BARONETS Created by QUEEN ANNE. 399. WINFORD, of Glashampton, Worcestershire. T (THOMAS, ESQUIRE,) Created BARONET, July 3, 1702. HIS family came from Winforden-hall, in the county of York, to Sapy, in Herefordfhire. William Winford, fecond fon of Sir William Winford, brought an addition of eftate into the family, by marriage with the heiress of Dumhilton, The family-pedigree began in Edward III's time, but being loft (a), we can trace it no farther than Richard Winford, of Sapy, whofe fon, Walter Winford, in 1570, married Johanna, the daughter and heirefs of Mr. Robert Stone, of Aftley, in this county; and had iffue, John, who married Catherine, daughter of George Hornihold, of Breedon, in Worcestershire, by whom he was father of Sir John Winford, Knt. who was a person of great loyalty, and attended King Charles II. (b) at the battle of Worcester; he married (c) Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Henry Williams, of Guernevet, in com. Brecon. Bart. and had iffue two fons. His fecond fon was, Thomas Winford, Efq; fecond prothonotary of the court of common-pleas, who was the first baronet of this family. He married (d) Sarah, daughter and fole heir of Mr. Mich. Pearce, of Drury-lane, apothecary; (fhe died Sept. 17, 1735, and was buried at Hillingdon, in Middlefex,) but having no iffue, the title was entail'd upon the heirs male of Henry Winford, of Glafhampton, Efq; his brother, who, marrying Mercy, only daughter of Sir William Cookes, of Norgrove, in Worcesterfhire, Bart. (and fifter and heir of Sir Thomas Cookes, of the {@) Ex inf. Dom.The.CookesWinfore, Bar 1726. (4) Ibid. f. ibid. fame (b) Bofcobel, p. II. (c) Ex fame place, and Bentley, Bart. the founder of Worcester college, Oxford,) had iffue, three fons, Sir Thomas-Cookes Winford, who fucceeded his uncle in title and eftate; John, and Harry, who died unmarried. Which Sir Thomas-Cookes Winford, the prefent baronet, married (a), first, Beata, youngest daughter of Sir Henry Parker, of Honington, in com. Warwick, Bart. fecondly, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Mr.Wilmot, of Bromefgrove, in the county of Worcefter; but by neither marriage hath any iffue. ARMS: Argent, a Cheveron, between three Quaterfoils, pierc'd, Sable. CREST: Ona Ducal Coronet, a Blackamoor's Head, coup'd, proper. MOTTO: Tous jours loyal. SEATS: Glafhampton, and Norgrove, both in Worcestershire. 400. SIDLEY, of South fleet, Kent. Created BARONET, July 10, 1702. IR Charles Sidley, the firft baronet of this family, married Richard Newdigate, of Arbury, inWarwickshire, Bart, by whom he was father of, Sir Charles Sidley, Bart. who married the daughter and heir of Sir Collinge, of Nuthall, in com. Nottingham. Efq; by whom he left one fon, Sir Charles, his fucceffor; and one daughter, Elizabeth, married, Nov. 1739, to Sir Robert Burdet, of Bramcote, in Warwickshire, and Foremark, in Derbyshire, Bart. Charles, died at Nuthall, near Nottingham, Feb. 18, 1729-30; and his lady furvived him till April 20, 1738, leaving behind her the character of deferving, but not defirous of praise; whose oeconomy was fuch, that the fupported grandeur without extravagance, and avoided profufenefs, without reflexion; who had all the good endowments of wife, mother, or friend: the tears of her friends, were the livelieft marks of the affection they bore her, and the lamentations of the poor, fhewed the extent of her charity. Sir Charles Sidley, only fon and fucceffor to his father in dignity and estate, is the present baronet, and in his minority. ARMS: Azure, a Fefs, wavy, between three Goats Heads, erafed, Argent, attired Or. CREST: Out of a Ducal Coronet, a Goat's Head, as in the Arms. (e) Ex inf, Dom. The Cookes Winford, Bar 401. WEBSTER, of Copthall, Effex. Created BARONET, May 21, 1703. HE next