CHETWYND, WILLIAM RICHARD, 3RD VISCOUNT CHETWYND (I), brother of Walter Chetwynd, 1st Viscount Chetwynd (qv); b.; adm.; KS 1699; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1703, matr. 8 Jun 1703, aged 19, Westminster Student 20 Dec 1703 - void 1715; adm. Middle Temple 8 Dec 1707, called to bar 7 May 1714; secretary to elder brother John when Envoy at Turin 1705-6, 1706-13; British Resident, Genoa, Jun 1708 - Mar 1711, Envoy Extraordinary there Mar 1711 - Feb 1713; MP Stafford 1715-22, Plymouth 1722-7, Stafford from 1734; a Lord of the Admiralty, 16 Apr 1717 - Aug 1727; Master of the Mint 29 Dec 1744 - 3 Jun 1769; succ. his brother as 3rd Viscount Chetwynd (I) 21 Jun 1767; m. 1715 Honora, dau. of William Baker, Consul at Algiers; d. 3 Apr 1770. DNB.

Chippindale, John Christopher, son of Francis William Clement Chippindale, barrister, of Rottingdean, Sussex, and Muriel Noble, d. of Edward William Fairbairn Pain of Middleton, Sussex; b. 27 May 1929; adm. Sept. 1942 (KS); left July 1947; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1948, MA 1958; an army officer; an author; creative dir. CPU Advertising Ltd. 1959-65; dir. Leo Burutt, Chicago, USA, 1971-84; partner GHC Advertising 1985-93; m. Jennifer Mary Anne, d. of Anthony Daniel Keith Peploe; d. Oct. 2010.

CHITTY, ABRAHAM, eldest son of Abraham Chitty, St. Helen’s, Bishopsgate, London, brewer, director East India Company, and Elizabeth ---; b.; adm.; KS 1689; left 1693/4; Trinity Hall, Camb., adm. pens. 5 Aug 1696, afterwards fellow commoner, matr. 1696; an East India merchant; buried St. Laurence Pountney, London 31 May 1724.

CHRISTIAN, ROBERT, of Hertfordshire; b.; adm.; QS ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1587, matr. 29 Nov 1588, aged 19, Westminster Student [check]; BA 1591; MA 1594; Canon commoner [sic : check], Christ Church, occurs 1597-1600.

CHURCH, JOHN, son of John Church, Lay Vicar and Master of the Choristers, Westminster Abbey, and Elizabeth Wood, Boughton Aluph, Kent; b.; in school list 1715 [“probably a chorister”]; Min. Can. (aged 13) 1718; KS 1719; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1723, matr. 18 Jun 1723, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1723 - void 18 Aug 1736 (expiry year of grace as R. Boxford from 18 Sep 1735); BA 1727; MA 1730 (incorp. Cambridge 1732); ordained; Rector of Boxford, Suffolk, from 1735; Rector of Groton, Suffolk, from 1743; known as “Honest John Church” (Bishop Newton’s Works, 1787, i, 172); m. Mary, dau. of Thomas Martin, Barrards Hall, Whatfield, Suffolk; d. 27 Oct 1785.

CIRCUITT, GEORGE JOSEPH, brother of Robert William Perry Circuitt (qv); b. 5 Dec 1847; adm. 23 Jun 1859; QS 1862; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1866, but never adm.; d. Sep 1870.

CLARKE, GABRIEL, son of John Clarke, Clothall, Herts., yeoman; b.; adm.; QS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1605, Westminster Student to 1618/9, matr. 21 Feb 1605/6, aged 17; BA 1609; MA 1612 (incorp. Camb. 1616); BD (from Pembroke Hall) 1630; ordained; Prebendary of Lincoln from 26 May 1615; Rector of Middleton Stoney, Oxfordshire, 1616; Rector of Howick, Northumberland, 1619-21; Archdeacon of Northumberland, 7 Aug 1619 – Sep 1620; Prebendary of Durham from 4 Aug 1620; Archdeacon of Durham from 9 Sep 1620; Rector of Elwick, Durham, 6 Sep 1620 – Jul 1624; Master of Greatham Hospital, Durham, 24 Jul 1624; deprived of preferments by 17 Sep 1644, but reinstated at the Restoration; Proctor in Convocation, 1661; m. (by 1624) Mildred, dau. of William Neile, and niece of Richard Neile (qv); d. 10 May 1662.

CLARKE, HENRY TREVISA, brother of Francis Richard Clarke (qv); b. 4 Jan 1864; adm. as exhibitioner (G) 31 May 1877; QS 1878; left Dec 1881; a shipbuilder; member Inst. Naval Architects 1887; District Superintendent, Shipbuilding and Ship Repairing, North-West Ireland, Ministry of Shipping, 1916-9; m. 24 Apr 1894 Margaret Evelyn, second dau. of William Henry Sale, The Uplands, Derby.

CLELAND, HENRY, brother of John Cleland (qv); bapt. Kingston upon Thames 13 Oct 1711; adm. Apr 1721 (as “Cleavland”); in under school list 1722; Min. Can. (aged 13) 1723, 1724; KS (Capt. ) 1725; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1728, matr. 25 Jun 1728, Westminster Student 23 Dec 1728 - void for absence 28 May 1733; see Pope’s letter to Lord Oxford, 3 Nov 1730, asking for “a recommendatory letter” to some worthy man at Ch. Ch. who “would countenance and have an eye” over his friend’s son (Elwin & Courthope, viii, 274-5). [Presumably Ensign, 2nd Foot Guards 11 Jun 1730, out of Regt. Feb 1733/4]

CLETHERALL, ---; b.; adm.; QS in 1556 (Chapter Muniments 37713).