CACOT, JOHN; b.; adm.; QS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1592, adm. scholar 1593, matr. c. 1593.
BYRKHEAD, ---; b.; adm.; QS 1553-4 (Chapter Muniments 54001).
BYRCHE, WILLIAM, third son of Thomas Byrche, Leacroft, Staffs., and Anne, dau. of Thomas Fisher, Walsh Hall, Warwicks.; b.; adm.; QS 1703; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1706, adm. pens. 28 May 1706, aged 18, scholar 25 Apr 1707, matr. 1709; BA 1709/10; MA 1713 (incorp. Oxford); Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll., 2 Oct 1712, Major Fellow 1 May 1713; ordained deacon 1 Mar 1712/3, priest 31 May 1713 (both Ely); Chaplain to Archbishop of Canterbury 1717-9; LLD Lambeth 1720; Rector of Monk’s Eleigh, Suffolk 1717-9; Rector of Hadleigh, Suffolk, 1717-9; Chancellor of Worcester from 1719; Rector of Fladbury, Worcs., from 9 Nov 1719; Vicar of Evesham, Worcs., 1724; Vicar of Blockley, Worcs., 27 Oct 1727 (dispensation to hold with Fladbury, 1727); Prebendary of Worcester from 31 Oct 1727; m. Anne, dau. of Thomas Savage, Elmley Castle, Worcs.; d. 1 [or 3 ?] Feb 1741/2.
BYNNES, RICHARD; b.; adm.; KS 1671; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1674, adm. pens. 24 Jun 1674, scholar 1675, matr. 1675; BA 1677/8; MA 1681; DD 1703; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1680- c. 1701, Tutor 1683-90; University Lecturer in Rhetoric 1683; ordained; Vicar of Chesterton, Cambs., 1689; Vicar of Cheadle, Staffs., 1698; Rector of St. Mary’s, Stafford (disp. to hold with V. Cheadle, 1703/4); Prebendary of Lichfield from 11 Sep 1711; m. Elizabeth, sister of Brook Bridges (qv); d. 1713 (will proved PCC 16 Sep 1713, surname given as Bynns)].
BYNG, GEORGE, eldest son of Hon. Robert Byng MP, Commissioner of the Navy, subsequently Governor of Barbados, and Elizabeth, dau. of Jonathan Forward, St. Mary at Hill, London, contractor of transports; b.; adm. (aged 7) Mar 1742/3 (Watts'); KS 1749; elected to Trin. Coll. Camb. 1753, but was never adm.; Ensign, 24th Foot, 1753; Lieut., 1756; Capt., 83rd Foot, 21 Oct 1758; 24th Foot, 1760; Maj., commanding 99th Foot, 1761; left Army 1773 (?); adm. Gray’s Inn 2 Jul 1765; MP Wigan 1768-80, Middlesex 1780-4; an active Whig politician; of Wrotham Park, South Mimms, Middlesex; m. 5 Mar 1761 Anne, sister of Thomas Conolly (qv); d. 27 Oct 1789.
BYNE (or BYNNE), EDMUND, elder son of Sir John Byn (n)e, Kt., Rowdell, Washington, Sussex, and Audrey, dau. of Richard Weaver, Lingfield, Sussex; bapt. 2 Sep 1602; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Churtch, Oxford 1621, matr. 29 Nov 1621, aged 19, but apparently a gentleman commoner at Ch. Ch. rather than a Westminster Student; succ. father at Rowdell 1640/1; m. 26 Oct 1631 Elizabeth, dau. of Henry Goring MP, Highden, Washington, Sussex; buried 22 Oct 1646.
BYERLEY, PHILIP, brother of Robert Byerley (qv); bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields, London 21 Jul 1704 (IGI); adm.; Min. Can. (aged 13) 1718; KS 1719; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1723, adm. pens. 15 Jun 1723, scholar 17 Apr 1724, matr. 1724; BA 1726/7; adm. Inner Temple 1722; of Goldsborough, Yorks.; “was a very pretty gentleman . . . but did not make that figure that he might otherwise have done” (Works of Thomas Newton, Bishop of Bristol, 1787, i, 26); d. 20 Jan 1734.
Byard, Paul Spencer, son of Dever Spencer Byard, lawyer, of New York, and Margaret, d. of John Mather of Glasgow; b. 30 Aug. 1939; adm. from Milton Acad., MA, USA, May 1956 (QS); left July 1956; Yale Univ, CT, USA; Clare Coll. Camb., BA 1963, MA 1968; Harvard Law Sch., MA, USA; Grad. Sch. Architecture, Columbia Univ., New York, USA; architect, James Stewart Polshek & Associates 1977-89, partner 1981-9; partner, Charles A. Platt Partners 1989- (Platt Byard Dovell White 2007-); pres. Architectural League of New York 1989-94; a specialist in the renovation of historic buildings in New York City; m. 1965 Rosalie Starr Warren; d. 15 July 2008.
BUTT, JOHN MARTEN, only son of George Butt (qv); b. 10 Mar 1774; adm. 18 Jan 1788; Min. Can. 1788; KS 1789; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1792, matr. 6 Jun 1792, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1792 - void 21 Sep 1807, expiry year of grace as R. Oddingley; BA 1796; MA 1799; ordained; Curate, Great Witley, Worcs., 1798; Rector of Oddingley, Worcs., from 11 Aug 1806; Vicar of East Garston, Berks., from 28 Aug 1806; author, The Last Vision of Daniel, 1808, and other works; m. 1st, 4 Nov 1806 Mary Anne Congreve; m. 2nd, 27 Dec 1821 (IGI) Jemima Hubball; d. 4 Mar 1846.
BUTT, GEORGE, second son of Carey Butt, Lichfield, Staffs., surgeon, and Elizabeth, dau. of John Marten, Lichfield, Staffs., apothecary; b. 26 Dec 1741; in school list 1754; KS 1756; his acting as Demea in the Adelphi in 1759 was so successful that “he was, as he declared, for the only time in his life, overflowing with money forced upon him by the liberality of his audience” (Life and Times of Mrs Sherwood, 1910, 4); Capt. of the School 1760; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1761, matr. 21 May 1761, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1761 - void 8 Oct 1772, expiry year of grace as R. Stanford and V. Clifton; BA 1765; MA 1768; BD and DD 1793; ordained deacon 2 Jun 1765, priest 20 Sep 1767 (both Oxford); Curate of Leigh, Staffs.; had leave of absence from Ch. Ch. to act as tutor in private family (Winnington of Stanford Court), 17 Dec 1765; Rector of Stanford on Teme, Worcs., from 31 Aug 1771; Vicar of Clifton, Worcs., Aug 1771 - res Mar 1787; Vicar of Newchurch, Isle of Wight, 1778-83; Rector of Notgrove, Gloucs., 1783; Chaplain in Ordinary to George III 1783 (still 1793); Vicar of Kidderminster, Worcs., from 23 Feb 1787; one of the circle of minor poets and literary ladies who gathered round Anna Seward, the “Swan” of Lichfield; author, Isaiah Versified, 1784, and other poems; in his Poems, 1793, ii, 107, he refers to his “partialities for Westminster School”; m. 26 Apr 1773 Mary Martha, dau. of Henry Sherwood, Coventry, Warwicks., a London silk merchant; d. 30 Sep 1795. DNB.