m. Jane, daughter of of Ashborne, and widow of Charles Gram- Charles Grammer, of the same place, and to Thomas Powell, esq. bert, d. unm. 20th May, 1795. Mr. Dale d. left at his decease in July, 1761, a son and yer, bart. of Knipersley, in Robert DALE, esq. of Ashborne, who served the office of high sheriff for the III. THOMAS. county of Derby in 1786, and was comThe third son, mandant of the late corps of Ashborne VoThomas Dale, esq. of Parwich, in the lunteer Infantry. He m. 2nd May, 1773, county of Derby, b. in 1603, married Mary, Katharine, daughter of Richard Dyott, esq. daughter of Thomas Platts, of Flagg, and of Freeford, in the county of Stafford, and had two sons and two daughters, namely, by her, who died 6th July, 1831, had issue, ROBERT, his heir. Robert, lieutenant colonel of the 93rd George, of Parwich, d. there unm. be Highlanders, killed in action at New fore 1710. Orleans in 1814. He m. Harriet, Sythe, m. to John Cresswell, of Tides eldest daughter of Lieutenant Colonel well, in Derbyshire. Bainbridge, but died without issue. Anne, d. unm. before 1710. Thurstan, heir to his father. The elder son, Richard, a lieutenant of the 9th Foot, Robert Dale, esq. of Parwich, married was on active service during the first, Alice, daughter of German Buxton, of whole of the Peninsular war, died in Brassington, in Derbyshire; and secondly, camp, near Paris, September, 1815. Anne, daughter of George Melward, of Al Katharine, m. to Joseph Dalby, esq. sop in the dale, in the same county. By the of Leicester. former he had two sons and as many daugh Elizabeth. ters, namely, d. young THURSTAN, his heir. Mary-Frances. Robert, aged forty in 1710, being then Mr. Dale d. 3rd January, 1835, and was unmarried. succeeded by his eldest surviving son, the Margaret, m. to the Rev. Luke Flint, present Thursran Dale, esq. of Ashborne. M. A. minister of Somersall, in Staf- Arms—Paly of six gu. and arg. a bend THURSTAN Dale, of Bakewell and Ash- saltire, ppr. the staves az. encompassed by horne, in the county of Derby, b. in 1668, a chaplet of roses alternately gu. and arg. who m. first, Dorothy, daughter of John banded by a ribband, or. Hayne, gent. of Ashborne, and heiress of Motto-Non arbitrio popularis auræ. her mother, Dorothy, dau. and heiress of Estates—In Derbyshire: Hough Grange James Bullock, of Brampton, and had three purchased from Rowland Eyre, esq. of Hassons, Robert, his heir; John, buried at sop in 1701, and Carsington, purchased prinBakewell in 1752; Thurstan b.in 1697. Hecipally in 1730. m. secondly, Troth, daughter of — Sleigh, Seat-Ashborne, Derbyshire. Anna, HANKEY, OF FETCHAM. HANKEY, JOHN-BARNARD, esq. of Fetcham Park, in the county of Surrey, b. 31st March, 1784, m. 9th June, 1807, the Hon. Elizabeth 1. GEORGE-JAMES-BARNARD. eldest son of George Holme Sumner, esq. of Hatch lands, late M.P. for Surrey. (See vol. i. p. 60.) IV. Harriet-Barnard. 4. Mercy;} twins. Lineage. The family of Hankey was originally 1. Elizabeth-Ellen, m. to Joseph seated in the county palatine of Chester. In Tyndall. the 14th of Elizabeth the right of bearing 2. Mary, m. to James Clark. arms was conceded and granted to Henry 3. Sarah, Hankey, esq. mayor of the city of Chester. Sir Henry HANKEY, an eminent citizen 5. Martha. and alderman of London, m. 26th December, 6. Anne, m. to George Paul. 1694, Anne, daughter of Joseph Chaplin, 11. Thomas (Sir), of whose descendants esq, of East Bergholt, high-sheriff of Suf we have to treat. folk, by Anne, his wife, daughter of Rice Sir Henry Hankey d. in February, 1736-7, Price, of London, and had two sons, viz. and was buried at St. Dionis. His second 1. Joseph (Sir), knt. and alderman, b. son, 25th September, 1696, m. Elizabeth, Sir Thomas HANKEY, knt. alderman of daughter of Henry Johnson, of the