SLEEP, ANTHONY; b.; adm.; QS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1601, adm. scholar 1602, matr. 1601; BA 1605/6; MA 1609 (incorp. Oxford 9 Jul 1611); BD 1617; Fellow Trinity Coll. 1608 – c. 1621 (check), Junior Dean 1627-9 (check); Deputy Public Orator, Cambridge Univ.; ordained; Rector of Great Wratting, Suffolk 1618 [check]; buried Trinity Coll. Chapel, Cambridge 30 Jul 1630.

SLADE, SAMUEL, son of Richard Slade (qv); b. 11 Apr 1771; adm. 13 Sep 1780; KS 1784; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1789, matr. 12 Jun 1789, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1789 – void 13 Apr 1816 (expiry year of grace as V. Staverton from 13 Apr 1815), Tutor 1796-9; BA 1793; MA 1796; ordained; Curate, Cowley, Oxfordshire 1798; Chaplain to Charles, Viscount Whitworth, Lord Lieut. Ireland 1813; Vicar of Staverton, Northants, from 11 Apr 1815; Rector of Hartfield, Sussex, from 24 Apr 1815; Dean of Chichester from 12 Mar 1824; Rector of Felpham, Sussex, from 26 May 1825; d. 29 Dec 1829.

SLADE, RICHARD, son of Rev. Deggory Slade, Rector of Holsworthy, Devon, and Anne, dau. of Jonathan Prideaux, Sutcombe, Devon; bapt. 5 Aug 1709; adm. Jan 1721/2; KS (aged 14) 1725; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1729, matr. 12 Jun 1729, Westminster Student 23 Dec 1729 – void 26 Sep 1747 (expiry year of grace as R. Westwell from 18 May 1747, sic ), Tutor 1743; BA 1733; MA 1736; ordained; Rector of Westwell, Oxfordshire, from 1746; m. 1 May 1766 (IGI) Annabella Goodenough, by whom he became father of Grace Annabella Slade, benefactress to the School; d. 7 Jan 1784.

SLADE, SIR ALFRED FREDERICK ADOLPHUS, BART., eldest son of Sir Frederick William Slade, Bart. (qv); b. 28 May 1834; adm. 25 Jun 1846 (G); QS 1849; cut “A. Slade” in huge letters on the Dryden form, and is said to have got 500 lines for each letter (Elizabethan vi, 190); left 1853; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 12 May 1853, matr. Mich. 1853; Ensign, 57th Foot 15 Sep 1854; Lieut., 9 Feb 1855; Capt., 23 Aug 1859; 100th Foot 17 Apr 1860; retd. 9 Jun 1865; served in Crimean War, wounded in attack on the Redan 18 Jun 1855, and in Indian Mutiny; succ. father as 3rd baronet 8 Aug 1863; adm. Middle Temple 9 Nov 1866; Receiver-Gen., Inland Revenue, from 1875; one of founders of Primrose League 1883; m. 6 Sep 1860 Mary Constance, second dau. of William Cuthbert, Beaufront Castle, Northumberland; d. 19 Jul 1890.

SKYNNER, THOMAS, brother of Sir John Skynner (qv); b.; adm. (aged 11) Jan 1738/9 (Bainbrigg's); KS 1742; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1746, matr. 6 Jun 1746, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1746 – void 8 Jun 1775 (expiry year of grace as R. Bratton Clovelly from 17 Jun 1774), Tutor 1753-63, Junior Censor 1760-2; BA 1750; MA 1753; DCL 1772; ordained deacon 24 May 1752, priest 17 Jun 1753 (both Oxford); Curate, Drayton, Oxfordshire 1759; Prebendary of Exeter from 9 Jan 1769, Archdeacon of Totnes 10 Mar 1772-5, Precentor of Exeter from 8 Jun 1775; Rector of Bratton Clovelly, Devon, from 1774; Vicar of Pinhoe, Devon, from 25 Jan 1781; m. 18 Apr 1785 Martha Stooke, The Close, Exeter; d. 7 Aug 1789.

SKYNNER, SIR JOHN, son of John Skynner, Great Milton, Oxfordshire, and Elizabeth ---; b.; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1734/5; KS 1738; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1742, matr. 19 Jun 1742, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1742 – Dec 1757, Faculty Student 22 Dec 1757 – res 22 Jun 1776; BCL 27 Jan 1750/1; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 21 Nov 1739, called to bar 17 Nov 1748, Bencher 19 Jun 1771; Oxford Circuit; KC Hilary 1771; Attorney-Gen., Duchy of Lancaster Jan 1770 – Nov 1777; MP Woodstock 20 Jan 1771 – Nov 1777; Second Judge, Chester Circuit 3 Apr 1772-7; Recorder of Oxford 12 Apr 1776; knighted 23 Nov 1777; Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer (also Serjeant-at-Law) 27 Nov 1777 until retirement owing to ill-health in Christmas vacation of 1786-7; Privy Councillor 23 Mar 1787; Busby Trustee 17 Apr 1780; m. 6 Mar 1778 Martha, dau. of Edward Burn; d. 26 Nov 1805. DNB.

SKYDMORE, MATTHEW; b.; adm.; QS 1 Apr 1554 (Acts of Chapter, i, 281b).

SKYDDYE, ---, son of Andrew Skyddye, Mayor of Cork, Ireland; b.; adm.; QS in 1579 (CSP Ireland, Elizabeth, ii, 195).

Skrender, Erik Neil, brother of John Brooke Skrender (qv); b. 26 Sept. 1920; adm. Sept. 1933 (H), KS Sept. 1934; left July 1938; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1938, BA 1941; RNVR (Sp.) 1941-5 (Lieut.), despatches (Med.) Nov. 1944; chairman Richard Daleman Ltd, plastics manufactur­ers, 1950-; m. 27 Sept. 1947 Sheila Lorimer, d. of Verus Calvin Montgomery MB, of Feltham, Middx.; d. Jun 1993

SKINNER, ROGER; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1645, Westminster Student to expulsion by Parliamentary Visitors “upon statutable grounds” Sep 1650, reinstated “towards the end of 1660” (sic); d. 1660.