Showing 4141 results

STUBBE, HENRY, son of Rev. Henry Stubbe, Rector of Partney, Lincs.; b. 28 Feb 1631/2; adm.; KS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1649, matr. 13 Feb 1650/1, Westminster Student to ejection 1660; according to Wood, Sir Henry Vane (qv) “got him to be a King’s Scholar” and also “got him to be sped for a Student’s place in Christ Church, where shewing himself too forward, pragmatical and conceited (being well stock’d with impudence at school), was often kick’d and beaten”; whipped in the Public Refectory in 1651 for abusing the Censor Morum, and for “his impudence in other respects” (Wood, Ath. Oxon., iii, 1068); BA 1653; MA 1656; served in the Parliamentary Army in Scotland 1653-5; Second Keeper of the Bodleian Library, Oxford 1657–9, when deprived of post for writing A Light shining out of Darkness, a “pestilent book” against the clergy and universities; retired to Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, where he practised medicine; King’s Physician, Jamaica 1661; afterwards practised at Warwick and Bath; imprisoned for denouncing the Duke of York’s marriage with Mary of Modena in the Paris Gazette, 1673; an intimate friend of Thomas Hobbes; described by Wood as “the most noted Latinist and Grecian of his age” (ibid., iii, 1071); author, The Commonwealth of Oceana put into a Balance and found too light, 1660, and other works; drowned near Bath, Somerset 12 Jul 1676. DNB.

STUBBE, EDMUND, son of Francis Stubbe, Scottowe, Norfolk, and Anne, dau. of Robert Coke, Mileham, Norfolk, and sister of Sir Edward Coke, Kt, Chief Justice of the King’s Bench; b.; adm.; KS ; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1610, adm. scholar 1611, matr. Easter 1611; BA 1614/5; MA 1618; BD 1631; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1616 – c. 1621; ordained; Rector of Huntingfield, Suffolk, from 1621; Rector of Longford, Derbyshire 1630; Rector of Cookley, Suffolk 1635; adm. Gray’s Inn 16 Nov 1635 [sic : check]; author, Fraus Honesta, a Latin comedy acted at Cambridge, afterwards published in 1635; m. 15 Oct 1627 (IGI) Margaret, dau. of Wolfran Smith, Lackfield, Suffolk; d. 9 Apr 1659.

STUBBE, EDMUND, son of Rev. Edmund Stubbe, Rector of Rendlesham, Suffolk, and nephew of Wolfran Stubbe (qv); b.; adm.; KS 1696; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1700, adm. pens. 4 Jun 1700, aged 18, scholar 2 May 1701, matr. 1700; BA 1703/4; MA 1707; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1706, Major Fellow 25 Apr 1707; although elected a Fellow of Trinity through the influence of Bentley, Stubbe signed the petition of 1709 to the Bishop of Ely against Bentley, who afterwards declared that Stubbe “was the worst character that ever entered a college”; ordained deacon (Lincoln) 21 Sep 1707, priest (Ely) 21 Dec 1707; Vicar of Eaton Bray, Beds., 1714 (disp. to hold with V. Marsworth 1734); Vicar of Marsworth, Bucks., from 3 Feb 1734; m. Mary --- (IGI); d. 1740.

STUART, DOUGLAS, second son of Rev. and Hon. Andrew Godfrey Stuart, Rector of Cottesmore, Rutland, and his second wife Mary Penelope, second dau. of Hon. Leland Noel Noel (qv); b. 20 Oct 1859; adm. 16 Apr 1868 (G); QS 28 Jan 1870; left May 1873; Lincoln Coll. Oxford, matr. 16 Oct 1873; BA 1877; MA 1880; ordained deacon 1879, priest 1880 (both Gloucester & Bristol); Curate, Fairford, Gloucs. 1879-81, All Saints, Leeds 1881-7; Vicar of Ipplepen, Devon, from 1887; d. 2 Apr 1897.

Strong, Bernard Edwin, son of Gustave Strauss, of West Kensington; b. July 26, 1874; adm. as Q.S. Sept. 25, 1888; left July 1892; assumed the surname of Strong in lieu of Strauss; a merchant and company director; m. Feb. 20, 1900, Eugenie, daughter of Julius Cohen; d. Nov. 21, 1951.

STRODE, WILLIAM, of Middlesex; b.; adm.; KS; in school lists 1656, first three quarters; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1656, adm. pens. 14 May 1656, scholar 1656, matr. Lent 1656/7; BA 1659/60; MA 1663; ordained deacon (Norwich) Sep 1661.

STRODE, WILLIAM, elder son of Philip Strode, Plympton, Devon, and Wilmot, dau. of William Houghton, Houghton Towers, Lancs.; bapt. 11 Jan 1602/3; adm.; KS; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1617, matr. 1 Jun 1621, aged 19, Westminster Student; BA 1621; MA 1624 (incorp. Cambridge 1628); BD 1631; DD 1638; Public Orator, Oxford Univ. from 1629; Proctor 1629; ordained; Rector of East Bradenham, Norfolk, 1633; Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, from 1 Jul 1638; Vicar of Black Bourton, Oxfordshire 1638; Vicar of Badby, Northants 22 Aug 1639-42; author The Floating Island, a tragi-comedy acted by the Students of Christ Church before Charles I 29 Aug 1636 (a published version appeared in 1655), and of some occasional verse; m. 17 Jul 1642 Mary, dau. of Rev. John Sympson DD, Prebendary of Canterbury; d. 10 Mar 1644/5. Buried Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. DNB.

STRODE, GEORGE; b.; adm.; BB 1693; KS 1696. [Perhaps George Strode, son of Barnard Strode, and Margaret ---, bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 2 Jan 1684 (IGI)].

STRATFORD, WILLIAM, only son of Right Rev. Nicholas Stratford DD, Bishop of Chester, and ---, sister of Stephen Luddington (qv); bapt. Manchester Collegiate Church 14 Sep 1671 (IGI); adm.; KS 1683; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1688, matr. 29 Jun 1688, aged 16, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1688 – 4 Jul 1705 (void on appointment as Canon), Tutor 1696-9; BA 1692; MA 13 Mar 1694/5; BD 1703; DD 1705; ordained; Chaplain to Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford, and tutor to his son Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford (qv); Stratford’s correspondence with Edward Harley between 1710 and Stratford’s death is printed HMC Portland vol. vii; Chaplain to Speaker, House of Commons (still 1705); Archdeacon of Richmond from 10 Sep 1703; Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, from 6 Jul 1705; Rector of Little Shefford, Berks., from 1707; Chaplain in Ordinary to George I (to 1717); gave £50 to the building fund for the New Dormitory; Busby Trustee 13 Mar 1727/8; d. unm. 7 May 1729. Buried Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.