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BURKES COLONIAL GENTRY. 215 at Paris, in 1755, having alienated Lis paternal estates. II. KoBEKT, of whom presently. III. Marmaduke, d. in 1699. I. Frances. II. Elizabeth. III. Mary. IT. Anne. The second son, The Kev. Kobeet Tyewhitt, D.D., canon of Windsor, rector of St. James's, West- minster, and of Kensington, co. Middlesex, canon residentiary of St. Paul's, and arch- deacon of London, m. Elizabeth, daughter of the Eight Eev. Edmund Gibson, D.D., Lord Bishop of London, by Margaret, his wife, daughter and co-heir of the Kev. John Jones, D.D., rector of Selatyn, co. Salop ; d. 1742, and was buried in the Chapel Eoyal, Windsor, having had (with two daughters, who d. young) five sons, viz., I. Thomas, M.A., F.E.S., E.S.A., in- herited the wreck of his uncle Thomas's fortune. He was a distinguished member of the literary, as well as polite, world. The most eminent scholars of this country and of the continent imited in bearing a willing testimony to the vast extent of his literary attainments. His best works are his iiotes on Shakespeare, his Chancer, and his Aristotle's Poetics. These last were published after his death (from the manuscript found among his papers) by the University of Oxford. The first edition, consist- ing of a limited number in folio, was, with a few exceptions, presented to Clowned heads. He was deputy secre- tary of war, and clerk of the House of Commons, d. unm. August, 1786, and was buried in the Chapel Eoyal, Wind- sor. II. Edmund, in holy orders, rector of Bishop's Wickham, vicar of Bromfield, in Essex, and prebendary of Chiswick, in St. Paul's ; m. Margaret, daughter of Thomas Gilbert, Esq. (brother of the Most Eev. John Gilbert, Archbishop of York), and d. 6th January, 1785, leaving issue, 1. Thomas (Sir), Knt., sometime Lord Warden of the Stannaries, and vice-admiral of the counties of Devon and Cornwall, and private secretary to Eing Geoege IV when Prince of Wales. He represented Plj'moutli in several successive Parliaments, and was constituted in 1812 gen- tleman usher of the black rod, an appointment he retained until the summer of 1832. Sir Thomas, who had several foreign orders of knighthood, d. unm. 24th Feb- ruary, 1833. 2. Edmund, formerly in the Life Guards, d. unm. 1826. III. Kobert, in holy orders, M.A., a con- siderable benefactor to Jesus College, Cambridge, of which he was sometime fellow. He founded four Hebrew scholarships there, and d. unm. 25th March, 1817, aged 82. IV. William, a military officer, was killed at the siege of Louisburgh, unm. V. John, of whom presently. The fifth and youngest son, John Ttewhitt, Esq., captain E.N., some- time of Wallingford, and afterwards of Netherclay House, co. Somerset, m. 23rd October, 1764, Katherine, only child and heiress (by Katherine, his wife, daughter of Edwiird Jones,* U.D., canon of Windsor, fourth son of Chief Justice Sir Thomas Jones) of Very Eev. Penyston Booth, D.D., Dean of Windsor and Wolverhampton, grandson of Francis Clinton, sixth Earl of Lincoln, andrf. in June, 1812, having had issue, I. Thomas Tyrwhitt, Esq., afterwards Sir Thomas Jones, Bart., b. 1765, sometime M.P. for Denbigh and Shrewsbury, inherited, in 1790, the estates of his maternal cousin. Sir Thomas Jones, Knt., of Stanley Hall, heir of Sir Thomas Jones, chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas, temp. James II, and assumed by sign- manual the surname and arms of Jones only, under his relation's will. He was created a baronet 3rd October, 1808; m. in 1791, Harriet Eebecca, daughter of Edward Williams, Esq. of Eaton, CO. Salop, who d. in 1824. Sir Thomas d. 24th November, 1811, leaving issue, 1. Thomas John (Sir), b. 12th July, 1793 ; sheriff of Shropshire, 1816 ; sometime M.P. for Bridgnorth ; m. in April, 1821, Ehza Walwyn, youngest daughter of John Mac- namara, Esq. of St. Kitts, and d. 5th October, 1839, leaving by her (who d. 24th June, 1865), I. Henry Thomas (Sir), of Stanley Hall, co. Salop, b. 16th April, 1824, late lieu- tenant in the Eifle Brigade ; s. his father 5th October, 1839; m. 3rd November, 1853, Emma Harriet, Baroness Berners in her own right, only daughter of Hon. and Eev. Eobert Wilson, and niece and heiress of Henry William, Lord Berners (see Burke's Peerage), and has issue,t 1. Harry Tyrwhitt Wilson, equerry to H.E.H. the Prince of Wales, late lieutenant Grenadier Guards, now lieutenant

  • The wife of Edward Jones, D.D., was

Mary Huxley, heiress of Stanley, co. Salop. t The issue of Baroness Berners are cn- entitled to be stvled " Honourable."