42.3.b.2 The Descendants of John Moore and Barbara Brabazon

The Descendants

of

John Moore and Barbara Brabazon

The children of John Moore and Barbara Brabazon

1. Rev William John Moore           (1789-1866)                 He did not marry
2. Major John Arthur Moore          (1791-1860)    m Sophia Steward Yates 1808 - 1905
3. Charles Henry Moore                (1798-1806)     m Eleanor Marsden

1. William John Moore b  1789 was a minister of religion.  He added Brabazon to his surname in 1845, and he lived at Tara Lodge, County Meath in Ireland.  He died 1866 and had no children

Adm. pens. at ST JOHN'S, Oct. 1, 1810. Of Somerset. [Eldest s. of John, of Newlodge, Herts. (and Barbara, dau. of the Hon. William Brabazon, of Tara House, Meath). B. Apr. 29, 1789. School, Harrow.] Matric. Michs. 1810; Scholar, 1810; B.A. 1815; M.A. 1818. Ord. deacon (Lincoln), Mar. 23, 1817; priest, 1818; C. of Windsor and Chaplain to the Forces there. V. of Sarratt, Herts., 1838-59. Took the additional name of Brabazon in 1845. Died. at Windsor, Apr. 26, 1866. 

2.  Major John Arthur Moore b 1791  d  1860 Marylebone London married Sophia Stewart Yates in Secunderbad Madras India in 1827.  When he returned to England, John was a Director of the East India Company.

He married Sophia Stewart Yates, 1808 – 1905, in 1827

She was the daughter of Captain Richard Hassels Yeates 1777 – 1847 and Benjamina Petronella Lever 1783 - 1843

Benjamanina was the daughter of  Abraham Pusch Lever had come to Ceylon employed as  a Sailor for the Dutch East India Company on the 29th December 1769 on the ship ‘Renswoude’ 

29th July 1770 at Ceylon. In 1772 he was Secretary for the Governor and one of the few Dutch Officials  who travelled  through the interior of Ceylon  to Kandy. He  finished up as a Under Merchant to  the  Dutch East India Company.[1]

John Arthur Moore and Sophia had the following children

2.1  William Richard Moore                                          (-1857)

2.2  Lieut Colonel John Arthur Henry Moore          1828-1908  m Emma Sophia Richards

2.3  Adolphus Warburton Moore                             1841-1887

2.4  Major Martin James Moore                               1843-1924

2.5  Charles William Moore                                     1844-1898

2.6  Francis Stewart Moore                                      1845-1895

Lieut-Col John Arthur Henry Moore-Brabazon, Major,

2.1 John Arthur Henry Moore-Brabazon retired list, Indian Army of Tara Hall, co. Meath, died at 30, Cranley Gardens SW on 11^th instant of heart failure, following pneumonia, aged 79.  He was the son of the late Major J.A. Moore and nephew of the late Rev. W.J.H. Moore-Brabazon, of Tara Hall, co. Meath, to whose estates he succeeded in 1866, when he received the Royal licence to assume the additional name of Brabazon.

 He joined the Army Dec 4, 1846; became Captain Feb 18, 1861; Major Dec, 11, 1866; and retired on pension with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel April 18, 1868.  He served with the 23^rd Native Infantry from 1847 to 1858. He became second in command of the 1^st Sikh Cavalry.  On that regiment going to China he was appointed second in command of the 9^th Punjaub Infantry.  From 1863, he acted as Judge-Advocate of the Lahore division until his retirement.  When at Peshaar he served with the 23^rd Infantry on the expedition to Kohat, under Sir Charles Napier. (medal with clasp)

Army and Navy Gazette 25 January 1908

The scarce early frontier operations India General Service Medal 1854-1895, 1 Clasp: Northwest Frontier, awarded to Ensign later Lieutenant Colonel J.A.H. Moore-Brabazon, 23rd Regiment of Native Infantry, Honourable East India Company Forces, who saw service under the surname of Moore during the operations on the North West Frontier under Brigadier General Sir Colin Campbell K.C.B., which advanced up the Kohat Pass to punish Afridis in reprisal for attacks on the British between 9th to 15th February 1850. He changed his name to Moore-Brabazon[2]

John married Emma Sophia Richards  1851 – 1937

Emma as the daughter of Alfred Richards 1821 – 1887, a Barrister of London

Alfred married a Caroline Hayler b 1827, in 1865.  However, in 1871 census, she was not listed as living with he and his daughters, and he was listed as a barrister not practising.

In 1851, he was living with a John Hayball Paul and his wife Mary Ann Paul.  This same John Hayball Paul, is listed as one of his executors.

John Hayball Paul and Alfred Richards were partners in the Camberwell Lunatic Asylum

https://ezitis.myzen.co.uk/camberwellhouse.html

He went on to become a prominent medico running the Camberwell Lunatic Asylum - a web search on his name will tell the story.

An example:
Record: 1 of 1
Reference MSS.6220-6221 See this in context Previous Numbers MSS.6648-6649 Level Collection Extent 2 volumes Title Camberwell House Asylum Date 1847-1853 Name Camberwell House Asylum Description Volumes 2-3 of the case books of Camberwell House, a private lunatic asylum (metropolitan licensed house) at Camberwell, Surrey. The casebooks contain records for approximately 900 people; they are unindexed. Volume 2 contains records for people admitted 1847-1850 with further notes on the some of the same patients through 1876. Volume 3 contains admission records for 1850-1853 with further records on some of the same patients through 1887. Historical Background The asylum was founded in 1846 by John Hayball Paul (1816-1899), who was also medical superintendent, 1846-99. Paul entered into partnership with F.G. Aubin and Alfred Richards as Aubin & Co., this firm being the official owner of the asylum at one period. During the span of these case books the asylum admitted mainly pauper patients

The children of Emma and John were:

2.1.1  William Lockhart Chambre Moore-Brabazon  1880-1953 m Alice Marshall

2.1.2  Kathleen Moore Brabazon                             1882-1980 m Gustavus Francis William                                                                                                                          Lambart

2.1.3  John Theordore Cuthbert Moore Brabazon     1884-1964 m Hilda Mary Krabe

2.1.4  Hebe Crysabel Frideswide Moore Brabazon     1888-1962     unmarried

William inherited the estates of Tara from his father, in 1908

2.1.2  Kathleen Moore Brabazon married Gustavus Francis William Lambart

The Lambart Baronetcy, of Beau Parc in the County of Meath, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 13 July 1911 for Gustavus Lambart, the former Comptroller and Chamberlain to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland. The title became extinct on the death of his son, the second Baronet, in 1986.

