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The Annotated Kenyon Family Biography

ord Lloyd Tyrell Kenyon



The nnotated Kenyon

Family Biography

Kenyon Family Biography by R L

Kenyon 1920

Annotated by the late

Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon, 5th Baron Kenyon, Baron

of Gredington 1917-1993)

Foreword by Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon, 6th Lord



Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon, 6th Lord Kenyon, Baron of Gredington

August 2015

Foreword

This annotated version of the Kenyon Family Biography includes the hand annotations andcuttings compiled by my father, the late Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon, 5th Baron Kenyon, Baron ofGredington (1917-1993). He was a keen researcher of Kenyon family history and he wouldhave liked to publish an updated version of the Kenyon Family Biography.This annotated version contains the key elements of his research. I am pleased to be able tofulfill my father's wishes and make this information available to all.



KENYON FAMIL

BGRPHY

-BY

R. L KENYON



KENYON FAMIL

BOGRAPH.

By �. 1. enyon



KE�YON F KNYN, 54 T 1406.

Adam d LutoI

'Wllam d atnm A Wqe

daghtm Hg d Hay

IAlicem Glbrt

Jdan d Knyn Matlda

m d F ltctI

En

�- G _ il b t I I I

Rchad d {nyn Adam d Kny Hgh d Knyn Rge d Kenyn MagartI m Margaet I m W. Glbrnd

Jrdan de Keny / J _o b n F _e ,lica

I I I Igh Adam d {yn Jdan, gh Janna

m agat Hnr Jhn

Jhn de Knm Jhana d Shwrth

Gilbet de CthI

Adm d m a Hsk

.Almc

m Rchad llaTht ld f Kny

I

Gt Knyl

Adam d Knynl

Matth d Knn/



KNYON OF NCK R N R, 1406 O 657

Edward Robert m Lie Warnd Gac

Ioger

mlice byo Pe

Edward

IEdw

mnnHoandJogm ayoton

IIPakrins

Mat e nyonon odam son o GertIMim Johnn GsyIalph

MhWlamI

f

I

ob m _ , r By Wilam og m Anne Heywood

, �

1 � � � � -i

IWili Thomas M icael

mAn

Wiiamm G·Edwa

Inn

m s "omboc

IorgeIa

Thomasm athined. IElzbh

Dorohy

m st . oy2nd W Lo

ogof arkhdm&nshtonI

ane

IEyissmnnWood

m st n Stoneheend d HowahI

IAnnm HindeIJane

A

mDoothym WmAshtonI

Elibethm Woo

IAnnm Gorgnon

Jan Soneherm L d IAlie Howarhm Tnley

Iahin orothy

I

m lakburn i Dcy



KENYON

OF PEEL

1657 TO 1836.

Roger

Kenyon m Alice Rigby

l

I

Roger

I

Edward

I

George

I

Thomas

I I

William Edwa.rd

I .

Bee.tru

I I

Dorothy

Allee

Jane

I

Ann

I

Roger

I

George

m Peregrine.

Eddowes

I

I

I

I

_L

m Ano Kenyon

~ I

I I

Eclwa.rd Anll

m

Robc1·t

Booth

m lst Ca.therine

Lloyd

2ud

Catherine

Perceva.l

had by let wife

L

I

Lloyd

m Ja.ne Eddowes

I

I

Thomae

I

George

I

Roger

I

George

m Jst Margaret Banks

2nd

Ellen Curgbey

I

Hoger

I

Edward

I I I I I

Rol>ert

Edward Richard Ann

Peregrina

m tlarab Cook

of Swinley

I

I

Margaret

by lstwife

m Sir Thos. Hanmer

I

I I I I .

Elizabeth Ellen Per egnna

and

Jane

by 2nd wife

S

. I I

x sous Ma.1·ga.ret Emma

m George l nd

Lord

Kenyon

I

\

m

Rd Wroe

I

Thomae

Wroe

m

Mary Walton

I

Rd.

Wroe

I .

Catherine

m

Wm. Middleton

I

J

Mary Alice

m Lloyd

lst

Lord

Kenyon

I

\

I

Dorothy

m

Wm

. Perceval

I

Thos.

Perceva.l

m Ma.rtba. Gregg

I

Catherine Perceval

m

Wm. J>ickfo ·d

I

W. Pe rceva.l Pickford

.



KENYO:-.J

OF

PEEL AND GREDINGTON, FKOM 1730.

Lloyd Kenyon Jane Eddowes..

I

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

~ - - ~

Thomas

Lloyd

.

lUchard

ltoge1· Jane

Jst Lord Kenyon of Cefn

n1 Mary Kenyon m Mary Lloyd

I I

I

Lloyd

I

George

2nd L01·d

Kenyon

m Margaret Emma

Hanmer

I

I I

Lloyd George

Srd Lord Kenyon

m

Georgina.

de

Grey

I

Thomas

of Pl adoe

m

Louisa Cha.rlotte

Lloyd

I

\

I

Edward

of Me.esfen

m

lst

Caroline

~usan Catherine

Reresford

2ntl

Catherine

Elizabeth Townley

had by lst wife

I

/\

I

l\la.l ga.ret Emme.

m

Sir Ja.mos

Hay

Langham

I

I I .

l\Ie.r1e.nne Peregr1na

m

Thos. Beat

John

Gcol gc Emma

Jane

Aun

m l \ ary

d' Arey Kerr

m Algeruou Robe1·t Parker

I

I I I I I I I

Francis Edward Joseph

Mary

Margaret

Anne

Mary Clare

I

Lloyd

m F. M.

K. Gore

I

Lloyd 4th

Lord

Kenyon

m

G. L.

Howard

_ I

Adolphus Robert

Catherine Mary

Mar,

Susan

::\Iary

Alfonsa Elizabeth Lucy Henrietta

Laurentie. m C. E. P.

m

H

W .

Hastings

Todhunter

I I I 1 I I I

Georgo Edward

William

Alfred Georgina A:la.rgaret Elizabeth

Thomas

m

Frederick Trevor Emma

m m Rev.

F. A. Lecbe m lst

A.M.

Hey

Gordon Wm.

T.

Mitford G.

Arkwright

2ndL. li Wolley Dod I I

by lst

wife

I

I I I I I

Gordon

LI. T.

Ruth

Roger Randle

N.

Humphrey

J Guy

V.

mD.

c.

Wood

I

I

Benr, etta

I

Cbar1otte

Ja.no

mRev·

Gao. M·

Osborn

I

Mul iel

1

Lloyd

I

aarah M. M.

Elizabeth

A G.

I

Lloyd

T.

G.

.



I

George

I

Edward Lloyd

m

Annabella

Puleston

I

Edward

Lloyd

m

Loui a

Mary

Marker

I

Louisa M. B .

m

Mr. Fuller

I

Mary

I

A. C. C. Kenyon

Fuller

\

KBNYON

OF

CEFN 1770

TO

1835.

I

George

m

Fanny

Price

Roger Kenyon m Mary Lloyd

I

I

Tbomas

I

Jane

m Henry

Boates

I

I

Henry Ellis

m Miss Mansfield

I

Gertrnde

m Hy. Girardot

I

I

Mary

I

William

I

I

Anna Maria

m

Evan Jones

I

Henrietta Ma r

ia

m J.

R.

B. Beasley

I

\

I

Francisca

Ann

I

Anna Maria

Harriet Anaabella

Eliza Theophila

m Rev. Hy. Knapp

I

\

Jane

m

Blackwood

Price

I

I

I

Emma

Dorothea

mB.N.O

de Grey



I I ILoyd Thoms o ot Gogm ry liz MryBwk Ur,od

�-' iI

vi

J{ENYON OP RADO, FOM 1803.

Thom Kenyon m Los Chlott LoydIWl1im Chls OC Slay m tE Ct

AticdI

Hy

Augsta J. \ ideI

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I"

IEmn1Je

GgiryevI dE

Idg'msmM.

I r n Io C ICle C.G.ClogtI gn o y {D uly

.ay Mawg

W. et hord s

I - __t ln Gs

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, . sOm u. elm

I

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I

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er0. Ly

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IRobtlodm EllnF Ho

IhmsG l

lton I I Idwd an wyn c Feicanulph Heb C L b Geog

m Katlerin . De s _Hn H

I

"

1 F

-, ·I Ib RoedwdI I Ka.thlcen

Kn Kahe len Wred Fncs ry NorG Etel G

Ma Rse akod Liin rgart . - - I - Roid ooty Vot ne

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I ILy rgegs Gdie.

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KENYON FAMIL BIOGRPHY.

THIS is � aemp o chronice wha is kow o he careers

o he members o he amiy o Keyo o Keyo,erwards o Pee ad Gredigto ad f he coaera

raches.The pedigree is ake wih a ew mdicaios rom amiy

records rom a pubished i he Lacasire voume o"Pedigrees o Couy Famiies i Egd by Joseph Foser1873 e eary par o which is derivd amos eirely romdeeds ormery i he possessio o e Baiser amiy who i

e z ceury were ords o he Maor i which eyo wasicuded ad rom whom he deeds passd o he Leghs o ymeGregso's Frages o csir aso coais someiormaio par o wic was probaby coeced by he RevRober eyo o Pee who did i Very ie is kowo he persoa careers o iividua members o he amiybeore e reig o James s u rom a ime e SS ihe possessio o od eo pubised by he Hisorica SSommisso give a gea dea o iormaio ad are he auhoriy (geer wh he bk r) orery a ha is saed i he llowig paes ui wecome o he 9h ceury or hich aiy records ad persoarecoecios are avaiabe Eah S i he pubihed voume

i ditinguised by a number, ad i to th numb tat tumbers i brackes i e owig pages reer. O ivigmembers o he miy o bigraphy is ere aemped adie bu heir prese posio s recodd

eyo is a owsip o 68 acres wih a populaio ciey



2

Hundred, together with two Hundreds of Neweton

and

Walin

tune, which became absorbed in West Derby at least as early

as

ro

Hen. III.; no names of holdings

in

Newton Hundred

are

given in Domesday,

but

it seems

to

have consisted of the Parishes

of Winwick and Wigan (Cheshire Domesday Book

by

Beamont,

1863, Introduction). The

whole of this district

had

been granted

by

the Conqueror

tq

Roger of Poictou, son of Roger de Mont

gomery,

Earl

of Arundel

and

Shrewsbury,

but

he

had

forfeited

it by rebellion,

and

it was in

the

King s hands at

the

time of

Domesday. Kenyon was probably one of the Berewicks or

sub-manors mentioned in

the

following account of Newton Manor

n

the

Domesday Survey.

In

Neweton

in

King

Edward's

time

there were 5 hides. of these one was in demesne; the Church of

the same manor had r carucate, and St. Oswold of the same vill

had

z carucates free of everything,

other land

of this manor

r5

men called Drenchs held for 15 manors,

but

they were in fact

berewicks of this manor and between them all they paid 30s.

There is a wood there ro leagues long

and

6 leagues

and

z fur

longs broad, and there are hawk s eyries. The free men of this

hundred except 2

had the

same custom as those of Derby

Hundred,

and

mowed in

the King

s tillage lands 2 days more

in

August than

they

did. Those two had 5 carucates of land

and

had

the

forfeitures of blood and of rape,

and

pannage for their

men. The King had all other forfeitures. This whole manor

paid a

rent t the

King of £ro ros.

Now there are 6 Drenchs and 12 villeins and 4 bordars, who

between them all have 9 carucates. The demesne is worth £4.

Warin Banistre is said

to

have held the Lordship of Newton

under Roger of Poictou (Gregson p. 278) and the family retained

it in King John's time (ib, p . 279) ;

but

af t

er the elevation of

Stephen Langton

to

the

Archbishopric of Canterbury (rzo7-



3

been raced. Lowton is a township in the Parish of Win-wick of hich Kenyon is another tonship. He is recoreddto have gven 2 bovates of land to Rober de Kenion ohag h o of jug but h nohng to hothat ths Robrt was an ancstor. Adam's arms are givenin the family peigree boos as argent, a fessesa between

3 cross crosslets tche sa If he bore arms he was ofKnightly or genle rank. He had a daghter who marriedHgh de Haydoce in the sam parish of Winwick (BainesHist of Lancshire III 634) and a Son Wiiam.

Willam son of Ad married Alice daghter of Hgh de Winwick He held fom Henry III 6 carcaes of lnd Hehad a son Jordan nd 2 daghters Matilda and Alice Maildamarried Thomas de Fleetcroft and Alice mrried Gilberby whom she had an only dagher Ellen who had a son

Gilbert

ordan de Kenyon son of William and Alice His faher gave

him he ordshi of Kenyon from which his descendook he name He is syled Jordan de Kenyon, ord ofKenyon in eeds of 23 or 33 Hen III and 8 and 20 Edw ;and in 25 Edw I he recovered agains Margery dagher oWlam de Sohe the forensic service de for two bovaeof land in Kenyon on shoing tha her grandfather had

performed tha service robably the grndfaher was heRober de Kenyon to hom Ada de aon had given wobovates Forensi services were services performed otsidehe manor, sch a sctage services a the Hndred Corsand any oher serices which the manor had o render o a



4

[m de Keyo, though the secd s of Jod is stledl. .

Lod of Keon. He mrie i 1272, d ws livig i302. His wife's e ws Mrget He hd 5 sos one daughtr; Adm, of whm hereftr Jordn lvn Edw 3 ; Hg livig 20 Ed 3 ; ey; d Joh liig21 Edw 3; Joh wh left so clle Gilbert e

Culceth

dm de Ko eldest so of Ad et, is lsostye Lo of Keyo. His wifes me ws gaetHe occs Ew 3 He 3 os Joh Adm dGilbet (o ttew)

oh de Keyo, eldest so of te z Adm gaetbecme Lord of Keyo, rrid Joh dughter ofGilbert e Soutworth both he d his wife wee liig23 Ew 3 but ied withot issue

dm de Keyo, zd so of the 2d Adm d rgret, isclle Si Adm de Keyo Kigh, i oe of the Holdpedigees He ece Lor of Keyo o the eth o hisbother Joh, ws livig 2 Edwr 3 He mrietild, dghte of Robe Heketh, who ws liig20 Edw 3 d tey hd ol duhter d heiress,

leic who mried 358 32 Ew , Rich so heiof Thrsto Hd of De to e chester heimrge settlet, i Freh, w pesee mo theHold ppers O Adm Keyos eth ThtoHo o eo so of hr mec Hoa



is

hm to the Kng's party, and was hself utito death forhstreacher b the Earls followers n 1328 Two of hs sons wereamng the rst Knght of the Garter and ne of them marredthe " far md of Kent afterward wfe f the Black Prnceand was Earl of Kent n her rght he Holands of Dentonobtned eaton n the arsh of Prewch nd other propertes

b arrage ; these proertes nclung Knon passed to theEgerton faml b the arrage n 1684 of Sr John Egerton tElzabeth onl daughter and heress of Wllam Holland andthrough them to the arl of Wlto (Greson p. 214) hepresent Lord of the Mnor of Kenn an owner of Kenonal s r Jabez Edward Johnson-Ferguson Bart. Kenon

al the orgnal resdence of the Knons of Kenon, passedw the anor and wa rebult n 14 n wod and plaster buthas a gatewa of stone and contan a nuber of Lancashrearmoral bearngs on stone panels an n stned glass

us the Kenon fal were ownrs of enon from about12 to about 1400 e above partulars and dates are taen

fro deeds formerl n the possesson of Robert Banster Lordof areld n \nwc Parsh but subequentl (and presumabl now) n that of the Leghs of Lm (Kenon PedgreeBook) Nothng else seems to be reorded of the faml andthe marrage seem to show that th lve at home and consortd che wth ther near neghbors for Lowton doce

,

WnVc Kenon, outhworth, Croft and ulceth, places fromwhh the hub wves came are al townshps n theParsh of Wnwc (Gregson p 14) Bt the bore arms able acros of loenges arg oer all bend gbonated arg and guleswhh were quartered the ollands of Denton b vrtuef t th l th f K h



6

Matthew de Kenyon son of Adam, is mentioned in a deed ofeither ·7 o 17 Richard II. The names of the wives of theselast three ae not recorded nor the pace where the ivedatthewwasan Echeator of the Duchy of Lancaster in 140Escheatrs were oc�rs who hed inqests on the death ofany tennt of the Crown who was beieved to hae diedwithout an heir or eaving an heir under age If either of

these wa found to be the case the Escheator took possession the n o bh o the own ethe emannty uring te minority of the heir as the case might be Theirce was therefore an important one and gave the hoderconsiderbe oppotnities of maing a prot for himsefand was regated by Acts of Pariament of the 14th and

36th yers of Edw III By 14 Edw III. st c 8 Es-cheators in Engand were to be appointed by the Chanceorand Judes and to hod oce for a year ony atthewde Kenyn is the rst member of the fami who is recordedto have ed a pubic oce

ichae de enyon son of atthew is mentioned in 2 Hen 4

the year in which his father was Escheator He marriedJohanna Gresley

aph de Knyon son of ichae and Johanna hed ands inNewton of the Lord of aered one of the Langtonfamiy i 13 Edw IV 143 The township of Kenyon ispart of te anor of Newton in aered n the Parish ofWinwic so that the famiy was sti iving in the od anorand paih

atthew de enyon, son of Raph is hoeer described as ofKishawe co Lancaster which canot identify His son



7

ecorded n the pedgee to hve bone the sm ms s thefmly be now so ws pobbly n fly good poston.He left two sons, John nd Robet

ohn de Kenyon eldest son of Wlm ws bon 152 nd ded81 leng son

Pkeus e Kenyon who ded Mc 1616 ppnl outissue

Robet de Kenyon znd son of Wlm med twce By hs

st wfe whose nme s not nown he hd son\Vl de Kenyon Esheto n 186 Ths oe s explnedboe He s descbed n the Pedgee s Bon of theDuchy o Lncste He left thee sons

"llm ThoIS nd Mchel ll of hom e smly descbeds Bons of the Duchy of ncste ad he bnEsche2tos l thee ded wthout ssue, thoug the edesto the thee llm hd wfe �med Ann who ded Oct1634

oge de Kenyon s the oy son of Robet by hs 2nd wfMgey Be e ws bon n 15 n ded 18 Dec 1602e med ne eywood ho ded 28 n. 1616. They ge fmy 7 sons nd 2 dut E,lward te

o F , Y o -ley toshp n the Psh of Blcbun, not vey f fomWnwc. He med 1st etce Wde ho ded 12

ept 1612 ged 40 nd 2ndly Ge who suved hm;but he ded wthout ssue n 1635. Robert, the 2nd ded

