Jane Catherine Long married Richard Dawkins – Family
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Henry Dawkins II (24 May 1728
– 1814) was a Jamaican plantation owner and Member of the Parliament of Great Britain (MP).
The Dawkins family settled on Jamaica shortly after its seizure from the
Spanish in 1655. William Dawkins acquired plantations in Jamaica, by grant, in
the period 1669 to 1682. These descended to his grandsons James
Dawkins I, and the sons of Henry Dawkins I, James
Dawkins II and Henry Dawkins II, sons of Henry
Dawkins I, all three being MPs. Both James I and James II left property in
England to Henry II, who also inherited Jamaican properties from relatives, for
an annual income of £40,000 to £50,000
He was born
24 May 1728 in Clarendon, Jamaica. He was the second surviving
son of Henry Dawkins (1698–1744), a sugar planter, and his wife, Elizabeth,
daughter of Edward Pennant of Clarendon, chief justice of Jamaica; James
Dawkins II, who died in 1757, was his eldest brother. He studied at John
Roysse's Free School in Abingdon, (now Abingdon
School) c. 1739-1744
and St Mary Hall, Oxford from 1745. Dawkins's father
on his death in 1744 bequeathed 25,000 acres of land and approximately £100,000
to his three surviving sons. James, the eldest son (James Dawkins II, who died
in 1757), inherited 14,300 acres, William received 5000, and Henry 5700.
From 1752 to
1758 Henry Dawkins was a member of the assembly in Jamaica, and was then on the
council to 1759. In 1760 he entered the Parliament of Great Britain as member
for Southampton, holding the seat to 1768. He then was
member for Chippenham, Hindon and Chippenham again, leaving
Parliament finally in 1784. He served for a 24-year period with only short
breaks (one caused by his defeat at Salisbury, near his estate at Standlynch, in
1768). He was a Steward of the Old Abingdonian Club in 1769.
According to
the Oxford Dictionary of
National Biography,
there is no record of Dawkins having spoken in the House of Commons. However,
from 1773 to 1805 he was a member of the Society
of West India Planters and Merchants, a pressure group.
Dawkins
married in 1759, Lady Juliana Colyear, daughter of Charles Colyear, 2nd
Earl of Portmore.[3] They had eight sons and four
daughters. The sons were:
·
James, Member of Parliament, married in 1785 Hannah Phipps, and
secondly Maria Forbes
·
George Hay, Member of
Parliament, married in 1807 Sophia Mary Maude, daughter of Cornwallis Maude, 1st Viscount Hawarden, and in 1814
Elizabeth, daughter of William Henry Bouverie
·
Henry (1765–1852), Member of Parliament for Boroughbridge,
married in 1788 Augusta, daughter of Sir Henry Clinton, father of Henry Dawkins, also Member of Parliament for Boroughbridge
·
William, died an infant
·
Richard, married Jane Catherine Long, daughter of Edward Long and Elizabeth Masters. Father of James Dawkins I
(by his second wife)
·
Edward, who took holy orders
·
Charles, in the Grenadier Guards
·
John (1774–1844), Fellow of All Souls College,
Oxford and
barrister
James
Dawkins (c.1696–1766)
was an English landowner and politician.
He was the
second son of Colonel Richard Dawkins of Clarendon, Jamaica (died c.1698, of a Leicestershire family), and his second
wife Elizabeth Masters, He matriculated at Magdalen
College, Oxford on
28 March 1713, at age 16.
Dawkins, of
Rusley Park, Bishopstone, Wiltshire, bought land at Over Norton in Oxfordshire, the Busby estate. In the general
election of 1734 he
campaigned to become Member of Parliament for Oxford,
but withdrew before the poll, despite having spent heavily. He was brought in
unopposed, however, for New Woodstock, with the support of the Duchess of Marlborough. In 1747
he lost his seat, to John Bateman, 2nd Viscount Bateman, who was backed by Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough.
In the
1750s, Dawkins was considered a Jacobite. He died unmarried on 10 May 1766. His Over Norton Park estate went to Henry Dawkins, his nephew.
Contemporary
statements in relation to one of the descendants, Richard Dawes.
Now Richard Dawkins, the secularist
campaigner against "intolerance and suffering", must face an awkward
revelation: he is descended from slave owners and his family estate was bought
with a fortune partly created by forced labour.
