 1689; ordained priest (Winchester) 22 Dec 1690; Vicar of Brighton, Sussex, 1705-44; Rector of West Blatchington, Sussex, 16 Mar 1712/3 - 22; Rector of Pett, Sussex, from 29 Jul 1745; m. Jane ---; buried Brighton 22 Jul 1750.

COLLE, ---; b. ; adm. ; KS in 1626 (Chapter Muniments 33256).

College, the home of the Queen’s Scholars and the oldest house at Westminster, was effectively founded in 1560 when the school’s charter stipulated that there should be 40 Queen’s Scholars. Special weight in their selection was to be given to ability, good character and poverty. To become Scholars, boys had to pass an oral examination known as ‘The Challenge’, which shifted to paper in 1856.
Scholars had special privileges not accorded to other boys, such as the right to enter the Palace of Westminster.
The Scholars include John Dryden, the first Poet Laureate (1631-1700); John Locke (1632-1704), the empiricist philosopher; A. A. Milne (1882-1956), creator of Winnie-the-Pooh; and Kim Philby (1912-1988), of the Cambridge spy ring. The first female scholars were admitted to College in 2017.

COLLEY, JOSEPH; b.; adm.; QS 1705; left 1708.

COLLINS, VINCENT; b.; adm.; Min. Can. 1636; KS 1637. [Presumably Vincent Collins, son of Thomas Collins, and Dorothy ---, bapt. St. Bride, Fleet Street 23 Oct 1622 (IGI); his parents were doubtless Thomas Collins and Dorothy Vinson (sic), who had m. at St. Benet, Paul Wharf 13 Dec 1621]