The
Devon Lineage
The
Devon family can be traced to Richard Devon 1613 - 1691 who married Mary
Binfield. The family lived in
Buckinghamshire.
Their
son was Richard Devon 1654 – 1710 who married Sarah Lambert
Their
son was John Devon 1702 – 1755 who married Mary Gorr
Their
son was William Devon 1735 – 1819 who was a solicitor. He married Margaret
Barlow
Their
son was Charles Devon 1789 – 1869 who
was a Magistrate. He married Mary Long.
It was
through this marriage that Charles later became the beneficiary of a will
£2000 of the
compensation for Lucky Valley in Clarendon Jamaica was awarded to trustees
(Charles Edward Long and G.G. Wandisford Pigott) of the marriage settlement of
Charles Devon and Mary Long, the daughter of Edward Beeston Long.
Son of William Devon of Teddington,
Middlesex, solicitor. Born 17/05/1789. Attended Harrow School. Matriculated St
John's College, Cambridge, 1806. Admitted at Lincoln's Inn, 30/01/1805. Justice
of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant. Of Teddington Place, Middlesex, and
Rackenford, North Devon. Married Mary, daughter of Edward Long.
"He ran as a substitute for Lord Byron in
the Eton v. Harrow cricket match, 1805, Byron being, of course, lame."
Died 14/02/1869 at Addington, Kent.
Married Mary Long 13/07/1822 at
Marylebone.
In the census of 1841 at Marina,
Hastings, age 45, with his wife and children Charlotte age 14, Emily age 13,
Mary age 6, Victoria age 3 and Edward age 7. In 1851 his wife Mary is recorded
with their children at Teddington Place while Charles was a visitor in the
gamekeeper's lodge, Rackenford.
In 1861 the family is at St Vincents,
Addington, Kent, where his occupation is Magistrate. The will of Charles Devon
late of St Vincents died 14/02/1869 at St Vincents and his will was proved by
Henry Charles Devon his son, the sole executor; effects under £2,000.
The children were
Charlotte Isabella Henrietta Devon 1827 – 1892 m Rev
Canon Edward Moore, second wife
Emily Charlotte Catherine Devon 1828 – 1911
Captain Henry Charles Devon 1830 – 1895 (Devon Artillery Militia)
Mary Georgina Elizabeth Devon 1835 - 1856
Victoria Harriet Louisa Devon 1837 - 1921 m
Arthur George Durnford
Family
of Victoria Devon
Victoria
was the daughter of Charles Devon Esq, Magistrate from Teddington in
Middlesex. He was born in 1789 and died
1869. He married Mary Long 1799 – 1853.
Charles
was the son of William Devon, 1735 – 1819 a solicitor and Margaret Barlow. They
married in 1777 at St Giles Camberwell.
He had previously married Lillya Jervis in 1765, but she had died prior to 1777.
William
was the son of John Devon and Mary Gorr from Staining.
His
parents were Richard Devon and Sarah Lambert.
1 Church St Reigate, was built by Richard.
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2. This house was erected by Richard Devon in 1721 and the rainwater head had "R Devon 1721" on it. But it is called after Frances Maseres, Cursitor Baron of the Exchequer, who lived there from 1774-1824. He was an eccentric character who was born during the reign of George II and who continued to the end of his life to wear the costume of that period. It was later used as a dower house by the Somers family when they owned Reigate Priory. Lady Henry Somerset lived here after she had made the Priory over to her son until her death in 1921. 2 storeys and attic. Original portion 5 windows, 3 dormers. Red Brick. Cornice and panelled parapet. Hipped tiled roof. The centre window bay projects slightly. Windows in moulded architrave surrounds are sashes with glazing bars. Gauged flat brick arches above and aprons below. Door of 6 fielded panels, with patterned fanlight, in Ionic doorcase with modillioned cornice and pediment. Good wrought iron area railings. To the east is a recessed portion of 3 windows probably added in the late C19, though it has the rainwater head with 1721 on it. To the east of this is a still further recessed modern addition of 2 windows.
William
Devon’s clerk was William Tooke.
He was the
younger son of William Tooke the historian; Thomas
Tooke was his
elder brother. Born at St.
Petersburg on 22
November 1777, he came to England in 1792, and was articled to William Devon,
solicitor, in Gray's Inn, with whom he entered into partnership in 1798. Subsequently,
he was for many years at 39 Bedford Row, in partnership with Charles Parker,
and then in the firm of Tooke, Son, & Hallowes.