in order of precedency is, Sir Thomas Webster, TH Bart. now living, the only fon and heir of Sir Godfrey Webster, of Nelmes, in the county of Effex, Knt. (a) by his wife, Abigail, daughter and coheir of Thomas Gorden, of the Mere, in Staffordshire, Efq; which Sir Godfrey, was a younger fon of the (b) Websters, of the county of Derby, who for a long time have poffeffed a genteel eftate in that county; which is now inherited by Peter Webster, Efq; the chief heir male of the family. The prefent Sir Thomas Webster, was created a baronet in the fecond year of the reign of her late majesty Queen Anne, and in the year 1705, was returned a member for the borough of Colchefter, to the parliament then called; for which place, he ferved again, in the first and fecond parliaments of Great-Britain, (after the union,) 1708, and 1710, and alfo again, in the second parliament of King George II. Alfo about the year 1717 (c), he was, by the freeholders of the county of Effex, elected verdurer of the ancient foreft of Waltham, in the faid county. By his lady, (d) Jane, daughter and fole heir of Edward Cheek, of Sampford-Orcas, in the county of Somerfet, Efq; (by his wife, Mary, daughter and coheir of Henry Whiftler, of Ebfham, in com. Surry, Efq;) he hath iffue now living, two fons, Whistler, (member of parliament for Eaft-Grinfted;) and Godfrey, both unmarried; and three daughters, Abigail, married first, to William Northey, late of Compton-Baflett, in Wiltshire, Efq; fon and heir of Sir Edward Northey, Knt. late attorney-general; and fecondly, to Sir Edmond Thomas, of Wenvoe, in Glamorganfhire, Bart. member of parliament for Chippenham, in Wilts; Jane, and Elizabeth, unmarried. ARMS: Azure, on a Bend, Argent, cotifed, Or, (between two Demi-Lions, rampant, Ermine,) a Rofe, Gules, feeded and leav'd, proper, between two Boars Heads, coup'd, Sable, langu'd, Gules. CREST: A Dragon's Head, couped, reguardant, quarterly per Fefs, embattled, Vert, and Or, with Flames of Fire iffuing out of his Mouth, proper (e). Chief SEATS: Nelmes, in the county of Effex, and BattleAbbey, in the county of Suffex. (b) Ibid. (a) Ex inf. Dom. Tho. Webfter, Bar. 1726. (c) Ibid, (e) The arms and creft, are from Le Neve's MSS, vol. III. p. 375. 402. (d) Ibid. 402. DOLBEN, of Thingdon, alias Finedon, (GILBERT, ESQUIRE,) Created BARONET, April 1, 1704. HIS family is very ancient in Denbighshire, and has branched into several houses; David Dolben, made bishop of Bangor, 1631, was of this family. John Dolben, of Haverford weft, in the county of Pembroke, defcended from thofe of Segrayd, in com. Denbigh, married Alice, fifter to Sir Thomas Myddelton, of Chirk-caftle, in Denbighshire, by whom he had a fon, William Dolben, D. D. rector of Stanwick, in Northamptonshire, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Hugh Williams, of Coghwillan, in Carnarvonfhire, Efq; neice to the right rev. Dr. John Williams, lord archbishop of York, and lord-keeper of the great feal, by whom he had three fons, and two daughters; 1. John; 2. Sir William Dolben, Knt. one of the judges of the king's-bench, temp. Car. II. who was turned out for being the only judge that gave his opinion against the legality of diffolving corporations, by quo-warranto's; but was reftored again by King William III. 1688; and 3. Rowland, a fea-officer; the two laft died unmarried. Of the two daughters, the eldest married Dr. Stephen Luddington, archdeacon of Stow, in the diocese of Lincoln, and had a fon, Stephen, a clergyman, who died unmarried, and four daughters; the eldest married to Dr. Nicholas Stratford, late bishop of Chefter, by whom she had one fon, Dr. WilliamStratford, late canon of Chrift-church, who died unmarried, and one daughter, married to Dr. Antweezle, late dean of Chefter, by whom she had two