One of his direct ancestors, Henry
Dawkins, amassed such wealth that his family owned 1,013 slaves in Jamaica by
the time of his death in 1744.
The Dawkins family estate, consisting of
400 acres near Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, was bought at least in part with
wealth amassed through sugar plantation and slave ownership.
Over Norton Park, inherited by Richard
Dawkins's father, remains in the family, with the campaigner as a shareholder
and director of the associated business.
3. Charlotte
Long married Sir George Pocock Bart
Sir George Pocock was the 3rd great nephew of Admiral Sir
Francis Drake, and the son of Admiral Sir George Pocock, KB (6
March 1706 – 3 April 1792) was a British officer of
the Royal Navy.
In 1762 he
was appointed to the command of the naval forces in the combined expedition which took Havana. The siege, which began on 7 June and
lasted till 13 August, was rendered deadly by the climate. The final victory
was largely attributable to the vigorous and intelligent aid which Pocock gave
to the troops. His share in the prize money was no less than £122,697. On his
return to England Pocock is said to have been disappointed because another
officer, Sir Charles Saunders, was chosen in preference to himself as
a member of the Admiralty
Board, and to have resigned
in consequence. It is certain that he resigned his commission in 1766. His
monument is in Westminster
Abbey.
In 1763
Pocock married Sophia (died 1767), the widow of his friend Commodore Digby
Dent, daughter of George Francis Drake of Madras and step-daughter of George Morton Pitt who had inherited Pitt's house at
Twickenham now known as Orleans
House.
Their son
George (1765-1840) was created a baronet and their daughter Sophia (died 1811)
married John 4th Earl Powlett
John
Poulett, 4th Earl Poulett KT (3 April 1756 – 14 January 1819), styled Viscount
Hinton between 1764 and 1788, was a British peer and militia officer.
Poulett was
the son of Vere Poulett, 3rd Earl
Poulett, by Mary Butt,
daughter of Richard Butt, of Arlington, Gloucestershire. From 4 August 1778 until April 1803,
he was colonel of the East Devon Militia, which was in active service in the
Army in 1779.
He succeeded
his father in the earldom in 1788. In 1792 he was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Somerset, a post he held until his death.
He was also a Recorder of Bridgwater. The East Devon Militia was again
embodied, under his colonelcy, for active service in March 1794, and he was
also commissioned colonel of the Somersetshire Fencible Cavalry.
On 30 May,
he was invested a Knight of the Thistle. He was appointed a Lord of the Bedchamber to George III on 19 November 1795, an office he
held until his death. Poulett was commissioned colonel of the 1st (East)
Somersetshire Militia and the East Somerset Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry
on 17 September 1803.
Lord Poulett
married firstly Sophia Pocock, daughter of Admiral Sir George
Pocock, in 1782. They
had ten children, including Vice-Admiral the Honourable George Poulett,
father of William Poulett, 6th Earl Poulett. One daughter, Lady Sophia Poulett
was the wife of Henry Vane, 2nd Duke of
Cleveland, while
another daughter, Lady Mary Poulett, was the second wife of Lord Charles Somerset.
After
Sophia's death in January 1811 Poulett married secondly Margaret Burges,
daughter of Ynyr Burges and widow of Sir John Smith-Burges, 1st Baronet, in
1816. He died in January 1819, aged 62, and was succeeded in the earldom by his
eldest son, John. The Countess Poulett died at Brighton in May 1838.
George Morton Pitt (1693 – 9
February 1756) was a Madras-born British politician and administrator who
served as the President of Fort St George from 1730 to 1735.
Pitt
resigned as governor in 1735 with a considerable fortune, purchased what later
became known as Orleans House Twickenham from the estate of James Johnston who
died in 1737 and bought in January 1740 burgages and freeholds from Sir William Lowther which with Lord Galway's
interest gave complete control of the Pontefract seat.
He held
Pontefract until he chose to not stand for election in 1754 giving his seat to
friend Sambrooke
Freeman. Those
Pontefract properties passed by remainder from his daughter Harriott to John Pitt (1704–1787), M.P. for Dorchester,
who sold them in 1766.
He married 8
September 1743 Sophia Drake daughter of Charles Bugden of Fort St George and
their only child, his daughter Harriott, married Brownlow Bertie but died aged 18 without surviving issue and his
Twickenham estate went to his wife's daughter by her prior marriage to George
Francis Drake, councillor and merchant of Madras, who married Sir George Pocock (1706–1792)
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