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Thomas-Chaloner Bisse-Challoner (1788-1872)
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Thomas-Chaloner Bisse-Challoner (11 December 1788-26 July 1872) was an English militia colonel, magistrate and Deputy Lieutenant
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, by Katherine (d.1815/16) (they married in 1787) daughter of John Townsend (of Clapham, merchant, died Clapham, 1773?) by Ann a daughter of Robert Smith (died 1748, Mortlake), a London freeman and eminent merchant, of Thames Street, and Worcester place, St James Garlickhythe
.
Young Chaloner Bisse was educated at Eton
(c1802-1805) and Trinity College, Oxford
, (he matriculated on 26 March 1806, aged 17). This was followed by service in the 1st Dragoon Guards, 1809 to 1812 (cornet: 9 March 1809; lieutenant: 1 August 1811). He married in Ireland in June 1812 and after the 1815 peace went abroad
with his wife. He came back when his mother died in 1816 returning abroad in 1817. In 1827 hearing of his father's illness he came back alone from Naples, in 1828 he and his wife left Naples for good.
In 1829 he assumed the name of Challoner. He was appointed a Justice of the Peace (J.P.) of Berkshire (1831) and of Surrey, and a Deputy Lieutenant (D.L.) for Surrey. He was High Sheriff of Surrey
in 1838. Colonel Challoner stood unsuccessfully for the West Surrey constituency
in the 1852 general election. He came third (with 1385 votes) to William John Evelyn
(1646 votes) and Henry Drummond (1610 votes) who both stood in the Conservative interest. (In 1852 West Surrey had a population of 102,856, of which 3,897 were registered electors).
He was Lt. Colonel commandant of the third Royal Regiment of Surrey Local Militia (No.118) from 26 March 1853 to 2 November 1867, when he became honorary colonel. Its headquarters were at Croydon and then Kingston upon Thames
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He was Chairman of the Bagshot and Bedfont Turnpike Trust (a stretch of 2008's A30 between Hounslow to Basingstoke); Trustee of the Western District Turnpike; Trustee of United Roads; Trustee of Hampton to Staines Turnpike Trust; and a commissioner for Staines Bridge
from 1836 to 1871.
Potnalls, Potenall, or Portnall Park, Virginia Water
, Egham, Staines was built c1770. In 1804 Rev. Thomas Bisse exchanged it for some land elsewhere at Tite Hill, Egham, near Staines (possibly land that had belonged to his maternal great-aunt Lydia Challoner) with David Jebb, the brother of John Jebb
, FRS, and younger son of Dr. John Jebb (c1706-1787), Dean of Cashel, Tipperary. Rev. Thomas Bisse extended or re-built the mansion. His son in turn extended it after 1828.
In 1872 Portnall was staffed by three men in the house; two in the stables; six or seven in the garden; nine or 10 maids in the house; and four or five men on the farm, which was, including rented land, c600 acres (2.4 km²) (De Salis, 1939).
When sold, to golf course pioneer and property developer W.G. Tarrant
of Wentworth Estate
, for £15,000 in 1923 the mansion and estate comprised 196 acre (0.79318456 km²) with a 2,400 foot (just under half a mile) frontage to the main road (the A30). The house had 27 or 30 bedrooms and dressing rooms. There was a 'large square block of stabling' (for 15 horses); a six booth coach house; barn; cowsheds; bailiff's cottage; bothy; potting sheds; 'good' greenhouses; two walled gardens; five pairs of freehold cottages (three at Shrubs Hill and two at Knowle Hill); two lodge cottages; and a gardener's cottage.
From the 1830s and down to 1841 Col. Challoner was resident at 29 Portman Square
. In January 1842 Boyle's Court Guide listed him at 169 New Bond Street (aka The Clarendon Hotel), and from 1843 till his death in 1872 he was at 11 Charles Street, Berkeley Square
.
He had two renters shares in Drury Lane Theatre
and was a member of both Brooks's and the Garrick Club
, of which he was an original member.
When Challoner died on 26 July 1872 he left effects valued under £120,000. Viscount Bridport
and John Gooch Spicer of Spye Park, Wiltshire were his executors.
Challoner had inherited various stocks, messuages, and residues from divers sources: from his maternal-great aunt (including ten shares in Trent Navigation) Lydia Challoner of Egham (died 1803), via his father (died 1828), by which time they were referred to as: the twenty canal shares now recently made forty; from his aunt Mary Barnard of Fulham (and Dorset?) (died 1842); and from his mother's first cousin Valentina Aynscombe of Mortlake (died 1841). They in turn had derived their fortunes, variously and principally, from William Chew of Dunstable (died 1713) (property in St. John Street, Smithfield, (this originally included several (famous) coaching inn
s in Dunstable and 14 farms around Dunstable and Luton), inherited via his nephew Thomas Aynscombe
of Charter House Yard (died 1740); from Valentina (died 1745) grand-daughter of Daniel Wight the younger (d.1705), of Southwark, distiller, and owner of, amongst other things in Holborn and Borough, The George Inn, Southwark
), wife to Philip Aynscombe (died 1737, aged c30); presumedly from George Challoner of Hales Hall, Cheadle, Staffordshire
(died 1770); and from Robert Smith (died 1748). Robert Smith had acquired a large share of the Sun Fire Office on 24 August 1720 (Dickson page 271). He left his son Lillie 50 shares.