In 1825
Tooke took a prominent part in the formation of the St. Katharine's Docks, and
was the London agent of George Barker, the solicitor of the London and Birmingham Railway
William Tooke (1744–1820) was
a British clergyman and historian of Russia.
"RACKENFORD, an ancient village on the high road, 8 miles W.N.W. of Tiverton, and 18 miles E.S.E. of South Molton, is described as a borough in some old records,. . . The parish had 562 inhabitants, on July 1st, 1841, but 59 of them were visitors at the annual feast. It contains 3933A. 2R. 37P. of land, rising in bold hills near the sources of the Little Dart river, and comprising many scattered houses. Chas. Devon, Esq., is lord of the manor, for which a court leet and baron is held yearly by Mark Kennaway, Esq., the steward. The former resides at the old manor house, called Cruwyshaye, formerly a seat of the Sydenham and Cruwys families. J.G. Pearse and Wm. Hole, Esqrs., and Messrs. Thos. Ayre, M. Thomas, W. Cockram, Robert Tanner, and several smaller freeholders have estates in the parish. There is a common of about 30 acres, in which is a never failing spring of pure water. The Church (Holy Trinity,) is a small antique fabric, with a tower and five bells, and a finely sculptured font. The rectory, valued in K.B. at £19. 17s. 1½d., and in 1831 at £335, is in the patronage of Thomas Comyns, Esq., and incumbency of the Rev. Wm. Comyns, M.A., who has a good residence and 54A. 31P. of glebe. . . ." [From White's Devonshire Directory (1850)]
Charlotte Isabella Henrietta Devon married Edward Moore
Edward Moore was born in 1814, the son of the Rev. George
Moore. In addition to being a Prebend of Canterbury, George was Rector of
Wrotham. George was himself the son of John Moore, Archbishop of
Canterbury from 1783 to 1805. John Moore came from a relatively humble
background, his own father, another George, having been a butcher in
Gloucester.
Edward Moore was educated at Eton and Christ Church College,
Oxford. He became Deacon, with the Curacy of Standstead in Kent on 21 May
1837, aged 23. Standstead was then a perpetual curacy under the
ecclesiastical jurisdiction of Wrotham, his father’s parish. In June 1838
he became a priest and his signature, as assistant curate, first appears in the
Frittenden parish registers in 1839. On 3 May 1848 he became Rector of
Frittenden. This followed the death of Rev. John Archambo Argles who had
been Rector since November 1837, but appears to have hardly ever attended the
parish.
Edward’s appointment was
made by the Trustees of an Indenture dated 28 March 1842. This date is of
note for the following day Edward married Lady Harriet Janet Sarah
Montagu-Scott. Harriet had been born in 1814 in Dalkeith House, the 6th daughter of Charles William Henry Montagu-Scott,
4th Duke of Buccleuch and 6th Duke of Queensbury, then, and now the largest
landowner in the UK.
The wedding of Edward and Harriet took place at St
Georges, Hanover Square, a centre for fashionable weddings. As part of the
marriage there was a settlement on Harriet. It appears from this that
Edward brought to the marriage an ‘Estate’ in Kennardington, where he is
described in Bagshaw (1847) as one of the principal landowners, together with
freehold in Kemp Town, Brighton. It was this financial security, together
the funds from the marriage settlement, which enabled Edward and his wife to
begin the significant changes to Frittenden that they wished. It was the
Trustees of the Trust Document of 1842 who had acquired the Advowson of
Frittenden from Henry Hodges of Hemsted.
Edward had lived in Hollenden when he first arrived in the
parish but was living in the Rectory at the time of the 1841 Census, with a
male and a female live-in servant. Upon their marriage, the first thing
that Edward and Harriet undertook was the upgrading of their home, the Rectory
in Frittenden. A report commissioned from an architect and two clerics
found that the Rectory had been allowed to fall into serious disrepair: indeed
it was observed that the monies raised by the previous Rector, Argles, to make
improvements had not been used.
Edward and Harriet
commissioned John Walker, an architect from Maidstone, to draw up plans for a
new house. So Edward Moore commenced his modernisation and produced from this
‘the old red house’, depicted here by John Preston Neale, the new
Georgian/Early Victorian classical building which became Frittenden
House. To fund this renovation, Moore took a mortgage on the tithes and
other receipts of the church, a procedure quite common at this time.
In addition to the works on the house, Edward and Harriet
landscaped the land around the house creating initially a park land and later
much else besides. The glebe land was acquired and over the years the
Marriage Settlement Trustees recorded the sale and purchase of many properties
in Frittenden and elsewhere.
