BRIDGES, JOHN, son of Southcott Bridges, London; b.; adm.; KS 1678; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1683, matr. 17 Dec 1683, aged 19, Westminster Student 17 Dec 1683-97 (void); BA 1687; MA 1690; BCL and DCL 1694; adm. advocate, Doctors’ Commons, 8 Jul 1697; m. Ann ---.
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BRIDGES, BROOK, third son of John Bridges, Barton Seagrave, Northants., and Elizabeth, dau. of William Trumbull, Easthampstead, Berks., and sister of Sir William Trumbull, Kt, Secretary of State; bapt. 12 Jan 1670/1; adm.; KS 1684; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1689, matr. 17 Jun 1689, aged 18, Westminster Student from 30 Dec 1689; BA 1693; adm. Inner Temple; d. 1693.
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.