DERING, CHARLES, elder son of Sir Edward Dering, Bart. (adm. 1719, qv), and his second wife; bapt. 13 Jul 1738; adm. (aged 11) Jan 1749/50 (Porten's); in school list 1754; Ensign, 1st Foot Guards 5 Sep 1756; Lieut. and Capt. 22 Feb 1761; retired 12 Jan 1763; a Commissioner of Taxes 9 Jun 1769 – 26 Feb 1798; of Barham Court, Kent; m. 21 May 1770 Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Thomas Farnaby, Bart.; d. 2 Dec 1815.

DONELLAN, JOHN, son of Lieut. -Col. --- Donellan; b. 6 Nov 1737; adm. Jan 1750/1 (Porten's); in school list 1752; RMA Woolwich; Gent. Cadet 4 Mar 1753; Ensign, 39th Foot 13 Nov 1755; Capt. Company of Foot, EICS Bengal 15 Dec 1757; served on expedition to Golconda and wounded at Chumbole 14 Dec 1758; court-martialled and dismissed the service 28 Apr 1759; on return to England became known as “Diamond” Donellan from a stone which he brought back from India; Master of Ceremonies at Brighton, and at The Pantheon, Oxford Street, London; restored to rank of Capt, half-pay, 39th Foot, c. 1772; convicted at Warwick Assizes Mar 1781 of having poisoned his brother-in-law Sir Theodosius Edward Allesley Boughton, Bart., at Lawford Hall, Warwickshire, with a dose of laurel water; m. Jun 1777 Theodosia, only dau. of Sir Edward Boughton, Bart.; hanged at Warwick 2 Apr 1781. [Perhaps bapt. Saddleworth, Yorks., 3 Nov 1737 (sic), son of Richard Donellan and Mary Whitehead (IGI)]

FARREL, GEORGE; b.; adm. (aged 12) Jun 1749 (Porten's); in school list 1752.

FOLEY, THOMAS, 2ND BARON FOLEY, eldest son of Thomas Foley, 1st Baron Foley (qv); b. 24 Jun 1742; adm. Jan 1753 (Porten's); in school list 1754; Magdalen Coll. Oxford, matr. 2 May 1759; MP Herefordshire 18 May 1767-74, Droitwich 1774 - 18 Nov 1777; succ. father as 2nd Baron Foley 18 Nov 1777; joint Postmaster-General 1 May 1783 - Jan 1784; m. 20 Mar 1776 Lady Harriet Stanhope, fourth dau. of William Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Harrington; d. 2 Jul 1793.

GAMBIER, ROBERT, brother of John Gambier (adm. 1735, qv); b. 22 Dec 1736; adm. Mar 1747/8 (Porten's); left 1749; Writer, EICS Bombay 1753; Senior Merchant and Second in Council, Surat 1768; member, Council of Governor of Bombay 1776; First in Council, Broach 1780; d. 25 Jun 1787.

GIBBON, EDWARD, only son of Edward Gibbon (qv), and his first wife; b. 27 Apr 1737; adm. Jan 1747/8 (Porten's); left Aug 1750, on account of ill-health; Magdalen Coll. Oxford, adm. fellow commoner 3 Apr 1752; received into Roman Catholic church 8 Jun 1752, but returned to Protestantism at Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1753; became attached to Susanne Curchod (afterwards Mme Necker), but at his father’s wish the engagement was broken off; adm. to Academy, Lausanne 1 Dec 1756; officer in Hampshire Militia 12 Jun 1759-70; author, Essai sur l’Etude de la Litterature, 1761; met John Baker Holroyd (afterwards Lord Sheffield) at Lausanne 1764; in Italy 1764-5; the idea of writing on the decline and fall of the Roman Empire first occurred to him when in Rome on 15 Oct 1764; author, Mémoires Littéraires de la Grande Bretagne, 1767-8, jointly with his Swiss friend Deyverdun; author, Critical Observations on the Sixth Book of the Aeneid, 1770, attacking Warburton; settled in London 1772; elected to The Club 1774; MP Liskeard 1774-80, Lymington 25 Jun 1781-4; a Commissioner for Trade and Foreign Plantations 6 Jul 1779 - Jun 1782; Professor of Ancient History, Royal Academy, from 1787; FSA 20 Nov 1788, FRS 27 Nov 1788; author, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1776-87, 4 vols.; defended the chapters on Christianity in a Vindication, 1779; retired to Lausanne 1783; his Miscellaneous Works, edited by his friend Lord Sheffield, and including his Memoirs of My Life and Writings, were published in 1796; d. unm. 16 Jan 1794. DNB.

