1773, and was buried in the vault at Ewell, in Surry. He married first, Susanna, only daughter and heiress of George Lewen, of Ewell, Esq. by whom he had three sons, 1, Robert-Lewen, born in 1737, who died unmarried; 2, Sir George, the present Baronet, of whom hereafter; and 3, Richard, born 1741, who also died unmarried. By his second wife, Elizabeth, daughter and coheiress of Robert Carr, Esq. he had three sons, Sir Richard-Carr, born 1755, created a Baronet in 1800, and married Mary, daughter of John Plumtre, of Fredville, in Kent, Esq. and has five sons and two daughters; 2, Thomas, born 1756, and married Hen TABLE. 1, CILMAN DROED TU. Sce Pennant's North Wales, Vol. II. P. 268. rietta-Elizabeth-Sackville Hollingbery, daughter and heiress of Thomas Hollingbery, archdeacon of Chichester, by whom he had four sons and three daughters; and 3, Edward, born 1757, and died young. II. Sir GEORGE GLYN, Bart. of Ewell, in Surry, born in 1739, was colonel of the late third regiment of Surry militia, a deputy lieutenant and magistrate for that county. He married first, Jane, youngest daughter of the Rev. Watkin Lewes, of Tredeved, in Pembrokeshire, by whom he had two sons, Richard-Lewen, born 1769, a major in the army, and died unmarried at St. Domingo in the service of his country, in 1795; and William-Lewen, who died an infant. By his second wife, Catharine, youngest daughter and coheiress of the Rev. Gervas Powell, of Lanharan, in Glamorganshire, he has Anna-Margaret, born in 1797, and a son, Lewen-Powell, born Aug. 1801. ARMS-First and fourth: argent, an eagle displayed, with two heads, sable, guttée d'or, for Glyn; second and third, party per pale, azure and gules, three stags' heads, or, in an inescutcheon surtout, a man's leg and thigh, human, couped, for Lewen. CREST-On a wreath of the colours, an eagle's head erased, sable, guttée d'or, holding in the beak an escallop, argent. COUNTRY RESIDENCE-Ewell, Surry. 269. COLEBROOKE, of BAth. Created Baronet, Oct. 12, 1759. THAT this family is of considerable antiquity, may be collected from the following circumstance: that it was usual, before the general use of patronymicks, for persons to assume the names of towns in which they first drew breath, had been educated, or executed an office. Not unfrequently a family name was dropped, after it came into use. Thus the celebrated William, Bishop of Winchester, son of John Perot, according to some, and of John Long, according to others, born at Wickham, in Hampshire, was called William Wickham, from the place of his nativity, and by that name only is he known by historians. The predecessor of Wickham, much in favour with Edward III. took his surname from Edindon, in Wiltshire, because he had his birth in it, and was denominated William de Edindon, having relinquished his paternal name. The learned Camden, and others of our antiquaries, agree, that variations in surnames were usual*; and, as the eldest branches assumed family names from castles, manors, offices, &c. so it was customary for younger sons to denominate themselves from the possessions or abode of their ancestors. The name of Colebrooke is given to many places in England and Ireland; but we have not been able to trace in which of these the person resided who added Colebrooke in addition to his christian name. The following are the places which have occurred to us. The parish of Colebrooke, in Dorsetshire; two places of the name in Devonshire; Colebrooke Castle, in Monmouthshire; Colebrooke Dale, in Shropshire; the town of Colebrooke, in Buckinghamshire; and Colebrooke, in the county of Fermanagh, in Ireland. 1, Thomas Colebrooke, who settled in Arundel, in Sussex, and died there Jan. 6, 1690, left four sons and one daughter. John, the second son, was deputy-paymaster in the expedition under Lord Cathcart in the year 1740. His spirited conduct, and disinterested perseverance in the execution of this trust, were noticed in the further report of the secret committee in 1742, and had the approbation of the house of commons. In 1748, he was appointed his Majesty's Consul at Cadiz, from which post he was dismissed in 1752, and died in October, 1760, unmarried. 2, James, the eldest, was born at Arundel, May 12, 1680, and married, Jan. 2, 1706, Mary Hudson. He died Nov. 18, 1752, and she on the 12th of March following. Their bodies are deposited in a mausoleum at Chilham, in the county of Kent, with an inscription over the entrancet. He died possessed of large estates in Kent, Sussex, and Middlesex, in which last county he built, at Southgate, near Enfield Chace, a large mansion, since called Arno's Grove ‡. He was much attached to Sir Robert Walpole, by whom he had the offer of being created a Baronet. By the said Mary Hudson he had five sons and eight daughters, whereof the two eldest sons and one daughter died in their infancy. The others were, 1, Dionysia, born March 9, 1707-8, wife, 1729, of John Walker, Esq. of Lyneham, in the county of Wilts, who, after the decease of his brother Heneage, succeeded to the office of usher of the Exchequer, granted by Hen. II. to Roger Warenquefort by letters-patent, which office in fee was purchased by an ancestor of the said John Walker in the first year of James I. This John had the offer of being created a Baronet by Mr. Fox, and died in 