who died 1769, by whom he had eight children, who all died in the lifetime of their father, except John, his successor. Sir John died May 25, 1779, and was succeeded by his only son,

IV. Sir JOHN CHETWODE, Bart. born May 11, 1764, and married, Oct. 26, 1785, Henrietta, eldest daughter of George-Harry Grey, Earl of Stamford, of Dunham-Massey, in Cheshire, by whom he has eight children now living, 1, John; 2, William; 3, George; 4, Charles; 5, Henrietta-Dorothy; 6, AnneMaria; 7, Elizabeth; 8, Louisa.

ARMS-Quarterly, argent, and gules, four crosses, formé, counterchanged. CREST-Out of a ducal coronet, proper, a demi-lion, rampant, issuant, gules. MOTTO-Corona mea Christus.

SEATS-Oakley, in Staffordshire, Chetwode and Agden, in Buckinghamshire, and Whitley, in Cheshire.

BARONETS

CREATED BY

QUEEN ANNE.

221. WEBSTER, of COPTHALL, Essex.

Created Baronet, May 21, 1703.

THE Websters are descended from an ancient family of that name, seated at Lockington, in Yorkshire, before the reign of King Richard II. which seat and estate, in the 12th of that king's reign, 1388, was, by Alice, daughter and heiress of William Webster (then in her widowhood, as she writes in her deed), conveyed to John Herynge, of South Burton, and Joan, his wife, whereunto William Abel, of Lockynton, William Ward, of the same place, Adam de Rygeton, of South Burton, and others, are witnesses.

But in 12 Hen. VI. John Webster, of Bolesover, in Derbyshire, was returned into chancery among the gentlemen of that county, who made oath for themselves and retainers, for the observance of the peace, and of the king's laws; part of which estate, in 1741, was in possession of Peter Webster, Esq. the chief heir male of the family, a younger son whereof was,

Sir Godfrey Webster, of Nelmes, in Essex, Knt. who married Abigail, daughter and coheiress of Thomas Gorden, of the Mere, in Staffordshire, Esq. by whom he had,

I. Sir THOMAS WEBSTER, who was created a Baronet in the second year of Queen Anne; and, in the year 1705, was returned a member for the borough

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of Colchester, to the parliament then called; for which place he served again, in the first and second parliaments of Great Britain (after the Union), 1708 and 1710, and also again in the second parliament of King George II. also, about the year 1717, he was, by the freeholders of the county of Essex, elected verdurer of the ancient forest of Waltham, in the said county. He married Jane, daughter and heiress of Edward Cheek, of Sampford-Orcas, in the county of Somerset, Esq. (by his wife Mary, daughter and coheiress of Henry Whistler, of Ebsham, vulgo Epsom, in Surry, Esq. by whom he had two sons, Sir Whistler, his successor, and Sir Godfrey, successor to his brother; and three daughters, Abigail, wife, first, of William Northey, of Compton-Basset, in Wiltshire, Esq. son and heir of Sir Edward Northey, Knt. attorney-general; she was secondly the wife of Sir Edmond Thomas, of Wenvoe, in Glamorganshire, Bart. member of parliament for Chippenham, in Wilts; Jane, wife of the Rev. Bluett, of Devonshire; and Elizabeth, of — Webster, an officer of the army, bearing the same arms, but not acknowledged by her family as a relation, being a stolen match*. Sir Thomas died in 1750, and his relict in 1760. He was succeeded by his eldest son,

II. Sir WHISTLER WEBSTER, Bart. who represented the borough of East Grinstead in parliament. He died Sept. 1776, and was succeeded by his brother,

III. Sir GODFREY WEBSTER, Bart. who married, daughter of Gilbert, by whom he had one son, Sir Godfrey. He died in 1780, and was succeeded by his son,

IV. Sir GODFREY WEBSTER, Bart. who, in 1786, married —, daughter of Vassal, a rich planter in Jamaica, by whom he had two sons and one daughter. They resided in Florence, and on his coming to England on business, she quitted him, and afterwards being divorced, was married to Lord Holland, who, by Sir Godfrey's death, succeeded to 70001. a-year, which, though an alienable property of his lady, he gave up to Sir Godfrey for his life. Šir Godfrey shot himself with a pistol, June 3, 1800, at his house in Tenderdenstreet, Hanover-square. For five or six weeks before, he had betrayed evident symptoms of a troubled mind, in consequence of ill luck at play, whereupon the coroner's inquest brought in a verdict of lunacy. He is succeeded by his

son,

V. Sir GODFREY-VASSAL WEBSTER, Bart.

ARMS-Azure, on a bend, argent, cottized, or (between two demi-lions, rampant, ermine), a rose gules, seeded and leaved, proper, between two boar's heads, couped, sable, langued, gules.

