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FELLOWS, WALTER, seventh son of Thomas Fellows, Moneyhill House, Rickmansworth, Herts., and Mary, dau. of Thomas Howard, Batchworth Heath; b. 23 Feb 1834; adm. 3 Jun 1847 (Rigaud's); QS 1848; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1852, matr. 3 Jun 1852, Westminster Student 1852-6; BA 1858; MA 1876 (and ad eundem, Melbourne 1877); played cricket for Oxford against Cambridge 1854-7, Gentlemen against Players 1855-7; one of the best fast round-arm bowlers of his day and a slashing hitter; while practising on Christ Church ground in 1856 said to have hit a ball 175 yards (Wisden, 1916, p. 35); ordained deacon 1858, priest 1860 (both Peterborough); Curate successively of Weedon Beck, Northants., Ruislip, Middlesex and Sidmouth, Devon; Incumbent of St. John’s, Toorak, Melbourne, Australia 1863-1900; m. 10 Jun 1863 Julia, second dau. of Rev. Christopher Packe, Vicar of Ruislip, Middlesex, and Minor Canon of St. Paul’s and Windsor; d. at Toorak 23 Jul 1902.

POYNTER, SIR EDWARD JOHN, BART., only son of Ambrose Poynter FRIBA, Park Street, Westminster, architect and Inspector, HM Schools of Design, and his first wife Emma, dau. of Rev. Edward Forster; b. 20 Mar 1836; adm. 3 Jun 1847 (Rigaud's); Min. Can. 1849; left Whitsun 1849; went to Ipswich GS and then to Brighton Coll.; studied art in England 1854-6, Paris 1856-9; a painter; ARA Jan 1869, RA 29 Jun 1876, President Royal Academy 4 Nov 1896-1918; member, Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours 1883; Slade Professor of Art, University Coll. London 1871-5; Director for Art and Principal of National Art Training School, South Kensington 1875-81; Director, National Gallery 1894-1905; FSA 7 Jun 1894; member, Society of Dilettanti 1895; knighted 25 Nov 1896; created baronet 2 Aug 1902; KCVO 3 Jun 1913; GCVO 3 Jun 1918; Hon. DCL Oxford 1898; Hon. LittD Cambridge 1898; author, Ten Lectures on Art 1879; m. 9 Aug 1866 Agnes, dau. of Rev. George Browne Macdonald, Wolverhampton, Staffs., Wesleyan Methodist minister; d. 26 Jul 1919.

KARSLAKE, HENRY JOHN, son of Henry Karslake, Regent Street, London, solicitor, and ---, dau. of Richard Preston QC MP, Ashburton, Devon; b. 14 Feb 1832; adm. from King’s Coll. Sch. 3 Jun 1847 (Scott's); left Midsummer 1848; adm. solicitor Hilary 1855; Roman Catholic convert 1862; took priest’s orders in Roman Catholic Church; Religious Inspector of Schools, Archdiocese of Westminster; secular priest at Dartmouth, Devon; d. 3 Jan 1902.

DODGSON, FRANCIS HUME, eldest son of Hassard Hume Dodgson (qv); b. 23 Aug 1834; adm. 3 Jun 1847 (Rigaud's); QS 1849; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1853, matr. 18 May 1853, Westminster Student to 1857; Lieut., Royal Artillery 6 Mar - 30 Apr 1856, recommissioned 10 Aug 1856 - res 9 Dec 1864; emigrated to Australia; m. Ellen King; d. 27 Aug 1917.

JOHNSON, ARCHIBALD ACHESON, ninth son of Sir Henry Allen Johnson, Bart., and Charlotte Elizabeth, dau. of Frederick Philipse, Philipseburg, New York, USA; b. 3 Jul 1835; adm. 3 Jun 1847 (Rigaud's); Min. Can. 1850; left 1850; Cadet, EICS Madras 1853; Ensign, unattached 14 Mar 1853; 9th Native Infantry 11 May 1853; Lieut., 23 Nov 1856; Madras Staff Corps 18 Feb 1861; Capt., 14 Mar 1865; Maj., 14 Mar 1873; Lieut. -Col., 14 Mar 1879; Brevet Col., 14 Mar 1883; retd. 3 Jul 1892; m. 7 Jan 1869 Agnes Sarah, dau. of Rev. Arthur Marmaduke Franklin Browne, Vicar of Affane and Aglish, co. Waterford; d. 20 Apr 1894.

