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ROBERT BANKS JENKINSON, 2ND EARL OF LIVERPOOL


1  Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool

   Will dat 21 Sep 1821 to 20 Aug 1827, pr 13 Feb 1829

   b 7 Jun 1770, Westminster

   d 4 Dec 1828, Coombe Wood near Kingston-on-Thames

 

Parents

 

2  Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool
   Will dat 7 May 1807, pr 27 Jan 1809

   b 26 Apr 1727, Winchester

   d 17 Dec 1808, Mayfair

   m 9 Feb 1769, St. Marylebone

3  Amelia Watts

   b 22 Dec 1750, Cossimbazaar, India

   bur 20 Jul 1770, Hawkesbury, Gloucestershire

 

Grandparents

 

Charles Jenkinson of Burford Lawn Lodge in the Forest of Whichwood; Col. of the Horse Guards
   bap 13 Jun 1693, Charlbury, Oxfordshire

   bur 23 Jun 1750, Shipton-under-Whichwood, Oxfordshire

   m 7 Sep 1725, St. Paul, Covent Garden, London

5  Amarantha Cornewall

   bap 12 Jun 1700, St. Thomas, Winchester

   bur 31 Jul 1785, St. Thomas, Winchester

6  William Watts of South Hill, Ascot, Berkshire and of Hanslope, Buckinghamshire; Governor of

   Fort William, Bengal

   b 1722

   d 4 Aug 1764

   m 24 Mar 1749

7  Frances Croke

   b 10 Apr 1728, Fort St. David

   d 3 Feb 1812, Calcutta

 

Great-grandparents

 

8  Sir Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Baronet, of Walcot, Oxfordshire and of Hawkesbury
   Will pr Mar 1710

   b ca. 1655

   bur 4 Feb 1709/10, Charlbury

   m 14 Feb 1684

9  Sarah Tomlins

   b

   bur 15 Aug 1709, Charlbury

10 Capt. Wolfran Cornewall, R.N.

   Will dat 5 Dec 1719, pr PCC 24 Feb 1719/20

   b ca. 1655

   bur 21 Jan 1719/20, Bath Abbey

   m

11 Elizabeth Devereux

   b

   bur 18 Feb 1740/41, Shipton-under-Whichwood

12 (possibly - see the note below) William Watts of Shanks House, Cucklington, Somerset

   b

   d

   m

13

   b

   d

14 Edward Croke; Governor of Fort St. David

   b 1690, Madras

   d 12 Feb 1769, Madras

   m 16 Jan 1725/26, Madras

15 Isabella Beizor

   b ca. 1710

   d 4 Oct 1780, Madras

 

Great-great-grandparents

 

16 Robert Jenkinson, 1st Baronet, of Walcot and Hawkesbury
   Will pr 1677

   b ca. 1621

   bur 10 Apr 1677, Charlbury

   m bef 1653

17 Mary, dau of Sir John Bankes of Corfe Castle and Kingston Lacy, co. Dorset, Chief Justice of

   the Court of Common Pleas

   Will pr 1692

   b

   d 13 Jun 1691, bur Charlbury

18 Thomas Tomlins of Bromley, Middlesex and of London; grocer

   Will dat 4 Jul 1676, codicil 6 Apr 1677, pr PCC 1 May 1677

   b

   bur 14 Apr 1677, St. Leonard, Bromley

   m 26 May 1656, St. Michael Bassishaw, London

19 Susanna, dau of William Cranmer, Deputy-Governor of the Merchant Adventurers at Rotterdam

   Will dat 4 Sep 1679, codicil 16 Aug 1681, pr PCC 8 Feb 1681/82

   b 1621

   bur 5 Jan 1681/82, St. Leonard, Bromley

20 Humphrey Cornewall of Berrington; MP for Leominster

   Will dat 11 Feb 1686, with codicil dat 13 Feb 1687, pr 3 Aug 1688

   bap 14 Jul 1616, Eye

   bur 7 Jul 1688, Ludlow

   m

21 Theophila, dau of William Skynner of Thornton College, Lincolnshire

   bap 5 Jun 1622, Thornton Curtis, Lincolnshire

   bur 25 Apr 1718, Ludlow

22 Edward Devereux of Cefngwarnfa in Forden, Montgomeryshire

   b

   d

   m

23 Mary

   b

   d

24

   b

   d

   m

25

   b

   d

26

   b

   d

   m

27

   b

   d

28 George Croke of the Bengal Civil Service

   b

   d

   m 28 Sep 1689, Madras

29 Lucy Field

   b

   d

30

   b

   d

   m

31

   b

   d


Sources


The Complete Peerage
(2nd edition)

The Complete Baronetage

The History of Parliament

The House of Cornewall, C.G.S. Savile, Earl of Liverpool and C. Reade (1908)

Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, 2nd ser., vol. V

The Calcutta of Begum Johnson [ie. Frances Croke, no. 7], I. Edwards-Stuart, 1990

The Gentleman’s Magazine, 1764

The Gentleman’s Magazine, 1770

The Landed Gentry, Burke (1863)

Visitation of England and Wales, ed. J.J. Howard and F.A. Crisp, Notes vol. 6

St. Michael Bassishaw PR transcript (Harleian Society, register series vol. 73)

The Daily Gazetteer

 

Notes

 

The DNB and the pedigree in MGH state that no. 1 died at Fife House, Whitehall, but CP gives his place of death as Coombe Wood, which is supported by The Times of 5 Dec 1828.


The parentage of William Watts (no. 6) is not clear. Edwards-Stuart states that William was son of “Thomas and Susannah of Enfield Chase”. The biography in The History of Parliament of Thomas Watts (d 1742) of Enfield Chase, Middlesex, states that he married Susannah, daughter of Benjamin Gascoyne of Chiswick and sister of Sir Crisp Gascoyne, lord mayor of London. However, Thomas Watts and Susannah Gascoyne were apparently married in 1729 and William Watts (no. 6) is said to have been born in 1722. William may have been a son of a previous wife of Thomas Watts, though Susannah Gascoyne is the only wife mentioned for Thomas in The History of Parliament. P.J. Wallis, “Thomas Watts: Academy Master, Freemason, Insurance Pioneer, MP”, History of Education Society Bulletin, 32(Autumn 1983):51-53, writes that Thomas’s will “is disappointingly brief, charging his wife Susannah with the maintenance and education of their two sons (not named, but known to be Thomas and Hugh, who made their careers in the Sun); his brother William, who helped with the Academy and at the Sun, is not even mentioned.” In P.G.M. Dickson, The Sun Insurance Office, 1710-1960 (London, 1960), Thomas's brother William is stated to be the William who was father-in-law of Charles Jenkinson. If this and the paternity given for Thomas in The History of Parliament are correct, then William was a son of William Watts of Shanks House, Cucklington, Somerset. Further information on Thomas and William Watts is given in L.B. Namier, "Brice Fisher, M.P.: A Mid-Eighteenth-Century Merchant and his Connexions" in English Historical Review, 42(1927).