SIR MAURICE BERKELEY, knt. of Wymondham, who m. Margaret, daughter of Sir John Byron, knt. of Over Colwich, and widow of Sir William Atherton, of Atherton, and left at his decease in 1522 a son and successor,

SIR THOMAS BERKELEY, knt. of Wymondham, who m. Margaret, eldest daughter and co-heir of Thomas de la Laund, by Katherine, his wife, daughter and coheir of Lionel, Lord Welles, by Jane, daughter and heir of Sir Robert Waterton, and had two sons, MAURICE, his heir; and William, successor to his nephew. The elder,

MAURICE BERKELEY, esq. of Wymondham, m. Margaret, daughter of Sir John Harrington, bart., and left, with a daughter, Elizabeth, m. first, to Robert Pakenham, esq. clerk of the green cloth; and secondly, to Richard Levesey; a son,

JOHN BERKELEY, esq. of Wymondham, who d. s. p. and was s. by his uncle,

WILLIAM BERKELEY, esq. of Wymondham, who m. Mary, daughter of Robert Baude, of Hornby, in the county of Lincoln, and d. in 1536, leaving a son and

successor,

MAURICE BERKELEY, esq. of Wymondham, who m. Mary, daughter of John Hall, esq. of Grantham, and died in 1600, aged seventy, leaving several children, who all d. unmarried, except one daughter, Eleanor, b. in 1563, who m. Wingfield, esq. and one son,

1. SIR HENRY BERKELEY, of Wymondham, b. in 1566, created a BARONET in 1611. This gentleman m. first, Miss Mynne; and secondly, Katharine, daughter of Nicholas Beaumont, esq. of Cole Orton, and relict of Anthony Byron, esq.; but dying s. p. the title became EXTINCT. The estate of Wymondham Sir Henry sold to Sir William Sedley, bart. of Southfleet and Aylesford.

Arms-As BERKELEY, of Bruton.

The elder branch of this family, founded by GoDFREY BERNARD, of Wanford, whose grandson, WILLIAM BERNARD, was living in the time of EDWARD III. terminated in a female heir, MARGARET BERNARD, who wedded SIR JOHN PEYTON, knt. and conveyed the paternal estate of Iselham to the Peytons. (Refer to PEYTON of Iselham, extinct baronet.)

Of the younger branch was

FRANCIS BERNARD, esq. of Abington,* near Northampton, of which manor his ancestors had been proprietors upwards of two hundred years. His second

son,

1. FRANCIS BERNARD, esq. serjeant-at-law, was created a BARONET 1st July, 1662. Sir Francis m. first,

The manor of Abington was sold in 1699 by Sir John Bernard, knt. to Williain Thursby, esq. and is now possessed by JOHN HARVEY THURSEY, esq. of Abington Abbey. ↑ By whom she had

ROBERT TREVOR, who succeeded as fourth Lord

Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Tallakerne, and by her had issue,

JOHN (Sir), his successor.

Lucy, m. to Sir Nicholas Pedley, knt. M.P. for the borough of Huntingdon,

Mary, m. to Laurence Torkington, esq. of Great Stewkley, in the county of Huntingdon. He wedded, secondly, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir James Altham, of Oxey, Herts, but had no other issue. This lady died 3rd January, 1662, and was buried in Covent Garden Church, Middlesex. Sir Francis d. in his sixty-sixth year, anno 1666, and lies interred in the north aisle of Abington Church. He was s. by his son, II. SIR JOHN BERNARD, knt. member for the borough of Huntingdon in the Restoration and the Long Parliaments. He m. first, Elizabeth, daughter of Oliver St. John, lord chief justice of the Common Pleas, and had (with five other daughters, who all died unmarried,)

ROBERT, his successor.

Mary, m. to Thomas Brown, esq. of Arlsey, in the county of Bedford.

Johanna, m. to the celebrated Richard Bentley,
archdeacon and prebendary of Ely, regius pro-
fessor, and master of Trinity College, Cambridge,
and had issue,

Richard Bentley, a writer of some distinction;
d. 23rd October, 1782.
Elizabeth Bentley, m. first, to Humphrey
Ridge, esq. of Portsmouth, and surviving
him without issue, she m. secondly, the Rev.
Dr. Favell.

