PORTLOCK, BENJAMIN; b.; adm.; KS 1677; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1682, adm. pens. 28 Jun 1682, scholar 9 May 1683; 6th in “ordo” 1685/6; BA 1685/6; MA 1689 (incorp. Oxford 9 Nov 1695); DCL Oxford 18 May 1702; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 12 Sep 1687, Major Fellow 6 Jul 1689 – c. 1698; Second Secretary to Duke of Ormonde, Lord Lieut. Ireland, Feb 1703 – Apr 1707; MP (I) Innistioge 1703-13; Taster of Wines (I) 1705-13; adm. King’s Inns, Dublin 18 Nov 1703; of Clapham, Surrey; left by his will mourning rings to Robert Friend (qv) and John Nicholl (qv); lic. to m. 29 Feb 1711/2 Elizabeth, dau. of Edward Bate, Maids Moreton, Bucks.; d. 6 Sep 1740.

SELWYN, WILLIAM, brother of Charles Jasper Selwyn (qv); b. 14 Jun 1732; adm. Mar 1739/40; KS 1745; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1749, adm. pens. 25 May 1749, scholar 11 May 1750, matr. 1749; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 5 Jul 1749, called to bar 6 Nov 1754, Bencher 10 Nov 1780, Treasurer 1793; KC 1780; [perhaps Counsel for Colonial Business, Home Office Jul 1782 – Apr 1783, Dec 1783 – Feb 1796]; MP Whitchurch 17 Mar 1783-90; m. 15 Sep 1763 Frances Elizabeth, dau. of John Dod, Woodford, Essex; d. 21 Aug 1817.

SIBTHORP, HUMPHREY WALDO, second son of Humphrey Sibthorp MD, Lincoln, Professor of Botany, Oxford Univ., and his first wife Sarah, dau. of Isaac Waldo, Streatham, Surrey; nephew of Coningsby Sibthorp (qv); b. 3 Oct 1744; adm.; KS 1756; Corpus Christi Coll. Oxford, matr. 24 May 1758; BA 1762; MA 1766; DCL 3 Jul 1777; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 18 Nov 1766, called to bar 30 Jan 1770; MP Boston 2 May 1777-84, Lincoln 9 Apr 1800-6; assumed additional name of Waldo 22 May 1804; of Canwick Hall, near Lincoln; Col., South Lincolnshire Militia, 8 May 1782 (still 1808); m. 23 Jul 1777 Susannah, dau. of Richard Ellison, Sudbrooke Holme, Lincs., banker; d. 25 Apr 1815.

MOSTYN, JOHN, brother of Sir Thomas Mostyn, Bart. (adm. 1716, qv); b.; adm. (aged 13) Jun 1722; KS 1723; Capt. of the School 1727; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1728, matr. Jun 1728, Westminster Student 23 Dec 1728 – deprived 10 Dec 1734 (absence); Ensign, 16th Foot 29 Feb 1732; Capt., 6 Nov 1736; Capt. -Lieut., 2nd Foot Guards 2 Sep 1742; Capt. and Lieut. -Col., 2 Apr 1743; wounded at battle of Fontenoy 1745; Brevet Col. and ADC to George II 3 Dec 1747 (listed as ADC, Chamberlayne 1748); Col., 7th Foot (Royal Fusiliers) 26 Jan 1751 – Jul 1754, 13th Dragoons 8 Jul 1754 – Oct 1758; Maj. -Gen., 8 Jul 1757; Col., 5th Dragoons 18 Oct 1758 – Aug 1760; Lieut. -Gen., 8 Apr 1759; Col., 7th Dragoons 18 Aug 1760 – May 1763, 1st Dragoon Guards, from 13 May 1763; Gen., 25 May 1772; MP Malton 30 Dec 1741-68; Groom of the Bedchamber from 20 Jan 1746; Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Minorca, from 2 Mar 1768; defendant in 1773 in an action successfully brought by Anthony Fabrigas, who he had banished from the island (Howell, State Trials, xx, 81-238); d. 13 Feb 1779. DNB.

NOWELL, LAURENCE, son of Alexander Nowell, Read Hall, Whalley, Lancs., and Grace, dau. of Rafe Catherall, Mitton, Lancs.; a kinsman of Alexander Nowell, Head Master; b. c. 1531 (aged 19 at 12 Apr 1550); adm.; KS; left 1549 (Chapter Muniments); Christ Church, Oxford, residing 1550-3, Student in 1552-3 (name in college buttery books to 24 Dec 1554); BA 1552; studying and travelling in France and Flanders 1553-4; tutor to “Mr. Harringeton’s sons” (perhaps sons of Sir James Harington, Exton, Rutland) in France and at Padua, Italy, before Dec 1558; probably the individual of this name who was MP Knaresborough Jan – May 1559; joined household of William Cecil c. 1562; a pioneer cartographer and one of the earliest scholars to take a serious interest in manuscripts of the Anglo-Saxon period; left England 25 Mar 1567; subsequent travels on the European continent took him to Paris, Venice, Padua, Vienna, Basel, Leipzig (by Aug 1569) and Freiburg im Breisgau (Oct 1569); not subsequently heard of; his chattels in England had been left by him in the possession of his close friend and fellow antiquary William Lambarde, who was asked to hand them over to Nowell’s family in a complaint filed in the Court of Requests in 1571; his Vocabularium Saxonicum, surviving in manuscript, was first published in 1952; William Camden describes him as “vir rara doctrina insignis, & qui Saxonicam maiorum nostrorum linguam … primus nostra aetate resuscitavit”; for his career and scholarly achievement see Carl T. Berkhout, “Laurence Nowell (1530 – ca. 1570)”, in Helen Damico (and others) (ed), Medieval scholarship, Biographical, Studies on the Formation of a Discipline, New York, 1998.

