Other Events:

• Residence: 1734, West Side of Charles Street, London
• Will: 02 Feb 1769
• Probate: 03 Mar 1773

Notes:

--- "The Public Advertiser" 24 Sep 1772, page 3:
We are informed that Mrs. Booth, who has lately erected a Monument to the Memory of her Husband, Barton Booth, Esq; the celebrated Player, is now upwards of ninety-two Years of Age. She was formerly the famous Miss Santlow, so much admired as an Actress and Dancer.

--- "Weekly Magazine or Edinburgh Amusement" Volumes 19-20, 1773, page 160:
[Jan.1773]15. At London, Mrs Booth, relict of Barton Booth, Esq; who died in 1733, to whose memory she had erected an elegant monument in Westminster-abbey, which she had compleated just before her death.

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-- "The Streets of London" by W.H. Davenport Adams, 1890, page 153:
Mrs. Barton Booth -- Gay's "Santlow, famed for dance" -- died here in 1773. Miss Hester Santlow's charms brought to her feet some of the most eminent men of the time, including "the hero of Blenheim." In 1709 [sic] she married Barton Booth the great actor, bringing with her an ample dowry. After her marriage she abandoned the ballet, and made her appearance as Dorcas Zeal, in Shadwell's Fair Quaker of Deal, with genuine success. "The gentle softness of her voice," says Cibber, "the composed innocence of her aspect, the modesty of her dress, the reserved decency of her gesture, and the simplicity of the sentiments that naturally fell from her, made her seem the amiable maid she represented." She survived her husband forty years.

--- "Some Account of the English Stage" Vol. 3 by John Genest, 1832, page 375:
Mrs. Hester Booth in all probability did not act after this season -- she seems to have been a pleasing actress with no great powers -- Theophilus Cibber speaking of her as Mrs. Santlow says -- "She was a beautiful woman, lovely in her countenance, delicate in her form, a pleasing actress, and a most admirable dancer; generally allowed, in the last mentioned part of her profession, to have been superiour to all who had been seen before her, and perhaps she has not been since excelled."

--- "The Lives and Characters of the Most Eminent Actors and Actresses of Great Britain and Ireland" Part 1, by Theophilus Cibber, page 33:
In the year 1719 Mr. Booth married the celebrated Mrs. Hester Santlow: --- She was a beautiful Woman, lovely in her Countenance, delicate in her form, a pleasing Actress, and a most admirable Dancer; generally allowed, in the last-mentioned part of her profession, to have been superior to all who had been seen before her, and perhaps she has not been since excelled: -- But, to do her Justice, she was more than all this, -- she was an excellent good wife; -- which he has frequently, in my hearing, talked of in such a Manner, as nothing but a sincere heart-felt gratitude could express; and I was often an eyewitness (our families being intimate) of their conjugal felicity. Her tender careful attendance on him, during his tedious illness, will not soon be forgot by his friends.

--- "The Dancing Master" Translated from French by J. Essex, 1728:
We have had a great many women attempt to be Theatrical Dancers, but none ever arrived to that height and pitch of applause as the incomparable Mrs. Booth, in whom art and nature are so beautifully wove together, that the whole web is of a piece so exquisitely formed to length and breadth, that the produce of the many different characters she represents is the wonder and admiration of the present age, and will scarce be credited by the succeeding. I shall beg leave to mention the Chaconne, Saraband, Menuet, in all which she appears with that grace, softness, and address none can look on but with attention, pleasure and surprise. She far excels all that went before her, and must be the just subject of imitation to all that dare attempt to copy after her. Besides all these, the Harlequin is beyond description, and the Hussar another opposite character in which she has no rival. All which show how many extensive as well as extraordinary qualifications must concentre in one person to form so bright a genius: A subject becoming the most elevated wit to describe, and the politest taste to contemplate.

