Other Events:

• Education: Bef 1742, Liskeard School, Cornwall
• Education: 05 Apr 1742, Entered St. Mary Hall, Oxford (aged 15)
• Education: 1746 - 1748, Grand Tour
• Elected: 1750, Mayor of Liskeard
• Elected: 1753, Mayor of Liskeard
• Elected: 1760, Mayor of Liskeard
• Elected: 1767, Mayor of Liskeard
• Elected: 12 Dec 1748 - 1768, M.P. for St. Germans
• Elected: 1769, Mayor of Liskeard
• Elected: 1773, Mayor of Liskeard
• Elected: 1768 - 1774, M.P. for Liskeard
• Elected: 1774 - Nov 1775, M.P. for St. Germans
• Occupation: 1759 - 1776, Lord of Trade
• Elected: 1777, Mayor of Liskeard
• Friendship: Mar 1781, First Met James Boswell
• Elected: 1783, Mayor of Liskeard
• Elected: 15 Nov 1775 - 13 Jan 1784, M.P. for Cornwall
• Title (Facts Pg): 30 Jan 1784, Created "Baron Eliot", 1st Baron Eliot
• Occupation: 02 Feb 1784, Takes Seat in House of Lords
• Title (Facts Pg): 15 Apr 1789, Added "Craggs" to his Surname
• Residence: 1791, Spring-garden Terrace, London
• Subscription: 1798, 'Sermons of the Late Rev. William Woollcombe' (6 copies)
• Resignation: 1800, Recorder of Liskeard
• Occupation: 13 May 1749 - 17 Feb 1804, Receiver General of the Duchy of Cornwall
• Probate: 10 Apr 1804, London, England

Notes:

"History of the Borough of Liskeard", John Allen, 1856:

1782: "as a testimony of our gratitude to the family of Eliot, for rebuilding the guild hall, and making the market place in every respect so commodious, we the grand jury take this public method of returning our most hearty thanks for the same, that it may be entered in the records of this borough."

1801: "We present an alienation of a fee-farm rent, issuing out of the lands in the borough of Liskeard, from the Hon. D. Barrington, R. Cocks Esq., and Sir C. Cocks, to the Rev. T. Williams and E. Gibbon Esq., in trust for the Right Hon. Lord Eliot and Catherine his wife."

"Surveys for a canal from Liskeard to Looe, and also for one from Liskeard to St Germans, were made about the year 1800, by Bentley and Bolton of Birmingham; but the difficulties and costs were considered insurmountable, and though patronized by Lord Eliot, both schemes were then abandoned."

1804: "We present the death of the Right Hon. Lord Eliot, a capital burgess and free tenant of this borough."

Edward married Catherine Elliston on 22 Sep 1756 in St. James, Westminster, London. Catherine (daughter of Edward Elliston and Catherine Gibbon) was born on 04 Aug 1735 in Charterhouse Yard, Parish of St. Sepulchre, Holburn, London; was christened on 15 Sep 1735 in Parish of St. Sepulchre, Holburn, London; died on 23 Feb 1804 in Port Eliot, St. Germans, Cornwall; was buried on 01 Mar 1804 in Eliot Family Vault, Old Cemetery, St. Germans, Cornwall. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Salary: 2, 500 Pounds a Year as Commissioner for Affairs of India
• Education: Bef 1775, Liskeard School
• Education: 03 Nov 1775, Entered Pembroke College, Cambridge
• Elected: 1779, Mayor of Liskeard
• Degree: 09 Feb 1780, Awarded M.A. by Royal Mandate
• Degree: 04 Jul 1780, Cambridge Commencement; Awarded M.A. (Master of Arts by Royal Mandate)
• Friendship: 30 May 1781, First mention of Mr. Eliot (Dining) in Harriot's Letters
• Occupation: 12 Dec 1781, Votes Against Continuing the War with the Colonies
• Portrait: Abt 1782, Painted by Reynolds
• Occupation: 15 May 1782, Thanked for supporting Pitt's Motion on Representation (contrary to private interest)
• Occupation: 1782 - 1783, Presents unsuccessful Anti-Bribery Bills (with Mahon)
• Occupation: 13 Jul 1782 - Apr 1783, Lord of the Treasury (Commissioner of the Treasury, one of five men)
• Friendship: Jun 1783, EJE's First Cousin Speaks to Harriot
• Visiting: 11 Jul 1783, Fishing and Dining with Pitt and Wilber. at Wimbledon
• Portrait: Aug 1783, Payment of 50gns from 'Mr. Elliot, Jun' to Reynolds
• Visiting: 10 Sep 1783, Sets out with Pitt for France
• Visiting: 24 Oct 1783, Returns to England from France
• Elected: Oct 1780 - Dec 1783, M.P. for St. Germans
• Elected: 1784, Mayor of Liskeard
• Occupation: 17 Jun 1784, Chosen for House Committee on Case of the Borough of Downton, Wiltshire
• Occupation: 18 Apr 1785, Votes for Pitt's Motion for Parliamentary Reform
• Personal Event: 21 Dec 1785, Thrown from Horse in London and Lames Knee
• Visiting: 04 Oct 1786, EJE Travels to Holwood House
• Visiting: Nov 1786, EJE and Pitt Visit Burton Pynsent with Little HH
• Residence: 1786 - 1787, 15 Downing Street, London; Taken from End of October 1786 to End of October of 1787
• Will: 25 Mar 1787, First Will (Written at Downing Street)
• Visiting: 18 Apr 1787, EJE and Pitt return from a visit to Burton Pynsent
• Occupation: Nov 1787 - Dec 1787, Meetings at Wilberforce's House about Slave Trade Abolition
• Occupation: 16 Dec 1788, Votes for Pitt's Motion in Support of the Rights of the Two Houses of Parliament
• Subscription: 1789, 'Elegiac Sonnets' by Charlotte Smith (Fifth Edition)
• Subscription: 1789, Annual Donation of 2l. 2s. to Marine Society
• Visiting: 08 Apr 1789, EJE leaves Downing-street to Visit Burton Pynsent
• Visiting: 23 Mar - 27 Apr 1790, EJE Visits Dowager Lady Chatham at Burton Pynsent
• Visiting: 22 Nov 1790, EJE Arrives at Downing-street from Burton Pynsent
• Membership: 1791, Admission to Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
• Occupation: 04 Feb 1791, Chairs House Committee on Slave Trade Abolition
• Possessions: 15 Mar 1791, Soane Surveys Capt. Lewis' House at Clapham Common for EJE
• Occupation: Mar 1791 - Apr 1791, Almost Daily Meetings at Matthew Montague's House in Manchester-sq. on Abolition
• Occupation: 16 Apr 1791, Chairman of Committee on Stewartry of Orkney and Zetland (Bribery and Converted Elections)
• Inheritance: 27 Jun - 28 Jun 1791, Court Case Setting EJE's Inheritance on Harriet Hester
• Possessions: 08 Aug 1791, Soane Places Ad for Villa in Clapham for EJE
• Dedication: 1792, Marcus Antoninus by Richard Graves is Dedicated to EJE
• Will: Jan 1792, Second and Final Will Written
• Occupation: 15 Mar 1792, Chairs Committee on Wine License Bill
• Occupation: 23 May 1792, Supports (via speech) Mahon's Bill to Prevent Bribery in Elections
• Visiting: 16 Oct 1792, EJE Leaves London to Visit Burton Pynsent
• Occupation: Feb 1793, Chairs Committee on Merits of Stockbridge Election
• Elected: 04 Apr 1793, Elected Director of Sierra Leone Company
• Occupation: 19 Jun 1793, Appointed Commissioner for the Affairs of India (with a salary)
• Occupation: Dec 1783 - 19 Jun 1793, Lord of the Treasury
• Occupation: 20 Jun 1793, Appointed Joint Comptroller of the East India Board (with Mr. Jenkinson)
• Elected: 27 Mar 1794, Elected Director of Sierra Leone Company
• Military Service: 29 Mar 1794, Attends Meeting of Fencibles Committee at the Star and Garter in London
• Visiting: 06 May - 08 May 1794, Meets with Sir Francis Basset to Set Up Fencibles (in West Cornwall); (Arrives in AM, Leaves in PM)
• Visiting: 08 May - 13 May 1794, Port Eliot (Arrives in PM and leaves about the 13th for Burton)
• Military Service: 30 May 1794, Commissioned as Captain in Cornwall Regiment Fencible Cavalry
• Visiting: 12 Jul 1794, EJE and HH Dine with Wilberforce
• Occupation: 12 Mar 1795, Reports to the House as Committeeman on Voting Rights of the City of Carlisle
• Military Service: 09 Jan 1796, Rank of Major (Cornwall Regt. of Fencible Light Dragoons)
• Occupation: 07 Mar 1796, Chairs House Committee on Slave-Trade Abolition
• Occupation: Abt Jun 1796, Discusses Formation of 'Society for the Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor'
• Occupation: 17 Dec 1796, Signs Letter of Formation for 'Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor'
• Occupation: 20 Dec 1796, Chairs Committee for Amendment of Act to Augment the Militia
• Occupation: 20 Dec 1796, Chairs Committee on Amendment to Act for Raising Men for Army and Navy
• Occupation: 20 Dec 1796, Chairs House Committee on Ammendment to Act for Raising of Provincial Force of Cavalry
• Occupation: 21 Dec 1796, Brings up Report of Committee on Southwark Election
• Visiting: Jul 1797, EJE Goes to Bath for Recovery of His Health
• Occupation: 1785 - 17 Sep 1797, King's Remembrancer of the Exchequer
• Occupation: 1791 - 17 Sep 1797, Director of Sierra Leone Company
• Occupation: 1793 - 17 Sep 1797, Commissioner of Board of Control
• Elected: 1784 - 17 Sep 1797, M.P. for Liskeard, Cornwall
• Death: 20 Sep 1797, News of EJE's Death Reaches Pitt at Downing-st. (Common Post)
• Subscription: Mar 1798, Geo. Woolrich (Servant to EJE) Donates 3l. 3s. to Defense

Notes:

Edward married Harriot Pitt on 24 Sep 1785 in Wm. Pitt's House at Putney, England. Harriot (daughter of 1st Earl Chatham, William Pitt and Lady Chatham Hester Grenville) was born on 18 Apr 1758 in London, England; was christened on 10 May 1758 in St. James, Westminster, Middlesex, England; died on 25 Sep 1786 in 10 Downing Street, London, England; was buried on 02 Oct 1786 in Pitt Family Vault, North Transept, Westminster Abbey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Education: Bef 1780, Liskeard School
• Education: 06 Apr 1780, Entered Pembroke College, Cambridge
• Degree: 1784, Awarded M.A.
• Residence: 1791, Bedford-square, London
• Military Service: 1797, Lieutenant, Cornwall Yeomanry
• Subscription: 1798, 'Sermons of the Late Rev. William Woollcombe'
• Elected: 1799, Mayor of Liskeard
• Military Service: 1803, Captain, Cornwall Yeomanry
• Military Service: 1803, Lieut.-Colonel Commandant, East Cornwall Volunteers
• Elected: 1784 -17 Feb 1804, M.P. for Liskeard, Cornwall
• Visiting: 10 Mar 1804, Arrives in Downing-street (After Attending Parents' Funeral)
• Elected: 1808, Mayor of Liskeard
• Military Service: 1808, Colonel of East Cornwall Militia
• Title (Facts Pg): 28 Nov 1815, Created Earl of St Germans, Cornwall
• Occupation: 1800-1823, Recorder of Liskeard

Notes:

--- "History of the Borough of Liskeard", John Allen, 1856:
1806: "Received of Lord Eliot to pay one year's salary to the Rev. Mr Greene (master of the Grammar School) £121 (repeated afterwards)"

1814-15: "The Rev. A Laffer one year's salary to Midsummer, 1815 (less income tax) £90 (this amount received from the Earl of St Germans, being the last payment to the master of the Grammar School)."

"The great contest for the representation of the borough was in 1802, when Thomas Sheridan and William Ogilvie, Esqrs., each of whom had the votes of one freeman, and of forty-eight inhabitants paing scot and lot, or householders, petitioned against the return of the Hon. John and William Eliot. A similar petition was presented at the same time by sundry persons claiming to be electors."

"Under the head of charitable foundations, the 'East Cornwall Savings Bank' requires to be noticed. It was established at Liskeard in 1818, the first 'patron' being William Earl of St Germans, who also headed a list of donations to set it on foot."

1833: "The corporation formerly paid the salary of the schoolmaster, but of late years it was paid direct by the patron of the borough, the late noble Recorder (the Earl of St Germans). A school house was erected by subscription on land granted by the corporation. About a year ago the school was closed, the master having left, and the means of support being withdrawn. Since that time there has been no public school."

1833: The Mayor's salary was £60, the Constables £40, and the Mayor's Clerk £10 10s.

