Genealogy of Nugent, baronets of Waddesdon
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Sir Christopher George Ridley Nugent, 6th Bt, of Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire; 5 Oct 1949; suc f 26 Nov 2006; educ Eton, UEA; with UN; mar 1958, ●Jacqueline Vagba, and has issue,
1. +Terence; b 1 March 1986.
2. +Rufus; b 1987.
3. +Benjamin; b 1991.
Lineage: Michael Nugent, of Carlanstown, co Meath; mar Hon Mary, dau of Robert Barnewall, 9th Baron Trimlestown (see BARNEWALL of Crickstown Castle, Bt); d 1739, and had an only surv s,
Robert Nugent (assumed surname of Craggs-Nugent after his 2nd marriage), 1st Earl Nugent [I] (so cr 27 June 1776 with spec rem, failing h m, to his s-in-law, George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham, and his h m) also earlier Viscount Clare [I] (so cr 19 Jan 1767) earlier still Baron Nugent, of Carlanstown, in the County of Westmeath [I] (so cr 19 Jan 1767), PC (1759); b 1709; educ Fagan’s Academy (Dublin); MP: St Mawes 1741-54, 1774-84, Bristol 1754-74; Comptroller to Frederick, Prince of Wales 1747-51; Ld of HMT 1754-59; Jt V-Treas [I] 1760-65, 1768-82; 1st Ld of Trade 1766-68; 1st Ld of Trade 1767-66; mar 1stly 14 July 1730, Lady Emilia (dspms 16 Aug 1731), dau of Peter Plunket, 4th Earl of Fingal (see DUNSANY, B), and had an only s,
1. Lt-Col Hon Edmund MP, 1st Ft Grds; b 16 Aug 1731; educ Fagan’s Academy; Capt 85th RoF 1759; Lt-Col 1762; Capt 1st Ft Grds 1763; Groom of the Bedchamber to George II, 1760-d; MP: Liskeard 1754-59, St Mawes 1761-70; d unm 1771 at Bath, Somersets, leaving illegit issue,
1.1. George, later 1st Bt (see below).
1.2. AoF Sir Charles Edmund Kt (12 March 1834), GCH (12 March 1834), RN; bapt 19 Jul 1758; RN; joined 1771, Cdr 26 May 1777, Capt 2 May 1779, R-Adm 20 Feb 1797, V-Adm 1 Jan 1801, Adm 28 Apr 1808, AoF 24 Apr 1833; MP for Buckingham 1784-90; mar 2 July 1790, Deborah Charlotte Dee, widow of George Johnstone, Gov of West Florida 1763-67 and MP for Cockermouth 1768-74, Appleby 1774-80, Lostwithiel 1780-84 and Ilchester 1786-87 (b 1730; d 24 May 1787; dspm 7 Jan 1844, leaving a dau,
1.2.1. Georgina Charlotte; mar 1stly, George Bankes, 7th of Kingston Lacy, of Studland Manor, Dorset; mar 2ndly 2 June 1863, Sir Edward Manningham-Buller, 1st Bt, of Dilhorne Hall, Staffs (see DILHORNE, V); d 7 Dec 1875.
(continued) 1st Earl Nugent mar 2ndly 23 March 1737, Anne (d 22 Nov 1756), widow of (1) John Newsham, of Chadshunt, Warwicks, MP for Lostwithiel 1720-22 (b 15 Apr 1673; d 21 Nov 1724) and (2) John Knight, of Godfield Hall, Essex, MP for St Germans 1710-22 and Sudbury 1722-33 (b 1686?; d 2 Oct 1733) and sis and cohrss of James Craggs PC, MP, SoS 1718-21 (b 9 Apr 1686; d 16 Feb 1721) and dau and cohrss of James Craggs MP, Jt Postmaster-Gen [I] 1715-21, by Elizabeth, dau of Jacob Richards; mar 3rd 2 Jan 1757, Elizabeth, widow of Augustus Berkeley, 4th Earl of Berkeley KT (qv) and dau of Henry Drax MP, of Ellerton Abbey, Yorks; dspms 14 Oct 1788, when all the peerages became EXTINCT, except the Earldom of Nugent, which passed to his s-in-law under its spec rem (see TEMPLE OF STOWE, E), leaving further issue by his 3rd w,
2. Lady Mary Elizabeth, 1st Baroness Nugent of Carlanstown in the County of Westmeath [I] suo jure (so cr 26 Dec 1800 with spec rem for her 2nd s and his h m); mar 16 Apr 1775, George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham KG, KP (see TEMPLE OF STOWE, E); d 16 March 1812, leaving issue.