--- "The Cornhill Magazine" Vol. 16 - 20, 1867, page 477:
Wilks looked at this "hash," and did not object to it. He was to play Orlando himself, he said, and he did, having for the first Rosalind on record as played by a woman, Mrs. Booth, the "Santlow, famed for dance," of Gay. Wonderful woman she was, with her dash of aristocratic beauty, and her all-conquering ways, and her supreme love for her husband; in token of which, and to indicate her enduring sorrow thirty years after his death, this first of our Rosalinds erected the tablet to his memory in Westminster Abbey, which still exists, but which, through dust, damp, and darkness, can now be deciphered only with difficulty.
. . . A handsomer pair than the Orlando and Rosalind who presented themselves on the stage of Drury Lane, on the 9th of January, 1723, the stage could not then supply. How they acted is nowhere on record; but Wilks's Orlando must have lacked no grace the part demanded; and Mrs. Booth's Rosalind was, in all probability, marked by more sauciness than passionate feeling in sentiment or expression. One thing is certain, that the public did not take to the piece kindly, and that they manifested a desire to have Shakspeare's original play, and not Johnson's mangling of three or four, to make an imperfect medley out of one perfect whole.
Whence came this English Rosalind no biography can tell. She first took the town by storm as a dancer. Terpsichore herself seemed to have visited the earth in the person of Hester Santlow, one of whose great points in the ballet was to let her clustered auburn hair suddenly loose over a pair of lustrous shoulders that carried the hearts of the whole house upon them. She was so full of fascination that even Marlborough would have given her gold for a smile; and Craggs, a cold Secretary of STate, did give her a house, where he was master and she was mistress. The daughter of that equivocal household married (successively) into the families of Hamilton and Eliot, whereby the present Marquis of Abercorn and Earl of St. German's are representatives or descendants of the earliest of our English Rosalinds, who left the ballet for comedy, but who was hardly equal to the exigencies of Shakspearean dramas. Yet her gifts were many; she had a soft, sweet voice, a refined aspect, and much intelligence, but she who originated, with such marked success the part of Dorcas Zeal left no mark in Rosalind.

Family/Spouse: James Craggs. James (son of James Craggs and Elizabeth Richards) was born on 09 Apr 1686 in Westminster, London; died on 16 Feb 1720/21; was buried on 01 Mar 1720/21 in Henry VII's Chapel (N. Aisle), Westminster Abbey, London. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hester married Barton Booth on 03 Aug 1719 in Chipping Ongar, Essex. Barton was born in 1681; died on 10 May 1733; was buried on 14 May 1733 in St. Laurence Church, Cowley, Middlesex. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Harriot married Richard Eliot on 10 Mar 1725/26 in Lincoln's Inn Chapel, London. Richard (son of William Eliot and Ann Williams) was born on 06 Sep 1694 in Cuddenbeak Manor, St. Germans, Cornwall; was christened on 28 Oct 1694 in St. German's, St. Germans, Cornwall; died on 19 Nov 1748 in London; was buried on 03 Dec 1748 in St. German's Church, St. Germans, Cornwall,. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Harriot married John Hamilton on 20 Nov 1749 in Holy Trinity, Cookham, Berkshire. John (son of James Hamilton and Anne Plumer) was born on 02 Mar 1713/14; died on 18 Dec 1755 in Drowned Near Portsmouth Harbor. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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:

• Subscription: 1768, The Christiad: A Poem in Six Books; Mrs. Bonfoy, London
• Subscription: 1784, Theodora & Didymus: Or the Exemplification of Pure Love and Vital Religion
• Subscription: 1791, Galatea, tr. by An Officer; Mrs. Bonfoy, Ely-place
• Subscription: 1798, Sermons of the Late Rev. William Woollcombe
• Subscription: 1798, A Journal of Occurrences at the Temple During the Confinement of Louis XVI

Notes:

Anne married Captain Hugh Bonfoy on 29 Nov 1751 in Godalming, Surrey, England. Hugh (son of Nicholas Bonfoy and Elizabeth Hale) was born before 21 Feb 1714/15; was christened on 21 Feb 1714/15 in Radwell, Hertfordshire; died on 12 Mar 1762 in Stephen's Green, Dublin, Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Harriot married Pendock Neale on 03 Apr 1753 in St. George's Chapel, New Windsor, Berkshire. Pendock was born on 10 Jun 1728 in Tollerton, Nottinghamshire; was christened on 09 Jul 1728 in Tollerton, Nottinghamshire; died in 1772 in Ince Castle, Cornwall; was buried on 18 Jan 1773 in St. Peter's, Tollerton, Nottinghamshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Royal Navy Service: Between 06 Nov and Dec 1746, Promoted to Rank of Midshipman
• Portrait: Between 1743 and 1744, By Sir Joshua Reynolds (One of his earliest works.)
• Royal Navy Service: Between 1744 and 1745, Captain's Servant on HMS Augusta (Capt. J. Hamilton)
• Royal Navy Service: Between 04 Feb 1744/45 and 14 Feb 1744/45, Leaves for HMS Augusta with Capt. Hamilton
• Portrait: 1746, By Sir Joshua Reynolds (Eliot Family Portrait)

Notes:

Notes:

--- "GM of Eliot and Craggs" (Memoranda on Fly-Leaves of an Old Bible in the Prot Eliot Library) Page 7:
Hester Eliot Born ye 11th of March 1734 between seven and eight o'clock at night. Baptized ye 12 of the same month. She died the 12th of April 1736 aged 13 months.

--- The St. German's register records the date of Hester's burial as the 21st day of April. This appears to be a mistake (with the number merely transposed), since it is unlikely that her burial would have taken place nine days after her death.