The first Baronet was a descendant of the Hon. Oliver Lambart, member of the Irish House of Commons for Kilbeggan and younger son of Charles Lambart, 1st Earl of Cavan (see Earl of Cavan).

Oliver's son Charles Lambart, grandson Gustavus Lambart, great-grandson Charles Lambart, and great-great-grandson Gustavus Lambart, were all members of the Irish Parliament for Kilbeggan.

The latter was the father of Gustavus William Lambart (1814–1886), State Steward to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland and father of the first Baronet.

 2.1.3 John Theodore Chuthbert Moore-Brabazon, inherited the lands and titles of Tara.

He married Hilda Mary Krabe 1878 – 1977, the daughter of an Argentian Polo Player, Charles Henry Krabbe 1850 – 1901 and his wife Ada Mary Smith 1857 - 1926

John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara, GBE, MC, PC (8 February 1884 – 17 May 1964) was an English aviation pioneer and Conservative politician. He was the first Englishman to pilot a heavier-than-air machine under power in England, and he served as Minister of Transport and Minister of Aircraft Production during World War II.

Moore-Brabazon was born in London to Lieutenant-Colonel John Arthur Henry Moore-Brabazon (1828–1908) and his wife, Emma Sophia (d. 1937). He was educated at Harrow School before reading engineering at Trinity College, Cambridge, but did not graduate.

 He spent university holidays working for Charles Rolls as an unpaid mechanic, and became an apprentice at Darracq in Paris after leaving Cambridge. In 1907 he won the Circuit des Ardennes in a Minerva.

Pioneer aviator                                               

John Moore-Brabazon in his Voisin Bird of Passage in 1909

Moore-Brabazon learned to fly in 1908 in France in a Voisin biplane. He became the first resident Englishman to make an officially recognised aeroplane flight in England on 2 May 1909, at Shellbeach on the Isle of Sheppey with flights of 450 ft, 600 ft, and 1500 ft.

On 4 May 1909, Moore-Brabazon was photographed outside the Royal Aero Club clubhouse Mussel Manor (now known as Muswell Manor the Worlds first Aero Club) alongside the Wright Brothers, the Short Brothers, Charles Rolls, and many other early aviation pioneers. In 1909 he sold the Bird of Passage to Arthur Edward George, who learned to fly in it at the Royal Aero Club's flying-ground at Shellbeach and bought a Short Brothers-built Wright biplane.

 A documentary, A Dream of Flight, was made in 2009 to celebrate the centenary of his achievement on the Isle of Sheppey.

On 30 October 1909, flying the Short Biplane No. 2, he flew a circular mile and won a 1,000 pound prize offered by the Daily Mail newspaper. On 4 November 1909, as a joke to prove that pigs could fly, he put a small pig in a waste-paper basket tied to a wing-strut of his aeroplane. This may have been the first live cargo flight by aeroplane.

With Charles Rolls, he would later make the first ascent in a spherical gas balloon, which had been made in England by the Short brothers.

On 8 March 1910, Moore-Brabazon became the first person to qualify as a pilot in the United Kingdom and was awarded Royal Aero Club Aviator's Certificate number 1 his car also bore the number-plate FLY 1. However only four months later, his friend Charles Rolls was killed in a flying accident and Moore-Brabazon's wife persuaded him to give up flying.

In 1934 Moore-Brabazon fitted a gyro-rig to a Bembridge Redwing, an Isle of Wight class of yacht that allows and encourages the development of different rigs. The area of the rotating blades complies with the sail area limits of the class and are painted red, also to comply with the class rules.  The boat was, and remains, dangerous, but it was probably the first auto-gyro boat. The boat is currently in the collection of the Classic Boat Museum at East Cowes, Isle of Wight, and still 'sails'.

With the outbreak of War, Moore-Brabazon returned to flying, joining the Royal Flying Corps. He served on the Western Front where he played a key role in the development of aerial photography and reconnaissance. In March 1915 he was promoted to captain and appointed as an equipment officer.

On 1 April 1918, when the Royal Flying Corps merged with the Royal Naval Air Service to form the Royal Air Force, Moore-Brabazon was appointed as a staff officer (first class) and made a temporary lieutenant-colonel

Moore-Brabazon finished the war with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, had been awarded the Military Cross, and had become a commander of the Légion d'honneur.

Moore-Brabazon later became a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Chatham (1918–1929) and Wallasey (1931–1942) and served as a junior minister in the 1920s. In 1931 and 1932 he served as a member of the London County Council. He was strongly opposed to war with Nazi Germany and in early 1939, when war seemed imminent, he made contact with Oswald Mosley in an attempt to co-ordinate activity against the war.

Despite his earlier anti-war agitation, in Winston Churchill's wartime government, he was appointed Minister of Transport in October 1940 and joined the Privy Council, becoming Minister of Aircraft Production in May 1941. As the Minister of Transport he proposed the use of Airgraphs to reduce the weight and bulk of mails travelling between troops fighting in the Middle East and their families in the UK. 

He was forced to resign in 1942 for expressing the hope that Germany and the Soviet Union, then engaged in the Battle of Stalingrad, would destroy each other. Since the Soviet Union was fighting the war on the same side as Britain, the hope that it should be destroyed, though common in the Conservative Party, was unacceptable to the war effort.

Moore-Brabazon was elevated to the House of Lords as Baron Brabazon of Tara, of Sandwich in the County of Kent, in April 1942.

In 1943 he chaired the Brabazon Committee which planned to develop the post-war British aircraft industry. He was involved in the production of the Bristol Brabazon, a giant airliner that first flew on 4 September 1949. It was then and still is the largest aeroplane built entirely in Britain.

A keen golfer, Moore-Brabazon was captain of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, the governing body of golf, from 1952 to 1953. According to the UK newspaper the Daily Mail, he was a member of the original Pools Panel, which for betting purposes assessed the likely outcome of postponed football matches.

Moore-Brabazon was president of the Royal Aero Club, president of the Royal Institution, chairman of the Air Registration Board, and president of the Middlesex County Automobile Club from 1946 until his death in 1964. He was appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire in 1953.

