ARTHUR LAWRENCE, esq. who was seated at Priors Court, in Gloucestershire. He was ancestor of 1. JOHN LAWRENCE, esq. of Delaford in Iver, Bucks, and of Chelsea, Middlesex, who was created a BARONET in 1628. He m. Grisel, daughter and co-heir of Jarvis Gibbon, esq. of Benenden, in Kent, and dying in November, 1638, was s. by his son, II. SIR JOHN LAWRENCE, of Chelsea, father of III. SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE, who m. a daughter of Mr. Inglish, but had no issue. Sir Thomas spent all his estate, and about the year 1700, emigrated to Maryland." Sir Thomas Lawrence, bart." who was buried at Chelsea, in April, 1714, is presumed to be this gentleman. Arms-Arg. a cross raguly gu. on a chief of the second a lion passant guardant or. WILLIAM LAWSON, esq. of Cramlington, in that county, was father of JAMES LAWSON, esq. of Cramlington, who, in the time of HENRY VIII. was an eminent merchant at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He m. Alice, daughter of Mr. Bertram, of Bentley, and was s. by his son, EDMUND LAWSON, esq. who m. Margery, daughter and heir of Ralph Swinnow, esq. of Rock Castle, in Northumberland, and left a son and heir, SIR RALPH LAWSON, who received the honour of knighthood from King JAMES I. He m. Elizabeth, daughter and sole heir of Roger Brough, esq. of Brough Hall, near Catterick, in the county of York, and, living to a great age, left (with two daughters, Jane, wife of Thomas Rokeby, esq. of Mortham, and Alice, of Thomas Ingleby, esq. of Lawkland) three sons, of whom the eldest, ROGER LAWSON, esq. was seated at Heaton, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne, which place was afterwards sold, and died in London, in the lifetime of his father. He m. Dorothy, daughter of Sir Henry Constable, knt. of Burton Constable, in the county of York, and had a numerous issue. His wife died in 1632, at St. Anthony's, near Newcastle, which then belonged to the family, and was subsequently sold or lost by sequestration. His eldest surviving son, daughter of Robert Hodgson, esq. of Heburne, in the HENRY LAWSON, esq. of Brough Hall, m. Anne, county of Durham, and had, with other issue, Roger, who d. young. HENRY, m. Catherine, eldest daughter and co-heir ISABELLA, M. to Sir John Swinburn, bart. of His widow m. Sir Francis Ratcliffe, afterwards JOHN. The third son, 1. JOHN LAWSON, esq. captain of horse in the service of the king (CHARLES I.), inherited Brough Hall, but did not long enjoy the possession, until the estate fell under sequestration, and afterwards, in the year 1653, was, pursuant to two acts of parliament relating to the sale of forfeited estates, sold, and Captain Lawson himself condemned to banishment. In consideration of these his great sufferings, he was created a BARONET by King CHARLES II. 6th July, 1665. Sir John m. Catherine, third daughter of Sir William Howard, of Naworth Castle, in Cumberland, sister of Charles, first Earl of Carlisle, and had issue, John, d. at Calais, returning from his travels. Charles, captain of horse in the Duke of Mon- Philip, m. Lady Anna-Maria Knollys, daughter The male line of the Sevenhampton branch, continued for many generations, until the demise of the late Walter Lawrence, esq. His only child, MARY, married, 1797, WILLIAM MORRIS, esq. and was mother of the present WALTER LAWRENCE LAWRENCE, esq. of Sandywell Park, near Cheltenham. Sir John was s. by his eldest surviving son, 11. SIR HENRY LAWSON, of Brough Hall, who m. Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Knightley, esq. of Offchurch, in the county of Warwick, and had issue, JOHN, his heir. Aune, m. to William Witham, esq. of Cliffe, in Elizabeth, m. to Stephen Tempest, esq. of Bough- Sir Henry d. in 1725, and was s. by his son, III. SIR HENRY LAWSON, who m. Mary, eldest daughter of Sir John Shelley, bart. of Michelgrove, by whom he left issue, HENRY, his heir. Thomas, a priest, living in 1800. John, m. Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas William Selby, esq. of Biddleston, in Northumberland, and had issue, Thomas, a priest. John, of York, M. D. m. Clarinda, eldest Elizabeth, m. to John Webbe Weston, esq. of Mr. John Lawson d. in London in 1791, aged sixty-nine. Mary, l nuns at Bruges, where they died, the Bridget, f former in 1783, the latter in 1787. Sir John d. 19th October, 1739, aged fifty, and was s. by his eldest son, IV. SIR HENRY LAWSON. This gentleman m. Anastasia, youngest daughter of Thomas Maire, esq. of Lartington Hall, in Yorkshire, and of Hardwick, near the sea, in Durham, and by her, who d. 5th November, 1764, had issue, JOHN, his successor. HENRY, 6. 25th December, 1750. This gentleman inherited under the will of his uncle, John Maire, esq. the estates of that family, to enjoy the same so long as the title and property of his own family remained in his elder brother, but should he succeed to those, the estates of the Maire family were then to devolve upon his sister Catherine. In consequence of this bequest he assumed, in 1771, by sign manual, the surname of MAIRE. Mary, b. 26th July, 1742, a nun at Bruges. George Silvertop, heir to his father, and Mary Silvertop. Sir Henry d. in October, 1781, aged sixty-nine, and was interred in the family aisle of the church at Catterick, where a handsome monument was erected to his memory by his son and successor, V. SIR JOHN LAWSON, who m. first, 1st August, 1768, Elizabeth, youngest daughter of William Scarisbrick, esq. of Scarisbrick, in Lancashire, and by that lady, who d. 10th June, 1801, had two surviving children, viz. ANASTASIA, m. in 1789, to Thomas Strickland, esq. of Sizergh, in Westmoreland, and had issue. (See BURKE'S Commoners.) ELIZABETH, m. 5th June, 1789, to John Wright, esq. of Kelvedon Hall, in Essex, and had issue. He m. secondly, Monica, daughter of Miles Stapleton, esq. of Dreux, in the county of York, and died 27th June, 1811, aged sixty-seven : leaving thus no male issue, the title and estate devolved upon his brother, HENRY MAIRE, esq. who, according to the stipulations of his uncle, John Maire's will, was obliged to transfer the Maire estate to his sister, Mrs. Silvertop. He therefore resumed his own name, and inherited his paternal title and estates as VI. SIR HENRY LAWSON, of Brough Hall. He m. in 1773, Monica, youngest daughter of Nicholas Stapleton, esq. of Carlton, in Yorkshire, and became a widower without issue, 8th January, 1800. Sir Henry m. secondly, Catherine, only daughter of Henry Fermer, esq. of Worcester, but died s. p. in 1834, when the BARONETCY became EXTINCT. His estates were inherited by his nephew, WILLIAM WRIGHT, esq. who assumed the surname of LAWSON. JOHN LAWSON, lived in the time of HENRY III. and was then Lord of Fawlesgrave, in the county of York. He was father of another JOHN LAWSON, living in the 13th of the same reign, who m. Julian, daughter of — Covell, and was s. by his son, THOMAS LAWSON, who flourished temp. EDWARD I. and by the daughter of Chancie, left a son and heir, ROBERT LAWSON, a liege subject of EDWARD II. whose wife, the daughter of Harbet, was mother of his successor, RICHARD LAWSON, who m. Anne Conyers, was living in the 8th of EDWARD III. and was s. in his estate by his son, THOMAS LAWSON, living in the 24th of the same reign, who by Jane, daughter of Sir William Boynton, knt. was father of ROGER LAWSON, who m. Anne Etton. He was • By Mary, his wife, daughter of Richard Fermor, esq. of Tusmore, in Oxfordshire. son, THOMAS LAWSON, who was alive 27th HENRY VIII. and having married the daughter of Sir - Dorrell, knt. had issue, I. GEORGE, of Little Usworth, in the county of Durham, who m. Mabella, daughter and heir of Sir Reginald Carnaby, knt. and had, with three daughters, Dorothea, Elizabeth, and Mabella, four sons, viz. 1. THOMAS, who sold Little Usworth to Sir Wilfrid Lawson, and d. unm. 2. Edward, who m. Mary, daughter of John Copley, esq. of Skelbrooke, and had Wifrid, who m. Mary, daughter of Joseph Watkinson, and had a daughter, Elizabeth, m. to Richard Wilton, esq. of Wakefield. John, a merchant in Denmark. 