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Admitted 4 May, 1771.

Son and heir of William Bastard, of Kitley, co. Devon, where he was born in 1756, and where his family had been settled since the Conquest. He succeeded his father in 1782, and became Colonel of the East Devon Militia, in which capacity he put down a sudden revolt of the workmen in Plymouth Dockyard, and saved the docks, for which service he received the thanks of Parliament. He represented Devonshire in Parliament from 1784 to his death, 4 April, 1816.



Admitted 27 January, 1742-3.

Son of the Rev. Edward Battle, of Modbury, co. Devon, where he was born in 1704. He was educated at Eton and Cambridge, where, after a drawn election, he obtained the Craven Scholarship in 1725. He obtained the degree of M.D. in 1737, and began to practise physic. He subsequently practised at Uxbridge and in London, and became a Fellow of the College of Physicians in 1738, and President in 1764. He was an authority in lunacy matters and gave evidence before the Committee, which led to the Lunacy Act of 1774. He died 13 June, 1776.

His literary works consist of an edition of Aristotle's Rhetoric, published in 1728, and of Isocrates' Orations, 1729. He subsequently published his Harveian and Lumleian Orations, and a work on Madness, in 1758.



Admitted 19 May, 1773.

Only son of William Battine, of East Marden, Sussex. He was educated at Cambridge, where he took the degree of LL.B. in 1780, and LL.D. in 1785. In the same year he was admitted Doctor of Laws in London, and commenced practice in the Ecclesiastical and Admiralty Courts. He became a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber, and was on intimate terms with the Prince of Wales. In 1797 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Though he held many legal offices and acquired much wealth, he died in poverty, 5 Sept. 1836, and was buried at St. George's, Southwark.

His chief literary effort was a dramatic poem entitled Another Cain, written "to correct the blasphemy put into the mouth of Lucifer," in Byron's Cain.



Admitted 14 August, 1557.

Son of Robert Bavand, of Rostherne, in the county of Chester. Wood says that he was educated at Oxford. He is known as the translator of A Woorke of Joannes Ferrarius Montanus touchynge the Goode Orderyinge of a Commonweale. &hellip; Englished by William Bavande. 4to, London, 1559. It is dedicated to Queen Elizabeth, and contains several translations from classic poets interspersed throughout its pages.

[A William Bavande was appointed Under Treasurer of the Inn in 1561. This is probably the same person.]