UPPERTON, GEORGE, brother of Charles Stuart Upperton (qv); b. 3 Jul 1842; adm. 21 Jul 1855 (James'); QS 1856; left 1859; Ensign, 3rd Foot 27 Feb 1862; 91st Foot 3 May 1864; Lieut., 97th Foot 23 Oct 1867; ret. 20 Sep 1871; m. 29 Sep 1871 Augusta E. C., only dau. of Major-Gen. Sir John Jones KCB; d. 23 Aug 1875.
UPPERTON, ROBERT, brother of Charles Stuart Upperton (qv); b. 17 May 1832; adm. 11 Jun 1846 (Scott's); adm. solicitor Hilary 1856; practised in Brighton, Sussex; m. 9 Feb 1882 Elizabeth, widow of James Macgregor Mackay, Brunswick Square, Brighton, Susssex [probably dau. of --- Lewis (IGI)]; d. 24 Feb 1886.
Upsdell, Jack, son of Rev. George Edgar Skynner Upsdell, HM Central British Sch. Hong Kong, and Caroline Ruth, d. of Josiah Barrat of Woolwich; b. 18 May 1919; adm. Sept. 1932 (R); left July 1938; Queens' Coll. Camb., matric. 1938, BA 1941, MA 1945; MB 1945; surgical Registrar Epsom District Hosp.; FRACS 1960; surgeon superintendent Whakatane Hosp. NZ; m. 29 July 1944 Mary Eileen, d. of A. F. H. Dick of Blackheath; d. 25 Sept. 1997.
UPTON, FRANK DUNDAS; b. 10 Jan 1811; adm. 21 Apr 1824 (Stelfox's). [note will Frank Upton, Brighton, Sussex, proved PCC 16 Feb 1837]
UPTON, JAMES, second son of John Upton, Faversham, Kent, and Westminster, and Margaret Seth; b. (aged 1 in 1619); adm.; KS 1633; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1637, adm. pens. 15 May 1637, scholar 1638, matr. 1637; BA 1641/2; under his father’s will he was to receive £100 on taking MA degree.
Urch, Frank, eldest son of Frank Urch, of Cheltenham, Gloucs, by Catherine, daughter of J. J. Carey, of Liverpool; b. June 23, 1873; adm. Jan. 13, 1887 (R); Mure Scholar 1890; Captain of the School 1891; elected head to Ch. Ch. Oxon. (with a Triplett gratuity) July 1892, matric. Oct. 14, 1892; 1st class Classics (Mods.) 1894; 2nd class Lit. Hum. 1896; B.A. 1896; M.A. 1899; ordained 1897; Curate of Shepton Beauchamp, Somerset, 1897-9, and after holding other curacies in England and South Africa became Curate of Carshalton, Surrey, 1915-7; Chaplain and asst. master at St. Ronan's, Worthing, 1917; Curate of Amersham, Bucks, 1926-34; Rector of Hedgerley, Bucks, 1934; d. Nov. 9, 1943.
Urquhart, Sir Brian Edward, son of Murray McNeil Urquhart, artist, of Portpatrick, Wigtownshire, and Bertha Rendell, teacher, d. of Edward Pratt Rendell of Bridport, Dorset; b. 28 Feb. 1919; adm. Jan. 1932 (KS); left July 1937; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1937, hon. student 1985; 2nd Lieut. Dorsetshire Regt. Jan. 1940, served 1st Airborne Divn. (Maj. ), severely injured 1942 when his parachute failed to open completely in practice; served North Africa, Sicily and NW Europe, despatches (NW Europe) Mar. 1945, MBE Oct. 1945; United Nations official Aug. 1945; private sec. to the sec. -gen. 1946-9; Chief of Specialised Agencies Section 1949-51; dir. Office of Special Political Affairs 1952-71; Under sec. -gen. for Special Political Affairs 1974-86; set up the Internat. Atomic Energy Agency; organised and directed UN peacekeeping ops. in Middle East, Kashmir, Congo, Cyprus, Lebanon etc.; KCMG 1986; scholar-in-residence Ford Foundn. 1986-96; Carnegie Foundn. Wateler Peace Prize; Grand Officer, Order of Cedars, Govt. of Lebanon; Order of the Rising Sun, Emperor of Japan; Franklin Delano Roosevelt Freedom Medal; Dag Hammarskjold Medal; published numerous articles for New York Review of Books, New Yorker Magazine, Ford Foundation and Foreign Affairs Magazine; author of Dag Hammarskjold: A Biography 1972, Ralph Bunche: An American Life, and A Memoir, A Life in Peace and War 1987; numerous hon. degrees; hon. Fellow of the Sch. 1989; m. 1st, 31 Mar. 1944 Alfreda, d. of Constant Huntington, publisher, of Amberley, Sussex; 2nd, 26 Apr. 1963 Sidney Damrosch Howard, journalist, d. of Sidney Coe Howard, writer, New York City, USA; d. 2 Jan. 2021.
