* This gentleman sold his estates in 1730, having much impoverished himself by his loyal devotion to the House of Hanover; for which he raised a troop of horse at his own expense in 1715, and took the field against the CHEVALIER. A petition to King George I. signed by Henry Goring, and another signed by several Staffordshire gentlemen of importance, both setting forth Mr. Goring's services and soliciting compensation from the crown, and the correspondence ensuing on these petitions between Sir Robert Walpole and Mr. Goring, are in the present MR. GORING THOMAS's possession. Mr. Henry Goring died in 1748. his property in Carmarthenshire, died 20th May, 1800, and was s. by his son, REES GORING THOMAS, esq. who added to his hereditary estates, by the purchase of property in Surrey, comprising the manor of Tooting Graveney, and an estate called Tooting Lodge. He m. Sarah, daughter of the late Mr. Richard Hovell, of Norfolk, and had issue, REES-GORING, his heir. Morgan, b. 7th August, 1803. Mr. Thomas, who centered in himself the representation of the ancient families of THOMAS, GILBERT, and GORING, died 21st September, 1821, and was s. by his eldest son, the present REES GORING THOMAS, esq. FETHERSTON-HAUGH, OF BRACKLYN CASTLE. FETHERSTON-HAUGH, THOMAS-JAMES, esq. of Bracklyn Castle, in the county of Westmeath, b. 19th March, 1790, m. 18th December, 1816, the Lady Eleanor Howard, second daughter of William, third Earl of Wicklow, and has issue, JAMES-HOWARD, b. in 1819. Eleanor-Margaret. Frances-Alicia. Mr. Fetherston, who succeeded to the estates in 1822, has served the office of high-sheriff of the county of Westmeath. Lineage. This branch of the ancient family of Fetherstonhaugh,* of Up Park, in Sussex, and of Newcastle, in the county of Northumberland, migrated to Ireland in the reign of CHARLES I. and acquired large grants of land in several counties. THOMAS FETHERSTON-HAUGH, esq. the lineal descendant and representative of the Irish branch of the family, wedded, temp. GEORGE II. Miss Nugent, of Derrymore, in the county of Westmeath, and had a son and successor, JAMES FETHERSTON-HAUGH, esq. of Bracklyn, who married Margaret, only daughter of the late Sir Richard Steele, bart. of Hampstead, in the county of Dublin, and had issue, THOMAS-JAMES, his heir, the PRESENT PROPRIETOR. The family is of Saxon origin, and was seated at Fetherston, in Northumberland, before the CONQUEST; that part of the county having been allotted to its progenitor, a Saxon officer, for his gallant conduct against the Britons. The surname is said to be thus derived:-the house in which the family resided was formerly upon a hill (where were two stones, called fether stones), and was moated round as a barrier against the Scots; but, upon being destroyed, a new edifice was erected in the holme or valley under the bill, which valley was locally denominated a haugh, and thence the appellation of "Fetherstonhaugh." -Burke's Peerage and Baronetage. Richard-Steele, who m. in 1820, the daughter of the late Mr. Baron George, of the Court of Exchequer in Ireland. John, who m. in 1823, the Honourable Susan Massy, sister to the present Lord Massy. Charlotte, m. to the late Major Robert Tighe, of South Hill, in the county of Westmeath. Margaret-Anne, who m. Sir Thomas Chapman, bart. of Killua Castle, and is mother of Montague Lowther Chapman, esq. present member of parliament for the county of Westmeath. Harriet. Arms---Gu. on a chevron between three ostrich feathers, arg. a pallet. Crest---An antelope statant armed or. Estates---Bracklyn, county Westmeath, acquired in the reign of Queen ANNE; Derrymore, temp. GEORGE II.; Curragh, in the Queen's County; and Killarig, in Carlowshire, obtained in the time of CHARLES I.; Edmonstown, Kingsland, Clare, Turin, Nugentstown, and Marlastown, in the county of Westmeath, possessed since the reign of GEORGE II.; Ballinacor, acquired temp. GEORGE I. Property in the city of Dublin, since the reign of CHARLES I. Seat---Bracklyn Castle, near Kinnegad. BIGGE, OF LINDEN. BIGGE, CHARLES-WILLIAM, esq. of Linden, in the county of Northumberland, a deputy-lieutenant and chairman of the quarter sessions there, b. 28th October, 1773, m. 27th January, 1802, Miss Alice Wilkinson, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, of the Yorkshire family of Wilkinson, of Thorpe, and has issue, This gentleman who was appointed, in 1798, lieutenant-colonel commandant of the second battalion of Northumberland Militia, and of the Southern Local Militia, in 1817, s. his father on the 10th October, 1794. He was high-sheriff for Northumberland in 1802. Lineage. So far back as the time of the CONFESSOR, John, his sisters received the rents of their one William BIGGE, (a strong proof of the father's and mother's estates, about which, antiquity of the name) granted under the after his return to England, differences sanction of the crown, to the convent of St. arose which were only finally arranged by Augustine, in Canterbury, the lands of an act of Parliament passed for that purpose Bodisham, and Wilrington. in 1710. He m. about the year 1706, EliWILLIAM BIGGE, of Newcastle-upon-zabeth, daughter of Edward Hindmarsh, Tyne, the immediate ancestor of the family esq. of the Six Clerks' Office, and had seated at Linden, is presumed to have de- issue, scended from an ancient house, seated for many generations in the county of Essex.