Johanna Bentley, the Phoebe of Dr. Byron's
well known pastoral, m. to the Rev. Denni-
son Cumberland, Bishop of Kilmore (son of
the Rev. Richard Cumberland, archdeacon
of Northampton, and grandson of Dr. Richard
Cumberland, bishop of Peterborough), by
whom she bad

RICHARD CUMBERLAND, the dramatist.
Johanna Cumberland.

Elizabeth-Bentley Cumberland.

He wedded, secondly, Grace, daughter of Sir Richard Shuckburgh, knt. of Shuckburgh, in the county of Warwick, but by her had no issue. Sir John d. in June, 1679, and was buried in Brampton Church, where a marble monument records the event. He was s. by his only son,

III. SIR ROBERT BERNARD, M. P. for the county of Huntingdon in 1688. This gentleman m. Anne, dau. of Robert Weldon, esq. of London, and had issue, JOHN, his heir.

Anne. Mary.

He d. about the year 1703, and his widow became the second wife of Thomas, first Lord Trevor, of Bromham. Sir Robert was s. by his son,

IV. SIR JOHN BERNARD, who m. Mary, youngest daughter of Sir Francis St. John, bart. of Longthorpe, in the county of Northampton, and had issue,

ROBERT, his successor.

Mary.

He d. 15th December, 1766, and was s. by his son, V. SIR ROBERT BERNARD; at whose decease unmarried, 2nd January, 1789, the BARONETCY became

EXTINCT.

Arms-Arg. a bear rampant sa. muzzled or.

Trevor, and was created Viscount Hampden. (See BURKE'S Extinct Peerage.)

RICHARD TREVOR, in holy orders, consecrated Bishop of St. David's in 1744, and translated to Durham in 1752, d. unmarried in 1771. EDWARD TREVOR, d. young.

Jane.

He was s. by his elder son,

1. SIR RICHARD BETENSON, knt. of Layer de la Hay, who was created a BARONET by King CHARLES II. 7th February, 1666. Hem. Anne, daughter of Sir William Monyns, bart. of Waldershare, in Kent, and had issue,

RICHARD, who m. Albinia, daughter of Sir Christopher Wray, knt.† and dying in the lifetime of his father, left

EDWARD, successor to his grandfather. Theodosia, m. to Major-General William Farrington, of Chiselhurst, and had

Thomas Farrington, commissioner of excise.

Albinia Farrington, who became second

wife of Robert Bertie, first Duke of An

caster.

Albinia, m. to William. Selwin, esq. colonel of a regiment of foot and governor of Jamaica. Frances, m. to Sir Thomas Hewet, knt. of Shire Oaks, Notts. Dorothy, d. unmarried. Edward, of Lincoln's Inn, m. Catherine, eldest daughter of Sir John Rayney, bart. of Wrotham, in Kent, and dying in 1700, left an only son, EDWARD, who inherited as third baronet. Sir Richard d. 29th August, 1679, was buried at Chiselhurst, in Kent, and s. by his grandson,

II. SIR EDWARD BETENSON, b. in 1675, who died unmarried 17th October, 1733, when his estates-comprising lands in Chiselhurst and Greenwich, in Kent; at Wimbledon, in Surrey; at several places in Essex; and an estate in London-devolved upon his sisters as co-heirs, and the Baronetcy reverted to his cousin, III. SIR EDWARD BATENSON. This gentleman m. Ursuia, daughter of John Nicks, esq. of Fort St. George, merchant, and had

By whom she had one daughter,

JANE BREME (heir of her father), who became the wife of Sir Thomas Gardiner, knt. of Tottesbury, in Essex.

Lineage.

1. RICHARD BICKERTON, esq. (son of Captain Bick

By his wife, the Hon. Albinia Cecil, one of the daughters and co-heirs of Edward, Viscount Wimbledon. See BURKE'S Extinct Peerage.)