-

thout ssu 1648 Wiia, the 3d d Gce ndded n 169 hg l d son dward who ded wthoutssue Geoe the 4th bon Ap 1577 s sd to hve beenf Kel n Olleton Nottnghmshe, he hd twohlden a nd lizabt both of whom ded n 617Toma the 5th bon 158, med Chene Rede,

d f A ht t h th P h f Mtt b t



8

From the time that the family lost the Lordship of Kenyon,

don to thi Roger and Anne Keyon, very little is recorded othem beyond ther names and dates and some of these are giendierently n dierent pedgees. They seem to have lvedetirely in ancasre and not fa from Kenyon and to haveintermarried ciey with their neghbours there They ownedand and bore arms a priviege ot then so generaly assumed

ithout right as it is now ; and hey held a fe mnor publcoces They probably ranked alays among the class of lessegentry

Ro er Ken o of Parkc n the Parish of Whalley nearBlackbu and Clitheroe was the 6th son of Roger and AnneKenyon and as born 20 Dec 15 He is the rst of the famlyof hom any letters have been preserved and the :rst thereforeof hom e have any personal knoledge He seems to havebeen a layer In 1616 he was Surveyor of the Lordshp ofMiddleham in Yorkshire under th Crown In 620 he ariedJane daughter of Richard Aston of Chadderton a tonship inthe arsh of Oldham-cumrestich in Lancashie TheAshtons ere an old Lancashire faily In 62 he seems to

have been undersher o ancashe n that year a sunamed Edmund Arosmith a natve of \Vinick as hangedat Lancaster 2 Aug for havng taken prests' orders beyondthe seas A tradition preserved n Robys "Tradtions ofancashire 83, states that oe of the family of Kenyon(presumably ths Roger) attended as under sher at this execu

ion and efused some request nad by te culprit who thereupon cursed h and said that wilst the faiy could boast ofan hei so long the shold never want a cpple Arsmithas reputed to be a martyr and is hand has ever since beenpreseved in St. Oswald's Roman Catholic Church at Ashton



9

ere sold by the King's farme of te goods of outlaw. Outw w h m o on dets fromdbtors who could not be found so s to be served prsonallyith wrts so it loos as if

0Roger had had to ee the country to

avoid is creditors But he must hve re-established himselffr in 1634 a friend writes to him at arkhead asking hm to besrety for te payent of a small dbt, and after his eath in

36 his widow reained at Parkea, where she hd letters opotection rom Prince Rupet on Juy 15 1644 She was stltere in 1670 whe she had a disput wit the peole f Blackburn about the right ich se claime to take toll teir fair;93) and she was still living in 1680 (391)

oger enyon was ure n e ash h

here his tombston bears the followig inscription: Here sleeps r Roger Kenyon wo was the Mirror of hitime for wit valour peaceaking, and charty. Hdeparted this life on the 14th of August, A.D. 163 in the52nd year of is age leaving Jane his loving wfe and 6children viz nn, Dorothy, Jne, Roger, Edwrd, andAlice to lament their loss

Rogerus KenynEvery Kros Gnn

I the peacemaer e pronounced bletOf how grea glory is his soul possestWhose orth did eer sett all foes at oneAnd no s himelf at peace eac cross is gone

his children wer very young at th time of his death Of his<aughters above naedAnn married Jhn Crombock of Wiswall Lancasire bu_

sems to have left o issue. He joind in a new shem e for theadminisration of te charities of \Vhalley Parish in Dec. I629 (90





EO

Mnchstr, nd corrspndd good dl bout cloths food

srvnts tc. with hr sistr in l Rog's wif t Pl 1666to 1688 Dorothy had son Chrles bor 1653

Jane mrrid John Stonhw of Brlyford Chshir who-

did 22 My I653 gd 35 t Prkhd nd ws brid nWhlly Church whr thr is monumt which spks of his"lov to rightousnss nd rligios lif is hmility cortsy

nd swt convrstion nd givs n Angm Johnns Stonhw s Honor Wit Es Tir only child ane mrridt Prstwich 30 July 1674 Lftwich Oldd Esq of LftwichChshir who corrspondd good d€l frm 679 to 1690 wthhis brothr-in-lw Rogr of Pl oftn ot Church mttrsinclding his wifs right to sts in Mhstr Chrch (379)

H ws rcommndd for ppointmnt s Cptin of Hors iMy 1690 bt ws rrstd in July nd hs horss wr sizdbcs h hd not tkn th oths to Wllim nd Mry ; hwrot from prison to Lord Drby to prott tht h nd othrshad nothing o ofence (735, 742). Th Oldldsft childrn on of whom Anne mrrid bout 1736 JohnPulston Esq o Emrl

n tonhwr th ldr mrrid scondly Richrd Hoorth Bnchr of Grys nn who did 1671 Sh ws living ndstying t Prkhd Dc I694 hy hd dughtr Alicewho mrrid Mr Townly of Royl.

le , 4th dghtr of Rogr of Prkhd mrrid r ndhd dghtr Dorothy who mrd illi Ashton Rctor of

Prstwich in 1697 1056) This ws vlubl living in th gifof th Ashton fily nd hd bn hl by Aics brothEdrd Tir mothr ws n Ashton Dorothy Aston hdto dghtrs Ctherine who mid t nwick Jn Blckbur of Oxford ho did 186 sh did 1740 nd Doo



I

Edwd, second son of Roge Kenyon of Pkhed, ws

.admitted to St John's College, Cmbdge, 1649 becme Fellow 653 d ws tuto thee r55-r60 He ws odnedi the time of the Commonwelth nd theefoe no oubt undethe egultons mde by the Act of 68, whch equed thtevey cnddte fo odntion should hve tken the Covenntshould be 24 yes old, nd should, fte exminton to

:tness be odned by the Pesbytey of hs dstct, not by ishop e wtes to hs bothe Roge on 30 June, 658 fomSt John's College "If I sty t Slebue ( psh n heWest Ridng bout 8 miles fom Clitheoe) I esolve to we gown but I thnk t ll not be convenent to cy one down tst, nd theefoe I defe mine to uy cot hee s you dect

If gout secue me fom pechng on the Lod's dy, I wl bewholly t you dspos (210). e mied Ann dught ofRchd ond of eton of the fmly which hd cquiedthe odshp of Kenyon by mge wth the heiess Amicn the eign of Edwd II e ssumed he ms, but got nolnd with he In May 1660 he ws ppoted (212) Recto of

ewich vey vue iving in the ptonge o wshton (see Liber Re g s) who would be elted to the Recto'smothe who ws n Ashton On y he wites the Commissiones hvng hed Counsel on both sdes ee u stsedwth my ptons ght, nd poceeded to mke tl of my tnesso the mnsty, n theeupon dd ppove of me nd give me

te instument Ths ppontment theefoe s stll undethe ules of the Pesbytey but the Recto confomed to thePye Book nd Epscopl govement s soon s they wee eestblished, nd etned the lvng e too the degee of D n 66



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had two sons, Edwar and Ro gerr and a daugte Ann wo maiee cousin George Kenyon of Peel Edwad became a Fellow ofSt. Jon's College, Cambidge n 685, but died at te age of 24.

In te Capel tee is te followng inscpton on a bass to imemoy:-

P Memo Edwad Kenyon Paentum non nonestoum natu maxm qui n Comttu Lancastiense·

natus in Aadema Cantabgens ngenu educatus CollegiDv Joannson immeito Socius et clesioptm Rfomate ve lius Obit, Po Dolo, Anno Cst 16889Feb. t, Aetatis 24 Meuit sane vtam diutunioemsed et meliem vit meuit et abet"

l.) Kenyon, nd son of e Edwad Kenyon, cto o

estwc, was bo at Pestwic. He was adtted to Stons College, ambige in 682 at te age of 5, becamFellow 5 Ma, 6867, and Medical Fellow 8 Feb 16945On 10 June, 96, a M Teobald was appointed n s place,but esgned n avu of Kenyon 9 Ap. 697

On Apil 5, 1694, e wtes to is mote at Stockpot

Bing by tis new Act taxed, God knows wat fo, fo mfelowsip, and not desgnng, as ou know, any bettement totis govenmen, y any good wll of mne, am foced to ee fo te same, and leave tem to make t out as tey can; fo byno consent of mne sall te ae one fatng Tis s te tueeason wy tis comes not dated fom Cambidge, but fom a

onest ndustus fames some distance fom t wee amvey well emploed n leaning te at of usbandy, and coutngmy landods daugte, against te days pobiting matimonybe ove. (871)

n 169 e a s lettes addessed to im at ussels unde a



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hey know nothing of the language of the county they ae in.He has six people to answe o, and "I have assued a my

company that f they cannot get Fech enough to do the ownbusness I wil sell them evey one when I get nea a seapottown Jack VTaen and Ne Beefod may go o a pettyconsdeable sum; they both send you all the most aectonatesece. In r7or he was stl n Pas fom whch he wites7 Sept r7or, that King Jams is dangeously il (1075). he

King ded and n May r702 D. Kenyon wtes fom Holland,whee he was taveling by bot beteen Utecht and the Haguewth a vey mixed company and speaks of convesng both nLatin and in Dutch He came to England and on 22 ec. r703was admitted icentiate of the College of Physicans. In ebr704 he was ving"at the coe of ncolns Inn ields on the

gaden side the end of Ge ustle whee Si ChalesLyttelton of Haley wtes to him ' You ae vey nd n youoe to m os 1 nd t l e a miht nducement to ventueone o both nto ths wide old nde so good advce andconduct and whch I may some tme put upon you. Kenon was fo some yeas Physician at the Cout of St Ge

ms In 1706 he was in ondo (1092) but wtes fomSt. Gemns n 1707 (rro) om 179 to 171 he wa i Londonnd wites abot o 8000 poo Gemans encamped on lackheath (111) and about Sacheeells tra (1118, rrr) and othemattes of nteest in ondn whee he was pactsng as aocto and" betwt some cty patients and subub attendance

s fully employed (117 He was godfathe to one of Gegessons and ecomended h beng set Westmnste School,whee boys of hs age pay only £20 a ea fo boadng and o 6guneas fo schooig (110) On eb. r713-r he ites tohis sste I could not invent a tale whch would supise thee



r4

1685-87 and ded 1702 May m to hav bn hdugtr y is scon w, Ezabth aht o S T.Honywood of Mak Ha x On th dath of QnAnn Ro wot n 12 1714 "h Qn and h Mntym vy la of th ha o popl mad aant thm ofndavon to b n th Ptnd» Aft th aobt

n of 1715 h td to Fan bt n May 1718 t"I am no mon fo Pa two day mo wl b al tay n t and wh y nt to th wll b datd had to ayFland o Holan fo I hall o thoh thm both on y wayho " Satdy lat abot 7 th onn dd thQun o Enlan at t Gan, o a plt v aft

4 o 5 day lln Sh a a ady of at vt and atn H nm too wl d, and f thy hav adh oflly, I do not nvy thm th (1177). On 6 Spt 1718 h wt fom Amtdam and dbth popl th a vy po vy by, "bt th hl pla and bnt of th nd to t toth a at hap of

mony and mak ver ltt of t whn thy hav donhy ay th pay; bt th ptton n wh thy aot dvot I fany hav a vw to th old aly n 1719h ha om to nlan an on Mah 17 wa ntnn to o toCambd and hon to t a oom n St John' Col. OnJn 9 h wt appantly fom London abo poltal

mo t no on obtd bt that th Pn Sobky at Rom and od Ma toppd at nva whth KnGo ha ttn to thank thm fo th zal h a bth old hav hm wll d On an 17 7920 h ond Bfod t fom Stokpot to D Knyon "at h



of his heologcal orks in the pbliction of which D.

Kenyon had helped him Thee t Gredigton topt by N. B the o ug o Kg J Ito which the folloing memornd there relates: "LouisaMaia Teresa dughter of King Jme II, bo at St Germains8-28 June 92 She gave her pictu afte dding the nosegayin the bosom to Dr nyon D. t S. Gemins. At the same

tie Dr. Kenyon hd the picture of er rothe Prnce JmesFrancis dd, ten in 700, given to hi ; Dr Kenyon beingthen liing at the ourt of St. Germns ith his fiend ChrlesLelie There is silver watch at Padoe whch is also sid toha been gven to r. enyo S. Gms h Wildted 7 Aug. 723 e describes himsel as ember of the College

of Physicins, nd s of the Paish f St Giles in the FieldsSir Fncis Leicester of Tabley, Cheshire as the sole eecutond proved the wil, 28 724

Roge Kenyon o Peel eldest son of Rger of Pkhed was on in 27 n 1 5 e obtained a certcate from ooyKing of Arms tht he ws entitled to ea the rms now used by

the fmy and which hd been used by his ancestor at thebeginning of the th centry ; nd next e 1657, he mariedAice daughter ad heiress of George Rgby of Peel Hl byBeatri Hulton his ife dughte of iam Hulton of HltonPak She was born 2 ]n 634 at Pee

The follYng 'tract fom Vhe Chrch Rgster e)linshow mariages wre soenmied der the Comnonwealth The agreement o mriage beten ogr Kenyon of PakhedGent and rs Alie Rigbye of Get erly both of the Paishof \halley was dly published ccoring to Act of Parliamentt the aket Tn of Clithero the ext Mret Ton to heir



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es Jusi. Resu Var" It looks a f hey had been

marred acordng o Churh law by he Var on he same dayon whh hey had been mared aordng o Sae law by heJuse. The Rgbys had been ave Parlamenarans, b

Roger Keyon seems o have been a saunh Churhman. GeorgeRgby had been one of he Commaners a he sege of LahoHouse and here s a porra of h n amour a Gredngon

He ded 1644 and was bured a Wgan. Ale was hs onlysurvvng hld so Peel beameRoge Kenyon's home mmedaey n hs marage he h s a very puresque blak andwhe houe wh a ne gae house he upper sory of whhwas formely used as a our-house On he door of hs s henspon GR B (George and eax Rgby) Peae be

whn hee walles 1637. " On a gale on he wesern gaewayare he same nas wh he dae 164 and on he Easerngaeway s G. R. 161. he hall wa bul beween hese daesby George gby on he se of an oler hous and s n Huonn he Pash of Dean Hundred o Sord George Rgbyswe was Bear daugher of llm Hulon of Hulon and

hrough her hough she as no an eres he probably go hpropery Over he gaeway re heRgby As argen on aross paonee sa. ve mulles pered or and n he bg parlourare he Hulon Arms. he form are quarered by Rogeenyons desendans by vrue of his marrage

In une 1658 Roger Kenyon as sang wh hs sser

Mrs Worsley he a wdow ha year n her lodgngs Jms Wesmnsr Immedey fer he esoraonon uly 1660 he obaned from he ron a grn of he oeof ler of he Peae for anshre hmsel and hs sonRoge





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ould not have been made aganst hm. He s a poo man wt

a fe and 6 childen unde r2 yeas of age, A fe of these·jouneys ll expose hm to ant and povety and hs stay hee(in halley) s full of dange fo he s al S Ralph Assheton'sudgements and bonds" He pays to be examned and llsubmt to hat mulct my be mposed n hm. The Achbshopas pton of the lvng of Whalley and Pakhead as in thePash. S Ralph Ashton of Whalley Abbey as then M.P. foCltheoe. Roge Kenyons mothe as an Ashton

In 68o Roge Kenyon as pase by theLods Commtteesof Councll fo hs dlgence n nfmng the Chancello of theDuchy (S Robet Ca) of the essness o some of the mags

tates at Peston about posecutn popsh ecusants and asodeed to appea befoe the Councl th those Justces to gveaccount of the poceedngs (373} A lst of a numbe of theecusants s publshed among the ettes (357) hs as theyea n hch Lod Staod as exeuted fo the Popsh Plot onOates nfomaton. Kenyon as employed to coect and

eee e ee e 99 41 ee ae nanyettes on ths subect and the pnate seem to have beengeneally essted and evaded. acashe as ful of papstsand Kenyon seems to have been moe llng to poceed aganstthem at ths tme than many of the ustces Accodngly hei-tes fon Peel on 8 Sept r68 tht od Deby has taken hn

to a ace n Cheshe hee l me and sa most of ou geatPpsts of ths County amongst otes my Lod :olyneux sodng fo the plate. My od Molyneux hmsef as thee soas M Dalton hey look mghtly aske at me. Thee as

b f h l d f h dd d h



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Holborn (570 tc.) but his intrst in country lif is illusratd

y a lttr in 684 from Richar Coton sning a list of rs tob ought for Kyon's garn " which will b as goo as is iLancashir an ought to hav a arnr answrabl to it Hrcommns a crtain Frnchman at z a yar In 686 thris anothr lttr about onams for his garn; for £25 bliv you may hav a pair of lions vry w work (60)

In 685 th Duk of Albmarle (o of Gnal Monk wrot vryangrly to Knyon, complaining that h as th chif promoof h lction to Parliamt for Clihro of Lor Drbysbrothr Mr Stan aganst Col E Ashton th Duks noan a rlation of Knyons nyon ansr apologticaybut saying I am in a particular mannr a srvant o his Lor

ship (Drby)n July 687 h sms to hav raft an arss to King Jamsfrom Prostant Justics thanking him for ispnsing with thoaths a jong Roman Catholics with thm n th Commissioof th Pac (60 but it was sig by only two Justics

On May 30 688 Richar Haon writs to Rogr Knyon hav ha a vry grat st of you sinc hav urstoo

your Chrisian courag an rslution against th taking o of pna laws an tst notwthstanig h tmptations youha o th conrary from worly rspcts which I am apt tothik wou hav prvail wi som othrs (6) On July6 Lancashir Quarr ssions ma an laborat orr for thrpair of all highways in th Hus of Drby an alfor an

appoint svra of th prcip prsons n ach parish to sthat i was carri out Rogr Knyon was on of thos appointfor Lgh Eccls Dan a Bolton (62) H was mploy byLor Drby h Lor Liunant of Lancashir an Chsto ca ou an mak arrangmts for th Lancashir Militia in



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s quiet shall be very gad ; f othwse, pray let me forthwth

hea frm you again, and I wil readly contriute that power the ha ntrustd me w o prrv ace (647).