John married Countess St. Germans, Caroline Yorke on 09 Sep 1790 in St. George, Hanover Square, London. Caroline (daughter of Charles Yorke and Agneta Johnson) was born on 29 Jul 1765; was christened on 19 Aug 1765 in St. Geroge's, Bloomsbury, London; died on 26 Jul 1818 in Port Eliot, St. Germans, Cornwall; was buried on 03 Aug 1818 in St. German's Church, St. Germans, Cornwall,. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Countess St. Germans, Harriet Pole-Carew on 19 Aug 1819 in Antony, Cornwall. Harriet (daughter of Reginald Pole-Carew and Jemima Yorke) was born on 09 Feb 1790 in Charles Street, Berkeley Sqaure; died on 05 Mar 1877 in Pisa, Italy; was buried in Eliot Family Plot, St. Germans, Cornwall. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Education: Bef 1784, Liskeard School, Cornwall
• Education: 23 Sep 1784, Entered Pembroke College, Cambridge
• Degree: 1786, Awarded M.A.
• Residence: 1791, Spring-garden Terrace, London
• Military Service: 1792, Lieut. Royal Cornwall Militia
• Military Service: 1792, Ensign, Royal Cornwall Militia
• Occupation: 1793, Charge d'Affaires, Berlin
• Elected: Nov 1791 - 1793, Secretary of Legation at Berlin
• Elected: Aug 1793 - 1794, Secretery of Embassy to the Hague
• Military Service: 1795, Captain, Royal Cornwall Militia
• Elected: 1796, Envoy to Munich
• Elected: Dec 1796 - 1798, Minister to Elector Palatine and Diet of Ratisbon
• Elected: 07 Jan 1791 - 1802, M.P. for St Germans, Cornwall
• Military Service: 1803, Major, Royal Cornwall Militia
• Member: 1804, Lieut.-Colonel, Royal Cornwall Militia
• Elected: Jul 1800 - Jan 1804, Lord of the Admiralty
• Occupation: 05 Jun 1804 - 24 Jan 1805, Under Secretery for Foreign Affairs
• Military Service: 1807, Colonel, Royal Cornwall Militia
• Elected: 1810, Mayor of Liskeard
• Occupation: Mar 1807 - Jan 1812, Lord of the Treasury
• Address: 1810-1815, 37 Hanover-square, London (Rented)
• Address: 1815-1816, 34 West Street, London (Rented)
• Visiting: Oct 1816, Leaves Batts's Hotel, Dover-street, for the Continent
• Title (Facts Pg): 17 Nov 1823, 2nd Earl of St. Germans (Suc. Bro. John)
• Elected: 1802 - 17 Nov 1823, M.P. for Liskeard, Cornwall
• Appointment: 9 Jan 1824, Recorder of Liskeard
• Residence: 12 Feb 1824, Earl of St. Germans Left London for His Seat in Cornwall
• Occupation: 1823-1833, Recorder of Liskeard
• Resignation: 11 Feb 1833, Borough of Liskeard (Position of Alderman)
• Residence: 1825 - 19 Jan 1845, 7 New Burlington-street
• Residence: 1835 - 19 Jan 1845, Stables at 8 Burlington Mews Old

Notes:

William married Georgiana Augusta Leveson-Gower on 30 Nov 1797 in St. Michael & All Saints, Trentham, Staffordshire. Georgiana (daughter of 1st Marquess of Stafford, Granville Leveson-Gower and Marchioness of Stafford Susanna "Susan" Stewart) was born on 13 Apr 1769 in Earl Gower's House in Whitehall, London; was christened on 14 May 1769 in St. Martin in the Fields, Westminster, London; died on 24 Mar 1806 in Madeira; was buried on 05 May 1806 in Eliot Family Vault, Old Cemetery, St. Germans, Cornwall. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Letitia A'Court on 07 Feb 1809 in Heytesbury, Wiltshire. Letitia (daughter of William Pierce Ashe A'Court and Letitia Wyndham) was born on 09 Aug 1778 in Salisbury, Wiltshire; was christened on 25 Sep 1778 in Salisbury Cathedral, Wiltshire; died on 20 Jan 1810 in Her Home, Cleveland-Court, St. James's, London; was buried on 01 Feb 1810 in Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Heytesbury, Wiltshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Charlotte Robinson on 07 Mar 1812 in House of the Earl of Powis, Berkeley Square, Westminster. Charlotte (daughter of John Robinson and Rebecca Clive) was born on 26 Mar 1784; was christened on 26 Mar 1784 in St. George Hanover Square, Westminster, London; died on 03 Jul 1813 in Hanover Square, London, England; was buried on 09 Jul 1813 in St. George's, Hanover Square, London (Bayswater Street Burial Ground). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Countess St. Germans Susanna "Susan" Mordaunt on 30 Aug 1814 in Chapel of Walton, Wellesbourne, Warwickshire. Susanna (daughter of 7th Baronet John Mordaunt and Elizabeth Prowse) was born on 15 Dec 1779; was christened on 05 Jan 1780 in Westminster, London; died on 05 Feb 1830 in Fulford Park, Devon; was buried on 12 Feb 1830 in St. Swithin's, Shobrooke, Devon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Presentation at Court: 18 Jan 1805, Presented by Lady Chatham
• Residence: Between 1830 and 1842, 17 Stratford Place
• Visiting: 14 Nov 1831, 8 Portland-terrace, Brighthelmston
• Visiting: 15 Nov 1836, Worthing (with Sir William)
• Residence: 1841, 17 Stratford Place
• Burial Plot: Oct 1842, Anglican Chapel, Compartment 10 of Vault 95 of Catacomb B in plot no 2819

Notes:

Harriet married William Henry Pringle on 20 May 1806 in St. George, Hanover Square (Dover Street Dwelling of John, Earl of Chatham). William (son of Henry Pringle and Mary Godley) was born on 21 Aug 1772; died on 23 Dec 1840 in 17 Stratford Place, Marylebone, Middelsex; was buried on 02 Jan 1841 in Anglican Chapel, All Souls Cemetery, Kensal Green, London (Compartment 9 of Vault 95 of Catacomb B in plot no 2819). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Education: 03 Feb 1809 - 1811, Westminster School
• Education: 13 Dec 1815, Matric. Christ Church, Oxford (aged 17)
• Residence: Oct 1816, Trebursey
• Occupation: 03 Sep 1819, Brussels (At the Embassy)
• Occupation: 29 Jan 1821, Brussels (At the Embassy)
• Military Service: 10 Oct 1822, Ensign (Cornwall, 32 Regt of Foot)
• Elected: 1827, Mayor of Liskeard
• Military Service: 17 Jan 1827, Lieut-Colonel (Regt. of North Cornwall Yeomanry Cavalry)
• Grand Dinner: 29 Mar 1828, Lord Eliot, Dover Street, London
• Occupation: Apr 1827 - Nov 1830, Lord of the Treasury
• Occupation: 16 Jan 1824 - 1832, M.P. for Liskeard
• Resignation: 11 Feb 1833, Borough of Liskeard (Position of Alderman)
• Occupation: 30 Mar 1835 - 31 Mar 1835, Leaves Dover St. for Spain (Lord Eliot Convention)
• Occupation: 1834 - 1837, Envoy Extraordinary to Spain
• Occupation: 1840, Vice-Pres. Elect for British Association for the Advancement of Science
• Census: 1841, 47 Dover St., St. George's Hanover Square, Westminster, London
• Occupation: 1841, Vice-President of British Association for the Advancement of Science
• Appointment: 2 Apr 1841, Deputy Lieutenant of Cornwall
• Visiting: Sep 1843, Lord E and Jemima Tour Lakes of Killarney
• Residence: 1845, 7 New Burlington-street (Stables at 8 Burlington Mews)
• Occupation: Sep 1841 - Jan 1845, Chief Secretary to Lord Lieutenant
• Occupation: 1837 - 19 Jan 1845, M.P. for Cornwall East
• Residence: 1846, 36 Dover Street, Piccadilly, London
• Occupation: Jan 1846 - Jun 1846, Postmaster-General
• Census: 1851, 36 Dover St., St. George's Hanover Square, Westminster, London
• Visiting: 13 Oct 1851, Earl and Countess St G Leave Dover Street for Continental Tour
• Visiting: Mar 1852, Earl and Countess St G Tour Italy and France
• Appointment: 28 Aug 1852, Special Deputy Warden of the Stannaries in Cornwall and Devon
• Occupation: 05 Jan 1853 - 07 Mar 1855, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
• Occupation: 23 Nov 1857 - 25 Feb 1858, Master King's Household (2,000 l. pa); Lord Steward
• Residence: 1860, 36 Dover Street, Piccadilly, London
• Occupation: 20 Jun 1860, Queen's Levee at St. James' Palace; In Honour of Queen's Accession to the Throne
• Census: 1861, Port Eliot, St. Germans, Cornwall
• Residence: 29 Dec 1862, Arrives at Dover-street from Port Eliot
• Occupation: Between 01 Jan 1864 and 19 Jan 1866, Master King's Household (2,000 l. pa); Lord Steward
• Residence: 1865, 36 Dover Street, Piccadilly, London
• Census: 1871, 36 Dover St., St. George's Hanover Square, Westminster, London
• Residence: 1876, 36 Dover St
• Probate: 21 Dec 1877, Principal Registry, London

Notes:

--- "North Devon Journal" 07 Nov 1850, page 8:
ST. GERMANS' AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY
The present Earl of St. Germans, better known as Lord Eliot, formerly Secretary for Ireland, met the Agricultural Society of his neighbourhood on Thursday last. As his lordship is a man of considerable mark, and was formerly a Protectionist, our readers may be interested in knowing what are his present opinions upon agriculture, and we therefore insert his speech, as follows:--

I have, on former occasions, called upon you to drink "Prosperity to the St. Germans' Farmers' Club," and have exhorted you to promote its success by all and every means within your power; but I have never done it on any previous occasion with greater earnestness than upon the present, because I feel that the times call for additional exertion. Now, gentlemen, I believe that, throughout the length and the breadth of the land, a spirit has gone forth, exhorting the farmer to develop the capabilities of the soil to the greatest extent, and to increase to the utmost its productive powers -- (hear, hear). Those who make no effort to keep pace with the march of improvement, will not only be left far behind, but will be less able than those who do to cope with the difficulties to which I have adverted -- (hear, hear). Gentlemen, good farming -- by which I do not mean unnecessarily expensive farming -- will frequently pay, when bad farming will not -- (hear, hear). I take good farming to consist in clean and careful cultivation -- in the application of a proper quantity of suitable measure -- in a judicious rotation of crops adapted to the peculiarities of the soil -- and in a judicious outlay of capital to an amount proportioned to the return which it can fairly be expected to make. In these respects, undoubtedly, science does lend its aid; and very useful and important aid it gives us. It teaches the farmer to analyse different manures -- to ascertain their different properties -- and so to learn how far they are, or are not, adapted to the soil which he has to cultivate; but, as Mr. Roseveare has very properly observed, science of itself is not sufficient. Experience must go hand in hand with science, practice with theory; and it is because I think societies such as this particularly well calculated to apply this test of experience to science, that I think them so important. It is not given to science to penetrate all the mysteries of nature -- to lay open all her processes, or to discover all her secrets -- there are some things which it is impossible for science to find out, or to make clear, until the test of practical experience has been applied to them -- (hear, hear). When I look at the vast additions which have been made, within a comparatively short period, to the number of the productions of other soils and other climates, which have become naturalised in this, I do not despair of seeing that number very considerably increased. It is not 70 or 80 years ago, that the cultivation of the turnip became general in the country; my grandfather was one of the first, if not the first, to introduce it here; and when we see that there is now no part of the country in which it is more successfully cultivated than in this, we may fairly hope to obtain equal excellence in other crops -- (hear, hear). I am not a practical man. I do not pretend to give an opinion worth acting on, but I will venture to call your attention to the single subject of flax. Within the last few years the cultivation of flax has spread with extraordinary rapidity throughout the whole of Ireland; and it is there found to be a most valuable crop, the fibre being applied to the manufacture of linen, and the seed as food for cattle. It is impossible for me to say that the soil and climate of this country are as well suited to the growth of flax as the climate and soil of Ireland. I am far from saying so; but I do think that it is worth the while of our agriculturists to enquire how far it may be introduced here with success. Beyond this I will not go; but when I consider the circumstances of the times, and that we are now exposed to the competition of other countries, I feel that no means should be left untried to develop to the utmost the resources and capabilities of the soil. I do not mean to lay down any rule, or to direct you to any course as that which ought to be pursued; but we should not lose sight of the fact that the immediate district is situated within a few miles of the three towns -- I might almost call them the one town, of Plymouth, Devonport, and Stonehouse -- with their population of 100,000; and that there must be, in these towns, with their large and increasing population, a great and growing demand for your meant, milk, butter, turnips, and the other products of the soil. With this market you have frequent communication by water, which you have lately made more available by the introduction of steam; and I may be permitted to remark, in passing, that I think the farmers of the neighbourhood will very much consult their own interests by making that communication by steam as convenient and expeditious as possible. You should not throw away one of the advantages which you possess. If you find that one description of crop will make a better return than another, you should not be so wedded to the practice or routine of former years as to discard it. And without wishing, I repeat, to prescribe any particular course, I think that every man in his own sphere might try some few experiments, and that at these meetings, where men who are engaged in a common pursuit meet together for the advancement of a common object, the greatest possible benefit might be derived from the communication, by individuals, of experiments tried by themselves upon a small scale. With respect to the meeting of to-day, I think that nothing is more calculated to improve our husbandry than the encouragement given by this and similar societies to good ploughing. The time may come when steam will supersede the plough; but, until that day arrives, as good husbandry depends upon the proper culture of the soil, so nothing will do more to promote it than the encouragement of those who plough well -- (hear, hear). It is further important, as showing that we realise and appreciate the exertions of our poorer neighbours, and we may hope that the rewards which have been given, in this assembly, to the successful competitors in this day's trial, will stimulate them to still further efforts.

Edward married Countess St. Germans, Jemima Cornwallis on 02 Sep 1824 in St. James, Westminster, London. Jemima (daughter of 2nd Marquess Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis and Louisa Gordon) was born on 24 May 1803 in Burlington-street, London, Middlesex; was christened on 02 Jun 1803 in Westminster, London; died on 02 Jul 1856 in 36 Dover Street, Piccadilly, St. George, Hanover Square, London; was buried on 07 Jul 1856 in Kensal Green, London (Plot 269, Old Square 167 now Square 183). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Presentation at Court: 17 Jun 1819, Presented to the Regent with Susan and Sisters
• Probate: 06 Jul 1866, Principal Registry, London

Notes:

--- "Parliamentary Papers, Hous of Commons and Command" Volume 41, 1835, page 301:
County of Gloucester. Abstract of Education Returns, 1833.
AMPNEY-DOWN Parish (Pop. 463.)---- One Infant School (commenced 1833), containing 9 males and 5 females, who are instructed partly at the expense of Lady Caroline Eliot, and partly at that of their parents. --- One Daily School, containing 19 males and 28 females, is wholly supported by Lady Caroline Eliot. --- One Sunday School, with 30 males and 25 females, is supported by subscription from the parishioneers.

