FRENCH, PINKSTAN ARUNDEL, only son of Hugh French, Rathbone Place, London, “doctor”, and [his first wife ?] Sarah Arundel (IGI); b.; adm. 26 Mar 1773; KS (aged 14) 1779; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1782, matr. 30 May 1782, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1782 - void 29 May 1804, expiry year of grace as V. Odcombe; BA 1786; MA 1789; adm. Inner Temple 19 May 1786, called to bar 26 Jun 1789; subsequently ordained; Perpetual Curate of Hawkhurst, Kent 1797- Mar 1803; Rector of Odcombe, Somerset, from 21 May 1803; Rector of Thorne Falcon, Somerset, from 27 Mar 1821; m. 12 Aug 1806 Susanna Smith (IGI), Sydenham, Kent; d. 12 Apr 1836.

FRENCH, GEERING, son of William French, St. Margaret’s, Westminster; b.; adm. (aged 9) Feb 1715/6; Min. Can. 1720; KS 1721; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1725, matr. 2 Jun 1725, but never admitted as a Westminster Student.

FRENCH, ANTHONY; b.; adm.; Min. Can. 1633; KS; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1637, adm. pens. 24 May 1637, scholar 1638; buried St. Michael’s, Cambridge 16 May 1639.

FREIND, WILLIAM, second son of William Freind (elected to Oxford 1656, qv); b. 1669; adm.; KS 1683; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1687, matr. 15 Jul 1687, Westminster Student 19 Dec 1687 - void 1706; BA 1691; MA 1694 (incorp. Cambridge 1714); Proctor 1698; ordained; Rector of Turvey, Beds., from 1704/5; Rector of Woodford, Northants. (southern mediety), from 21 Feb 1710/1; won a great lottery prize at some date before May 1730, but squandered all his money and “would have died a prisoner in the Fleet” if Daniel Finch, 7th Earl of Winchilsea and 3rd Earl of Nottingham (qv), when First Lord of the Admiralty, “had not made him chaplain to a ship of one hundred guns” (Bishop Newton’s Works, 1787, I, 168); author, The Christian Minister; m. 18 Nov 1706 (IGI) Bridget, dau. of Rev. William Glover, Vicar of Burnham, Bucks.; d. 15 Apr 1745. DNB.

FREIND, WILLIAM, of Westminster; b. 3 Aug 1634; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1656, matr. 18 Mar 1656/7, Westminster Student; BA 17 Jan 1659/60; MA 1662 (incorp. Cambridge 1664); ordained; Rector of Croughton, Northants., from 21 Jul 1663; m. Anne, dau. of Francis Smith, Worcestershire; d. 20 Sep 1689.

FREIND, ROBERT, eldest son of William Freind (elected to Ch. Ch. Oxford 1656, qv); b.; adm.; KS 1680; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1686, matr. 17 Dec 1686, aged 19, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1686 - void 1701 (expiry year of grace as R. Turvey), Tutor 1693-9, Junior Censor 1698; BA 1690; MA 1693; BD and DD 1709; Under Master, Westminster School 1699-1711, Head Master 9 Aug 1711 - May 1733; ordained; Rector of Turvey, Beds., Mar 1699/1700 - res 1705; Prebendary of Exeter 17 Jan 1705/6 –16 [check]; Rector of Witney, Oxfordshire 1710/1 - 26 Mar 1739; Chaplain in Ordinary to George I (Chamberlayne 1716); Canon of Windsor 29 Apr 1729-37; Prebendary of Westminster 8 May 1731 - res Oct 1744; Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, from 29 Mar 1737; Busby Trustee from 8 Mar 1711/2; assisted Boyle in his attack on Bentley; wrote Latin verses, epitaphs and a translation of Cicero’s De Oratore, 1724; he and George Smalridge (KS 1678, qv) married sisters; m. 21 May 1713 Jane, dau. of Rev. Samuel De L’Angle DD, Prebendary of Westminster and Rector of Steventon, Berks.; d. 9 Aug 1751. DNB.

FREIND, JOHN, son of John Freind (KS 1691, qv); b.; adm.; KS (aged 12) 1727; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1731 (by mandate from Queen Caroline, out of respect for his father’s memory), matr. 22 Jun 1731, Westminster Student 12 Feb 1732 - resigned 13 Jan 1737; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 17 Jun 1731; of Hitcham, Bucks.; m. Elizabeth, sister of Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode (qv); buried Hitcham, Bucks., 3 Aug 1750.

FREIND, JOHN, third son of William Freind (elected to Oxford 1656, qv); b.; adm.; KS 1691; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1694, matr. 7 Jul 1694, aged 17, Westminster Student 29 Dec 1694- Apr 1708, Faculty Student 19 Apr 1708 - void on marriage Dec 1709, Tutor 1700-4; BA 1698; MA 1701; MB 1703; MD (by diploma) 12 Jun 1707; delivered a course of lectures on chemistry at Ashmolean Museum 1704; Physician to Charles Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough (qv) when commanding English forces in Spain 1705; travelling in Italy 1706-7; accompanied Duke of Ormonde to Flanders as his physician 1712; Physician-General to Army (Ireland) 1713; MRCP 1713, FRCP 1716, Gulstonian Lecturer 1718, Harveian Orator 1720; MP Launceston 1722 - 17 Mar 1723/4, 29 Mar 1725-7; implicated with Francis Atterbury (KS 1674, qv) in plot for Jacobite restoration, and committed to Tower of London on charge of high treason Mar 1722/3, but released after three months’ imprisonment; Physician to Queen Caroline from 25 Oct 1727; FRS 20 Mar 1711/2; author, The History of Physick, 1725-6, and of other publications; gave £50 towards the building of College Dormitory; m. 3 Dec 1709 Anne, sister of William Morice (qv); d. 26 Jul 1728. Monument in South Aisle, Westminster Abbey. DNB.

FREEMAN, SAMUEL GEORGE, brother of Robert Marriott Freeman (qv); b. 12 May 1838; adm. 19 Jun 1851 (James'); QS 1853; left 1856; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 27 May 1858; MRCS 1863; Lic. Midwif. 1865; a medical practitioner in Highgate, Middlesex; d. 28 Jul 1871.