Notes:

Transcription of the St. German's Church Baptism Record gives her birth date as 03 June 1741.

According to "GM of Eliot and Craggs" (Memoranda on Fly-Leaves of an Old Bible in the Port Eliot Library) Page 7:
Augusta Eliot Born ye 10th of June 1737 between three and four o'clock in the morning. Baptized ye 16th of August following. The Princess Augusta of Wales Godmother. She died the 25th of November following aged five months and fifteen days.

Notes:

Elizabeth married Charles Cocks on 08 Aug 1759 in St. George, Hanover Square, London. Charles (son of John Cocks and Mary Cocks) was born on 29 Jun 1725 in Castleditch, Eastnor, Herefordshire; was christened on 03 Jul 1725 in Eastnor; died on 30 Jan 1806 in His House on Cavendish-square, London; was buried on 11 Feb 1806 in St. John the Baptist Church, Eastnor, Herefordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Royal Navy Service: Between 12 Jan and 17 Feb 1761, Captain of HMS Unicorn
• Royal Navy Service: Between 13 Oct and 03 Dec 1760, Captain of HMS Coventry
• Royal Navy Service: Between Jun and Dec 1756, Action in the Bay of Biscay and off Cape Finisterre
• Royal Navy Service: Between Mar and May 1756, 'Vanguard' sails off Ushant (Capt. John Byron)
• Royal Navy Service: 18 Feb 1751/52, Signs as Midshipman on 'Penzance' at Portsmouth (Capt. Chas. Saunders)
• Royal Navy Service: 12 Jun 1752, Promoted to Able-Bodied Seaman
• Royal Navy Service: 19 Mar 1753, Discharged at Woolwich (at His Own Request)
• Royal Navy Service: 12 May 1753, Rejoins 'Penzance' as Midshipman, Volunteer (under Capt. Hugh Bonfoy)
• Royal Navy Service: 08 Jul 1754, Discharged at Plymouth from 'Penzance'
• Royal Navy Service: 10 Nov 1754, Listed as Midshipman on 'Vanguard'
• Royal Navy Service: 29 Jan 1757, 'Vanguard' Returns to Plymouth
• Royal Navy Service: 09 Feb 1757, Disch. from 'Vanguard' by Preferment
• Royal Navy Service: 14 Feb 1757, Midshipman on 'Marlborough' (Capt. Robert Faulknor)
• Royal Navy Service: 17 May 1757, Anchored at Port Royal, Jamaica
• Royal Navy Service: Oct 1757, Transferred to 'Augusta' as Third Lieutenant (Capt. Arthur Forrest)
• Royal Navy Service: 31 Jul 1758, Transfers as Lieutenant on 'Viper' (Capt. Housman Broadley)
• Royal Navy Service: 30 Jan 1759, Receives Temporary Command of 'Viper' on the Death of Capt. Broadley
• Royal Navy Service: 01 Feb 1759, Resumes Lieutenancy of 'Viper' under Capt. Arthur Ussher
• Royal Navy Service: 05 Apr 1759, Appointed Lieutenant on 'Hornet' (Capt. Chas. Napier)
• Royal Navy Service: 04 Sep 1759, Commisioned as Commander of 'Hawke'
• Royal Navy Service: 09 Dec 1759, 'Hawke' Captured by the French (Eliot becomes a POW)
• Royal Navy Service: 21 Feb 1760, Exchanged for a French POW
• Military Service: 25 Apr 1760, Made a Post Captain
• Royal Navy Service: May 1760, Begins Baltic Convoy Duty as Capt. of 'Gosport'
• Royal Navy Service: Between 21 Nov 1760 and 11 Mar 1766, Captain of 'Thames'
• Royal Navy Service: 24 Oct 1766, Commisioned as Captain of guardship 'Firm'
• Appointment: 16 Mar 1767, Governor of West Florida
• Royal Navy Service: 11 Jun 1767, Command and Naval Service Ended
• Royal Navy Service: 06 Jan 1769, Set Sail for W. FLA aboard 'Tryal'
• Royal Navy Service: 07 Apr 1769, Arrived at Pensacola as Governor of W. FLA
• Probate: 24 Jul 1769, Administration of the Goods Chattels and Credits -- to Brother, Edward Eliot

Notes:

Family/Spouse: Mary Wyatt. Mary died before 08 Jun 1771; was buried on 08 Jun 1771 in St. Andrew's, Plymouth, Devon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Subscription: 1798, 'Sermons of the Late Rev. William Woollcombe'

Notes:

Notes:

--- "Oxford Journal" 22 July 1758, page 4:
In a Pamphlet lately published by Mr. Sexton, are insterted several Cases of Cures performed by these Powders, the first of which is the following:
The third of March 1755, I was applied to by the Hon. John Hamilton, to accompany him to his Country Seat at Bearhill, in Berkshire, near Henly upon Thames. His Daughter, a young Lady about four Years old, had been inoculated for the Small-pox, and was dangerously ill, the Pock very small, sunk away, and much discoloured; she was convulsed, breather short, and was delirious; and attended with Hiccoughs; (Symptoms prestaging Death;) she had been attended by a Phusician, who gave but little Hopes of her Recovery. I immediately gave her half a Paper of my Powder, and continued them every four Hours for the first Night; in the Morning following she appeared something better, the Confulsions were abated, and her Breath not so depressed: I continued the Powders as before the succeeding twelve Hours; after which Time the Alteration was so great, as to give the most chearful Hopes of a happy Event: The Pock was now fully thrown out, the Delirium and Convulsions entirely gone off, and a few Days perfected her Recovery. She had no Secondary Fever at all, nor was any other Medicine used to asist besides my Powders. The surprising Success of this Case was not greateer that the Joy it gave to the most fond Parents, who had the Happiness of seeing an only Child restored, which before was feared to have been a lost one. The thorough Conviction and Satisfaction, both Mr. Hamilton and the Physician had of the specific Virtues of this Medicine, induced the former to purchase a large Quantity of it, (from his benevolent Disposition) to give to the Poor who should be likewise afflicted, and by his own Inspection, without any other Assistance, performed several Cures that he transmitted me an Account of; and by his Approbation I was permitted to relate this Case.

--- "The Scots Magazine" 1 Oct 1764, page 56:
Nov. 4. At Highgate, Miss Anne Hamilton, daughter of the Hon. Mrs. Hamilton of that place, and niece of the Earl of Abercorn.

--- "Caledonian Mercury" 10 Nov 1764, page 2:
Yesterday died, at Highgate, Miss Anne Hamilton, daughter of the Hon. Mrs. Hamilton, of the said place, and niece to the Right Hon. Lord Abercorn.

--- "London, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812" (Camden, St Michael, Highgate, 1753-1790, 147):
Burial Record reads: "November 9. Miss Ann Hamilton Daughter of the Honble Mrs Hamilton Widow was buried."

Other Events:

• Education: 1776, Graduated M.A. from Pembroke College, Cambridge
• Elected: Nov 1783, M.P. for East Looe, Cornwall
• Elected: 1784, M.P. for St. Germans
• Title (Facts Pg): 1789, Succeeded to Title of 'Viscount Hamilton' in Great Britain
• Title (Facts Pg): 1789, Succeeded to Title of 'Viscount of Strabane' in Ireland
• Title (Facts Pg): 1789, Succeeded to Title of 'Earl of Abercon' in Scotland
• Elected: 19 Jul 1790, Took His Oaths and His Seat in the House of Lords in Ireland
• Title (Facts Pg): 15 Oct 1790, Created Marquess of Abercorn
• Elected: 7 Feb 1794, Sworn of the Privy Council in Ireland
• Title (Facts Pg): 17 Jan 1805, Nominated a Knight of the Garter
• Title (Facts Pg): 23 Apr 1805, Installed at Windsor on St. George's Day (Knight of the Garter)
• Will: 18 Mar 1809, With Four Subsequent Codicils
• Probate: 09 May 1818, London, England

Notes:

--- "Abercorn: The Hamiltons of Barons Court" by William J Roulston, 2014, page 90-1
There was no member of the family quite like the 1st Marquess before him, nor has there been one since. Anthony Malcomson, in the only recent essay that considers him in any detail, believed him to be "perhaps a fitter subject for fiction than biography". Elsewhere he has described him as "that truly proud northern leviathan". The Marquess' great-grandson, Lord Ernest Hamilton, who devoted a chapter to him in his book "Old Days and News", wrote that while he "could not, strictly speaking, lay claim to be reckoned, on all points, an exemplary character, he was, beyond question, an interesting one". A contemporary, the novelist Lady Morgan, wrote, "He was so organised to be the man he was that no education or example could have made him otherwise. Had he occupied the throne of his ancestors, he would have been the justest despot that ever reigned." The society hostess Lady Holland observed, "He is haughty and capricious, with enough of vanity to make him do a generous action, and with a dash of madness to make him do a lively one." Many of those who have commented on him have focused on his eccentricities or behaviour arising from his undoubted pride --- stories that he insisted his maidservants wore white gloves when changing the bed sheets or that he wore his Garter while out shooting. . . . His friend Sir Walter Scott called him "much misrepresented". The Marquess conduct at times may well have earned him the epithet "Don Magnifico" . . .

