DYKE, SIR PERCIVAL HART, BART., eldest son of Sir Percival Hart Dyke, Bart. (qv); b. 9 Jun 1799; adm. Mich. 1812; KS 1814; left 13 Dec 1817; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 21 Apr 1819; migrated to St. Alban Hall; played cricket for Kent 1823-8 and for Gentlemen against Players 1827 and 1833; a fine bat and a fast underarm bowler; succ. father as 6th baronet 4 Aug 1846; DL Kent; m. 25 Jun 1835 Eliza, youngest dau. of John Wells MP, Bickley House, Kent, shipbuilder and banker; d. 12 Nov 1875.

EARLE, GEORGE, brother of James William Earle (qv); b. 3 Feb 1806; adm. 12 Jan 1819 (Du Brieux's); KS 1820; left 1822; adm. solicitor; practised at Romford, Essex; after retirement lived at Gatcombe, near Totnes, Devon; m. 12 Dec 1829 (IGI) Maria Wood Nash; d. c. 1869.

Eccles, Brian, son of William Hunter Eccles, Sierra Leone Civil Service, of Kennett, Cambs, and Beatrice Ethel, d. of Dudley Oliver Sutton of Sutton Coldfield, Warks; b. 27 Jan. 1928; adm. Sept. 1941 (KS); left July 1946; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1946, BA 1949, MA 1953; HM Colonial Service Zanzibar 1952-7; DO Tanganyika 1957-61; dir. Brit. Information Services Zanzibar 1961-4; FCO, 1st Sec. Sierra Leone 1964-5, Lond. 1965-7; CUP representative West Africa 1967-75; gen. sec. South Regional Assn. for the Blind 1976-92; latterly resident in France; m. 1979 Joset Lin; d. 23 Jan. 2001.

ECKERSALL, GEORGE, son of John Eckersall (qv); b. 9 Oct 1782; adm. 29 Feb 1792; in school list 1795; KS 1797; Jesus Coll. Cambridge, adm. 18 Nov 1801; Ensign, 4th Foot 26 May 1803; Lieut., Feb 1804; retd. 9 Feb 1805; m. 29 Feb 1820 Sarah Caroline Grace; d. 16 Jul 1849.

EDRIDGE, WILLIAM; b.; adm.; KS 1667; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1669, adm. pens. 28 Jun 1669, scholar 1670; BA 1672/3; MA 1676 (incorp. Oxford 11 Jul 1676); ordained deacon (Peterborough) 21 May 1676, priest (London) 24 Dec 1676; Vicar of Eaton Bray, Beds., 1677-95; buried 12 Apr 1696.

BURT, ROGER MILLS, son of Joseph Burt, Plymouth, Devon; b.; adm.; KS (aged 13) 1759; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1764, matr. 20 Jun 1764, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1764 - void 29 Jun 1782, on expiry year of grace as R. Odcombe; ordained deacon 26 May 1771, priest 14 Jun 1772 (both Oxford); Rector of Odcombe, Somerset, from 27 Jun 1781; bur. there 17 Feb 1803. [Mother presumably Lucy Yeo (IGI)] [father perhaps jeweller, Plymouth, will proved PCC 8 Nov 1763]

BURTON, EDMUND CHARLES, eldest son of Edmund Singer Burton, Daventry, Northants., solicitor, and Anna Maria, dau. of Clarke Watkins, Daventry, Northants.; b. 4 Sep 1826; adm. 26 Sep 1838 (Scott's); QS 1841; rowed against Eton 26 Jul 1842, 1 Aug 1843; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1845, matr. 15 May 1845, Westminster Student to 1860; won Champion Sculler’s Cup at Thames Regatta 1846, Oxford University Pairs with Arthur Milman (qv) 1846, University Sculls 1847; rowed for Oxford v. Cambridge 1846, 1849; stroke of Oxford Eight at Henley 1847, 1848, and steered Oxford crew which won the Grand Challenge Cup there 1851; President, Oxford University Boat Club 1847-8; BA 1849; MA 1852; adm. solicitor, Mich. 1852; practised at Daventry, firm Burton and Willoughby; an all-round sportsman, being a fine runner and a prominent rider to hounds; won National Hunt Steeplechase 1860, 1861; joint donor of the Silver Sculls with Sir Patrick MacChombaich Colquhoun (qv), the first annual race for which took place in 1844; m. 1 Oct 1862 Rosamond Elizabeth, dau. of Joshua Verney Lace, Little Woolton, Lancs.; d. 21 Aug 1907.

BURWELL, THOMAS, son of Edward Burwell, Rougham, Suffolk, and Mary, dau. of Jeffrey Pitman, Woodbridge, Suffolk; bap 20 Apr 1626; adm.; KS 1640; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1645, adm. pens. 31 May 1645, scholar 1645, matr. Easter 1646; BA 1648/9; adm. Leiden Univ 3 May 1653, MD (incorp Camb. 1653); practised medicine in London to 1665, in Dorchester 1665-83, and then again in London; FRCP 20 Oct 1664, Censor 1684, 1689, 1695, 1696, Registrar 23 Jul 1685-8, President 1692, 1693; author of medical pamphlets; m. 15 Sep 1659 Jane, widow of Rev. John Stoughton DD, Perpetual Curate of St. Mary Aldermanbury, London, and previously of Rev. Walter Newburgh, Rector of Symondsbury, Dorset, and dau. of John Browne MP, Frampton, Dorset; d. 30 Jan 1701/2.

BUSBY, JOHN, son of Timothy Busby, and nephew of Richard Busby (elected to Ch. Ch. Oxford 1624, qv); b.; adm.; Min. Can. 1641; KS in 1644; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1647, but detained at school “through the exigence of warre” (Register of Visitors of the Univ. of Oxford 1647 to 1658, Camden Society, 2nd ser., xxix, 268), Westminster Student; BA 1650; MA 1652; apparently expelled by the Parliamentary Visitors for neglecting to appear before them 1650, but restored by them in 1651; deprived of his studentship for a half year on account of a speech which he made at a funeral, “contayning matter of profanation and abuse of scripture” 8 Nov 1653 (ibid., 370-1); became a “fugitive” from Christ Church, but was again restored 6 Nov 1655; sometime an Usher at the School; described by Edward Bagshaw (KS 1644, qv) in his pamphlet of 1659 as “a worthless and infamous person”, who “grossly abused the liberty of whipping”, but Bagshaw’s opinion of the nephew of the Head Master was probably not free from bias; living 1660.

Byard, Paul Spencer, son of Dever Spencer Byard, lawyer, of New York, and Margaret, d. of John Mather of Glasgow; b. 30 Aug. 1939; adm. from Milton Acad., MA, USA, May 1956 (QS); left July 1956; Yale Univ, CT, USA; Clare Coll. Camb., BA 1963, MA 1968; Harvard Law Sch., MA, USA; Grad. Sch. Architecture, Columbia Univ., New York, USA; architect, James Stewart Polshek & Associates 1977-89, partner 1981-9; partner, Charles A. Platt Partners 1989- (Platt Byard Dovell White 2007-); pres. Architectural League of New York 1989-94; a specialist in the renovation of historic buildings in New York City; m. 1965 Rosalie Starr Warren; d. 15 July 2008.