But Lod Derby under whom Kenon acted, had been removdby Kin James from the Leutenacy of Lcashire at the begiing of the year, in favour of Lord Molneux, Roman Cathoic, and was only restored on the alrm about landing of the

ince f Orange He eerted hmelf to keep the peace n theCunty and at the very end of 168 Roger Kenyon drafted apettio from Lord Derby to King es for gant of the Lanasire estats of the Duke of Albemarle wch had eschatedby hs dath to th crown ut ord Dery did notng toppose te rince on the contrar as Lord eutenant he sent

an addess of thanks to hm n Dcember, romsng to assstim in rocuring a free arliment ad the secrity of the Churchf Englnd and the Protestant eigon and te regents hrased in Lancashire al dclared for the Prnce (657) (660)Kenyon was n London in Decemer 1688, and sends to LordDerby a dary of vents ther ated 3 De He ws much

rusted nd consulted by Lod Drby, ho writes to hm as dear oger " n Feb. 1690, and c 1694 ad sgs hmself onthe latter dte your most actonat fihul rn" H

summoed him to London in arch 1689, and Kenyon as thereti the nd of Aprl and agan ue Thee are at Grdngtonprrait of 3 of the ces who deended Lathom Huse under

the Coutess of Derby n 1644.In Feb 1689-90 Palamnt was ssole, nd Roger enyon

stood ad was elected for Clitheroe, his colleaue beng nhonyker Lod Wlloughby's secrtar wrts to Kenyon your

d h d t P i t t Clit " (88)



2I

Liutenancy o Lancashir, and Lord Brandon was appotd in

his plac. (659)From this tim Knyon's attachmnt to King

Williams caus bcam slight though h continud to xrthimsl to supprss any activity among th Lancashir Papists

Early in 169 Mr. Hywood (782) th Govrnor o th Isl ofMan did and Lord Drby as Lord o Man appointd RogrKnyon to b Govrnor (76 763). H landd on th Island7 Jun (72) and mmdaty bcam nvo< in a dutwn th Kings Ocrs and thos o th Lod as to th rightto customs and wrckag in rspct o a ship drin to port inth Island In th cours o a long statmnt on th subjct onbhal o th Kings ocrs it is said (782) hat th Govor sntor Dwy th Kings ocr and told himry angrly" thah would brak up th hatchs i Dwy did not produc e winn qustion rom th ship thatth King had nothing to do witth Island th laws o England was nothing hr and ons saying h had to tak car or th Kings srvic thGovor hastily askd What King ? what King ? th saiDy told him that h kew no King but on maning KingWiiam to which th Gornor muttrd som words which thsaid Dw y could not undrstand but by his -y in dliringth thy smd o b dgrou." Pcdg wr tnin London with rspct to th right to cstoms tc in th Island

t

bu it dos not appar that Knyon as cald to account or hiwords On 30 July 69 h attndd Lord Drby in stat asoor at th Tinwall A ninut acont o th crmonial igin among his paprs 77) H did not rsid prmanmtlyon th Island but h had a sall arm thr, at Cstltonmaagd y a baili namd John Wood who rwd al andattnd catl or him (804)



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your mos aecionae faihfu friend." (1) and hre resimiar expressions in Feb. 65-6 (02). He hd of course oe in London when Priamen was siing, nd his wife wroe nJanuar 6934 ha she fears he wi suer much frm he cold·weher ; pra hee keep s wam as hou cn and esmehng i h pocke o he House o sup o h ge d

weakness requires i and agin thou ar no kind o hsefn sang s ng n h ouse ever wihou some reresmen I pra hee do n si negec h heah so much

In 6 Rger Kenon seems he been he Soicior for edefence of e Lancashire genemen accused of poing o risein favour of King mes II The chief informers were en nmed

un nd fe of infamous characers nd in he resu heersons he accused were acuied hough Kenon in apeech wrin for he House f Cmmns compins h hewere reaed ver unfair b he udge (23) The Inforerswere ferwrds prosecued and coviced of perjur Lordenon's paers abou his noorious Lncshire po re muc

fuer han se pubished in he Sa Tris. I seems o hvebeen an imiaion of Oaes' Amon he persons arresed uns infrin were Mr egh of me and ord Moneuxand on O 2 64 Mrs Legh wries hanking Kenon forcearing he innocen and saing Lad Moneux said she neveepeced him o be a friend o he Ran Cahoics. s g

despirs of ahing being done for he Church par bcushe Commoneah pr s he Couci Board and a he greapaces. She pras he Kings ees m b opened nd ha hm n e ruined s aher Peers ruined ing ames (887)I a or m no have been in conseuence f he he o

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ouse (992). his correspondents ·rite to him as a stronghurchan, and he is constantly comlaning of the Dissenters

ho in his neighbourhood were headed y Lord Wlloughb (1042ho as Chancellor of he Duh 689 o 1697. Thusn Aug 1693 the Bishop of Chester writes most heartlyhank you for your constnt pans and dligence n asserting nddefendng the just rghts of our Church ; " and agan in Apr 169I receved our leer i whch (as in man others have re t d n

o our Church, and our readiness upo al occasons to promotets interest" In 1696 he protests strongl to Lord Willoughb'ssecretary aganst depriving number of gentlemen of good !. ·.�d\osition of the oce o Justice of the eace, and puting in heir� tead a number of dissenting tradesen (1024) In 1697 he)omplains to the Bshop of hester tat Lord Wiloughb has:»· Staken possession of llenbroo Chae d put in a dissenter to Y : ?/.reach there though it is a chapel of ase to the Parish ChurchKenyon says he and hs famy atended t for 30 years, and he isa trustee of he endowment £33 a ear

Afer this year very tte s recor o oger e. H ae up Pee o his son George in or efor 1699, and resided aManchester and was lvng here in 1706 and had died b 1710ut George took his place as the busness man of the famlyhere s a portrt of hm at Gredngton e ha sons ogerdard, George, homas lam, and Edward and 5 daughtersBearx Dorothy Alice Jane and Ann Of hes the rstEdar, and Aice and Ann, died n fcy George becme theead of he famil and wll be treated f after the others e.,

Ro er1

ldes son of Ro er en on of Peel was born at Peel8 Feb 16, ! caed rd Bar

bo 168 , n \ he saed from Ireland toBarba- I &does and before Ju 1683 he had leftBabadosforNeor where he teacheth gentemens children and is egagedhere to continue for 2 or 3 years, by ovenant wth a gentemnther But in ha month his father had heard that he was n



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him in

slavery, and said i t will

be

very necessary to send

him

a

suit

of clothes, being very naked,

and

perishing.

H e

is

extraordinarily penitent and undergoes his slavery as contented

as

the

thing

will bear; but

he has

no more for his

day's

work than

meat and drink. His work is every day

to

carry timber

from

the

water

side to make fences.

But he

works so ill that his

master

designed

to

sell him, where

it

might have been

much

worse. (5J5).

In

March 1683-4

they

seem

to have

expected

to

·

find himT

Plymouth as

a prisoner,

but

he

was

not there

~

72

J/

and the next

we

hear

of

him

is

in

1685, when his father sen im

.

up

to

London

with

a letter to the Earl of Rochester, who

had

just

been appointed Lord High Treasurer, asking for employment

both

for himself

and

his two eldest s on s . ~ -

On 31

July 1688

Ro

5

er writes

to

his

father

from Cambridge There was one piece·

of news last post which made me sweat, and at the same time·

think

of

you;

it

was

that there

is a design

to

have a general

regulation of Justices and clerks of peace, through the whole

kingdom. This, though

it

is not altogether improbable, yet for

your

sake I hope

it

is absolutely false ~ - On Nov. 26, 1689,.

he writes from Cambridge, that nohvithstanding that his

.tllher I

had

urged

him to take

the new oaths, authority

has

only place

where reason is wholly at a loss,

and there are

a

great many

difficulties (about taking them) which

to

myself are insuperable.

This

I believe will

be

the case with

me on

the 31st Jan. He

refers

to

some writings

about

Passive Obedience ~ ). This is

the last we

hear

of him. He married, but died wi th~ issue,

before his father.

Thomas,

4th

son of Roger Kenyon of Pee (and grandfather of

e

rs

or enyon was born 5 Aug. 1668.

He

writes

to

his

father

with political news from London May 14, 1689,

and

from

Chester several times from 1690

to

1692

or

later, but from 1694

onwards seems

to

have been settled in Manchester. In Chester

he

was employed by Lord

Derby as

his seal bearer (734, 931).



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to his oath, and consequently to his conscience, to drive bargains

beforehand,

yet

withal I

might

assure you in his name,

and you

his Lordship, that he never was ungratefiul where he received

kindness,

nor would he carry himself in this as unbecoming a

gentleman

or

undeserving your friendship. This conscientious

Dean was Lawrence Fogg, installed

2

Nov. r69r, died

28

Feb.-

7 7 (Willis' Cathedrals) . There is a monument to him in Chester

Cathedral (Onnerod

I

223, 247).

In

Jan

. 1693-4 Joseph Yates

writes Your son Torn was very hearty, and very ready

in

his

business at

the

Sessions. He married in or before 1695 Catherine

daughter

and

heiress of Luke Lloyd of

the

Bryn, which is now a

farm house in Hanmer Parish belonging to Lord Kenyon. Luke

Lloyd fought on the side of

the

Parliament and some letters to

and from him

about the

fighting in 1644 are published among

Lord Kenyon's MSS. (194, 197, 198). He was imprisoned for

non-conformity under Charles II. together with the divine Philip

Henry, who wrote of him in the highest terms as

an

exemplary

Christian (see Life of Lord Kenyon, p. 6). He died in 1695, aged

86, whereupon his daughter inherited

the

small property of

the

Bryn,

and

she

and

her husband settled there. They named their

eldest son, born

17

March 1696,

Lloyd

and

this henceforth was

adopted as a family Christian n1ane. They had 3

olher

sons who

all died young,

and

two daughters,

Catherine

who married

vVm. Middleton of Derbyshire but died without issue in 1777

and

was buried at Manchester; and

Dorothy

born 1698, who married

in 1716 Wm. Percival of Royton.

and

left issue. Thomas' first

wife died

at

Durfold,

and

was buried

at

Acton in Cheshire ;

and

he married secondly Catherine widow of Thomas Percival of

Royton and daughter of Thomas Norris of Speke, Lancashire,

but

had no children

by

her. He died 1731, and was buried in

the



:hardship at all save removing of cloth and lifting

it to and

fro

in

the

shop. William died in London, unmarried.

Edward

,

6th

son of Rog

er Ken

yon of Peel, .was born

at

Peel.

He became Captain in

the

Army in 1696, when

he

would be

about

-21

years old,

and

joined his regiment

at

Ghent

25

May, 1696

(1017, 1020).

He

was afterwards at Gambia,

and

on 20 May 1703

he

wrote to his

brother

George from Cabu Corsu Castle, on the

.South side of Africa, of which

he

was

then

Governor.

He

wants

.

the

Company n whose service

he

is to make him a factor and

-authorise him

to

sell liquors, otherwise

it will

be impossible

to

Jive

here as everything is so expensive.

He

gives details of prices

(1083),

and

asks his brother to send him a few necessaries to wear,

.as shoes,

thread

stockings,

and

shirts,

and the

main supporter

·of life, good beer.

In

1707

he

was Governor of

Fort

St. George.

He

died without issue.

Beatrix, eldest

dau

g

hter

of Rog

er

of Peel, was born at Long-

·worth, Nov. 1662. and died at Salford 29 Dec. 1734, unmarried.

Dorothy, second

dau

g

hter

, born

at

Peel

7

Nov. 1664, married

March 1698, Rev. Richard Wroe, D.D., vVarden of Manchester

·College.

He

wrote a good deal

to

his father

and brother

in

Jaw

on political

and

personal matters, 1693-1713.

He

was called

' '

silver tongued Wroe.'' There is a

portrait

of

him at

Greclington

In Jan.

1696-7 informations were taken

at

Manchester that one

John Leeds, chapman, said

that

Dr. Wroe was a papist,

and

kn

ew of

the late

assassinations against King William ;

and

on

. Feb. 1706-7

John

Sumner writes to George Kenyon from Wigan,

Dr. Wroe

has

preached an extraordinary reformation sermon

here

this

day. He

died in 1718,

and

Dr. Roger Kenyon writes

in May I could

not

but be sensibly touched for my relations in



George Kenyon of Peel was born

at

Peel Jan. 1665. He was

3rd son of Roger Kenyon of Peel, the second, Edward, having

only lived years. He went to Cambridge in 168I 443) where

H the

Master found no fault with him except in neglecting chapel

nda trifling away his

time

(453).

But

he became a B.A. in 1684,

and in 1685 his father applied

to

the Earl of Rochester for em

ployment for him, and said he is a diligent man and i I may

properly

say

so a good

clerk

(598).

In that

year

he

was still at

Cambridge (604).

In

1688 he was in London

and

writes

to

his

father on 14 June I was this

day

in the Tower to see them (the

Bishops) at prayers. People crowd so many to see them that

the

soldiers are forced to keep all the gates shut,

and

did they

not, I believe the Tower would hardly hold

the

numbers

that

flock there. By good chance I got in after prayers; all the

people kneeled in a line to receive their benediction

and

all

the

7 laid their hands on my head 623) . He was called to the

Bar

(Lancaster Official Lists)

and

from 1694 onwards he was

at

Peel

or

Manchester, and corresponding on legal

matters with

his

father. On 22 Jan.

1694-5

Lord Derby writes to George's

.father I cannot forbear thinking of, and owning, how much I

am beholden

to

your eldest son

and my

seal kee

per

in following

SO

well the steps of their

father

(93r). The seal keeper was

Thomas, but

by

your eldest son he most likely

meant

George, for

Roger was probably dead, and had always lived

at

Cambridge

and is unlikely to have been useful to, or known to, Lord Derby.

Moreover Roger scarcely seems

to

have followed bis father's steps.

In

August, 1697, George Kenyon of Peel and Thomas Kenyon of

Manchester, were appointed game-keepers to Peter Shakerley for

his manor of Shakerley in the County of Lancaster

1053)

;

that

is to say, they were given the right

to

kill game there. In

October of

the

same ye,H George was elected to be Recorder of



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the patron and friend of Roger Kenyon, died, his brother James

succeeded

im

as

Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire,

and as

roth

Earl, and was appointed Chancellor of the Duchy in r706, and

the

same year he appointed George Kenyon to be Vice-ChanceJlor,.

and

Steward of the Borough of Salford.

He

succeeded his father

as

Clerk of the Peace under the reversionary grant of 1680, and

in 1710 got a grant of

the

same office for

the

lives of his two sons

Roger

and

George,

after

the

determination

of

the

grant

of r68o.

He was also made in 1706 Master Forester of Symonds Wood and

Croxteth (Lancashire Official Lists).

In June

r708 Dr. Roger writes to him I perceive by Mr

Starkey

that

you have been busy in your County amongst the

Roman Catholics. I know none of them,

but

if you could do

any

favour

to

Mr Oldfield I should

be

glad of it, for

the

relation his

lady stands unto some friends I love very well. Leftwich

Oldfield had long before married

Jane

Stonehewer, rst cousin to

George Kenyon,

but

does not seem

to

have been a Roman

Catholic. On 19 Sept.

171

0 his cousin writes

to

George from Grays

Inn that Lord Berkeley who has been made Chancellor of the

Duchy is of

the

same

party

with yourself,

that

is, a churchman ;

though you have seemed to act another part of late years. ·

George Kenyon wae elected M.P. for Wigan at a bye-election

n

the spring of 1713

(1141-3)

and lodged at the White House in

Brownlow St., near

Drury

Lane (1149). He was again retu1ned

at the General Election soon afterwards, with Sir Roger Brad

shaw,

but

both

were petitioned against in March,

r7r3-r4

by

Lord -Barrymore

and

Orlando Bridgeman, who were the rival

candidates, on

the

ground

that they had

not an estate of £300 a

year, which was a necessary qualification. On May 24, 1714 his



J lace to

another

may get

another vote. There should

be

some

money ordered to be

drunk

at times, with half-a-dozen

or

half-a

score burgesses;

it

is

what they

expect,

and

Calvert gives

drink

to

all that come

to

hin1 I have spent all I could shift for. I

have told

the

two Langshaws I will contrive some way

to

get

them

n

serjeants, at Michaelmas; there is no

other

way of keeping

them

from going over

to my

lord, i.e. Lord Barrymore,

the

opposite candidate. All however was useless, for

the

Parliament

was

put an

end

to by

Queen Anne's

death I

Aug.

IJI4,

and

Kenyon was

not

elected

to the

next Parliament. While

the

election was pending, Rev.

John

Sumner wrote

to

him that peace

can

be

made in

the

town if Kenyon will desist,

and

my Lord

will repay all

the

expense you have been

at.

Kenyon answers

i:hat

he

is surprised Sumner should have entertained such a pro

-position,

and

that

he

would give no answer. You

must

be

witness I have always declared

that

to the real quiet

and

settle

ment

of

the

town I would be a willing sacrifice ;

and

if I

be the

Jonas that keeps up the storm, that you throw me overboard

(rI65).

At

the

time

of the

election, Lord Barrymore's friends

were said to have obtained warrants to

arrest

for debt Mr.

Sumner

and

a

number

of Kenyon's

other

supporters, to prevent

them voting

(1168).

Lord Derby who had appointed George

Kenyon to

be his Vice-Chancellor, resigned

the

Chancellorship in

I710,

but Kenyon seems to have been continued in office by his

·successor Lord Berkeley; ·but after Queen Anne's

death

Henry

Finch,

Earl

of Aylesbury was appointed Chancellor, and

in

I7I5

Kenyon lost

the

Vice-Chancellorship, together with

the

offices

which went with it

of

Steward of Salford and Master Forester of

Symonds Wood

and

Croxteth, all of which were given

to Edward

Vawdrey (Lancashire Official Lists).



30

r7r9, aged r7,

and

became a student of

the

Middle Temple

the

same year,

but

died

at

College

r72r.

Edward became a Fellow

of

the

same College, and also died young. Ann married Robert

Booth of Salford.

George Kenyon, znd son of Geor~e Kenyon of Peel, por in

1702\ succeeded his father

at

Peel and also as Clerk of

the

Peace

of

Laii'cashire, by virtue of

the

reversionary

grant

of r7ro, his

brother Roger being dead.

He

became B.A. at St.

John s

College, Cambridge

1722 and

a Fellow of the College r6 March

1724-5;

M.A.

and

Barrister of the Middle Temple, 1726. He

settled at Peel,

and

about 173r married Peregrina, younger

daughter

and

co-heiress of Robert Eddowes of Gredington

Flintshire,

and

Eagle Hall, Cheshire. She was born April 1707

and died

19

Oct. 1783. Her sister and co-heiress Jane married

Lloyd, George's

rst

cousin, ,father of

the

Lord Chief Justice, thus

bringing Gredington into the Kenyon family. Eagle Hall was

sold by George's son Robert. It was afterwards pulled down,

and a sma modern house erected on the site. By virtue of these

marriages

the

Kenyons quarter the Eddowes' arms, Per Bend

Simister erm and ermines a lion rampant or.

