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COCKERELL, CHARLES ROBERT, second son of Samuel Pepys Cockerell, Westbourne Lodge, Paddington, architect and Surveyor to East India Co., and Anna, dau. of John Whettam, St. Ives, Hunts.; b. 28 Apr 1788; adm. 29 Apr 1802 (Clapham); Min. Can. 1802; in school list Oct 1803; entered his father’s office at age of 16; in office of Sir Robert Smirke 1809-10; on architectural study tour in Greece, Asia Minor, Sicily and Italy 1810-7; participated in discovery of Aeginetan and Phigaleian Marbles; commenced architectural practice on return to England; Surveyor, St. Paul’s Cathedral, 1819-54; ARA 1829, RA 1836, Professor of Architecture at Royal Academy 1839-57; architect to Bank of England, 1833; “at once the most fastidious and the least pedantic of English neo-classical architects” (Colvin); his principal architectural works included the University Library, Cambridge, 1837-40, the Ashmolean Museum and Taylorian Institution, Oxford, 1841-2, and a series of provincial branch buildings for the Bank of England; DCL Oxford 20 Jun 1844; completed the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1845-7, and the interior of St. George’s Hall, Liverpool, 1851-4; Hon FRIBA 9 May 1836, FRIBA 3 Dec 1849, President 1860-1, Gold Medallist 1848; FSA by 1831; member, Society of Dilettanti, 1858; designed the scenery for the Westminster Latin Play, painted under his superintendence by Fenton and used for the first time in 1857; retired from practice 1859; author, The Temples of Jupiter Panhellenius at Aegina, and of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae, 1860, and other works; m. 4 Jun 1828 Anna Maria, dau. of John Rennie FRS, civil engineer; d. 17 Sep 1863 and buried St. Paul’s Cathedral. DNB.

CARD, HENRY, son of John Card, Egham, Surrey, and Mary --- (IGI); b. 6 May 1779; adm. 10 Sep 1792 (Clapham); in sixth form list 1796; Pembroke Coll. Oxford, matr. 10 May 1796; BA 1800; MA 1805; BD and DD 1823; ordained deacon (Winchester, lit. dim. from Hereford) 24 May 1812; Vicar of Wolferton and Rector of Upper Sapey, Herefs., 1 Jun 1812; Vicar of Great Malvern, Worcs., from 27 Jun 1815; Vicar of Donington, Herefs., 1 Jun 1832; FRS 2 Mar 1820; FSA 1821; author, The Reign of Charlemagne, 1807, and other works; m. 1st, 16 Sep 1799 Mary Anne, dau. of Philip Buckley, The Lawn, South Lambeth, Surrey; m. 2nd, 6 Jun 1806 Christian, second dau. of Joseph Fletcher, Great George Square, Liverpool; d. from the effects of an accident 4 Aug 1844. DNB.

ALLEN, JOSHUA WILLIAM, 6TH VISCOUNT ALLEN (I), only son of Joshua Allen, 5th Viscount Allen (I) MP, Lieut. -Col. 1st Foot Guards, and Frances, eldest dau. of Gaynor Barry, Doomstown, co. Meath; b.; adm. 19 Jan 1798 (Clapham); left Lady Day 1800; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 22 Oct 1801, aged 18; MA 1804; Ensign, 3rd Foot Guards 6 Feb 1805; Lieut. and Capt. 31 May 1810; Capt. 69th Foot 9 Apr 1812; 7th Garrison Batt. 1814; retd. Sep 1825; served in Peninsular War; succ. father as 6th Viscount Allen (I) 1 Feb 1816; d. unm. at Gibraltar 21 Sep 1845.

AUBREY, SIR THOMAS DIGBY, BART., only son of Richard Aubrey (qv); bapt. 2 Dec 1782; adm. 6 Jun 1795 (Clapham); left Bartholomewtide 1801; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 24 Jul 1801, matr. Mich. 1801; BA 1806; MA 1809; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 24 Jun 1805, called to bar 11 Feb 1811; High Sheriff Buckinghamshire 1815; succ. uncle as 7th baronet 14 Mar 1826; Chairman, Buckinghamshire Quarter Sessions; m. 9 Dec 1813 Mary, dau. of Thomas Wright, London; d. 5 Sep 1856.

