SMITH, HENRY, eldest surviving son of John Smith MP, Alderman and Mayor of Oxford, and Elizabeth, dau. of Henry Bosworth, Oxford, brewer; b.; adm.; KS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1656, matr. 23 Jul 1656, Westminster Student; BA 17 Jan 1659/60; MA 1662; BD 7 Feb 1671/2; DD 1674; Proctor 1670; ordained deacon and priest 1666; Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, from 20 Dec 1675; his name, as Treasurer of the Chapter, was inscribed on “Great Tom” when it was recast in 1680; Rector of Eastleach Martin, Gloucs., from 1688; buried Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford 21 Oct 1702.

SMYTHE, ROBERT, son of Rev. Anthony Smythe, Vicar of Gainsborough, Lincs., and Elizabeth --- (IGI); bapt. Gainsborough, Lincs. 22 Feb 1696 (IGI); adm.; QS (aged 16) 1713; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1717, matr. 27 Jun 1717, Westminster Student 20 Dec 1717 -–void 1722; BA 1721.

SNEAD, WILLIAM; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1626, adm. scholar 1627, matr. 1626; BA 1630/1.

SNELL, RICHARD HUGH, brother of William Frederick Snell (qv); b. 6 Apr 1812; adm. 17 Jan 1825 (Stikeman's); KS 1826; left 1829; at Haileybury Coll. 1829-30; Writer, EICS Bengal 1831; Assistant Revenue Officer, Benares 1832; Assistant to Magistrate and Collector, Benares 1833, Twenty-Four Parganas 1837-40; Secretary to Government Savings Bank 1842; First Assistant to Accountant-Gen.; Assistant to Collector of Customs, Calcutta 1852; Superintendent of Stamps and Stationery 1853; retd. 1 May 1860; m. 26 Sep 1832 Letitia Knox, widow of John Shum, EICS Bengal, Assistant to Collector of Customs, Patna; d. 7 Dec 1899.

SNELLING, WILLIAM, son of William Snelling, Brentford, Middlesex; b.; adm.; KS 1682; failed to obtain election to either university 1685; Trinity Coll. Oxford, matr. 6 Nov 1685, aged 18; adm. Clifford’s Inn 26 Oct 1687, Inner Temple 20 Feb 1689/90, called to bar 20 May 1694.

SOMERSET, RAGLAN GEORGE HENRY, brother of Granville Robert Henry Somerset (qv); b. 17 Dec 1831; adm. 19 Apr 1843 (G); QS 1845; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1849, matr. 31 May 1849, Westminster Student 1849-67; BA 1853; MA 1856; Clerk, Audit Office 1853-4; Junior Clerk, Treasury Mar 1854 – Jul 1856, Third Class Clerk Jul 1856 - Apr 1857; a Gentleman Usher Quarterly Waiter to Queen Victoria 19 Mar 1873 – Jan 1901; d. 2 Sep 1924.

SPARKES, ROGER, son of William Sparkes, Middlesex; b.; adm.; KS (aged 15) 1650; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1653, adm. pens. 22 Jun 1653, scholar 1653; 2nd in “ordo” 1656/7; BA 1656/7; MA 1660; Fellow, Trinity Coll. from 1658; will proved PCC 25 Aug 1660 (surname given as Sparke).

SPEED, SAMUEL, eldest son of John Speed MD, Southampton, Hampshire, and Margaret, dau. of Bartholomew Warner MD, Regius Prof. of Medicine, Oxford; b.; adm.; KS; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1645, matr. 1 Feb 1646/7, aged 16, Westminster Student; BA 1649; MA 1660; although he at first refused to submit to the Parliamentary Visitors, he was “absent upon leave” when ordered to take the Engagement by the Committee 17 Feb 1650 (Burrows, p. 329); he must however have been deprived of his Studentship by the Commissioners, for he was reinstated in 1660; ordained; Vicar of Godalming, Surrey, from 1662; Chaplain to Earl of Ossory, with whom he distinguished himself in the naval action against the Dutch off the Suffolk coast 2 Jun 1665; Prebendary of Lincoln from 20 Sep 1670; Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, from 6 May 1674; Rector of Whitburn, co. Durham 1673-5; Rector of Alverstoke, Hampshire, from 1675; a letter from the Duke of Ormonde, Chancellor of Oxford University, asking for the conferment on Speed of the degree of DD was read in Convocation at Oxford 30 May 1674 (Wood, Fasti Oxon., ii, 347), but there is no record of the grant; fell into debt and was imprisoned in Ludgate Prison for several years; author of a translation of Valerius Maximus, Romae Antiquae Descriptio, 1678; m. ---, dau. of Rev. Edward Layfield, Rector of Chiddingfold, Surrey; d. 22 Jan 1681/2. DNB.

SPENCER, WILLIAM FRANCIS, elder son of Hon. William Henry Spencer (qv), and his first wife; b. 10 Oct 1838; adm. 3 Oct 1850 (G); QS 1853; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1857 (with Triplett), adm. pens. 6 Jul 1857, matr. 1857; Ensign, 46th Foot 31 Dec 1858; Lieut., 3 Dec 1861; Capt., 15 May 1866; retd. 16 Mar 1870; of Spring Grove, Bewdley, Worcs.; JP Worcestershire 1877; m. 17 Jan 1874 Margaret Georgiana, eldest dau. of Walter Hemming, Bewdley, Worcs.; d. 3 Jul 1923.

SQUIBB, ARTHUR, son of John Squibb, Winterborne Whitchurch, Dorset, and Lucy, dau. of Henry Harbin, Duntish, Buckland Norton, Dorset [thus Whitmore]; b.; adm.; KS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1656, matr. 18 Mar 1656/7, Westminster Student (to c. 1674); BA 17 Jan 1659/60; MA 1662; ordained; Vicar of Netherbury, Dorset, from 1673; d. 1697. [Alternatively, Arthur Squib, son of Richard Squib, and Ann ---, bapt. St. Botolph Bishopsgate 9 Oct 1641 (IGI)].