R. Molyneux writes

to

him on May-day

1744

from Preston.

t

has been confidently reported in our coffee house that you

as

Clerk of

the

Peace have received a

letter

from the Duke of New

castle, directing you not

to

return the convictions into Chancery,

and ordering you to send them up to him at his office at Whitehall,.

and

further, that

the

Duke wrote you word

that

the

Justices for

this County were

the

only Justices

n

England

that

had

proceeded

so far against

the

papists. I should be extermely glad to know

the

truth of this account, as I think it is very extraordinary.

On Oct. r8 Sir H. Houghton writes, I hope as you promised Mr.

Molyneux and me at Chorley, I shall shortly have an account that



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31

from th suport thy pct from th oish intrst, thr ist sam rason and necssit to rcord th convictions now astr as thn." On th contrry sid a ttr fro Sir TBoot to Sir H oughton sas Whn I was ast in th country J acquaintd you and many othr ustics of th Pac that tocrry th procdings against th papists upon th ast rocamation to a compt conviction woud b wrog hat convicting thm would not isab but rathr xasprat and b a

ans to driv thm into rbion Tha tndring th Oathsand Dcaration and upon thir rfusa to tak from th rfusrstir horss and arms woud b compying with th Proamationand doing wat you r rqurd to do That it ws no thdsign o th rocamation nor o th Administration that thustics shoud tak uon thm to jud of th incy or

tnss of carrying it to a na conviction but that was to b t th udgmn and discrtion of th Priy Counci ith hisry ustic with whom I convrsd (who wr many) wasrfcy satisd as was aso my Lord Drby th Lord Liutnnt wih whom I talkd on this subct ; and I do not habut that vry ustic the County sav yoursf nd MrMo o m o my

ris haring that you by a mnacing r to h Crk o thac r for forcing him to rtu int Chancry th conictions which hav n rturnd to th Quartr Sssions Itrfor acquaintd svra of t Pivy Counc wth what your doing who I tak th irty to t you do not apprv oour conduc \Vhi th ar quit s I do not ar from

any quartr u thy ar) t us not rom a mistak za doanhing to provok thm and giv hm hand or disturbancr dri thm into rbon. I sha oy add that by th Act f Pariame th ustics o Pac hav nothig to do in th

t of th o tio i to th Co t of Ch o Ki g'

32



bad,

and the weather so severe since,

that

I

am but

just reached

home (1217). On 3 Feb. there is

the

following order

by

Lan

cashire Justices. We think it proper, especially at this

time

when there is a most unnatural rebellion against H.M. 's person

and government,

that

the convictions of the papists, reported

papists, and non-jurors, which were

returned

to

the Quarter

Sessions by some of us and other ]. P. s of the said County in

1744 and which have been hitherto neglect

ed

by

th

e Clerk of the

Peace or by some others who have been employed by him, be

without delay returned

to

the High Court of Chancery or King's

Bench, by the Clerk of the Peace of this County, in order there

to

be recorded according

to

an

Act

of Parliament in

that

case

made

and provided (1218). The result of the complaint against the

Clerk of the Peace was

that

on 3 March 1745-6 an order of the

Privy Council suspended all proceedings on

the

convictions of

recusants. The Lancashire Justices again ordered in Jan. 1746-

7 that returns should

be

sent

up

(1227), and thereupon

th

e Privy

Council on 3 Apr. 1747 again ordered that all proceedings be

stayed till further order, and

a

letter

from their clerk says if

your outrageous Justices continue troublesome and make any

more orders, fancy

they

will

be

left

out

of the Commissions of

the Peace, for the Lords of the

Privy

Council are very angry

at

them (1232).

The troubles about papists did not prevent George Kenyon

from taking an interest in the garden

at

Peel as his grandfather

Roger

had

done. R.

Jenkins

writes

to

hi n

from Salop

15

Feb.

1745-6, Mr. vVright greatly approves of Mrs. Kenyon's choice

of nectarines, plums and peaches, and recommends the following

pears, Jargonelle, St. :Michael,

Bury du

Roy, Crasan, and Col

33



Kenyon,

yet he the said John Ryder, claims no right or interest

therein.

Th

e

re

are like acknowledgments, of the same date, by

Mary Battersby and Joseph Eckersley.

On

~ov. 20, r763

\Villiam Hulton wri tes from Hulton P

ark to

George Kenyon at Peel I

make

no doubt you

are

apprehensive

of the inconveniences t o which the t own and neighbourhood

of

Manchester may be exposed

by

Mr.

Clayton's obstinacy. The

expected lapse

to the

Government will und

oubtedly

be attended

with

a

total

expulsion of

the

honest men in Lancashire from

th

e

Collegiate Society

of

Manchester. This, you

are

well

sat

isfied

may not

on

ly effect

both you and

myself, but each

landed man

in

the County, and more especially those who have connections in

the

Parish

. The intercession of you, for whom l\Ir. Clayton has

expressed often a great regard, might perhaps prevent the con-

stitution

of

Manch

es

ter Church from being overturned, and the

child yet unborn

curs

ing

th

e day of

Mr

Clayton's birth

(1260).

Little more seems

to

be recorded

of this

George Kenyon. He

lost his eldest son George in

1770,

and himself died 8 Dec.

1780.

He was buried at Peel. His widow died

19

Oct.

1783. Their

children were

f r el>

r

of whom afterwards;

Jiosa born 1737,

died

1768

unmarried; }dward died young; Robert of whom

aftenvards;

dward

born

1

::\lay

1746,

died

unmarried

16

July,

r783

;

Richard who died young ; and daug

hters

of whom

afterwards. On his

death th

e Peel estate did not go

to

the

daughters of hjs eldest son George, all of whom were well provided

for otherwise ; his second and third sons

had

also died before

him unmarried ; so the fourth son R obert

inherited

Perl The

Clerkship of

the

Peace

had

been

granted

in

177I in

reversion

after

George

Kenyon's

death to Humphrey Stevens for the lives

of

the Hon. J C. Villiers and his

brother

Hon. George Villiers

and so passed away from

the

Kenyon family, who had held

it

34



office

that

obliges him to attend morning noon

and

night, so

that

he can never

be

away 6 hours together. No wonder he should

prefer school to it.

The

only exercises we

have

to do is to repeat

a passage out of a classic; every day at dinner when it comes to

our turns, to dispute in turns; to make a

theme

once a week

and

a declaration once a tenn, and

to

read the lessons in Chapel,

when we are a year's standing, in tum. In Feb. 178r he writes

to his father that he hopes his affair with Mr. Clayton is in a

likely

way to

end well,

but he

knows his

father

would not have

him

sit

tamely and lose his reputation (1235). He married early

Margaret daughter of Thomas Banks of Wigan, who was born r738

and died Dec. 1759. By her he had an only child y argar;t.. who

married in

1770

Sir Thomas Hanmer,

Bart., M.P.

of Bettisficld,

Flintshire, by whom she had several sons who left issue and one

daughter klargaret mma who married in 1803

her

1st cousin once

removed, George 2nd Lord Kenyon, and died r815. George

Kenyon married secondly Ellen, daughter

and

heiress of William

Curghey of Swinlcy Hall, \i\Tigan

and

by her had 4 daughters,

Elizabeth Ellen who died early, Peregrina and

Jan

e co-heiresses

of

the

Swinley

estate

who all lived together

at

Swinley

and

died

unmarried, Jane living to be over 80 ; Elizabeth, who was born

1764 was the last survivor,

and

died

in

1858, whereupon the

S·,,inley estate, passed to the Hon.

Edward

Kenyon of Maesfen,

znd surviving son of George 2nd Lord Kenyon by Margaret

Emma, daughter o Elizabeth's half sister. George Kenyon

came into possession of Swinley

on

or

soon

after

his marriage

and

dates his letters in 1769 from Swinlcy. He died 24 December,

1770, ten years before his father, and therefore never inherited

Peel.

35



are properly regulated

and th

e children are brought

duly and

constantly

to church;

otherwise you are teaching the children

this false

and

wicked principle,

that

for

the

sake of learning

to

read

and

write,

or

other worldly advantages,

it is lawfl.? l to

neglect

the

public worship of God.

But

I

am

convinced in

my

own mind

that regular charity schools are much more useful institutions,

and had not my ill

state

of health prevented

it

,

it

was my fixed

purpose and

intention,

the

last spring,

to

have solicited your kind

assistance,

as

well as

that of the

trustees of

the

different charities

in Salford, in establishing two regular charity schools, one for 50

boys and

the

other for

50

girls. Robert Kenyon sold Eagle

Hall which he inherited through his mother.

He

died without

issue

n

1787, leaving his four sister3 bis co-heiresses.

By his

death

the

family of Kenyon of Peel became extinct

in the

male

line. They were represented in

the

female line

by the

Hanmer

family descended from Margaret daughter of George Kenyon,

eldest son of

the

znd George Kenyon of Peel ;

but the

first Lord

Kenyon now became

the

head of

the

family in

the

male line,

and

the

Peel estates did not go to the I-Ianmers but to Robert Kenyon's

sisters and coheiresses, of·whom

the

only one who left issue was

Mary wife of

the

rst Lord Kenyon, in whose right

the estates

descended,

on the

death of the survivor of

the

sisters,

to

her son

the

znd Lord Kenyon.

The four daughters of the znd George Kenyon of Peel became

co-heiresses of Peel on

the death

of their brother Robert

in

r787.

~ ' born Nov. r73z, died Dec.

r8r6,

unmarried.

Pereg

rin

born z Sept. 1736, died 14 Sept. 1812, unmarried. r

y

born

zr July

r74r, married 16 Oct. 1773 her znd cousin Lloyd rst Lord

Kenyon, and died 8 Aug. r8o8.

Alice.

born

ZI

Aug. 1744,



Lloyd Kenyon, like so

many

of his family, was educated

at

St. John s College, Cambridge, to which he was

admitted

in 17r4.

He

married

in

1730

Jane

Eddowes elder daughter

and

coheiress

of

Robert Eddowes of Eagle Hall, Cheshire, .

by

Anne Hilton,

daughter

and heiress of Rev. Richard Hilton, of Gredington,

Vicar of Hanmer, who bought Gredington from Sir

John Hanmer

The

conveyance is

dated

May 9, 1678.

Jane s

younger sister

and

coheiress, Peregrina, was the wife

of

the

znd

George Kenyon of Peel, Lloyd s first cousin. A

letter

addressed to Mrs. Kenyon at Gredington in 1715 1172) shows

that

the

families

at

Peel

and

Greclington

had th

en been

intimate. Lloyd Kenyon

and

his wife settled

at

Greding-

ton

at

once,

and

his second son Lloyd, afterwards ~ord

Kenyon, was born there in 1732. Lloyd Kenyon lived

entirely

at

Gredington,

fann

ed there,

and

was

an

active

Justice

of

the

Peace,

but

does

not

seem

to

have

taken

much

part

in public affairs. His income was not large, and

did not

allow of

his sending his younger sons to

an

University. His son Lloyd

corresponded with

him

frequently

and

intimately. He h

ad

four

sons

and

a daughter.

Thomas

born Sept. 1731, was sent

to

St.

John s

College, Cambridge,

but

died

at

Salford 1750,

unmarried;

Lloyd.

born 5 Oct. 1732, beca1ne Lord Chief Justice, died 18 2 ;

Richar

d

born March 1734, bu1ied

at

Hanmer Oct. 1751,

un-

married;

Rog

er born 1735,

of

whom afterwards.;

and

[ane .

born Aug. I736, died 1755, unmarried. Lloyd Kenyon died

30

Dec. r773, surviving therefore all his children except Lloyd

and

Roger.

Roger Kenyon, 4

th

son of Lloyd Kenyon

_

was born 5 April

1735, became a Solicitor

at

~ lrexha.1n,

and

had a considerable

practice. He married

about

I770 J.\.fary,

daughter and

heiress



37



Edward Lloyd, subject to a charge of

£500

for each of his sur

viving daughters ; and the Cefn

estate to

George subject

to

a

charge of £2500 for each of them, and he made George bis residu

ary

legatee. He became paralysed and lost his memory a year

or

so before his

death

on

20

Oct. 1796. His wife died several

years before him.

Edward Lloyd Lloyd, eldest son of Ro

er

Ken on of Cefn, was

born

1n

1771

an

m

ente

enyllan on the

aeath

of his mother

and took her name of Lloyd. He married Annabella, <laughter

of

Rev

. Philip Puleston, D.D., Rector of Worthenbury and

Vicar of Ruabon, and owner of the Pjckhill estate (which after

wards passed to the Ormerods) close to Cefn. Her mother was

Annabella sister and co-heir of Watkin \Villiams, Esq., of Pen-

bedw, M.P. for Montgomeryshire,

and

in compliance

with the

Will of her uncle Watkin Williams,

Edward

Lloyd

took

the

surname and arms of Williams in addition

to

Lloyd.

He

was

however separated from his wife. He added

to the

Penyllan

estate.

He

died without issue in 1837, leaving Penyllan to his

nephew Edward Lloyd Kenyon, only surviving son of his brother

George Kenyon

of

Coln. His widow long survived him.

Jane

Kenyon, eldest daughter of Roger Ken on of Cefn was

born 1 Aug. 1773, an marned a out 1794 Henry Ellis Boates of

Rose Hill near Ruabon, which he had inherited from the Ellis

family.

Mr and

Mrs.

Boat

es

had two sons, Henry Ellis

and

William and one daughter, Henrietta Maria. }Villiam married

but

died without issue. Henry Ellis the eldest son, married a

Miss Mansfield,

of

a Leicestershire family, and became a Colonel

in the Royal Horse Guards Blue in which he served at Toulouse

and at Waterloo.

He

was killed by a fall from his horse while



and was Churchwarden of it for more than 20 years. She died

in May r9r4,

and by

her Will left Rose Hill

to

her hird cousin

Sir Frederic George Kenyon, K.C .B., Director of the British

Museum, who however has never lived there.

Henrietta

Maria,

dau

g

hter

of

Henr

y Ellis

and

Jane Boates of

Rose Hill, was born in 1799,

and

married 14 May 1827 Joseph

Richardson Blackwood Beasley of the County of Tipperary,

who died before r866.

Her Aunt

Anna Maria Jones wrote of

her

in 1858 she is often in want of the necessaries of lite, her good

for nothing husband always making some excuse to

stay

in

London or elsewhere

and

sending her a bare subsistence at any

time, sometines nothing. Henrie

tta

Maria Beasley died rr Jan.

1873,

and both

she

and

her husband were buried in Mount Jerome

Cemetery, Dublin. They

had

2 daughters who did

not

marry,

one of

them

dying in 1842

or

1843 ;

and Emily Maria

who

married a Dr. Graham of Cash.el Co. Tipperary.

He

died about

1870 and was buried

at

Sandy Mount, near Dublin. She died

rr Oct., 1875,

at

14 Richmond Place, Mountjoy Sq1.1are Dublin,

and was buried in Mount Jerome Cemetery, Dublin. They left

four daughters of whom

the

eldest was about

zr

at

her mother s

death, and two sons, William and John A. Beasley aged about

20 and 14 at

that

time.

nna Maria Kenyon. youngest

dau

g

hter

of Rog

er

Keni on ,ot

Cefn, was born r8 Jan. r78r. and married 7 April 1808

at

Erbis

tock Church Evan Jones of Gilliwig, Carnarvonshire.

Her

father had been long dead, and she is described in her marriage

settlement as of Rose Hill, Denbighshire,

the

home of her sister

Mrs. Boates. Her husband was son of

John Jon

es of Ystymllech



39



George Kenyon of Cefn, 2nd surviving son of Rog

er

Kenyon of

Cefn

and

Penyllan,

wac

born 2 Feb. 1775,

and

married

Fanny

Price of Brynypys.

He

inherited Cefn in r796 under his father 's

will

and

succeeded to his father's business

as

a Solicitor

at

Wrexham but was not so success

ul

as his father and left his

affairs n a good deal of confusion. He died Nov. 1829,

and

was succeeded in

the

business

not

by his son

but

by a

:Mr

. Brester.

He

had

two sons, George born 21 :March 1804, who died unmarried

before his father,

and

Edw

~ d Lloy

d,

of whom afterwards ;

and

7 daughters,

0

Mar

¥ Francisca Ann Anna Maria Harriet l ane

Annabella Eliza Theophila and .[mma Dorothy. Besides these

there were 4 sons and two daughters who died as children .

.,J,Jarz was born 6 Jan 1808; and ,vas never married. She

Jived

at the

Lodge, Overton, till her death at an advanced age.

Francisca Ann was born 24 Dec. 1808, was never married, and

.died before 1874.

Anna 111aria was born ro Jan 1810,

and

married in 1836 Rev.

Henry Knapp, M.A., of Overton, Flintshire, son of Thomas

George Knapp by Sarah Elizabeth daughter oi William Hambley,

who were married in 1795.

Mr

Knapp was afterwards Vicar of

Swaton, near Falkingham in Lincolnshire, where both he and his

-wife were living in 1874. The Patronage belonged to his family.

He

had

many children ; Henry born 18 June 1840, articled

to

a

Solicitor in 1857, practising in Queensland in 1872.

Thomas

Lloyd born

30

Dec. 1841, M A St. Johri's Coll., Oxtord 1867,

Vicar of St. James'. Oldham, 1878 to 1902, and from 1902 of

Threckingha1n, Folkinghan1, Lincolnshire. Anna JJ Jaria born

28 Dec. 1842, n1arried in r868 Rev. Charles Stephen Turner,

Vicar of Beech Hill, Berkshire. Jerome Edward born r3 March

40



Annabella

daughter

of the same never

manied

. She

died

some

time between

1842

and

1874.

Eliza

TheoJ

hila

daughter

of the same was

born

Aug. 1812

and

died June 1838 unmarried.

Emma Dorothea daughter of the same was born 9 Sept. 1813

and

married 16

Feb. 1858 at Overton the Hon. and Rev.

Brownlow

North

Osborn de Grey son of

Thomas

4th Lord

Walsingham.

He

died April 1868

without

issue. She

died

6 April 1873.

Edward

Lloyd Kenyon only surviving son of George Ken on

of t ein was born 14 Feb . 1 15

an

succeeaed his father

at

Cefn

in 1829 but his father s affairs were very much involved and

Cefn was sold

n

1834

or

1835

to

Lady Palmer, from

whom it

descended

to

Sir

Roger

Palmer. In 1837 Edward Lloyd

Kenyo

_ ,

then a Lieutenant in the rst Kin.g~s-Dragoon Guards succeeded

his uncle Edward Lloyd in the

Penyllan

estate,

subject to

mort-

gages. In 1838 he married Louisa Mary daughter of Rev. Henry

William Marker Vicar and Patron of Aylesbeare in the County

of

Devon. Kenyon s

vVill

dated 14 Aug. 1842 describes

him

as of

Penyllan and states

that

he has only one child Louisa Mary

Beaumont, aged

3

and

directs

that

all his

property, among

which

he

enumerates

lands tenements collieries royalties and

tithes,

in Denbigh Salop and Flint, shall be sold on his death. The

Will was proved in London 14 Kov. 1843 by his father-in-law

the other

executor

the Hon. Lloyd Kenyon having

renounced

probate. His wife survived him. Penyllan was sold

about

1851

to the

Ormerod family.