BIC

erton, of the fourth dragoon guards, by Miss Dowdal, of Carrickfergus, in Ireland,) b. the 22nd June 1727, received the honour of knighthood in 1773, upon the occasion of steering his late majesty's barge at a naval review off Portsmouth. Sir Richard had previously distinguished himself as a naval officer, and continued to acquire so much renown in his gallant profession, that he was created a BARONET, 19th May, 1778. He was, subsequently, a participator in the achievements of Sir Edward Hughes in the Indian Seas, and attained the rank of rear-admiral of the blue. He m. in 1758, Maria-Anne, daughter of Thomas Hussey, esq. of Wrexham, and heiress of her brother Lieut.-Gen. Vere Warner Hussey, of Wood Walton, and dying in 1792, left (with two daughters, Jane, who d. unm: in 1827, and MARIA, now of UPWOOD) a son,

II. SIR RICHARD BICKERTON, of Upwood, in the county of Huntingdon, K.C.B, K.C. and F.R.S. admiral of the white, lieutenant-general of marines, and a director of Greenwich Hospital; b. 11th October, 1759; m. 25th September, 1788, Anne, daughter of James Athill, esq. of the Island of Antigua, but had no issue. He assumed, by royal license, in 1823, his Sir Richmaternal surname and arms of "HUSSEY."

ard Hussey-Bickerton dying s. p. in 1832, the Baronetry EXPIRED, while the estate of Upwood (a property which formerly belonged to Henry Cromwell, uncle of the Protector) devolved on his only surviving sister, MISS BICKERTON, and that of Wood Walton passed to his cousin, (the second son of his aunt Arabella Warner and her husband Robert Moubray, esq. of Cockpreairny) rear-admiral Richard Hussey Moubray, the sent Sin RICHARD HUSSEY HUSSEY, K.C.B. of Wood Walton. (See BURKE'S Commoners, vol. ii. p. 358.) Arms-Sa. on a chev. erminois three pheons az.

1. FRANCIS, his heir. 11. Thomas,

III. John,

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d. unm.

1. Anne, m. to Mr. Richard Edisbury, of London,

draper.

II. Mary, m. to William Hoo, esq. of the Hoo, and had

Thomas Hoo, of the Hoo, in the county of
Hertford, d. s. p. when his sister became
his heir.

Susannah Hoo, who married Sir Jonathan
Keate, bart. and carried the inheritance of
Hoo to her husband. Doctor Kidder, af-
terwards Bishop of Bath and Wells, gives
this lady a high character, for her great
piety, humility, wisdom, discretion, &c. in
a sermon he preached at her funeral, 19th
June, 1673, at Kimpton, in Hertfordshire,
and adds at the end of it, "Her extraction
was honourable, in a direct line from the
Lord of Hastings and Hoo, of whose fa-
mily she was the heir general, and the
sole inheretrix of those ancient posses-
sions that remained to the barony; the
Lord, her ancestor, being a person of that
renown, that in the fatal quarrels between
the houses of York and Lancaster, and
when those quarrels were at the height,
he was pitched upon to treat and mediate
between the parties."

III. Elizabeth, m. to Mr. Cotton, of London.
IV. Amy, d. unm.

Sir Francis died at the advanced age of ninety, 11th
August, 1670, and was interred in a vault of his own
erecting, in Mortimer's chapel, in Attleburgh church.
He was s. by his eldest son,

II. SIR FRANCIS BICKLEY, of Attleburgh Hall, in the county of Norfolk, who m. Mary, daughter of Mr. Alderman Mawe, of the city of Norwich, and had five sons and four daughters, viz.

I. FRANCIS, his successor.

II. Thomas, a mercer, in London, d. unm.
III. John, of Magdalen College, Cambridge, d. unm.
IV. Nathaniel, a lieutenant in the Duke of Nor-
folk's regiment, died unm. in Ireland.

v. Charles, a lieutenant in the same regiment, who
after the fatigues of the Irish war, came to
visit his relations in England, and was bar-
barously murdered by one Hickford, at New
Buckenham, in Norfolk. He died unm.

1. Elizabeth, m. to Mr. Ware, of London.
11. Amy, m. to the Rev. Thomas Church, rector of
Hetherset, near Norwich.

111. Mary, m. to her cousin, the Rev. Richard Bickley, rector of Attleburgh.

Iv. Jane, m. to Mr. Barnet, an apothecary, in London.