London, m. in June, 1733, Sarah, eldest Hermitage, Wapping, and died 28th daughter of the celebrated Sir John BarJune, 1769, leaving issue, nard, member in six successive parliaments, 1. JOSEPH-CHAPLIN, of East Berg- for the city of London, and had issue, holt, who m. Catherine Gale, and 1. Thomas, his heir. 11. Robert, m. Miss Penton, and left JOSEPH CHAPLIN, d. unm. 7th one son, Augustus-Robert, who d. March, 1803. unm., and two daughters, Matilda, } m. to Hartsinck, esq., and HenriJames, etta, to - Hirst, esq. Harry, rector of North Wing III. John, who m. the daughter of Anfield, d. s.p. drew Thomson, esq. of Roehampton, Richard (Sir), d. s. p. in 1817, and had three sons, namely, Elizabeth, m. to Samuel Do 1. John-Perer, who m. Isabella, bree. sister of Sir William Alexander, Katherine, d. in 1832. late chief baron of the ExcheMary. quer, and left three sons and Frances, m. to John Sweeting. one daughter, viz. Dorothy. John - Alexander, m. Ellen, Anne. daughter of William Blake, Jane-Isabella, m. to Sir Ed esq. of Danesbury. ward Hyde East, bart. Henry, major 8th Hussars. 2. Harry, rector of East Bergholt. William, captain 9th Lancers. 3. Henry. Julia, m. 6th October, 1829, to 4 Joseph, of Poplar, m. Anne, the Hon. Thomas - Seymour daughter of John Perry. Bathurst, third son of the m. late Earl Bathurst, and sur ley, and the younger to an Itavives his widow with one son lian nobleman. and one daughter. 11. Susannah, m. in 1767, to Beaumont, 2. Thomson, whom. Miss Harrison, second Lord Hotham. By his lord- Beaumont Hotham, who m. in 1790, Philadelphia, eldest dau. of Sir John Dixon Dyke, bart. Sir William Alexander, the and dying vitâ patris, left, with chief baron. other issue, Beaumont, present George. Lord Hotham. Frederick Hotham, in holy orders, prebendary of Rochester, m. in 1802, Anne - Elizabeth, eldest of Fenchurch-street. dau. of Thomas Hallet Hodges, Elizabeth, to the Rev. esq. of Hempsted Place, Kent, and has issue. Henry Hotham (Sir), K.C.B. vice- admiral in the navy, m. in 1816, Albinia, m. to Dr. James So Lady Frances - Anne - Juliana merville. Rous, eldest daughter of John, Isabella. first Earl of Stradbroke, and d. Emma, m. to the Rev. W. Wa at Malta, while in command of guilir. the Mediterranean Fleet, in 1833, Martha. leaving issue. Caroline. Frances Hotham, m. in 1797, to 3. Frederick (Sir), k nt. grand cross Admiral Sir John Sutton, K.C.B. of St. Michael and St. George, Amelia Hotham, m. in 1798, to secretary to governmentat Malta, John Woodcock, esq. had a grant of supporters to his Louisa Hotham, m. first, to Sir arms, in approval of his long ser Charles Edmonstone, bart., and, vices, m. first, his first cousin, secondly, to Charles Woodcock. Charlotte, daughter of Thomas Sir Thomas died in 1770, was buried at St. Hankey, esq. of Fetcham Park, Dionis, and succeeded by his eldest son, Surrey, and by her, who d. in Thomas HANKEY, esq. of Fetcham Park, 1816, had two daughters, who m. Miss Wyver, of an old Cheshire Emma. family, and had issue, Frederica. 1. JOHN-BARNARD, his heir. Sir Frederick wedded, secondly, 11. Thomas, who m. his cousin, Louisa, a native of Corfu, and by that daughter of Thomas Hankey, esq. lady, who d. in 1835, had one son 1. Charlotte, m. to her first cousin, Sir and one daughter, viz. Frederick Hankey, and d. in 1816. 