BRIDGES, BROOK EDWARD, fifth son of Sir Brook Bridges, Bart., MP, Goodnestone Park, Kent, and Fanny, dau. of Edmond Fowler, Graces, Essex; b. 7 Sep 1779; adm. 7 Oct 1790; KS 1793; Emmanuel Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 6 Jul 1797, matr. Mich. 1797; BA 1801; MA 1805; ordained deacon 1802, priest 1803 (both lit. dim. from Canterbury); Perpetual Curate of Goodnestone, Kent, 27 Apr 1804-14, again 1816; Rector of Orlingbury, Northants., 24 Apr 1805-7; Rector of Bonnington, Kent, from 18 Jun 1807; Prebendary of Lichfield, 13 Apr 1810; Vicar of Lenham, Kent, from 2 Aug 1810; Perpetual Curate of Wingham, Kent, from 15 May 1817; m. 22 Nov 1809 Harriet, second dau. of John Foote, Lombard Street, London, banker; d. 23 Apr 1825.

BRICKENDEN, ALEXANDER; b.; adm.; QS; a pensioner 1564-7 (tutor, Prebendary Wiborne) (Chapter Muniments 54005-54015).

BREVAL, JOHN DURANT, son of Rev. Francis Durant de Bréval DD, Rector of Milton, Kent, and Prebendary of Westminster, formerly a Roman Catholic priest, and Susanna Samoline; b. ; KS (aged 12) 1693; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1697, adm. pens. 9 Jun 1697, scholar 6 May 1698; BA 1700/1; MA 1704; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. , 2 Oct 1703, Major Fellow 28 Apr 1704 - expelled 5 Apr 1708, having become involved with a married woman ; enlisted as volunteer in British Army in Flanders, and employed by Duke of Marlborough on diplomatic missions to various German courts; Lieut. , 5th Foot, 10 Nov 1713 (commission renewed, 1 Jun 1715); wrote for the London booksellers, chiefly under the name of Joseph Gay; travelling tutor to George, Viscount Malpas, on his Grand Tour in early 1720s, and subsequently tutor to John Crawley, in Italy in 1725; ridiculed Pope, who retaliated in the Dunciad; author, Remarks on several parts of Europe, 1723-8, and various poetical and dramatic works; d. in Paris Jan 1738/9. DNB.

BRETT, THOMAS, son of Arthur Brett, Ghent, Flanders; b.; adm. (aged 8) Apr 1722; Min. Can. 1728; KS 1729.

BRETT, ARTHUR, son of John Brett, Middlesex; b.; adm.; KS (aged 14) 1650; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1653, matr. 20 Jul 1654, Westminster Student; BA 6 Feb 1656/7; MA 1659; ordained; Rector of Templeton, Devon, 1662; Vicar of Market Lavington, Wilts., 10 May 1670, but shortly afterwards resigned his living and came up to London, where he fell into poverty and begged in the street; author, A Poem on the Restoration of King Charles II, 1660, and other poems; d. c. 1677. DNB.

BRETT, --- ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1640 (Chapter Muniments 32460).

BRERETON, ROBERT, brother of Owen Salusbury-Brereton (qv); b.; adm. (aged 10) Jul 1728; KS 1731; left 1735; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 8 Nov 1735, scholar 6 May 1737, matr. 1735; LLB Lambeth 1750; ordained; [Chaplain, 45th Foot 11 Jan 1740/1 – still 1773 ?]; Vicar of Northop, Flints., from 1747; Perpetual Curate of St. Nicholas’s, Liverpool, 1750 (dispensation to hold with Northop, 1750); d. 5 Oct 1784. [presumably also Chaplain, Royal Navy 1746]

Brenton, Guy Sansom, son of Robert Ivor Brenton MBE, Air Ministry, and Violet Jean Victoria, d. of John Edge of Chiswick; b. 2 Mar. 1927; adm. Sept. 1940 (KS); left July 1945; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1945; a documentary film maker; d. 31 July 1994.

BRENT, CHARLES, son of Daniel Brent, St. Paul’s, Covent Garden, London, woollen draper, and Jane, dau. of William Stobart, Richmond, Surrey; bapt. 9 Jan 1682/3; adm.; KS 1696; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1701, matr. 4 Jul 1701, aged 18, Westminster Student from 24 Dec 1701, Tutor 1712-5, Junior Censor 1712-3, Librarian 1713 (but degraded for one year for neglect of studies, 24 Dec 1706); BA 1705; MA 24 Mar 1707/8; ordained deacon (Oxford) 1708, priest (Winchester) 18 Jun 1709; Rector of Heythrop, Oxfordshire, from 1714; d. 17 Jan 1722.

BREACH, WILLIAM; b.; adm.; KS 1667; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1670, matr. 1 Jul 1670, aged 18, Westminster Student 30 Dec 1670-84, Faculty Student from 1684, Tutor 1680-7, Senior Censor 1682-3; BA 1674; MA 1677; BM and MD 1687; Proctor 1685; practised as a physician in Oxford; d. 5 Mar 1707/8; buried Ch. Ch. Cathedral, Oxford.