I. ELLIS CUNLIFFE, Esq. the elder son, was chosen member of parliament for Liverpool in the life-time of his father, and was first knighted, and afterwards created a Baronet, by his late Majesty George II. 1759. He was a second time elected for Liverpool in 1761, and discharged his duty as a member of the house of commons with integrity and success. He first pointed out to those in power, the probability and benefit of joining the Trent to the Mersey by a canal, which has since been effected, and from which many salutary consequences are derived. He also obtained the extension of the Post-Office, by which the communication of correspondence is accelerated, and a daily post established between Liverpool and London: he was neither venal nor factious, his fortune placed him above the temptation of a bribe, and he had too much discernment to be hurried away by every torrent of opposition. Hence it was no wonder that he was a second time returned to assist in the grand council of the nation. Though. Providence had bestowed on him almost every earthly blessing, yet he wanted what neither honour nor riches can procure, health of body. He was obliged, on this account, to remove for some years into the milder climates of Europe, from whence he returned with his health much improved, his understanding untainted with folly, his morals uncorrupted by vice, and his religious principles undebased by the libertine or superstitious notions of the countries he had passed through. After some years, finding his health again declining, he was advised again to go to Naples, but died at Leostwithiel, in his road to Falmouth, where he designed to embark, Oct. 16, 1767, in the 51st year of his age, and was interred in the chapel at Cherton-Heath, in Cheshire. Sir Ellis married Mary, daughter of Henry Bennet, Esq. by whom he had two daughters, Mary, wife of Drummond Smith, of Tring Park, Esq.; and Margaret-Elizabeth, of William Gosling, of Roehampton Grove, in Surry, Esq. He was succeeded in title and estate by his brother, II. Sir ROBERT CUNLIFFE, Bart. who was high-sheriff for the county of Cheshire in 1770. He married Mary, daughter of Ichabod Wright, of Nottingham, Esq. by whom he had one son, Sir Foster, and three daughters; Elizabeth, wife, March 9, 1782, of S. Courtenay, Esq.; Mary, wife, May 4, 1780, of Richard Broke, Esq.; and Margaret. Sir Robert died, and was suc ceeded by his son, III. Sir FOSTER CUNLIFFE, Bart. who married, 1781, Harriet, daughter of Sir David Kinlock, of Glemmerton, Bart. by whom he had born Aug. 24, 1782. a son, ARMS-Sable, three conies, current, argent, two and one. CREST-On a wreath, a greyhound, sejant, argent, collared, sable. SEAT-At Saighton, in Cheshire. 267. YEA, of PYRLAND, Somersetshire. Created Baronet, June 11, 1759. 1, DAVID YEA, of Sturminster-Marshall, in Dorsetshire, Esq. is the first mentioned in this pedigree; he married Ursula, daughter of Edward Hobbes, of Brompton-Ralph, and Stoke-Garsey, in Somersetshire, Esq. by whom he had one son, 2, David Yea, of Oakhampton, and of the parish of Brompton-Ralph, Esq. high-sheriff for the county of Somerset, who married Dorothy, youngest daughter and coheiress of William Lacy, of Hartrow, and of Elworthy, in Somersetshire, Esq. by Sarah, his wife, daughter and coheiress of Michael Hole, of the same county, Esq. by whom he had one son David, and three daughters, Mary and Jenny died unmarried, and Dorothy, wife, first, of — Tate, Esq. secondly, of Francis Collins, of Wiveliscombe, in Somersetshire, Esq. 3, David Yea, Esq. the son, was of Brompton-Ralph, and of the parish of Wiveliscombe, in Somersetshire; he served the office of high-sheriff, and was one of his Majesty's justices of the peace for the same county. He married Joan, daughter and heiress of Nathaniel Brewer, of Tolland, in Somersetshire, Esq. descended from the Brewers, of Chard, in the same county, by whom he had four sons and five daughters; 1, David, died in December, 1758; 2, Thomas, died unmarried; 3, William, of whom hereafter; 4, Robert, died an infant; Mary, the eldest, and Sally, the youngest, died unmarried. The other daughters were, Dorothy, Jenny, and Betty. I. WILLIAM YEA, Esq. the third and only surviving son, is of Pyrland, in