                                                      

On 27 November 1906, he married Hilda Mary Krabbé, with whom he had two sons. He was succeeded by his eldest son, Derek.

Moore-Brabazon is buried in the cemetery of Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire.

He was involved with Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, in the Montagu Motor Museum.  In fact the restaurant there is named in his honour. 

   

  

Baron Brabazon of Tara, of Sandwich in the County of Kent, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1942 for the aviation pioneer and Conservative politician John Moore-Brabazon. Moore-Brabazon was a descendant through a female line of Edward Brabazon, 7th Earl of Meath. 

His father Major John Arthur Henry Moore had assumed the additional surname of Brabazon in 1866 by Royal license. As of 2014 the title is held by the first Baron's grandson, the third Baron, who succeeded his father in 1974. He is also a Conservative politician and one of the ninety elected hereditary peers that remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999.

John and Hilda had two sons

2.1.3.1 Right Hon Derek Charles Moore-Brabazon         1910 – 1974 m Henrietta Mary Clegg

2.1.3.2 Michael Jaques Moore-Brabazon                        1913 – 1950

Henrietta Mary Clegg 1908 – 1985  married Iver Frederick Jardine Krabbe 1906 – 1950, in 1930.

He was the brother of Hilda Mary Krabbe, the mother of Derek Charles Moore-Brabazon

They had a son Charles Iver Nichola Krabb b 1932 and died 1967 He married Janine Sheila Squires

2.1.3.2.1  She then married Right Hon Derek Charles Moore-Brabazon in 1939, and their son, Ivon.

Henrietta was the daughter of

Alfred Rowland Clegg 1873 – 1957 and Lady Henrietta Madge Donnell 1880 - 1963

Sir Alfred Rowland Clegg usually went by his middle name of Rowland. He lived in 1901 at Handforth House, Wilmslow Road, Handforth, Cheshire, England  He lived at Llanidan Hall, Brynsiencyn, Anglesey, Wales

2.1.3.2   Michael Jaques Moore-Brabazon

 He was educated at Harrow School, Harrow, London, England  He joined the Royal Engineers in 1937   He later fought in the Second World War, in the 26^th Anti-Aircraft Battalion

He was assistant manager of Harringay Stadium, and had worked in an Executive position in the Greyhound industry.  Unfortunately his death was self inflicted.

2.3.  Adolphus Warburton Moore (1841–1887) (known generally as A. W. Moore) was a British civil servant and mountaineer. The son of Major John Arthur Moore and Sophia Stewart Yates, Moore was an India Office official from 1858–1887, holding the role of Assistant Secretary, Political Department from 1875–1885. He was also private secretary to Lord Randolph Churchill.

Moore made a first ascent during his first visit to the Alps in 1862 and immediately became a central figure in the golden age of alpinism.

Moore's first ascents include:

·        23 July 1862: Fiescherhorn (Bernese Alps) with H. B. George and the guides Christian Almer and Ulrich Kaufmann

·        25 June 1864: Barre des Écrins (Dauphiné Alps) with Edward Whymper and Horace Walker, and the guides Michel Croz, Christian Almer the elder, and Christian Almer the younger

·        28 June 1865: Piz Roseg (Bernina Alps) with Horace Walker and the guide Jakob Anderegg

·        6 July 1865: Ober Gabelhorn (Pennine Alps) with Horace Walker and Jakob Anderegg

·        9 July 1865: Pigne d'Arolla (Pennine Alps) with Horace Walker and Jakob Anderegg

·        15 July 1865: Brenva Spur on Mont Blanc with George Spencer Mathews, Frank Walker and Horace Walker, and the guides Jakob Anderegg and Melchior Anderegg

This last route, the Brenva Spur, was the first to be climbed on the remote southern side of Mont Blanc and exceeded in difficulty anything that had thus far been attempted on the mountain. Moore's description of the Brenva ascent is, according to Claire Engel, 'amongst the finest Alpine tales in existence'.

Moore went to the Caucasus with Douglas Freshfield, Charles Comyns Tucker and the guide François Devouassoud in 1868, making the first ascent by a non-native of Mount Elbrus (the lower of the two summits), the highest mountain in the Caucasus,^[5] and the first ascent of Kazbek with the same party.

Both Pic Moore and Col Moore on the Brenva face side of Mont Blanc are named after him. According to F. S. Smythe, who together with Thomas Graham Brown gave the col its name during their first ascent of the Brenva face by the "Sentinelle Rouge" route in 1927, "The ordinary Brenva route [the Brenva Spur] begins with the ascent of a little gap, which we named Col Moore in honour of the first conqueror of the Brenva route, A. W. Moore, situated between the foot of the Brenva ridge and a miniature peak now known as the Pic Moore.

1871 portrait of Moore (top right) with Lucy Walker, seated beside her father Frank Walker, and Melchior Anderegg (standing, centre). The identity of the other man is not known.

2.4. Major Martin James Moore  1843 - 1924

He served in India in Bengal Artillery, when he joined the Masonic Lodge.   He married Mabel Louisa Graham in 1917

2.5. Charles William Moore   1844 – 1898  married firstly Rose Frances Falkiner, daughter of Sir Samuel Edmunds Falkiner and Mary Bouwens.  Their marriage record is in 1859. Neither would be very old.  She died on board the ship Nemises in 1860, and they lived in Bengal.

Almost like history repeating itself, Charles became embroiled in a divorce issue, and the love of a lady, Margaret Emma Gerard, 1837 - 1880 daughter of Col John Grant Gerrard 1808 - 1857, of the Bengal Fusiliers, and Mary Anne Staphina Bunbury 1817 - 1904

Margaret married Major General Theodore Walter Ross Boisragon CB in 1854 in Christ Church, Mussoorie, Uttaranchal, India.  They had a son Alan Maxwell Boisragan in 1860 – 1922, he married Ethel Rosling.   Theordore was the son of Charles Henry Gasgoyne Boisragon  and Ellen Gardiner Maxwell of Cheltenham.  Theodore was the Commandant of the 30^th Punjab Infantry from 1861.