--- "Morning Chronicle" Friday, 22 Jun 1855, page 4:
BRIGHTON. Lady Caroline Eliot has taken apartments at the Queen's-road Mansion.

--- "The United Service Magazine" vol 98, 1862, page 268:
What Can it Be; or, the Fact Gamily Travelling Incognito. Edited by Lady Caroline Eliot, 1 vol. with Illustrations.
The travels of the Fact Family are rather discursive, but they are very amusing, being quite out of the common track. They are addressed principally to the young, and exhibit considerable knowledge of the world and of the byeways of life in a form to catch their attention. The satire is playful and good tempered, and is a sort of cross between Gay and Gulliver --- for the Fact Family are a little given to fable. But nothing is overdone, and the volume is just of a length to meet the subject, so that it wiles away an hour very agreeably. It is elegantly got up and handsomely bound, while the price is only five shillings; making it very suitable for a gift book and placing it within easy reach.

"The Gentleman's Magazine", Vol. 220, Jan-June 1866, page 772--- seen on Google Books.:
"April 22. At St. Michael's, Bogner, aged 66, the Lady Carolina Georgiana Eliot. She was the eldest and only surviving dau. of William, 2nd Earl of St. Germains, by his first wife, Lady Georgiana Augusta, 4th dau. of Granville, 1st Marquis of Stafford, K.G., and was born July 27, 1799."

--- "Hampshire Telegraph" Saturday, 28 Apr 1866, page 5:
ELIOT--- On the 22nd instant, at St. Michael's, Bogner, Sussex, Lady Caroline Eliot, the lady warden of the school, in her 67th year.

--- South London Chronicle" Saturday, 20 Oct 1866, page 6:
A the feast of St. Michael, the other day, the Bishop of Chichester formally installed Miss Frances Wheeler as warden of St. Michel's Institute, in place of the late Lady Caroline Eliot. The proceedings were of a very formal and ritualistic character, and the dresses and decorations were very elaborate.

--- "England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1861-1941" (1866, E, EL, 4):
Eliot, The Right Honourable Caroline Georgiana commonly called Eliot, Lady Caroline Georgiana Eliot
Effects under 18,000 pounds.
"6 July. The Will of the Right Honourable Caroline Georgiana Eliot commonly called Lady Caroline Georgiana Eliot late of St. Michael's Bogner in the County of Sussex. Spinster deceased who died 22 April 1866 at St. Michael's aforesaid was proved at the Principal Registry by the oaths of George Edward Martin of St. Cloud near Worcester in the County of Worcester Esquire the Nephew and the Honourable and Reverend Walter William Brabazon Ponsonby of Canford Magna in the County of Dorset Clerk the Executors."

--- "The Cornish Telegraph" 4 Jun 1873, page 3:
ST. GERMANS.
Two windows have been just placed in St. Germans' Church. One on the south side is in memory of Lady Caroline Eliot, and is the gift of Lord Eliot. The other at the east end is the gift of the Hon. H.C. Eliot, and commemorates the life of his aunt, Lady Louisa Cornwallis. Both are exquisitely handsome. The delicate work was confided to Messrs. Burlison and Grylls, Oxford-street, London.

--- Taken from: http://www.yongeletters.com/
Lady Caroline Georgiana Eliot, headmistress
She was recipient of sums from Charlotte Mary Yonge from 1856, headmistress of a large [for then] girls' school, St. Michael's College, Bognor. This was a school associated with the Woodard schools, and closed, as St. Michael's, Petworth, in 1994. She was eldest daughter of William, 2nd Earl of St. Germans (1767-1845). Her stepmother Susan Mordaunt was the aunt of Mary Anne Dyson's friend Mary (Mordaunt), Lady Acland. [PB; 1861 census] Her successor as headmistress of St. Michael's was Frances Wheeler.

--- "All Saints Sisters of the Poor: An Anglican Sisterhood in the Nineteenth Century" Susan Mumm, 2001, page 50:
About 1852 was the date when first I knew of the 'Woodward Schools' & my father at once threw himself into the plan of founding Church Schools for the middle classes (boys & girls). A spiritual daughter of Mr Woodwards* began St. Michaels School for girls, at Brighton, which has now developed in to St Michaels' School - Bogner.** Miss Rooper who began the School, was the daughter of a clergyman who lived on his own means, in a large house at Brighton - he was very Protestant & would not consent to his daughter dedicating her life to GOD, & the Church - so all she could do was to visit her little school daily & impart to the children, the Church's Truth & very deep spirituality, and rules of self-discipline and mortification. My sister & I were placed under her care for a year, & she did much for our inner life & helped us greatly. She afterwards died when the School was in its infancy - Lady Caroline Eliot came forward to take up this work as a Church work & carried it to Bogner.

*Nathaniel Woodward (1811-91), who established affordable schools for the middle classes, and a friend of Oakeley.

** The school was founded in 1856 and moved to Petworth when the second world war broke out, where it remained.

--- "Handbook for Travellers in Sussex" John Murray, 1877, page 76:
Bognor (Pop. 2,811), lying 3-1/2 miles S. (Innds: Norfolk Hotel; Sussex; Claremont), is like the other small watering-places on this coast, and is advancing; en Esplanade and Pier has been formed. It is, however, still dull, and the climate is as mild as that of Worthing. At Bognor is St. Michael's College, an establishment for female education, founded by the late Lady [Caroline] Georgiana Eliot, and conducted on similar principles to St. Nicholas College at Lancing.

The country around Bognor is perfectly flat, but there are some interesting points for visitors. . . . Close to the short, and extending about 2 m. inton the sea, are the so-called Bognor rocks, visible only at low water, fragments of a deposit which, even within the memory of man, formed a line of low cliffs along the coast. They are of a sandy limestone filled with fossils of the London clag, Nautili shells, and bored wood.

Other Events:

• Burial: 03 Oct 1867, Churchyard of Madresfield, Worcester

Notes:

Susan married 4th Earl Beauchamp, Henry Beauchamp Lygon on 08 Jul 1824 in St. George, Hanover Square, London. Henry (son of William Lygon and Catharine Denn) was born on 06 Jan 1784; was christened on 03 Feb 1785 in Madresfield, Worcestershire; died on 08 Sep 1863 in Madresfield Court, Great Malvern Worcester; was buried on 15 Sep 1863 in Mortuary Chapel, St. Mary the Virgin, Madresfield, Worcestershire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Presentation at Court: 17 Jun 1819, Presented to the Regent with Susan and Sisters

Notes:

--- St. German's Parish Records have her baptized at St. Germans on 27 Dec 1802 (?)

--- "Western Times" 02 July 1831, page 2:
CITY SESSIONS.
Richard Malben, 44 charged with stealing a bracelet and clasp of considerable value, property of the Rev. Chancellor Martin. It appeared that in February last, Lady Charlotte Martin, lost a valuable bracelet, at which time the prisoner was in the service of the Rev. Chancellor. Every search was made for it in vain. In the early part of this month, a female named Maria Chapman, offered the clasp for sale at Mr. Al Harts, on Fore Street Hill, whose son, Halick Levi, being present and entertaining some suspicions, under pretence of ascertaining its value procured an officer and secured the girl, on whose person the bracelet was also found. On being questioned she stated that she had received it from Richard Malben, who had requested her to dispose of it. On the trial Charlotte Chapman appeared as an evidence against the prisoner. On her cross examination, she stated that her mother washed for the Chancellor's family, and had worked in the house but not since February last. The Rev. Chancellor stated his belief from the workmanship, &c. that the bracelet was the one lost by Lady Charlotte, but could not swear to its identity. Mr. Pridham, surgeon, proved the inability of Lady Charlotte to attend the trial. Mr. Praed, who was counsel for the prisoner, contended that there was a want of identity. J.H. Seale, esq. gave the prisoner a good character, after a service of many years. On this evidence the case was left to the Jury who not agreeing were locked up and did not return their verdict till Wednesday morning 11 o'clock, and then acquitted the prisoner.

--- "Exeter and Plymouth Gazette" 02 Jul 1831, page 3:
The trial of Richard Malben, at our City Sessions, charged with stealing a bracelet of great value, the property of Lady Charlotte Martin, will be read with much interest. We understand that on Wednesday, after his discharge, Malben called at the house of Taylor, the Police Officer, and modestly demanded the bracelet, as he said the Chanceloor had failed in proving it to be his property!!! The fellow has since had the assurance to make an application to the committing Magistrate for the same purpose.

--- "Exeter and Plymouth Gazette" 02 Jul 1831, page 4:
EXTRAORDINARY TRIAL.
Richard Malben, coachman to to Chancellor Martin, was charged with stealing on the 17th of February, 1831, in the parish of St. Edmunds on the Bridge, a bracelet and clasp, of the value of 20 pounds, a bracelet of the value of 15 pounds, and a clasp of the value of 5 pounds, and 5 ounces of gold of the value of 15 pounds, the property of his said master. There was another count charging him with committing the felony in the parish of St. Thomas the Apostle, in the County of Devon, and within 500 yards of the County of the City of Exeter. A third count charged the felony as committed in Exeter, omitting the allegation that he was a servant. A fourth count made the same omission with respect to the County of Devon.
. . . [Lots more in this article.]

--- "North Devon Journal" 13 Jul 1837, page 3:
The Rev. Chancellor and Lady Charlotte Martin are returned from the Continent. We are happy to state that her Ladyship is much improved in health.

--- "North Devon Journal" 11 Jul 1839, page 3:
DEATHS.
On the 8th inst., at Park Hill house, Torquay, the Lady Charlotte Martin.

--- "Western Times" 13 Jul 1839, page 3:
The melancholy death of the Lady Charlotte Martin has overwhelmed several distinguished families with heartfelt sorrow. The event was communicated to this city by the tolling of the Cathedral bell on Monday evening.

--- "Western Times" 20 Jul 1839, page 3:
The remains of the late Lady Charlotte Martin were taken from Torquay on Tuesday morning, for interment at Harberton, near Totnes: the mournful cavalcade left at about 8 o'clock, the hearse and two mourning coaches each drawn by four horses, and the Chancellor's private carriage, &c. &c attended.

--- "The Gentleman's Magazine", Vol. 166, July to Dec. 1839, page 212:
July 8. At Torquay, aged 37, Lady Charlotte-Sophia, wife of the Rev. Geo. Martin, Canon RESIdentiary of Exeter. She was the third dau. of William present and second Earl of St. Germain's, by his first wife Lady Jemima Cornwallis; and was married in 1825.*

Erratum, p. 212. -- Lady Charlotte Sophia Martin was the third daughter of William second Earl of St. Germain's by his first wife Lady Georgiana Augusta Leveson Gower. (Lady Jemima Cornwallis is the wife of Lord Eliot, son of Earl of St. German's.)

--- Heraldic Church Notes lists on page 73:
In Harberton Church, Devon, is a marble tablet for Lady Charlotte Sophia, youngest daughter of the Right Hon. the Earl of St. Germans, and wife of the Rev. George Martin, vicar of this parish, who died 8th July, 1839, aged 38. Also Susan Isabella, their second duaghter, who died 23rd June, 1840, aged 12 years; and the sister of the last-named, Georgiana, their eldest daughter, who died 10th Sept., 1841, aged 15 years.

Near this tablet is a mural monument, with the inscription and arms on a brass plate, in memory of the Rev. George Martin, vicar of this parish for forty years, Canon RESIdentiary of the Cathedral, and Chancellor of the Diocese of Exeter, and for many years representative of the Chapter in Convocation, who died 27th August, 1860, aged 69, and was buried near the south wall of this church. He married first Lady Charlotte Sophia Eliot, youngest daughter of William, second Earl of St. Germans; and secondly Renira Henrietta Aldenburgh, only daughter of Vice-Admiral William Bentinck, who with eight children survive. This monument was erected as a token of esteem by the parishioners.

Charlotte married Reverend George Martin on 26 Jul 1825 in St. James, Westminster, London. George was born about 1791 in Bourton on the Hill, Gloucestershire; died on 27 Aug 1860 in Harberton Vicarage, Harberton; was buried on 03 Sep 1860 in Haberton Church, Devon (near the South Wall). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Memorial in the A'Court Family Pew at Heytesbury Church:
Sacred to the memory of the Honourable Laetitia Eliot, eldest daughter of Sir William Pierce Ashe à Court Baronet. She died in her first childbed of twins, born dead, on the 20th January 1810, aged 31.

Let those who mourn in proportion as they once revered and loved her. Let those whose distresses have been relieved by her benevolence or soothed by her gentleness pay the best tribute to her memory by allowing her mild example of influence on their hearts and lives; Let those sometimes look at this memorial and contemplate the benefit to be derived from a lively recollection of her piety and charity in the season of prosperity and ease and of her meekness and RESIgnation when the Almighty changed the manner of her trial and stretched her on the bed of suffering pain and death.

Notes:

• Cenotaph Inscription (St. Nicholas Church, Denston, Suffolk):
CHARLOTTE,
eldest daughter of Lieut. Genl. Robinson & Rebecca his wife,
born in March, 1784,
whose personal loveliness, amiable disposition,
and active benevolence, rendered her, while living,
an object of general endearment;
and left behind her the regret and the blessings
of the afflicted and necessitous.
In March, 1812, she was married
to the Honble. William Eliot of St. Germains
(from whom she experienced the tenderest affection);
and died in June, 1813,
surviving her infant only nine days.

Other Events:

• Census: 1861, 22 Upper Montagu St., Montagu Sq., Marylebone, London

Notes:

--- "Morning Post" Friday, 16 January 1807:
Births. -- On the 8th instant, at Chatham, the Lady of Colonel Pringle, of the Coldstream Gurads, of a daughter.

