Buckworth, Joseph Francis, 1770-1845
BUCKWORTH, JOSEPH FRANCIS, brother of Charles Watkin John Shakerley (qv); b. 30 Jan 1770; adm. 14 Sep 1781; KS 1785; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1789, adm. pens. 10 Jun 1789, scholar 23 Apr 1790, matr. 1790; BA 1793; Lieut. -Col., Royal Cheshire Militia 23 Jul 1803; m. 19 Feb 1811 Mary, widow of Sir John Payne, Bart., and dau. of Sir Philip Monoux, Bart.; d. 31 Dec 1845.
BROUNCKER, HENRY, son of Francis Brouncker, Monmouth Street, Westminster; b. 18 Jul 1707; adm. Jan 1717/8; in under school list 1721; apprenticed to John Swinnerton, Lincoln’s Inn, attorney, 7 Dec 1721; adm. solicitor 7 Dec 1730, and adm. attorney 4 Nov 1750; Deputy Collector of St. Kitts, West Indies, 1736; m. 1st, 8 Nov 1758 Elizabeth, widow of John Orton, and dau. of Charles Payne, St. Kitts; m. 2nd, 1761 Susannah, dau. of Lewis Feuilleteau, St. Kitts; d. 4 Jul 1769.
Boughton, Sir William Edward Rouse, 1788-1856
BOUGHTON, WILLIAM EDWARD ROUSE, 2nd Bart.; only son of Sir Charles Rouse Boughton, 1st Bart. and Catherine Pearce Hall; b. 14 Sept. 1788; in school list May 1803 as 'Boughton' (see Betham, Baronetage of England, 1804, vol. iv, 225, where it is stated that William Edward Boughton, as he then was, is “now at Westminster School”); left 1805; Christ Church, Oxford; Member of Parliament (Evesham); m. Charlotte, dau. of Thomas Knight, horticulturalist; d. 22 May 1856.
Bosanquet, James Whatman, 1804-1877
BOSANQUET, JAMES WHATMAN, brother of Samuel Richard Bosanquet (qv); b. 26 Jan 1804; adm. (G) 22 Sep 1814; left Christmas 1817; entered his father’s bank in Lombard Street, of which he became a partner; one of HM Lieutenants, City of London; JP Middlesex; author, Chronology of the times of Daniel, Ezra and Nehemiah, 1848, and other works on biblical and Assyrian chronology; m. 1st, 16 May 1840 Merelina, only dau. of Right Hon. Sir Nicholas Conyngham Tindal PC, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas; m. 2nd, 15 Jul 1854 Frances Georgiana Elizabeth, elder dau. of Lord John Thomas Henry Somerset (qv); m. 3rd, 25 Aug 1864 Emily Dorothy, dau. of Lieut. -Col. James Best, Park House, Boxley, Kent; d. 22 Dec 1877. DNB.
Blizard, Stephen, ca. 1702-1777
BLIZARD, STEPHEN, son of Jeremiah Blizard, St. John’s, Antigua, a member of the Council of Antigua, and his second wife Anne Lavington; b.; adm. (aged 15) Oct 1717; Wadham Coll. Oxford, matr. 2 Jun 1720; Judge of Court of Common Pleas, Antigua; m. 1 Oct 1724 Jane, sister of Nelmes Kerby (qv); d. 24 Nov 1777.
BLENMAN, WILLIAM, elder son of Jonathan Blenman, Attorney-Gen. and Judge of the Admiralty, Barbados, and Mary ---; bapt. St. Michael, Barbados 28 Jan 1721 (IGI); adm. (aged 11) Oct 1733; left 1739; Trin. Hall, Camb., adm. pens. 12 Apr 1740; adm. Middle Temple 29 Sep 1739, called to bar 6 Feb 1746/7; Clerk to Clerks Comptroller, Board of Green Cloth Jul 1761 - retired 1 Jul 1782; Watchman at St. James’s Palace; m. 1748 Elizabeth, dau. of Joseph Dottin, Barbados; living 17 Jan 1798 (dead by 13 Jul 1800). [presumably William Blenman, Bath, Somerset, will proved PCC 13 Aug 1800]
BLENMAN, TIMOTHY, second son of Jonathan Blenman, Solicitor-Gen. and Judge of Vice-Admiralty, Barbados, and Anna Maria Cobham; grandson of William Blenman (qv); bapt. St. Michael, Barbados 14 Jan 1796 (IGI); adm. 18 Sep 1809; left 1811; d. 28 Dec 1829, aged 35.
BLENMAN, TIMOTHY, brother of William Blenman (qv); bapt. St. Michael, Barbados 2 Apr 1724 (IGI); adm. (aged 9) Oct 1733; left 1741; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 17 Dec 1741; adm. Gray’s Inn 22 Jan 1741/2; living 1772.
BLAIR, CHARLES, brother of Henry Charles Blair (qv); b. 12 Nov. 1776; adm. 18 Jun. 1787; officer, 4th Dragoon Guards; collector of customs, Cape of Good Hope, 1808-c.1826; m. 1796 Miss Dawson; great-grandfather of Eric Blair (George Orwell); d. 30 Sept. 1854.
BECKFORD, WILLIAM, illegitimate son of Richard Beckford (qv), and Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Hay, Secretary for Jamaica; b. Jamaica 24 Sep 1744; at school under Markham (The Monthly Mirror, vii, 259); Balliol Coll. Oxford, matr. 17 Mar 1762; MA 6 Apr 1765; Grand Tour (Italy) 1770-1; of Somerley Hall, Suffolk; settled on his estates in Jamaica 1774; returned to England 1787; in Fleet Prison as a debtor 1790-2; author, A Descriptive Account of the Island of Jamaica, 1790, and other works; a contributor to literary magazines; a man of varied attainments; characterised as “Benevolus” in A Short Journey to the West Indies, 1790; m. 13 Apr 1773 his mother’s niece, Charlotte, dau. of Thomas Hay; d. 5 Feb 1799. DNB.