In 1915, on the death of Rev. Henry de Salis, the Challoner Trust was worth £102,894 and still featured 4,300 Sun Insurance Company shares worth £61,812; 540 Sun Life Company shares worth £14,175 and the 900 North Staffordshire Trent & Mersey Navigation shares worth £21,431. (In 1931, on the death of the life tenant Rodolph, the trust was valued at £169,981).
, was the common ancestor.
Smith had eight daughters and two sons by his wife Ann.
When Lillie died in 1791 The Scots Magazine
, (vol. 53, p. 102), reported it thus:
He also left three daughters (all died sine prole (d.s.p.)):
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He became an Ensign in the 73rd Regiment of Foot
on 12 March 1841; was promoted to Lieutenant on 5 April 1844; and to Captain on 12 May 1848.
However, he died in Ireland on 8 June 1849 aged 27 and lies buried at Templemore
in Tipperary, where his 'brother officers' erected a marble tablet in the chancel of the New Church.
He married, firstly, Anne, eldest daughter of Nicholas-Loftus Tottenham, MP (1745-11 March 1823), in June 1812, in Ireland. She died in 3 December or November 1857, (according to Burke (1863) at the implausible age of 82. Her younger sister was recorded in Burke (1958) as having died December 1865 aged 83, thus Anne could have been born c1780 or 1784 if 73 when died).
This Anne was niece of the Anne Tottenham (1744–1775) of the Loftus Hall
ghost story.
Nicholas Loftus-Tottenham was the second son of Charles Tottenham (1716–1795), MP for New Ross
, surveyor-general of Leinster
, by Anne (1718–1768), second daughter of the Rt. hon. Nicholas Loftus, 1st Viscount Loftus
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Nicholas Loftus-Tottenham was for 14 years the MP for Bannow
1776–1790 and the member for Clonmines from 1790-1797. He had married in May 1778 Mary (two sons, three daughters) daughter and co-heir of Sir James May, 1st Bt. Loftus-Tottenham was resident or associated with Loftus Hall, Fethard
, co. Wexford; Duncannon, co. Waterford; Glenfarne
, co. Leitrim; and Holles street, Dublin.
Col. Challoner married, secondly, on 6 January 1859, (Hadie) Henrietta Emma Helena De Salis (2 May 1824 - 16 August 1863) third surviving and youngest daughter of Count de Salis
. There is a monumental inscription to them in Christ Church, Virginia Water (a church consecrated in 1838).
In a book of memorandum he wrote:
Challoner left his estate to her youngest brother, the Rev. Henry Jerome de Salis, whose third son was Charles Fane de Salis
, a Bishop of Taunton. When Rev. Henry de Salis died in 1915 his eldest son Rodolph became tenant for life of the Portnall property. However, after a minor struggle with his next brother, he alienated it in 1923. Rodolph, a civil engineer, had in the meantime been a director of the Staffordshire Railway
, a Challoner interest.
Challoner's father the Rev. Thomas Bisse (‘’armigerous’’, according to Oxford) had matriculated at Wadham College, 1 July 1772, aged 18, and been awarded a BA, 19 April 1776, Battels Christmas 1783, and MA, 22 May 1783. He was the son Thomas Bisse of London (Thomae Bisse de Civ. Londin:), (‘’a gent.’’, according to Oxford University), possibly the Rev. Thomas Bisse, A.M., chaplain of New College (and All Souls) 1729 and 1732, (or Thomas Bisse (d.1766) drawing master of Christ's Hospital
from 1754–1766, (successor to Alexander Cozens
)), a nephew or son of the Rev. Dr. Thomas Bisse (1675–1731) preacher at the Rolls Chapel, London, author of The Beauties of Holiness, 1716 and prebend then chancellor of Hereford, and hence was also nephew or son of Philip Bisse
, FRS (elected 13 June 1706), Bishop of Hereford.
Dr. and Bishop Bisse were sons of Rev. John Bisse, Rector of Oldbury
from 1659/60, co. Gloucester (c1638-d.1686, buried 19 July), who had matriculated Wadham College 28 March 1655. He was son of Thomas Bisse of Lullington
, Somerset, and grandson of Thomas Bisse, and great-grandson of Dr. Phillip Bisse (c.1540-October 1613) who had been Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford
1561-65, Archdeacon of Taunton, a benefactor of All Souls
and had made the inaugural gift of 2,000 books to Wadham College Library. Their mother, Joyce Giles, died 8 September 1717, aged 80 (Historical Register Chronicle 1714-1738), via Musgrave).
