FELTON, PHOENIX, only son of John Felton, Bath, Somerset, and Elizabeth ---; bapt. Bath Abbey 31 Oct 1758; adm. 9 Aug 1766; KS (aged 15) 1773; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 23 Dec 1772; drowned while sailing on the Thames between Lambeth and Vauxhall with Richard Warren (qv) and Robert Whitworth (qv), 5 May 1778. Buried in South Cloister, Westminster Abbey.

FIELD, JOHN VENTRIS, son of Sir Charles Ventris Field, Campton, Beds., and Louisa, third dau. of Octavian Reynolds (qv); bapt. 13 Sep 1760; adm. 22 Jan 1770; KS (aged 12) 1773; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1778, adm. pens. 17 Jun 1778, scholar 22 Apr 1779, but did not matr.; Ensign, 15th Foot 20 Oct 1779; Lieut., 73rd Foot 4 Oct 1786; d. at Bombay 15 Nov 1791.

FINCH, HON. CHARLES, second son of Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Aylesford (qv); b. 4 Jun 1752; adm.; in school list Jun 1764; KS 1765; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1769, matr. 24 May 1769, Westminster Student 23 Dec 1769 - void 11 Nov 1772 on election as Fellow All Souls; Fellow, All Souls Coll., 1772; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 16 May 1772; MP Castle Rising 2 Feb 1775 - May 1777, Maidstone 16 May 1777-80; m. 28 Dec 1778 Jane, eldest dau. of Watkin Wynne (qv); d. 17 Dec 1819.

FINCH, HON. EDWARD, fourth son of Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Aylesford (qv); b. 26 Apr 1756; adm. 27 May 1766; KS 1768; Capt. of the School 1772; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1773, adm. pens. 9 Jun 1773, scholar 22 Apr 1774, matr. Lent 1774; BA 1777; adm. Inner Temple year 1775/6; Cornet, 27th Light Dragoons 27 Dec 1778; Lieut., 87th Foot 7 Oct 1779; Lieut. and Capt., 2nd Foot Guards 5 Feb 1783; Capt. and Lieut. -Col., 3 Oct 1792; 2nd Maj., 19 Nov 1800, 1st Maj., 18 Jun 1801 - Apr 1808; Brevet Col., 3 May 1796; Maj. -Gen., 1 Jan 1801; Lieut. -Gen., 25 Apr 1808; Col. . 54th Foot 3 Aug 1808 – Sep 1809, 22nd Foot from 23 Sep 1809; Gen., 12 Aug 1819; travelling in Italy 1787; served in Flanders 1793-5, Ireland 1798, and on expedition to The Helder 1799; commanded the cavalry under Abercromby in Egypt 1801, and the Brigade of Guards at Bremen 1806 and on expedition to Copenhagen 1807; MP Cambridge 11 May 1789 - Nov 1819; Groom of the Bedchamber to Kings George III, George IV and William IV 27 Apr 1802 - 20 Jun 1837; d. 27 Oct 1843. DNB.

FISHER, JABEZ, eldest son of Robert Fisher, Mitcham, Surrey, attorney, and his first wife Jane, dau. of Jabez Daniel, London, goldsmith; b. 14 Feb 1771; adm. 6 Mar 1783, from St. Paul’s Sch.; KS 1784; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 29 Jun 1789, Bishop Williams scholar 3 Nov 1789, kept six terms, matr. Mich. 1789; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 4 Nov 1788, called to bar 20 May 1794; d. unm. 25 May 1830.

Fisher, Roderick Charles, younger son of Edmund Montagu Prinsep Fisher, of Chelsea, by Janie Magdalene, daughter of Douglas William Freshfield, of Forest Row, Sussex; nephew of Charles Dennis Fisher (q.v.); b. Sept. 21, 1902; adm. as K.S. Sept. 21, 1916; Capt. of the School 1920; elected to Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1921, matric. Michaelmas 1921; B.A. 1923; A. R. I. B.A. 1931; asst. architect, Schools Division, London County Council 1936; architect (grade i) 1959; served in London Heavy Rescue Service in Great War II; m. March, 1938, Margaret Fletcher, daughter of Ralph Fletcher Wright, of Marden, Kent.

HEYRICK, ROGER, son of Sir William Heyrick, Kt, MP, Beaumanor Park, Leics., Alderman of London, goldsmith, and Joan, dau. of Richard May, Mayfield Place, Sussex; cousin of Robert Herrick, poet; bapt. 14 May 1608; at Merchant Taylors’ Sch. 1614/5-7; adm.; KS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1624, matr. 16 Nov 1624, Westminster Student to 1627; BA 1627; Fellow, All Souls Coll., Oxford 1628; a letter written by him when at Oxford to his father refers to Lambert Osbaldeston as “a man who loves to hear of the progresse of them whom he educated” (Nichols, History of Leicestershire, iii. 166).

HEYWOOD, JAMES, son of Thomas Heywood, Westminster, Page of the Bedchamber to James, Duke of York, and Frances, dau. of Rev. Thomas Soame DD, Canon of Windsor; bapt. St. Margaret, Westminster 17 Dec 1663; adm.; KS 1679; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1683, matr. 17 Dec 1683, aged 19, Westminster Student 17 Dec 1683 – void 1692; BA 1687; MA 1690 (incorp. Cambridge 1697); ordained; Vicar of Godmanchester, Hunts., from 1691; m. ---., dau. of Dr. --- Walters, Oxfordshire; d. 16 Aug 1729.

HICKES, WILLIAM, second son of Rev. William Hickes, Prebendary of Chichester and of Salisbury, Rector of Bishopstoke, Hampshire (see Antiquaries Journal 80, 2000, p. 304); b. 1621; adm.; KS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1637, adm. pens. 15 May 1637, scholar 1638; BA 1641/2; MA 1645; ordained; Head Master, Oundle Sch. 1646-9, when “drove out by the Presbyterians … for keeping his schollars to the prayers of the Church”; subsequently Head Master, Gresham’s Sch., Holt, Norfolk, to c. 1659; d. 1677. [note will Rev. William Hickes, Rector of Downham, Cambs., will proved PCC 10 Feb 1677]

HIGGATE, JOHN, son of Rev. John Higgate, Confessor to Royal Household, and Martha, sister of Jeffrey Glasier (qv); b. 17 Jun 1737; adm. (aged 10) Jun 1747; KS 1751; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1756, matr. 16 Jun 1756, Westminster Student 5 Jan 1757 – void 14 Oct 1776, expiry year of grace as R. Slapton; BA 1760; MA 1763; ordained priest (Winchester) 17 Jun 1764; Rector of Slapton, Bucks., from 28 Oct 1775; m. 17 Jun 1778 Susannah Lee (IGI); d. 1788.