AUBIN, JOHN, son of J. Aubin; b.; adm.; KS 1694; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1699, matr. 21 Jun 1699, aged 22 [sic : check], Westminster Student 23 Dec 1699-1740 (void), Tutor 1707; BA 1703; MA 12 Mar 1705/6; ordained deacon 9 Dec 1708, priest 24 Sep 1709 [or 1710 ?] (both Oxford). [note will of John Aubin, surgeon, Marenne, St. Anne’s, Soho, proved PCC 4 Dec 1704 : father of this individual ?]

AUBREY, WILLIAM AUBREY LLOYD PHILLIPS, son of Rev. John Evans, Crickhowell, Breconshire, and Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Smith Philipps, Milford Haven, Pembs.; b. 28 Aug 1855; adm. 3 Feb 1869 (James'); BB 10 Feb 1869; QS 1870; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1874, matr. 28 May 1874; BA 1878; assumed surname of Aubrey in lieu of Evans 1879; a journalist; on staff Westminster Gazette; living Llanwnda, Pembrokeshire, in 1881 (1881 Census).

AUSTEN, GREAVES; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1657, subscribed 23 Oct 1657, Westminster Student; BA 16 Jan 1660/1; Master of Ottery St. Mary GS from 1662; under his mastership the school seems to have reached the height of its prosperity, “he having for many years together near 200 scholars under his care”; buried Ottery St. Mary, Devon 22 Jun 1699.

BACHE, HENRY, brother of Sharington Bache (qv); b. (Newport, Shropshire) ; adm.; QS (aged 14) 1713; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1717, adm. pens. 19 Jun 1717, scholar 2 May 1718; migrated to Christ’s Coll. Cambridge 29 Mar 1728, residing until Lady Day 1730, but did not matr.; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 3 Feb 1720/1; ordained deacon (Winchester) 20 Sep 1729. [Perhaps bapt. Prees, Shropshire 1 Nov 1698, son of William Bache and Elizabeth (Davenport ?) (IGI)] [perhaps m. 19 Aug 1731 Lucy Whitfield (IGI)]

BACHE, SHARINGTON, son of Rev. William Bache, Rector of Duffield, Derbs.; b. (Newport, Shropshire); adm.; Min. Can. (aged 14) 1712; QS 1713; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1717, adm. pens. 19 Jun 1717, aged 19, scholar 2 May 1718, matr. 1718; BA 1720/1; ordained deacon (Gloucester) 23 Dec 1722, priest (Peterborough, lit. dim. from Canterbury) 31 May 1723/4; Perpetual Curate of Adwick-le-Street, Yorks., from 18 Nov 1736; d. 10 Mar 1772. [Perhaps Sharington Bache who m. at West Farleigh, Kent 26 May 1735 Elizabeth Widen (IGI)

BAGNALL, GIBBONS, son of Gibbons Bagnall, London, citizen and vintner, and Sarah Wilson; b.; adm.; QS 1702; Balliol Coll. Oxford, matr. 7 Jul 1706, aged 18; apprenticed to John Hungerford, Lincoln’s Inn, 2 Feb 1712; adm. Inner Temple, called to bar 21 Jun 1713; Clerk of the Errors in the Exchequer Chamber, Court of Exchequer 27 Mar 1724 (still Chamberlayne 1748); m. 1st, 20 Jul 1714 Elizabeth Harries, St. Dunstan in the East, London; m. 2nd, 16 Nov 1732 (IGI) Elizabeth Brownsmith [or Brownsworth ?], Queen Square, Bloomsbury. [Gibbons Bagnall, New Windsor, Berks, ., will proved PCC 2 May 1743 (sic)]

BAGSHAW, EDWARD, only son of Henry Bagshaw (qv); bapt. Durham Cathedral 21 Jul 1690 (IGI); adm.; QS 1704; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1709, matr. 4 Oct 1709, aged 19, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1709-16 (void); BA 1713; MA 1716; ordained priest (Oxford) 31 May 1713; Vicar of Castleton, Derbs., from Aug 1723; some extracts from his diary are printed Transactions of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, ii, 74 seq.; m. 3 May 1716 Margaret Bignall, St. Anne’s, Soho; d. 12 Apr 1769.