3. Robert, m. and d. s. p. 11. Wilfrid (Sir), m. first, the daughter of Red made, or Redman, and secondly, a daughter of Leigh, of Isel," but d. s. p. bequeathing his estate to his nephew William, son of his younger brother. III. GILFRID. 1. Barbara, m. to Thomas Whitehead. 11. Elizabeth, m. to William Lee. III. Ursula. 1. Elizabeth, m. to John Stapleton, esq. of Wartre, in Yorkshire. II. Judith, m. to Miles Pennington, esq. of Seaton, in Cumberland. III. Katherine, m. to Andrew Hudleston, esq. of Hutton-John, in Cumberland. Iv. Jane, m. to Robert Constable, of Catfess, in Yorkshire. v. Frances, m. to Henry Tolson, esq. of Woodhall, in Cumberland. vi. Mary, m. to Christopher Richmond, esq. of Caterlane. VII. Isabel, m. to D'Arcy Curwen, esq. of Sells Park. VIII. Winifrid, m. to John Swinburne, of Hewthwaite. Sir Wilfrid represented the county of Cumberland in parliament at the Restoration, and the year following served for Cockermouth, and dying in 1689, was 1. by his grandson, II. SIR WILFRID LAWSON, M.P. for Cockermouth 2nd WILLIAM and MARY, m. Elizabeth, only daughter and heir of George Preston, esq. of Holker, in Lanca shire, and had issue, WILFRID, his successor, b. in 1696. John, an officer in the army on the Irish establish • THORESBY marries Sir Wilfrid Lawson to the daughter of Redman, and Le Neve says he married a daughter of Leigh, of Isell, the widow of Thomas Leigh, of Isell. The fact is, probably, that he had two wives, and so we have assumed. He was buried in Isell church, under the following inscription: Hic jacet ille cinis, qui modo Lawson erat. When we have wander'd all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days: And from which earth, and grave, and dust, The Lord will raise me up I trust. Wilfridus Lawson miles obiit 16 die Apr. anno etatis suæ 87, ann. equæ salutis 1632. + By Mary Lowther, only sister of John, Viscount Lonsdale. Elizabeth, killed by a fall from her horse while riding in Castle Howard Park, Yorkshire, d. unm. Jane, Mary,} d. unm. Sir Wilfrid d. in 1704, leaving a character of the highest probity behind him. Amongst other remarkable traits of nice conscientious feeling, was his relinquishing the impropriate tithes of Isell to the living for ever; which he did with so much exactness, that with the profits he had received himself to that time, he bought a piece of land, which he settled likewise on the living. He acted somewhat similarly towards government regarding his estate, which finding undertaxed, he computed the difference, and left £600 to be paid to make up the loss to the state. Queen ANNE gave the money back, however, to his family. He was s. by his eldest son, III. SIR WILFRID LAWSON, F.R.S. one of the grooms of the bedchamber to King GEORGE I. and M. P. for Cumberland temp. GEORGE I. and GEORGE II. He m. Elizabeth-Lucy, daughter of Lieutenant general Harry Mordaunt, and niece of Charles, third Earl of Peterborough, by whom he left two sons and two daughters, viz. He d. 13th July, 1737, and was s. by his elder son, IV. SIR WILFRID LAWSON, who d. 2nd May, 1739, aged seven years, and was s. by his brother, V. SIR MORDAUNT LAWSON, who d. 8th August, 1743, aged ten, and was s. by his cousin, (refer to second son of the first baronet,) VI. SIR GILFRID LAWSON, who d. 23rd August, 1749, s. p. and was s. by his brother, VII. SIR ALFRED LAWSON, who d. 14th February, 1752, and was s. by his son, VIII, SIR