After the divorce, Charles and Margaret married in 1866, and had several children

2.5.1           John Marcellus Moore                                      1865-1950

2.5.2           Martin Arthur Lemesurier Moore                     1865-

2.5.3           Ethel Brabazon Moore                                      1867-1928

2.5.4           Lilian Brabazen Moore                                     1869-

2.5.5           Beatrice Marion Stewart Brabazon Moore       1871-1904

2.5.6           Sydney Constance Brabazon Moore                 1873-1952

2.5.7           Cyril Maude Moore                                           1874-

Margaret died in 1880 and Charles in 1898

2.5.1. John Marcellus Moore of all accounts, he might be the proverbial “black sheep” in Barbara’s family.

John morphed into “Tex” Moore, born in US, and made a name for himself as a good artist.  He was one for the ladies, marrying a total of 4 times.

John W. “Tex” Moore was born near Forth Worth, Texas on November 24,1865.  He was a self taught painter of the West in Texas and the Yellowstone Park areas.  Tex Moore’s father started the Abilene Trail.  Moore worked as a cowboy when the range was “open” and by the chuckwagon fire at night.  




He was a Texas Ranger and an Indian Scout with General Crook in the campaign against Geronimo’s Apaches.  Encouraged by the work of Remington, Moore painted  cowboy genre scenes and landscapes of Colorado, Montana, and Wyoming.  About 1885, he opened a studio near Yellowstone Park.  The Santa Fe Railroad commissioned a painting of the Grand Canyon.  In 1935, Moore returned to Texas establishing his studio in Wichita Falls.  That same year the Texas Legislature in its Resolution 48 designated him the “Official Cowboy Artist of the Lone Star State.”[3]

Tex Moore was a self-taught painter from Wichita Falls. He worked as a cowhand during the Longhorn era, a stagecoach driver, a buffalo hunter, a prospector, and an Indian scout. By resolution in 1935, the Texas Legislature designated Moore as "Cowboy Artist of Texas."

Well that was his story, and he stuck to it.  His wives included

Alla May La Rue who had been married to H.W. Lucock in 1909  She died in 1929

Dorothy May Crites who had married Clarence Benjamin Christ in 1929  She died 1936

Allien Falkner, previously married to Stephen Griswald   in 1932  She died 1957

John died in 1950 in Wichita Falls, Texas.

The Abilene Trail was a cattle trail leading from Texas to Abilene, Kansas. Its exact route is disputed owing to its many offshoots, but it crossed the Red River just east of Henrietta, Texas, and continued north across the Indian Territory to Caldwell, Kansas and on past Wichita and Newton to Abilene. The first herds were probably driven over it in 1866, though it was not named until Abilene was established in 1867.

In 1867, Joseph G. McCoy of Illinois settled in Abilene to engage in the cattle trade. He laid out a cattle trail to connect with the north end of the Chisholm Trail, near Wichita. It was to run northward to Abilene on the Union Pacific Railroad where the cattle could be marketed in a more expeditious manner. The road from the mouth of the Little Arkansas to Abilene "was not direct but circuitous. In order to straighten up this trail and bring the cattle direct to Abilene, and by shortening the distance, to counteract the exertions of western would-be competing points for the cattle trade, an engineer corps was sent out under the charge of Civil Engineer T. F. Hersey.

2.5.3.  Ethel Brabazon Moore was born in India in 1868 

She married in 1887 Frank St Clair Grimwood, and he died in 1891 Killed in a Mutiny in India

She married in 1895 Andrew Cornwall Miller, in London.  He served with the Royal Fusiliers in WW1, and died 1942.

He was the son of Colonel James Cornwall Miller of the 11^th Fusiliers of Shotover Park who died 1914.

His brother was

Brigadier General Alfred Douglas Miller, CBE, DSO (1 March 1864 − 5 December 1933) was a British Army officer Miller was the son of Lieutenant-Colonel James Miller (1829−1909), late 11th Hussars, of Shotover Park, Wheatley, Oxfordshire, JP, DL, High Sheriff of Oxfordshire in 1880, and Sarah Dorothy (d. 1911), daughter of Thomas Moore Evans.

The Miller family were, in previous generations, merchants in Scotland, with James Miller's father, Alexander, coming to own Ashford Hall, Middlesex Miller was commissioned a lieutenant in the 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys) on 7 February 1885, and promoted to the rank of captain on 28 June 1893. He was adjutant of the Royal Scots Greys from 1896 to 1900. With the outbreak of the Second Boer War he was chief staff officer to Sir John French and, on 24 December 1901, he was appointed a Deputy-Assistant Adjutant-General on the staff in South Africa. He was promoted major on 20 February 1902. For his service in the war, Miller was mentioned in despatches (dated 8 April 1902) received the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) in the South Africa Honours list published on 26 June 1902, and was noted for future staff employment.

Miller led the 2nd Dragoon Regiment (Royal Scots Grey) as a lieutenant colonel from 1907 to 1911, was promoted to colonel in 1911, and ultimately reached the rank of brigadier general. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1919 New Year Honours.

Ethel died in 1928, in Montana USA, no doubt visiting her brother John.

However, perhaps her marriage to Andrew Miller did not last, or he used a different names, as Evelyn and her husband Arthur arrived in the US in 1901, and lived in Portland Oregon, according to the 1910 census.

In 1920, she was a teacher of music, according to the Census, and arrived in US in 1909

In 1911, census in England,

2.5.5. Beatrice Marion Stewart Brabazon Moore

Beatrice married in 1891, Percival Ainslie, in a society wedding.  Percival was the son of Ainslie Douglas Ainsile, who was in the diplomatic service, resided at Dalgetie Castle

Henry was a Major in the 63^rd Light Infantry in India.  They had a daughter, Eileen Beatric Rachel Ainslie in 1863.  He died in 1894 and Beatrice married Captain Cecil Henry Hunt of the Leicestershire Regiment. He was the son of Rev Thomas Henry Hunt of Royton Park and Charlotte Hamilton.  Beatrice died in 1904, and he married Ida Kathleen Paton.

Ainslie of Delgatie Castle

The Ainslie family which is the subject of this post, and the Ainslies of West Torrington (see the next post), shared a common ancestor in the 16th century.  

Robert Ainslie WS (1734-95) moved from Darnchester near Coldstream to Berrywell House, Duns to take up the post of land agent to Lord Douglas’ Berwickshire estates.  His eldest son, Robert Ainslie (1766-1838) was a friend of the poet Burns, who left an account of a visit to the Borders in the company of Ainslie, during which he stayed several times at Berrywell and enjoyed the company of the latter’s sister, Rachel.  Robert senior's second son, Sir Whitelaw Ainslie (1767-1837) became medical superintendent of southern India, and was knighted in 1835, the year he published a materia medica for the sub-continent.  The third son, Douglas Ainslie (1771-1850) became a land surveyor and agent in succession to his father and bought Delgaty Castle in Aberdeenshire and Blervie House (Morayshire) towards the end of his life.  Having no children of his own, he bequeathed this to his niece, Jane Catherine Grant-Duff (1801-66), the daughter of Sir Whitelaw Ainslie and wife of James Grant-Duff (1789-1858), on condition that her second son took the name of Ainslie and named his eldest son Douglas. 