--- "The Scots Peerage" (Edinburgh, Scotland: David Douglas, 1904), volume I, page 66-8:
John James, ninth Earl of Abercorn, only son of the Hon. John Hamilton, was born after his father's death, July 1756. He was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he graduated M.A. in 1776, and was elected member of Parliament for East Looe, in Cornwall, on a vacancy in November 1783, and chosen for St. Germans at the general election 1784. He succeeded his uncle in 1789, as Earl of Abercorn in Scotland, viscount of Strabane in Ireland, and Viscount Hamilton in Great Britain. On 19 Jul 1790 he took the oaths and his seat in the House of Lords in Ireland. At the general election of the sixteen representatives of the Scots Peerage, 11 July 1790, the clerks refused to receive his signed list, as he had been created a peer of Great Britain since the Union. The question was carried to the House of Lords, where, 13 May 1793, in a committee for privileges, the point was decided in his favour. Meanwhile the Earl was created on 15 October 1790, Marquess of Abercorn; and was sworn of the Privy Council in Ireland 7 February 1794. He was nominated a Knight of the Garter 17 January 1805, and installed at Windsor on St. George's Day, 23 April following. A curious account of the almost royal progress of the Marquess and his family through Scotland on their way to Baron's Court in August 1813 is given by Sir Walter Scott.*

He married first, 20 June 1779, Catherine, daughter of Sir Joseph Copley, of Sprotborough, co. York, Baronet, by Mary, daughter of John Buller of Morval, Cornwall, and by her (who died at Stanmore Priory, Middlesex, 13 September 1791, and was buried 19 September, at Stanmore) had six children. . . .

The Marquess married, secondly, 4 March 1792, his cousin, Lady Cecil Hamilton, daughter of his uncle George already mentioned, and by her had a daughter. . . .

The Marquess married, thirdly, at her brother Viscount Sudley's house in Dover Street, Piccadilly, 3 April 1800, Lady Anne Jane, relict of Henry Hatton of Great Clonard, in the county of Wexford, member of Parliament for the borough of Donegal, to whom she was married October 1783. She was born April 1762, eldest daughter of Arthur Saunders, second Earl of Arran, in Ireland, by his first wife, the Hon. Catherine Annesley, only daughter of William, Viscount Glerawley. She died, without issue, at Naples 3 May 1827. The Marquess died 27 January 1818; his will, dated 18 March 1809, with four subsequent codicils, was proved in London 9 May 1818, and was succeeded by his grandson.

* "Life of Scott" iv. 95. Sir Walter was a frequent visitor to Stanmore Priory, and while there in April 1807 was correcting a proof of the Introduction to "Marmion", Canto 1., which contains the complimentary lines on Pitt and Fox. Lord Abercorn suggested that the tribute to Fox should be heightened, and it is said he himself penned several lines of eulogy. "Familiar Letters", i. 82. The "Lady of the Lake" was dedicated to the Marquess.

Family/Spouse: Frances Matilda Hawkins. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Catherine Copley on 20 Jun 1779. Catherine died on 13 Sep 1791 in Stanmore Priory, Middlesex; was buried on 19 Sep 1791 in St. John the Evangelist, Great Stanmore, Harrow, London. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Cecil Hamilton on 04 Mar 1792, and was divorced in Apr 1799 in By Act of Parliament. Cecil (daughter of George Hamilton) was born on 15 Mar 1770; died on 19 Jun 1819; was buried in St. George Hanover Square, London. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Anne Jane Gore on 03 Apr 1800. Anne died on 05 May 1827 in Naples, Italy; was buried on 14 Aug 1827 in St. John the Evangelist, Great Stanmore, Harrow, London. [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:

• Occupation: Lady of the Bedchamber to the Princesses
• Subscription: 1798, 'Sermons of the Late Rev. William Woollcombe'

Notes:

• "Morning Post, 15 Aug 1821, page 3:
The Dowager Countess of Ely. -- We regret to state that her Ladyship died at one o'clock yesterday, at her house in Grosvenor-street. She was the widow of John Earl of Ely, of the kingdom of Ireland, and died after an illness of many months, borne with truly Christian meekness.

Anne married Earl of Ely Henry Loftus on 14 Sep 1775 in St. James, Westminster, London. Henry was born on 11 Nov 1709; died on 08 May 1783 in In the Circus, Bath, Somerset. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

--- "Kentish Gazette" 26 Mar 1785, page 3:
MARRIAGES.
Saturday, by a special licence, at Bevere, in the county of Worcester, the Hon. John Sommers Cocks, to Miss Nash, only daughter of the Rev. C. Nash, of Bevere.

