Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 26 - Larpent
Larpent, Baronet. — Jean de Larpent, of Caen, in Normandy, settled in England on the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes; he married Mademoiselle Le Vasseur His son and grandson both bore the name of John, and were honourably employed in the Foreign Office. The latter was the father of Francis Seymour Larpent (Judge Advocate-General under the Duke of Wellington, in Spain) and of John James, Baron De Hochepied Larpent, in the kingdom of Hungary, and of Sir George Gerard De Hochepied Larpent, Baronet (so created in 1 841), whose Huguenot blood was recognised in his election as a Director of the French Protestant Hospital of London on 3rd July 1847. Sir George, who died in 1855, aged sixty-nine, was the father of Sir Albert John (born 1816, died 1861), and grandfather of the present Baronet, Sir George Albert Larpent.