Hanover Square, 17th July, 1792, Elizabeth, daughter and sole heir of Robert Bulkeley, esq. of Bulkeley, in Cheshire, and by her (who died at Buckenhill 18th January, 1833) had issue, JOHN, his heir. William, b. 27th November, 1801. Edmund, b. 15th December, 1802, devisee of his great-uncle William Higginson, esq. of Saltmarsh, pursuant to whose will he has taken the testator's name, and is the present Edmund Higginson, esq. of Saltmarsh. He served as sheriff for Herefordshire in 1828. Elizabeth, born at Uxbridge and christened at Brockhampton; m. at Marylabonne Church, London, 5th August, 1834, to Robert-Biddulph Phillipps, esq. of Longworth, in Herefordshire. Mrs. Phillipps is devisee of Buckenhill under her mother's will. Mr. Barneby d. in London 11th February, 1817, was buried at Brockhampton, and s. by his eldest son, the present JOHN BARNEBY, esq. of Brockhampton. Arms-Quarterly, 1st and 4th, sa. a lion passant guardant between three escallops arg. for BARNEBY; 2nd and 3rd, quarterly, or and az. four lions rampant counterchanged, together with upwards of forty quarterings chiefly brought in by Habingdon and Shirley. Crest-A lion couchant guardant sa. Family of Lutley. SIR WILLIAM LUTLEY, knt. of Munslow Hall, in Shropshire, m. Johanna, daughter of Sir Philip Young, of Kenton, and had two sons, of whom the elder, Sir Philip Lutley, knt. wedded Johanna, daughter of William Packington, and the younger, NICHOLAS LUTLEY, espoused Anne, daughter of William Littleton, and was father of WILLIAM LUTLEY, who m. Alice, daughter of Richard Daver, and was s. by his son, WILLIAM LUTLEY, whose son and successor (by Sibill, daughter of William Hickes, of Dorleston) was WILLIAM LUTLEY, of Lutley, in Shropshire, who m. Johanna, daughter of John Lee, and was father of JOHN LUTLEY, who m. Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Thomas Corbin, by Elizabeth his wife, daughter and co-heir of Giles Filiode, of Alveley, and had a son and suc cessor, WILLIAM LUTLEY, who m. Elizabeth, daughter of John Ringley, and had issue, JOHN. III. Anne, m. to John Knight, of War- IV. Catharine, m. to Edward Price, of v. Cicilie, m. to George Holland, of VI. Johanna, m. to Oliver Briggs, of The son and successor, John Lutley, esq. of Bromscroft Castle, m. Mary, daughter of John Packington, of Chadesley Corbett, and dying 23rd January, 1644, left, with two other children, Philip, of Rawnton, and Magdalen, wife of William Berington, of Motehall, a son and successor, ADAM LUTLEY, esq. of Lawton, in Salop, sixty-six years of age 17th August, 1663, who wedded Elizabeth, daughter of William Smith, of Whitchurch, in Berkshire, and had issue BARTHOLOMEW, his heir; Thomas, who m. Elizabeth Withers; George and Mary. The eldest son, BARTHOLOMEW LUTLEY, esq. of Lawton, b. in 1639; m. Margaret, daughter and heiress of Herbert Jenkes, esq. of Newhall, in Salop, and had PHILIP, his heir. Magdalen. TAYLOR, JOHN, esq. of Clifton, and of Huntly Lodge, Cheltenham, in the county of Gloucester, M. D. b. 3rd October, 1790, m. 17th October, 1812, Eliza Barham, daughter of Richard Massey Hansard, esq. of Miskin House, Glamorganshire, and granddaughter of his Excellency William Matthew Burt,' captain general and governor in chief of the Leeward Islands by this lady Dr. Taylor has issue, : LOUISA BURT, m. 24th March, 1829, to the Rev. Henry Stonhouse, M.A. prebendary of Ledbury, and rector of Eaton Bishop, Herefordshire, who has since the decease of his father taken the additional surname of VIGOR, and has issue. He is son of the late Venerable Archdeacon Timothy Stonhouse Vigor, grandson of Sir James Stonhouse, bart. and grandnephew of the late Lord Bishop of Hereford, (for a detailed account of the family of Stonhouse, see BURKE's Peerage and Baronetage). ELIZA LUTHER, m. 20th June, 1831, to Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Hughes, C. B. lately commanding in the province of Cutch, East Indies, and has issue. Dr. Taylor is distinguished in the science of Medicine, and was formerly one of his present Majesty's Physicians. Amongst the many flattering proofs of universal respect GOVERNOR BURT, whose seat was Maiden Earleigh, in Berkshire, was not only of distinguished birth, but collaterally and by marriage connected with many leading families. One of the Burts wedded Miss Morgan, and hence the connection with Sir Charles Morgan, of Tredegar, whose daughter married Lord Rodney. His niece also married Admiral Cumberland, whose sister was the wife of the Lord Frederick Bentinck. Governor