WILFRID LAWSON. This gentleman served the office of sheriff of Cumberland in 1756, and was elected knight of the shire in 1761. He d. 1st December, in the following year, and was s. by his bro ther, IX. SIR GILFRID LAWSON, who m. Emilia, daughter of John Lovitt, esq. by whom (who d. 29th May, 1769) he had a daughter, Emilia, who d. unmarried in 1798, and a son, his successor, in 1794, X. SIR WILFRID LAWSON, who m. Anne, daughter of John Hartley, esq. of Whitehaven, but died issueless 14th June, 1806, when the BARONETCY Expired. Sir Wilfrid bequeathed his estates to the nephew of his wife, THOMAS WYBERGH, esq. (second son of Thomas Wybergh, esq. of Clifton Hall, Westmoreland, and Isabella Hartley, Lady Lawson's sister) who assumed in consequence the surname and arms of LAWSON. He d. s. p. in 1812, and was s. by his brother, who, having taken the name and arms likewise of Lawson, on inheriting be 1. PETER LEAR, esq. who acquired a considerable fortune in Barbadoes, was on his return from the island created a BARONET, 2nd July, 1660, but dying issueless about the year 1684, the title under that patent became EXTINCT, but he had previously obtained another patent, dated 2nd August, 1683, with special remainder to his nephews, and was succeeded accordingly by the elder, as II. SIR THOMAS LEAR, of Lindridge, in the county of Devon. He represented Ashburton in parliament 13 WILLIAM III. and 1st of Queen ANNE, and m. Isabella, daughter of Sir William Courtenay, knt. of Powderham Castle, but dying s. p. in December, 1705, was s. by his brother, III. SIR JOHN LEAR, who m. the daughter of Christopher Wolston, gent. of Devon, and had an only child, MARY LEAR, who m. Sir Thomas Tipping, bart. Sir John d. sometime before 1740, when the BARONETCY EXPIRED. Arms-Az. a fesse ragule, between three unicorns' heads erased or. LEE, OF QUARENDON. CREATED 29th June, 1611. Lineage. EXTINCT 1776. BENEDICT LEE, esq. younger son of John Lee, esq. of Lee Hall, in Cheshire, acquired the estate of Quarendon, in Bucks, and changed his arms to "Argent, a fesse between three crescents sa." He m. Elizabeth, daughter and co heir of William Sanders, esq. of Oxfordshire, and had issue, From Thomas, the eldest son of this John Lee, descended the family of Lee of Lee, and Darnhall, now repreented by JOHN TOWNSHEND, esq. of Hem and Trevallyn, in Denbighshire. (See BURKE's Commoners, vol. iii. p. 314.) 1. ROBERT (Sir), of Burston, Buckinghamshire, whose grandson, SIR HENRY LEE, K. G. temp. ELIZABETH, died s. p. and his cousin, HENRY LEE, became his heir. 11. BENEDICT. 111. Roger, of Pickthorn. IV. John, ancestor of the Lees, of Binfield, Bucks. The second son, BENEDICT LEE, esq. of Hulcote, married Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Cheney, esq. of Chesham Boyes, in Bucks, and was s. by his son, SIR ROBERT LEE, father of 1. SIR HENRY LEE, who was declared heir to his cousin, Sir Henry Lee, K. G. and thus became "of Quarendon." He received the honour of knighthood from King JAMES I. and was created a BARONET 25th June, 1611. Sir Henry m. Eleanor, daughter of Sir Richard Wortley, of Wortley, in the county of York, and dying about the year 1631, was s. by his son, 11. SIR FRANCIS HENRY LEE, of Quarendon, Berks, and Ditchley, in Oxfordshire, m. Anne, daughter of Sir John St. John, of Lidiard Tregoze, in the county of Wilts, bart. and dying about the year 1641, was s. by his son, III. SIR HENRY LEE, who m. Anne, daughter of Sir John Danvers, of Cornbury, in the county of Oxford, and sister and heir of John Danvers, esq. but having daughters only was s. at his decease by his brother, IV. SIR FRANCIS HENRY LEE, of Ditchley, who m. Lady Elizabeth Pope, daughter and heir of Thomas, Earl of Downe, in Ireland, by whom (who married, secondly. Robert, third Earl of Lindsey), he had a son