Volume 4

A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank but uninvested with heritable honours / by John Burke.

  • Burke, John, 1787-1848.
Date:
1833-1838
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Credit: A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank but uninvested with heritable honours / by John Burke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Bright, of Talmach Hall, Stonely, ' Braunche, ■ of Essex, Hampden, _ Moore, of Wychford, Wood (orWoDE),Treasurer of England, River, of River Park, SCARDEVILLE, Hussey, of Sussex. Impaling in right of his wife the arms of Hansard and Burt. Crest—A stork ppr. its leg resting on an anchor az. Motto—Dum spiro spero. Estates —The family of Taylor had con- siderable grants of land in America, which were of course forfeited at the indepen- dence. The great estates of the Luther family (ultimately entailed on Dr. Taylor) are principally situated in the county of Es- sex. The singularly expressed will of the late John Luther, esq. of Myles’s, carries proof of the momentary feelings under which it was probably made. Being separated from his wife and having no issue, he adopted his nephew, John Taylor, the son of his favourite sister Rebecca, but that gentle- man having offended him, lie bequeathed his possessions, alter considerable legacies, to his private tutor, Dr. Watson, (the well known Bishop of Landaff), and his housekeeper Mrs. Williams, first to his other nephew, Francis, the second son of his sister, Mrs. Fane, and then to the elder son John Fane, esq. but the ultimate reversion he strictly entailed on the “Taylors,” whom he directs to assume therewith the name and arms of Luther only ^evidently contemplating that this branch of his family would perpe- tuate him. The estate of Vicars Hill, bequeathed to Dr. Taylor’s father by Richard Luther, (who died there, having relinquished his estate of Myles to liis son on his marriage, and lies interred under a handsome monument in the parish church of Boldre), was sold by him to Col. Cleveland, and the family have subsequently disposed of their undivided moiety of Alderton Hall and Hinton Hall, Suffolk, as we before noticed. Residence—Huntly Lodge, Cheltenham. TIGHE, OF MITCHELSTOWN. TIGHE, ROBERT MORGAN, esq. of Mitchelstown, in the county of West- meath, born 1st July, 1790, a magistrate for that county, succeeded to the family estate on the decease of his father in 1835, m. 9th July, 1836, Frances, youngest daughter of the Hon. and Right Rev. Thomas St. Lawrence, Bishop of Cork and Ross, and niece of William, second Earl of Howth. Mr. Morgan Tighe is also representative (in right of his mother) of the family of Morgan, of Cottelstown, county of Sligo. Utmage. This family was of considerable conse- quence in the county of Rutland, and esta- blished from an early period in the hundred of Teigh, in that county. The ancestor of the Mitchelstown branch of the family, Robert Tighe, of the Haymarket, and of Kilpatrick, county of Westmeath, b. in 1645, (brother of the ancestor of the Tighes of Woodstock, county of Kilkenny, see vol. iii. p. 513,) went into Ireland in the reign of Charles II. He m. in 1681, Miss Stearne, sister of General Stearne and of Dr. J. Stearne, Lord Bishop of Clogher, and by her had issue, Robert, his successor. Stearne, of Carrick, county of West- meath. Anne, m. to J. Moland, esq. of the city of Dublin and county of Kildare. The elder son, Robert Tighe, esq. who succeeded his father in his estates in Westmeath and Car- low, purchased the estate of Mitchelstown, Castle Town Delvin, Seurlogstown, and other lands in the county of Westmeath, from his kinsman the Rt. Hon. Richard Tighe. He was born in 1682, and m. in 1715, Mary, sister of the Rt. Hon. Nathaniel Clements, (father of the first Lord Leitrim), and by her, who died in 1780, had issue, i. Stearne, M. P. for Atliy, who died in the lifetime of his father, 7th Janu- ary, 1762. He in. Arabella, daughter of Sir John Osborne, bart. of New-