ANNESLEY, HON. GEORGE, son of Francis Annesley, 2nd Viscount Valentia (I), and his second wife Jane, widow of Sir Peter Courteen, Bart., Aldington, Worcs., and dau. of Sir John Stanhope Kt, Shelford, Notts.; b. 28 Oct 1632; adm.; KS in 1645; mentioned in The Diaries and Letters of Philip Henry, ed. M. H. Lee, 1882, p. 11; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1647, but was detained at school “through the exigence of warre” (Register of the Visitors of the University of Oxford 1647 to 1658, Camden Soc., 2nd ser., xxix, 268), Westminster Student; apparently expelled the University for non-submission, but afterwards submitted; BA 1650; MA 24 Mar 1652/3; admonished by Dean and Chapter of Christ Church in Sep 1653 for being “at a tippling house in this city of Oxon on the Lord’s Day” and also for publicly affronting “the Dean and Chapter in the Hall and at their coming out” (Thompson, Christ Church, 77-8); became a Maj. in the Army; drowned in the Thames as he was stepping into a packet-boat with letters for Charles II from his brother Arthur; buried St. Margaret’s, Westminster 18 Apr 1660.