* He m. in 1666, Isabell, daughter and co-heir of Thomas Dent, esq. by his wife, Julian, widow of Mr. James Metham, of Newcastle, and had issue, 66 JOHN, described of the Inner Temple, London, and of East Knoyle, in Wiltshire, who, by his father's will, was left in the custody and tuition of that gentleman's loving cousin, John Bowles, of Shaftesbury, in the county of Dorset, esq.' This John Bigge purchased in 1696, for £1696. one sixth, part of the Square, of Spitalfields, London, with the houses thereon. He m. in 1701, Miss Anne Jackson, and died at Bedlington, in 1721, non compos mentis, and s. p. James, who died in minority unm. THOMAS, of whom presently. Mary, m. to Edward Collingwood, esq. of Byker and Dissington, (see p. 473.) Anne, m. to Edward Ward, esq. William Bigge, of Newcastle, died in March, 1690, and was interred at All Saint's, in that city, in a tomb, which Mr. Bigge, and a Mr. John Hindmarsh, had built for their respective families, and inscribed with the following testimonial; "Willielmus Bigge, generosus, et Johannes Hindmarsh Armiger, humanæ sortis et fragilitatis memores, hoc sibi suisque, Deo volente, supremum in terris posuerunt domicilium usque festum resurrectionis mortuorum alta pace guadendum. Maxima scire mori vitae est sapientia, vivit, THOMAS BIGGE, esq. being in India, and unheard of, during the lunacy of his brother 1. WILLIAM, his heir. II. Edward, of Brinkley, who died unmarried. III. Thomas, of Ludgate Hill, London, who erected the White House, at Little Benton. He wedded Elizabeth, sister of the late Philip Rundell, and dying in 1791, left a son, Thomas, b. 8th January, 1766, m. Maria, daughter of Thomas 1. Thomas-Edmund. 4. Charles-Richard. 6. Elizabeth, m. to Colonel 7. Jane, who d. unm. in 1812. 8. Augusta. 9. Emily. 11. Georgiana. 13. Fanny. IV. Grace, m. to Sir Robert Carr, bart. v. Mary, vi. Elizabeth, who both died unm. The eldest son and heir, WILLIAM BIGGE, esq. of Benton, b. in 1707, one of the six clerks in Chancery, was high sheriff for Northumberland in 1750. He m. 29th January, 1736, Mary, daughter and eventually sole heiress of Charles Clarke, esq. of Ovingham, by whom he acquired the estates of Stannington and Ovingham, and had issue, THOMAS-CHARLES, his heir. his nephew, John Thomas Bigge, and distributing his personal property among the other children of his brother, Thomas. Mr. Bigge, who purchased the parts of Little Benton, which he did not inherit, with two sixths of Coldcoats and Witton, considerably enlarged Benton House, where he died 30th June, 1758, and was s. by his eldest son, THOMAS-CHARLES BIGGE, esq. born at Lincoln's Inn Fields, 24th January, 1739. This gentleman, sheriff of Northumberland in 1771, espoused in the following year, Jemima,* daughter of William Ord, esq. of Fenham, by his wife, Anne, daughter of William Dillingham, esq. of London, and had issue, CHARLES-WILLIAM, his heir. Of this lady, who died in 1806, there is a portrait at Linden, by ANGELICA KAUFMAN. Thomas-Hanway, a banker in Newcastle-on-Tyne, who m. Charlotte, daughter of the Rev. James Scott, and died in 1824, leaving four sons and two daughters. Jemima, who died young. Mary-Anne, who died in 1805. Charlotte-Eleanor, who died at Clifton in 1800. Eliza, d. in 1819. Jemima-Susannah, who died in 1809. topher Glyn, esq. third son of Sir Mr. Bigge d. at Bath, 10th October, 1794, and was buried in the Church-yard at Weston, where a tablet is erected to his memory. "Mr. Bigge," says the historian of Northumberland, "was an active and judicious magistrate, and a warm advocate of civil and religious liberty." He was s. by his eldest son, the present CHARLES-WILLIAM BIGGE, esq. of Linden. Arms Arg. on a fess engrailed, between three martlets, sa. three annulets or. Crest-A cockatrice's head, turretted or, wings erect azure. Estates-Little and East Benton, Ovingham, Ovington, Willington, and Linden, in the county of Northumberland. The estate of Linden was purchased in 1810 from the late Earl of