He

was

the

last

representative

in

the

male line of

Roger

Kenyon

of

Cefn.

Louisa

Mary

Beaumont Kenyon only child of Edward Llo d

Kenyon

1

marne

a r . er

by whom

she ha

an

only child

4



school a great aversion

to

writing, you will imagine that this

profession was

not

at

first very agreeable

to

me ;

and

again

the law is surely

the

most irksome and crabbed

study

of all

other. He

became however a

great

favourite with his master,

who

kept

up an intimacy with

him

all his

life.

Lloyd Kenyon

left Mr. Tomkinson

in

1755,

and

was called

to

the

Bar

in 1756,

but for several years he

had to

live on an allowance of £80 a year

from his father, with occasional presents from other relations.

It was

not

till 1764 that he made

as

much as £80 in fees, and not

till 1770 that

they

were more

than

£1000,

after

which

they

in

creased rapidly. In 1782, in which year he was Attorney General,.

they

were as much as £11,038.

His other

appointments were,

Chief Justice of Chester 1780, Master of the Rolls and a Baronet

r784, Lord Chief Justice

and

a

Peer

1788.

In

1796

he

was

made

Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire. He

had

asked for the office for

his son, who only came of age

that

year. On Oct. 16, r773

he

married his 2nd cousin Mary,

3rd

daughter of the 2nd George

Kenyon of Peel. She on the

death

without issue of

her

brother

Robert became with

her

3 sisters co-heiress of the Peel estates,

which, as none of the others married, passed in her right on

the

death

of

the

survivor in 1836,

to Lady

Kenyon's son George,

znd

Lord Kenyon. Mary Lady Kenyon died 8 Aug. 1808.

The

marriage was a

most

happy

one.

Her

daughter-in-law,

the

Hon.

Mrs. Thos. Kenyon, wrote of

her

long afterwards

to

one of her

own sons

I

cannot help wishing

that the

same spirit which

seemed to guide

her

through life

may

descend upon you

and

all

her grand-children. She was

the

most

perfect being I ever

knew, so

truly

excellent. I

have

never

met with

anyone I

thought quite equal

to

her

in mind, judgment, temper

and

42



and grateful in health and prosperity,

most

resigned in sorrow,

sickness,

and

death. This sn1all tribute of filial affection is

erected

by her

surviving afflicted sons, who hope

best to

prove

their gratitude by remembering her instructions and copying her

excellencies. G.K., T.K.

Lloyd Kenyon on his marriage bought

the

lease of 35 Lincolns

Inn

Fields, which is believed to

be part

of a house built in the

-reign of Charles II. by Inigo Jones for William Lord Russell who

was afterwards beheaded. Kenyon

and

his wife went

to

live

there in

r775, and

from it in

r780

they saw

and

were endangered

by

Lord George Gordon's riots. A Roman Catholic Chapel and

·one or two houses near them were destroyed. Mrs. Kenyon

writes Mr.

Kenyon is provoked beyond measure at Lord George

Gordon, says

he

is mad and should be confined (which vvas

afterwards done) ; we have

had

continual

tumults

and noises

day and

night, in this square; what a blessing

it

is to have

an

able and kind protector at such a time. My Mr. Kenyon is now

.as cool, composed,

and

compassionate to all parties, as a sensible

and

good

man

can be.

Mr.

Kenyon afterwards defended Lord

George on his trial for treason. Ab ut 1783 Mr. Kenyon took a

small house

at

Marshgate,

abutting

,o_n Richmond Park,

and

there

after he became

Lord

Chief Justice King George

III.

often

visited him and became

very

intimate with

hi1n

consulting him

on private as well as on public matters. He spent almost all his

vacations at Gredington, where he added

t

the property

and

enlarged the house.

He

took little

part

in politics,

and not

much

in

society, though

he

frequently entertained

at

dinner large

parties

of lawyers; but his family

life

vvas a very happy one and

he was devoted

to

his children.

He

had strong religious feelings,

and is said never t have missed church for 6 years. The death



43



May 1775, educated under Mr. Jon

es

of Naylandland at Christ

Church, Oxford,

and died

15

Sept. 1800, unmarried. George

became the znd Lord Kenyon ; Thomas settled at Pradoe.

The

best biography of Lord Kenyon is by his.great grandson

the

Hon. George Kenyon, published in r873. There are others in

Townshend's Lives

of

Twelve Eminent Judges, and in Lord

Campbell's Lives of

the

Chief

Ju

stices,

and

in

the

Dictionary of

National Biography. His two sons were both appointed by

him to

very valuable sinecure offices in

the

Court of King's

Bench, appointments which were then recognised perquisites of

the

Lord Chief Justice.

George, 2nd Lord Kenyon, was born 22 July r776, and was

educated together with his brothers, first

at

Cheam School in

Surrey, then by Mr . Wm. Jones of Nayland, in Suffolk, the well-

known scholar

and

theological writer, with whom

he

kept

up a

a;y U

_

correspondence for a long time)and afterwards at Christ Church,

J[7JIY(l N

Oxford. He was called to

the

Bar, but never practised, though

he was elected a Bencher of the Middle Temple. On r Feb. 1803

he married Margaret Emma, daughter of Sir Thomas Hanmer,

E art., of Bettisfield, by his wife Margaret, daughter

of

George

Kenyon, brother of the first Lady Kenyon. She died

4

Feb.

r

815

. There is a very

pretfy

picture of

her by

Heppner,

at

redington. George Lord Kenyon, unlike his father, took an

active part both in society and in politics. He had a town house

in Portman Square. He was a Tory, opposed Roman Catholic

emancipation in 1807, and the Reform Bills of 1830- 32. After

the

Manchester Peterloo riots of 1819 he raised two troops of

Yeomanry,

to

serve under Sir R. Puleston.

He

is represented

in tw.o of the celebrated H .B.caricatures; in one of them he is

seated on the front bench of the House of Lords next to the Duke

of 'i\'ellington, but ,vith his back

to

him, expressing his amaze



44-



Lord Kenyon is said to have

at

one time contemplated the

possibility of getting

the

Duke of Cumberland declared heir

to

the

throne

n the

place of Princess Victoria. IP 1822

Lord

Kenyon procured a Government pension for his neighbours the

Ladies

of Llangollen,

Lady

Eleanor

Butl

er

and

Miss Ponsonby,.

from whom he received a most grateful

letter

on the subject.

He

carried on for several years

an

intimate correspondence with

the poet Southey. When the National Society was formed

in 1811 he was one of

its

first Vice-Presideclts.

He

was an active Churchman,

not

a Tractarian, but

an old fashioned High Churchman, and when Bishop,

Philander Chase came

to

England to

get

help for promoting·

higher education on a Church basis in the United States, it was

through Lord Kenyon to whom he was introduced in 1824,

that

he

got introduced

to

most

of

the

Bishops

and

leading Churchmen

of the time. Lord Kenyon also gave him very considerable

pecuniary assistance,

and

so valuable was his help

that

Bishop

Chase named after him the Episcopalian College which he founded

in Ohio. Kenyon College, though not containing 200 under

graduates, is of University rank, grants

its

own degrees,

and has

a very high reputation among

the

many

University Colleges in

the

United States. Lord Kenyon kept

up

a correspondence

with Bishop Chase,

and

frequently assisted him pecuniarily till

the

Bishop's death in 1852. He also gave considerable help

to

the schools n his own neighbourhood, and was liberal n giving

help both publicly and privately wherever it was needed. Like

his father

he

had

very strong family affections.

He

died

at

Gredington 25 Feb. 1855. There is a portrait of him there by Sir

Thomas Laurence,

and

a miniature of him as

an

old man,

and

also a

bust

of him by vV Behnes, executed in 1832.

45

stored. She was a devoed adirr of Bishop Chase andplanted t Gredington an" hio arden wih seeds and cuttings



planted t Gredington an hio arden wih seeds and cuttingsfrom Oho sent to her by e Bishop, and erected in it a og cabinwhich stil eists in imitatin of the American ones arianne2nd da hter of ord Keon born 2 Ma 80 married25 Aug. 83 Vice-Admial Thomas Best nd son of the rstLord Wynord She suve her uan a� wisue 18 Se t 186 Peregrina 3rd dau hter f Lord Ken onborn Set. 1809 died unarried 1 Apr 183

Edward Ken on, secon survivin son of Geore Lord Ken o

s born I June, 8o and educated at Harow and ChistChurch whee he too his degree in 183 H sttled a Macfennar Mpas in Cehe hich had en boght by the rstord Knyon from al osveno He mad 19 Sept 1840Carolin Susan Cathrne, ounes daugher of Genral LodGeorg ereford She de 8 Mch, 1866 In 18 he iheritedthe Swiley etate near 'Win on he death of the last surving

augtr o eoge yo, oe o a Koubut he lived alas at Macefen a typical an popular countygentean, apain in the Ceshire Yeomanr, J.P. fo 3 countiesCheshir, Sop and Denbih, fond of hunting and of rurapursuit. He aied secondy, n May 1880, Caherine izabeth, eldest daughte of Rev G F. J. Maha ector ofAllingtn, ent, and ido of Rev. W. G. Twnley Rector of

Upell Norfol She suived him. He a no childen b • �dher bu by his rst wife he had a son ohn Geor nd a daughter -.

B"l Emma ane AnnEdward Kenyon died at Macefe ;1 Oct /1894 His daughter born 1847 maed 177 the Rev. the)-t.

ci o go oe ae u oacefe on her fathers death < · IC+s.

Joh Georg Kenon sn of the Hon dwad Ken o was

bornI

Oct 183, and edcated at Harrow ad Crist ChrchOxford ·hee he took hi deree of BA. an SC.L in 1867 rea fo the Bar but i 1869 ent to Cuddsdon heologicCoege, and in 1870 becm a Romn Cathoic. He then enistedin the apal Zouaves In 87 he mrried Mar r daughter



7h<,>t,.~ a~ST. ,,_..as. ? J

tf.

LO>V

WYNroA,/).

h. ~ ~

l7

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1a1r · ,M.~,.,~._.

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4 k:

j i J

s

?

1w..i.Oh ,

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1

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1

. 4S11- to JJ: 1 t81?)7,- 16 21

. R v . . , n J . , j ) ~ t ~

1.,01--17

and

a Knight of St. Gregory, rst class.

About

1887

he

became



an active supporter of Home Rule for Ireland.

He

died

z

July

19r4, at Gillingham. His wife

surviv

es

him

.

He

had two sons,

Francis Edward Adolphus and Joseph Robert;

and

fivedaughters

Mary Catherine, Margaret Mary Alfonsa, Anne Mary Elizabeth

Laurentia, Mary Susan Lucy,

and

Clare Mary Henrietta. Fran-

cis E. A. was born 1872,

and

educated as a Civil Engineer,

but

died unmarried 7 Aug. r907.

Three

of

the

daughters, Mary C.,

Margaret M. A. and Clare M. H. entered Convents. Anne

M.

E. L. born 1880, married 1904 Lt.-Col.

Herbert

William

Todhunter. C.J>1.G. King s Own Scottish Borderers, and has

issue. Mary

S.

L.

born

1885, married 19r6 Capt. Charles Edward

Pillans Hastings,

Royal

Sussex Regiment.

Joseph Robert Kenyon, only surviving son of John George

Kenyon, was born 1883

and

educated at-C

hrist

Church, Oxford,

and

took his B.A. degree r905.

He

was called

to the Bar

1907,

and practised in Liverpool.

He

joined

the

East Anglian R.F.A.

and served in Egypt during the Great \V ar, became a Major, and

was given the M.C., Jan. r9r8.

Lloyd, 3rd Lord Kenyon, was born r Apr. r805, and married

29

June

1833 Georgina de Grey, youngest

daughter

of Thomas

4th

Lord \V alsingham.

He

sat

for

the

Borough of Michael (or

Mitchell) in Cornwall in

the

Parliaments of 1831 and r832, and

was

an

unsuccessful candidate for Denbighshire

in

the autumn

of 1832 for the reformed Parliament which

met in January

r833.

but

he

never took a prominent part either

in

politics or in society,

though after succeeding to

the

Peerage he lived regularly in

Portman Square during the season. Like his father, he was

devoted

to

his family.

He

died

r4 July

1869.

His

vyig

o~ died

')... ~ ~

1874-

There are water-colour drav; ings of him and his wife

by

G.

Richmond, r833, at Gredington.

They

had 5 sons, Lloyd,

George Thomas, Edward Frederick, William Trevor and Alfred ;



4~·

47

widow married inL1880 the Rev. Thomas Mainwar~ Bulkeley



Owen of Tedsmore Hall, Shropshire, who diedl.fgio. · She sur-

vives him,

and

liveA

at

the

Limes,

Sh~bury .

>

~ ~ ~

George T.

oma

§ i born 28 Dec. 1840, was educated

at

Harrow

: f~

x

· and

Christ Church, called to

the Bar

1869, but never practised.

·

He

wrote a life of

the

1st Lord Kenyon in 1873. lfi 1875 he C2 f ~ £S7~

married Florence Anna, daughter of John Hurleston Leche of

Carden Park Chester. He

bought

and enlarged Penley House,

Ellesmere, changed

its

name to Llanerch Parma and made it his

home.

He

was M.P. for Denbigh Boroughs 1885

to

1895

and

1900 to 1905,

and

was mainly instrumental

in

passing

the

Welsh

Intermediate Education Act, 1889.

He

was J.P. for Shropshire,

Denbighshire and Flintshire, and took a very active part n all {..

local matters. He was a strong conservative and Churchman. zs-.Af> ,

I'll.CJ.

He died

without

issue 26 Jan. 1908, leaving his widow surviving .

A screen arcoss the Tower arch of

Hanmer

Church was erected

0

in

memory of

him in

1909. There is

an

account of him

in the

}re ~

Dictionary of National Biography. ..-~s

1J '-txs·

Edward Frederick. born 27 Aug. 1842, was called to the

Bar

an

d.

practised for a time, having chambers at

7,

New Square,

Lincolns

Inn.

He never married. He died J an} r892.

Alfred

was born and

died in 1846.

William Trevor was

born

22 Oct. 1847, was

head

of the

School

at

Harrow and obtained a Junior Studentship at

Christ Church.

ancl

first class honours in Greek, B.A.

1870, ordained 1871; was successively curate of St. Leonard's

Bridgnorth, perpetual

curate

of Penley,

and

Rector of Malpas

1873 to 1896.

He

married 16 Feb. 1871 Anne McKerrell, only

daughter of Adam Hay Gordon of Avochie, N.B., who died.1873;

s~

and

secondly

fAk877

Lucy Rosamund.,.daughter of Rev. Charles

I

b

S'' f

Woolley

Dod

of Edge Hall,

Malpas:X.: In

1878 he published a

small volume of poems entitled Drifting. Since resigning

W M

Malpas

he

has lived at St. Leonard's.

He

has by his first wife I: ~

tt O



Lieut. R.N. who died at Davos

15

Feb. 1906; Randle North

born/,i1882 is a market gardener in Ireland; Humphrey Julius



born 12 Nov. 1885, educated

at

Keble College, Oxford

and Ely

Theological College, B.A. 1909, ordained 19ro. Was Chaplain

to the Forces at Salonica, 1917

and

1918 ; Curate of St. Mary's,

Nuneaton since 1914; Guy Victor bori1887 is L~t.-Commander

R.N.,

and

is Chevalier of

the

Legion d'Honneur.

Georgina was

born

14 May, 1834,

and

died unmarried 23 J~ne,

1919. After their mother's

death

in 1874, she

and her

sisters

built

the Gelli near Malpas on land belonging

to

Lord Kenyon, where

, she resided till

her

death, making

it

a centre of good for all

around her.

Margaret Emma, born 7 May, 1836, married Oct. 1855

William Townley Mitford, M.P. for Midhurst, 1859 to 1874, of

Pitshill, Sussex, who died~ 1889. Since

then

she h ~ iv

ed

in

London. She has a son 8.nd a daughter. Jfv t ·4 -

~

lfl?

Elizabeth, born 20 Aug. 1837,

marriedJro Jan.

1860

1

Rev.

George Arkwright/Jof/Pencombe, Hereford,[',vho

die<l/..1877.

She

lives at Firlands,"firacknell, Berks,

and has

issue. J f

u .

J .· .

Henrietta, born 21 Apr. 1839, died unmarried 20

Jan.

1903. ~

She lived with her sister Georgina at the Gelli, and with her was

an active supporter of Tallarn School

and

Parish. Four stained

glass windows ~ placed in

the

Church

to

her memory.l, n ~r~q t

Charlette Jane, born 30 Oct. 1844, built Tallarn Church in 1872

on

land

given

by

Lord Kenyon's trustees.

t

was consecrated

Jan. 1876, and on r3 Jan. she married

the

Rev. George

Montague Osbo~Rector of Campton cum Shefford, Bedford-

shi~t\who d ed/;?,~o.

She died/1893, leaving a daughter Muriel,

born 1881:X:

21

/Yo Y • 2 7 Af» .

.

Lloyd, 4th Lord Kenyon, was born 5 July, 1864, and educated

atEton

and

Ch

rist Church, and married inb916 Gwladys Julia,

daughter of Col.

H.

R. Lloyd Howard,

~.B.,

of \Vygfair, St.

Asaph. Commanded the Shropshire Imperial Ycomanry, and

from Dec. 1914 the 2/ r Welsh Horse. \i\/as a Lord in Waiting

1900-1905, and

1916

to

r9r8. Is K.C.V.O., Director of the



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?.5-6-d-1 17.

i~t [3o.

9



assumed in rgrz the name and arms of Tyrell in addition to his

own.

Has

twin children born

13

sept.

r9r7,

Llo

;z

d

and

Sarah

Myyida Mary. - -

Thomas Kenyon, second surviving son of

the

Lord Chief

J ustice, was born 7 Sept.

r780,

and was educated like his brothers

at Cheam School and under Mr Jones of Nayland, and at Christ

Church, Oxford, where

he

took his B.A. degree in r8or. On

zr

April, r803, he married at Aston Chapel Louisa Charlotte,

daughter of

the

Rev.