Jane died in 1866 and her second son, Ainslie Douglas Grant-Duff (1838-1929),  duly took the name Ainslie later that year.  He gave up a career in the Diplomatic Service and took up residence at Delgatie Castle, later qualifying as a barrister in the English courts. 

He sold Blervie in c.1907 to Capt. Harold Bessemer Galloway, who built a new house on the estate in 1909-11 to the designs of J.M. Dick Peddie, but Delgatie passed to his eldest son Douglas Ainslie (1865-1948), a contemporary and friend of Oscar Wilde at Oxford, who also associated with Aubrey Beardsley and Walter Pater.  He became a poet, translator and critic, and in 1922 published a lively volume of autobiography, Adventures Social and Literary, but remained unmarried; he moved to Hollywood and died there after the Second World War.  Unfortunately, by then Delgatie was seriously affected by dry rot.  Six years of wartime occupation by the army left it derelict and in the opinion of some surveyors, beyond saving.  Ainslie’s executors sold it in 1948 to the Countess of Erroll, whose Hay forbears had built it and owned it until 1762, and she presented it to Capt. John Hay (1906-97) who successfully restored it.

Delgatie Castle, Turriff, Aberdeenshire

A five storey L-plan tower house built (perhaps by the Catholic Conn family of Auchry) in 1570-79 for the Hays of Erroll, with a corbelled parapet, bartisans, crowsteps and harled walls; it belongs to the same group of castles as Towie Barclay, and may incorporate some earlier work.  It was repaired after damage in 1594 (the masons marks on the upper part are different to those lower down) and the earlier interiors are of that date; it was extended in the early 17th century with a crowstepped wing, and further wings were added in c.1768 and extended in c.1800 in the Gothick style for the Hon. Sir Alexander Duff.[6]  

His brother was the author

(Ainslie) Douglas Ainslie (1865–27 March 1948), born Ainslie Grant Duff (name changed on succeeding to Dalgety Castle, Aberdeen and Bleuie in Morayshire) was a Scottish poet, translator, critic and diplomat. He was born in Paris, France, and educated at Eton College and at Balliol and Exeter Colleges, Oxford. A contributor to the Yellow Book, he met and befriended Oscar Wilde at age twenty-one while an undergraduate at Oxford. He was also associated with other such notable figures as Aubrey Beardsley, Walter Pater and Marcel Proust. The first translator of the Italian philosopher Benedetto Croce into English, he also lectured on Hegel. He was identified as the "Dear Ainslie" recipient of twelve letters written by Arthur Conan Doyle in 1895 - 1896, which were auctioned by Christie's in 2004.

Ainslie was a Member of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.

He also revered the Indian sage Sri Ramana Maharshi who taught the truth of Non-dualism ('Advaita") and visited him in 1935 at his ashram in Thiruvannamalai in Southern India.

2.5.6. Sydney Constance Brazabon Moore married William Babington Maxwell 1866 – 1938.  She died in 1952. They had two children, Barbara Mary Sydney Maxwell and Henry William Austin, a Barrister in Law.

William Babington Maxwell (1866–1938) was a successful British novelist and playwright. Born on 4 June 1866, he was the third surviving child and second eldest son of novelist Mary Elizabeth Braddon.

Though nearly 50 years old at the outbreak of the First World War, he was accepted as a lieutenant in the Royal Fusiliers and served in France until 1917.

He wrote The Last Man In, a drama, produced 14 March 1910, at the Royalty Theatre, Glasgow, by the Scottish Repertory Company; and, with George Paston (i.e. Emily Morse Symonds), a farce, The Naked Truth, which was first played at Wyndham's Theatre, London in April 1910, and in which Charles Hawtrey played Bernard Darrell. New International Encyclopedia

Mary Elizabeth Braddon (4 October 1835 – 4 February 1915) was an English popular novelist of the Victorian era. She is best known for her 1862 sensation novel Lady Audley's Secret, which has also been dramatised and filmed several times.

Born in London, Mary Elizabeth Braddon was privately educated. Her mother Fanny separated from her father Henry in 1840, when Mary was five. When Mary was ten years old, her brother Edward Braddon left for India and later Australia, where he became Premier of Tasmania.

Mary worked as an actress for three years, when she was befriended by Clara and Adelaide Biddle. They were only playing minor roles, but Braddon was able to support herself and her mother. Adelaide noted that Braddon's interest in acting waned as she took up writing novels.

In 1860, Mary met John Maxwell (1824–1895), a publisher of periodicals, and moved in with him in 1861.^[3] However, Maxwell was already married with five children, and a wife living in an asylum in Ireland. Mary acted as stepmother to his children until 1874, when Maxwell's wife died and they were able to get married. She had six children by him.

Her eldest daughter, Fanny Margaret Maxwell (1863–1955), married the naturalist Edmund Selous on 13 January 1886. In the 1920s they lived in Wyke Castle, where Fanny founded a local branch of the Woman's Institute in 1923, of which she became the first president.

The second eldest son was the novelist William Babington Maxwell (1866–1939).

Mary Elizabeth Braddon died on 4 February 1915 in Richmond (at the time a borough in Surrey) and is interred in Richmond Cemetery. Her home had been Lichfield House in the centre of the town, which was replaced by a block of flats in 1936, Lichfield Court, now listed. She has a plaque in Richmond parish church which calls her simply 'Miss Braddon'. A number of streets in the area are named after characters in her novels – her husband was a property developer in the area.

Lt. Col John Grant Gerrard 1^st Bengal Fusiliers

Ghuznee 1839, (Captain, A.D.C.)
Jellalabad 1842, so-called Flying Victory type (Captain, Officiating Sub Assistant Commissary General)
Cabul 1842, (Captain, 1st E.L.I. S.A.C.G.)
Punjab 1849, (Captn., D.A.C.G. Bengal Army)
India General Service 1854-95, clasp for Pegu (Major, 1st Eur. Bengal Fusrs.)
Indian Mutiny 1857-58, (Lieut. Col. 1st Ben. Fusrs.)