Burt and his lady were also closely connected with the Viscount Barrington, and with Lady Affleck, whose daughter first married Sir Godfrey Webster, and subsequently Lord Holland, (see BURKE's Peerage and Baronetage, and Family of FOSTER of Brickhill). His Excellency represented, previously to his appointment in the West Indies, the borough of Reading in parliament. In his government he was most active, and expended a very large sum upon the fortifications, which has never been repaid. For his services he received the King's thanks and the promise of a peerage, but died suddenly at his government before it was completed. Upon his daughter's return to England she married Richard Massey Hansard, esq. There is a singular circumstance connected with Governor Burt's decease. On the day twelvemonth preceding, as he sat at dinner with a large party at the Government House, he laid down his knife and fork, and inquired if they had seen a person pass towards his private apartment, whom, he remarked, he knew to be dead: however, he was rallied by his friends, but on the exact anniversary he was found lifeless in his room, not having rung for his valet to dress him for dinner. Mrs. Taylor's mother, afterwards Mrs. Hansard, was with him in the West Indies at the time. Her husband, RICHARD MASSEY HANSARD, esq. an Irishman by birth, and prior to his marriage a captain in the king's service, resided at Miskin House, Glamorganshire, and held the majority of that county militia at the period of his decease. His family was a scion of the ancient and knightly house of Hansard of Lincolnshire, which is fully recorded in the several visitations and other public records. He was son and nephew of officers who both fell at Bunker's Hill, grandson of John Hansard, esq. of Lazar Hill, Dublin, nephew of Hugh Josias Hansard, esq. the great army agent, and the direct lineal descendant of Sir Richard Hansard, who received the honour of knighthood from JAMES II. and was the first who settled in Ireland. Major Hansard married, first, Louisa, daughter of his Excellency W. M. Burt, the governor of the Leeward Islands, and secondly, Lydia, daughter of David Thomas, esq. of Pwlterach, Glamorganshire, but had issue only by the former. Major Hansard died of cholera in 1806, universally lamented, and was interred with military honours at Hailsham, in Sussex. His daughter, ELIZA-BARHAM, m. as in the text, to JOHN TAYLOR, esq. M.D. and esteem he has gained, we cannot omit mentioning the gratifying testimonial he received about two years since by the public presentation in Bristol of some splendid pieces of plate from the Duchess of Kent and his friends, bearing a highly complimentary inscription, and in which Dr. Taylor is styled "The Poor Man's Friend." At the last election he offered himself a candidate for the representation of Poole, but a serious illness prevented his going to the poll. Lineage. It appears from the various records, that this family unquestionably derives from the Royal Houses of England, Scotland, and France, and that its ancestors, the GORDONS, DAWTREYS, &c. were not more distinguished for high birth, than for brilliant talent, and public services. A remarkable circumstance is also connected with it—a collateral descent not only from the Great Reformer Luther, but likewise from a most pious and excellent divine of the Church of Rome, Father Clerk, confessor to the Grand Duke of Tuscany. Dr. Taylor is the representative and heir of his Excellency the late GENERAL GORDON, Governor of Pensylvania, and the next also to the LAIRD OF CLUNY in that distinguished branch of the noble clan and ducal house of Gordon. We shall therefore commence with a brief sketch of the Gordon family, until it merges in the immediate line of Taylor. more, and marrying Gordon of Lismor's daughter, had a son, JOHN GORDON, of Peltans, who espoused Beatrix, daughter of Sir Patrick Leslie, knt. of Edine, and had a son, JOHN GORDON, of Aberdeen who married Christian, daughter of Robert Smith, esq. and had a son, MAJOR GENERAL PATRICK GORDON, a distinguished and gallant officer, who served during twenty years in the Royal regiment of Foot, commonly called Dumbarton's regiment, (recently commanded by the Duke of Gordon), and became eventually Governor of Pensylvania. He m. 3rd April, 1695, (O. S.) Isabella, daughter of William Clerk, esq. barrister-at-law, and sister of Father Clerk,* confessor to the King of Spain and to the Grand duke of Tuscany, and had (with other issue, who all d. unm.) a