--- "Worcester Journal" Thursday, 21 Jan 1841:
"Death of Earl Somers. This Noble Earl, who was in his 81st years, died at Brighton yesterday (Tuesday) morning, soon after six o'clock.. His lordship took a carriage airing on Monday afternoon, and after dinner complained of serious illness. He was ill during the night, and shortly after six o'clock he requested to be taken out of bed and placed in a chair, when he almost immediately expired."

Family/Spouse: Jane Cocks. Jane died on 23 Nov 1868. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Margaret Nash on 19 Mar 1785 in Bevere, Worcester. Margaret died on 09 Feb 1831. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

--- "The Gentleman's Magazine" Vol. 58, 1785, page 750:
[Sept.] 7. The hon. Mary-Judith Cocks, eldest daughter of Lord Somers, in her 23d year.

--- "The European Magazine: And London Review" Volume 8, 1785, page 241:
[Sept.] 7. Miss Cocks, eldest daughter of Lord Somers.

--- "Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette" 15 September 1785, page 2:
Died. The Hon. Miss Cocks, eldest daughter of Lord Somers.

--- MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTION:
Near to each other within this Chancel lie buried the remains of Mrs Elizabeth COCKS, Mrs Harriet NEAL and the Honorable Mary Judith COCKS. The two former were daughters of Richard ELIOT Esq. sisters of Edward Lord ELIOT. They both experienced sufferings which they bore with fortitude and RESIgnation and through the whole of their lives their conduct was such as rendered them deservedly loved by their relations and friends and respected by the world. Mary Judith COCKS was the eldest daughter of Charles, Lord SOMMERS by his first wife Elizabeth above mentioned. She had lively parts, a good understanding and the best of dispositions and died of a violent and sudden disorder in the bloom of youth. Universally esteemed and lamented.

[Above the memorial tablet there are three urns. Each of which has a separate inscription. The inscriptions are as follows:]

E.C. obit. Jan. 1 1771 aet. 31
M.J.C. obit Sept. 6 1785 aet. 23
H.N. obit Jan. 22 1776 aet. 45

Other Events:

• Cause of Death: Drowning

Notes:

--- "Salisbury and Winchester Journal", 13 Aug 1781, page 1:
Yesterday afternoon as the son of Sir Chgarles Cocks, Bart. was stepping suddenly from a small boat, to get upon one of the coal lighters, near the Horse-ferry, Westerminster, his foot slipped, and he fell into the river; and notwithstanding instant assistance from each side the Thames was procured, the body was not found for a considerable time. Every experience for the recovery of drowned persons was immediately used, but without effect. The above unfortunate youth was upon the foundation at Westminster-school.

--- "Peerage of England" Vol 8, Arthur Collins, 1812, pages 25-26:
. . . Fifth, Edward Charles, for whom an elegant monument is erected in Eastnor church, with this inscription:

Within this chancel
are interred the remains of
EDWARD CHARLES COCKS
a youth of 14 years of age,
unfortuantely drowned at Westminster school,
unfortunately for his friends,
not for himself;
for he was innocent and good,
his faults and frailties trivial;
to him, therefore, to be taken out of this world must be happiness,
Through the merits of CHRIST JESUS,
his Lord and Saviour,
of whose blessed sacrament he was partaker
the day before his death.
To his father, and his friends who knew him,
he was deservedly dear;
(at school universally beloved)
to his elder brother
he was almost every thing that could be wished.
His brother now erects to his memory
this monument,
as a sincere testimony of his love, his esteem,
and his high opinion of him.

J. Sommers Cocks.

He was third son of Sir Charles Cocks,Bart. of
Castle-ditch, and Elizabeth, daughter of Richard
Eliot, Esq. of Port Eliot, in the county of Cornwall.
His mother was delivered of two sons at one birth,
on the 23d of January 1767,
At Marseilles, in France, of whom the elder,
Charles Edward, died a few days after he
first saw the light, and was buried at that place;
the younger Edward Charles
grew as a lily in the field.
The last day of his life in this world,
was the 6th of August 1781.

Thy will, O God! be done.

--- http://emuseum.huntington.org/view/objects/asitem/People$00403270/0?t:state:flowc8069ae5-3464-4a0b-a286-74a9498b59ab
In 1781 Margaret Cocks's uncle, Lord Somers, commissioned Romney to paint a portrait of his eldest son, John Somers Cocks, on the occasion of his twentieth birthday. But the painting was subsequently altered to make it commemorate the drowning death of a younger brother which occurred two days after the last sitting. Romney represented the heir leaning on a stone pillar, holding a lock of hair in his left hand, with an envelope at his feet inscribed "Edward Charles Cocks's hair/ August 6th 1781."

Notes:

--- "London, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 ":
(Westminster, St. Marylebone, 1764-1774, 120)
1769 Sept 21. Harriot Cocks of Charles and Eliz.: born 29th Ult.