3. Lady Louisa; b 1758; mar 1784, Adm Sir Eliab GCB (1825; KCB 1815), RN, of Rolls Park, Essex, MP for Maldon 1780-84, Essex 1802-12, 1820-30 (b 5 Dec 1758 at Rolls Park; d 20 Feb 1830 at Rolls Park), s of William Harvey, MP (Tory) for Essex 1747-63 (b 9 June 1714; d 11 June 1763), by Emma, dau and cohrss of Stephen Skynner, of Walthamstow, Essex; d aft 1841.
The illegit grands,
Sir George Nugent, 1st Bt, of Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire [UK] (so cr 28 Nov 1806), GCB (1815; KCB 1813); b 10 June 1757; educ Charterhouse, RMA Woolwich; Ensign 39th RoF 1773; Lt 7th RoF 1775; Capt 57th RoF 1778; Maj 1782; Lt-Col 97th RoF 1783; Lt-Col 13th RoF 1787; Lt-Col 4th Dragoons 1789; Capt and Lt-Col 2nd Ft Grds 1790; Maj-Gen 1796; Adj-Gen [I] 1799-1801; Lt-Gen 1803; Gen 1813; FM 1846; ADC to Ld-Lt of Ir 1787-89; Hon Col: 85th RoF 1794-1805, 62nd RoF 1805-06, 6th RoF 1806-d; Gov of Jamaica 1801-06; C-in-C of India 1811-13; C-in-C of Bengal Army 1813-14; MP(Ir) for Charleville 1800-01; MP: Buckingham 1790-1802, 1818-32, Aylesbury 1806-12; mar 15 Nov 1797, Maria (d 24 Oct 1834), 7th dau of Cortlandt Skinner, Attorney-Gen of NJ, USA 1754-76 (b 16 Dec 1727; d 15 March 1799); d 11 March 1849, leaving issue,
1. George Edmund, later 2nd Bt (see below).
2. Charles Edmund; b 15 June 1811; mar 28 Nov 1837, Louisa (d 18 Dec 1881), dau of Sir Rose Price, 1st Bt, of Trengwainton, Cornw (qv); d 3 March 1890.
3. Louisa Elizabeth; mar 24 Nov 1824, Thomas Francis Freemantle, 1st Baron Cottesloe (see COTTESLOE and FREEMANTLE, B); d 17 Aug 1875, leaving issue.
4. Maria Amelia; d 31 July 1832, Rice Richard, 4th s of Sir William Clayton, 4th Bt, of Marden Park, Surrey (qv); d 1880.
The elder s,
Sir George Edmund Nugent, 2nd Bt; b 12 Oct 1802; sometime Capt and Lt-Col with Gren Grds; mar 13 July 1830, Hon Maria Charlotte (d 31 Aug 1883), 2nd dau and cohrss of Nicholas Ridley-Colborne, 1st Baron Colborne (see RIDLEY, V); d 3 May 1892, leaving issue,
1. George Grenville; b 19 June 1837; dvp 16 March 1838.
2. Edmund Charles, later 3rd Bt (see below).
3. Lucy Henrietta; mar 2 Aug 1860, Sir Francis George Manningham Boileau, 2nd Bt, of Tacolneston Hall, Norfolk (see BOILEAU of Tacolneston Hall, Bt); d 19 Nov 1925, leaving issue.
4. Margaret Louisa; dvp young 1844.Mary Wilhelmina; mar 26 Oct 1881, Capt Jocelyn Henry Watkin, Scots Grds, of Belmont, co Carlow (d 21 Oct 1932), s of Lt-Gen Henry Thomas CB; d 24 Jan 1910.
5. Emily Julia; mar 3 Sept 1878, Russell Henry Monro, of Somerby Hall, Melton Mowbray (d 19 Oct 1922); d 4 Feb 1938.
The 2nd but only surv s,
Sir Edmund Charles Nugent 3rd Bt, JP, DL (Norfolk); b 12 March 1839; sometime Capt Gren Grds; High Sheriff of Norfolk 1900-01; mar 30 Apr 1863, Evelyn Henrietta (d 19 Jan 1922), yst dau of Gen Ernest Fredrick Gascoigne, Gren Grds, of Raby Hall, nr Liverpool; d 4 Dec 1928, leaving issue,
1. Col George Colborne MVO, JP (Norfolk), Gren Grds; b 22 Feb 1864; served Boer War 1899-1900 and WWI; CO Ir Grds Regt and Regimental Dist 1909-13; Cmdt of Duke of York’s Royal Mil Sch at Dover 1913-14; CO 5th London Brigade 1914; mar 8 Dec 1891, Isabel Mary (d 13 Oct 1941), dau of Gen Sir Edward Earle Gascoyne Bulwer GCB (b 22 Dec 1829; d 8 Dec 1910), nephew of Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (see LYTTON, E); KIA 31 May 1915 in France during WWI, leaving issue,
