Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 27 - Laforey
Laforey.
The Marquis de la Forêt, a French refugee from Poitou, commanded the Danish Auxiliaries under King William III., but did not settle in Britain. The pedigree of the Laforey family states that his brother, Louis de la Forêt, was a refugee in England in 1688, and was the father of Colonel John Laforey, Governor of Pendennis Castle, who died in 1753. The latter, who married Mary, daughter of Lieut-General Jasper Clayton, had an only son, born in 1729, of whom Beatson says:— “Admiral Sir John Laforey, Bart., greatly distinguished himself at the siege of Louisburg, in 1758, by boarding and taking the French ship the Prudent of seventy-four guns; in 1779 he was appointed one of the Commissioners of the Navy, resigning which, in 1789, he was promoted to the rank of Vice-Admiral of the White, and created a Baronet of Great Britain.” In his patent he is styled “of the Island of Antigua and of Stock-Dammerel in Devonshire.” Lady Laforey was Elinor, daughter of Francis Farley, Esq., one of the Judges of the Island of Antigua. Sir John died on the 14th June 1796, and was succeeded by his only surviving son, Admiral Sir Francis Laforey, Bart, K.C.B. (born 1767, died 1835), at whose death the title became extinct.