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WINTER, WILLIAM; b.; adm. (aged 12) Nov 1746 (Preston's); left 1747.

WILLIAMS, PHILIP, brother of Penry Williams (adm. 1727, qv); b.; adm. (aged 11) Jul 1735 (Preston's); left 1737.

WENTWORTH, WILLIAM, eldest son of Godfrey Wentworth MP, Woolley Park, Yorks., and Dorothy, sister of Sir Lionel Pilkington, Bart. (qv); bapt. Darton, Yorks. 18 Nov 1728 (IGI); adm. (aged 9) May 1738 (Preston's); left 1744; buried Woolley, Yorks., 2 May 1746, unm.

TINKER, JEREMIAH, younger son of John Tinker, Weybridge, Surrey, Governor of the Bahamas, and Isabella, dau. of Martin Bladen (qv); b.; adm. (aged 16) Jun 1746 (Preston's); left 1747; a prisoner in France during the French Revolution; d. 14 Oct 1795. [Perhaps Lieut. in Army 10 Apr 1755; Lieut., 33rd Foot 21 Sep 1757; Capt., 23 Nov 1768]

SUTTON, ROBERT WILLIAM EVELYN, son of Robert Sutton, Scofton, Notts., and Anne, dau. of C. Throckmorton; b.; adm. (aged 12) Jun 1738 (Preston's); left 1742; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 30 Dec 1743, aged 18, but never matr.; perhaps Grand Tour (Italy) 1753-4; succeeded father at Scofton 1775. [Supplement records him as marrying 24 Jun 1793 Mary, dau. of Henry Verelst, Aston Hall, Yorks., Governor of Bengal, but is this correct (he was 67 in 1793) ?]

STEVENSON, RICHARD; b.; adm. (aged 7) May 1742 (Preston's); left 1745.

SHIRLEY, HON. WALTER, brother of Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers (qv); b. 23 Sep 1725; adm. May 1736 (Preston's); left 1740; University Coll . Oxford, matr. 30 Jun 1742; BA 1746; adm. Inner Temple 2 Dec 1749; ordained; Rector of Loughrea, co. Galway; a friend of the Wesleys and of Whitfield; a constant speaker at English and Irish revivalist meetings, and frequently in conflict with his bishop and fellow clergy; Chaplain to his cousin, the Countess of Huntingdon; took an active part with Augustus Montagu Toplady (qv) on the Calvinist side in the famous Methodist controversy on justification by faith; assisted the Countess of Huntingdon in revising the hymns used in her chapels 1774; author, Gospel Repentance, 1760, and of several well-known hymns; m. 27 Aug 1766 Henrietta Maria, dau. of John Phillips, Swords, co. Dublin; d. 7 Apr 1786. DNB.

SHIRLEY, ROBERT, 6TH EARL FERRERS, brother of Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers (qv); b. 10 Jul 1723; adm. May 1736 (Preston's); left 1742; succ. brother as 6th Earl Ferrers 1 Oct 1778; m. 26 Dec 1754 Catharine, dau. of Rowland Cotton, Etwall, Derbs.; d. 18 Apr 1787.

SHIPTON, JOSEPH, brother of Daniel Shipton (qv); bapt. Watford, Herts. 25 Oct 1732 (IGI); adm. (aged 12) Jan 1744/5 (Preston's); living 1760.

SHIPTON, DANIEL, son of John Shipton, Watford, Herts., leather dresser, and Elizabeth --- (IGI); bapt. Watford, Herts. 28 Aug 1731 (IGI); adm. (aged 13) Jan 1744/5 (Preston's); KS 1747; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1751, matr. 5 Jun 1751, Westminster Student 23 Dec 1752 (sic, having been suspended from admission for one year for riot 15 Nov 1751) – void 21 Mar 1766 (expiry year of grace as V. Willen); ordained deacon (Oxford) 21 Sep 1755; Vicar of Willen, Bucks., from 14 Jan 1765; Rector of Wavendon, Bucks., from 17 Apr 1796 [or 1768 – check]; m. 1st, ---; m. 2nd, 29 Dec 1768 Temperance, dau. of Rev. Arthur Bedford, Vicar of Sharnbrook, Beds.; d. 7 Sep 1805.