the parish of Taunton St. James; of Burliford, in the parish of Bishop Nymton; of Northwheelborough, in the parish of King's-Carwell; of the manor and parish of Sturminster-Marshal; of Yea's Hundred Acres, in the parish of Cannington, Stockland, and Huntspill; with divers other considerable possessions, all situate in the several counties of Somerset, Devon, and Dorset. He was created a Baronet, June 18, 1759, served the office of high-sheriff in 1760, and is one of his Majesty's justices for the county of Somerset. He married Julia, eldest daughter of Sir George Trevelyan, of Nettlecombe, in Somersetshire, Bart. by Julia, his wife, daughter of Sir Walter Calverley, of Calverley, in the county of York, Bart. by whom he has had six sons; 1, William-Walter, born at Oakhampton, Oct. 8, 1756, who married, May 1, 1783, -,_daughter of Francis Newman, of Cadbury-House, Somersetshire, Esq.; 2, Lacy, born Dec. 14, 1757, died 1758; 3, Lacy, born Jan. 21, 1759; 4, George, born April 1, 1760 ; 5, Thomas-Frere, born May 12, 1766; and born May 27, 1770. ARMS-Quarterly: first, vert, a ram, passant, argent; second, gules, two rams, passant, in pale, ermine; third, gules, two bends wavy, or, a chief vaire; fourth, as the first. 268. GLYN, of LONDON, and of EWELL, Surry. Created Baronet, Sept. 25, 1759. THE family of Glyn is paternally descended from Cilmin Droed-tu, or Cilmin with the Black Foot, who was the chief of the fourth tribe of North-Wales, and resided in the county of Carnarvon during the reign of Prince Merfyn Frych, being his brother's son*. In lineal descent from Cilmin. 19, William Glyn, Esq. of Glyn-Llyfon, in the parish of Landurog, in the county of Carnarvon, married Catharine, daughter of Thomas Mostyn, of Mos Pennant's North Wales. (See No. 141, page 260, Vol. II. of this Work.) tyn, and had two sons, Thomas Glyn, Esq. of Glyn-Llyfon, and the Rev. Richard Glyn*: in a commission of the 9th of Elizabeth, 1567, to several gentlemen of North-Wales, to admit and regulate the order of Bards and Musicians, this William is inserted. 20, The Rev. Richard Glyn, M. A. was instituted rector of Llanvaethle and chapelry of Llanvwrog, in Anglesey, in 1587, and died in 1617†; he had two sons, William, and Thomas, who resided in London. 21, Thomas Glyn was free of the Merchant-Taylors Company of London, in 1601; he had a son, 22, The Rev. Christopher Glyn, who was born in 1596, admitted into Merchant-Taylors School in 1606, at St. John's College, Oxford, in 1615, vicar of Burford in 1632 §, and died in 1668. He married Margerie Needham, by whom he had three sons and two daughters. 23, The Rev. Robert Glyn, M. A. the eldest son, was born in 1623, rector of Little Bissington, in Gloucestershire, in 1652 ||, and died in 1702. He married Mary, daughter of Davis, of Shillingford, Oxfordshire, by whom he had four sons and four daughters; 1, Christopher, who died unmarried; 2, the Rev. Edward, rector of Broughton Poggs, Oxfordshire, who had three sons, who all died unmarried, and four daughters; the third son was Robert, of whom hereafter; the fourth was Thomas. 24, Robert Glyn, the third son, citizen of London, was born in 1673, died in 1746, and was buried in the family vault at Ewell, in Surry. He married Ann Maynard, niece to Sir William Lewen, lord-mayor of London, by whom he had two sons, William, who died young, and Richard. I. Sir RICHARD GLYN was born in 1712, alderman and banker in London, lord-mayor in 1758, and created a Baronet in 1759. He represented in parliament the city of London and the city of Coventry, was doctor of laws, president of the royal hospitals of Bridewell and Bethlem, vice-president of the Artillery Company, and colonel of one of the regiments of the city militia; he died in Jan. * Pennant. Rowland's Anglesey. Records of Merchant Taylors' Company. Records of Merchant Taylors' School, St. John's, Oxford, and parish of Burford. Parish Registers of Burford and Rissington. In the parish church: Robtus Glyn, hujus ecclesiæ Rector. Vir, Eruditione, Probitate, Candore, Fide & Pietate Unde nemini inimicus, inimicum non habuit. Animâ ad Authorem Dominum remeante terrena membra terris reliquit, Tristissimum sui linguens desiderium. Etatis LXXIX. Salutis MDCCII. |