A cousin, Philip Bisse (c.1611-1642, killed by Irish), a grandson of Dr. Philip Bisse, the Wadham benefactor, was Archdeacon of Cloyne
, and possibly he for whom the Bisse arms were registered in Ireland, 25 May 1637.
Deputy Lieutenant
In the United Kingdom, a Deputy Lieutenant is one of several deputies to the Lord Lieutenant of a lieutenancy area; an English ceremonial county, Welsh preserved county, Scottish lieutenancy area, or Northern Irish county borough or county....
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Life
He was the only son of the Rev. Thomas Bisse (c.1754- d.13 November 1828), of Portnall Park, Virginia WaterPortnall Park, Virginia Water
Portnall Park is in Virginia Water, Egham, Surrey on Bagshot road, three miles from Egham, and 21 from London'.-History:A house was built at Potnalls, Potenall, Portenall, or Portnall Park by c. 1770. In 1804 Rev...
, by Katherine (d.1815/16) (they married in 1787) daughter of John Townsend (of Clapham, merchant, died Clapham, 1773?) by Ann a daughter of Robert Smith (died 1748, Mortlake), a London freeman and eminent merchant, of Thames Street, and Worcester place, St James Garlickhythe
St James Garlickhythe
St. James Garlickhythe is a Church of England parish church in Vintry ward of the City of London, nicknamed ‘Wren’s lantern’ owing to its profusion of windows. Recorded since the 12th century, the church was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666 and rebuilt by the office of Sir Christopher...
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Young Chaloner Bisse was educated at Eton
Eton College
Eton College, often referred to simply as Eton, is a British independent school for boys aged 13 to 18. It was founded in 1440 by King Henry VI as "The King's College of Our Lady of Eton besides Wyndsor"....
(c1802-1805) and Trinity College, Oxford
Trinity College, Oxford
The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity in the University of Oxford, of the foundation of Sir Thomas Pope , or Trinity College for short, is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. It stands on Broad Street, next door to Balliol College and Blackwells bookshop,...
, (he matriculated on 26 March 1806, aged 17). This was followed by service in the 1st Dragoon Guards, 1809 to 1812 (cornet: 9 March 1809; lieutenant: 1 August 1811). He married in Ireland in June 1812 and after the 1815 peace went abroad
Grand Tour
The Grand Tour was the traditional trip of Europe undertaken by mainly upper-class European young men of means. The custom flourished from about 1660 until the advent of large-scale rail transit in the 1840s, and was associated with a standard itinerary. It served as an educational rite of passage...
with his wife. He came back when his mother died in 1816 returning abroad in 1817. In 1827 hearing of his father's illness he came back alone from Naples, in 1828 he and his wife left Naples for good.
In 1829 he assumed the name of Challoner. He was appointed a Justice of the Peace (J.P.) of Berkshire (1831) and of Surrey, and a Deputy Lieutenant (D.L.) for Surrey. He was High Sheriff of Surrey
High Sheriff of Surrey
-List of High Sheriffs of Surrey:The list of known High Sheriffs of Surrey extends back to 1066 At various times the High Sheriff of Surrey was also High Sheriff of Sussex -1066-1228:...
in 1838. Colonel Challoner stood unsuccessfully for the West Surrey constituency
West Surrey (UK Parliament constituency)
West Surrey was a parliamentary constituency in the county of Surrey, which returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the bloc vote system.It was created under the Great Reform Act for the 1832 general election, and abolished...
in the 1852 general election. He came third (with 1385 votes) to William John Evelyn
William John Evelyn
Commonly known as William John Evelyn , a descendant of the diarist and polymath John Evelyn, eldest son of George Evelyn and Mary Jane Massy Dawson...
(1646 votes) and Henry Drummond (1610 votes) who both stood in the Conservative interest. (In 1852 West Surrey had a population of 102,856, of which 3,897 were registered electors).
He was Lt. Colonel commandant of the third Royal Regiment of Surrey Local Militia (No.118) from 26 March 1853 to 2 November 1867, when he became honorary colonel. Its headquarters were at Croydon and then Kingston upon Thames
Kingston upon Thames
Kingston upon Thames is the principal settlement of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames in southwest London. It was the ancient market town where Saxon kings were crowned and is now a suburb situated south west of Charing Cross. It is one of the major metropolitan centres identified in the...