---- "Hereford Times" Saturday, 18 December 1847, page 5:
Dec. 11, at her residence, Long Ditton, Surrey, the Hon. Harriet Cocks, aged 78, sister of the late Earl Somers.

Notes:

--- "Globe" 23 Apr 1853, page 4:
DIED.
Wyett.--- John Wyett, Esq., of Hanover-street, Peckham, in his 87th year.

--- "Home News for India, China and the Colonies" 09 May 1853, page 24:
WYETT -- April, 21, John Wyett, Esq., of No. 16, Hanover-street, Peckham, in the 87th year of his age.

--- "Morning Post" 17 Oct 1803, page 2:
List of "Loyal Lambeth Volunteer" . . . John Wyett

--- "Reports from Committees of the House of Commons" 1803, vol. 13, page 160:
24 Apr 1798: Jn Wyett --- Deputy Comptroller for the Bank of England Mint Office

Similar publications show him at this station in 1796, 1797, 1798

"1801 Court and City Register", p335 (in appendix) shows same position.

--- "The Mint: A History of the London Mint from A.D. 287 to 1948" by Sir John Craig, Cambridge UP, 1953, page 259:
"The comptrollers were John Carthew, 1794-1801, and after him John Tekell, 1801-47; the work of the first was done by John Wyatt [sic] and of the second by John Bunnel Davis 'of the Tower of London', noted physician and scientist."

--- "Fugitive Pieces: In Prose and Verse Consisting of Tales, &c.; Moral and Sentimental" by William Hart, 1801 (page lxiv):
Subscriber List: Mr. John Wyett, Stock-Exchange

--- "List of the Governors and Officers of the Asylum for the Support and Education of the Deaf and Dumb Children of the Poor" 1817, page 198:
Listed the same in the 1821 Publication.
(Those marked L.G. are Governors for Life. Those marked + have served the office of Steward.)

+ L.G. John Wyett, Esq. Stock-exchange
L.G. Mrs. Mary Wyett, Kennington-place

--- Burial Record Info
Abode: Hanover Street, Peckham
Buried: 28 April 1853
Age: 87 Years

--- 1821, 1822 Possible address: 2 Cambridge-street

--- List of Third Class Subscribers for the Irish Tontine
Name: John Wyatt
Age: 6
Abode, and other Description: With Edward Woodward, a Stone-Mason, at Stonehouse in the County of Devon, Son of Mary Wyatt, of the Parish of St. Andrew in the Town of Plymouth in the said County.
Sums subscribed: 200

------ "U.K. and U.S. Directories, 1680-1830":
Name: Brown & Pope
Dates: 1751-1775
Location: London
Gender: Company
Company:

address(es): 7, Ludgate street, London
Purpose(es): haberdashers, household/hard ware(s)

Name: Brown & Pope
Dates: 1776-1800
Location: London
Gender: Company
Company:

address(es): 7, Ludgate street, London
Purpose(es): haberdashers, household/hard ware(s)
Source Date: 1783
Source Info:

Listed in The New Complete Guide to All Persons Who Have Any Trade or Concern With the City of London and Parts Adjacent. 16th edn., 1783. London
Printed for T. Longman, J. Rivington & Sons, S. Crowder, T. Calston, C. Dilly, S. Bladon, W. Stuart, R. Baldwin

Name: Brown & Pope
Dates: 1776-1800
Location: London
Gender: Company
Company:

address(es): No.7, Ludgate hill, London
Purpose(es): haberdashers, clothing(s)
Source Date: 1784
Source Info:

Listed in Bailey's British Directory [for 1784]; or, Merchant's and Trader's Useful Companion for the year 1784 ... in 4 Volumes ... Volume 1. London; Volume 2 The Western Directory; Volume 3 The Northern Directory; Volume 4 The Eastern Directory. The First Edition, 1784, BAILEY. London
Printed by J. Andrews, Little Eastcheap, and to be had of the Author, No. 53, Basinghall-street; No. 4, Queen-street, Cheapside; Mr. Long, Optician, Royal Exchange, and of every Bookseller in Town and Country

John married Mary Bastin on 12 Aug 1789 in St. Dunstan in the West, London. Mary was born about 1770; died on 25 Jun 1828 in South Lambeth, London; was buried on 01 Jul 1828 in St. Mark's, Kennington, Lambeth, Surrey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

--- http://www.cotyroneireland.com/research/Microfilms.html
1751899 Abercorn Annuities by way of rent-charge to Mrs. Frances Hawkins/Maguire, the former mistress of the 1st Marquis, and to his illegitimate children by her, Harriet Hawkins, A.C. FitzJames and James John Fitzjames ca. 1830-1838 - Item 3 Land & Property

Notes:

Monument in the park at Bentley Priory reads:
In the garden which having been the scene of amusement to six other beloved children had just been dedicated to the amusement of John James Hamilton, this stone is now dedicated to his memory. He was a sweet and promising child born on an inauspicious day of the year 1800. In 1808 on the 29th April a day already marked by calamity to his father he died! Happily for himself he had not yet committed fault or felt unkindness or known misfortune but to the bitter anguish and regret of his surviving parents.