--- "Exeter and Plymouth Gazette" 2 Sep 1843, page 3:
This day (Friday) the Misses Pringle passed through this city, stopping at Pratt's Old London Inn, on their way from London to St. Germains, on a visit to the Noble Earl.

--- "Western Courier" 13 Sep 1843, page 3:
Lady Jemima Eliot, accompanied by the Honourable Miss Eliot, have left the seat of the venerable Earl of St. Germans for Ireland, and the Misses Pringle, have since arrived at Port Eliot on a visit to the noble Earl.

--- All five children of William Henry and Harriet Pringle subscribed to a book called "The Reformed Grammar" by Herald Murray, 1847.

--- "The Charity School of the Whole Parish of St. Mary-Le-Bone (Established in 1750), for Maintaining, Clothing, Educating, Apprenticing and Qualifiying for Useful Servants, One Hundred & Thirty-Five Girls, Children of Poor Inhabitants" Report, Feb. 1853, page 44:
List of Annual Subscribers.
Pringle, Miss, 4, Bentinck street.
Pringle, Miss Anne Elizabeth, ditto

--- "Hampshire Chronicle" 16 Aug 1856, page 7:
At St. Marylebone, Major James W. S. Waller, Knight of the Royal Guelphic Order, and late of the 10th Foot, to Mary Georgiana, daughter of the late General Sir William Henry Pringle, G.C.B. Col. of the 45th Regiment of Foot.

--- "1861 England Census Record" (Middlesex, St Marylebone, St Mary, District 16, 7) -- seen on Ancestry.com:
"22 Upper Montagu St. - Mary G Waller - Wife - Mar - 54 - Military Officer's Wife - Kent Rochester"

--- "Morning Post" 26 Jan 1880, page 8:
Waller.--- On the 22d inst., at Sandgate, the widow of Major Waller, K.H., aged seventy-three.

--- "Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald" Saturday, 31 January 1880, page 4:
[Deaths.] Sandgate --- Jan. 22, Mary Georgina, widow of the late Major Waller, K.H., and eldest daughter of the late General Sir W.H. Pringle, G.C.B., aged 73.

---- "England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1861-1941":
Waller, Mary Georgiana
Personal Estate under 12,000 pounds
11 February [proved]
The Will of Mary Georgiana Waller formerly of 22 Upper-Montague-street Montague-square in the County of Middlesex but late of Hamilton Cottage Sandgate in the County of Kent. Widow who died 22 January 1880 at Hamilton Cottage was proved at the Principal Registry by John Pitt Taylor of 58 Eccleston-square in the County of Middlesex Esquire the sole Executor.

Buried:
Kensal Green Cemetery (Plot 27248 / Square 33

Mary married James Waller Samo Waller on 09 Aug 1856 in Parish Church, St. Marylebone, Westminster, London, Middlesex. James (son of Lawrence Samo) was born about 1796 in Paddington, Middlesex; died on 20 Feb 1868 in 22 Upper Montagu St., Montagu Square, St. Marylebone, London; was buried on 24 Feb 1868 in 3rd Row). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Census: 1861, 22 Upper Montagu St., Montagu Sq., Marylebone, London

Notes:

--- "Exeter and Plymouth Gazette" 2 Sep 1843, page 3:
This day (Friday) the Misses Pringle passed through this city, stopping at Pratt's Old London Inn, on their way from London to St. Germains, on a visit to the Noble Earl.

--- "Western Courier" 13 Sep 1843, page 3:
Lady Jemima Eliot, accompanied by the Honourable Miss Eliot, have left the seat of the venerable Earl of St. Germans for Ireland, and the Misses Pringle, have since arrived at Port Eliot on a visit to the noble Earl.

--- All five children of William Henry and Harriet Pringle subscribed to a book called "The Reformed Grammar" by Herald Murray, 1847.

--- "The Charity School of the Whole Parish of St. Mary-Le-Bone (Established in 1750), for Maintaining, Clothing, Educating, Apprenticing and Qualifiying for Useful Servants, One Hundred & Thirty-Five Girls, Children of Poor Inhabitants" Report, Feb. 1853, page 44:
List of Annual Subscribers.
Pringle, Miss, 4, Bentinck street.
Pringle, Miss Anne Elizabeth, ditto

--- "1861 England Census Record" (Middlesex, St Marylebone, St Mary, District 16, 7):
"22 Upper Montagu St. - Anne E. Pringle - Sister-in-law - Un - 53 - General Officer's Daughter - Kent Rochester"

--- "The Times" (London) 14 Sep 1865, page 1:
On the 10th inst, at 4, Sunfield-terrace, Blackheath, aged 57. Anne Elizabeth, second daughter of the late Lieut.-General Sir W.H. Pringle, G.C.B.

--- Greenwich Cemetery Burial Info (as sent to me from their records in 2013):
"Hannah Elizabeth Pringle, age 57 years at death, is buried in Greenwich Cemetery (Section 1st Con, grave no. 2224A). John Henry Pringle was the owner of that grave, and there is a monument on it."
The monument is a large stone slab, but there is nothing engraved on it at all. Presumably, John Henry Pringle died before having this done, and the family may not have realized that Anne Elizabeth's grave was never marked.

-----"England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1861-1941":
Pringle, Anne Elizabeth
Effects under 12,000 pounds
22 September [proved]
The Will with a Codicil of Anne Elizabeth Pringle late of 22 Upper-Montague-street, Montague-square in the County of Middlesex Spinster deceased who died 10 September 1865 at 4 Sunfield-terrace Shooter's-Hill road Blackheath in the County of Kent was proved at the Principal Registry by the oaths of John Henry Pringle of 3 Queen's-gate-terrace Hyde Park in the County of Middlesex aforesaid Colonel in Her Majesty's Army the Brother and John Pitt Taylor of 58 Eccleston-square in the County of Middlesex aforesaid Esqire the Executors.

Other Events:

• Military Service: 24 Dec 1825, Lieutenant; Coldstream Guards: Rank of Ensign
• Military Service: 15 Jun 1830, Captain; Coldstream Guards: Rank of Lieutenant
• Published: Between 1839 and 1840, The Correspondence of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham (with his cousin, Wm. Taylor)
• Presentation at Court: 06 Mar 1839, Queen's Levee at St. James' Palace (by His Father)
• Military Service: 13 May 1842, Promoted to Rank of Lieut.- Colonel
• Published: 1846, Algiers, The Warlike (a Volume of Poems)
• Residence: 1851, 13 Kensington-gardens, Paddington, London
• Subscription: 1853, 'The Principles of War' by A.F. Lendy
• Military Service: 20 Jun 1854, Promoted to Rank of Colonel
• Military Service: 20 Jan 1855, Commanding Lt.-Col 6th Lancashire Militia
• Military Service: 25 Mar 1856, Scots Fusilier Guards: Promoted to Captain and Lt. Col. from Half-Pay Unattached
• Residence: 1861, 3 Queen's Gate Terrace, Kensington, London
• Residence: 15 Mar 1862, 10 Regency Square, Brighton (Arrival)
• Will: 11 May 1863

Notes:

John married Georgiana Ramsbottom on 24 Dec 1835 in St. Anne Limehouse, Tower Hamlets, London. Georgiana (daughter of James Ramsbottom and Emma Batson) was born on 20 Oct 1809 in Windsor, Berkshire, England; was christened on 14 Oct 1810 in Clewer, Berkshire, England; died on 23 Jun 1884 in Dunford's Hotel, Malta; was buried in Ta Braxia Cemetery, Malta. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Census: 1861, 4 Sunfield Terrace, Greenwich, Kent
• Census: 1871, 4 Sunfield-terrace, Greenwich, Kent
• Census: 1881, 4 Sunfield-terrace, Greenwich, Kent

Notes:

--- Goddaughter of Hon. Catherine Neville (sister of Richard, 3rd baron Braybrooke). Received 100 pounds in Catherine's will.

--- "Evening Mail" 13 Jun 1853, page 8:
On the 6th inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square, by the Rev. Albert Alston, Frederick Thomas Cruse, Esq., to Catherine Harriet Frances, third daughter of the late Lieutenant-General Sir William Henry Pringle, G.C.B.

--- A Marriage Licence Application Transcription:
License date:17 Jul 1843
License date year:1843
Bride's last name:PRINGLE
Bride's first name:Catherine Harriett Frances
Dual date:17 Jul 1843
Groom's last name:HODGSON
Groom's first name:James
Record source:Faculty Office Marriage Licence Allegations 1701-1850

--- There is a document of Marriage (or Banns) for 14 Jul 1844 (Parish of St. Mary, Lambeth, London) for Catherine Harriet and Julius Aurelius Frederick De Stenger, a Widower. I can find no record of this marriage taking place.

--- "Exeter and Plymouth Gazette" 2 Sep 1843, page 3:
This day (Friday) the Misses Pringle passed through this city, stopping at Pratt's Old London Inn, on their way from London to St. Germains, on a visit to the Noble Earl.

--- "Western Courier" 13 Sep 1843, page 3:
Lady Jemima Eliot, accompanied by the Honourable Miss Eliot, have left the seat of the venerable Earl of St. Germans for Ireland, and the Misses Pringle, have since arrived at Port Eliot on a visit to the noble Earl.

--- All five children of William Henry and Harriet Pringle subscribed to a book called "The Reformed Grammar" by Herald Murray, 1847.

--- "1861 England Census Record" (Kent, Greenwich, Greenwich East, District 18, image 29 of 36):
4 Sunfield Terrace - Fred T Cruse - Head - Married - 43 - Clerk in Bank of England - Somerset Bath
Cath Ht Fr Cruse - Wife - Mar - 47 - London
Har Margt Cruse - Daughter - Unmarried - 6 - Kent Blackheath
Eliza Cullum - Cook - Unmarried - 50 - Cook - Essex
Anna Hardingham - Servant - Unmarried - 69 - Housemaid - Norfolk Hartstone

--- "1871 England Census Record" (Kent, Greenwich, Greenwich East, 14):
4 Sunfield Terrace - Catherine H. F. Cruse - Head - W - 50 - Income from Dividend - Middlesex, London
Harriet M. Cruse - Dau - Single - 16 - Scholar - Kent
Eliza Cullum - Servant - Unmarried - 63 - Cook - Essex
Caroline Bonnington - Servant - Unmarried - 22 - Housemaid - Wales

--- "1881 England Census Record" (London, Greenwich, Greenwich East, District 14, 19):
4 Sunfield Terrace - C. Harriet Cruse - Head - W - 58 - Middlesex, London
(She's living by herself with no occupation listed, one cook/servant and a housemaid. Her daughter is nowhere to be seen.)

----"England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1861-1941":
Cruse, Catherine Harriet Frances
Personal Estate 219 pounds 14 shillings
07 February [proved]
Administration of the Personal Estate of Catherine Harriet Frances Cruse late of 3 Enbrook-cottages Cheriton in the County of Kent Widow who died 9 December 1890 at 3 Enbrook-cottages was granted at Canterbury to Harriet Margaret Champion (Wife of Henry Champion) of 3 Enbrook-cottages the Daughter and only Next of Kin.

Catherine married Frederick Thomas Cruse on 06 Jun 1853 in St. George, Hanover Square, London. Frederick (son of Thomas Cruse and Margaret) was born on 08 Jan 1818 in Bath, Somerset; was christened on 15 Feb 1832 in Walcot St. Swithin, Somerset; died on 10 Jan 1864 in Sunfield-terrace, Shooter's-Hill Rd, Greenwich, Kent; was buried on 16 Jan 1864 in Greenwich Cemetery, London. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Probate: 30 Jun 1871, London, England

Notes:

--- "Morning Post" Saturday, 16 Jan 1819:
On the 14th inst. in Stratford-place, Lady Pringle, of a daughter.

--- All five children of William Henry and Harriet Pringle subscribed to a book called "The Reformed Grammar" by Herald Murray, 1847.

--- "Exeter and Plymouth Gazette" 2 Sep 1843, page 3:
This day (Friday) the Misses Pringle passed through this city, stopping at Pratt's Old London Inn, on their way from London to St. Germains, on a visit to the Noble Earl.

--- "Western Courier" 13 Sep 1843, page 3:
Lady Jemima Eliot, accompanied by the Honourable Miss Eliot, have left the seat of the venerable Earl of St. Germans for Ireland, and the Misses Pringle, have since arrived at Port Eliot on a visit to the noble Earl.

--- "The Times" (London) 13 Jun 1871, page 1:
On the 12th June, at 17, Bedford-place, Russell-square, Hester Margaret, youngest daughter of the late General Sir William Pringle K.C.B., and wife of Dr. Waller Lewis, Physician to H.M. Post-office.

--- "England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1861-1941":
Lewis, Hester Margaret
Effects under 10,000 pounds
30 June [Probate]
Administration (with the Will) of all and singular the effects of Hester Margaret Lewis (Wife of Waller Augustus Lewis Esquire M.D.) formerly of Bedford-square but late of 17 Bedford-place Russell-square both in the County of Middlesex who died 12 June 1871 at Bedford-place was granted at the Principal Registry to the said Waller Augustus Lewis of 17 Bedford-place the sole Executor.

Hester married Waller Augustus Lewis on 24 Aug 1850 in St. George, Hanover Square, London. Waller (son of Lewis "Kensington Lewis" Kensington Solomon and Harriet Sara Samo) was born before 20 Jan 1816 in London; was christened on 20 Jan 1816 in St. Martin in the Fields, Westminster, London; died on 08 Sep 1882 in Crown Hotel, Whitby, York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Medical: Bef 15 Jun 1847, Has Measles
• Census: 1851, 36 Dover St., St. George's Hanover Square, Westminster, London

Notes:

--- "Morning Chronicle" 23 December 1825, page 4:
On the 17th instant, the Lady Jemima Eliot, of a daughter.

