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STRANGE, JAMES NEWBOROUGH, son of Sir Thomas Andrew Lumisden Strange (qv), and his second wife; b. 2 Oct 1812; adm. 22 Sep 1824 (Stelfox's); KS 1826; left 1827; entered Royal Navy 18 Apr 1827; Lieut., 23 Feb 1839; Cdr., 30 Mar 1842; Capt., 10 Jan 1854; Rear-Adm., 10 Sep 1869; retd. 1 Apr 1870; Vice-Adm., 22 Mar 1876; Adm., 9 Jan 1880; served in Niger expedition 1840-1; m. 15 Jan 1846 Charlotte Maria, youngest dau. of George Eyre, Bramshaw, Wilts.; d. 1 Nov 1894.

SMITH, WILLIAM, son of Samuel Smith (adm. 1772, qv); b. 12 Jun 1812; adm. 30 Jun 1825 (Stelfox's); KS 1826; rowed v. Eton 27 Jul 1829; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 7 Oct 1831, Canoneer Student 1831-42; BA 1835; MA 1839; ordained deacon 14 Jun 1835, priest 18 Dec 1836 (both Oxford); Rector of Dry Drayton, Cambs. , 1841-67; JP Cambridgeshire; m. 7 Aug 1851 Constance Margaret, youngest dau. of William Rose Rose, Wolston Heath, Warwicks. ; d. 4 Feb 1886.

SMITH, THOMAS, son of Samuel Smith (adm. 1772, qv); b. 13 Dec 1822; adm. 21 Jun 1832 (Stelfox's); Ensign, 90th Foot 16 Jul 1841; Lieut. , 16 Sep 1845; Capt. , 20 Apr 1849; Brevet Maj. , 2 Nov 1855; Brevet Lieut. -Col. , 6 Jun 1856; Lieut. -Col. , 13 Nov 1857; served in Crimean War; CB 14 May 1859; d. at Allahabad, North Western Provinces, India 7 Nov 1861.

SMITH, HENRY, son of Samuel Smith (adm. 1772, qv); b. 9 Apr 1819; adm. 21 Jun 1832 (Stelfox); KS 1833; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1837, matr. 5 May 1837, Westminster Student; BA 1841; MA 1843; ordained deacon 22 May 1842, priest 1843 (both Oxford); Vicar of Butlers Marston, Warwicks. , 1844-6; Vicar of Easton Maudit, Northants 1847-74; m. 1st, 2 Sep 1847 Frances Bell, eldest dau. of Rev. William Macbean, Rector of St. Peter Tavy, Devon; m. 2nd, 4 Jun 1861 Eliza Catherine, eldest dau. of Col. Forbes Macbean, Royal Artlllery, Kirkleatham, Yorks. ; m. 3rd, 17 May 1894 Fanny, eldest dau. of Rev. Daniel Brent DD, Vicar of Grendon, Northants; d. 31 Mar 1904.

SHAW, SAMUEL, brother of Charles James Shaw (qv); b. 6 May 1815; adm. 14 Jun 1827 (Stelfox's); Cadet, EICS Madras 1836; Ensign, unattached, 28 Feb 1836; 16th Native Infantry 29 Nov 1836; Lieut., 8 Oct 1839; Capt., 4 Oct 1847; m. 23 Jan 1844 Kate, dau. of Col. --- Archer, Indian Army [perhaps David Archer, Madras Native Infantry]; d. at Bangalore, India 28 Jun 1848.

ROWLEY, HENRY JOSHUA, son of Rev. Joshua Rowley, Rector of East Bergholt, Suffolk, and Mary, dau. of Henry Scurfield, The Mote, Pembrokeshire; b. 20 Dec 1806; adm. 17 Jan 1820 (Stelfox); d. from effects of falling from a window of Mrs. Stelfox’s boarding house in Dean’s Yard 10 Apr 1821 (inquest in Times 11 Apr 1821).

ROE, WILLIAM DERING ADAIR, son of William Thomas Roe (qv); b. 1 Feb 1816; adm. 19 Nov 1827 (Stelfox's); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 15 May 1834; Ensign, 15th Foot 21 Oct 1836; d. from injuries received during a fire which destroyed the barracks at Chambly, Canada 19 Oct 1838.

ROBINSON, JOHN ELLIL, brother of Francis Robinson (qv); b. 11 Sep 1807; adm. 17 Sep 1819 (Stelfox's); KS 1821; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1825, but went to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 21 May 1825; BA 1829; MA 1832; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 12 Mar 1829; ordained deacon 1832, priest 2 Jun 1833 (both Oxford); Curate, Kirtlington, Oxfordshire 1832-4, Bicester, Oxfordshire 1834-5, Charlton on Otmoor, Oxfordshire 1835-7; Vicar of Chieveley, Berks., 13 May 1837-82; m. 16 Jul 1834 Maria, third dau. of Rev. Edward Rowden, Vicar of Highworth, Wilts.; d. 17 Jul 1899.

RICKMAN, WILLIAM CHARLES, only son of John Rickman, Clerk Assistant, House of Commons, and Susanna, dau. of Joseph Postlethwaite, Harting, Sussex; b. 12 Jan 1812; adm. 4 Jul 1825 (Stelfox's); left Dec 1828; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 21 Oct 1829; BA 1835; civil engineer; living Empshott, Hampshire, in 1881, income from land and dividends (1881 Census); m. (by 1881) Isabella ---; killed in a carriage accident at Empshott, Hampshire 21 Jun 1886.

RICHARDS, ALFRED BATE, eldest son of John Richards MP, Wassell Grove, Hagley, Worcs., and Frances Smith; b. 17 Feb 1820; at Charterhouse Sch. 1829-30; adm. 18 Jan 1831 (Stelfox's); at Harrow Sch. 1832; Exeter Coll. Oxford, matr. 19 Oct 1837; BA 1841; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 16 May 1839, called to bar 20 Nov 1845; author of an anonymous pamphlet, Oxford Unmasked, 1841, which rapidly passed through five editions; edited The British Army Despatch 1848-50, and The Mirror of the Time, a weekly founded 3 Aug 1850 which only lasted a year; one of chief promoters of volunteer movement of 1859 and became Col., 3rd City of London Rifle Corps; editor, The Morning Advertizer, from 1870; author of a number of plays and poems, and of the novel So Very Human, 1871; m. 15 Feb 1849 Emma Camilla Angela Maria, only dau. of Camillo Gaggiotti, Minister of War at Rome; d. 12 Jun 1876. DNB.