BRYAN, RICHARD; b.; adm.; KS 1642; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1644, but remained at the School and was not adm. a Westminster Student until 1646; did not submit to Parliamentary Visitors and included in list of those expelled by Committee of Lords and Commons for regulating the university, 15 May 1648, but appears to have retained his studentship; BA 1649; MA 20 Feb 1650/1; assisted Philip Henry (qv) in his studies and “was an instrument of much good” to him (Diaries and Letters of Philip Henry, 1882, 12); Tutor at Christ Church; ordained; Curate St. Thomas’s, Oxford, Feb 1651; Rector of Silverton, Devon, from 13 Feb 1656/7 [check]; Vicar of Ilsington, Devon, from 4 Jun 1664 (dispensation to hold with Silverton, 1664); m.; buried Ilsington, Devon 11 Apr 1688.

BRYAN, SYLVESTER; b. ; adm. ; KS 1542-3 (Chapter Muniments).

BRYCHEDD, ---; b.; adm.; QS in 1556 (Chapter Muniments 37713).

BRYCKETT, CHRISTOPHER, b. ; adm. ; KS 1542-4 (Chapter Muniments); of St. Margaret’s, Westminster; m. 1st, --- ; m. 2nd, 17 Oct 1559 Katherine Banyster.

BRYDALL, PHILIP, son of Walter Brydall, St. Martin’s in the Fields, London, and Patience --- (IGI); bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 2 Nov 1661 (IGI); adm.; KS 1675; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 20 Mar 1677/8, aged 17, matr. 1678; adm. Middle Temple 5 Jan 1680/1, called to bar 6 May 1687; evidently Philip Briddall (sic), Yeoman of Jewel Office from 15 May 1685 to death c. 1700 (Walter Briddall held appointments in Jewel Office 1661-88); m. 1 Sep 1687 Anne, dau. of Henry Byne, Carshalton, Surrey.

BRYDGES, ---; b.; adm.; KS 9 Jul 1547; left 1549 (Acts of Chapter). [Perhaps John Bridges, a contemporary at Christ Church, Oxford, in 1550, of Laurence Nowell (qv) and Edward Beaumont (?Edward Beamond, KS 1542-4)]

BRYDGES, HON. FRANCIS, brother of James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos (qv); b. 29 Aug 1676; adm. 1686; KS 1692; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1694, adm. pens. 21 Jun 1694, aged 18, scholar 5 Apr 1695, matr. 1697; BA 1697/8; Receiver-Gen. of Salt Duties from 23 Jun 1702; m. 6 Oct 1709 Sarah, dau. of Thomas Western, Rivenhall Place, Essex, ironmonger; d. 25 Sep 1714.

BRYDGES, HON. HENRY, brother of James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos (qv); b. 20 Jan 1674/5; adm. 1686; KS 1688; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1691, matr. 4 Jul 1691, aged 15, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1691-9 (void); BA 1695; MA 1698; BD and DD 1711; ordained; Rector of Broadwell with Adlestrop, Gloucs., 1699-1717; Chaplain to Factory at Aleppo, 1701; Proctor in Convocation for Diocese of Gloucester, 1705; Chaplain in Ordinary to Queen Anne and George I; Archdeacon and Prebendary of Rochester from 24 May 1720; Rector of Amersham, Bucks., from 1721; Prebendary of St. Paul’s from 26 Apr 1722; Visitor of Balliol Coll., Oxford, 17 Jun 1723; Busby Trustee from 28 Jan 1719/20; m. 7 Jun 1705 Annabella, dau. of Edward Atkyns (qv); d. 9 May 1728.

BRYDGES, ROBERT, son of Hon. Henry Brydges (qv); b.; adm. (aged 8) Apr 1716; KS (Capt. ) 1722; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 30 Oct 1725; d. 1725.

BRYNKER, JAMES, son of James Brynker, Llanfihangel, Caernarvonshire [check], and Catherine, dau. of Col. William Price, Rhiwlas, Denbighshire; bapt. 21 Jun 1695; adm.; QS (aged 15) 1712; left 1713; Jesus Coll. Oxford, matr. 21 Oct 1713; BA 1717; MA 1720; BD 1728; Proctor 1720; ordained; Rector of Braunston, Northants., from 1733; buried Braunston 6 Oct 1765.