Edward Henry A'Court

1783 - 1855  (71 years)

• Name	Edward Henry A'Court
  Born	10 Oct 1783  [1]
  Christened	12 Oct 1783	Heytesbury, Wiltshire   [2]
  Died	22 Sep 1855  [1]
  Person ID	I00006	Eliots of Port Eliot
  Last Modified	16 Jun 2021

  
  

  Father	William Pierce Ashe A'Court,   b. 22 Jun 1747,   d. 27 Jul 1817, Heytesbury House, Wiltshire  (Age 70 years)
  Mother	Letitia Wyndham,   b. Bef 04 Oct 1746,   d. 02 Aug 1821, Bath, Somerset  (Age > 74 years)
  Family ID	F00138	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  --- "London Evening Standard" 25 Sep 1855, page 4: DEATH OF VICE ADMIRAL A'COURT REPINGTON This gallant officer on the reserved half-pay last, died on the 22d inst., at his seat Amington Hall, in the county of Warwick, in the 72d year of his age. He attaned the rank of post captain, March, 1811; flag rank, Aug. 6, 1847; and vice admiral, Sept. 11, 1854. E.H. A'Court Repington, mid. of Blanche, entered 1803, when in charge of a boat with a crew of eight men off San Domingo, boarded, in the face of a fire of musketry (which mortally wounded one man and severely wounded another), and captured a French schooner, having on board a colonel, and 30 or 40 soldiers. Lieutenant of Theseus, serving on shore at the siege of Curacoa, 1804. --- "Illustrated London News" 06 Oct 1855, page 7: VICE-ADMIRAL EDWARD HENRY A'COURT-REPINGTON The death of this gallant naval officer occurred at his seat, Amington-hall, county Warwick, on the 22nd ult. Admiral Repington had nearly completed his seventy-second year. He was the second son of the late Colonel Sir William Pierce Ashe A'Court, Bart., M.P., and next brother of the present Lord Heytesbury. He entered the Royal Navy in 1796; and, in 1803, acquired great distingtion by a brillian exploit off St. Domingo, where, in command of a boat, he captured a French schooner. In the following year he participated in the bold but unsuccessful attack on Curacoa. Admiral -- then Captain -- A'Court assumed the additional surname and arms of Repington on succeeding by will to the estates of the late Charles Edward Repington, Esq., of Amington-hall, county Warwick, and subsequently sat in Parliament for Tamworth, in the vicinity of which town Amington-hall is situated. --- "Coventry Standard" 12 Oct 1855, page 3: The remains of Admiral A'Court Repington were interred in the family vault, in Tamworth church, on Tuesday week. Lord Haytesbury, General A'Court, Mr. A'Court Holmes, the Rev. R. A'Court Beadon, the Hon. Mr. Bouverie, the Hon. Mr. Daly, and Mr. H. Wyndham A'Court, attended as mourners. The Rev. J. Mould, vicar of the parish, read the funeral service, assisted by the Rev. F.P. Garrett. The shops throughout the town were generally closed, and most of the blinds drawn, in testimony of the esteem and regard entertained towards the deceased by the inhabitants.

  
  

• Sources

  "A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire" by Henry Colburn, Volume 42, Part 1, page 633. [S00004] FMP Parish Records Collection, www.findmypast.co.uk, (Transcriptions of Parish Christenings, Marriages and Burials).