In the grounds acquired by Moore adjacent to the Rectory, now
Frittenden House, were two ponds. Moore notes in the Parish Book that in
the 10 years before the 1851 Census some ‘200 souls must have emigrated to
America’ from Frittenden. This was driven by the long economic recession
experienced in the Weald in the years after the Napoleonic Wars. Moore
paid the unemployed to dig by hand the lake incorporating these two ponds. Moore
paid only a few pence a day, but it did provide some employment. As a
result Moore acquired a substantial ornamental lake.
Once the house was finished, Moore turned his attention to the
fabric of the church. The church was essentially rebuilt at the Moore’s
cost, some £6,000.
Despite their wealth, social position and standard of living,
family life had not been without sadness for Edward and Lady Harriet.
Their eldest and youngest children, Harriet and Helen, both died from
diphtheria within 6 weeks in 1859.
Edward and Harriet Moore would have made their mark on
Frittenden just by their ‘improvements’. However, there was another side
to their ‘good works’. Between completion of the work on the Moore’s home and
the beginning of the restoration of the Church, another major project was
undertaken. At a Vestry meeting in October 1842, it was agreed to permit
the conveyance of “all that portion of the field called the Church Field now
fenced off” to eight Trustees, including Edward Moore, to be applied as a site
for a school to be under the management and control of the Clergyman of the
Parish. At a meeting of the rate payers and owners of property in the
parish, in July 1843, the conveyance of the site of the National Schools was
duly executed. The actual date that the Schools were opened is not known
but Kelly’s Directory of 1848 records Frittenden as “having National Schools
which was erected in 1845 for 211 ch By 1868 he had become an Hon. Canon of
Canterbury.
In 1871, he married (in Farnham, Surrey), Charlotte Isabella
Devon, some 13 years younger than himself and daughter of Charles Devon of
Rackenford and Mary his wife (both of whom were buried in Frittenden churchyard
during Edward Moore’s tenure). From 1871 to 1884 he was Secretary of the National
Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the
Established Church Throughout England & Wales, what we know as the National
Schools movement. By 1874 he was living at Theobolds, Hawkhurst. He
then moved to Canterbury, initially living at the Gables (1875) and later in
the precincts of the Cathedral. By 1882 he had moved to The Oaks, Ospringe,
Faversham. The National Society records note that he become vicar of
Davington Western, Faversham, from 1884 until 1886. He died in 1889, aged
75, and was buried in the cemetery of Ospringe church. His second wife
died two years later.
The son
of Rev Canon Moore was Admiral Sir Arthur Moore
In 1881 he
was given command of the battleship HMS Invincible in the Mediterranean Fleet and in 1882 he commanded the corvette HMS Orion in the Anglo-Egyptian War. He was present at the Battle of Tel-el-Kebir. In 1884 he was appointed Flag
Captain to the Commander
in Chief, East Indies.
He later took command of the battleship HMS Dreadnought in the Mediterranean Fleet before becoming Commandant
of HMS Britannia at Dartmouth.
In 1889
Moore was sent as a British representative to the Anti-Slavery Congress held
in Brussels. In 1890-1891 he was a member of the
Australian Defence Committee.
He was
made Junior Naval Lord at the Admiralty in 1898, and Commander-in-Chief,
Cape of Good Hope and West Coast of Africa Station in early 1901, leaving the UK
for Cape in March 1901 on board his
flagship HMS Gibraltar. In this capacity he took part in
the closing phases of the Second
Boer War.[4] Following the end of the war in
June 1902, he toured the East Coast of Africa, visiting Zanzibar with seven Royal Navy ships for a
show of force following the death of the sultan and the accession of his son in
July 1902,[6] and Kenya in August.
In 1905 he
became Second in Command in the Channel
Fleet and in 1906
he was made Commander-in-Chief, China. His last appointment was as Commander-in-Chief,
Portsmouth from
1911; he retired in 1912. When he died in 1934, Moore was buried with other
members of his family at St Mary's Church, Frittenden, near the west end of the
church.
In the
1870s while on the frigate Glasgow, Moore was awarded the bronze
medal of the Royal Humane Society for gallantry in rescuing a seaman who had
fallen overboard.
1 January 1892 - Captain Arthur William Moore, RN, is appointed
a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George for services
in connections with the defences of Australasia.
25 June 1897 - Captain Arthur William Moore, CMG, Royal Navy is
appointed a Companion of the Order
of the Bath in commemoration of the sixtieth year of Queen Victoria's
reign.
11 August 1905 - Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur William Moore, KCB,
CMG, second on command of the channel fleet is appointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order on the
occasion of the visit of the French fleet.