1758, and lies buried at Woodborough, in Wiltshire. By the said Dionysia (who died 1761, and lies buried in Lyneham) he had three sons and three daughters, 1, John, who was educated at Cambridge, and married, in 1763, Arabella, daughter of Jonathan Cope, Esq. of Orton, in Huntingdonshire, son and heir of Sir Jonathan Cope, Bart. of Brewern Abbey, in Oxfordshire, by Lady Arabella Howard, daughter of Henry, the fourth Earl of Carlisle: they are without issue. This John was of ComptonHouse*, in the county of Wilts, and after the death of his mother, took the name and arms of Heneage, by the king's licence, being grandson and heir of Cecil, daughter of Sir Michael Heneage, Knt.; he was returned to two parliaments by the borough of Cricklade; 2, James-Button Walker, killed at St. Cas, in Normandy, in 1758 †, and Colebrooke Walker, who departed this life in 1756. Of the daughters, Mary, the eldest, died unmarrried in 1775; Dionysia, the second, was wife of the Rev. Theophilus Meredith, rector of Ross, in Herefordshire, and brother of the Right Honourable Sir William Meredith, Bart. who left a daughter Harriet. Cecil, the youngest, was wife of Lieutenant-General Calcraft, who left a son, John, a colonel in the army, and three daughters, 1, Cecil, unmarried; 2, Arabella, wife of William St. Quintin, Esq. of Scampston, in Yorkshire; and 3, Mary, of the Rev. George Wyld, of Speen, in Berkshire. 2, Mary, the second daughter of James Colebrooke, was born Jan. 27, 1710-11, and died unmarried; 3, Anne, born April 11, 1712, wife of John Symonds, Esq. of the Meende, in Herefordshire, and member for the city of Hereford in the parliament summoned to meet May, 1754, and also in that which met May 19, 1761. He died in 1763, and she in 1764, and both lie interred in the church of the Meende; 4, Anna-Maria, born May 24, 1720; she was wife of William-Paine King, Esq. of Fineshade Abbey, in the county of Northampton, who dying without issue in 1766, bequeathed to her the whole of his fortune, which was considerable. In 1767, she married the Honourable Edwin Sandys, then member for the city of Westminster, who, on the decease of his father, Samuel, Lord Sandys, in 1770, succeeded to the peerage; Edwin, the last lord, departed this life at Ombersley Court, in Worcestershire, on the 11th of March, 1797, and leaving no issue, gave likewise his estate, real and personal, to his wife for ever; 5, Sarah, born May 13, 1724, was married in September, 1746, to Jeremiah Cray, Esq. of Ibsley, in the county of Hants, and verdurer of the New Forest, by whom she had seven children, who all died infants or unmarried, except, 1, Sarah, wife of Alexander, son of Sir Ludovic Grant, of Dalvey, Bart. * See View in Robertson's Topographical Survey of the Great Road from London to Bath and Bristol, Vol. II. † James was christened Button, from Mary, eldest daughter of Sir William Button, Bart. having married Clement Walker, of Charter-House, Hendon, Somersetshire, the well-known author of the History of Independency, who was member for Wells in the Long Parliament. Sir William was descended from Sir William de Bitton, 12 Hen. III. whose grandson, Sir John, took the name of De Button. Sir John appears to have possessed lands within the hundred of Bitton, in Gloucestershire, in the fourth year of Richard the Second. now Sir Alexander Grant; and 2, Margaret, of Percival Lewis, Esq. of Putney, in Surry, and of Downton House, in Radnorshire, son of Edward Lewis, Esq. member for the town of New Radnor in five parliaments, from 1760 to 1790. Jeremiah Cray died on the 4th of November, 1786, and Sarah, his wife, on the 4th of March, 1797, and both lie buried with their daughters Harriet and Margaret Lewis, at Ellingham, in Hampshire. The sixth daughter of James Colebrooke was Charlotte, born Nov. 12, 1725, she was the wife of John Wicker, of Horsham, in Sussex, who died in August, 1767, and left one daughter, Mary, who was wife, in 1766, of the Rev. Sir Thomas Broughton, Bart. of Broughton, in Staffordshire, and of Doddington Hall, in Cheshire she died in 1785, leaving eight sons and five daughters, and was interred in the family vault at Broughton. Charlotte Wicker survived her daughter until 1795, when, dying at Bath, she was buried at Weston, near that city, where a monument was erected to her memory by Sir Thomas Broughton *. The seventh daughter of James Colebrooke is Rachael, born Sept. 22, 1727, who is still unmarried. The surviving sons of James Colebrooke and Mary Hudson were as follows: 1, Robert Colebrooke, of Chilham Castle, in the county of Kent†, born June 24, 1718, married Henrietta, eldest daughter of Lord Harry Powlett, afterwards Duke of Bolton, and sister of the last two dukes. On her demise in 1753, he married Elizabeth, one of the daughters and coheiresses of John Thresher, of Bradford, in the county of Wilts, and sister of the wife of the late Sir Bourchier Wray, Bart. Robert was bred at Cambridge, and served in three parliaments, from the year 1741 to 1761, for the borough of Malden. In the year 1762, he was appointed his Majesty's minister to the Swiss Cantons, which post he quitted in 1764, To the memory of Horsham, in the county of Sussex, Sir Thomas Broughton, Bart. of Doddington- 'Blessed Redeemer of mankind. † See View in Grose's Antiquities, Vol. II. |