John

Robert Lloyd, owner of Aston

and

Rector of Whittington and Selattyn. They immediately settled

at Pradoe, which he bought at this time; they enlarged

it and

lived there continually for

the

rest of their lives. In the same

year

he

was made

J.P. and

D.L. for Shropshire, and Captain

in

the volunteers. In r804 he was appointed Filacer of

the

King's

Bench, a valuable sinecure office held for life, which was surren

dered to him by his brother Lord Kenyon, who through the death

of his elder brother

had

obtained a still more valuable one. The

full title of

the

office was Filacer, Exigenter, and Clerk of the

Outlawries in the Court of King's Bench.

It

was abolished,

with compensation,

in

1837,

by

Will. iv. and 1 Viet.

c

30.

In

1807, when

the

volunteers were disbanded,

the

non-commissioned

officers

and

men presented Mr Kenyon with a very handsome

sword, and in 1808 he was appointed Major in

the

North Shropshire

Militia.

In

1822 he was appointed Lieut.-Col. of

the North

Shropshire Yeomanry, but that office was abolished, and on his

consequent retirement in 1825,

the

members of

the

Oswestry

Squadron presented him with a silver coffee pot. In 1834 he

rejoined

the

regiment as Major, and retained that position till two



50

Mr. I{enyon was appointed Chairman of

the

County Quarter



Sessions in r830, and resigned the office in Oct. r850.

It

was a

much more laborious office

then

than

now ; when

he

was first

appointed

the

Court generally

sat

till

late

in the evening, fre-

. quently for two days, sometimes for 4

or

5 continuously, and

dealt

not

only with a great deal of civil work now done by the

County Council, but also with most of the criminal offences now

triable

at Petty

Sessions.

In

r844 there were 270 prisoners

for trial, and the work

had

become so heavy

that

he

had to

ask

for

the

appointment of a

deputy

to relieve hiin of part of it. As

a magistrate he accompanied

the

North Shropshire Yeomanry

to what was called the

Battle

of Chirk Bridge on r Jan. r832,

when they were brought

there to

prevent a large body of colliers

from Ruabon invading

the

County. He

and the

Colonel, Sir

Rowland Hill, rode among

the

colliers, two of whom Mr Kenyon

apprehende dhimself. He read the Riot

Act

and the mob dis

persed without any fighting. The Court of Quarter Sessions

on 3 Jan. thanked the magistrates of the Hundred of Oswestry

for the temper, judgment, and decision with which they have

acted on the late occasion near Oswestry. Mr Kenyon also

sat

several times as

arbitrator

in civil cases, in one of which, about

the Morda Brook, he had to examine between

80

and roo wit

nesses. After his retirement the Magistrates

had

a large

portrait

of

him

painted

by Mr E.

U. Eddis, which has ever since hung

in

the Grand

Jury

Room. Mr Kenyon was long remembered for

the coach and four horses which

he

drove nearly all his life,

going generally two days a week from Pradoe

to the

Lion Inn,

Shrewsbury and back about County business, as well as else

where. All books about coaching in Shropshire refer to him.

5

children. A memoir of him was published in the Transactions



of

the

Shropshire Archreological Society, 1879.

Louisa Charlotte, widow of Hon. Thomas Kenyon, succeeded

him at Pradoe, and made it in

an

exceptional degree a home and

centre for all the family. She

had

many and varied pursuits,

made a considerable collection of fossils and minerals, was deeply

interested in botany and in drawing, bubt aove all n religious

matters

and

in all

that

concerned

the

welfare of her neighbours.

She established an

infant School and maintained

it

for about 60

years ; she founded a clothing club in 1837 and supported it for

the rest of her life ; she founded the widows and orphans fund

of

the

Felton Oddfellows Lodge in 1864 for.which they presented

her with a framed address. In

845

she gave the East window

of the

North

Aisle

in

Felton Church,

in

85

that

in

the

North

wall of

the

Chancel in memory of her husband, and in 1861 the

window

in

memory of her two eldest sons

in

the North wall of the

North Aisle. The window in memory of her husband was by

Ward of

Firth St.

Soho, London; the other two were by Evans

of Shrewsbury.

In

1860 she began the building of Pradoe Church,

which she completed in 1867

by

the

addition of the tower and

chancel. In 1839 she published, but without her name, Questions

and Answers on all St. Paul s epistles, with a short life of St.

Paul compiled from various authors. She died

rr

Apr. 1869.

Her nine sons were Lloyd, Thomas, John Robert, George, William,

Charles Orlando, Arthur

Richard, Henry, and Rowland White-

hall;

her three daughters were Mary, Charlotte,

and Emma

Jane.

Lloyd, eldest son, born 5 June, 1804, became a Captain n the

Royal Horse Guards Blue, and died unmarried r Jan. 1836. A

gold racing cup won by him

at

Ascot

is at

Pradoe.

52

his first voyage on H.M.S.

Jasp

er

to

St. Petersburgh and was

entertained with

the other

officers

at

Pcterhoff palace where

the



story goes

that

the

Empress picked him

up

and

kissed him.

He

served at Algiers 1824. South America 1825 to r826 and 1829 to

1833 Mediterranean

1826-8

and

1834-5

Lisbon 1833 and 1837

Spain 1838 Norway 1841 and off the coast of Africa up the

Congo river and elsewhere 1841 to 1843 suppressing the slave

trade

.

In

1843 he was invalided and returned home and was

promoted

to

be

Commander.

In

1848

he

ret

urned

to

Africa

on the same service in command of the Cygnet sloop and

n

this

and the

next

year he captured five slave ships and released 1140

slaves. On returning to England

n

1849

he

was awarded about

£2000 bounty for these captures. He was afterwards employed

on Coast Guard Service. On 24 April 1856 he married Mary

daughter

of Robert Usherwood of Whitby Yorkshire.

He

then rented Grafton Lodge near Montford Bridge Shropshire

where

he

died

r8

March 1866. His widow survived him nearly

53 years and died at Grafton Lodge 1 Feb. 1919 aged

92

Their

three children survived

them

;

Georgina Mary

born 22

Jan.

1857 wife of Rev. James Mackay Rector of Bromfield Ludlow;

Alfred Ernest Lloyd

born

30

Jan.

1858

Rector

of Ludlow ;

and

Edgar Tliomas

born

13

Oct. 1860

an

Inspector of

the

Board

of

Agriculture married 1908 Hester Marjorie eldest daughter of

Sir Philip

Tatton

Mainwaring Bart.

William

5th

son born 20 Feb. 1815 educated at

Rugby

and

Christ Church received an

Indian

Cavalry Cadetship 1835

and

served

in

t

he Light

Cavalry in

India

1837

to

1843.

He

married

9 Oct. 1845 Frances Catherine 3rd daughter and co-heiress of

Robert

Aglionby Slaney of Walford Manor and

Hatton

Grange

53

William Slaney, born

24

Aug. r847, succeeded his father

at

Hatton, was educated

at

Eton and Christ Church, became



Colonel in Grenadier Guards, served

at

Tel-el-Kebir 1882, retired

1892

. M.P. for Newport Division of Shropshire

1886

-

1908

when

he died. Was active Conservative and tariff reformer, and

effective platform orator. Privy Councillor 1904.

He

married

1887

Lady Mabel Selina Bridgeman, eldest. daughter of the 3rd

Earl of Bradford who survives him. A memoir of him by \.Valter

Durnford was publishecj in

1909.

They have a son

Robert

Orlando Rodol

P J,

born 1892, educated

at

Eton

and Christ Church,

Capt. Grenadier Guards, wounded in France during the Great

War; A.D.C.

to Gov.

Gen. of

Canada;

married

1917

Lady Mary

C.

R. Hamilton, eldest daughter of 3rd Duke of Abercorn, and

has a daughter Vivien born 1918.~ And a daughter Sybil Agnes

born 1888.

Harr

y Conrad, born 3 July 1870, died while a midshipman

R.N.

Walter

Ru

pert, born

24

Sept. 1851, joined Ritlc Brigade,

served in South Africa and

India

; C.B. 1907 ; Major-General

1908; retired

1913.

Married 1878 May, daughter of H. ].

Schooles, M.D., and has a son Neville Aglionby born 1879, District

Commissioner East Africa Prtoectorate.

Reginald As:lionby, born 1857, died 1864.

Francis Gerald. born

7

Nov. 1858, joined 1st

Battn

Durham

Light Infantry, is Lieut-Col. Married 1892,

Edith

Mary Sher

win, daughter of Major Joseph Holt of Ogbeare Hall, Korth

Devon.

Percy Robert, born 9 June, 1861, farmed in Argentina.

Married

1895

Geraldine Ellen Georgina, daughter

of

Rev. George

Whitmore. Died 19rr . Their children are

Phil£p Percy

M.C.

born 1896 ; Gerald JiVilliam born 1899; Frances Dia:rnond Sara

born 1897 ; Ruth Stella born 1909.

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54

and of Moreton r877

to

his death. He was a J.P. for Shropshire,

and Rural Dean of Ellesmere r859 to r877,

and

on resigning



this office the representatives of the Deanery presented him

with

two silver salvers and a writing table.

He

was one

ot the

founders of the Oswestry Cottage Hospital, and active in all

local

matters.

A paper read

by

him before the Chapter of the

Ellesmere

Rural

Deanery in 1856 was the origin of yearly harvest

thanksgivings throughout the district. He married r5 Aug.

1844 Matilda Eloisa Cotton,

daughter

of Rev. Henry Calveley

Cotton, Vicar of

Great

Ness.

He

died 6 Nov. 1890,

and

his

widow died 1892. Their children were Charles Robert, born

22 Sept. 1845, educated at Rossall, spent most of

his

life farming

in Argentina, where he was for long British Consul, and did

much

to import pedigree cattle. He married Jessie, daughter of Chas.

Willett of Liverpool, who died

8

Jan. 1906, aged 45, after they

had returned

to

England and settled in London. He died there

27 Nov. 1917,

and

was buried

at

Pradoe.

They

l

eft

a son

Charles

Orlando born 30 April 1886, is in business in

Brazil;

married

Dec. 1915 Marguerite Laura, daughter of Alexander

Kealman

of Santos, Brazil, and has a daughter Dorothy Beatrice, bon1

1917; and lena Georgina Matilda born 9 Dec. 1887, married

ro July 1915 Ernest Douglas Montague Barlas, a Solicitor in

London, and

has

two sons. Henry,

born

18 Apr. 1852, farmed in

Argentina, married 8 July 1897, Hilda Beatrice,

daughter

of

William P. Dewes, a Solicitor of Ashby de la Zouche, who survives

him. He died without issue Jan. rgn. Alice Matilda,

born

Dec.

1846, lived

with

her parents till their deaths, and since in Os-

westry.

Arthur

Richard

, zth son, born 18 June 1818, educated

at

Rugby and

Brasennose, was for a

short time

a Clerk

in

Somerset

House;

travelled in Spain r848 and wrote letters about his

travels there

to

the sons of his sister Mrs. Hill, ·which were pub-

lished n r853. In 1855 he travelled in the United States

wtih

55

ltensington near Woodstock in Oxfordshire. The font in Pradoe

Church was presented by them

in

memory of their infant daughter



and

of his sister Emma.

He

died

3

]

une

1888.

She died

r894

Their children were Arthur Augustus Wilder born

23

Nov.

1868.

Settled in Wyoming U.S.A. Married

1900

Agnes

daughter of W.

A.

Oliver Rutherford of Edgerston J edburgh

N.B. and has a daughter Patricia born

1908.

John Hubert

born

1870

married

1898

Caroline daughter of S. P.

Bussell of Sydney

New

South Wales. Was

in

Inland Revenue

Salt Department Madras. Died

1908

leaving two daughters

Eileen Sybil born 1899 and Gladys born 1908. His widow

married secondly in 1910 E G. Lake. Louisa Charlotte born

1859 died 1863. Caroline Walcott born 1861 manied 1894

Cuthbert G. W. Clogstoun of the Indian Police and has a

daughter

Vl triel Augusta

born

1897. Peregrina Dora

born

1862 was long a superintendent in the Ladies Shirt Company

Sloane Square London. Leonora Constance born

1864

married

Dec.

1887 Frank

D. Lumley now Brig.-Gen. C.B. C.B.E. and

dieq June

1893

leaving one daughter Ncra Maria Julia born

the

same day. Sybil lvlary born

1866.

Henr

y

8th

son born

4 Jan 1822

died

25 Jan 1827.

There

is a full length marble recumbent figure

of

him

at

Pradoe.

Rowland Whitehall 9th son born

24

May

1824

was called

to

the

Bar but never practised. He lived at Pradoe

and

acted

as bailiff and agent for his mother till her death. Became Major

in Shropshire Militia. Died

6

Apr.

1873

at Pradoe. A stained

glass window was placed at the West end of Pradoc Church to

his memory

by

the

Militia.

Mary

0

born 21 July 1809 died 6 Jan 1825.

Charlotte born 4 May 1813 married r7 Oct. 1833 Rev. John

HiTI

Rector of Great Bolas

and

Curate of Wcston-under-Red

Vice-Admiral, married rst, r88z, Mary Caroline, daughter of Vice

Admiral Singer, who died 1896 ; znd, 1898, Helen Maud, daugh



ter

of Frederick \¥oodman, who survives him.

He

died 1905,

and

had

3 sons

and

3 daughters

by

his first wife, and one son

by

his

second

wife.

Clement

Lloyd born

5 May, 1845, entered

the

Foreign

Office

1867,

and

became in 1900 Superintendent of

the

African Protectorates.

He

was made K.C.M.G. and K .C.B.,

and

retiring in 1905 was elected M.P. for Shrewsbury 1906,

and

re

tain

ed

the seat

till his death.

He

was a keen sportsman,

and shot

big game in

many

countries.

He

married 1st, Charlotte Eliza

beth

Mary Jane, daughter of Sir George Wm. Denys, Bart.

and

widow of Charles

Waring; and

znd, Muriel Mary daughter of

Colin Glencaim Campbell, by whom

he had

a son

and

a daughter.

He died 9 April r9r3. Brian born 1847, was a land agent,

married 1891 Alice Mary, daughter

of

Charles Langton of Bark

hill, Liverpool. Killed by a fall

out

hunting 1893. Left one

daughter, born 1892.

Emma

J ane, born

31

May 1820, lived all her life at Pradoe,

with her mother, sharing in all her pursiuts and interests, and

devoting herself entirely

to

her. She died at Pradoe, unmarried,

30 May, 1868.

12

hn Robert, 3rd son of

the

Hon. Thomas Kenyon, was born

13

Jan.

1807,

and

was educated

at

Mr. Corfield s school

at

Pitch

ford with bis two elder brothers,

and

afterwards at Charterhouse

and

Christ Church, Oxford,

and

was elected a Fellow of All Souls

in

1828.

He

took

the

degree of D.C.L. in 1836

and

was appointed

Judge

of

the

Vice-Chancellor s Court in 1840

and

Vinerian

Professor of Common Law in 1843. His marriage in 1846

vacated his fellowship,

but he

retained rooms in All Souls till his

death

on

the

strength of his Professorship

and

of his office as

Steward of

the

Manor of Edgware which belongs to

the

College,

and he

often made use

of the

rooms.

He

was called

to the Bar

57

present at the Battle of Chirk Bridge on 1 Jan. 1832, when

the Yeomanry, but without fighting, prevented a band of Welsh



colliers from invading Shropshire.

He

retired from

the

Yeoman

ry in 1837. He joined

the

Oxford Circuit,

but

practised chiefly

at the

Chancery Bar, having chambers in New Square, Lincolns

Inn, and had a fair practice as

an

Equity Draftsman and Con

veyancer, but not much after he was appointed Q.C. in 1862.

He was employed as Counsel in a good many Endowed Schools.

cases,

and

in particular argued

the

case of

the

Mayor

and

Burgesses of Shrewsbury before the House of Lords in 1865

when the recommendations of the Public Schools Commission

ers as to Shre, ·sbusy School were under consideration. The

Burgesses did not get

what they

wanted, but they were grateful

to Mr. Kenyon for his exertions, and in 1874 they named him

as their representative on the Governing Body of the School.

Mr Kenyon became a Bencher of the Middle Temple in 1862

and was Trt:: A6urer in 1874, in which capacity he presided on

June

at

a dinner given by the Benchers to the Prince of Wales

and others. He was a member of the Council of Legal Education

from 1872 and he took an active interest in the Temple Church

and in the boys of the Choir. In 1842, a new grant of a Court of

Quarter Sessions having been

made

to

the

Borough of Oswestry>

Mr. Kenyon was appointed the first Recorder under this grant,

and

he

held

the

office till his death.

In

1855

he

was

made

a J .P .

for Shropshire,

and

in December of the same year was elected

Deputy Chairman of Quarter Sessions,

and

on the death of

the

Chairman, Sir Baldwin Leighton in 1871, Mr. Kenyon was elected

Chairman.

A

great

part

of his time was always devoted

to

County work. On his ,marriage in 1846 the people of Oswestry

and the neighbourhood presented him· with a silver salver, and

after his death the County Magistrates placed a

portrait

of him

London Union on Church Matters formed in

1848

to support

the views of

the

high Church

party,

of which most of

the

leading



Churchmen of

the day

were

members;

but

he

never adopted

at

ll extreme views.

He married Aug.

1846

Mary Eliza daughter of

Edward

Hawkins, F.R.S., Keeper

of

Antiquities in the British Museum,

and from thenceforth they lived with Mr. Hawkins in his official

residence

in

the British Museum till he resigned in

1860

when he

went

to live with them at 6 Lower Berkeley St., where he died in

I867

(see Diet. of National Biography).

In

1869

on the death

of

Mr. Kenyon's mother, they gave up this house and went to live

at

Pradoe, where

he

died

17

April

1880.

Mrs. Kenyon con

tinued

to live there till

1886,

when on the marriage of

her

eldest

son she took a house

in

Ruyton-XI-Towns, where she remained

with her

daughters until the appointment of her son Gerald to

the

Rectory of Hordley

in

Nov.

1901,

after which she

and

her

daughters lived

with

him till her death there

28

Jan.

1903.

She

devoted herself entirely to

her

children and to their education as

long as they required it, and after settling in Shropshire she took

the

keenest interest in the welfare of her tenants and neighbours

and in all

that

affected especially the Church and Parish of Ruyton.

They

had fifteen children, of whom five died in infancy,

Thomas

Gilbert,

born 23

Aug.

1853,

died

26

June 1854; Alan

Herbert,

born Sept.

1856,

died

28

Dec.

r86r ;

Alwyn Charles

Leslie, born

14

Jan.

1858,

died

20

Dec.

1861 ;

Cecil, born 7 Aug.

1864,

died

Jan.

1865; Amy Bertha, born

20

April r86r, died

r6

Aug.