daughter, ALEXANDER, 3rd EARL OF HUNTLEY, (whose PHILADELPHIA GORDON, named from the mother was the Princess Jean, daughter of place of her nativity, who became the heirJAMES I. King of Scotland, and whose grand-ess, last survivor, and representative of her mother was Lady Jane Beaufort, daughter family. This lady wedded of John, first Earl of Somerset, and granddaughter of JOHN of GAUNT), died 16th January, 1523-4, having had, by the Lady Jean Stewart his wife, daughter of John, Earl of Atholl, several sons and daughters: of the former, JOHN, Lord Gordon, died vitâ patris, leaving a son GEORGE, who s. his grandfather in the Earldom of Huntley, and was ancestor of the DUKES OF GORDON. (See BURKE'S Peerage.) WILLIAM, became Bishop of Aberdeen. ALEXANDER, was Laird of Strathhaven. The son, ALEXANDER GORDON, Laird of Strathaven, wedded the youngest daughter of John Grant, of Grant, by Elizabeth his wife, daughter of John, 6th Lord Forbes, and granddaughter of John, Earl of Athol, and had two sons, ALEXANDER and JOHN. The elder, ALEXANDER GORDON, changed, after his father's decease, the lands of Strathhaven for the barony of CLUNY. He m. a daughter of Ogilvie, of Banff, but having an only daughter, he was s. by his brother, JOHN GORDON, of Cluny, who m. Margaret, daughter of Gordon of Cragallie and Achenive, and had two sons: the elder, SIR THOMAS GORDON, succeeded at CLUNY, while the younger, JOHN GORDON, became Laird of Bris COLONEL ABRAHAM TAYLOR,† military secretary to her father, and the lineal descendant of George Taylor, esq. of Derbyshire, a magistrate for that county, and an East India merchant. Mrs. Taylor outlived her husband, whose decease occurred in February, 1772; and died in Bath, 17th March, 1793, leaving an only son, JOHN TAYLOR, esq. of the Circus, Bath, and of Grosvenor Place, London; so celebrated for his talents as an amateur in painting, and the friend of Garrick, Gibbon, Franklin, Coleman, and the other wits and literati of his day. None of Mr. Taylor's exquisite productions were ever sold, but are principally in the possession of his daughter, Mrs. Charlotte Taylor, and his grandson, Dr. Taylor. These splendid efforts are mentioned in “ Humphrey Clinker," *There was a correspondence between Father Clerk and his English relatives, on the subject of their religious differences, in which Archbishop Tillotson took part. Many of the original letters of this excellent divine, Father Clerk, are still in Mrs. Charlotte Taylor's possession. American independence, but it does not appear + The Taylor family suffered severely by the that the family ever claimed or obtained any recompense from the crown, on this account, or in consideration of Governor Gordon's services. IV. Two were presented by Dr. Taylor to GEORGE He d. 8th November, 1806, and his decease is thus recorded in the Bath paper of that day; "On Saturday died at his house in this city John Taylor, esq. Upon most subjects of science and literature few men were better informed, but his excellence as a landscape painter will long be known to the world, from the beautiful engravings taken from some of his celebrated pictures. His house in this city, some years since, was resorted to by all persons distinguished for talent and genius." The following lines were written by David Garrick upon seeing Mr. Taylor's pictures and hearing a connoisseur declare, They were finely painted for a gentleman ;" Tell me the meaning, you who can, JOHN TAYLOR, esq. M.D. studying medicine, became eminent as a physician, and practised in Dorsetshire, the county town of which shire his cousin, Francis Fane, esq. represented in parliament. From his maternal grandfather he inherited Vicar's Hill, To John Taylor, esq. of the Circus, Bath, on his admirable pictures. By the Rev. R. Graves, of Claverton. Such are the scenes, thro' which gay fancy roves Luther, of Myles's. (Now represented by JOHN FANE, esq. of Wormsley, and JOHN TAYLOR, esq. M. D. of Clifton.) Established in England during the reign of HENRY VIII. and undoubtedly allied to the celebrated Reformer, the Luthers remained seated in Essex for centuries, intermarrying with the leading families of that county, representing it in parliament, and exercising paramount influence in its local government.