5 February 1906 - Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur William Moore, KCB,
KCVO, CMG, lately commanding HMS Caesar which accompanied the King of Norway
from Norway to Denmark in November 1905 is allowed to accept and wear the Grand Cross of the
Royal Norwegian Order of St Olav awarded to him by the King of Norway.
16 June 1911 - Admiral Sir Arthur William Moore, KCB, KCVO, CMG,
is promoted to a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath on the
occasion of His Majesty's Coronation.
4 July 1911 - Admiral Sir Arthur William Moore, GCB, KCVO, CMG,
Commander-in-Chief Portsmouth, is promoted to a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order on the
occasion of the Review of the Fleet at Portsmouth
His Siblings
Charles Henry Moore was a member of the Bengal
Legislative Assembly, and a solicitor.
Edwin Marsham Moore M.A. Hon Canon of
Peterborough Cathedral
Edward
Marsham Moore (17
January 1844 – 5 September 1921) was a British Anglican priest. He was
the Archdeacon of Oakham in the Church of
England from 1906
to 1918.
Moore was
educated at Christ
Church, Oxford and Ripon College Cuddesdon and ordained in 1867. He was curate of (1867–1872) then Vicar of (1872–1876) Ashborne after which he was Rector of Benefield (1876–1907) and, finally,
the Church of St Peter and
St Paul, Uppingham (1907–1920).
He was the
son of Edward Moore (12 June 1813 – 20 April 1889), formerly Rector of Frittenden, Kent, and of Rt Hon Lady Harriet Jane
Sarah Montagu-Scott, daughter of Charles Montagu-Scott,
4th Duke of Buccleuch. He
was the elder brother of Admiral Sir Arthur
Moore and
great-grandson of John Moore (Archbishop
of Canterbury)
Moore
married (1878) Lucy Watts-Russell and there were three children: Aubrey Edward
Duncombe Moore (1879–1946), Captain RN; Constance Evelyn Harriet Moore
(1886–1966); and Noel Arthur Moore (1890–1966), British Army Captain. He died
suddenly in 1921 in Maidstone of heart failure
Henry Walter Moore was living for a
time, at Geraldine New Zealand.
Henry Walter Moore (1849 – 20 August 1916) was an
English-born first-class
cricketer who spent most of his life in New Zealand. Henry Moore was born in Cranbrook,
Kent, in 1849. He was
the son of the Reverend Edward Moore and Lady Harriet Janet Sarah
Montagu-Scott, who was one of the daughters of the 4th Duke of Buccleuch. One of his brothers, Arthur, became an admiral and was knighted.
Their great grandfather was John Moore, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1783 to 1805.
One of their
sisters was a maid of honour to Queen
Victoria.
Moore went
to New Zealand in the 1870s and lived in Geraldine and Christchurch. He married Henrietta Lysaght of Hawera in November 1879, and they had one
son. In May 1884 she died a few days
after giving birth to a daughter, who also died.
In 1886
Moore became a Justice of the Peace in Geraldine. In 1897 he
married Alice Fish of Geraldine. They moved to England four years before his
death Moore was a right-handed middle-order batsman. In consecutive seasons,
1876-77 and 1877-78, playing for Canterbury, he made the highest score in the short
New Zealand first-class season: 76 and 75 respectively. His 76 came in his
first match for Canterbury, against Otago. He went to the wicket early on the
first day with the score at 7 for 2 and put on 99 for the third wicket
with Charles Corfe before he was out with the score
at 106 for 3 after a "very fine exhibition of free hitting, combined with
good defence". Canterbury were all out for 133, but went on to win
the match. His 75 came in the next season's match against Otago, when he
took the score from 22 for 2 to 136 for 6. The New Zealand cricket
historian Tom Reese said, "Right from the beginning he smote the bowling
hip and thigh, going out of his ground to indulge in some forceful
driving." Canterbury won again.
In 1877-78
he was a member of the Canterbury team that inflicted the only
defeat on the
touring Australians. In
1896-97, at the age of 47, he top-scored in each innings for a South Canterbury
XVIII against the touring Queensland cricket team
Rev Herbert Octavius Moore M.A. Domestic
Chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Calcutta
William Francis Moore m Alice Rathbourne. He was a former chairman of the Liverpool,
London and Globe Insurance Company, and chairman of the Mersey Marine Insurance
Company and member of the board of the Liverpool Insurance Company and of the
Bank of British West Africa.
Hon Evelyn Isabella Moore, as a Maid
of Honour of Queen Victoria.
Hon Alice Margaret Moore married The
Rev Canon Sidney Phillips
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