BAKER, ---; adm. 11 Feb 1799 (Clapham); in school list 1801.

BELCHES (or BELSHES), ALEXANDER HEPBURN MURRAY, son of Col. John Hepburn Belches, Invermay, Forteviot, Perthshire; b. 26 Jun 1778 (IGI); adm. 20 Jun 1791 (Clapham), having previously been at the High School, Edinburgh, with Hon. George Murray (qv) (letter of 22 Jun 1791 from William Vincent (qv) to Alexander Adam, printed W. Steven, History of the High School of Edinburgh, 1849, 136); still at school Christmas 1794; Cornet, 3rd Dragoon Guards 3 May 1797; Lieut., 11 Jan 1800; Capt. in Army 10 Jul 1801; Capt., 3rd Dragoon Guards 3 Dec 1802; Maj., 15th Light Dragoons 31 Aug 1809; still in Army List 1812 (not 1813); of Invermay, Perthshire; living 1826.

BENTINCK, WILLIAM HENRY EDWARD, elder son of Lord Edward Charles Cavendish Bentinck (qv); b. 2 Feb 1784; adm. 3 Jul 1794 (Clapham); in school lists 1795, 1797, 1801; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 4 Feb 1802, Canoneer Student; BA 1805; MA 1808; private secretary to his uncle, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (qv), when Prime Minister; ordained priest 7 Feb 1808 (York); Rector of Sigglesthorne, Yorks., 21 Mar 1808 (still 1829); Canon Residentiary of Westminster 7 Oct 1809- Oct 1864; instrumental in getting the knee-breeches which used to be worn by the KSS abolished in 1843; built and endowed at his own cost Holy Trinity, Bessborough Gardens, completed 1852; Clerk of Signet (sinecure) 11 Dec 1802 - 7 Aug 1851, when office abolished; m. 19 Jul 1814 Frances, dau. of Ven. Thomas Constable, Rector of Sigglesthorne, Yorks., and Archdeacon Yorkshire East Riding; d. 29 Sep 1868.

BENTINCK, WILLIAM; b.; adm. Jan 1803 (Clapham); in school list May 1803, Oct 1803; left 1805. [Presumably William Frederik Christiaan Bentinck, Graf von Bentinck, second son of Jan Carel Bentinck, Graf von Bentinck, and Lady Jemima Ellen de Reede de Ginkell, eldest dau. of Frederick de Ginkell, 6th Earl of Athlone; b. 15 Nov 1787; Chamberlain to King of Holland; m. 16 Apr 1841 Countess Pauline Albertine, second dau., of Frederick Francis, Graf von Münnich; d. 8 Jun 1855. No other William Bentinck among the descendants of the 1st Earl of Portland seems to have been of the right age to have been at the school between 1803 and 1805]

BOYD, SIR JOHN, BART., elder son of Sir John Boyd, Bart., MP, Danson Park, Kent, and Margaret, fifth dau. of Hon. Thomas Harley (qv); b. 5 Jun 1786; adm. 19 Sep 1797 (Clapham); in school list 1801; succ. father as 3rd baronet, 30 May 1815; m. 22 Sep 1818 Harriet, second dau. of Hugh Boyd, Ballycastle, co. Antrim; d. at Boulogne 19 Jan 1855.

CARTER, EDWARD, only son of Edward Carter, Horsham, Sussex, and Harriet, dau. of John Clater Aldridge, Horsham, Sussex; bapt. Horsham 7 Feb 1785; adm. 13 Jan 1796 (Clapham); Min. Can. (aged 13) 1798; in school list 1801; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm. pens. 27 Feb 1799, matr. Mich. 1802, scholar 1803; LLB 1805; adm. Inner Temple 8 Nov 1806; [perhaps adm. proctor, Court of Arches, but not in Law List, 1822]; a brewer at Portsmouth, Hampshire; five times Mayor of Portsmouth prior to the Municipal Corporations Act, and first mayor of the reformed corporation; m. 19 Aug 1809 his first cousin Mary, dau. of Sir John Carter, Kt, Mayor of Portsmouth; d. 12 Aug 1850.