and successor, V. SIR EDWARD HENRY LEE, who was raised to the peerage in 1674, as Baron of Spellesbury, Viscount Quarendon, and Earl of Lichfield. He m. Lady Charlotte Fitzroy, natural daughter of King CHARLES II. by Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland, and had issue, Edward, d. unm. James, m. Sarah, daughter of John Bagshaw, and d. in 1711. Charles, d. unm. GEORGE-HENRY, successor to his father. ROBERT, who s. his nephew. Charlotte, m. to Benedict Calvert, Lord Baltimore. Barbara, m. first, to Colonel Lee, and secondly, BARBARA BROWNE, heir of her father, who m. Sir Edward Mostyn, bart. of Talacre. His lordship, who refused to swear allegiance to the new government at the Revolution, d. 14th July, 1716, and was s. by his son, VI. SIR GEORGE-HENRY LEE, second Earl of Lichfield, who m. Frances, daughter of Sir John Hales, of St. Stephens, Tunstall, and Woodchurch, in Kent, and had issue, GEORGE HENRY, his successor, James, d. in 1742. Charles-Henry, d. in 1740. CHARLOTTE, M. to Henry, eleventh Viscount Dil lon. Mary, m. to Cosmo Neville, esq. Frances, d. unin. Harriot, m. to John, Lord Bellew. Anne, m. to Hugh, fifth Lord Clifford of Chudleigh. His lordship d. 15th February, 1742-3, and was s. by his son, VII. SIR GEORGE HENRY LEE, third Earl of Lichfield, chancellor of the university of Oxford, captain of the band of gentlemen pensioners, and custos bre vium of the court of Common Pleas. He m. Diana, only daughter and heir of Sir Thomas Frankland, bart. but dying s. p. in 1775, was s. by his uncle, VIII. SIR ROBERT LEE, fourth Earl of Lichfield, previously M. P. for the city of Oxford. He m. Ka therine, daughter of Sir John Stonehouse, of Radley, Berks, but died issueless, in 1776, when all his ho nours, including the BARONETCY, EXPIRED. The estates devolved upon his niece, CHARLOTTE, Viscountess Dillon. Her grandson, Henry Augustus, thirteenth Viscount Dillon, assumed the additional surname and arms of Lee, which are borne by his son and successor, CHARLES-HENRY DILLON-LEE, present (1837) VISCOUNT DILLON. The manor of Quarendon was sold by the late Lord Dillon, in 1802, to James Dupré, esq. of Wilton Park. Arms-Arg. a fesse between three crescents sa. This family, supposed to have been a younger branch of the Leghs of Cheshire, settled in Bucks in the beginning of HENRY IV.'s reign. WILLIAM LEE, of Moreton, in the parish of Ditton, died in 1486; fourth in descent from him, SIR THOMAS LEE, knt. of Moreton, married Eleaner. daughter and eventually heiress of Michael Hamp den, esq. of Hartwell, and had no less than twentyfour children. His eldest son and heir, THOMAS LEE, esq. possessed Moreton and Hartwell. He was sheriff of Bucks, 4 CHARLES I. and marrying Jane, daughter of Sir George Throckmorton, knt. af Fulbrook, was s. at his decease, in 1642, by his son, THOMAS LEE, esq. of Moreton and Hartwell, who married about 1632, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir George Croke, knt. one of the justices of the King's Bench. by whom (who m. secondly, Sir Richard Ingoldsby, K.B.) he had three sons, THOMAS, William, and George, and a daughter, Mary, the wife of Sir Wil liam Morley, knt. of Barecourt. He was s. by la eldest son, 1. THOMAS LEE, esq. of Hartwell, in the county of Bucks, who was created a BARONET 16th August. 1660. "He was (says Browne Willis, who drew up the pedigree of the family) a gentleman of great a complishments, and at the Restoration, and for several years afterwards, as long as he lived, was returned to serve in parliament, and was much admired fr his elegant speeches in the House of Commons, wher? he was a leader in the debates." He married Anne. daughter and heir of Sir John Davis, knt. of Pangborne, Berks, and by her (who d. in 1708), had issus THOMAS, his successor. John, a captain in the army. Lyonel. |