11. Sarah, m. to Sir Hugh Dillon MasThomasine-Ionia. sey, bart. of Doonass, in the county 1. Jane, m. to Thomas Sutton, esq. of of Clare, and has an only daughter, Moulsey, Surrey, and had two Charlotte-Eliza Massey, m. in 1830, to Felix Vaughan Smith, esq. Sir John Sutton, K.C.B. admiral II. Louisa, m. to Major-General Darby R.N. who m. in 1797, his cousin, Griffith, of Padworth House, Bucks, the Hon. Frances Hotham, and and had three sons and one daughter. d. 8th August, 1825. IV. Eliza. created a baronet in February, was s. by his elder son, the present JOHN sons, viz. NORTHEY-HOPKINS, OF OVING HOUSE. HOPKINS-NORTHEY, RICHARD, esq. of Oving House, in the county of Bucks, a lieutenant-general in the army, b. in 1756, m. in 1777, Frances, daughter of John Wray, esq. of Monaghan, and by that lady, now deceased, has issue, William-RICHARD, of Suffolk Lawn, Cheltenham, a deputy-lieutenant for Buckinghamshire, formerly who died on service in the seventeenth year of his age. Fanny-Elizabeth, m. 25th January, 1830, to the Hon. George-Ives Irby, eldest son of George, BURKE's Peerage.) Eulalie-Emily, Frances. Lineage. This family, through both lines, NorthEY | The eldest, and HOPKINS,* establishes antiquity and emi William HOPKYNS, sheriff of Coventry in nence—through both, it has enjoyed for a 1557, and mayor in 1564, had been perselong series of years parliamentary rank cuted for heresy in 1554. He wedded Agnes, through both it has served a succession of daughter of Thomas Riley, mayor of Covenmonarchs—through both acquired civic and try, and had a son and successor, military distinction. In the sanguinary wars RICHARD HOPKYNS, who had two sons, of York and Lancaster, which for thirty SAMPSON, his heir, and William, proprietor years at least devastated the fair fields of of the lordship of Shortley, 21 JAMES I. England, and with ruthless impartiality The elder, swept away the chief adherents of both SAMPSON HOPKYNS, mayor of Coventry in houses, the family of Hopkyns is tradition- | 1609, represented that city in parliament in ally stated to have taken a prominent part, the 12 and 18 JAMES I. He d. in 1622, and to have experienced the inevitable con- leaving by Jane, his wife, three sons and sequences-incarceration, decapitation, and one daughter, viz. confiscation: to pass, however, from rumour 1. RICHARD (Sir), his heir. to record, we find soon after the pacification 11. William (Sir). of the kingdom, (22 and 23 EDWARD IV.) 11. Sampson, mayor of Coventry in one of its members, 1640. WILLIAM HOPKINS, chosen by the men of Coventry to preside over their city, then a 1. Anne, m. to M. Babington, esq. of place of consideration. This William was Rothley Temple, in the county of the father of three sons, Leicester, and d. in 1648, aged thirty- , three. WILLIAM, his heir. Richard, sheriff of Coventry in 1554. The eldest son, Nicholas, sheriff of Coventry in 1561. Sir RICHARD HOPKINS, knt. became emi nent at the bar and attained the rank of The name was originally written Hopkyns-serjeant-at-law. He was steward of Covenit was so spelt by John Hopkyns, who filled a civic try, and represented that city in parliament office in the city of Coventry in 1567. at the Restoration. He m. Sarah, daughter and co-heir of John Button,* esq. of Buck Sarah, m. to T. Clough, esq. land in Hampshire, by Mary, bis wife, of Otley. daughter of William Jesson, esq. mayor of Jane, m. to the Rev. Francis Coventry in 1631, and had issue, Wanley, D. D. RICHARD, his heir. Sir Richard, who was a faithful servant of Thomas, secretary to Lord Sunderland, King Charles I. and enjoyed the confisteward of Coventry, and commis- dence of that unhappy prince in an eminent sioner of salt duties. degree, as a series of letters addressed to Sarah, who m. Sir John Goodricke, him by the king in his majesty's extremity, bart. of Ribston, in the county of still extant, and in the possession of the York, and had a numerous family. family, fully attests, d. at Lymington, in The eldest son, Hampshire, and was buried there in 1682. Sir Henry GOODRICKE, bart. b. in He was s. by his elder son, 1677, m. in 1704, Mary, only child RICHARD Hoskins, esq. who sat in parliaof Tobias Jenkyns, esq. of Grim- ment for the city of Coventry in 1660, 