Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 20 - Esdaile
Esdaile. — The family of Esdaile of Cothelestone is believed to be a Huguenot refugee family, the head of which was the Baron d’Estaile. The fugitives at the Revocation led a life of poverty for the sake of religion, but their descendants gradually rose in their adopted country; one obtained the honour of knighthood, namely, Sir James Esdaile, and he was the father of William Esdaile, Esq., banker in London (who died in 1837), and the grandfather of Edward Jeffries Esdaile, Esq., of Cothelestone House, Somersetshire (born 1785, died 1867). The son and namesake of the latter is the present proprietor (born in 1813; he married, in 1837, Eliza Ianthe, daughter of the late Percy Bysshe Shelley, Esq.; his heir-apparent is Charles Edward Jeffries Esdaile (born in 1845), father of Edward Jeffries Shelley Esdaile (born in 1876). A brother of Mr. Esdaile of Cothelestone is William Clement Drake Esdaile of Burley Manor, Hants.