John Grant Gerrard was born in Calcutta on the 8th of November, 1808, and baptized in “the Garrison at Fort William” on the 7th of January, 1809. He was the son of Major John Gerrard of the 5th Bengal N.I. and his wife Harriet (formerly Holt).

Having been educated in England, John Gerrard was nominated in London as a cadet for the Bengal Infantry on the 28th of June, 1826, by EIC Director William T. Money at the recommendation of T.P. Courtenay, passing the examination the same day. He embarked for India on the 21st of July, 1826, and was commissioned an Ensign the same day.

Ensign Gerrard arrived at Fort William, Calcutta on the 14th of December, 1826. He was posted as an Ensign in the 1st Bengal European Regiment on the 10th of May, 1827, and promoted Lieutenant the 15th of December, 1830.

On the 15th of December, 1838, Gerrard was appointed Aide-de-Camp to Brigadier Abraham Roberts (the father of Fredrick Sleigh Roberts, V.C), the commander of the 4th Brigade of the Army of the Indus. Gerrard was present at the storming and capture of the fortress of Ghuznee in 1839, receiving the medal for Ghuznee and a share of the prize money.

In 1841, Gerrard, having been granted a Brevet Captaincy on the 21st of July, was appointed to command the 1st Jezailchie Regiment of Shah Shuja's Army. Assuming command of this regiment, Gerrard command became a part of the force under Major General Sir Robert Sale when a detachment of the 1st Jezailchie Regiment was ordered to take part in garrisoning Jellalabad.

Jellalabad was soon besieged by an army under Akbar Khan. Due to the state of fanatical excitement among the local population, Sale was compelled to dispense with the services of the several of the irregular corps attached to his force, including Gerrard’s detachment of Jezailchies. Gerrard immediately volunteered to do duty with any regiment in which he could be useful and for the
duration of the defense was attached to the 35th Native Infantry under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Monteath, C.B. Gerrard was severely wounded in a sortie sent out from Jellalabad on the 14th of November, 1841. (London Gazette 11 Feb. 1842.)

Gerrard’s entry in “War Services” in the Bengal Army List, states that he was also severely wounded on the 7th of April, 1842, when General Sale's force unexpectedly marched out of Jellalabad and met and defeated the much larger army of Akbar Khan which was besieging the city. Major-General Pollock marched with a relief column from Ali Musjid, arriving at Jellalabad with his force on the 16th of April, only to find that the “Illustrious Garrison”, as Lord Ellenborough subsequently dubbed them, had effectuated their own relief by defeating Akbar Khan’s army and according to Major-General Pollock were “except for wine and beer, better off than we.”

Gerrard was mentioned in General Sale's Despatch of the 16th of April, 1842 (London Gazette 9 August 1842), for his services at Jellalabad, and along with the other 52 European officers present during the siege received the silver medal for Jellalabad. Gerrard was also “granted the wound pension of his rank, for an injury sustained in action Jellalabad on the 14th Nov. 1841
equivalent to the loss of a limb.”(L/MIL/10/28p33.)

On the 11th of May, 1842, Major-General George Pollack, commander of the troops west of the Indus, appointed Brevet-Captain Gerrard to act as Sub-Assistant Commissary General of the Artillery attached to his force. (G.O. 21 July 1842.) Advancing in August from Jellalabad towards Cabul, General Pollack’s forces virtually annihilated Akbar Khan’s army of approximately
15,000 men at the Tazeane (or Tazeen) Pass on the 13th of September, 1842. No further Afghan resistance was encountered and General Pollack’s army re-entered Cabul unmolested on the 15th of September and occupied the city. Gerrard received the medal for Cabul for his services with Major-General Pollack’s column.

Gerrard was promoted Captain in 1843 and took part in the operations against the hill tribes on the northern frontier of Scinde in 1845. Appointed Deputy Assistant Commissary General in February of 1848 (G.O. 8th March 1848), Gerrard took part in the second Sikh War, being present at Ramnagar, the passage of the Chenab, and at Sadulapur, for which services he received the Punjab Medal.

Gerrard was promoted Major in March of 1850, and from October of that year until May of 1854, was doing duty in charge of the Hissar camel and cattle farm. However, during this time Major Gerrard also served in the Second Burma War. Among other services, he commanded a detachment of the 1st European Bengal Fusiliers in the relief of the besieged Pegu garrison on the 7^th of December, 1842. Gerrard was mentioned in despatches on the 24th of December, 1852 (London Gazette 15 Feb. 1853) and 23rd of February, 1853 (London Gazette 29 April 1853) for his services during the Pegu campaign and received the India General Service medal with clasp for Pegu.

Gerrard was promoted Lieutenant-Colonel on the 14th of January, 1856. His subsequent appointments, as Lieutenant-Colonel, were to the 34th N.I., the 14th N.I. and the 27th N.I.

In July of 1857, Lieutenant-Colonel Gerrard was stationed at Jhelum, commanding the 14th Bengal Native Infantry. Brigadier Neville Chamberlain, concerned about the loyalty of the 14th N.I. due to the recent mutiny of the native troops at Meerut, ordered Lieutenant-Colonel Gerrard to disarm his men and disband the regiment. A detachment of H.M. 24th Regiment under Colonel Ellice was dispatched from Rawul Pindi to Jhelum to assist Lieutenant-Colonel Gerrard in event of trouble. The
detachment arrived on the 7th of July and Gerrard describes what happened next in his letter of 8 July 1857 to the Commander-in-Chief (reprinted in full in Historical Records of the 24th Regiment by G. Paton, F. Glennie and W. Symons.):

“I have the honour to report for the information of H.E. the Commander-in-Chief that yesterday morning, agreeably to the instructions received from Col. Ellice, commanding a detachment 24th Queen’s and three guns of European Horse Artillery, together with, some of the Mooltan Foot and Horse, I paraded the men of the 14th regiment N.I. for the purpose of withdrawing all the Sikhs and Punjabees, and on his arrival in the morning, for the disarming of the down country men. The men
were paraded at 4 ½ o’clock a.m., the Sikhs were marched off, and on the appearance of the force under Col. Ellice on the parade ground, I attempted to explain to the men that they would be called upon to give up their arms for the present…Iscarcely uttered the words when the whole of the Grenadier company commenced loading their firelocks, and although everyeffort was made …to dissuade the men, they loaded, and…they fired on us. They then broke, and fled towards the lines and
quarter guard, which later place they held for a considerable time…until Col. Ellice himself headed a most daring and brilliant advance, when it was taken…with…the loss of Col. Ellice’s services, he having fallen severely wounded in two places. Being the next senior officer present, I took command, and…ordered the guns forward…”

The mutinous troop of the 14th N.I. after being driven out of the quarter guard fled into the jungle but soon occupied the nearby village of Saemli. Although the mutineers lacked artillery, a day long battle ensued before they lost heart and scattered during the night, taking their weapons and ammunition with them. The 24th Regiment’s casualties at Jhelum were 23 officers and men killed and 51 wounded. Captain Spring was killed in action and Colonel Ellice and Lieutenants Streatfeild and Chichester were severely wounded.