BAIN, FRANCIS WILLIAM, third son of Joseph Bain FSA (Scot), Sweethope, Bothwell, Lanarkshire, archivist, and Charlotte, dau. of Edward Piper, Alstonby on the Eden, Cumberland; b. 29 Apr 1863; adm. as exhibitioner (J) 31 May 1877; QS (Capt. ) 1878; Capt. of the School 1881; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1882, matr. 13 Oct 1882; played Association Football against Cambridge 1883-6, Capt. 1886; 2nd cl. Cl. Mod. 1884, 1st cl. Lit. Hum. 1886; BA 1886; MA 1889; Fellow of All Souls Coll. Nov 1889-96; entered Indian Educational Service; Professor of History and Political Economy, Deccan College, Poona, India 1 Jun 1892-1919; Junior Principal Mar 1908, Senior Principal Apr 1911-19; CIE 3 Jun 1918; author, A Digit of the Moon, 1899, and numerous other works; m. 4 Jun 1890 Helen Margarita, dau. of Henry Blandford, Blandford, Dorset; d. 24 Feb 1940. DNB.

Baines, Anthony Cuthbert, son of Cuthbert Edward Baines, a Principal at the India Office, and Margaret Clemency Lane, d. of Reginald Lane Poole FBA DLitt, Fellow of Magd. Coll. Oxford; b. 6 Oct. 1912; adm. Sept. 1925 (KS); left July 1930; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1930, BA 1933, MA 1970; Roy. Coll. of Music 1933-4; professional bassoonist; Roy. Tank Regt 1941-5 (Lieut.); wounded and p.o.w. Libya 1942; escaped in Italy Oct. 1943, but recaptured March 1944 and p.o.w. in Germany; transferred to Army Educ. Corps Aug. 1945; asst conductor Lond. Philhar­monic Orchestra 1949; assoc. conductor Internat. Ballet Co. 1950-53; music staff Uppingham Sch. 1954-65, Dean Close Sch. 1965-70; editor of Musical Instruments Through the Ages 1961, author of Woodwind Instruments and their History 1957, Bagpipes 1960, European and American Musi­cal Instruments 1966, Brass Instruments, their History and Development 1976; lecturer and curator Bate Collection of Historical Musical Instruments, Univ. of Oxf., 1970-80; Fellow Univ. Coll. Oxf. 1974-80; DLitt 1977; FBA 1980; m. 16 June 1960 Patricia Margaret Stammers.

Baker, Francis Douglas, son of Albert de Winter Baker, M.R.C.S., of Battersea, by Margaret Charlotte Kirby, daughter of His Honour Francis Barrow, County Court Judge and Recorder of Rochester; b. Sept. 15, 1884; adm. as Q.S. Sept. 22, 1898; left July 1901; was for some years in the office of the Englishman at Calcutta; a trooper and N. C. O. in the Royal 1st Devon Yeomanry Aug. 1914 - July 1915; 2nd Lieut. in the same regt. July 1915 - Jan. 1917; joined the E. E. F. Jan. 1917 and was on Lord Alienby's Staff until Jan. 1920 with the rank of Major; served in Gallipoli, Egypt, Palestine, Syria, and Asia Minor; mentioned in despatches L. G. July 13, 1916, and June 5, 1919; M.C. June 3, 1916; Order of the Crown ofltaly (5th class) 1918, and of the Nile (4th class) 1919; appointed Bimbashi, Egyptian Police, March 1920, Asst. Commandant Cairo City Police; Commandant 1937; Commandant Alexandria City Police; Pasha; O.B.E. 1934; C.B.E. Jan. 1, 1942; Order of Ismail (3rd class) and Nile (3rd class); Cdr. Crown of Roumania; retired from Egyptian Govt. Service 1946; m. June 15, 1925, Nevarte, daughter of Karakin Marian; d. 1958.