TOWNSEND-FARQUHAR, SIR ROBERT TOWNSEND, BART., brother of Sir Thomas Harvie Farquhar, Bart. (qv); b. 14 Oct 1776; adm. 6 Jun 1787; KS 1789; Writer, EICS Madras 10 Sep 1793; Assistant to Accountant, Board of Revenue 1796; Assistant to Resident, Amboyna (now Ambon, Indonesia) and Banda 1797, Deputy Commercial Resident 1798, Commercial Resident 1798-1802; Commissioner for adjusting British claims in the Moluccas 1802; Lieut. -Gov., Prince of Wales Island 1804-6; Governor of Mauritius 1810-23, where he successfully suppressed the slave trade; created baronet 21 Aug 1821; assumed additional surname of Townsend 19 Jul 1824; MP Newton (Lancs. ) Feb 1825-6, Hythe from 1826; Director, East India Co., 1826-8; author, Suggestions for counteracting any injurious effects upon the population of the West Indian colonies from the abolition of the Slave Trade 1807; m. 10 Jan 1809 Maria Frances Geslip, second dau. of Joseph Francis Louis de Latour, firm Francis Latour & Co, agents, Madras; d. 16 Mar 1830. DNB.

ALLEN, JOHN HENSLEIGH, elder son of John Bartlett Allen, Cresselly, Pembs., and his first wife Elizabeth, dau. of John Hensleigh, Pant-teg, Pembs., attorney; b. 29 Aug 1769; adm. 31 May 1779; KS 1784; one of the contributors to the Trifler, 1788-9; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1789, adm. pens. 10 Jun 1789, scholar 23 Apr 1790, matr. Mich. 1789; BA 1793; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 15 Jun 1789, called to bar 22 Jun 1797; Oxford and South Wales circuit; of Cresselly, Pembs.; High Sheriff Pembrokeshire 1808; MP Pembroke 1818-26; Chairman, Pembrokeshire Quarter Sessions; DL JP Pembrokeshire; m. 12 Nov 1812 Gertrude, youngest dau. of Lord Robert Seymour MP; d. 12 Apr 1843.

AMYAND, CLAUDIUS, eldest son of Claudius Amyand FRS, Serjeant-Surgeon to George II, and Mary, dau. of Daniel Rabache, St. Peter le Poer, London; b. 25 Aug 1718; adm. Jun 1726; KS 1732; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1736, matr. 25 Jun 1736, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1736 - res 26 Jun 1744; BA 1740; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 23 Jan 1733/4, called to bar 2 Jul 1742; Keeper of the King’s Libraries from 8 Nov 1745; “1749, Oct. 5, Whitehall. Treasury order for payment to Claudius Amyand, Keeper of his Majesty’s Libraries of £50 as half a year’s allowance for house rent or accommodation of the Libraries, and which allowance is to be continued until he shall be provided with the like accommodations when the said Libraries, which are now lying in the old Dormitory at Westminster, shall be removed from thence” (HMC Laing, ii, 402); MP Tregony 1747-54, Sandwich 1754 - 11 Dec 1756; Under-Secretary of State, Southern Department Apr 1750 - Nov 1756; a Commissioner of Customs Dec 1756-65; Receiver-General of the Land Tax for Middlesex from 1765; m. 26 Nov 1761 Frances, widow of George Compton, 6th Earl of Northampton, and dau. of Rev. Thomas Payne, Vicar of Holme Lacy, Herefs.; d. 1 Apr 1774.

MONTAGU, CHARLES, 1ST EARL OF HALIFAX, fourth son of Hon. George Montagu MP, Horton, Northants, and Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Anthony Irby, Kt, Boston, Lincs.; b. 16 Apr 1661; adm. 1675; KS (Capt. ) 1677; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 8 Nov 1679; MA 1682; LLD 1705; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1683 – c. 1689; High Steward, Cambridge Univ., from 1697; wrote with Matthew Prior (qv) The Hind and the Panther transvers’d to the story of the Country Mouse and the City Mouse, 1687; MP Maldon 1689-95, Westminster 1695 – 13 Dec 1700; a Clerk of the Privy Council 1689-92; a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury 21 Mar 1692 – Apr 1698; his proposal of 15 Dec 1692 to raise a million pounds by life annuities was the origin of the National Debt; his bill to establish the Bank of England became law 1694; Chancellor of the Exchequer 30 Apr 1694 – May 1699; Privy Councillor 10 May 1694; introduced the Recoinage Bill, and instituted the Window Tax to pay for the expense of the recoinage; issued the first Exchequer Bills and carried his bill for the formation of a consolidated fund to meet interest on the various government loans; First Lord of the Treasury 1 May 1697 – Nov 1699; Auditor of the Receipt of Exchequer 17 Nov 1699 – 30 Sep 1714; created Baron Halifax 13 Dec 1700; impeached by the House of Lords for obtaining grants from the King in the names of others for himself, and for his share in the Partition Treaty, but the impeachment was dismissed for want of prosecution 24 Jun 1701; charged by House of Commons for neglect of his duties as Auditor of the Exchequer, but his conduct as such was unanimously approved by the House of Lords 1703; successfully moved the rejection of the Occasional Conformity Bill 14 Dec 1703; a Commissioner for negotiating the Union with Scotland 10 Apr 1706; acted as one of the Lords Justices from Queen Anne’s death until the arrival of George I; First Lord of the Treasury from 11 Oct 1714; KG 16 Oct 1714; created Earl of Halifax 19 Oct 1714; Lord Lieutenant, Surrey, from 24 Dec 1714; a great parliamentary orator and brilliant financier; the lifelong friend of Sir Isaac Newton and a munificent patron of literature; FRS 30 Nov 1695, President 30 Nov 1695 – 30 Nov 1698; his collected poems were published in 1715; [? m. 1st, 3 Sep 1685 Elisabeth, dau. of Francis Forster, South Bailey, Durham]; m. Feb 1688 Anne, widow of his cousin Robert Montagu, 3rd Earl of Manchester, and dau. of Sir Christopher Yelverton, Bart.; d. 19 May 1715. Buried in Duke of Albemarle’s vault, Henry VII’s Chapel, Westminster Abbey. DNB.