PAGET, HON. SIR ARTHUR, brother of Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey (qv); b. 15 Jan 1771; adm. 10 Apr 1780; KS 1783; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1787, matr. 8 Jun 1787, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1787 – void by absence 22 Dec 1792 (not having resided since 1790); Secretary to Embassy, St. Petersburg 1791-4; MP Anglesey 22 Nov 1794-1807; Envoy Extraordinary to Berlin 1794, to Elector Palatine 1798-9, to Naples 1800-1 and to Vienna 1801-5; Privy Councillor 4 Jan 1804; Ambassador to Constantinople Jun – Oct 1807; KB 21 May 1804; GCB 2 Jan 1815; m. 16 Feb 1809 Lady Augusta Fane, divorced wife of John Parker, 2nd Baron Boringdon (afterwards 1st Earl of Morley), and second dau. of John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland (qv); d. 26 Jul 1840. DNB.

RICHARDS, RICHARD, eldest son of Right Hon. Sir Richard Richards, Kt, PC, Coed, Merioneth, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and Catharine, dau. of Robert Vaughan Humphreys, Caerynwch, Merioneth; b. 22 Sep 1787; adm. 24 Jan 1801 (Clapham); KS 1802; left Mar 1806; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 17 May 1806; BA 1810; MA 1812; adm. Inner Temple, called to bar 20 Nov 1812; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 21 Apr 1817; a Commissioner of Bankrupts 8 Aug 1814-31 (when post abolished); Accountant-General and Master, Court of Exchequer 10 Jul 1820-41; a Master in Chancery from 15 Oct 1841; MP (Cons) Merioneth Jun 1836-52; DL Merioneth; m. 11 Jan 1814 Harriett, elder dau. of Jonathan Dennett, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London; d. 27 Nov 1860.

SKYNNER, SIR JOHN, son of John Skynner, Great Milton, Oxfordshire, and Elizabeth ---; b.; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1734/5; KS 1738; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1742, matr. 19 Jun 1742, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1742 – Dec 1757, Faculty Student 22 Dec 1757 – res 22 Jun 1776; BCL 27 Jan 1750/1; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 21 Nov 1739, called to bar 17 Nov 1748, Bencher 19 Jun 1771; Oxford Circuit; KC Hilary 1771; Attorney-Gen., Duchy of Lancaster Jan 1770 – Nov 1777; MP Woodstock 20 Jan 1771 – Nov 1777; Second Judge, Chester Circuit 3 Apr 1772-7; Recorder of Oxford 12 Apr 1776; knighted 23 Nov 1777; Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer (also Serjeant-at-Law) 27 Nov 1777 until retirement owing to ill-health in Christmas vacation of 1786-7; Privy Councillor 23 Mar 1787; Busby Trustee 17 Apr 1780; m. 6 Mar 1778 Martha, dau. of Edward Burn; d. 26 Nov 1805. DNB.

MORDAUNT, HON. HARRY, brother of Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough and 1st Earl of Monmouth (qv); b. 29 Mar 1663; adm.; KS (Capt. ) 1676; tried at the Old Bailey 15 Oct 1679, with David Jones and John Osbaldeston (qvv), for murder of a bailiff, but acquitted (Elizabethan xviii, 83); elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1680, matr. 17 Dec 1680, Westminster Student 18 Dec 1680 – void 1687; BA 1684; Lieut. of a corps of Christ Church and other men who trained privately in Peckwater Quadrangle during the panic caused by Monmouth’s rebellion (Wood, Ath. Oxon., i, cii-ciii); adm. Middle Temple 12 Feb 1673/4; Col. of a Regt. of Foot 25 Apr 1694; Commander in Chief, Guernsey 1 Apr 1697; Treasurer of the Ordnance 8 Jun 1699 – Jun 1702, 28 May 1705 – Jun 1712, and from 2 Dec 1714; Brig. -Gen., 29 Aug 1704; Maj. -Gen., 1 Jan 1706; Lieut. -Gen., 1 Jan 1709; MP Brackley Jan 1691/2-8, Jan 1700/1-2, 1705-8, Richmond from 1708; m. 1st, Margaret, natural dau. of Sir Thomas Spencer, Bart.; m. 2nd, Penelope, dau. of William Tipping, Ewelme, Oxfordshire; d. 4 Jan 1719/20 (M. I. Dauntsey, Wilts. ).

MORGAN, SIR CHARLES, BART., elder son of King Gould, Westminster, Deputy Judge Advocate Gen., and Elizabeth, dau. of Charles Shaw, Besthorpe, Norfolk; b. 25 Apr 1726; adm. Sep 1735; KS 1739; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1743, matr. 1 Jun 1743, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1743 – Feb 1753, Faculty Student 1 Feb 1753 – res 22 Dec 1757; BA 1747; MA 1750; DCL 8 Jul 1773; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 11 Jan 1742/3, called to bar 20 Nov 1750; Deputy Judge Advocate Gen. 1754-69, Judge Advocate Gen. 1769 – res Feb 1806; Chancellor, Diocese of Salisbury 1772-99; MP Brecon Apr 1778 – Jun 1787, Breconshire Jun 1787-1806; knighted 5 May 1779; created baronet 15 Nov 1792; assumed surname of Morgan in lieu of Gould 16 Nov 1792, on his wife inheriting estates of Morgan family in South Wales; Privy Councillor 22 Sep 1802; m. 18 Feb 1758 Jane, eldest dau. of Thomas Morgan MP, Ruperra, Glamorgan, Lord Lieut., Monmouthshire and Breconshire; d. 7 Dec 1806. DNB.