--- John James was buried in the Hamilton family vault at Stanmore.

Notes:

--- "Charterhouse Register: 1769-1872" by R.L. Arrowsmith, 1974:
FITZJAMES, James John. B. 8 Dec 1808, s. of James John Fitzjames of London. Watkinson's, Sep. 1823-Oct. 1828. Schol. of St. John's, Camb. Entered Inner Temple 1834; called to Bar 1837. m. 1832, Arabella Theresa, widow of Charles Offley, of Upfield Lodge, Glos. and 2nd d. of Capt. Thomas Martin, E.I. Co's Service. Drowned off Corunna, with his wife and children, in the wreck of the Solway, 7 Apr 1843.

--- Cambridge University Alumni, 1261-1900:
Name: James John . Fitzjames
College: ST JOHN'S
Entered: Michs. 1828
More Information: Adm. pens. at ST JOHN'S, Oct. 20, 1828. S. of James John, Esq. [B. 1808, in London.] School, Charterhouse. Matric. Michs. 1828; Scholar. Re-adm. Feb. 19, 1841. Perhaps the man of these names mentioned in G. Mag., 1843, I. 84, as Lieut., appointed Commander and again, as Capt., appointed to the Clio; and on p. 195 as appointed to be arbitrator on part of Her Majesty of the mixed British and Portuguese Commission held at Jamaica under the Treaty concluded at Lisbon, July 3, 1842. Drowned 1843, in the steamer Solway, off Corunna. (List of Carthusians.)

James married Arabella Theresa Offley on 14 Nov 1832 in St. James, Piccadilly, Westminster, London. Arabella died on 07 Apr 1843 in Drowned off Corunna in the Wreck of the Solway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Cause of Death: Inflammation of the Throat

Notes:

--- "The Scots Peerage" by Sir James Balfour Paul, 1904, page 68:
"Harriot Margaret, whose articles of marriage with the Marquess of Waterford were drawn up, when she died of an inflammation of her throat at the Priory, Atanmore, 30 April 1803, in the twenty-second year of her age, and was buried at Stanmore."

--- "Staffordshire Advertiser" 7 May 1803, page 4:
At one o' clock on Saturday last, Lady Harriet Hamilton, eldest daughter of the Marquess of Abercorn, in the twenty-first year of her age, after a short illness, at her father's seat, The Priory, near Stanmore. She was to have been married in a few days to the Marquess of Waterford, who now remains overwhelmed with the deepest affliction.

Notes:

--- "The Ipswich Journal" 10 Oct 1795, page 4:
A daughter of the Marquis of Abercorn is interred upon the side of the road between Pisa and Florence, with the following inscription: "Here lies an infant of illustrious birth." There are not even the initials of her name.

Other Events:

• Education: 24 Oct 1805; Matriculated, Christ Church, Oxford
• Elected: Between 1807 and 1812; M.P. for Liskeard

James married Harriet Douglas on 25 Nov 1809. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

--- "Morning Chronicle" 29 Jan 1808, page 4:
Lord Claude Hamilton has left town to embark for the Brazils. His Lordship's state of health is such as to require an immediate change of climate.

--- "Morning Post" 21 Oct 1808, page 2:
Lord Claude Hamilton, second son of the Marquis of Abercorn, we are sorry to hear, has lately died at Madeira.

--- "Public Ledger and Daily Advertiser" 2 Nov 1808, page 3:
DIED.
At Madeira, Lord Claude Hamilton, second son of the Marquis of Abercorn.

--- "Morning Post" 15 Nov 1808, page 3:
LORD CLAUDE HAMILTON
Died lately, on his passage from Madeira to the Brazils, Lord C. Hamilton, second son of Lord Abercorn. His life was short; for he had not reached his 20th year; but he had lived to gain the friendship of all who knew him, and to die lamented by parents, friends, and contemporaries. He was endowed by nature with talents of a superior cast, tempered by a disposition, amiable to a weakness. It is a common defect to assume the qualities which are not possessed, and to claim the admiration which is not due; but how uncommon the virtue in man, to wonder at the praises, and to place himself below the opinion of the world. As a Senator, Lord C. Hamilton would have adorned the purest age of the Constitution; as a companion, his loss is best expressed by Virgil,---
Hei mihi quaatum
Praesidium Ausonia, et quantum tu perdis Tule!

Cecil married on 16 Feb 1816. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]