Sir Francis d. in 1681, and was s. by his eldest son, III. SIR FRANCIS BICKLEY, of Attleburgh. This gentleman wedded first, Deborah, daughter of Sir Cornelius Vermuyden, knt. and had a son and daughter, viz. FRANCIS, his heir.

Anne, d. unm.

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THOMAS BIGG, son of John Bigg, of Sherborn and Radford, in Gloucestershire, was of Lenchwick, in the county of Worcester. He died 25th June, 1581, aged seventy-four, leaving by Magdalen, his wife, sister of Sir Philip Hoby, a son and successor,

SIR THOMAS BIGG, of Lenchwick, who received the honor of knighthood 23rd July, 1603. This gentleman erected the mansion at Lenchwick. He wedded Ur

sula, fourth daughter of Clement Throckmorton, esq. of Haseley, in Warwickshire, and had issue,

I. THOMAS, his heir.

11. Edward.

III. Clement.

IV. Samuel.

1. Catherine, m. to Michael Fox, esq. of Chacombe, in Northamptonshire, whose representative is the present Fiennes Wykeham Martin, esq. of Chacombe.

11. Ann, m. to John Wright, esq. of East Mayn, Hants.

III. Elizabeth, m. to Thomas Freme, esq. of Lippyate, Gloucestershire.

Sir Thomas died 4th May, 1613, and was s. by his son, I. SIR THOMAS BIGG, of Lenchwick, who was created a BARONET 26th May, 1620; but dying 11th June in the next year, the title became EXTINCT. His widow,

SIR ROBERT BINDLOSSE, who died about the year 1629, was the first of the Bindlosse family who settled at Borwick Hall, in the county of Lancaster. He m. first, Alice, daughter and co-heir of Lancelot Dockwray, esq. of Dockwray Hall, in Kendal, and had by her two daughters, Anne, the wife of Henry Denton; and Alice, of Henry Bank, esq. of Bank Newton, in Yorkshire. Sir Robert m. secondly, Mary, daughter of Edmund Eltoft, esq. of Thornhill, and had by her one son and three daughters, namely,

FRANCIS, his heir.

Dorothy, m. to Charles Middleton, esq. of Belsey, in Northumberland.

Mary, m. to Robert Holt, esq. of Castleton, in Lancashire.

Jane, m. to Sir William Carnaby, of Bothall, in Northumberland.

The only son and heir,

SIR FRANCIS BINDLOSSE, knt. baptized 9th April, 1603, m. first, a daughter of Thomas Charnoke, esq. of Charnoke, by whom he had a daughter, Mary, m. to Dene, esq. of Mansfield; and secondly, Cecilia, daughter of Thomas West, Lord Delaware, by whom (who m. secondly, Sir John Byron, knt.) he had ROBERT, his heir.

Delaware, who d, unmarried before 1664.
Francis, of Brock Hall, in Lancashire, d. s. p.
Dorothy, m. to Sir Charles Wheler, bart. lieu-
tenant-colonel of the Guards to CHARLES II.

The son and successor,

1. SIR ROBERT BINDLOSSE, of Borwick Hall, in the county of Lancaster, was created a BARONET 16th June, 1641. He m. Rebecca, daughter and co-heir of Sir Hugh Perry, knt. alderman of London, and had an only daughter and heiress,

CECILIA, M. to WILLIAM STANDISH, esq. of Standish, in Lancashire, and is now represented by CHARLES STRICKLAND STANDISH, esq. of Standish.

Sir Robert died in November, 1688, when the BARONETCY became EXTINCT, but the estates descended to his daughter, Mrs. Standish.

Arms-Quarterly, per fesse indented or and gu. on a bend az. a cinquefoil between two martlets of the first.

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This family was seated at a remote period and for a long time at Wylam, in Northumberland.

NICHOLAS BLACKET, of Woodcroft, (lineally descended from Sir John Blackett, knt. of Woodcroft, one of the heroes of Agincourt) m. Alison, dau. and co-heir of Sir Rowland Tempest, of Holmside, in the county of Durham.* His great-grandson,

WILLIAM BLACKET, of Hoppyland, in Durham, who wedded Isabel, daughter of Crook, of Woolsingham, and had

1. CHRISTOPHER, of Hoppyland, an officer in the army of CHARLES I. ancestor of the present head of the family, CHRISTOPHER BLACKETT, esq. of Wylam, in Northumberland. (See BURKE'S Commoners, vol. i. p. 257.)