--- "Western Courier" 13 Sep 1843, page 3:
Lady Jemima Eliot, accompanied by the Honourable Miss Eliot, have left the seat of the venerable Earl of St. Germans for Ireland, and the Misses Pringle, have since arrived at Port Eliot on a visit to the noble Earl.

--- "London Evening Standard" 25 Dec 1847, page 2:
The Earl of St. Germans and Lord Eliot arrived at Port Eliot, the family seat in Cornwall, on Wednesday last from town. The Countess and Lady Louisa Eliot had arrived there the previous Friday.

--- "Western Courier" 2 Feb 1848, page 3:
Major-General the Hon. Henry, and Mrs. Murray entertained at dinner on Thursday, the 27th of January, at Government House, Lord Eliot, Lady Louisa Eliot, Hon. Granville and William Eliot, Hon. Captain and Mrs. Dalzell, 81st Regiment; Colonel and Mrs. Barlow, 14th Regiment; Colonel and Mrs. Rowland, Royal Artillery; Captain Schomber, R.N.; Mr. Massingberd; Copleston L. Radcliffe, Esq; Lieutenant and Miss West; Lietuenants Lepper and Jones; Captain Nelson, Brigade Majore; Captain Prothero, A.D.C. The whole party went in the evening to the ball at Moorshead's Hotel, patronised by the Honourable Mrs. Henry Murray, which was very well attended; and the arrangements did credit to Mr. Moorshead, and gave universal satisfaction. It is hoped that these ball-rooms will be liberally patronised, as they afford amusement easily accessible to families residing at Stoke, Devonport, and in Cornwall.

--- "Illustrated London News" 2 Jun 1849, page 10:
MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.--- On Wednesday, at St. George's Church, Miss Meyrick, eldest daughter of Colonel and Lady Laura Meyrick, and niece of the Duke and Duchess of Cleveland, was led to the hymeneal altar by Mr. Charles Holder, of the 5th Dragoon Guards. The bride, who was very beautifully attired, was attended by a train of eleven bridemaids, four of whom were her own sisters; the Lady Rachel Russell, Lady Louisa Eliot, Lady Margarent Butler, the Hon. Miss Cotton, Miss Phillpotts, Miss Augusta Somerset, and Miss Gertrude Vane making up the number. Several of these young ladies were attired in pink satin costumes, and the remainder in blue dresses of a similar material. The Bishop of Exeter performed the ceremony, which was attended by a large circle of the friends of both parties. The bride's presents were of the most superb description. The Duke and Duchess of Cleveland, with characteristic munificence, presented their fair niece with a purse of 10,000 pounds, and other relatives made valuable additions to the fiance's jewel-case.

--- "Illustrated London News" 1 Dec 1849, page 12:
The Earl and Countess of St. Germans, and Lady Louisa Eliot arrived in town on Thursday, from a visiting tour in Scotland.

--- "Morning Post" 18 Sep 1854, page 4:
The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and the Countess St. Germans intend to sojourn a few weeks at Port Eliot, the family seat in Cornwall. Lady Louisa Ponsonby (daughter of the noble earl and countess) and infant son, by the last letters from Canford, are progressing most favourably.

--- "Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard" 16 Mar 1895, page 5:
DOWN AMPNEY
The Earl of Bessborough.--- The Hon. and Rev. Walter William Brabazon Ponsonby, who succeeds his brother as seventh Earl, as reported in another page, married, in 1850, Lady Louisa Susan Cornwallis Eliot, duaghter of the third Earl of St. Germans. Their son, Mr. Edward Ponsonby, the Speaker's Secretary, becomes Viscount Duncannon. The Earl of Bessborough is a cousin of Lord de Mauley. The new Earl and Countess of Bessborough have been spending the winter in Cornwall, on a visit to their relatives the Earl and Countess of St. Germans, at Port Eliot. Lord Bessborough is suffering from influenza, and is confined to his bed at Port Eliot.

--- "Royal Cornwall Gazette" Thursday, 17 Feb 1898, page 4:
LOCAL GOSSIP.
Lord and Lady Bessborough and Lady Mary Ponsonby have been staying for some time at Port Eliot, Cornwall, on a visit to Lord and Lady St. Germans. Lady Bessborough is the only sister of Lord St. Germans. She passed all her early life at Port Eliot, and was greatly beloved in the village of St. Germans.

--- "The Scotsman" 16 Jan 1911, page 6:
The Dowager Countess of Bessborough, widow of the seventh Earl, and only sister of the Earl of St Germans, died yesterday morning at her London residence, 38 Eccleston Square. She was 85 years of age. Her Ladyship, who was a daughter of the third Earl of St. Germans and married in 1850, leaves three daughters and five sons. She had been ill for about two months.

--- "Exeter and Plymouth Gazette" Monday, 16 Jan 1911, page 3:
DEATH OF THE DOWAGER COUNTESS BESSBOROUGH.
The Dowager Countess of Bessborough, widow of the seventh Earl, and only sister of the Earl of St. Germans, died yesterday morning at her London residence, 38, Eccleston Square. Her ladyship, who was a daughter of the third Earl of St. Germans, and married in 1850, leaves three daughters and five sons. She was 85 years of age and had been ill for about two months. She gradually grew worse, and, following a serious attack on Monday last, death occurred yesterday from heart failure.

--- "Exeter and Plymouth Gazette" Friday, 20 Jan 1911, page 9:
The Hon. Constance Waldegrave, Sir Spencer Ponsonby Fane, and Sir Hubert and Lady Medlycott were present at the first part of the funeral service of the Dowager Countess of Bessborough, at St. Gabriel's, Warwick-square, Pimlico. The coffin was subsequently removed for interment in the family vault at Bessborough, Piltown, Kilkenny.

--- "Cheltenham Looker-On" Saturday, 21 Jan 1911, page 24:
OBITUARY. We regret to announce the death of the Dowager Countess of Bessborough, which took place on Sunday last from heart failure, on the sixty-first anniversary of her wedding day. Lady Bessborough, who was in her eighty-sixth year, was the widow of Walter, seventh Earl of Bessborough, and daughter of Edward, third Earl of St. Germans. She was the grandmother of Lord Duncannon, Lady Oranmore and Browne and Lady Irene Congreve, and had great-grandchildren.

--- "Hackney Express & Shoreditch Observer", 21 Jan 1911, page 6:
The Dowager Countess of Bessborough, sister of the Earl of St. Germans, died in London on Sunday morning from heart failure at the age of 85. She had been ill for about two . . . [scan did not pick up the last line]

--- "Royal Cornwall Gazette" 26 Jan 1911, page 4:
At the funeral of Louisa Dowager Countess of Bessborough, on Friday, at the family burial ground attached to the Episcopalian Church of Piltown, co. Kilkenny, the chief mourners included Lord Eliot. Upwards of a hundred wreaths were laid on the grave, the principal tributes including those from the Earl and Countess of St. Germans, Lord Eliot, and Sir Reginald and Lady Beatrice Pole-Carew.

Louisa married Walter William Brabazon Ponsonby on 15 Jan 1850 in St. James', Picadilly, Westminster, London. Walter (son of John Ponsonby and Maria Fane) was born on 13 Aug 1821; died on 24 Feb 1906 in 38 Eccleston Square, Westminster, London; was buried on 02 Mar 1906 in Ponsonby Family Vault, Piltown, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Education: 13 Apr 1839 - 1843, Eton (Left in Winter Term 1843)
• Visiting: Feb 1844, Going to Geneva
• Visiting: Nov 1844, Home from Geneva before or by November
• Education: 21 Nov 1844, Matric. Christ Church, Oxford (aged 17)
• Visiting: 1845, Edward Tours Russia
• Visiting: 1846, Visiting Rome, Winter 1846
• Visiting: 13 Sep 1846, Arrives at Blackwall from Rotterdam with Granville
• Military Service: 29 Dec 1846, Cornet and Sub-Lieut. 1st Regt. of Life Guards
• Visiting: Nov 1846 - May 1847, Visiting Rome (arrives during the week ending Nov 14)
• Presentation at Court: 08 Mar 1848, At Her Majesty's Levee (by His Father)
• Military Service: 17 Mar 1849, Rank of Lieutenant (1st Regt. of Life Guards)
• Census: 1851, St. Martin in the Fields, Verge of St. James's Palace, Westminster, London
• Subscription: 1852, Autobiography of Godfrey Zimmerman (Formerly in the Commissariat Dept. of the Army Under Napoleon)
• Military Service: 16 Jan 1852, Rank of Captain (1st Regt. of Life Guards)
• Medical: Sep - Oct 1852, Head Operation
• Visiting: 07 Oct 1852, Lord Eliot leaves from Southampton on P&O Steamship 'Tagus'
• Visiting: 07 Oct 1852 - May 1853, Lord Eliot and Granville Eliot on Tour of Egypt, Jerusalem, etc.
• Military Service: 05 Aug 1853, Retired as Lieutenant in 1st Life Guards
• Occupation: Jan - Feb 1854, Commissioned as Deputy Lieutenant of Cornwall
• Residence: 29 Dec 1862, Arrives at Dover-street from Port Eliot

Notes:

--- "Rough Recollections of Military Service and Society, Volume 1" by Balcarres Dalrymple Wardlaw Ramsay, 1882, page 8-9:
. . . Amongst my schoolfellows at Cheam I have a wholesome recollection of the stern discipline exercised by the present Commander of the Forces in Ireland, his Excellency Sir Thomas Steele, who was coachman of the team I was leader in alongside a very skittish, and at times vicious, thoroughbred colt, the present Sir Victor Houlton, Secretary to Government at Malta. We were lashed without mercy.

My particular friends were the two Eliots, the late Lord Eliot and Granville Eliot --- the former one of the handsomest young fellows I ever saw. The latter became a gallant Guardsman, and was killed in the Crimean war. Years after, when staying at St Germans, Lord St Germans showed me his uniform, medals, &c., carefully preserved in a cabinet, and listened with deep interest to all I could tell him of our school-days.

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--- "Morning Post" Thursday, 4 Apr 1827:
On the 2nd of April, in Dover-street, the Lady Jemima Eliot, of a son.

--- "Dorset County Chronicle" 27 Feb 1845, page 3:
CORNWALL. Lord Eliot, eldest son of the Earl of St. German's has entered Oxford University.

--- "Morning Post" 15 Sep 1846, page 5:
Lord Eliot arrived at Blackwall on Saturday afternoon by the General Steam Navigation Company's steam ship Sir Edward Banks, from Ostend. Lord Eliot and the Hon. Mr. Eliot arrived at the same pier on Sunday morning early, by the Ocean mail steamer, from Rotterdam.

--- "Morning Post" 1 Jan 1847, page 3:
The Earl and Countess of St. Germans are entertaining a family circle at Port Eliot. Lord Eliot, who is making a tour in Italy, has been appointed to a Cornetcy in the First Life Guards.

--- "Western Times" 16 Jan 1847, page 7:
The Earl and Countess of St. Germans are entertaining a family circle at Port Eliot.
Lord Eliot, son of the Earl and Countess of St. Germans, has been appointed to a Cornetcy in the First Life Guards. His lordship is at present making a tour in Italy.

--- "Morning Post" 30 Jan 1847, page 5:
The Earl of St. Germans has arrived in Dover-street, from Port Eliot, Cornwall. Lord Eliot is not expected to return to this country from Italy until after Easter.

--- "Morning Post" 11 Mar 1847, page 5:
The Earl of St. Germans is expected to arrive in Dover-street on Saturday next, from Port Eliot. The Countess and the Ladies Cornwallis Eliot will remain some weeks longer at the above seat. Lord Eliot, the Noble Earl's eldest son, is shortly expected home from Italy, to join the 1st Life Guards.

--- "Morning Post" 13 May 1847, page 6:
Lord Eliot is shortly expected at the Earl of St. Germans from a tour in Italy and the East. The Noble Lord has been absent from this country since September last.

--- "London Evening Standard" 25 Dec 1847, page 2:
The Earl of St. Germans and Lord Eliot arrived at Port Eliot, the family seat in Cornwall, on Wednesday last from town. The Countess and Lady Louisa Eliot had arrived there the previous Friday.

--- "Western Courier" 2 Feb 1848, page 3:
Major-General the Hon. Henry, and Mrs. Murray entertained at dinner on Thursday, the 27th of January, at Government House, Lord Eliot, Lady Louisa Eliot, Hon. Granville and William Eliot, Hon. Captain and Mrs. Dalzell, 81st Regiment; Colonel and Mrs. Barlow, 14th Regiment; Colonel and Mrs. Rowland, Royal Artillery; Captain Schomber, R.N.; Mr. Massingberd; Copleston L. Radcliffe, Esq; Lieutenant and Miss West; Lietuenants Lepper and Jones; Captain Nelson, Brigade Majore; Captain Prothero, A.D.C. The whole party went in the evening to the ball at Moorshead's Hotel, patronised by the Honourable Mrs. Henry Murray, which was very well attended; and the arrangements did credit to Mr. Moorshead, and gave universal satisfaction. It is hoped that these ball-rooms will be liberally patronised, as they afford amusement easily accessible to families residing at Stoke, Devonport, and in Cornwall.

--- "Royal Cornwall Gazette" 10 Mar 1848, page 2:
At Her Majesty's Levee on Wednesday, Lord Eliot, First Life Guards, was presented by the Earl of St. Germans.

--- "Brighton Gazette" 20 Sep 1849, page 5:
Viscount and Vicountess Neville, and Lord Eliot, are making a tour of visits in the north of Scotland.

--- "Greenock Advertiser" 23 Oct 1849, page 2:
Lord Eliot, son of the Earl of St. Germains, left Gibb's Hotel on Friday, for Yester House, Haddingtonshire, the seat of the Marquis of Tweddale, where he is to remain for a few days.

--- "London Evening Standard" 26 Oct 1850, page 2:
Lord Eliot arrived at Port Eliot, St. German's, from the Continent, on Sunday morning last.