1669, ston, by the lady Mary Paulet, 1678, 1689, 1696, and 1698. He m. Mary, his wife, daughter of the first «au. of Mr. Alderman Johnson, and sister of Duke of Bolton, and had issue, Lady Hale, by whom he had a son, EDWARD, John (the Right Hon. Sir), bis heir, and a daughter, Mary. Mr. Hopkins whose great-great-grandson, was a person of considerable importance in the late Sir Harry James the time of JAMES II. and from the following Goodricke, d. unmarried in facts mentioned by his son, the Right Hon. 1833, and bequeathing a Edward Hopkins, was an active opponent of considerable estate to Fran- the court, and promoter of the revolution. cis-Lyttleton Holyoake, esq. “In the year 1607,” says Edward Hopthat gentleman assumed the kins, “whilst the queen was at Bath (the ocsurname and arms of Good- casion of which jorney thither the year folRICKE, and being created a lowing, gave such a suspicion of indirect baronet, is now Sir Fran- practices to the nation, by the birth of the cis-LYTTLETON HOLYOAKE- pretender) King James made a progress GOODRICKE. through a part of the kingdom, and lay at Henry. my father's house, where, the morning after Thomas-Francis-Henry, lieu- bis arrival, public mass was said in the great tenant-colonel 25th regi- dining room, where I was present at the late ment, m. Elizabeth, daugh- celebration of it, my age screening from ter of James Button, esq. any observation in my behaviour by those and dying in 1803, left a who attended the service. The next act of son, the present Sir Tho- devotion was touching for the king's evil, by MA'S GOODRICKE, bart. of his majesty, in our great church ; the king Ribston. was very gracious to my father, though he HARRY, prebendary of York, had been some time before (during Mon mouth's rebelliont) distinguished as a malig d. s. p. * The family of Button, whose progenitor, Sın + The report from the municipal authorities of WALTER DE Burton, received the honour of Coventry, shows the great interest which Mr. knighthood from HENRY III. flourished for a long Hopkins took in the affairs of the Duke of Monsuccession of generations in the county of Hants, mouth. inaintaining a leading influence among the landed Coventry, 9th September, 1682. proprietors of that shire, and intermarrying with My Lord,—The Duke of Monmouth's coming many distinguished houses. here gives us this occasion to present your lordJohn Button, esq. of Buckland, in Lymington, ship with this account following, of the manner of representative of the family about the middle of his reception, and what past thereupon; and first the seventeenth century, and uncle of Sir William we must crave leave to begin at Saturday, the 2nd Button, bart. of Alton, m. Eleanor, daughter of instant, which morning, at the post house in this Sir Bernard Drake, knt. of Ash, and was grand-citty, was the Lord Colchester, who then befather of spoake fourteen post horses for his grace his use, John BUTTON, esq. of Buckland, who d. in to be ready on Fryday morning, the 8th of this 1679, leaving by Mary, his wife, daughter of Wil- instant September. In order to his grace his reliam Jesson, esq. of Coventry, four daughters, ception, a feast was prepared, and was on Thurshis co-heirs, viz. day last at the Starre Inn, in this citty, where ELIZABETH, m. to John Burrard, esq. most or all of the most considerable dissenters dined, Mary or Sarah, m. tò Sir Richard Hopkins, and stayed his grace his coming, being introduced knt. of Coventry. by Mr. Hopkins our late burgess, who went to DaAnne, m. to Paul Burrard, esq. ancestor of the ventry to meet him, and brought him to toune prese Sir Harry Burrard Neale, bart. about nine at nigh the bells then ringing and ELEANOR, m. to Thomas Dore, esq. some bonfires lighted in his way. He alighted at |