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He was Chairman of the Bagshot and Bedfont Turnpike Trust (a stretch of 2008's A30 between Hounslow to Basingstoke); Trustee of the Western District Turnpike; Trustee of United Roads; Trustee of Hampton to Staines Turnpike Trust; and a commissioner for Staines Bridge
Staines Bridge
Staines Bridge is a road bridge running in a south-west to north-east direction across the River Thames in Surrey. It is on the modern A308 road and links the boroughs of Spelthorne and Runnymede at Staines and Egham Hythe....
from 1836 to 1871.
Seat and residences
Portnall Park, Virginia Water
Portnall Park is in Virginia Water, Egham, Surrey on Bagshot road, three miles from Egham, and 21 from London'.-History:A house was built at Potnalls, Potenall, Portenall, or Portnall Park by c. 1770. In 1804 Rev...
, Egham, Staines was built c1770. In 1804 Rev. Thomas Bisse exchanged it for some land elsewhere at Tite Hill, Egham, near Staines (possibly land that had belonged to his maternal great-aunt Lydia Challoner) with David Jebb, the brother of John Jebb
John Jebb (1736-1786)
John Jebb was an English divine, medical doctor, and religious and political reformer.He was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he was elected fellow of in 1761, having previously been Second Wrangler at Cambridge in 1757...
, FRS, and younger son of Dr. John Jebb (c1706-1787), Dean of Cashel, Tipperary. Rev. Thomas Bisse extended or re-built the mansion. His son in turn extended it after 1828.
In 1872 Portnall was staffed by three men in the house; two in the stables; six or seven in the garden; nine or 10 maids in the house; and four or five men on the farm, which was, including rented land, c600 acres (2.4 km²) (De Salis, 1939).
When sold, to golf course pioneer and property developer W.G. Tarrant
Walter George Tarrant
Walter George Tarrant was a builder born in Brockhurst, near Gosport, Hampshire, England. He is best known as a Surrey master builder and developer of St George’s Hill and the Wentworth Estate in Surrey....
of Wentworth Estate
Wentworth Estate
The Wentworth Estate is a 1920s development village of houses, shops and restaurants on an area of 700 hectares around the world famous Wentworth Club in Virginia Water, Surrey, England...
, for £15,000 in 1923 the mansion and estate comprised 196 acre (0.79318456 km²) with a 2,400 foot (just under half a mile) frontage to the main road (the A30). The house had 27 or 30 bedrooms and dressing rooms. There was a 'large square block of stabling' (for 15 horses); a six booth coach house; barn; cowsheds; bailiff's cottage; bothy; potting sheds; 'good' greenhouses; two walled gardens; five pairs of freehold cottages (three at Shrubs Hill and two at Knowle Hill); two lodge cottages; and a gardener's cottage.
From the 1830s and down to 1841 Col. Challoner was resident at 29 Portman Square
Portman Square
Portman Square is a square in London, part of the Portman Estate. It is located at the western end of Wigmore Street, which connects it to Cavendish Square to its east. It is served by London bus route 274...
. In January 1842 Boyle's Court Guide listed him at 169 New Bond Street (aka The Clarendon Hotel), and from 1843 till his death in 1872 he was at 11 Charles Street, Berkeley Square
Berkeley Square
Berkeley Square is a town square in the West End of London, England, in the City of Westminster. It was originally laid out in the mid 18th century by architect William Kent...
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He had two renters shares in Drury Lane Theatre
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane is a West End theatre in Covent Garden, in the City of Westminster, a borough of London. The building faces Catherine Street and backs onto Drury Lane. The building standing today is the most recent in a line of four theatres at the same location dating back to 1663,...
and was a member of both Brooks's and the Garrick Club
Garrick Club
The Garrick Club is a gentlemen's club in London.-History:The Garrick Club was founded at a meeting in the Committee Room at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on Wednesday 17 August 1831...
, of which he was an original member.
Col. Challoner's assets in 1872 featured
Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport (1814-1904)
General Alexander Nelson Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport, 4th Duke of Bronté GCB was a British soldier and courtier....
and John Gooch Spicer of Spye Park, Wiltshire were his executors.
- 11 Charles Street, Berkeley Square and Portnall Park;
- Blackhorse Yard, Holborn (sold in 1872 for £13,600), (formerly Three horse shoe brewhouse yard, near 187 High Holborn);
- 246 and 247 High Street, Borough, Southwark, (inherited from his first-cousin, Valentina Aynscombe (d.1841) via her maternal-grandmother, Valentina Wight (d.1745));
- 86 shares in Sun Fire Office (worth £17,200 in 1872);
- 54 shares in Sun Life Office (worth £3,834 in 1872), (inherited, indirectly (probably via Valentina Aynscombe), from his maternal-great-grandfather Robert Smith (d.1748);
- 9,000 preference shares in the Trent & Mersey Canal and the North Staffordshire RailwayNorth Staffordshire RailwayThe North Staffordshire Railway was a British railway company formed in 1845 to promote a number of lines in the Staffordshire Potteries and surrounding areas in Staffordshire, Cheshire, Derbyshire and Shropshire....