--- "Western Courier" 25 Jun 1851, page 5:
The Plymouth and Devonport Races for this year, are to be honored with very distinguished patronage --- for we perceive the Stewards are the Honorable Major-General Henry Murray, C.B., and Lord Eliot. They take place on Chelson Meadow, on the 20th and 21st of August next.

--- "Morning Post" 18 Oct 1852, page 4:
Lord Eliot has left the Earl of St. Germans' residence in Dover-street for Marseilles, on his way to Egypt.

--- "Oxford University and City Herald" 8 Jan 1853, page 3:
IRELAND.
THE NEW IRISH VICEROY.--- Lord St. Germans in not expected to arrive in Ireland before the middle of the present month. His Excellency will be accompanied by his son, Lord Eliot, an officer in the Guards, and by some of the most popular of the Clarendon staff.

--- "Morning Post" 19 Apr 1853, page 6:
Lord Eliot, son of the the Earl of St. Germans (Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland), is expected to return next month from an extensive tour in the East, in company with his brother, the Hon. R. Eliot [sic], during which they have visited Jerusalem, the Pyramids, &c.

--- "Royal Cornwall Gazette" 22 Apr 1853, page 2:
Lord Eliot, son of the Earl of St. Germans (the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland), is expected to arrive next month from an extensive tour, in company with his brother, the Hon. R. Eliot, during which they have visited Jerusalem, the Pyramids, &c.

--- "Morning Post" Friday, 01 Jul 1853, page 6:
The Countess of St. Germans and the Hon. Henry Eliot have arrived in London, from Dublin. Lord Eliot and the Hon. Granville Eliot are expected to return to this country in the course of a few days, from a lengthened tour in the East.

--- "Falkirk Herald" 7 Jul 1853, page 2:
IRELAND.
HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO THE DUBLIN EXHIBITION.
It has now been definitively settled that her Majesty will stay two days at the Dublin Exhibition. She will leave London early in the morning, and will travel by the London and North-Western Railway as far as Holyhead, where she will sleep the same night, and depart the following morning for Dublin. Her Majesty will be entertained during her stay by the Lord-Lieutenant (Earl of St. Germans). The Countess of St. Germans and the Hon. Mary Eliot have arrived in Dublin for the purpose of meeting Lord Eliot, and making the necessary arrangements.

--- "Illustrated London News" 6 Aug 1853, page 7:
IRELAND.
DUBLIN.--- The Lord-Lieutenant has returned to the Viceregal Lodge, Phoenix-park, after a short visit to England. His Excellency reached Kingstown on Monday forenoon, in the "Prince Arthur" steam-packet, from Holyhead, and at once proceeded by special train to Dublin.

THE INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION.--- The number of persons who visited the Exhibition on Monday amounted to 9135. The Countess of St. Germans and the Ladies Cornwallis honoured the Exhibition with a visit. There were also present Lord Eliot, Lord and Lady Ashbrook, the Lord Chancellor and family, Lord Rossmore, Earl and Countess of Clancarty, Lord Massareene, &c.

--- "Bell's Weekly Messenger" 8 Aug 1853, page 7:
THE ARMY. (From Friday's Gazette.)
WAR OFFICE, Aug. 5.
1st Life Guards. --- Lieut. Sir W. A. Fraser, Bart., to be Captain, by purchase, vice Edward John Cornwallis Lord Eliot, who retires.

--- "Morning Chronicle" 19 Aug 1853, page 6:
THE INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION.--- The building was exceedingly well attended yesterday, there being present 8,914 persons. The receipts were likewise most satisfactory. Her Excellency the Countess of St. Germans is so much pleased with the Exhibition that she honoured it with another visit yesterday, accompanied by the Ladies Cornwallis. There were also present Lord Eliot, the Earl of Mayo and family, the Earl and Countess of Rosse, Lord and Lady Ashbrook, Lord Dualo, Sir Edward Blakeney, &c. The increase in the sale of season tickets continues to progress steadily since the visit of her Majesty became certain.

--- "Bristol Mercury" 4 Feb 1854, page 7:
FROM THE LONDON GAZETTES.
Commission signed by the Lord-Lieutenant of the county of Cornwall, --- The Hon. Edward John Cornwallis Eliot, commonly called Lord Eliot, to be deputy-lieutenant.

--- "Dorset County Chronicle" 10 Aug 1854, page 14:
On Saturday, his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, with the Countess of St. Germans, the Hon. Captain Eliot, and Major Ponsonby, private secretary, with the usual suite, left the Viceregal Lodge, and proceeded by special train to Armagh, to attend the forecoming cattle show of the Royal Agricultural Society of Ireland, which opens on Monday next.

--- "Sussex Advertiser" 23 Mar 1858, page 3:
THE BRIGHTON JOURNAL.
Bedford Hotel.--- Lord Eliot . . .

--- "Morning Advertiser" 5 Jan 1860, page 4:
FASHIONABLE MOVEMENTS AT BRIGHTON.
The Earl of St. Germans is among our latest arrivals on the King's-road.
Lord Eliot and Lord Montgomerie have arrived on the King's-road.

--- "Morning Chronicle" 5 Jan 1860, page 5:
Among the company now at Brighton are the Earl of St. Germans, Lord Eliot . . .

--- "Brighton Gazette" 4 Apr 1861, page 4:
Lord Eliot, Baron Glucky de Stenitzer, and Sir Richard Puleston, have arrived at the Bedford Hotel.

--- "London Evening Standard" 03 Sep 1862, page 6:
The Earl of St. Germans and Lord Eliot left Dover-street a few days ago for Port Eliot, the family seat in Cornwall. The health of Lord Eliot has somewhat improved of late.

--- "Morning Post" 29 Dec 1862, page 6:
The Earl of St. Germans (the Lord Steward), accompanied by Lord Eliot and family, has arrived at his residence in Dover-street from Port Eliot, Cornwall.

--- "Morning Advertiser" 30 Dec 1862, page 4:
The Earl of St. Germans (the Lord Steward), accompanied by Lord Eliot and family, has arrived at his residence in Dover-street from Port Eliot, Cornwall.

--- "Morning Post" 22 Jul 1864, page 5:
The Earl of St. Germans, with Lord Eliot and family, will leave town for Port Eliot, Cornwall, the week after next.

--- "Morning Post" 6 Aug 1864, page 5:
The Earl of St. Germans and Lord Eliot have left the noble earl's seat, Port Eliot, in Cornwall.

--- "Western Daily Mercury" 17 Aug 1864, page 2:
St. Germans--- The Earl of St. Germans, together with Lord Eliot and Lady Mary Ross arrived here last evening. As the carriage which contained the distinguished visitors passed through the village, the old church bells struck out a merry peal, welcoming them to Port Eliot.

--- "Western Daily Mercury" 18 Aug 1864, page 3:
St. Germans -- The Earl of St. Germans, together with Lord Eliot and Lady Mary Ross arrived here on Tuesday. As the carriage which contained the distinguished visitors passed through the village, the old church bells struck out a merry peal, welcoming them to Port Eliot.

[THIS IS AWFULLY CLOSE TO HIS DEATH AT PORT ELIOT & MAY NOT BE HIM.]
--- "Shields Daily Gazette" 19 Nov 1864, page 4:
The Earl of St. Germans and Lord Eliot have arrived at the family residence in Dover Street, from Port Eliot, Cornwall.

--- "Morning Post" 18 Nov 1864, page 5:
The Earl of St. Germans and Lord Eliot have arrived at the family residence in Dover Street, from Port Eliot, Cornwall.

--- "Western Daily Mercury" 26 Nov 1864, page 3:
The Earl of St. Germans and Lord Eliot did not leave Port Eliot for Dover, as was reported in last Saturday's Mercury, but the Earl's two sons, who have been at Port Eliot shooting for some weeks, left on Friday last, after having had first-rate sport, and bagged an unlimited quantity of game, which has been freely distributed among the tenantry and inhabitants of St. Germans.

--- "Western Daily Mercury" 28 Nov 1864, page 2:
DEATH OF LORD ELIOT, THE ELDEST SON OF THE EARL OF ST. GERMANS.
Lord Eliot died on Saturday morning, at Port Eliot, at 11 o'clock. Drs. Hingston, Burton, and Kerswill have been in attendance up to the time of his death. His lordship's death has been rather unexpected, although he has been an invalid for some years past.

--- "Staffordshire Advertiser" 17 Dec 1864, page 3:
The funeral of Lord Eliot took place on Saturday week, at St. Germans, the body being borne by eight bearers, and the ladies of the family attending at the church, but not at the burying-ground, which is some distance off.

--- "The Gentleman's Magazine" Vol. 218, 1865, page 119:
Nov. 26. At Port Eliot, Cornwall, aged 37, Edward John Cornwallis, Lord Eliot, eldest son of the Earl of St. Germans. The deceased was born in 1827, and was formerly in the 1st Life Guards. For some years his Lordship had been an invalid, and during the fortnight preceding his demise he had been in a very sad state. By his death his next brother, the Hon. W.G. Cornwallis, in the diplomatic service, becomes heir-apparent to the family honours.

Other Events:

• Education: 1837 - 1840, At Cheam (Last letter dated 17 Feb 1840)
• Education: 05 Sep 1840 - 1845, Eton (Left Spring Term 1845)
• Education: May - Oct 1845, In Geneva
• Education: 21 Feb - Jul 1846, In Hanover
• Visiting: 13 Sep 1846, Arrives at Blackwall from Rotterdam with Eddie
• Education: 01 Dec 1846, Already at Woolwich
• Visiting: 27 May 1847, Leaves England (from Shoreham) for Paris with Henry
• Military Service: 11 Jun 1847, Lieutenant in Coldstream Guards; Ensign
• Presentation at Court: 24 May 1848, At Her Majesty's Levee (by His Father)
• Military Service: 31 Oct 1851, Captain in Coldstream Guards; Lieutenant
• Departure: 23 Feb 1854, Left Southampton, Got to Malta on 04 March (Coldstreams going to Crimea)
• Military Service: 14 Sep 1854, Arrived in Crimea

Other Events:

• Education: Abt Mar 1842, Leaves Cheam
• Education: 16 Sep 1842 - 1846, Eton (Left Summer Term 1846)
• Occupation: 01 Jan 1849, WGCE is in Dresden
• Occupation: 06 Sep 1849, Appointed Attache at Hanover
• Occupation: 29 May 1850, Appointed Attache at Madrid
• Occupation: 14 Jul 1851, Appointed Attache at Lisbon
• Occupation: 29 Nov 1853, Appointed 2nd Paid Attache at Berlin
• Occupation: 09 Mar 1857, Appointed 1st Paid Attache at Constantinople
• Occupation: 28 Jun 1858, Appointed 1st Paid Attache at St. Petersburg
• Occupation: 08 Aug 1859, Appointed Secretary of Legation at Rio de Janeiro
• Occupation: 21 Oct 1859, Appointed Secretary of Legation at Athens
• Occupation: 14 May 1860 - 24 Jan 1861, Charge d'Affaires at Athens
• Photo: 30 Aug 1861, Paris, France (CDV by Disderi)
• Occupation: 21 Oct 1861, Transferred to Rio de Janeiro
• Occupation: 12 Mar - 08 Aug 1863, Charge d'Affaires at Rio de Janeiro
• Occupation: 10 Jun 1864, Transferred to Lisbon
• Occupation: 06 Oct 1863 - Aug 1864, Acting Secretary of Legation at Washington
• Occupation: 16 Apr 1865, Resigned from the Foreign Office
• Elected: May 1866 - Nov 1868, M.P. for Devonport
• Title (Facts Pg): 14 Sep 1870, Summoned to the House of Lords in his Father's Barony of Eliot of St. Germans
• Census: 1871, 36 Dover St., St. George's Hanover Square, Westminster, London

Notes:

Other Events:

• Grand Tour: Between Jan and Dec 1854, Included Calcutta and the Crimea
• Personal Event: Between May and Jun 1893, Acted as Treasurer for Cornish Wedding Present to Duke of York and Princess May
• Visiting: Between 30 Jul and 15 Oct 1906, Port Eliot (Staying from middle of July to middle or late Oct)
• Occupation: Between 13 Jan and 27 May 1872, Acting Assistant Clerk in the Foreign Office
• Arrival: Between 04 and 05 Aug 1906, Port Eliot (from Grosvenor Gardens, ready for 25th Ann. Party)
• Education: Between 11 and 12 Sep 1843, Arrives at Mortimer (Vicarage at Stratfield Mortimer) School
• Royal Navy Service: Between 21 and 27 Feb 1851, Appointed to the Victory with 6 weeks leave
• Education: Between 19 Sep 1845 and 1847, Eton (Left Spring Term 1847)
• Visiting: 27 May 1847, Leave England (from Shoreham) for Summer in Paris (with Granville)
• Royal Navy Service: Between 1848 and 1853, Royal Navy aboard the 'Prince Regent' and 'Bellerophon'
• Royal Navy Service: 16 Jan 1848, Naval Cadet Posted to Prince Regent
• Royal Navy Service: Abt 01 Apr 1850, Promoted to Midshipman
• Census: 1851, 36 Dover St., St. George's Hanover Square, Westminster, London
• Royal Navy Service: 28 Feb 1851, Paid Off from HMS Prince Regent
• Royal Navy Service: 25 Sep 1851, Midshipman posted to Bellerophon at Portsmouth
• Royal Navy Service: 08 Oct 1851, Goes Aboard HMS Bellerophon (after three nights at a hotel)
• Royal Navy Service: Nov 1852, Midshipman on The Victory
• Arrival: 03 Jun 1854, Scutari; Having come up in the 'Andes' with the Coldstreams
• Occupation: 28 Jan 1855, Appointed a Junior Clerk (Third Class) in the Foreign Office
• Presentation at Court: 07 May 1856, Presented to the Queen by Lord St. Germans
• Occupation: 01 Apr 1857, Appointed a Junior Clerk (Second Class)
• Census: 1861, 36 Dover St., St. George's Hanover Square, Westminster, London
• Occupation: 02 Aug 1863, Appointed Junior Clerk (First Class)
• Presentation at Court: Sep 1863, Presented to HM at an Audience
• Visiting: 01 Sep 1866, Port Eliot (from London on a visit to EGE)
• Occupation: Jul 1867, Secretary to Earl Vane's Special Mission to St. Petersburg, Russia
• Personal Event: 15 Jul 1869, Best Man in wedding of Percy Anderson (St. Paul's, Knightsbridge)
• Medical: 10 Nov 1870, On Board the Cambridge, Devonport (Injured in Gunnery Accident)
• Medical: 11 Nov 1870, Left Eye Removed
• Census: 1871, 36 Dover St., St. George's Hanover Square, Westminster, London
• Occupation: 27 May 1872, Promoted to Assistant Clerk in the Foreign Office
• Personal Event: 10 Jan 1877, Best Man at the wedding of Villiers Lister and Florence Hamilton; St. Paul's, Knightsbridge
• Census: 1881, 13 Grosvenor Gardens, Belgrave, St. George Hanover Sq., London
• Residence: Between 1881 and 1900, 13 Grosvenor-gardens (Stables at 3 Grosvenor Gardens Mews East)
• Arrival: 22 Oct 1881, Port Eliot (from Wedding Trip at Quantock Lodge)
• Personal Event: Feb 1882, Loans 3 Reynolds to Royal Academy Winter Exhibition
• Appointment: Sep 1882, Vice President of North Wales Liberal Association
• Personal Event: Oct 1882, Purchases the Water Lily, a steam yacht
• Appointment: Aug 1883, Joined London Municipal Reform League
• Personal Event: 29 Sep 1885, Port Eliot; H & E bring Lord Eliot home for Christening from London
• Occupation: 1886, Joined Committee of South Devon and East Cornwall Hospital
• Arrival: 05 Aug 1887, Port Eliot from 13 Grosvenor Gardens with Emily
• Occupation: 1888, VP of Cornwall Bee-Keepers' Association
• Personal Event: 06 Nov 1890, Liskeard (Opens New Public Hall)
• Census: 1891, 13 Grosvenor Gardens, Belgrave, St. George Hanover Sq., London
• Personal Event: 16 May 1891, Latton Churchyard; H attends Funeral of Rev. Canon Beadon (53 years Vicar of Latton)
• Personal Event: 07 Oct 1891, Port Eliot Grounds; Harvest Festival, open from 3-7 in the afternoon
• Personal Event: Oct 1894, Liskeard (Presents New Mayoral Chain)
• Visiting: 09 Sep 1895, H, E and Lord E leave for a fortnight visit to Bessboroughs' in Ireland
• Visiting: Dec 1896, Henry and Emily spend Winter at the Riviera
• Personal Event: 03 Nov 1898, H and E attend wedding of Henry Neville (Latimer's Son); St. Luke's, Chelsea
• Personal Event: 10 Oct 1900, Botusfleming Church above Saltash; Unveils Plaque to Gen Penn Symons
• Census: 1901, 13 Grosvenor Gardens, Belgrave, St. George Hanover Sq., London
• Arrival: 14 Jan 1902, Grosvenor Gardens, London; from Port Eliot (but will not stay long)
• Arrival: 01 May 1902, Gorsvenor Gardens, London; Lord, Lady and Sons from PE, where they have been for nearly five weeks.
• Personal Event: Sep 1902, Port Eliot, Large Garden Party for about 600 Guests
• Medical: 1903, First Stroke
• Personal Event: 15 Jan 1903, Gave a Fancy Dress Ball in Port Eliot Round Room
• Personal Event: Jul 1904, Arrived in London for remainder of Season, before going Abroad or to the Seaside
• Telephone: Between 1905 and 1911, Westminster 5355 (13 and 17 Grosvenor-gardens)
• Phone: Between 1905 and 1911, 13 Grosvenor Gardens (Westminster 5355)
• Visiting: 17 Nov 1905, Port Eliot, Henry, Emily and Eliot, staying until after Christmas
• Visiting: Between Dec 1905 and Jan 1906, Port Eliot, For Christmas and the Holiday Festivities
• Personal Event: Apr 1906, Port Eliot, Minny and May visit PE for a Month
• Arrival: Abt 15 May 1906, 17 Grosvenor Gardens (For the Season)
• Arrival: 23 Oct 1906, Down Ampney for Silver Wedding Festivities
• Visiting: Dec 1906, Port Eliot, Entertaining a Family Party for the Holidays
• Land Owned: 1907, About 12, 800 Acres
• Visiting: Jun 1908, Port Eliot; stayed 10 days at the end of the month
• Arrival: 01 Jul 1908, Grosvenor Gardens, London; For the remainder of the Season
• Visiting: 24 Jul 1908, Down Ampney; Henry and Emily Visited enroute from London to PE
• Donated: 1910, 5 Poison-tipped Arrows from Sudan to Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford University
• Cause of Death: Sep 1911, Paralytic Seizure on Friday, 22 Sept 1911. Gradually Sank.
• Probate: 23 Jan 1912, London, Middlesex

Notes:

Henry married Countess St. Germans, Emily Harriet Labouchere on 18 Oct 1881 in Savoy Chapel, Strand, London. Emily (daughter of 1st Baron Taunton, Henry Labouchere and Frances "Fanny" Baring, daughter of 1st Baron Taunton, Henry Labouchere and Mary Matilda Georgiana Howard) was born on 24 Jun 1844 in Datchet, Buckinghamshire; was christened on 01 Aug 1844 in Datchet, Buckinghamshire; died on 18 Oct 1933 in Penmadown House, St. Germans, Cornwall; was buried on 21 Oct 1933 in Eliot Family Plot, St. Germans, Cornwall, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Occupation: Between 01 Sep and 31 Oct 1887, In Germany with Prince Christian, Albert Victor and Princesses Victoria and Louise of Wales
• Census: 1851, Vicarage House (Mortimer School) as a Scholar
• Education: Between 17 Sep 1851 and 1853, Eton (Left Winter Term 1853)
• Education: 04 Jun 1857, Matric. Christ Church, Oxford (aged 17)
• Military Service: 31 Dec 1858, Ensign & Lieutenant (Grenadier Guards)
• Visiting: 1862, Pitfour, Perthshire, Scotland
• Military Service: 03 Oct 1862, Rank of Captain (Grenadier Guards)
• Military Service: 1868, Retired from Grenadier Guards
• Military Service: 1869, Captain (Royal Cornwall Rangers)
• Occupation: 01 Dec 1869, Appointed Equerry to HRH Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein
• Census: 1871, Belvoir Castle as Equarry to Prince Christian
• Census: 1871, 2 Kensington Gardens, Kensington, Brompton, London
• Occupation: Between 14 Jan 1871 and 1877, Groom of the Privy Chamber in Ordinary to HM Queen Victoria
• Census: 1881, 8 Onslow Gardens, Kensington, St. Paul Onslow Square, London
• Military Service: Nov 1881, Rank of Major (Duke of Cornwall's L.I. 3rd Bat.)
• Military Service: 19 Sep 1885, Hon. Rank Lt-Col (3rd Batt. Duke of Cornwall's Lt. Infantry)
• Census: 1891, 8 Onslow Gardens, Kensington, St. Paul Onslow Square, London
• Membership: Between 1899 and 1900, Member of the Royal College of Music Corporation and Council
• Awarded: 25 May 1900, C.V.O. (Commander of the Royal Victorian Order)
• Census: 1901, 8 Onslow Gardens, Kensington, St. Paul Onslow Square, London

Notes:

Charles married Constance Rhiannon Guest on 26 Oct 1865 in Parish Church, Great Canford (Canford Magna), Dorset. Constance (daughter of John Josiah Guest and Charlotte Elizabeth Bertie) was born on 17 Oct 1844 in Dowlais, Glamorgan, Wales; was christened on 14 Nov 1844 in Dowlais, Glamorgan, Wales; died on 22 Mar 1916 in 68 Chester Square, Belgrave, St. Geroge Hanover Square, London; was buried on 25 Mar 1916 in Eliot Family Plot, St. Germans, Cornwall, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Residence: 1841, (Census) 16 Grosvenor Place

Notes:

--- "Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard" 03 Sep 1844, page 1:
The Earl of St. Germans is surrounded by a select party at Port Eliot, the noble Earl's seat, in Conrwall. The Earl of Harrowby has arrived on a visit to the Earl. Lord Eliot, the Secretary for Ireland, joined Lady Jemima Eliot and family on Monday. The Hon. General Lygon and Miss Lygon are among the visitors.

--- "Morning Post" 1 Oct 1847, page 3:
APPROACHING MARRIAGES IN HIGH LIFE.
A marriage is definitively arranged between Miss Felicia Susan Lygon, eldest daughter of the Hon. General Henry Lygon, and niece of the Earl Beauchamp and the Earl of St. Germans, and the Rev. Charles Canvendish, third son of Major-General the Hon. Henry Cavendish.

--- "Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian" 6 Nov 1847, page 3:
Oct. 26, [1847], at St. George's, Hanover-square, by the Rev. H. Howarth, the Rev. Charles William Cavendish, third son of Major-General the Hon. Henry Cavendish, to Miss Lygon, eldest daughter fo Lieut-General the Hon. Henry Beauchamp Lygon. Immediately after the ceremony the happy couple left town for West-end Lodge, the seat of Major-General the Hon. Henry Cavendish.

--- "Morning Post" Tuesday, 31 Oct 1848, page 3:
DEATH OF MRS. CHARLES CAVENDISH
It is our painful duty to announce the death of this lady, which took place at an early hour on Sunday morning last, at Little Casterton Rectory, near Stamford. Mrs. Cavendish's accouchement took place on the 21st inst., when she was delivered of a still-born daughter. This estimable lady, who was the eldest daughter of Major General the Hon. H. B. Lygon, was only married on the 26th of October, 1847, to the Rev. Charles William Cavendish, third son of Major General the Hon. Henry Cavendish, who is plunged into the deepest affliction at this sudden and melancholy bereavement.

--- "London Standard" Tuesday, 31 Oct 1848, page 4:
On the 29th inst., at Little Casterton Rectory, after giving birth to a daughter (still-born), Mrs. Charles Cavendish, wife of the Rev. Charles Cavendish, and eldest daughter of the Hon. General Lygon, M.P.

Felicia married Charles William Cavendish on 26 Oct 1847 in St. George, Hanover Square, London. Charles (son of Henry Frederick Compton Cavendish and Frances Susan) was born on 24 Sep 1822; was christened on 08 Jun 1823 in Chiswick, Middlesex; died on 21 Dec 1890 in Charlemont, Spencer-road, Isle of Wight; was buried on 24 Dec 1890 in St. Mary's Catholic Churchyard, Isle of Wight. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

--- "The Atlas" 10 Sep 1826, page 15:
Births. On the 5th inst. in Hertford-street, the Lady Susan Lygon, of a daughter.

--- "Morning Post" Thursday, 10 May 1827, page 4:
Yesterday, the 9th [sic], in Hertford-street, Georgiana, the infant daughter of Colonel and Lady Susan Lygon.

--- Inscription on Coffin Plate:
Georgiana Harriet
Daughter of Colonel & Lady Susan Lygon
died 8th May 1827
aged 8 Months

(In 1822, "A Register of the Inscriptions affixed to the Coffins deposited in the Vaults at the Burying Ground in St. George's . . ." was made. The vaults were broken up in 1969 for removal of the Burial Ground and another reading of same was taken.)

--- Burial Record Transcription:
Georgiana Harriet Lygon
Abode: Hertford Street
When Buried: May 11th 1827
Age: 8M

Notes:

--- "Morning Post" 04 Jan 1828, page 3:
Births. On Wednesday, January 2, Lady Susan Lygon, of a son.

--- "Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette" Thursday, 10 Jul 1834, page 3:
June 30, in London, after a few days' illness, William, eldest son of Colonel the Hon. H.B. Lygon, M.P.

--- "Morning Post" Wednesday, 02 Jul 1834, page 7:
DIED. On the 30th ult., in Grosvenor-place, William, the eldest son of Colonel and Lady Susan Lygon.

--- Burial Record Transcription:
William Lygon
Abode: Grosvenor Place
When Buried: July 4 1834
Age: 6Y

Notes:

--- "Disraeli, Derby, and the Conservative Party" by Edward H. Stanley, 1978, page 370:
Cf. diary, 4 June 1864: "Lord Beauchamp, who succeeded to the title only a few months ago, is dying. F. Lygon succeeds: Pakington says the estates are 40,000 pounds a year rental, and probably clear, for the late Lord B. loved money, and saved a good deal. . . . The family are consumptive."

--- "Morning Post" Monday, 05 Mar 1866, page 5:
DEATH OF THE EARL BEAUCHAMP.
The above-named nobleman expired yesterday morning, between nine and ten o'clock, at his house in Belgrave-square, after a lingering illness, arising from consumption . . . .

--- "Brighton Gazette" 8 Mar 1866, page 8:
DEATH OF THE EARL OF BEAUCHAMP.
We regret to announce the demist of the above nobleman, which took place on Sunday morning, at half-past nine o'clock, after a long and painful illness. The deceased Henry Lygon, eldest son of the fourth earl, born in 1829, succeeded his father in 1863, entered the army in 1843, was appointed captain in the 1st Life Guards, in 1854, retired 1863, was deputy lieutenant of Worcestershire in 1859, was M.P. for Worcestershire West from March, 1853, to September, 1863. The deceased nobleman is succeeded in the family honours by his brother, Hon. Frederic Lygon, born 1830, was a lord of the Admiralty from March to June, 1859, appointed a deputy lieutenant of Worcestershire, and captain of that county Yeomanry Cavalry 1854; was M.P. for Tewkesbury from April, 1857, to October, 1863, and for Worcestershire West from 1863 to February, 1864. By the death of his lordship a great many families of rank are placed in mourning.