Usher, Charles Glyn, son of Gilbert Lewis Dumper of St Cross, Winchester, Hants, and Hilda Dorothea, d. of Col. Gerald Henry Farrell of Alverston Hall, Cheshire; b. 12 May 1925; adm. Sept. 1938 (B), (KS) 1939; left July 1943; assumed the name of Usher in lieu of Dumper 1943; RNVR in WW2; Corpus Christi Coll. Oxf., matric. 1946, BA 1950; joined Lloyd’s 1950; dep. sec. Bombay Chamber of Commerce and Industry 1953; man. T&N Ltd. Bombay, India 1956; sen. admin. officer BSI 1966; m. 1967 Diana, d. of Nigel Oliver Willoughby Steward OBE, HM Foreign Service, of Beckley, Oxford; d. 16 Feb 2010.
Usher, Cyril George, son of Samuel Lawry Usher, of Clifton, Bristol, solicitor, by Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Woodfin, of London; b. April 22, 1892; adm. as K.S. Sept. 28, 1905; left July 1909; Ch. Ch. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1912; Lieut. South Wales Borderers Feb. 12, 1915; served in Gallipoli, Egypt, and Mesopotamia; M.C. Aug. 16, 1917, Bar Aug. 25, 1917; m. Sept. 22, 1923, Dorothy Margaret, daughter of John H. Worsfold, of London.
Usher, Philip Charles Alexander, son of Thomas Charles Usher, of Melksham, Wilts, by Constance Emma, daughter of Alexander Bell, of Highbury, London; b. March 18, 1899; adm. Sept. 26, 1912 (G); elected to Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1917, matric. Trin. 1919; B.A. 1922; M.A. 1925; 2nd Lieut. R.G.A. (S.R.) Feb. 25, 1918; served at Salonika 1918-9; ordained 1923; Domestic Chaplain to the Bishop of Gloucester 1923-4; Chaplain of the Collegiate Church of St. George the Martyr, Jerusalem, 1924-5, of H.M. Legation at Athens 1926-30; domestic Chaplain to the Bishop of Gloucester 1930-7; Warden of Liddon House, London, 1937; Sqdn.-Ldr. (Chaplain) R.A.F.V.R. Nov. 12, 1940; d. on active service at Jerusalem June, 1941.
Philip Charles Alexander Usher was born at Trowbridge, Wiltshire on the 18th of March 1899 the only son of Thomas Charles Usher, of the Wiltshire Brewery, and Constance Emma (nee Bell) Usher “Sunny Croft”, Trowbridge, later of Seend Green House, Seend, Melksham in Wiltshire. He was christened in Wiltshire on the 25th of May 1899. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Grant’s from the 26th of September 1912 to July 1917. He was a member of the Debating Society from 1916 and was appointed as a Monitor in January 1917. He had won a place at Christ Church, Oxford but deferred it, instead he attended an Officer Cadet Unit before being commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Garrison Artillery on the 25th of February 1918. He served overseas and relinquished his commission on the 1st of April 1920.
He matriculated for Christ Church, Oxford on a MAM Scholarship in 1919 and was awarded a BA in 1922. He was ordained in 1923, was appointed as Assistant Curate of All Saints Church, Gloucester and also served as Domestic Chaplain to the Bishop of Gloucester at the same time. He was awarded a MA in 1925. He was appointed as the Chaplain to St George’s Cathedral, Jerusalem in 1924 and, from 1928 to 1930, he served as Chaplain to HM Legation in Athens where he ministered to the British Community there. He was fluent in Greek and could converse with people of: - “every class, occupation and type of culture”. He became a great student of Greek life, its language and of the Greek Orthodox Church.
He invalided home to England in 1930 where, on his recovery, he once again became Domestic Chaplain to the Bishop of Gloucester. He chaired the Committee on Relations with Episcopal Churches and was appointed as an Honorary Secretary to the Council on Foreign Relations in 1932. A short time later he was appointed as Warden of Liddon House, where Orthodox clergy would stay while in London, from where he led large Anglican delegations abroad including to Romania in 1935 and to Bulgaria in 1940. He served as the Editor of the “Church Quarterly Review” for nine years. In 1937, he was appointed as the Chaplain of Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley Street.
After war broke out in 1939 he worked for the Interior Ministry as an advisor on the Eastern regions. However, having become - “increasingly dissatisfied with staying at home', he joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve where he had hoped to serve in Greece. He was commissioned as a Squadron Leader in the Chaplains Branch of the Royal Air Force Reserve on the 12th of November 1940 and was posted to Palestine.
He died from a cerebral haemorrhage in a hospital at Jerusalem.
A memorial communion service was held in his memory at the Grosvenor Chapel at 11am on the 13th of June 1941. The Philip Usher Memorial Fund was established in his memory to - “Give others an opportunity of living in an Orthodox country in order to absorb its ideological atmosphere”.
He is commemorated on the war memorial at Christ Church, Oxford.
He is buried at Ramleh War Cemetery Row P, Grave 1.