, (inherited from his maternal-great-aunt, Lydia Challoner (d.1803), (a 1% holding worth £20,250 in 1872).
Challoner had inherited various stocks, messuages, and residues from divers sources: from his maternal-great aunt (including ten shares in Trent Navigation) Lydia Challoner of Egham (died 1803), via his father (died 1828), by which time they were referred to as: the twenty canal shares now recently made forty; from his aunt Mary Barnard of Fulham (and Dorset?) (died 1842); and from his mother's first cousin Valentina Aynscombe of Mortlake (died 1841). They in turn had derived their fortunes, variously and principally, from William Chew of Dunstable (died 1713) (property in St. John Street, Smithfield, (this originally included several (famous) coaching inn
Coaching inn
In Europe, from approximately the mid-17th century for a period of about 200 years, the coaching inn, sometimes called a coaching house or staging inn, was a vital part of the inland transport infrastructure, as an inn serving coach travelers...
s in Dunstable and 14 farms around Dunstable and Luton), inherited via his nephew Thomas Aynscombe
Thomas Aynscombe
Thomas Aynscombe, early 18th century Dunstable and Smithfield, London landlord and minor benefactor.Thomas Aynscombe of Charterhouse yard, and Northall in Buckinghamshire, was the son of Henry Aynscombe , of St...
of Charter House Yard (died 1740); from Valentina (died 1745) grand-daughter of Daniel Wight the younger (d.1705), of Southwark, distiller, and owner of, amongst other things in Holborn and Borough, The George Inn, Southwark
The George Inn, Southwark
The George, or George Inn, is a public house established in the medieval period on Borough High Street in Southwark, London. Currently owned and leased by the National Trust, it is located on the south side of the River Thames near London Bridge. It is the only surviving galleried London coaching...
), wife to Philip Aynscombe (died 1737, aged c30); presumedly from George Challoner of Hales Hall, Cheadle, Staffordshire
Cheadle, Staffordshire
Cheadle is a small market town near Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, with a population of 12,158 according to the 2001 census. It is roughly from the city of Stoke-on-Trent, north of Birmingham and south of Manchester...
(died 1770); and from Robert Smith (died 1748). Robert Smith had acquired a large share of the Sun Fire Office on 24 August 1720 (Dickson page 271). He left his son Lillie 50 shares.
In 1915, on the death of Rev. Henry de Salis, the Challoner Trust was worth £102,894 and still featured 4,300 Sun Insurance Company shares worth £61,812; 540 Sun Life Company shares worth £14,175 and the 900 North Staffordshire Trent & Mersey Navigation shares worth £21,431. (In 1931, on the death of the life tenant Rodolph, the trust was valued at £169,981).
Aunts, uncles, cousins
Challoner's maternal great-grandfather Robert Smith (c1672-1748), a freeman of London, of Thames Street, London and MortlakeMortlake
Mortlake is a district of London, England and part of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. It is on the south bank of the River Thames between Kew and Barnes with East Sheen inland to the south. Mortlake was part of Surrey until 1965.-History:...
, was the common ancestor.
Smith had eight daughters and two sons by his wife Ann.
- Alice who married Mr. Owirk [?];
- Ann who married John Townsend, and had three children: William of Fulham House (1741–1823, see the monumental inscription in Fulham's church); Mary Barnard, Col. Challoner's aunt, once of Lower Grosvenor Street and then of Fulham and Little Chelsea (died 1842, aged 90), the relict of Rev. Benjamin Barnard (d.1815, aged c80), Prebend of Peterborough); and Mrs (Katherine) Bisse (died 1816) who was Challoner's mother;
- Lydia (1714–1803, buried Egham), (married Thomas Waters (d.1738), then George Challoner (d.1770) of Hales Hall, Cheadle, StaffordshireCheadle, StaffordshireCheadle is a small market town near Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, with a population of 12,158 according to the 2001 census. It is roughly from the city of Stoke-on-Trent, north of Birmingham and south of Manchester...
. Later she was of (Tite Hill), EghamEghamEgham is a wealthy suburb in the Runnymede borough of Surrey, in the south-east of England. It is part of the London commuter belt and Greater London Urban Area, and about south-west of central London on the River Thames and near junction 13 of the M25 motorway.-Demographics:Egham town has a...
); - Elizabeth who married Joseph Pouschon;
- Lilly (c1715-d.10 Feb. 1791, buried ClewerClewerClewer is an ecclesiastical parish and region of Windsor making up three wards of the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead in the English county of Berkshire.-History:...