* Like so many other great families who formerly adorned the country, and possessed great sway and possessions, the house of Luther, in the male line, is now no more, although the representation is at present vested in Mr. FANE, of Wormsley, and Dr. TAYLOR, of Clifton. The head of the family at the close of the 16th century, RICHARD LUTHER, esq. of Myles's, in Essex, was father of ANTHONY LUTHER, esq. who inherited the estate in 1639, and d. in 1665, leaving, by Jane his wife, eldest daughter of Gilbert Armstrong, esq. two sons and one daughter, Jane, m. in 1647 to Edward Rudge, esq. of Great Warley, in Essex. (See RUDGE, OF EVESHAM.) The elder son, RICHARD LUTHER, esq. of Myles's, wedded Rebecca, daughter of Edward Rudge, esq. of London, and d. about the year 1688, leaving with a daughter, Jane, m. to John Luther, esq. of Sutton, a son and successor, EDWARD LUTHER, esq. of Myles's, high sheriff for Essex in 1701, who m. Sarah, Where yet unform'd ten thousand wonders dwell ! *During the civil war, the Luther family adhered with devotion to the ill-fated monarch, and the name of Thomas Luther is found amongst those staunch supporters of royalty, whom it was intended to have invested with the knighthood of the Royal Oak. CHARLOTTE, m. to HENRY FANE, esq. of Wormsley, brother of the late Earl of Westmoreland. (See BURKE'S PEERAGE.) REBECCA, M. to JOHN TAYLOR, esq. of the Circus, Bath, and of Grosvenor Place, London. Mr. Luther died at Vicar's Hill 28th December, 1767, and was s. by his only son, JOHN LUTHER, esq. of Myles's, who represented the county of Essex in parliament, after one of the severest contests on record, which is stated to have cost Mr. Luther £50,000. He m. Levina, daughter of Bennet (Alexander) Bennet, esq. of Wiltshire, and great granddaughter of Sir Levinus Bennet, of Babraham, in Cambridgeshire, but dying without issue, the representation of the ancient and influential family of Luther, now vests in John Fane, esq. and John Taylor, M.D. Bawtrey, of Moor House and Doddinghurst. Of which JOHN TAYLOR, esq. M.D. of Clifton, is also the joint representative. The descent of the family of Dawtrey, authenticated by the several visitations, is * Chamberlen, of Alderton Hall, and Hinton Hall. (Now represented by Major-General Northey Hopkins, John Fane, esq. and John Taylor, esq. M.D.) The family of CHAMBERLEN, or as it was anciently written, CHAMBERLIN and CHAMBERLAYNE, is one of great antiquity, having been settled in Suffolk from the period of the conquest. Dr. Chamberlen was a physician of London, of great eminence about the court, as physician to Queen ANN. In his last will and testament he names his wife as the LADY CREWE, and makes mention of the Countess of Arran and the Duke and Duchess of Buckingham. The estates of Alderton Hall, and Hinton Hall, which for many years were the undivided property in equal moities, of John Taylor, esq. and General Northey Hopkins, have been disposed of. Dr. Chamberlen m. first, Mary, daughter and sole heir of Nathaniel Bacon, esq. of Friston Hall, in Suffolk (see pedigree of NORTHEY-HOPKINS, OF OVING HOUSE); and secondly, Mary, daughter of Sir Willoughby Aston, bart. of Aston, Cheshire, and relict of Sir John Crewe, knt. of Utkington. By his first wife he left three daughters, his coheirs, viz. MARY, d. unm. ANNA-MARIA, m. to the Right Hon. Edward Hopkins, and thence descends the family deduced in an uninterrupted line from the CONQUEST until it merges in that of LUTHER, and now also represented by John Fane, esq. and Dr. Taylor. Few pedigrees are founded on such unquestionable proof, and still fewer present more brilliant alliances, or more uniformly preserved their station. JOHN DE ALTA RIPA, obtaining by gift from Jocelyne, of Louvaine, the manor of Heryngham or Hardham (then called 'HAULTREY') assumed in one of the early Norman reigns the surname of Dehaultrey, de Alta Ripa, or Dawtrey. He was grandfather of JOSCELYNE DE ALTA RIPA, who had two sons, namely, 1. WILLIAM, who founded temp. HENRY II. the priory of Heringham, and endowed it with considerable possessions. His granddaughter and heir LUTHER, esq. great grandfather of Dr. Taylor of Clifton. Dugdale's Monasticon. In recording the foundation of Herryngham priory, by WILLIAM DawTREY, the Monasticon thus speaks: "The Latin meant for a river, without relation to 'ripa' a word Ripa,' was in Norman writings generally bank. The Romans called it Haultrey.' There was an ancient family of knights, owners of much lands in these parts, and of fair possessions even in the very bosom of the Hyh stream,' from which they took their name, and were called 'De Haultrey.' Dallaway and Cartwright's Hist. of Sussex. The intervening descent was as follows: John de Hautrey Thomas Dawtry John Dawtry John Dawtry Andrew Dawtrey. |