LYNDE (or LINDE), SIR HUMPHREY, son of Cuthbert Lynde, Westminster, citizen and grocer, and Margery Baylie; bapt. 27 Aug 1579; adm.; QS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1596, matr. 14 Jan 1596/7, Westminster Stufdent to 1601; BA 1600; adm. Middle Temple 12 Jun 1601; of Cobham, Surrey; knighted 29 Oct 1613; MP Breconshire Feb – Jun 1626; a puritan controversialist, being “a severe enemy to the ponteficians as well in his common discourse, as in his writings” (Wood, Ath. Oxon., ii, dci); author, Via Tuta, the safe way to the true, antient, and Catholic faith, now professed in the Church of England, 1628, and other works; d. 8 Jun 1636. DNB.

DARBY, GEORGE, brother of Jonathan Darby (qv); b. 1798; adm. Christmas 1809; KS (aged 13) 1810; left 1813; St. Catherine’s Hall, Cambridge, adm. pens. 24 Jan 1816, matr. Lent 1816; BA 1820; MA 1823; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 30 Jun 1816, called to bar 22 Nov 1821; Home Circuit and Sussex Sessions; MP (Cons) East Sussex Aug 1837 - Jan 1846; an Enclosure Commissioner for England and Wales 21 Aug 1846-52, a Copyhold Inclosure and Tithe Commissioner from 1852; DL JP Sussex; m. 29 Nov 1827 Maria, youngest dau. of Samuel Homfray MP, Coworth House, Berkshire; d. 16 Nov 1877.

CLEAVER, EUSEBY, brother of John Cleaver (qv); b. 8 Sep 1745; adm.; KS 1759; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1763, matr. 9 Jun 1763, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1763 – void 10 May 1775 (expiry year of grace as R. Spofforth from 12 May 1774), Tutor 1767-74; BA 1767; MA 1770; BD and DD 1783; DD Trinity Coll. Dublin 1788; tutor to Earl of Egremont at Christ Church 1767; ordained deacon (Oxford) 20 Dec 1772; Rector of Spofforth, Yorks., 9 May 1774-83; Rector of Tillington, Sussex, 13 Mar 1783-9; Rector of Petworth, Sussex, 5 Apr 1783-9; Prebendary of Chichester 21 Feb 1787 – res by May 1789; Chaplain to Marquis of Buckingham when Lord Lieut. Ireland, 1787-9; consecrated Bishop of Cork and Ross 28 Mar 1789, translated to Ferns and Leighlin 13 Jun 1789; suffered heavy losses during rebellion of 1798, having his palace plundered and his library destroyed; Archbishop of Dublin from 25 Aug 1809; m. 2 May 1788 Catherine, dau. of Right Hon. Owen Wynne PC (I) MP (I), Hazlewood, co. Sligo; d. 10 Dec 1819. DNB.

BERKELEY, HON. GEORGE, brother of Charles Berkeley, Viscount Dursley (qv); b. 24 Feb 1691/2; adm.; QS (Capt., aged 15) 1708; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1711, adm. pens. 31 May 1711, scholar 15 May 1712, readm. nob. 10 Feb 1713; MA 1713; adm. Inner Temple 1 Aug 1707; Clerk of the Privy Council 1716-26; MP Dover 20 Dec 1720-34, Hedon 1734-41, and from 4 Mar 1742; Master, Hospital of St. Katherine’s by the Tower, London, from 28 May 1738; m. 1 Jul 1735 [or 26 Jun ?] Henrietta, widow of Charles Howard, 9th Earl of Suffolk, and sister of John Hobart, 1st Earl of Buckinghamshire (qv); d. 29 Oct 1746. DNB.

BOYLE, HAMILTON, 6TH EARL OF CORK AND ORRERY (I), younger son of John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork and Orrery (qv), and his first wife; b. 3 Feb 1729/30; adm. Jul 1741; KS (Capt. ) 1744; Capt. of the School 1747; played the part of Ignoramus in the play of 1747 with great success (The Orrery Papers, 1903, ii, 9, 11, 13); elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1748, matr. 14 Jun 1748, Westminster Student 23 Dec 1748 - Dec 1762, Faculty Student from 10 Dec 1762; BCL 15 May 1755; DCL 6 Jul 1763; High Steward, Oxford Univ., from 1762; adm. Inner Temple 19 Nov 1748; MP (I) Charleville 1759-60; MP Warwick 1761 - 23 Nov 1762; succ. his father as 6th Earl of Cork and Orrery 23 Nov 1762; d. unm. 17 Jan 1764.