daughters, that are unmarried; the fecond, married to Dr. Dickenfon, of St. Martin's lane, by whom she had one only daughter, who was married to the baron Blombergh, a nobleman of Courland, by whom she had several fons, the eldest of which, Edmund-Charles, is equerry to his majefty, and the fecond, rector of Fulham, in Middlesex, and married to a daughter of Dr. Bland, dean of Durham; the third, married to Mr.Wheler, by whom she had, Dr.Wheler, a phyfician, at Chefter, and one daughter; the fourth, married to Mr. Fox, by whom she had a numerous issue. Dr. Dolben's fecond daughter, married twice; by her first hufband, a wealthy citizen of London, fhe had no iffue; but by her fecond, Dr. James, warden of All-Souls college, Oxon, she had a fon, Gilbert, who was captain of a man of war, and died (was caft away at fea,) unmarried, and three daughters; the eldeft married Mr. Richardfon, late merchant, in Batinghall street, and had had no iffue; the fecond, was married to Mr. Benfon, of Saltershall, late fecondary of the Compter, by whom she had, Mr. Benfon, late fecondary of the compter, and several other children; the third, Mary, who died unmarried. Dr. William Dolben, was nominated to the bishoprick of Glocefter, but upon his falling extremely ill, the inftruments were fufpended till he died; he was fo beloved at Stanwick, that his parishioners hearing how ill he was, at London, plowed and fowed his glebe-lands at their own expence, that his widow might have the benefit of the crop, which The had after his death. John,the eldest fon of the doctor, was born atStanwick, 20 Mar. 1624. He was educated in Westminster fchool, and at fifteen years of age, was elected ftudent of Chrift church, Oxon. The civil wars commencing betwixt the King, and the parliament, he took arms for the royal caufe, and ferved as enfign at the fiege of York, and battle of Marfton-Moor, where he was dangerously wounded in the fhoulder with a mufket-ball; he was afterwards made captain, (and major, according to Wood,) and had his thighbone broke, in another battle, by a mufket-fhot likewife. Upon the furrender of Oxford, and the decline of the King's affairs, he went to his college again, and ftaid there till he was ejected from his ftudent's place, by the vifitors appointed by parliament. He then married, and lived privately in Oxford, till the King's restoration, where, with Dr.Fell, and fome others of his friends, he kept up a congregation, in which the common-prayer was read, and all other ufages of the church of England, constantly folemnized. When his royal mafter was reftored, for whofe cause, and his fathers, he had so often ventured his life, he was first instituted canon of Christ-church;_afterwards, by means of his wife's relation to the then bishop of London, Dr.Sheldon, (who was removed to Canterbury, 1663;) he was defervedly made archdeacon of London, clerk of the closet, and dean of Westminster. In the year 1666, he was confecrated bishop of Rochester, and made the King's almoner; when, fays my author, (Ant.Wood,) that place was managed to the great benefit of the poor, with great juftice and integrity. On the 26th of July, 1683, he was, by the King's Conge d'elire, elected archbishop of the diocese of York, and enthronized in perfon, Auguft 23, following. This prelate, was a man, of a free, generous, and noble difpofition, and withal, of a natural, bold, and happy eloquence. And, adds our Oxford antiquary, by a fort of hereditary right, he fucceeded his uncle Williams, in his honours; both in his deanry of Westminster, and archbishoprick of York. He died at Bishops-Thorpe, of the fmall-pox, at a very advanced age for the attack of that diftemper, April 11, 1686, aged fixty-two years. He lies interred in the fouth choir-ifle of the Minfter of York, |