Approximately 150 mutinous sepoys were killed, with at least an equal number escaping under the cover of darkness. The remaining mutineers were taken prisoner, forty-eight of which were shot following a drum-head court-martial the morning, with a further twenty-five blown from guns the following day.

Immediately after the fall of Delhi on the 14th of September, Gerrard was appointed to command the 1st European Bengal Fusiliers, the men being extremely pleased by Gerrard’s return to his old regiment. In early November, Gerrard was appointed to command a column for the purpose of intercepting and opposing the Jodhpur Legion which had mutinied at Erinpura and was
then marching towards Delhi. Colonel G.B. Malleson in The History of the Indian Mutiny states, “The direction of it (the column) was bestowed upon Colonel Gerrard, an officer of merit and distinction, trained in the 1st Fusiliers, and who then commanded that regiment.”

Gerrard’s column of approximately 2,500 men marched from Delhi on the 10th of November, 1857. On the 16th, the column reached the village of Narnul which was thought to then be occupied by the enemy. However, upon arriving at Narnul, it was determined that the enemy had withdrawn to a camp some two miles away. Gerrard immediately ordered an advance towards the enemy’s position. The centre of the first line was occupied by the 1st European Bengal Fusiliers and “in front of all rode
Gerrard, a handsome man, with bright dark eyes and wavy grey hair, his red coat covered with decorations, conspicuous on his white Arab, surrounded by his staff. Gerrard was the only man of the force, his Orderly Officer excepted, dressed in red, the infantry wearing the khaki uniform.” (Id.)

The History of the Indian Mutiny, by Rice-Holmes, in discussing the battle at Narnul states:

“Gerrard halted for a short time to refresh his men. They were eating their food when they saw a little cloud of dust rising over some sloping ground in their front. In a few minutes they discovered masses of horsemen through the dust. Presently a shot whizzed over their heads. No time was lost in replying to the challenge. The British advanced steadily; their artillery threw a shower of grape and round shot into the rebel ranks; and now the loud ‘Shabash’ of the Guides, and the flash of
sabres and tulwars amid a cloud of dust on the right showed that a cavalry combat had begun. The enemy’s horsemen met the shock of the Guides and the Carabiniers right gallantly, but were, notwithstanding, overpowered and hurled back; the victors, wheeling round after their pursuit, swooped upon the gunners and cut down all that stood their ground; the 1st Bengal
Fusiliers overpowered the infantry and captured the guns, and the Multani Horse, charging the rebel right, completed the
route.” (Page 384.)

Malleson reports what happened next:

“As in the fight, so in the pursuit, Gerrard maintained his prominent position. He pushed forward, directing the men, till he reached a rivulet with partially wooded banks. On these banks he drew in his horse, whilst he directed the movements of the troops to the other side. To him, thus sitting on his white Arab and giving directions calmly, one of his staff officers,
Lieutenant Hogg, suddenly pointed out a man on the opposite bank taking deliberate aim at him. Just then the man fired, but missed. Hogg entreated the Colonel to move back. Gerrard replied that he would move in a minute, but that he must see what was going on. But before he did move, the man had reloaded and fired. This time his aim was true. Gerrard fell mortallywounded, and died in two hours”

A memorial to Lieutenant-Colonel Gerrard was raised at Meerut with the inscription: “Sacred to the memory of Lieutenant-Colonel John Grant Gerrard, 1st Bengal Fusiliers, who was killed in action while gallantly leading on to victory the movable column which he commanded against the Jodhpur Legion at Narnaul, near Delhi, November 17th 1857, aged 48 years.”

Lieutenant-Colonel Gerrard is also named on the Memorial to the Royal Munster Fusiliers at Westminster Cathedral.

Fred Roberts (later Lord Roberts) in a letter to his mother wrote, “Poor Gerrard, I am very sorry for his death. Marianne (Gerrard’s wife) must be in great grief, I have scarcely seen a couple in India so fond of each other as they were.” (F.R. Roberts, Letters Written During the Indian Mutiny, at page 117.)

Lieutenant-Colonel Innes in the regimental history states: “… there is a sad gap in the ranks of the Fusiliers, who had left on the field of battle their gallant and generous-hearted Colonel. There was no complaint too trivial, no wrong too slight, to escape the attention and secure the relief of Colonel Gerrard; known as the soldier’s friend, he was ever ready to listen patiently to their injuries, and to redress their wrongs. The melancholy loss of their brave Colonel was deeply felt and generally deplored by officers and men alike; there were few amongst them who had not felt the beneficial influence of his noble character, and his memory will be deservedly cherished by those who love to honour and respect the good, the noble,and the brave.” (Lt.-Co.. P.R. Innes, History of the Bengal European Regiment, now the Royal Munster Fusiliers and How It Helped to Win India, at page 500.)

So  many of the Durnford/Brabazon/Moore family were involved with the British Military,

2.6.  Francis Stewart Moore m Sir Richard Clarke Acton, 10^th Bart Throckmorton, Captain in 87^th Foot

 Sir Richard Charles Acton Throckmorton, 10th Bt. was born on 26 April 1839.² He was the son of Sir Robert George Throckmorton, 8th Bt. and Elizabeth Acton.

He married, firstly, Frances Stewart Moore, daughter of Major John Arthur Moore and Sophia Stewart Yates, on 23 January 1866.

 He married, secondly, Florence Helen Brigg, daughter of John Fligg Brigg and Martha Ann Adelaide Lockwood, on 30 July 1921.