). He was a director of the Sun Fire Office from, at latest, 1754 until his death in 1791. He married Valentina Aynscombe (d. near Windsor 1771, buried Clewer) the grand-daughter, heir-at-law and devisee of Thomas AynscombeThomas AynscombeThomas Aynscombe, early 18th century Dunstable and Smithfield, London landlord and minor benefactor.Thomas Aynscombe of Charterhouse yard, and Northall in Buckinghamshire, was the son of Henry Aynscombe , of St...
(d. 1740) of Charterhouse SquareCharterhouse SquareCharterhouse Square is a historic square in Smithfield, between Charterhouse Street and Clerkenwell Road. It lies in the extreme south of the London Borough of Islington, just north of the City of London....
. Her father Philip Aynscombe (d. Boulogne 1737) had married Valentina (died 1745), of St. George, Hanover square, daughter and heir of Daniel Wight III of Southwark. By Act of Parliament 1747 (20 Geo II, c.7) Lillie Smith changed his surname to Aynscombe.; - Sarah;
- Catherine (Miss Kitty Smith) (d. Brompton 1807), married, March 31, 1758, Rev. William ffraignean (1717–1778). Fraigneau was fellow of Trinity College, CambridgeTrinity College, CambridgeTrinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Trinity has more members than any other college in Cambridge or Oxford, with around 700 undergraduates, 430 graduates, and over 170 Fellows...
, tutor to family of Frederick, Lord BolingbrokeFrederick St John, 2nd Viscount BolingbrokeFrederick St John, 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke, 3rd Viscount St John was born on 21 December 1732. His father was John St John, 2nd Viscount St John, half-brother of Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke. His mother was Anne Furnese....
and Rector of BeckenhamBeckenhamBeckenham is a town in the London Borough of Bromley, England. It is located 8.4 miles south east of Charing Cross and 1.75 miles west of Bromley town...
(1765–78), Kent and Vicar of Battersea (1758–78). Cambridge's Regius ProfessorRegius Professor of Greek (Cambridge)The Regius Professorship of Greek is one of the oldest professorships at the University of Cambridge. The chair was founded by Henry VIII in 1540 with a stipend of £40 per year, subsequently increased in 1848 by a canonry of Ely Cathedral....
of Greek 1744-50; - Phoebe (still alive in July 1816) married Mr. McPhedris/Macphradris;
- Jane (1720- d.17 July 1793, aged 73), married, 1751, Rev. Dr. Henry Stebbing, FRSRoyal SocietyThe Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, known simply as the Royal Society, is a learned society for science, and is possibly the oldest such society in existence. Founded in November 1660, it was granted a Royal Charter by King Charles II as the "Royal Society of London"...
, FSASociety of Antiquaries of LondonThe Society of Antiquaries of London is a learned society "charged by its Royal Charter of 1751 with 'the encouragement, advancement and furtherance of the study and knowledge of the antiquities and history of this and other countries'." It is based at Burlington House, Piccadilly, London , and is...
, (d.1788), son of the divine Rev. Henry StebbingHenry StebbingHenry Stebbing was an English churchman and controversialist, who became archdeacon of Wiltshire.-Life:Baptised at Walton, Suffolk on 19 August 1687, he was the fourth son of John Stebbing , a grocer of Walton, by his wife Mary , daughter and coheiress of Richard Kenington...
(1687–1763), and had two children: Henry (barrister) of Brompton Row, and Anne Duval. Henry Stebbing III (1752–1817) produced Sermons on Practical Subjects (1788), by the late Reverend Henry Stebbing, D.D., preacher to the Hon. Society of Gray's InnGray's InnThe Honourable Society of Gray's Inn, commonly known as Gray's Inn, is one of the four Inns of Court in London. To be called to the Bar and practise as a barrister in England and Wales, an individual must belong to one of these Inns...
; and - William (who was left £4,000 and the Mortlake property) (not 21 in 1747), but seems to have died young.
When Lillie died in 1791 The Scots Magazine
The Scots Magazine
The Scots Magazine is a magazine containing articles on subjects of Scottish interest. It is the oldest magazine in the world still in publication although there have been several gaps in its publication history...
, (vol. 53, p. 102), reported it thus:
- 10. At his seat at Mortlake, Lillie Ains-
- combe, Esq; one of the directors of the Sun
- Fire assurance-office. He has left seven sis-
- ters, whose ages, computed with his own,
- some little time before his death, made 572
- years.
He also left three daughters (all died sine prole (d.s.p.)):
- Valentina Aynscombe (c1749-d. 23 March 1841 (G.M. 556), aged 92). Col. Challoner inherited various properties and pictures from Valentina.
- Mary Aynscombe (died 1828) married the Rev. John Mossop (1774–1849), vicar of HothfieldHothfieldHothfield is a village and civil parish in the Ashford District of Kent, England and is located north-west of Ashford town.The village is located to the south of the A20 road. To the north west is Hothfield Common, 58 hectares of heathland and lowland valley bogs: a nature reserve managed by...
in Kent from 1802-1849. - Charlotte Anne Aynscombe, (1760 at Clewer - died 1799, Mortlake).
