PAYNE, GEORGE; b.; adm.; QS in 1576 (Chapter Muniments 25122).

PAYNE, NICHOLAS; b.; GS 1540; KS 1540-4 (Chapter Muniments).

PEACHEY, WILLIAM, fourth son of William Peachey, London, merchant, and Mary, dau. of John Hall, New Grove, Petworth, Sussex; b.; adm.; KS 1692; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1696, adm. pens. 30 Jun 1696, aged 18, scholar 23 Apr 1697; BA 1699/1700; Lieut., 1st Foot Guards 27 Mar 1703; killed at battle of Almanza, Spain 14 Apr 1707.

PECK, WILLIAM AWDRY, eldest son of Jasper Kenrick Peck, Lincoln’s Inn, barrister, and Mary, second dau. of Christopher Heath, Byng Place, Gordon Square, London; b. 6 Aug 1861; adm. 26 Jan 1874; exhibitioner 1875; QS 1876; Mure Scholar 1878; Capt. of the School 1879; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1880, matr. 15 Oct 1880; BA 1884; MA 1889; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 8 May 1884, called to bar 22 Jun 1887; equity draughtsman and conveyancer; Conveyancing Counsel to Supreme Court from 3 Nov 1932; Hon. Secretary, Elizabethan Club 1890-9; m. 20 Aug 1914 Frances Ellen Van Heythusen, widow of Alfred Benton Blythe, Esher, Surrey, [solicitor ?] and dau. of William Budd MD FRS, Bristol; d. 16 Dec 1933.

LAMBARDE, JOHN, second son of William Lambarde (b. 1796, qv); b. 28 Feb 1823; adm. 17 Jun 1836 (Benthall's); KS 1837; left 1840; Cadet, EICS Bengal 1840; Ensign, 57th Native Infantry 29 May 1841; Lieut., 12 Apr 1845; Adjutant, 2nd Assam Battn.; m. 16 Aug 1847 Mary Anne Priscilla, second dau. of Capt. Thomas Haslam, EICS Bengal; d. at Gowhatty, Assam 8 Jul 1848.

LANGFORD, COCK, brother of Robert Langford (qv); bapt. St. Paul, Covent Garden 31 Oct 1748; adm.; KS (aged 13) 1761; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1765, adm. pens. 5 Jun 1765, scholar 2 May 1766, matr. 1768; BA 1769; ordained deacon (Peterborough) 31 Mar 1771, priest (Norwich) 28 Oct 1772; Rector of Great Massingham, Norfolk, from 1770 [sic : but 1772 ?]; for his eccentric behaviour at Great Massingham see S. C. Roberts, ed., A Frenchman in England, 1933, 222; m. 8 May 1768 Mary Gubbin, St. Paul’s, Covent Garden, Westminster; d. 17 Feb 1789.

LANGLEY, SAMUEL; b.; adm.; BB; KS 1678.

LANT, JOHN; b.; a chorister at Christ Church, Oxford c. 1564; adm.; QS in 1570; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1572, Westminster Student to 1580; BA 27 Feb 1575/6; MA 1579; licensed to practice medicine 7 Mar 1594/5.

LARKHAM, WILLIAM, only son of William Larkham, Richmond, Surrey, surgeon; bapt. 19 Mar 1717/8; adm. (aged 9) Apr 1727; KS (Capt. ) 1731; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1735, matr. 6 Jun 1735, but did not matr.; migrated to Corpus Christi Coll. Oxford, matr. 1 Nov 1735, scholar 1735; BA 1739; MA 1742; Probationer Fellow, Corpus Christi Coll., 1742; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 1 Apr 1735; buried Richmond, Surrey 11 Nov 1768.

LARPENT, JOHN, second son of John Larpent, Chief Clerk, Northern Department, Foreign Office, and Mary Ann, elder dau. of James Payzant, Clerk, Secretary of State’s Office; b. 14 Nov 1741; adm. Apr 1751 (Howe's); KS 1755; Clerk, Secretary of State’s Office Mar 1761 – Sep 1762; Secretary to Duke of Bedford at Peace of Paris 1763, and to Marquis of Hertford when Lord Lieut. Ireland 1765-6; reappointed to Secretary of State’s Office as Senior Clerk, Colonial Dept., Feb 1768 – Mar 1782; Deputy Clerk, Privy Seal Office (occurs 1760-83); a Gentleman Usher Quarterly Waiter to George III 21 May 1767 (still 1774); Groom of the Privy Chamber, Royal Household 5 Jul 1774; Examiner of Plays from 6 Oct 1778; m. 1st, 14 Aug 1773 Frances, eldest dau. of Maximilian Western, Cokethorpe Park, Oxfordshire; m. 2nd, 25 Apr 1782 Anna Margaretta, elder dau. of Sir James Porter, Kt, HBM Ambassador at Constantinople; d. 18 Jan 1824. DNB.