1.1. George Guy Bulwer, later 4th Bt (see below).
1.2. Terence Edmund Gascoigne Nugent, 1st Baron Nugent, of West Harling in the County of Norfolk [UK] (so cr 22 Aug 1960), GCVO (1952; KCVO 1952; CVO 1937; MVO 1927), MC (1918); b 11 Aug 1895; educ Eton, RMA Sandhurst; served WWI as Maj Ir Grds (wounded; despatches); Brigade Maj of Brigade of Grds 1929-33; Lt-Col 1936; Equerry to HRH The Duke of York (later George VI) 1927-52; Extra Equerry to George VI 1937-52 and to Elizabeth II 1952-73; Comptroller 1936-60; Perm Ld-in-W to Elizabeth I 1960-73; Pres: Actors’ and Actresses Pension Fund 1953-73, MCC 1962-63; Grand Officer of Legion d’Honneur 1960; mar 25 Apr 1935, Rosalie (d July 1994), paternal granddau of Gilbert Henry Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 1st Earl of Ancaster (see WILLOUGHBY DE ERESBY, B); dsp 27 Apr 1973, when the Barony of Nugent of West Harling became EXTINCT.
2. Rev Edmund Frederick; b 4 Feb 1866; educ Christ Church Oxf (BA 1890; MA 1893); served WWI; sometime Vicar of St Martin’ (Sussex); Domestic Chaplain to Bp of Truro; ordained RC priest 1919 (received communion 1917); Rector of SS Simon and Jude RC Ch at Streatham Hill 1931-50; d unm 13 May 1950.
3. Lt Charles Henry, Scots Grds; b 4 Feb 1866; d unm 30 Apr 1887.
4. Claud; b 10 May 1867; educ Oxf Univ (BA); d unm 2 Apr 1901.
5. Evelyn Louisa; d unm 3 Nov 1949.
6. Violet; d unm 2 July 1943.
The grands,
Sir (George) Guy Bulwer Nugent, 4th Bt; b 5 Nov 1892; educ Eton, RMA Sandhurst; served WWI as Capt and Adj 3rd Btn Gren Grds; mar 24 Oct 1921, May Esther (d 1992), yst dau of Jesse Arthur Bigsby, of S Kensington, London; d 17 Aug 1970, leaving issue,
1. Dinah; b 1922; served WWII with WRNS; mar 17 June 1950, Capt John William Huyshe DSC, RN, only s of Maj William Pyt Bennett RA, and had issue,
1.1. ●Timothy Nugent Huyshe; b 27 Apr 1951; educ Marlborough.
1.2. ●Nicholas John William; b 14 Apr 1957.
2. Robin George Colborne, 5th Bt (see below).
3. +Jeremy Charles Clare; b 15 Apr 1936; educ Malvern, Worcester Coll Oxf; mar 18 Apr 1960, ●Joy Jennifer, only dau of Arthur Howard Waterson, of Bathwick, Bath, Somersets, and has issue,
3.1. +Nigel Howard Clare; b 30 Aug 1963.
3.2. +Julian Guy Bulwer; b 9 May 1965; mar 2010. ●Jacinta, and has issue,
3.2.1. ●Finlay; b 2005.
3.2.2. ●Bella Rose; b 2007.
3.3. Fiona Clare; b 27 Nov 1967; d unm 2001.
The eldest s,
Sir Robin George Colborne Nugent, 5th Bt; b 11 July 1925; educ Eton, RWA Sch of Architecture; served WWII as Lt Gren Grds (Italy 1944-45 and served till 1948); ARIBA 1959; mar 1stly 17 Apr 1947 (div 1967), Ursula Mary, elder dau of Lt-Gen Sir Herbert Fothergill Cook KCB, KBE, CSI, DSO, QMG India (b 13 Nov 1871; d 6 Feb 1936); mar 2ndly 1967, ●Victoria Anna Irmgard, dau of Dr Peter Cartellieri; d 26 Nov 2006, leaving issue by his 1st w,
4. Christopher George Ridley, present 6th Bt (see below).
5. +Patrick Guy; b 10 Nov 1959; mar 1987, ●Cristina Mura, and has issue,
5.1. ●Kehl (sic) Elizabeth M.; b 1988.