Half-Brother
William Chaloner Bisse (1822–1849) was the Rev. Thomas Bisse's son by his second wife, Charlotte, who he married in 1818, a daughter of Charles Price of Knightsbridge. His aunt Elizabeth Price married 24 June 1799 Jonathan Raine (1763–1831), of Lincoln's Inn and 33 Bedford Row, KC, a Yorkshire born, sometime MP for various Cornish constituencies, and eventually a Welsh judge. Charlotte was left £1,000 per annum, as fixed by my marriage settlement when Thomas Bisse died in 1828. At the same time William was left five shares in the Stafford and Worcester CanalStaffordshire and Worcestershire Canal
The Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal is a narrow navigable canal in the English Midlands, passing through the counties of Staffordshire and Worcestershire....
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He became an Ensign in the 73rd Regiment of Foot
73rd Regiment of Foot
The 73rd Regiment of Foot also known as MacLeod's Highlanders after its founder John Mackenzie, Lord MacLeod, was an infantry regiment of the British Army.- History :- First raising :...
on 12 March 1841; was promoted to Lieutenant on 5 April 1844; and to Captain on 12 May 1848.
However, he died in Ireland on 8 June 1849 aged 27 and lies buried at Templemore
Templemore
Templemore is a town in North Tipperary, Ireland. It is a civil parish in the historical barony of Eliogarty. It is part of the Roman Catholic parish of Templemore, Clonmore and Killea....
in Tipperary, where his 'brother officers' erected a marble tablet in the chancel of the New Church.
Wives
This Anne was niece of the Anne Tottenham (1744–1775) of the Loftus Hall
Loftus Hall
Loftus Hall is a large mansion house on the Hook peninsula, County Wexford, Ireland that is said to have been haunted both by the devil and by the ghost of a young woman....
ghost story.
Nicholas Loftus-Tottenham was the second son of Charles Tottenham (1716–1795), MP for New Ross
New Ross
New Ross is a town located in southwest County Wexford, in the southeast of Ireland. In 2006 it had a population of 7,709 people, making it the third largest town in the county after Wexford and Enniscorthy.-History:...
, surveyor-general of Leinster
Leinster
Leinster is one of the Provinces of Ireland situated in the east of Ireland. It comprises the ancient Kingdoms of Mide, Osraige and Leinster. Following the Norman invasion of Ireland, the historic fifths of Leinster and Mide gradually merged, mainly due to the impact of the Pale, which straddled...
, by Anne (1718–1768), second daughter of the Rt. hon. Nicholas Loftus, 1st Viscount Loftus
Marquess of Ely
Marquess of Ely, of the County of Wexford, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1800 for Charles Loftus, 1st Earl of Ely. He was born Charles Tottenham, the son of John Tottenham, who had been created a Baronet, of Tottenham Green in the County of Wexford, in the Baronetage of...
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Nicholas Loftus-Tottenham was for 14 years the MP for Bannow
Bannow
Bannow is an area situated in the south of County Wexford, in Ireland. An early Norman town was founded at Bannow. This town has since disappeared for unknown reasons, although the ruins of an early Norman church can still be seen there today . The Norman church is located near the former Island...
1776–1790 and the member for Clonmines from 1790-1797. He had married in May 1778 Mary (two sons, three daughters) daughter and co-heir of Sir James May, 1st Bt. Loftus-Tottenham was resident or associated with Loftus Hall, Fethard
Fethard
-Constituencies:*Fethard *Fethard...
, co. Wexford; Duncannon, co. Waterford; Glenfarne
Glenfarne
Glenfarne is a small village located in the north of County Leitrim, Ireland. It is the site of the original "Ballroom of Romance", which inspired a short story by William Trevor and was subsequently turned into a movie by the BBC...
, co. Leitrim; and Holles street, Dublin.
Col. Challoner married, secondly, on 6 January 1859, (Hadie) Henrietta Emma Helena De Salis (2 May 1824 - 16 August 1863) third surviving and youngest daughter of Count de Salis
Jerome, 4th Count de Salis-Soglio
Jerome de Salis, 4th Count de Salis-Soglio DL, JP, FRS , Illustris et Magnificus was an Anglo-Grison-Irish noble, visionary, vegetarian and landowner....
. There is a monumental inscription to them in Christ Church, Virginia Water (a church consecrated in 1838).
In a book of memorandum he wrote:
- 'All real happiness in the world closed upon me by the death of my much loved and loving Hadie' (p.125, Cecil De Salis, 1939).