1864.

They were all buried

at

Tandridge, Surrey, where

their grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins are buried, and they

are

commemorated

on

a

tablet

in Pradoe Church.

Seven sons and three daughterssurvive1 both parent~, and allbut

one are still living

(1920).

All the sons were educated at Winchester.



59

Shropshire National In

surn.n

ce Co

mmittee

since

it

s forma

ti

on

in 1912 ; and of

Quarter

Sessions since 1914. Editor of



Hawkins Sih-er Coins of

En

gland, 2nd a

nd

3rd

editions ;

Auth

or of Kenyon's Gold Coins of England,

r8

84 ;

Hist

. of

Parishes of Ru}fto n and West Felton in Shropsh. Arch. Trans.

1

d. .

fa~

and several Shropshire Co

unty

Records. Married

lf-886

Ellen/\

h Franceszdaughter of w.

w.

How, Bishop of Wakefield~d.s .j,. tO/V G l·l~3r.

I

b Edward Ranul

ph . born 3 Nov. 1854, is Major-Genl. (retired)

1

~

1

18

Joval hngineers, C.BJ C.M.Gj, Commander of the Crown of Italy.

Was Commissioner of Kyrenia, Cyprus, 1883-6, commanded

RE.

Salisbury 1901-6, Chief Engineer Gibraltar 1906-rr, Commanded

zoth Diy.

RE.

1914-15, Chief Engineer

4th

Corps 1916, Chief

Engineer3rd Army in France 1916-17, wounded at Arras. Married

1880 Katharine Mary McCrea, daughter of Major-Gen . J. C.

B.

.He, .

f~j c.c..l. de Butts. She died 908.

A

They

had thre

e sons

and

four

<laugh- '

~

37

2 2tc.. ters:

Herbert Edward

bor r88r, Major R.A., D.S.O.,( Croix de

l

c

1

J

Guerre, French and Belgian; served in

India

and Egypt 1914-15,

Gallipoli 1915-r6,

France

1916-r8, Germany r918-r9. Married~ i

1t

JJ;r 907

Gwendoline

Ethel

Graham,Adaughter of F. G. Ommaney,

1

4:fJ.and has

Kenneth Herbert bor~1907:8Lloyd

Dou,

glas

born~1912.

t <}d-

jJ,ll1ar

garet Gwendoline

born 1918. oger de Buttl, born 1883, /s

died 188 9.

Kenneth Houstoun

bo

and

died 1885. a t ha r i n e~

Mar

y Rosi,

born 1887, V.A.D. Nurse in France and England

.l. ',"'3,"r.1916-19}.

Ellen Blackwood

born 1889,

Lady

l\Iargaret Coll.

' • Oxford, 2nd class Honours ip

Hi

story; Missionary underS.P.G.

in

India.

Winifred Lilian <f

born 1892, V.A.D. Niurse with

French Army 1915-17, in England 1917-18.

£ :.

ances Margaret

is Medical Student , Kings College, London.

Eustace Alban, born 1859, is retired Deputy Director of Indian

Telegraph Department. Was granted special increment of

pay

for good iervice

n

Burmah on Siamese frontier 1885, thanked

by

Govt. of India for speedy erection ofTelegraph wire across

India

owing to Chinese expedition,

rgoo;

guarded German prisoners

n

Shrewsbury 1914-15, served

in

Record Office, Shrewsbury,

1915-19. He married 1906 Caroline Ethel Jane, daughter of

Rev. Wm.

C.

Hunt, and has William Patrick,. born 1898, Lieut.

R.

W. Fusiliers, M.C., Italian Silver Medal for Military Valour,

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other

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an

officer

and

proceeded to clear the dug-outs.

He, single-handed,

captured

a machine gun

and

killed the crew,

and

although wounded in two places, went

on and captured

a



trench mortar. He

brought

back 6 prisoners, a machine

gun

and trench mortar.

Ije set

a

sp

lendid example of courage

and

determination.

Rowland Lloyd born rgor; Dorothy Ethel,

born

r897;

Violet Mary

born

r899; Irene Helen,

born r902.

Frederic George

1

born~r863, M.A., Scholar of New College,

Fellow of Magdalen, Director of British Museum r909/, K.C.B.

r9r2,

President of British Academy r9r7~etc., Major in

Inns

of

Court 0.T.C., served

throughout war

in

France and

England,

T.D.

19r9. Discovered

and edited

Aristotle s Con

stitution

of

Athens ;;.nd

several other Greek M.SS.

Author of

Textual

I, A.,....

Criticism of

the New Tesfament,

several books a

bo

ut

th

e

t{

fx;

· .,,.-d'. Brownings,

etc

. Married~r89r Amyh.aughter of Rowland

Hunt,

1

111~

.5-.ll.n.

and

has

Kathleen

Mary born 06,

Nora Gwendolen

Mar

garet, born

·

?.i . R-4>. 1908. La y Kenyon did

much and

varied work for soldiers

during the whole period of the war.

J~ .

Gerald, born r864,

~ector ~f HJWf1i.<J

~}{~,ff.J~~ur~j.T7itr.'

m Peterborough.

~ :

'J.p~.,.,_~

t l-6 .,._..'J

• i ·

Evel

yn

Oswald, born r856,

went to

Cooper's Hill Engineering

College, but

then

entered New Oriental Bank,

and

served

in

London, Paris, Persia,

and Japan.

After

the

failure of

the Bank

he

left England· for Argentina in

r9or, and

remained on farms

there

till

his death

8 April 1914 at

the Estanzia Santa

Elena.

He

was buried

at

Buenos Aires, where his friends

in

the

country

~ J

iJ. erected a tombstone

to

his memory.

He

was unmarried.

ho.tG.u ..

Lionel Richard,

bornh867, B r ~ e r

General R.A., C.B.

r9r7,

k4 '-t

Directo~ of Ordnance

in

India r9r9

.

Director

of Inspec

tion

s

. 1

1

in

United

States rgr6-r9r9.

Married~ 1896 Elizabeth

Jane i,Jl,o

9.

2C'Sef,~

daughter

of

P. C.

~utherland, M.D., and

has

Harold

Anthon

y

_......

:t1'1~·.

born

1897 , passed.first into RM. Academy, Woolwich, 1914, 9 . J . ~

Lieut.

R.E.,

M.C., wounded near Ffers on Somme,

r9r6[

Lionel

~p "':

(,

~

Frederic Rob

;Jf:,_

~.?.P.11900

2nd Lieut.

R.;E. ; C Jj;J;Jl

r

Edward,

1

2 7 ~ · born1rgo6.f

~~v~lt 4

1

.1 ,Jlj.

Mary, born 18}4,served19~5-r8

in

Orthopcedic Home,Baschurch.

Eliza Charlotte, (

born

1850,

assistant

treasurer Orthopcedic



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GROSVENOR CHAPEL

L M P

Monday June rd

946

K





~ ~ ~ ~~~~rn./'t-1..,.... '1~~ .ORTR..iUTS A..~D OTHER PAINTL.'ifOS

r,

.,

_- ·· _.. . IA .

·• "

....

LAJ' (

anuary 9, ll~ebl'llAJ'Y (j,

1:3,

ll889).-A corre,;-

,.,,.,,, ~·

v ~ ..,.., rv pondont

sui,,,gost,0cl

that a List of

Hi

storic

n \11,: OP '1'1-rn :UOIU<: tNTF.R.WS'l'L'W Portraits r,onnected

with

this

district

should

be gi ,·cn

iu

Bye·O<>n.eA.

I t

bas

been

fu,·thcl·

l'J< 'TUR l·)i,, A1' HRl~DlNG'l'OK. Ruggeskcl that

tlw sc.-ope of

tbe

lis~ should

be en -

Jn ] ,·cu,,inq Room. lar11-ed,

to inducle

other i

ut.rresting

paintin"s; nnd

l.11·~,· huiclsc.mpe. hy 3,.1vatorRosa. Lord Kenyon bas

beengoocl eno

ugh

to

com{ily wHJi

I I ,

d1 nf 1 ( at-a-van,

by <li.\comoPonte (Bassano). a

reqne~t

for n

01,

_t..

ogue ~f pie

t u ~

in h1111rnc,·~

·111use

two

came

from 1

.onl

R,dst.ock,

circ, lSW tral

1·e~1(h;ucc. H t~ lordtiliip has kmclly 111rnotui,,~l

'rho lr1it.et "llS trom the

coll,ction

of

tbe

Pri~ce

of

the

list.

]-;

11



Muntt<J<>. A roemornnrlum

states that

~he s nt>Ject I• I '

Jacot,

qult

•lnit 111esopotrtu,la

to

go_t,,

see bis

lnther

1-=7.

l.,....

)u .

In the ho<I

of O•nMo. ;u •

\ i,·1,d1rnn<l Ghild

1

hy Cortoua.

I

--.

? t

a0\ ro {V l l~ , .~ /~

1.,11,l<l; 'lle,

by \ 1lsoo. ,

'-1 ~ 11 I o,_;-

I

'1' 77.

1 ..

.,1

( haucellor

Thul'low,

by

Romney. I \ · ·

0

~l.• l<lijlcue, by K Si.l'ani.

Jt-

.

;(l~l'Mo\ .

ltivot· :-icoUI~, V11ucler Nee,·.

1',1

•tnt1~I, Lucca,telli. l : : - J 1 k

{j},fo,./ ·

L

t.1u11 l•ca,pc, Cl

aude

tie LorrA.inc. -..,, •

O ~

f

· t'Jo,(.iMS~

l,1 j)fon1i11g Room.-J1'1wuT11 P<>rl,-ait,i.

7

,l,nit-al

lk

st

,

by Picke1'$la,-ill. •

~

::::f.i

1

l~1~'tt 11~~:::·b~·R

1

~~. ~~uney}. nuah,rn

,1

Jh IA/lll~ Rtt1., II,

12, t~Jl/--, I :>-:

..31.

I.Loyd, ls1,Lortl1',enyou, lrsi RoutUe7

a,llll

wifo. " ..,.n

1

..,.,

t

:,,,..~c, 2n<l

l ,01·'1 Ken)IQll, hy

:-ii.l' 'l.

f 11,wrc11cc

. • -:>?

1

:> 11' • •

5::;,,

'+

3 . 10

M11,q.,'111·ct Emulit. J..1i,1Y Kenyon,

hy

]foppncr

f)

,

(wife of Heori:a, Lur<l Kenron). /~YJcn...,. ~- . l,.(,

Ill tt,,sor Kcnvon, M.D., son oftlw Re,·. g_ Kenyon, • ..LJ

\ tc"r of Pre~twiclt., Pln·,iician to

l'1•i1tct1

Jt\lllOij

f •M

OI.. , iC>

, .--~

~ ·

l•:1l\nu-il1.1,ttheCotu1iof~t.Gern1l,ills,byC1ostor-

r

•

\..:J • •

111:tllt\.

1,.

111

111.

\jl.

~l.,t·y,

wife 0£Ro~oi;.K.:1.1yon,

hy :.\ill<l1m10

'Vc1dst

J.f-1 7, .~.

,2<, i ~. 3(, .?

,

~81

t:,•111 l(c :ro,l Loro Kunyou. } • f

11

..

1.

Tiiomn.~ Kenyon ·of

Pmdoe.

.a3

-

II on. LLoytl Kenyon.

-

• o ' •

'J'nret,. ~ott.lll ph.; Uues, 1l ft.b1b

unkonu"o

'I

M,wi..u·ct;

J<]mma, Mrs f;auith,~m, clllu~hlor

o[

( :eor~c, Lord Kon~ron,

lfy- Sir• \ ,

r. N

C'\\rton.

• •. \ l11q

.

11rcb

E111u1a,

tadr Kenyon,

smtdl

copy of

lloppne'l''$

por

tmit, ht l'. W.

Wilkin.

•1.

1>..,11,rhtors of <Jeorgo, Lot·d K~nyon, hy Mi"'

II

aster.

' I, c

hil,\1

·e11 of George, Lor, Kenyon,

ty

A i

en.

·~1.

:n

n Hall

Lt,u<k«:ape.

H,~ttlepiece.

Tb•.Ji• two oxtremely quaiu~

ol<I

pictures we r

e

brma:hll nt a snlu

At

Hun111er

Hil l

'l'

ho

Phrcnolop:ist, hy Te11iers.

1,•,.nuy ?,{ru:y

KaLhn.rinl), wife of

Rev. 'r. :\I.

Bnlkeley-()wen 1uHl mothor of LLoytl, ,1th Lonl

K~1)

·on,

by ,]. lk

ic

lge.

J>

i11illu

800111.

L,ml Chrmccllol' Homers.

Lortl Ghn.uccllor<Jiun,leu, by Dance.

'fhis Is:, replh,11. of the

ou"

A..t ts ,1yt1,un Ahhay.

HI. Lm·,1

Chi;;

JuBtic" K011yon,

hy Romney.

Thi,

picture ~-ogt

MO; It

Is "

very floe lcni:th,

oue

of

the

best

ltomnoys l

toow.

A

c1mollll

co11-

trt1St

to

the

pri

ce;, thni the

beet

nrtists oblalo now.

:t•.

H11

,retti, by Sir Joshua.Reynolds.

Bought

froru W

en•er, who bought i t

l\t the

sa

le

ol

l\Ir

J3onlthee, hi• mru,tor'• cU:eet . Mr J3oultbeo

o

Lou~bborouf;ib8tudled uncler Sir Jo8hun, nnd

wben

Mary, 2nd daughter of Philip III. of Spain.

These two pictures are amo, g the most rnrerestiag

at Gredington. ThPy

are

evidently some Spani~b

pninter's

work, but hitherto

I have

be~n unable

to

find

out how they came to Gredin

gton.

Pictun,s of

th e Spanish Princess are uncommon.

as Louisa Maria Teresia, dau_ghter of King

James

II.

39 Prince Ja mes Francis Edward, son of King

J ames

II.

These two pictures were given to my ancestorRoiztr

Kenyon

(son

of

the Vkar

c,f

Prestwich), ,vho was

Physician

to

the Court

of St. Germains. The



Princess painted wha

t I

ta k

e

to

be

the Stuul't

cockade

with

her own bands,

Thepicturesare by N. Belle. Tbefollowing memo

randum refers to these

pictures

:-Louisa ~aria

Ter

es

ia,

dau

g

ht

er

of King

Ja m

es

toe lld, born at

18

St. Germains - June, 1692. She gave her picture,

28

after adding

the

no

segay in the bosom, to Dr

K•n

yo

n,

M.D,

at St. Oermains. At t te

same

time Dr

Kn.

had the picture of

her

br

o

th er,

Ptin

ce

Jao,es

Francis E,tward, taken in 1700

Aive11 to him; Dr

I<:. being then living at the Court of

St.

Germains

with

hill

fr i

enti Ct.arles

Le

slie.

40 Charles I. , by

Sir

Anthony

Van

Dyck.

'l llis picture came from Willey, near Broseley. I t

ia now a bu~t,

but was

originally a

half·l

~uKtll.

Stairrase.

41 Large picture of Chas. II.

'l'nis pictu re

is

the same as those at Wynnstay,

Oulton, anrl other places, by Sir Peter Lely. I be

lieve

that

this is the picture to which Alice

Kenyon

r

efers when she

wrote

to

her hu

shand Roger in

Lon

don to say

that

the pi

ct

ure of

King

is come, which

is so ugly that I am sure you will not like

i t

4:. Charles I. , 011 a panel.

43 Queen Elizabeth as Princess, on a panel, holding

an

embroidered bible

in her

hand, on

the

leaves

of which

are the

words

Verbum

Dei.

H Col. Laurence Rawsthorne of New Hall.

45 Col. 13yrom.

46 Col. Hulme of Davy Hulme.

Toese ge11tlemen were in the siege of Lathom

Bouse,

when

the Countess

of

n

erby defended

it.

Col. Rawsthorne

was

in command

of the

garrison

(1644).

47

)fajor

-Oencral Chas. Worsley, fir

st

M.P.

for

)lanchester.

He was one

of

Cromwell's favourite ,,fficers

He

executed Cromwell's order to r• move that

Ban

ble.•'

He

ma

rried

a

daughter

of

Roger K.-nyon

cf

P11rkhea.t,

wbich roust have caused some t1 onblea t the timtt,

as the Kenyons were a Royalist family. An

article

on Major-General Worsley

appeare

d

in

the fan-

rli ste•·

Guai·dia»

D

ec

28, 1$85

48 MdVeutworth, Secretary to the Duchy of Lan

caster.

:S,

cretarv

nntiPr CbllQ. II.

49 George Kenyon, ob.

1780, M.P.

for Wigan, Vice

Chn,ncellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.

:50 RogerKenyon, Clerk of the Peace for Lancashire,

~l.P.

for Clitheroe.

Hoger Keoyon

was also Gov~rnor of the

Isle of

J\Tsn under

Lord Derby,

about 1690

.>

l

Dean Nowell of Read, Dean of

St.

Panl's, oh.

1601.

52 Sir 1fatthew

Hale, Lord Chief Justice of Eng

land.

;\ 3 George III.

:-11

,a •I picfnre on ivory.

G8

On the spot



orners of

foreign

fields

Troops are

honoured

no

matter

where

they fell

reports mbra dwards

A

harp

wind blows

over the

military cemetery at

Tyne

Cot in Flanders as the bus

disgorges its latest visitors.

They are typical

British

17-year-olds - voluble, giggly, larking

about But as they wander among the

graves, a silence overtakes them. It's

strange, says

Lucy,

it's not as i we

know anyone buried here - but there's

something about the atmosphere of

these places that gets to you.

It's so incredibly

peaceful here with all

the greenery, says her

friend Cressida.

We've

seen some of the

German cemeteries,

too, like Langemark.

and though they're very

grand ana dignified, they

d9n't move you in the

same way. They're all slabs

ofblack stone, whereas the British

ones are really gardens - and there's

something so touching about their

lawns rolling over the remains of shell

craters, and something so personal

about each man lying in his own little

space surrounded by flowers ... She

trails off. I don't really know how to

put

it

There was a time when

every

schoolgirl

in

the land knew exactly

how to put it There is a comer of a

association between the gardens

of home and the fields where the

soldiers lay. So, in comers of foreign

fields

from

Normandy to Cyprus,

from

Rimini to

Madras, you will

find broad

grass paths and the familiar scents

and colours

of

cottage gardens,

with

lavender and lilies and floribunda

roses clustered around the ranks

of uniform white headstones. In

similar vein, at Newfoundland

Park,

a

rock garden planted round

with

pines recalls the

Canadian troops who

fell, while Australian

graves are planted

with

Antipodean species.)

