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HUGHES, JOHN CUMBERLAND, brother of William Hughes (qv); b. 31 Mar 1767; adm. 27 Mar 1775; left 1779; entered Royal Navy as powder monkey on board HMS Victory 7 Jun 1779; when serving on HMS Rover was captured by a French frigade and taken into Grenada Sep 1780, but exchanged at Martinique three months later; Midshipman 14 Feb 1781; ADC to Capt. Lord Cranstoun on HMS Formidable during action against French on 12 Apr 1782; retd. from Navy 1783; plantation management in Grenada with his elder brother George Hughes (qv) from 1785; m. May 1805 Elizabeth, elder dau. of George Edward Stanley, Ponsonby Hall, Cumberland; d. at Bath 5 Feb 1833.

HAY, HON. EDWARD, brother of Thomas Hay, 9th Earl of Kinnoull (qv); bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 14 Jun 1722 (IGI); adm. (aged 8) Oct 1730; left 1735; HBM Consul, Cadiz 1752; HBM Consul-General, Lisbon 1754; Envoy Extraordinary, Lisbon Jul 1757-62, Minister Plenipotentiary 1762 – Aug 1767; Governor of Barbados from 1772; m. 1st, 1752 Mary, dau. of Peter Flower, Alderman, City of London; m. 2nd, 24 Jan 1779 Mary Harbourne Barnwell; d. in Barbados 21 Oct 1779.

HARRIOTT, WILLIAM, eldest son of John Harriott, St. Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, West Indies; b.; adm. 12 Jan 1784; left Dec 1785; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm. pens. 12 Jan 1786, did not matr.; migr. to Exeter Coll. Oxford, gent. commoner 4 Nov 1788 – 15 Jun 1789, matr. 3 Nov 1788, aged 20; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 13 May 1785; lived at Metz, France; m. [note will William Harriott, South Stoneham, Hampshire, proved PCC 16 Apr 1822] [perhaps m. at St. Martin’s in the Fields 5 Jul 1789 Ann Pither (IGI)]

HARMAN, SAMUEL, only son of Samuel Harman, Antigua, Chief Commissioner of Army Accounts, West Indies, and Mary Anne, dau. of James Athill, London; b. Antigua 5 Aug 1788; at school under Vincent; at Winchester Coll. 1804-8; Deputy Comptroller of Customs, Martinique; Master in Chancery and Chief Baron of the Exchequer [there ?]; m. St. Michael, Barbados, 28 Nov 1816 Dorothy Bruce, dau. of William Murray, HM Customs, Barbados; d. at Philadelphia, USA 8 Mar 1841. [But see Harman, Samuel, 1787-?: was this Samuel Harman really a OW ?]

GORDON, CHARLES, son of Charles Gordon, Braco, Jamaica, and Berkhamstead House, Herts., and Mary, eldest dau. of Thomas Howorth, Worcester; b.; in school list 1801; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 21 Oct 1802, aged 18; of Newtimber Place, Sussex; m. 28 Jul 1827 Anne Sarah, third dau. of James Pitman, Dunchideock, Devon; d. 28 Apr 1839.

GALLOWAY, JAMES, son of James Galloway, Jamaica, West Indies; b. 4 Oct 1801; adm. 23 Sep 1815 (Packharness'); left Bartholomewtide 1818; Exeter Coll. Oxford, matr. 12 Mar 1818; BA 1821; MA 1824; ordained deacon and priest 1826; Rector of Spaxton, Somerset, from 1846; m. 2 Jun 1827 Margaret Bridget Goodrich, third dau. of George Shedden, Paulerspury Park, Northants; d. 9 Oct 1874.

FULLER, PEEKE, brother of Henry Fuller (qv); b.; adm. (aged 14) Nov 1746 (Hawkins'); left 1747; member of Assembly, Jamaica (representing St. John’s), 1790; m. Caroline, dau. of Hon. Felton Hervey MP; d. in Jamaica 20 Jan 1798.

FULLER, HENRY, eldest son of Thomas Fuller, Jamaica, and Mary, dau. of Thomas Price, Worthy Hall, St. John’s, Jamaica; b. 27 Feb 1724 in St Catherine, Jamaica; adm. May 1739 (Watts'); left 1743; Queen’s Coll. Oxford, matr. 22 Apr 1743, aged 18; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 3 Apr 1745; of St. Dorothy, Jamaica; d. c. 1773.

FULLER, CHARLES BECKFORD, brother of Henry Fuller (qv); b. 1739; adm. (aged 8) Sep 1747 (Hawkins'); Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 8 May 1758, matr. Mich. 1758; adm. Inner Temple 8 Sep 1755, called to bar 5 Feb 1767/8, left Feb 1774; d. 2 Mar 1825.

FULLER, AUGUSTUS ELIOTT, eldest son of John Trayton Fuller, Ashdown Park, Sussex, and his second wife Hon. Anne Eliott, only dau. of George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield KB, Lieut. -Gen. in the Army and Governor of Gibraltar; b. 7 May 1777; in school list 1795 and sixth form list 1796; St. John’s Coll. Camb., adm. fellow commoner 2 May 1796; MP (Conservative) East Sussex 1841-57; of Rosehill, Brightling, and of Ashdown Park, Sussex; DL JP Sussex; m. 5 Sep 1801 Clara, eldest dau. of Owen Putland Meyrick (qv); d. 5 Aug 1857.