Challoner left his estate to her youngest brother, the Rev. Henry Jerome de Salis, whose third son was Charles Fane de Salis
Charles Fane de Salis
Charles Fane de Salis , MA, DD , was Bishop of Taunton from 1911 to 1930.-Biography:Born in Fringford, Oxfordshire on 18th or 9 March 1860 into an occasionally clerical family, he was educated at Eton and Exeter College, Oxford. Ordained in 1883 he was Curate at St...
, a Bishop of Taunton. When Rev. Henry de Salis died in 1915 his eldest son Rodolph became tenant for life of the Portnall property. However, after a minor struggle with his next brother, he alienated it in 1923. Rodolph, a civil engineer, had in the meantime been a director of the Staffordshire Railway
North Staffordshire Railway
The North Staffordshire Railway was a British railway company formed in 1845 to promote a number of lines in the Staffordshire Potteries and surrounding areas in Staffordshire, Cheshire, Derbyshire and Shropshire....
, a Challoner interest.
Bisse
Christ's Hospital
Christ's Hospital is an English coeducational independent day and boarding school with Royal Charter located in the Sussex countryside just south of Horsham in Horsham District, West Sussex, England...
from 1754–1766, (successor to Alexander Cozens
Alexander Cozens
Alexander Cozens was a British landscape painter in watercolours, a published teacher of painting, and father of John Robert Cozens.-Life:...
)), a nephew or son of the Rev. Dr. Thomas Bisse (1675–1731) preacher at the Rolls Chapel, London, author of The Beauties of Holiness, 1716 and prebend then chancellor of Hereford, and hence was also nephew or son of Philip Bisse
Philip Bisse
Philip Bisse was an English bishop.-Life:He was born in Oldbury-on-the-Hill, Gloucestershire, the son of John Bisse, a clerk and educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, ordained in 1686 and graduating M.A. in 1693. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in March, 1706. He was...
, FRS (elected 13 June 1706), Bishop of Hereford.
Dr. and Bishop Bisse were sons of Rev. John Bisse, Rector of Oldbury
Oldbury-on-Severn
Oldbury-on-Severn is a small village near the mouth of the River Severn in South Gloucestershire. It is home to the nearby Oldbury nuclear power station, a Magnox power station which opened in 1967 and is due to cease operation in 2011....
from 1659/60, co. Gloucester (c1638-d.1686, buried 19 July), who had matriculated Wadham College 28 March 1655. He was son of Thomas Bisse of Lullington
Lullington, Somerset
Lullington is a village and civil parish just across the Mells River from Beckington and north east of Frome, in the Mendip district of Somerset, England.The parish includes the hamlet of Laverton, where the Church of St...
, Somerset, and grandson of Thomas Bisse, and great-grandson of Dr. Phillip Bisse (c.1540-October 1613) who had been Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford
Magdalen College, Oxford
Magdalen College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. As of 2006 the college had an estimated financial endowment of £153 million. Magdalen is currently top of the Norrington Table after over half of its 2010 finalists received first-class degrees, a record...
1561-65, Archdeacon of Taunton, a benefactor of All Souls
All Souls College, Oxford
The Warden and the College of the Souls of all Faithful People deceased in the University of Oxford or All Souls College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England....
and had made the inaugural gift of 2,000 books to Wadham College Library. Their mother, Joyce Giles, died 8 September 1717, aged 80 (Historical Register Chronicle 1714-1738), via Musgrave).
A cousin, Philip Bisse (c.1611-1642, killed by Irish), a grandson of Dr. Philip Bisse, the Wadham benefactor, was Archdeacon of Cloyne
Cloyne
Cloyne is a small town to the south-east of the town of Midleton in eastern County Cork, Province of Munster, Ireland. It is also a see city of the Anglican Diocese of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, while also giving its name to a Roman Catholic diocese...
, and possibly he for whom the Bisse arms were registered in Ireland, 25 May 1637.
Arms
- 14 January 1829 : Challoner was authorized by Royal Licence/warrant to assume the name of Challoner 'in addition after Bisse'.
- 28 December 1831 : he was granted the arms of Bisse (he was unsuccessful in trying to prove kin with the Bisse of CroscombeCroscombeCroscombe is a village and civil parish west of Shepton Mallet and from Wells, in the Mendip district of Somerset, England. It is situated on the A371 road in the valley of the River Sheppey....
and Spargrove, Somerset) - 24 January 1832 : he was granted the arms of Challoner and Bisse.
- Bisse-Challoner arms:
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- Sable on a pale argent three escallops of the field and for the crest on a wreath of the colours on a mount vert two serpents entwined respecting each other proper the heads encircling an escallop inverted or
- On a wreath of the colours out waves a demi-sea-wolf issuant proper holding between the fins a cross patée sble and the crest of Bisse as the same as in the margin here of more plainly depicted'
- Sable on a chevron cottised between three cherubins Or as many crosses patées fichés of the field for Challoner'
- Tottenham arms:
- Gules three bars dancettée argent
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