This design concept

was developed on the

Somme by SirEdwin

Lutyens,

one

of

three

eminent architects and

garden designers

(the

others

were Herbert Baker and Sir Reginald

Blomfield)

invited

by the Commission

to design prototype cemeteries in

northern France in

1918.

For planting

ideas, Lutyens called on his friend

and colleague Gertrude Jekyll (who

sent clumps of white

thrift

from

MunsteadWood in Surrey), and it is

a simplified version of her planting

scheme that endures to this day. Low,

hummocky alpines are set in front

of

the headstones, protecting the

Lest

we fonJet:

headstones

t the

irst

Wor d

W t

the biggest landscaping project

v

undertaken , claims the Commissic

Begun

in 1919, the work was not

Saturday ~



Lestwe torvet

headstones

t

the

First Wortcl

•

I

the biggest landscaping project ever

undertaken , claims the Commission.

Begun in

1919,

the work was not

I

or all their common features, every

one

is

different, for like

all

successful

gardens, they respond to their

Findini( sustainable grasses fora

dozen diiierent climatezones

is

a

majorconcern for the Commission.

The kind ofstubbom pride that kept

men going

t

the trenches now drives

the keepingofl wns~ qually

in1possible

odds.

No

matter

how

harsh the sun and scarce

tlre

water,

somehow

ver<iant

lawns

are

willed

inJo

existence.

J ll~

struggle underlies

tlil mpo1tance

of these gardens

as·symbolic spaces: translating the

woundedlandscape of the battlefield

into places of order, symmetryand

From

the

firs~

the

cemeteries

were

conceived as gardens

beauty. But no onecan make grass

grow in a desert,

so

at El Alamein,

Suez andTobruk, drygardens have

been created.

Although the Commission's remit

extends only to the First and Second

World Wars,

its work is

by

no means

over.

Last

July,

on the 94th anniversary

of the

Battle

of Fromelles, a new

cemetery was dedicated in northern

France,containing the remains of 250

British and Australian servicemen

discovered in a mass grave in

2008.

A

DISTINGUISHED MILIT RY

I CAREER

We r('gret

to record

t~e

d~th.

whi~h

occurred

on

)fonday._ of :\JaJo~·-GC'nmal

Eclwa,r<l. Runulph Kenyou, of lkoch

House, Sutt,ou

Ifoad. Shrewi;bury, for-

merly,

of

Pradoc,

Oswestry.

9

)faj,or-Geucral Kenyon, who

was

8..

OBI

TU

·ARY

MAJOR

G

EN

ERAL E

R

KENYON

2 W

\.R

SERYICE.

• "\Yith

the ouln·eak of

Uic

Great

'War

agafo entered

the

serrice

in

Sl'ptere

1?14,

being

appointed Deputy-Chic f



undenrnnt

an

operation about

a

month

ago and scPmed

to

bo making

a g{)()d

ret~ve;rv

but he

·sufforcd a relapse a

few

days ag~, and died in a Shrewsbury

:Nur-

. su1g Home.

.

lly his passing Shropshire loses

a

IllCir(

ber of one

of

its

best-known

CJ?U~1.ty

~aim

lies who

had had a m.ost d1_stmgu1shcd

military

care('r before

returwng w t

lie

oounty in retirement t.o ~ake a full.

in

terest

and

active

share

1ll

many

of

its

public

affairs. _

::\Iajor-Genoral

Kenyon was

well

kn( " n

in all parts of the C'onnty,

but

particu_

lar1y in

the

Shrewsbury axeu, where ]1e

had resided for a number of

yea 's, and

where much of his public

W?rk

w~s do~1e.

He was

a gr('at personality, with iw~

strength

of

aharacter,

and was <?ne <?f

thou.;htful nature

wh-0

was

firm m Ins

co1wktions

.and

a t

all

times r~•Jy

to

support

them

.

He

took

a

deep

1~te1:est

in

reli,gions

matters, and

gave

of his

time

and effort unsparingly in

·many_

worthy

causes

.

He

will

be greatly _m1sseu by

very many frierr<ls in t:;lrropslme.

Born

on Navemher

3rd, 1854.

he was

I

he second son

of

the

late

:\fr.

John

I

Robert

Kenyon, Q.C

.,

of rradoe

.

his

mother beincr 'bhe

daughter·

of the late

:\lr. Edwarcl"'Hawkins, who

was for ~0" 11,e

timo keeper

of

antiquitie.s at tlrn Bntts:~

}foseum

.

Ha was

a

direct

desce.11dan:t

o.f

Baron

Ke11Yon who

was at one tnne Lord

Chief

Justice'

of

England,

and

was

a

brother of the late

:Hr.

R Lloyd

Kenyon,.

who

was

for

many

years

Recorder

of

Osw('>Si;ry, Chairman of Salop Quarter

Sessiom, and

an

.Alderman of

the Salop

Council. .

l\Iajor-General Kenyon was edu~~~ at

Wiuchester, , ,here he

was an.

<:xh1b1boner

and

went on

to

the

11oyal )lihtwy_ A.ea~

emy,

Woolwioh,

whero

be too~ _prizes

_m

dassics, mathemaitics and milrtary hL'>

tory

.

He began what was

t.o h~ a

lo_ng

and

br

i

lliant

milit.·iry

career

m

18d,

when he was

commissioned

in the Royal

Engineers in

187

4.

l<'fre yeur.s

later

he

served in

the

J nblic WClrks Department

in Cy])rus, and

in l~:3 he

l)~c,am~ Com

grneer.

Southern

Command, bnt

sho

afterwards

lie

became

C.U.E.

of the

_

Division, serving

as

su<'l1 until

l< ebru

1916, ,Yheu

11e became Chief Engin"'

r

thu

4t1i Corps. Jn

Jn1:.-

of

the same

he was appointed Chief

Engineer

of

..

Thfrd Army, c.xmtinning in this

pos t

until

December. 1917, wl1en

110 oocn

Deputy-Controllf'r

of

thf' Chemiral

"

fa 'e Dep,artme1?t

until )Jay,

1918. I

some months arter this he

was

on Sl)('C

dt1ty

in

l<'ranec, retiring wit J tJ1e

rank

)Iajor-General.

::\Iajor-Geiwra KeL

was

fiv-e

timf's mentioned in despat

HP

was

award<>tl the

C. B.

in rnw

and

C

.1.

G. ip 191~.

and bis

doc.orations

jndrtded

"'the

Command

er

of

Crown

Italy, which

ho

was

awarde-cl

iu 19Ii.

was

W<,unded

when

Sl'l'Vlll<Y

a t

Arra,

1917.

0

A.fkr t11c·

War,

}Iaior-Gen('ra1

Ke·

resided

in

SLrewshur

....

for some

w

11.nd

h('('{).Jll(' cl():-;('Jy

idrntiik<l

witlt

a·

n

her

of public organii;artions.

Ifo w·a.c;

strong

supportf'r

c;£

cotrnt..... eharit

and in

parti<'11lar wa,; a

grf'at frif'n 1

the Rhrop;;hire Orthop:.N1i<· Hospital.

tb~

Shrcw~lmry

dinic _of this 11,o;;pita

n·orked

w1t,h gre.at Yigour carn-:iurr

~he ~eei·ebr.,ship

of

it

wit]~

marked:

'llt.v

for

some

:r"a1·:s, and

i t

was for

Orthopa:-dic

Hospital as

a

,rhole

that

great<>st

work

1..-:1.s cloHr>.

HP was a f -

mer

cl1afrman

of thp

Boal'd

of

::\fan

nwnt

of the

hospital, having

p1·eYio

held the posjtiou

of chainnan

of

House

Comrnittec.

He was

also a

tr

tee of_ the }fospital and Training

Co '

a11d

ncc-c.hairman

of

the

Execui-iv-e (

mittce of

t11C

latt('r. The Ken.ons 11

ha d

.

a

lonp;

asso<'iation with

thP

hosp(,

.1foJor-Gcnoral

K<>11.,ou's

~,j~ter,

::\Iil s E.

<.:

IKenyon,

being

the

original

treasnrer.

Another organisation

whi<'h

had

i

1

and

active supporl from )Iaior

-

Gencn

Kenyon

was

the

8hrn1}sliir'e

Count

l3rnnch

of

the Leagu_e of X

ations

17ni,

at

the public

meetings of

which he fr -

queutly_ avp<>are<l 011

the

platform,, a•

for which

he

often addressed meetin,•

A

st~und1

clmrc.Jm1.an,

he

was asS< _ __

MAY

J

9, .1937 .:

Otw

hit

i

A 0

Vfhn o \,Y' ,

I+·

Distinguished

w*w

I

fhere

will be many

sincerely

to

regret _the

( ,



Shropshire

General

cleath we record to.day

of

l,

Iajor·Generul E. H,.

Kcnyon, one

of the

I

.

lt1er

of

th<'

notable sons of John

H.obert

Kenyon, Q.C., D.C.L . , of P radoo. ~.\.n

I oldc1·

brother

was

the late

Roher t Lloyd

Ke1n-on

for

many years Heeorder of

Osw~srt:/y and

Chairman of

the

Shropshi1:e

Quader

Sessions

.

Unlike rn

many

of

bis

forebears who went t-0

the

Bar-1':dward

Hnnulph passed from Winchester

to the

Ho,al )lilitary Academy

at

Woolwic-h, and

tl1;nc'c,

in

18,4,

to

a

com111ission

iu the

, Huy.al ";ngiueers, in

which

he

made

f~r

himseU i U 9uts an

djpa

farcer, A

&

appointments

including that of

Chief

Engineer at

Gibraltar,

wl.iid1 be hclcl for

firn yc>ars . ln 1914 ho came hack from

his

retirement

and f-UW

distinguished

ser,ice

i11

the Gr1:at War. Most of

his

,

lafrr

years

GenC>ral

K 'nyou passed at

8lm:,wshury, where 1ie \\-:ill be plea~,mtl>

remembered for his gracious an<l kindly

;;pirit w<l

fo1· the

wn-icc

he

rendered to

many good works. particularly his

active

i,i1p110rt of i.ho :--1,ropshil'o Orthopa.(..'Clic

Hospi1.al. A soldier of wide experience,

General Kenyon

was

at tbc same time ru1

ardent aud

inform<'<l

supporter

or

the

League

of Xation-. t"nion

aud

tl.Jc

great

Peace

Ilallot found

iu

him

on<.; of

_its most

cager

Ol'ganiscrs. 'l'hough not overmuch

in

tl1e

public eye,

GL'neral Kenyon will be

, missed for his qniet

efforts on behalf

o[

: many good cames in

the

county

town and

j beyond· '

3

J u I,hrewsbnry Major-General

Ke

nyon

had

associated himself

with

St

. Cha

d

's

Clhnrch. and in

recent yea

r s with Ht .

Giles' Churrh,

whNe

he

often

read the

LC'ssons at the Sunclay sc>r,iccs.

)fajor.Gcncxal Kt'nyou was au int<'rest~

ing

wr

iter. and

had

several

publications

to his

creclit.

Among

these

w<•rc

' ·Xot<'s

on

Land

and

Coast

Jfc>1ti.ficati-0ns' '

(Hl02).

Gibraltar Under ) l

oor,

8paniard and

Br iton " (1911), and tl le Gibraltar

f\,•c

tiou

of "l\falta aml Gihraltar, ' '

b~

· AJi-;

tair 1fc1Iillan

(HJ]

5) .

wl1ilo

ho had 1m11-

lished

a

number of articles in

tl1c

R .K

and R.U .S. journals, an<l

edikd •·

.A

Lady's Experiences

iu the Great Sit'ge ul

Gihraltar " (li79·8 j) .

l\1

aj

or-General Kenyon maniec1, in

1880, Katherine 1Iary

::\kCrca,

daughte1·

of

:iiajor

-

Generai

J.

C.

de

]

3utts

1

R

l<~

His wife died about 30 year s ago, and he

is surviYed bv one

son. Lt.-Co]. H.

E.

K envon, of

Pi·adoe,

and four

claugh :C'l'R.

one

'

of

wihom

is now

engaged in

mission

arv work.

In 1931

:Major·General

Kenyon le.ft

Shrewshurv

to

take up residence at Pra

doc,

where

he r

emained .for s.ome time

before

retnrning

to i-;1in•wshury a

year

or so

ap;o,

his

s n residing

alt P

radoe.

Th,~

funeral ill ta.ko plat€ on

1''ricl::tY

n.t

Pradoe Chm

:h, whiich

wa.s.

hn<ilt

liy

hi,;

grea.t-gra11•drnot 1cr, tlH Hon 11rs. 'rho.mas

Kenyon. The ody will he c011'Yeycd

to

,th : J

churd1

t-0-clay \ :V

ednesday) .

- -

J

~ ~

Dame Kathleen

Mary Kenyon,

CBE the

distinguished

archaco

l

ogi;t

Principal

of

St Hugh's

College, Oxford

from

1962

to

1973,

died yesterday

at the

age

of

72.

Kathleen

Mary

Kenyon was

born in

London

on January

5,

1906 the elder daughter of the

late 'Sir Frederic

Kenyo1~,

?ne

massive heaps

of

fallen

masonry

made excavation here

peculiarly

arduous

and

even dangerous,

but,

toiling through the summer

months of four Jong seasons,

Miss Kenyon

achieved he1·

m.ain

objectives, and

now

for the fll'st

time a

sensible

seq uence for

the

walled

cities

in

the

second

and first

millennia

BC has

been est9blished. The task was



time Director and Prin<:11:'al

Librarian of the , Bn JS~

Museum.

At

St Pauls G1r s

School she

became

head girl

u11der the

redoubtable

l\hss

Gray, and at Somervilie C~llege,

Oxford, where she read

h1sto_ry,

she

became

a hockey blue.

S

he

·was also tl1e first president of

the Oxford University Archaeo-

logical Society. she

On leaving Oxford .

determi1ied

to

devote

her

hfe

primarily to archaeology, t.hen

still an emerging

but

rap1~ly

growing science.

In

1929, W lh

that sense of adventu:e which

was

later

to

characterize much

of

her

work, she went out to

what

was then Southern

Rhodesia

as

a member of Dr

Gertrude Caton - Thompson's

classic expediition ro the myster

ious ruins of Zimbabwe, where

she

supervised

her first excava

t10n. L~tor she contributed to

the

report.From

1 ~3

0

to

1935

she was

a leading member of the con

siderable staff engaged upon the

excavation

of

the

Roman

t own

of Verulamium, in

the

valley

be o bans.

She

was then

-11.: : . . . . ~ . . : : : r - -~

work

and to place her in the

forefront

of

practising archaeo

logists. Her

work

at Veru

Jamium culminated in the un

covering of the

Roman

theatre

l\"hich

is

now a

public

monu

ment

and

is still the only visible

structure of its kind in Great

Britain.

While

working

in England

during the summer seasons, sho

spent

a part of

1931-4

upon tlte

excavation of

the site of

Samaria

in what was then

Pale

s,

tine as

a prominent member

of

the

'crowfoot expedition. There

for

the

first time she introduced

into

Near Eastern archaeology

some

of the

more ad,,anced

techniques

which

were being

developed

in British archae

ology

but

had as yet

scarcely

penetrated overseas. At th< >

same time she was initiating

herself in those Palestinian

problems wbicl1

were

later to

institution was

held together

until

its effective re-emergence

in 1946.

Then,

after further

work in England-in bomb·

~battered Southwark,

at

Breedon-on-the-Hill in Leicester

shire and

at

Sutton Walls, a

formi'dable prehistoric hill-fort

in Herefordshire, where she w s

able to demonsn·ate a wide

range

of

Iron Age

problems

on

the

western

borders-st'.e

once

more turned

abroad

and

directed

an

excavation

of

the

Roman

town

of Sabratha

in

Tri

politania for the British School

at

Rome

(1948-49

and

1951).

But

in 1951 she

was

at last able

t

tten · n

to

tbe

... •

A,cha.:oJogy ha,J be en I>ominally

established as long ago as l 'l19

but had never come into effec

tive ope1-ation. Now, wiili

the

helo of the British Ac~-d my,

r,f

hich she became a fellow in

1935,

HM

Trea'Sury

was per

sm1ded to take a modest but

useful interest in this forlorn

institution ;

and,

with J\Iiss

Kenyon

as

its honorary direc

tor.

it

now leapt into a new life.

From 1952 to 1958 Miss Ken

yon,

in rhe name

of

the sc~vol,

vigorously coJlected conSider

able funds from international

sources and, with a

devoted

crowd of

students

from the

British Commonwealth and be

vo

nd.

dug in

model fashion

into

the famous mound of Jericho,

now

in the

Hashemite

Kingdom

of Jordon.

The

results of

her

enterprise

have

reshaped our

understanding of the earlier

phases of civilization, in

the

widest sense

of organized town

one which

might

well

have

defeated a

far

younger explorer,

but i t

is unlikely

that any other

archaeologist

of the present

day could have brought to

bear

upon it commensurate qualities

of

ripe j"udgment,

energy

and

trained imagination.

From 1948

to

1962

Miss

Kenyon

was

Lecturer in

Pale~

tinian

Archaeology at

the

Um

versity

of

London Institute of

Archaeology.

She then became

Principal of St Hugh's, when

the university

was

entering

upon

a

period

of

change which

entailed

an

immense amount of

work

for Heads

of Houses. She

tackled this work with

the

same

unflagging energy

as

she

showed

elsewhere. She threw

herself

with wholehearted

gaiety

and

enthusiasm into

the

projects of

building

and eiqian

sion which tl1e college entered

into at

that

time. Her plans

were always on a large scale,

both courageous and

imagina

tive. She was, above all, the

advocate

of the undergraduates

,

and

was always the first to see

their point

of view

and

to ~ppre-

. · · ·

ts

m any

• ; : . : )O~t

lie,

u s arcbae<r

log

1cal life Miss

Kenyon

under

took more than

her

share

of

teaching and administration.

In

t he early

days

of the Council

for

British

Archaeology,

founded in

1944,

she cooperated

with

Sir

Alfred Clapham

in a

systematic

and

largely

success

ful

attempt

to salve British

archaeology

from the

wreckage

of the war, serv

ing as

honorary

secretary

of

the Council from

1944

to

1949.

She was a Trustee

of

the British

Museum and of

the

Palestine Archaeological

Museum.

She

produced

many

extensive excavation reports,

together with a number of more

general books which

includ

e

Beginning

in

Archaeology

(first

edition 1952), Digging

up

Jeri-

cho

(1957),

Arc haeology

in the

Roly Land

(1960), and her

Schweich

Lectures

on morites

and Canaanites (1966). Sire con-·

tinued

to

publish importa

nt

works to the last, Digging up

Jerusalem

appearing

in 1974



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