FAWSSETT, ROBERT FAWSSETT, son of William Ward MD MRCS LSA, Horncastle, Lincs., and Mary Anne Fawssett (IGI); b. 15 Aug 1833; adm. 3 Jun 1847 (Rigaud's); left Christmas 1847; St. Catherine’s Hall, Cambridge, adm. pens. 29 Jun 1853; migr. to Peterhouse, adm. pens. 1 Apr 1854; ordained deacon 1857, priest 1858 (both Chester); Curate, Mottram, Cheshire 1857-8, Watford, Herts., 1858-9, Wilksby, Lincs., 1859-71; Rector of Salmonby, Lincs., 1871-5; assumed surname of Fawssett in lieu of Ward 2 Jun 1883; of Elmley House, Surbiton, Surrey; m. 18 Jun 1862 Margaret, only dau. of Thomas Hillman, Lewes, Sussex; d. 26 Mar 1900.

HARRISON, MATTHEW BEACHCROFT, only son of Rev. Matthew Harrison, Rector of Church Oakley, Hampshire, and Margaret --- (IGI); b. 27 Jan 1835; adm. 10 Jun 1847 (Rigaud's); King’s Coll. Sch. 1851-3; Trinity Coll. Oxford, matr. 23 May 1853; Ensign, 62nd Foot 11 May 1855; Lieut., 26 Feb 1856; retd. 4 Jun 1861; m. 7 Apr 1859 Louise, dau. of C. Brown, Queen’s Square, St. John’s, New Brunswick, Canada; d. 15 Nov 1866.

GILBERT, THOMAS MORELL, youngest son of Right Rev. Ashhurst Turner Gilbert DD, Bishop of Chichester, and Mary Ann, only surviving child of Robert Wintle (qv); b. 28 Aug 1835; adm. (Rigaud's) 3 Jul 1847; was “almost burnt to death” when preparing to act in a play up Rigaud’s in 1847 (F. Martin, Elizabeth Gilbert, 66); QS 1849; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1853, adm. pens. 7 May 1853, scholar 1854, matr. Mich. 1853; 12th Wrangler and 3rd cl. Classics 1857; BA 1857; MA 1860; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1859, Major Fellow 1860-66; ordained deacon 21 Dec 1861, priest 20 Dec 1862 (both Chichester); Curate, Hurstpierpoint, Sussex 1861-3, St. Bartholomew’s, Chichester, Sussex 1863-4; Perpetual Curate of St. Bartholomew’s, Chichester 10 Jun1864-6; Vice-Principal, Chichester Theological College 1863-6; Vicar of Heversham, Westmorland 1866-1921; Hon. Canon, Carlisle, from 1877; m. 14 Sep 1871 Esther Ann, eldest dau. of Edmund Harrison, Bury, Lancashire; d. 16 Dec 1928.

Hamilton, Anthony Walter Patrick, son of Walter B. Hamilton, of the Middle Temple, writer and barrister-at-law, and Ellen Adèle, writer; b. 17 March, 1904; attended Holland House School, Hove (1912-13), Colet Court, Hammersmith (1915); adm. 26 Sept. 1918 (G); left April 1919; asst. stage man., actor (under Patrick Henderson), author and playwright, author of Monday Morning (1925), Rope (1929), Gas Light (1938) and Hangover Square (1941), along with numerous other works; m. 1st, 6 Aug. 1930 (div. 1953) Lois Marie Martin; 2nd, 10 Apr. 1954 Lady Ursula Chetwynd-Talbot, dau. of Viscount Ingestre; d. 23 Sept. 1962. DNB.

FLUDYER, SIR ARTHUR JOHN, BART., second son of Sir John Henry Fludyer, Bart. (qv); b. 12 Oct 1844; adm. (G) 21 Jul 1857; left Dec 1861; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, matr. Mich. 1863; succ. father as 5th baronet 4 Aug 1896; of Ayston Hall, Rutland; DL JP Rutland, High Sheriff 1900; m. 9 Sep 1876 his cousin Augusta Frances, third dau. of Sir Edward Richard Borough, Bart. (qv); d. 27 Jan 1922.