CREST-A dragon's head, couped, reguardant, quarterly per fess, embattled vert, and or, with flames of fire issuing out of his mouth, proper.

SEATS-Nelmes and Copthall, in Essex, and Battel-Abbey, in Sussex.

By the information of the Rev. Robert Raynald, at Mr. Markwich's, at Catsfield, near Battle-Abbey, Sussex, dated Dec. 24, 1752.

222. DOLBEN, of THINGDON, alias FINEDON, North

amptonshire.

Created Baronet, April 1, 1704.

THIS family is very ancient in Derbyshire, and has branched into several houses*. The name is supposed to be taken from Dolben Maer, a place between Carnarvon and Penmorfa, and from the spelling of it in the Herald's College, it might seem to be from the family of D'Albini, of whom was an Earl of Sussex, during the Norman dynasty: it is now written Doulben, in Wales, which the Rev. John Williams, of Llanrwst, says is wrong.

1, William Dalbin, of Denbigh, in North Wales; descended from those of Segrywd, (not Segrayd or Segroit) in that county, married ———— daughter of Conway, by whom he had,

* David Dolben, bishop of Bangor, who died November 27, 1767, was of this family. And so was Robert Dolben, of Denbigh, the father of Robert Dolben, of Denbigh, the father of Robert-Wyn Dolben, of Denbigh, the father of John Wyn Dolben, of Denbigh, who married Katherine, daughter of Hugh ap Rees, ap William, ap Ithell Vychan, of Disser or Disserts, by whom he had eight sons; 1, John-Wyn Dolben, who married Margaret daughter of William Myddleton, of Gruneah; 2, William; 3, Henry; 4, Peter; 5, David; 6, Richard; 7, Robert; 8, John, M. S. of Anthony a Wood, marked F, fol 68.

2, Hugh Dalbin, who married——————, daughter of―, Dutton, of Cheshire, by whom he had one son,

3, Humphrey Dalbin, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Lewys, of Nantconway, by whom he had two sons, John and Richard, who had one son, Richard, and a daughter, Jane.

4, John Dalbin, of Haverford West, Pembrokeshire, his eldest son, married Alice, daughter of Richard Myddleton, of Denbigh, and sister of Sir Thomas Myddleton, of Chirk Castle, by whom he had one son, William, and one daughter, Jane, wife of Richard Wogan, of Bolston.

5, William Dalbin or Dolbin, S. T. D. rector of Stanwich, Northamptonshire, and of Benefield; to both of which he was instituted in one day*, and prebendary of Lincolnt, through the interest of the Lord Keeper Williams, whose niece, Elizabeth, daughter of Hugh Williams, of Cogwillan, Carnarvonshire; he married by whom he had three sons and two daughters; 1, John, of whom hereafter; 2, William, who was highly eminent in his profession. He was recorder of London, received the honour of knighthood; and in 1678, was appointed one of the judges in the court of common pleas. In 1683, he was removed from that situation, very highly to his honour, being the only judge that gave his opinion against the legality of disolving corporations by quo warranto ‡. His rank was justly restored by King William; who, in 1689, appointed him a judge of the King's-Bench §, and in that station he remained till his death, which happened in 1693, the 65th year of his age. He was buried in the Tem ple-church, and left a character of high estimation, for strict integrity, and the most penetrating discernment ||; and 3, Rowland, a sea-officer; the two last died unmarried. Of the two daughters, -, the eldest was wife of Dr. Stephen Luddington, archdeacon of Stow, in the diocese of Lincoln, and had a son, Stephen, a clergyman, who died unmarried, and four daughters;-, the eldest, was wife of Dr. Nicholas Stratford, bishop of Chester, by whom she had one son, Dr. William Stratford, canon of Christ-church, who died unmarried, and one daughter,

wife of Dr. Entwizle, Dean of Chester, by whom she had two daughters, unmarried, in 1741; the second was wife of Dr. Dickenson, of St. Martin's lane, by whom she had one only daughter, who was married to the Baron Blombergh, a nobleman of Courland, by whom she had several sons; the eldest of which, Edmund-Charles, was equerry to his majesty, and the second -, rector of Fulham, in Middlesex, and married, daughter of Dr. Bland, dean of Durham ; the third was wife of Mr. Wheler, by whom she had, Dr. Wheler, a physician, at Chester, and one daughter; the fourth, was wife of Mr. Fox, by whom she

had a numerous issue. Dr. Dolben's second daughter was first, the wife of a wealthy citizen of London, by whom she had no issue; secondly of Dr. James, warden of All-Souls college, Oxon, by whom she had a son, Gilbert, who was

* Kennet's Chron. and Magn. Brit. North.

+ Willis Cathed.

Baronetage.

§ Pointer's Chronol. Vol. II.

From the information of lord chief baron Parker.