HARENC, BENJAMIN, only son of Roger Harenc, Foots Cray Place, Kent, and Susanna, dau. of Daniel Hays, Wimbledon, Surrey; b.; adm. (aged 14) Jun 1748 (Porten's); in school list 1752; High Sheriff, Kent 1777; m. 1771 Sarah, dau. of Salusbury Cade (QS 1709, qv); d. 15 Apr 1812.

HEATH, JOHN, son of Thomas Heath, Alderman of Exeter, and his first wife Ann Pyne, Exeter; b.; adm. (aged 12) Jul 1748 (Porten's); KS 1749; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1754, matr. 18 Jun 1754, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1754 – Nov 1764, Faculty Student 2 Nov 1764 – 12 Jul 1781; BA 1758; MA 1762; adm. Inner Temple May 1759, called to bar 25 Jun 1762; Serjeant at Law 17 May 1775; Recorder of Exeter 25 Sep 1779 – Jul 1780; a Judge of the Common Pleas from 19 Jul 1780; refused knighthood, preferring to remain “plain John Heath”; d. unm. 16 Jan 1816. DNB.

LUTTRELL, HENRY LAWES, 2ND EARL OF CARHAMPTON (I), eldest son of Simon Luttrell, 1st Earl of Carhampton (I) MP, and Maria, dau. of Sir Nicholas Lawes, Kt, Governor of Jamaica; b. 7 Aug 1737; adm. (aged 13) Jan 1750/1 (Porten's); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 13 Jan 1755; Ensign, 48th Foot 21 Nov 1757; Lieut., 34th Foot 27 Mar 1759; Capt., 16th Dragoons 6 Aug 1759; Deputy Adjutant-Gen. to Forces in Portugal and Brevet Maj., 14 Apr 1762; local rank of Lieut. -Col. in Portugal 8 Oct 1762; Lieut. -Col., 1st Horse 13 Feb 1765; Brevet Col., 29 Aug 1777; Maj. -Gen., 20 Nov 1782; Col., 6th Dragoon Guards, from 10 Jul 1788; Lieut. -Gen., 12 Oct 1793; Gen., 1 Jan 1798; Adjutant-Gen., Ireland 8 Sep 1770-83; Lieut. -Gen. of Ordnance (I) 12 Oct 1789—Jul 1797, Master Gen. 19 Jul 1797- Aug 1800; entrusted with suppression of the “Defenders” and the pacification of Connaught 1795; Commander-in-Chief, Ireland 1796-7; MP Bossinney 1768 – Mar 1769, Middlesex 15 Apr 1769-74, Bossinney 1774-84, Plympton Erle 1790 – Feb 1794, Ludgershall from 28 Jun 1817; he was defeated by John Wilkes in the celebrated contest for Middlesex in 1769, but was declared elected by the House of Commons; MP (I) Old Leighton 1783 – 14 Jan 1787; succ. father as 2nd Earl of Carhampton (I) 14 Jan 1787; m. 25 Jun 1776 Jane, dau. of George Boyd, Dublin; d. 25 Apr 1821. DNB.

LUTTRELL, HON. TEMPLE SIMON, brother of Henry Lawes Luttrell, 2nd Earl of Carhampton (qv) (I); b.; adm. (aged 12) Jan 1750/1 (Porten's); MP Milborne Port 10 Feb 1775-80; arrested at Boulogne 18 Sep 1793 and confined in the Abbaye and Luxembourg prisons in Paris 24 Oct 1793 – 14 Feb 1795; m. 26 Apr 1778 Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Henry Gould, Kt, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas; d. in Paris 14 Jan 1803. DNB.