EALES, WILLIAM THOMAS HUXHAM, son of Rev. William Eales, Chaplain, EICS Bengal, and Catherine, dau. of Thomas Raban, Calcutta, solicitor; b. 18 Dec 1811; adm. 22 Sep 1824 (Stelfox's); KS 1826; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1830, adm. pens. 2 Jul 1830, scholar 1831, matr. Mich. 1830; BA 1834; ordained deacon 1835, priest 10 Apr 1836 (both Exeter); Curate, Ashburton with Bickington, Devon 1835, St. Breock, Cornwall 1844, Wolborough, Devon 1851; Vicar of Yealmpton, Devon, from 1857; m. 15 Jan 1845 Emily Fulford, dau. of William Fulford Weatherdon, Newton Abbot, Devon; d. 27 Nov 1887.

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.

EASTLAKE, CHARLES LOCKE, fourth son of George Eastlake, Plymouth, Devon, Admiralty Law Agent and Deputy Judge Advocate of the Fleet; nephew of Sir Charles Eastlake, President of the Royal Academy, painter and art historian; b. 11 Mar 1833; adm. 1 Oct 1846 (Rigaud's); QS 1848; left 1850; pupil of Philip Hardwick RA, architect; Royal Academy Schools, silver medal for architectural drawings 1854; successively Assistant Secretary and Secretary, Royal Institute of British Architects 1866-78; FRIBA 19 Apr 1869; Keeper and Secretary, National Gallery 1878-98; a Governor of the School from 1882; author, Hints on Household Taste in Furniture, 1868, A History of the Gothic Revival in England, 1870, and other works; m. 1 Oct 1856 Eliza, youngest dau. of George Bailey; d. 20 Nov 1906. DNB. [Mother perhaps Eliza Shute (IGI)]

EATON, NATHANIEL, son of Rev. Richard Eaton BD, Vicar of Great Budworth, Cheshire; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1629, adm. scholar 1630, matr. Lent 1629/30; obtained a licence to pass to Leyden 1 Oct 1632, aged 22; in 1633 a pupil of the puritan divine Rev. William Ames DD at Franeker, Netherlands; ordained; emigrated with his two elder brothers to North America; President-designate, Harvard College 1638/9, but was “fitter to be a master of a Bridewel than a college” (Cotton Mather), and was dismissed by court order for cudgelling an usher, 9 Sep 1639; absconded to England; PhD and MD Padua 1647; ordained; Vicar of Bishop’s Castle, Shropshire 1661; Rector of Bideford, Devon, 18 Mar 1668; author, De Fastis Anglicis, sive Calendarium Sacrum, 1661; m. twice, one of his wives being a daughter of Thomas Graves, Virginia [another the widow of Rev. William Cotton ?]; d. 1674, when a prisoner for debt in the King’s Bench Prison, Southwark. DNB.

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.

ECKERSALL, JOHN, son of George Eckersall (adm. 1723, qv); b. 14 Sep 1748; adm. ; KS (aged 12) 1761; Garrick was so pleased with Eckersall’s Davus in the Andria of 1765 “that he made him a present of the freedom of his house” (see Anthony Wilson’s letter printed Lusus Alt. Westm. , 1st series, 102, note); elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1766, matr. 18 Jun 1766, Westminster Scholar 24 Dec 1766 - void by marriage 15 Dec 1774; BA 1770; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 26 Nov 1767; travelling in Italy with Hon. John Trevor (qv) 1773; m. 1 Dec 1774 his cousin Catherine, sister of George Wathen (qv); d. 2 Dec 1837.

EDDIS, BASIL UPTON, son of Arthur Shelly Eddis QC, Weymouth Street, London, County Court Judge, and Elizabeth Mary, fourth dau. of Job Wright, Cheshunt, Herts.; b. 4 Apr 1850; at Highgate Sch. Sep 1860 - Dec 1863; adm. 22 Jan 1864 (James'); QS 1865; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1869 (with Triplett), adm. pens. 12 May 1869, matr. Mich. 1869; BA 1873; adm. solicitor Mar 1876; Registrar, Clerkenwell County Court; of St. John’s Lodge, Newbury, Berks.; m. 8 Apr 1896 Margaret Anna, youngest dau. of Rev. Richard Cockburn Kindersley, Vicar of Brampford Speke, Devon; d. 23 Nov 1936.

EDDIS, EDWARD UPTON, third son of William Upton Eddis, Purnea, Bengal, India, indigo planter, and Mary Adamson (IGI); b. 13 Mar 1861; adm. 26 Sep 1872 (James'); exhibitioner 1874; QS 1875; victor in the last “mill” on Green (Elizabethan xix, 66); elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1879, matr. 10 Oct 1879; BA 1883; adm. Inner Temple 22 Nov 1880, called to bar 25 Jun 1884; practised at Calcutta and subsequently at Rangoon; returned to England 1909; m. 4 Feb 1891 Ela Usher, dau. of Robert Binning, Dowanhill, Glasgow; d. 14 Aug 1928.

EDEN, ROBERT ALLAN, fourth son of Robert Eden (qv); b. 27 Dec 1839; adm. 26 May 1853 (G); QS 1854; left 1858; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 27 May 1858; BA 1863; MA 1865; ordained deacon 1869, priest 1871 (both Moray & Ross); Assistant Priest, St. Andrew’s Cathedral, Inverness 1869-71; Curate, St. Andrew’s, Wells Street, London 1871-80; Chaplain and Private Secretary to father 1880-6; again Assistant Priest, St. Andrew’s Cathedral, Inverness 1881-5; Canon Residentiary, Inverness 1885-7, Precentor 1886-7; Vicar of Old St. Pancras, London from 27 Jun 1887; d. unm. 29 Apr 1912.