--- "Aris's Birmingham Gazette" 10 Mar 1866, page 8:
The funeral of the Right Hon the Earl of Beauchamp . . . The body was brought to the Court from London on Thursday, and interred in the cemetery adjoining the temporary chapel in the grounds Madresfield.

--- "Journal of the Household Brigade" 1866, page 310:
Obituary.
Earl Beauchamp expired, March 4th, at his house in Belgrave Square, after a lingering illness, arising from consumption. The Earl was the eldest son of Henry Beauchamp, fourth earl, by his marriage with Lady Susan Eliot, second daughter of William, second Earl of St. Germans, and was born February 13th, 1829, consequently he had recently completed his 36th year. The late Earl was educated at Eton, and shortly afterwards entered the army as ensign in the 1st Life Guards, in which regiment he remained till he succeeded to the family honours on the death of his father in September, 1863, being, at the time he retired, the senior captain in the regiment. The late peer was formerly in the House of Commons, having succeeded his father as one of the representatives of the Western Division of Worcestershire in the autumn of 1853, which constituency he represented up to his removal to the Upper House of Parliament. The late Earl, who was unmarried, is succeeded in the earldom and large family estates in Worcestershire by his only brother, the Hon. Frederick Lygon, M.P.

--- Served in the Life Guards in 1851 with Lord Eliot. Appears on the 1851 Census this way.

Notes:

--- Godson of Aunt Caroline (Lady Caroline Georgiana Eliot)

--- "Worcestershire Chronicle" 21 Feb 1866, page 4:
MADRESFIELD. NEW PARISH CHURCH. It is but a few years ago that a new and costly church was erected at Madresfield. The new building has already exhibited signs of dilapidation, the site on which it stands being damp and otherwise objectionable. A new church is to be erected, the windows and other portions of the present structure being made available in the new church. Mr Preedy is the architect. The expense will be borne by the Beauchamp family. A temporary church has been erected for the performance of Divine service while the work is going on.

--- "Birmingham Daily Gazette" 28 Oct 1867, page 6:
. . . The present Earl is rebuilding the house, but retaining the old hall, gallery, and some other features. As to the church, it was only so recently as 1852 that the old building (a late Norman and early English structure), being dilapidated, was destroyed, and a new one erected by the late Earl, from designs by Pugin the younger. This was a handsome specimen of the Decorated style, but it was doomed to a very brief existence; its site was damp and otherwise objectionable, and the building it was thought showed signs of weakness; so last year another new one, also in the Decorated style, was projected, at a distance of some two or three hundred yards from the old one, and this is so far advanced towards completion as to be shortly ready for consecration. The cost will be entirely defrayed by Earl Beauchamp. Tower and spire 126 feet high, with a peal of six bells and a set of chimes.

--- "Nottingham Evening Post" Wednesday, 25 Feb 1891, page 2 of 4:
THE LATE EARL BEAUCHAMP
The remains of Frederic Lygon, the sixth Earl Beauchamp, were yesterday committed to the family vault in Madresfield parish church. Although the members of the earl's family desired that the funeral should be as private as possible the attendance was very large. Only the near relatives of the deceased earl and a few of his private friends and neighbours were invited to take part in the ceremony. At half-past two the funeral procession formed and moved to the church, which is onley a short distance from the Court. Among those who followed the coffin were --- Viscount Elmley, Hon. E.H. Lygon, Hon. Henry Lygon, Hon. R. Lygon, Right Hon. E. Stanhope, Captain Gilmour, Earl Stanhope, Lord Newark, Hon. Henry Stanhope, Hon. Evelyn Stanhope, Earl Manvers, Hon. Philip Stanhope, Lord Raglan, Hon. Captain A. Somerset, the Earl of Coventry, Hon. G. Somerset, the Earl of Longford, the Earl of St. Germans, Colonel Eliot, Mr. G.E. Martin, Hon. Raglan Somerset, Lord Bateman, Lord Halifax, the Earl of Harrowby, and Mr. Walford, besides the tenantry and the servants of the house and estate. On behalf of her Majesty the Queen the Earl of Radnor attended. Many of the places of business were partially closed, both at Worcester and Malvern.

Frederick married Mary Stanhope on 18 Feb 1868 in St. George Hanover Square, London. Mary was born on 03 Feb 1844; died on 30 Jun 1876. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Residence: 1841, (Census) 16 Grosvenor Place

Notes:

--- Goddaughter of Aunt Caroline (Lady Caroline Georgiana Eliot)

--- "London Standard" Wednesday, 04 Oct 1865, page 7:
DEATHS
Raglan.- Sept. 30, at Wimbledon, the Lady Raglan, aged 33.

--- "Monmouthshire Beacon" 14 Oct 1865, page 4:
THE LATE LADY RAGLAN.--- In noticing the death of this esteemed lady the Court Journal says:--- "Many of our readers will learn with deep regret the intelligence of the premature death of Lady Raglan. The mournful event happened on Saturday morning, at Wimbledon, where Lord Raglan and his lamented wife had taken a temporary residence. The deceased, Georgianna Lady Raglan, was the third and only surviving daughter of Henry Beauchamp Lygon, second Earl of Beauchamp, by his wife Lady Susan Caroline, second daughter of William, second Earl of St. Germans. She was born July 30th, 1832, and married, Sept. 25th, 1856, the present Lord Raglan. The deceased lady leaves a youthful family of four children. The late Lady Raglan was confined of a son on the 9th of August, at the town residence of the family in Great Cumberland Street, and had removed to Wimbledon a few days since to recruit her strength.

--- "Yorkshire Gazette" Saturday, 07 Oct 1865, page 3 of 12:
DEATH OF LADY RAGLAN. --- We have to announce the demise of Lady Raglan, which event occured on Saturday last, after a very short illness. Her ladyship was the only daughter of the late Earl Beauchamp, and was born in 1832. She leaves a youthful family by Lord Raglan, to whom she was married in September, 1856.

--- "Hereford Times" 05 October 1867, page 3:
Re-Interment.--- The remains of the late Lady Raglan, sister to Earl Beauchamp, were removed from Brompton Cemetery, under a faculty from the Bishop of London, and re-interred in a brick vault in Madresfield churchyard yesterday (Friday) week. The bodies of Miss Marks and Miss Susan Marks, who waited on her ladyship, and died some time after her, were also removed. The ceremony was strictly private.
[She was re-interred on 20 Sep 1867]

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--- "The True Story of My Life: An Autobiography by Alice M. Diehl" by Alice Mangold Diehl, 1908, page 45:
Then last, but not least --- for my mother had hosts of other good friends, among them Mr. Hertz, the great art connousseur, and his family--- there was the beautiful Miss Lygon, afterwards, when her father became Earl Beauchamp, Lady Georgiana Lygon, who later on married Lord Raglan, the son of the well-known General.

Lady Georgiana was a constant visitor, and after we were considered old enough, we were her frequent guests in Grosvenor Place.

Her deputy-mother --- to whose care she and her eldest sister, Felicia, were urgently confided by their young mother, Lady Susan Lygon, on her death-bed --- was a Miss Marks, the elder and more robust sister of my own always beloved godmother, Susanna Marks. Thus we children became of interest to one of the loveliest girls ever created, and, lover of beauty as I was, each time that we met, whether she came to see my mother, whom she evidently valued very highly, or we 'spent the day' at Grosvenor Place, or joined the children invited to her parties, each occasion was like a star in my memory. It was always there, shining, in the dull sky of my London life.

. . . [pages 186-8]
There were other concerts at which I played. And once again I found my self in salons where artists were always welcome. But the event of 1863 --- in my case an event which, by a concatenation of incidents, led to the shunting of my life into other channels --- was my introduction by our friend of life, Lady Raglan (formerly Lady Georgiana Lygon), to the patron of music and musicians, the Earl of Dudley.

The beautiful creature was always, in her unselfish life, thinking of others. She never left us long without finding out how we fared, and doing her utmost to help and further our interests. I do not remember which year it was that she married the son of the celebrated Lord Raglan, but I well recollect the array of wedding-presents --- we were 'spending the day' in Grosvenor Place, as so often before--- and the gratification it was to see our modest offerings among the diamonds and the gold, also, a few days later, the marriage in a Belgravian church of extremest High Church tendencies. I can see her now, coming down the church on her bridegroom's arm, in a heavy lace veil thrown back over as heavy a wreath of real orange-blossoms, the old lace, and thick silk of her rich, plain gown --- chimed in ill with the unusual pallor of her ordinarily peach-like complexion. Her dark-blue eyes looked very blue, her dark hair very dark, and there was a sadness in her rare, sweet smile as she noticed her special friends as she left the church on her husband's arm, which, to me, boded ill. I felt singularly depressed for some time after --- one of those horrible whispers which meant death had unnerved me as that lovely, pale bride went by . . . She died, all too young, in the first fullness of rich, beautiful yought, as her mother, Lady Susan Lygon, and her sister, Lady Felicia Cavendish, had died before her.

But before her premature translation, she had a time of healthy, happy wife and motherhood. In the early days of her married life she suggested to my mother that a special introduction from herself to Lord Dudley might help me on.

Georgiana married Richard Henry FitzRoy Somerset on 25 Sep 1856 in St. Paul's, Knightsbridge. Richard (son of FitzRoy James Henry Somerset and Emily Harriet Wellesley-Pole) was born on 24 May 1817 in Paris, France B. S.; died on 03 May 1884 in 8 Chesterfield-street, Mayfair, London; was buried on 08 May 1884 in St. John's, Llandenny, Monmouthshire, Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

--- "Morning Post" Wednesday, 08 Jul 1834, page 4:
On the 7th July, Reginald, the infant son of Colonel and Lady Susan Lygon.

--- Burial Record Transcrption:
Reginald Lygon
Abode: Grosvenor Place
When Buried: July 10 1834
Age: 3M

Notes:

--- "Morning Post" 22 May 1826, page 4:
BIRTHS. On the 9th inst., in the Close, Exeter, the Lady Charlotte Martin, of a daughter.

--- "Sherborne Mercury" 20 Sep 1841, page 3:
September 10, at Torquay, Devon, Georgiana, eldest daughter of the Rev. George Martin, Canon RESIdentiary of Exeter.

--- "Western Times" 25 Sep 1841, page 3:
HALWELL.--- The mortal remains of Miss Georgiana, eldest daughter of the Rev. Chancellor Martin, were interred at Harberton on Thursday week last --- the funeral was strictly private. Miss Martin was a highly talented and amiable young lady; and the poor of the village, to whom she was endeared by her numerous acts of charity, have lost a kind and generous benefactor.

Notes:

--- "Exeter and Plymouth Gazette" 10 May 1828, page 3:
BIRTHS. On the 1st instant, in the Close, Exeter, Lady Charlotte Martin, of a daughter.

--- "Hampshire Telegraph" 12 May 1828, page 3:
BIRTHS. In the Close, Exeter, Lady Charlotte Martin, of a daughter.

--- "Exeter and Plymouth Gazette" 27 Jun 1840, page 3:
DIED.
June 23rd, at Harberton Vicarage, Susan Isabella, second daughter of the Rev. Chancellor Martin, aged 12 years.

Notes:

--- "Exeter and Plymouth Gazette" 14 Nov 1829, page 2:
BIRTHS. On Wednesday evening [11 Nov], in the Close, Lady Charlotte Martin, of a son.

--- "Gloucestershire Chronicle" 18 Feb 1905, page 4:
DEATHS.
MARTIN.--- February 12, at Ham Court, Upton-on-Severn, suddenly, George Edward Martin, aged 75 years.

--- "Illustrated London News" Sept. 30, 1905, page 484:
The will (dated Jan. 19, 1899) of Mr. George Edward Martin, of Ham Court, Upton-on-Severn, Worcester, head of the firm of Berwick and Co., the Worcester Old Bank, who died on Feb. 12, was proved on Aug. 30 by Eliot George Bromley Martin, the son, the value of the estate being 100,887 pounds. The testator gives 550 pounds per annum to his wife, Mrs. Maria Henrietta Martin, in addition to 300 pounds per annum settled on her; 150 pounds a year to his son Granville Edward, during the life of his mother; 150 per annum each to his three daughters, Charlotte Susan Henrietta, Madeleine Frances, and Annora Margaret, to become payable on the death of Mrs. Martin; and a sum of 1,000 and interest to his three daughters. The residue of his estate he leaves to his son Eliot.

George married Maria Henrietta Cherry on 15 Oct 1862 in St. Mary's, Bayford, Hertfordshire. Maria (daughter of Benjamin Cherry and Charlotte Phillpotts) was born on 16 Feb 1839 in Mamhead Parsonage, Mamhead, Devon; was christened on 23 Apr 1839 in Mamhead, Devon; died on 15 Oct 1912. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

--- "Exeter and Plymouth Gazette" 06 Aug 1831, page 2:
BIRTHS. In the Close, on the 30th ult., Lady Charlotte Martin, of a son.

--- "England & Wales, National Probate Calendar" (1911, Labadie-Pyzer, image 67 or 221):
Martin the reverence Henry Arthur of Abbeyleigh Priory-road Malvery Worcestershire clerk died 4 April 1911. Probate London 27 July to Arthur Charles Cherr and Eliot George Bromley Martin esquires.
Effects 5,240 12 s. 11d.

Notes:

--- "Worcester Herald" 06 Jul 1833, page 3:
Birth. June 29th, in the Close, Exeter, the Lady Charlotte Martin, of a daughter.

Notes:

-- "The Gentleman's Magazine" January 1839, page 88:
BIRTHS.
Nov. 16 [1838] -- At Exeter, Lady Charlotte Martin, a dau.

Jemima married Charles Cooper Johnson on 04 Jan 1860 in Harberton, Devon. Charles was born on 20 Dec 1827; died on 07 Dec 1905. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]