11. Edward, whose line is extinct.

111. WILLIAM, of whom we have to treat.

The third son,

WILLIAM BLACKETT, esq. M.P. for Newcastle upon Tyne, who amassed a considerable fortune by the product of his mines and collieries, and was created a BARONET by King CHARLES II. 12 December, 1673. Sir William m. first, Elizabeth, daughter of Michael Kirkley, of Newcastle, merchant, and had issue,

1. EDWARD, his successor, from whom the extant baronets now represented by SIR WILLIAM BLACKETT descend.

11. Michael, who m. Dorothy, daughter of

Barnes, esq. of Darlington, in Durham, and
had an only child, Elizabeth, who d. young.
His wife survived him, and m. secondly, Sir
Richard Brown, bart.; and thirdly, Dr. John
Moor, Bishop of Ely.

III. WILLIAM, of Wallington, in Northumberland, of whom presently.

IV. Elizabeth, m. to Timothy Davison, esq. of Bemish, in Durham.

v. Isabel, m.to Shem Bridges, esq. of Ember Court, Surrey.

VI. Christian, m. to Robert Mitford, esq. of Seahill, in Northumberland.

He wedded, secondly, Mrs. Rogers, widow of Captain John Rogers, of Newcastle, and daughter of Mr. Cock, but had no other issue. His eldest son, EDWARD, succeeded him in the baronetcy. The youngest son,

I. WILLIAM BLACKET, esq. of Wallington, in Northumberland, where he erected a mansion-house, was created a BARONET by King JAMES II. 23rd January, 1685. Sir William distinguished himself in parliament as a popular speaker, and was offered public employment by King WILLIAM after the Revolution.

• SIR RICHARD TEMPEST, of Studley, was father of SIR WILLIAM TEMPEST, of Studley, who m. Eleanor, daughter and sole heir of Sir William Washington, knt. and was ancestor of the TEM

IX. DIANA, m. to Sir William Wentworth, bart. of Bretton, in the county of York, and had issue,

1. THOMAS WENTWORTH, who s. his father, and was fifth baronet of Bretton. He also inherited the estates and assumed the surname of BLACKETT. He d. unm. in 1792, and left his estates to his natural daughter, DIANA, wife of Thomas R. Beaumont, esq. of the Oaks, whose son, THOMAS WENTWORTH BEAUMONT, esq. M.P. of Bretton and Hexham Abbey, now possesses them. (See WENTWORTH of West Bretton.)

2. Diana Wentworth, m. to Godfrey Bosvile, esq. of Gunthwaite, and had issue, William Bosvile, of Gunthwaite, who devised his estate to his nephew,

Godfrey Macdonald, third Lord Macdonald, who assumed the additional surname of Bosvile. Thomas Blacket Bosvile, Capt. Coldstream Guards, slain at Liencells. Elizabeth Diana Bosvile, who m. Alexander, first Lord Macdonald. See BURKE'S Peerage and Baronetage. Julia Bosvile, m. to William Ward, Viscount Dudley.

3. Elizabeth Wentworth, m. to James Watson, M.D. of Springhead.

4. Julia Wentworth, m. in 1760, to the Rev. John De Chair, D.D. Rector of Rissington, and was grandmother of the Rev. Richard De Chair.

5. Arabella Wentworth, d. unm.

x. Anne, m. first, to John Trenchard, esq. of Abbots Leigh, in the county of Somerset, and secondly, to Gordon, esq. She d. s. p.

Sir William d. in Dec. 1705, and was s. by his son, II. SIR WILLIAM BLACKET, of Wallington, Member in several Parliaments for Newcastle on Tyne, who m. Lady Barbara Villiers, daughter of William, second Earl of Jersey, but dying without legitimate issue 25th September, 1728, (his widow m. Bussy Mansel, esq.) the BARONETCY became EXTINCT, but he bequeathed his estates to his illegitimate daughter, ELI

PESTS of Holmside, Stella, Stanley, Studley, and
Wynyard.
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