ROOKE, GEORGE HENRY, son of William Rooke, Carlisle, Cumberland, attorney; b. 3 Aug 1702; in under school list 1715; Min. Can. 1716; KS 1717; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 10 Sep 1720, scholar 6 Apr 1722, matr. 1720; 7th in “ordo” 1724/5; BA 1724/5; MA 1728; DD 1745; migrated to Christ’s Coll. 13 Jan 1726/7; Fellow, Christ’s Coll. 3 Jun 1727 – Mar 1744/5, Junior Dean 1731, Senior Dean 1739, Master from 12 Mar 1744/5; Proctor 1741-2; Vice-Chancellor 1745-6; ordained priest (Lincoln) 28 May 1727; Vicar of Great St. Mary’s, Cambridge 1727; Vicar of Great Eversden, Cambs. , 18 Sep 1732; Vicar of Little Abington, Cambs. , 6 Apr 1736-7; Vicar of Foxton, Cambs. , 7 Mar 1737/8; Rector of Hadstock, Essex, from 1740; Rector of Great Horkesley, Essex, from 30 Apr 1747; Prebendary of Lincoln from 31 Aug 1749; Prebendary of Bristol from 20 Nov 1751; d. unm. 7 Feb 1754.

ROKEBY, ALEXANDER, second son of Alexander Rokeby, Sandal, Yorks., and Susan, dau. of Gervase Boswell, Edlington, Yorks.; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1650, adm. pens. 10 Jun 1650, scholar 1651, matr. Easter 1650; the Miscellanea Poetica of Nicholas Hookes (qv), published 1653, contains some verses “on the immature death of his hopeful friend Mr. Alexander Rokeby”; d. at Trinity Coll., Cambridge, c. 1652.

ROGERSON, CHARLES, son of Rev. Roger Rogerson, Vicar of Hanwell, Middlesex, and his first wife Anne ---; b. 9 Mar 1679/80; adm.; KS 1694; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1699, adfm. pens. 20 Jun 1699, aged 18, scholar 12 Apr 1700, matr. 1699/1700; BA 1702/3; MA 1718; ordained deacon 6 Jan 1705/6, priest 9 Sep 1708 (both London); Vicar of Marks Tey, Essex, from 1713; d. 1721.

ROGERS, WILLIAM; b.; adm.; KS 1699; left 1701.

ROGERS, SAMUEL, son of William Rogers, Gloucester, and Sarah --- (IGI); bapt. St. Michael. Gloucester 31 Mar 1734 (IGI); adm. (aged 9) Jan 1742/3 (Preston's); KS 1748; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1753, matr. 27 Jun 1753, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1753 – void 5 Dec 1800 (expiry year of grace as R. Batsford from 18 Dec 1799), Librarian 1779; ordained; Rector of St. Mary Magdalen, Oxford 13 May 1763 – 27 Mar 1778; Curate, Binsey, Oxfordshire 1778; Prebendary of St. David’s from 29 Dec 1783; Rector of Batsford, Gloucestershire, from 1799; d. 22 Nov 1806.

ROGERS, JOHN; b.; adm.; QS ; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1600, adm. scholar 1601; 2nd in “ordo” 1604/5; BA 1604/5.

ROGERS, HENRY REYNOLDS KNATCHBULL, son of James Edwin Thorold Rogers MP, Professor of Political Economy, Oxford Univ., and his second wife Ann Susannah Charlotte, second dau. of Henry Revell Reynolds, Harley Street, London, Solicitor to HM Treasury; b. 18 May 1858; adm. 30 May 1872 (James'), exhibitioner; QS (Capt. ) 1873; Capt. of the School 1876; committed suicide 11 Sep 1876.

ROGERS, CLEMENT FRANCIS, brother of Henry Reynolds Knatchbull Rogers (qv); b. 25 Oct 1866; adm. 22 Jan 1880 (J), exhibitioner; QS 1881; left Whitsun 1884; Jesus Coll. Oxford, matr. 23 Oct 1885, mathematical exhibitioner; BA 1889; MA 1892; ordained deacon 1890, priest 1891 (both Ripon); Curate, St. Paul’s, Pudsey, Yorks. 1890; held several other curacies; Lecturer on Pastoral Theology, King’s Coll. London 1907-19, Professor of Pastoral Theology 1919-32, Professor Emeritus from 1932; Fellow, King’s Coll. London, from 1920; lectured on Sunday afternoons in Hyde Park on Christian evidences; author, Principles of Parish Work, 1905, and other works; d. unm. 23 Jun 1949.

ROGERS, ARTHUR GEORGE LIDDON, brother of Henry Reynolds Knatchbull Rogers (qv); b. 18 Dec 1864; adm. 21 Jun 1878 (J); QS 1879; left May 1883; Balliol Coll. Oxford, matr. 28 Jan 1884; BA 1887; MA 1892; adm. Middle Temple 28 Jan 1888; Assistant Inspector, Board of Agriculture 1894, Head of Intelligence branch 1902, Horticultural branch 1907, Farm Workers branch 1918, retd. 1925; author, The Business Side of Agriculture, 1904, and ed., Sir F. M. Eden, State of the Poor, 1928; m. 6 Jan 1909 Emily Norah, elder dau. of Alexander Miller-Hallett, Orpington, Kent; d. Mar 1944.

ROGERS, ---; b.; adm.; QS 9 Oct 1553 (Chapter Muniments 43047); perhaps “Rogers”, “a childe of his wife by her other husbande”, who was recommended by Archbishop Cranmer, on the petition of the boy’s father, for a scholarship in “the Kinge Majesties Grammer Scole at Westmynster”. [Perhaps = COTTON, alias ROGERS, THOMAS (qv)].