He died on 28 April 1927 at age 88.     He gained the rank of Captain in the 87th Foot. He succeeded as the 10th Baronet Throckmorton, of Coughton, co. Warwick [E., 1642] on 21 December 1919.

Children of Sir Richard Charles Acton Throckmorton, 10th Bt. and Frances Stewart Moore

2.6.1 Brenda Mary Stourton Throckmorton d. 12 Jul 1957

2.6.2 Irene Gertrude Mary Preston Throckmorton d. 11 Mar 1965

2.6.3 Angela Elizabeth Mary Throckmorton

2.6.4 Lt.-Col. Richard Courtenay Brabazon Throckmorton b. 22 Dec 1866, d. 9 Apr 1916

2.6.5 Basil Charles Dalberg Acton Throckmorton b. 18 Apr 1870, d. 5 Apr 1959

2.6.6 Captain Herbert John Anthony Throckmorton b. 11 Jun 1871, d. 1 Jan 1941

2.6.7 Mowbray Nicholas Throckmorton b. 12 Sep 1876, d. 4 Jun 1878

2.6.8 Captain Geoffrey Berkeley William Throckmorton b. 3 Sep 1883, d. bt 1970 – 1994

Sir Robert George Throckmorton, 8th Bt. was born on 5 December 1800 at Queen Street, Mayfair, London, England, and died 1862.   He was the son of William Throckmorton and Frances Giffard.  He married Elizabeth Acton, daughter of Sir John Francis Edward Acton, 6th Bt. and Mary Anne Acton, on 16 July 1829. He died on 28 June 1862 at age 61 at Hereford Street, Park Lane, London, England^.

 He held the office of Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Berkshire between 1831 and 1835. He succeeded as the 8th Baronet Throckmorton, of Coughton, co. Warwick [E., 1642] on 3 December 1840.. He held the office of High Sheriff of Berkshire in 1843.

The Throckmorton’s are intermingled many times within the lineages of the family of Barbara Brabazon.

Another lineage that is intermingled is Gifford/Giffard.

2.6.4 Richard Charles Brabazon Throckmorton

2.6.5 Basil John Acton Throckmorton was in the Boer War, and in First World War.

2.6.6  Captain Herbert John Anthony Throckmorton m Ethel Stapleton-Bretherton.

He was a Lieutenant on the Phaeton in 1896.  He was appointed in command of the monitor Havelock on 16 June, 1917.  He fought in the Boer War, and in the First World War.

 He gained the rank of Captain in the Royal Navy.

2.6.8  Capt Geoffrey Berkeley William Throckmorton.

He gained the rank of Captain in the Berkshire Yeomanry. He fought in the First World War between 1914 and 1918, where he was wounded and mentioned in despatches.¹ He was Clerk of the Journals, House of Commons between 1940 and 1948. He was appointed Commander, Order of the British Empire (C.B.E.) in 1947. He lived in 1970 at Spiney House, Coughton, Alcester, Warwickshire, England

All sons served in the Boer War, and World War 1.

3.  Charles Henry Moore married Eleanor Marsden.  He was a solicitor in London.

Eleanor was the daughter of Alexander Marsden and Elizabeth Cooper. Her father was the Under Secretary for Ireland.

Charles and Eleanor had 4 daughters,

3.1       Ellen Frideswide Moore             (1837-1916)

3.2       Caroline Radcliff Moore            (1838-1921)

3.3       Elizabeth Marsden Moore          (1840-1937)

3.4       Maria Louisa Moore                  (1842-1896)

None of the girls married.

Marsden, Alexander  by C. J. Woods

Marsden, Alexander (1761–1834), barrister, East India Company agent, and government official, was born in Dublin, probably in October 1761 – he was baptised at St Michan's, Dublin, on 17 October – the youngest of the sixteen children of John Marsden (1716?–1801) and his second wife, Eleanor (d. 1804), daughter of Alexander Bagnell of Edinburgh. John Marsden, a merchant with interests in shipping, had houses at Lazer's Hill and Clontarf and an estate at Vervale, Co. Wicklow, and was a director of the Bank of Ireland (1784–97). Alexander Marsden's grandfather Edmund Marsden (1664–1724), said to be a carpenter, had arrived in Dublin from Baslow, Derbyshire, and acquired property.

After entering TCD (2 November 1778), Marsden graduated BA (1783) and LLB (1786). He was admitted to Lincoln's Inn, London, on 19 January 1785 and called to the Irish bar in 1787; from 1789 he was listed in Wilson's Dublin Directory with an address in Harcourt Street (until 1795) and then Baggot Street (1796–1802). According to the family history, however, he joined his brother William (qv), who, having served the East India Company, returned from Bencoolen with his savings (1779) and, with another brother, John (1745–86), a writer at Bencoolen, set up an East India agency in Gower Street, London (January 1785). As John died 13 April 1786 at Bencoolen, it seems likely that Alexander saw and seized a business opportunity in London. At dates not known he traded at 76 Lombard Street as Alexander Marsden & Co. It may be presumed that by 1789 this venture was over.

Marsden's election on 22 January 1787 to membership of the RIA suggests that he was in Dublin on that date. Owing to the influence of Edward Cooke (qv), he took up (in 1798) a post at Dublin Castle which seems to have been created for him – assistant secretary in the law department in the chief secretary's office. He made himself useful beyond his remit. The lord chancellor, the earl of Clare (qv), however, thought him ‘a little pettifogger’. On 21 October 1801 he was appointed under-secretary to Cooke, a position he turned into a powerful one owing to the deference of the lord lieutenant, the earl of Hardwicke (qv). He did not, however, prevent the uprising led by Robert Emmet (qv), though he had been forewarned, and so was criticised. When he left office (1806) he was widely unpopular. The Dublin common council voted 42 to 22 against an address of thanks for his conduct in office – he had promoted a Dublin police bill. But even opponents on the council credited him with ‘urbanity and politeness’.

Marsden's next appointment was as a commissioner of a new board of excise (September 1806), of which he became chairman (1810), retiring in 1815. After the creation of the civil list (1806) he was given a pension of £300 p.a. Towards the end of his life (1822?) Marsden moved to London and resided in Portland Place. He died 22 September 1834 and was buried at Kensal Green.

His marriage (3 July 1794) to Elizabeth Cooper, daughter of John Cooper (d. 1808) of Cooper Hill, Co. Meath, resulted in three daughters.

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