Carlisle. Seat-Linden. WIGGETT-CHUTE, OF THE VINE. CHUTE-WIGGETT, WILLIAM-LYDE, esq. of the Vine, in the county of Hants, and of Pickenham Hall, in Norfolk, b. 16th June, 1800. This gentleman, whose patronymic is WIGGETT, assumed, by royal license, in 1827, on inheriting the estates of the Rev. Thomas Vere Chute, the additional surname and arms of that family. He is a magistrate for the counties of Hants and Norfolk, and a deputylieutenant of the latter shire, for which he served the office of sheriff in 1832. Lineage. The CHUTES were of long standing in the counties of Kent and Somerset, where they were originally settled. They were lords of the manor of Taunton, until about the year 1500, when Edmond Chute sold the manor to Lord Denham. The Kentish branch of the family expired in 1700, on the death of Sir George Chute, bart. The first of the family on record, ALEXANDER CHUTE, lord of the manor of Taunton in 1268, had a son, JOHN CHUTE, living in 1274, who wedded Jane, daughter of Sir John Brumfield, knt. and was s. by his son, CUTHBERT CHUTE, who m. in the reign of Edward II. Christian, daughter of Sir John Chideoke, knt. and had (with two other PHILIP CHUTE, flourishing temp. EDWARD III. who m. a daughter of Sir John Britton, knt. and left at his decease, a daughter, Joane, the wife of Sir John Carmine, knt. and a son and successor, GEORGE CHUTE, lord of the manor of Taunton in 1334; this gentleman wedded a daughter of Thomas Tirrell, and was s. by his son, AMBROSE CHUTE, who m. Anabell, daughter of Sir John Chichester, and had a daughter, Christian, the wife of Ralphe Menell, and a son and heir, | CHARLES CHUTE, esq. of the Middle Temple. This gentleman wedded Ursula, daughter of John Challoner, esq. of Fulham, and had a son and successor, CHALLONER CHUTE, esq. who purchased from Lord Sandys, in 1653, the estate of THE VINE, situated in the northern and richly wooded part of the county of Hants. He m. first, Ann, daughter and co-heir of Sir John Skory, knt. and had a son, CHALLONER, his heir, and two daughters, Anne and Cecilia. He wedded, secondly, Dorothy, Lady Dacre, daughter of Lord North, but had no further issue. Mr. Challoner Chute died in 1659, then SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS to RICHARD CROMWELL'S Parliament, an arduous office which he filled to the great satisfaction of all EDMOND CHUTE, living in 1379, who espoused Dyonice, daughter of Henry Stour-parties. He was s. by his son, ton, and had, with three other sons, viz. William, who m. a daughter of - - Archdeckne; Anthony, who wedded a daughter of Sir John Clifton, knt.; and Robert, a baron of the Exchequer, temp. HENRY VI. HENRY CHUTE, who m. Joane, daughter of Edward Baskerville; and had a daughter, Anne, the wife of Sir John Scutley, knt. and a son and heir, ROBERT CHUTE. This gentleman m. in 1438, Alice, daughter of Maurice Berkeley, and was s. by his son, CHARLES CHUTE, father, by his wife, a daughter of Sir John Cheney, knt. of EDMOND CHUTE, of the county of Sussex, who, about the year 1500, sold the manor of Taunton to Lord Denham. He was s. at his decease by his son, Robert CHUTE, who m. Jane, daughter of John Lucas, and had a son, CHARLES CHUTE, esq. who m. a daughter of John Crippes, of the Isle of Thanet, and had two sons, ANTHONY. Philip, of Appledore, in Kent, who married, first, Margaret, daughter of Alexander Culpepper, of Bedgeberry; and, secondly, Joane, dau. of Thomas Dussing, of Winchelsea, in the county of Sussex. This Philip Chute, standard bearer to HENRY VIII. obtained, in recompense for his gallant services at the siege of Boulogne, an augmentation to his armorial ensigns. This branch of the CHUTE family became extinct in 1700, upon the demise of SIR GEORGE CHUTE, bart. The elder son, ANTHONY CHUTE, esq. of the county of Kent, espoused a daughter of - Girling, of Suffolk, and was father of ARTHUR CHUTE, esq. who m. Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir of Henry See, esq. of Herne, in Kent, and was s. by his son, CHALLONER CHUTE, esq. of The Vine, in Hampshire, who m. the Hon. Catherine Lennard, daughter of Richard, Lord Dacre, by Dorothy, his wife, daughter of Dudley, Lord North, and had issue, 1. Challoner, who d. unmarried in 1685. 1. THOMAS-LENNARD, of Picken- 2. Devereux, of Pickenham Hall, who d. unmarried in 1724. 3. ELIZABETH, who m. Thomas Lobb, esq. and had (with a daughter, Elizabeth, m. to John Ellis, esq.) a son, THOMAS LOBB, esq. of Picken The following inscription to this gentleman's memory is at Pickenham : Juxta hoc marmor requiescit Dominus non importunus, amicus suavissimus, Vixit Filius, conjux, frater, pius, fidelis, aman simus. Ingenî dotes, si quis alius unquam |