MEDLEY, EDWARD, son of John Medley, St. John’s, Westminster, and Mary Fretwell (IGI); b. 9 Aug 1744; adm.; KS (aged 14) 1760; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1764, adm. pens. 20 Jun 1764, aged 19, scholar 3 May 1765, matr. 1765; of New Peter Street, Westminster; m. 2 Nov 1789 Maria Hyde, Newington; d. 29 Dec 1808. Buried South Cloister, Westminster Abbey.

MEDCALFE, JONATHAN, son of Reginald Medcalfe, Hempstead, Essex; b.; adm.; KS (J. Peile, Biog. Reg. of Christ’s Coll., i, 401); Christ’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 10 Sep 1629, aged 16, matr. 1631; BA 1633/4.

MEARS, JAMES, brother of John Mears (qv); b.; adm. (aged 10) Apr 1736; KS 1740; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1743, adm. pens. 2 Jun 1743, scholar 20 Apr 1744, matr. 1743.

Meade, Thomas Wilson, son of James Edward Meade FBA, Prof. of Political Economy, Univ. of Camb., and Elizabeth Margaret Meade BA, social worker, d. of Alexander Cowan Wilson, engineer; b. 21 Jan. 1936; adm. Sept. 1949; (KS) Capt. of the Sch. 1953; left July 1954; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1954, BA 1958, MA BM BCh 1960; MRCP 1964; FFCM 1973, FRCP 1979; DM (Oxon. ) 1980; FRS 1996; physician, Medical Research Council 1960-2001; dir. MRC Epidemiol. and Med. Care Unit, Northwick Park Hosp. 1970-2001; Prof. of Epidemiology, Barts Hosp. Med. Coll. 1992-2001; Prof. Emeritus, Lond. Sch. of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine 2001-16; Balzan Prize 1997; FMedSci 1998; Hon. DSc QMUL 2010; m. 23 June 1962 Helen Elizabeth Perks BSc, social worker; d. 24 Oct. 2022.

MEADE, CHRISTOPHER; b.; adm.; QS 1565-9 (Chapter Muniments 54006-18).

MEAD, ROBERT, son of Robert Mead, The Black Lion, Fleet Street, London, stationer; b. 1616; adm.; KS 1630; contributed some commendatory verses to the Poeticall Blossomes of Abraham Cowley (qv) 1633; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1634, matr. 1 Sep 1634, Westminster Student to expulsion by Parliamentary Visitors “upon statutable grounds” 1648 (Burrows, 329); BA 1638; MA 1641; MD 1646; Capt. in Royalist Army; distinguished himself at siege of Oxford and in assault on Abingdon; one of the Commissioners for negotiating the surrender of Oxford 17 May 1646; Agent for Charles II in Sweden 1649-51; his comedy, The Combat of Love and Friendship, written by him when an undergraduate, was acted at Christ Church but not published until 1654; d. 21 Feb 1652/3. DNB.

MEAD, ROBERT WILLIAM, son of Elisha Preston Mead MD MRCS LSA, Whitby, Yorks., and Catherine --- (IGI); b. 2 Jan 1858; adm. 12 Jun 1871 (G); QS 22 Jul 1872; left Dec 1874; MB CM Edinburgh 1879; MD 1882; St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; MRCS 1880; surgeon with P. & O. Steamship Co.; practised at Whitby, Yorks.; m. 3 Jun 1890 Alice Mary, only dau. of George James Rigg, Buckhurst Hill, Essex; d. 15 Dec 1926.

MEAD, RIVIS, brother of Robert William Mead (qv); b. 5 May 1860; adm. 26 Sep 1872 (G); QS 1875; left Dec 1877; MB CM Edinburgh 1882; Univ. Hospital, Edinburgh; MRCS 1883; Surgeon to Seaside Home, Whitby, Yorks.; emigrated to Australia; practised at Quirindi, New South Wales; d. at Waitara, New South Wales 1 Oct 1934.

McMILLAN, SIR ROBERT FURSE, eldest son of John McMillan, Adelaide Road, London, barrister, and Mary --- (IGI); b. 24 Jan 1858; adm. 4 Apr 1871 (James'); QS 19 Apr 1873; left May 1876; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, matr. Mich. 1876; scholar 1879; 1st cl. Law 1879; LLB 1879; Fellow, Trinity Hall 1880; adm. Inner Temple 3 Jul 1878, called to bar 11 May 1881; Western Circuit; Puisne Judge, Supreme Court, Western Australia Nov 1906 – Dec 1913, Chief Justice from Dec 1913; knighted 3 Jun 1916; Lieut. -Gov., Western Australia, from 1921; KCMG 3 Jun 1925; m. 2 Aug 1887 Margaret Aitcheson, second dau. of John Elder, Yairam, Victoria, Australia, farmer; d. 23 Apr 1931.

Mcfarlane, Ian Dalrymple, son of James Blair Mcfarlane, ship repairer, of Marseille, and Valerie Edith Liston, d. of Henry Liston Dalrymple, banker, of Hong Kong; b. 7 Nov. 1915; adm. Sept. 1929 (KS); left Mar. 1934; Univ. of St Andrews (Harkness schol.) 1934-8, BA (1st class hons) 1938, MA 1945; 2nd Lieut. Black Watch Jan. 1940, p.o.w. St Valery June 1940 (Capt.), MBE for services in captivity Feb. 1946; lecturer in French Camb. Univ., 1945; Fellow Caius Coll. 1947, tutor 1952, sen. tutor 1956; Prof. of French Language and Literature Univ. of St Andrews 1961-70; MA (Oxon.) 1970; Prof. of French Literature Oxf. Univ. and Fellow Wadham Coll. 1971-83, Emeritus 1983; FBA 1978; hon. DLitt St Andrews 1982; W. P. Ker lec­turer Glasgow 1981, Andrew Lang lecturer St Andrews 1982, Zaharoff lecturer Oxford 1984; Pres. Modern Humanities Research Assn 1985; author of Renaissance France 1470-1589 1974, Buchanan 1981, The Entry of Henri II into Paris 1549 1985; m. 12 Sept. 1939 Marjory Nan, d. of Rev. William Hamilton Hamilton; d. 17 Aug. 2002.