5.2. ●Lara Isabel C.; b 1991.
5.3. ●Charles Patrick G.; b 1995.
6. ●Philippa Mary; b 4 July 1951; mar 1975, ●Timothy Kendall, and has issue,
6.1. ●Joseph; b 1975.
6.2. ●Tessa; b 1977.
S. S.
Paul Theroff
1. Robert, Earl Nugent's, date of birth might have been 1702, not 1709, at least according to "Memoir of Robert, Earl Nugent", by Claud Nugent (1898).
"Some uncertainty exists as to the date of Robert's birth. Two dates are given — 1702 and 1709. I am strongly inclined to favour the former date, for two reasons. One is, that had he not been born until 1709, he would have been but twenty-one years of age at the time of his first marriage, and even younger when he entered the family of the Earl of Fingall as tutor to his son, not an impossible, but an unlikely age. My second reason is, that very late in life he was referred to as the Nestor of the House of Commons, a title which could only rightly be bestowed upon him on the supposition that he was born at the earlier
Paul Theroff
About Louisa, the notes in my file say: "apparently Earl Nugent did not acknowledge her as his daughter, and even called her “Chance”; she may have been dau of William Skrine; Mann wrote to HW on 27 Oct 1778: "[Lady Nugent...] told Lord Lucan the other day that she wished Lord Nugent could see her daughter, as from her likeness to him he would be convinced at least she thought of him at the time.""
Paul Theroff
(This line descends from Sir Thomas Nugent, yr son of Richard, so-called 3rd baron Delvin (d.1538).)
Edmund Nugent, of Carlanstown; m.Clara Cusack
1.Robert, dsp 1728
2.Michael, of Carlanstown, d.1739; m.Hon, Mary Plunkett (d.1740)
2.1.Edmond, d.Buda 1736, aged 21
2.2.Robert NUGENT, later CRAGGS-NUGENT, of Carlanstown, cr 1767 Viscount Clare and Baron Nugent of Carlanstown [I], cr 1776 Earl Nugent [I], with remainder failing his own issue male to his son-in-law George Grenville; he was b.ca 1702 [not 1720, as GEC says], d.Dublin 14 Oct 1788 [sources say 13 or 14 Oct; his son-in-law wrote on 15 Oct that Nugent died “last night”]; m.1st 14 Jul 1730 Lady Emilia Plunkett (d.16 Aug 1731); m.2nd 23 Mar 1736 Anne, née Craggs (bur 28 Nov 1756); m.3rd London 2 Jan 1757 Elizabeth, Dow Css of Berkeley, née Drax (d/29 Jun 1792)
2.2.1.Edmund CRAGGS-NUGENT, d.Bath 26 Apr 1771, aged 40
2.2.1.1.[illegitimate] Charles Edmund
2.2.1.2.[illegitimate] George
2.2.1.3.[illegitimate] Elizabeth
2.2.2.[ex 3] Mary Elizabeth, cr 1800 Baroness Nugent of Carlanstown [I], d.16 Mar 1812; m.George Grenville, Marquess of Buckingham, 2nd Earl Nugent
2.2.3.Louisa (ca 1757-1841); m.1784 Sir Eliab Harvey; apparently Earl Nugent did not acknowledge her as his daughter, and even called her “Chance”; she may have been dau of William Skrine; Mann wrote to HW on 27 Oct 1778: "[Lady Nugent...] told Lord Lucan the other day that she wished Lord Nugent could see her daughter, as from her likeness to him he would be convinced at least she thought of him at the time."
2.2.4.a son, b.1730, by his cousin Clare Nugent, whom he had pledged to marry but never did
2.3.Mary; m.1748 Henry Browne
2.4.Clare; m.1740 George Byrne
3.Christopher
4.Margaret; m.John Chevers, of Macetown
5.Anne; m.James Reynolds, of Loughacur
6.Martha; m.Ignatius Palles, of Aughterava
7.Frances; m.Edward Nugent, of Dungomine
8.Mary-Anne, d.1744
9.Mary; m.Edward Nugent, ancestor of the Nugent of Donore Baronets
10.Elizabeth; m.Garrett Dardis
11.dau; m. N Mapother
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Paul Theroff
Paul Theroff
"My second reason is, that very late in life he was referred to as the Nestor of the House of Commons, a title which could only rightly be bestowed upon him on the supposition that he was born at the earlier date, since there were several members living born prior to 1709."
Paul Theroff
1. The full quotation from Mann to Walpole, 27 Oct 1778: "We have another renowned lady of quite another stamp from the Lady Lucan, Lady Berkeley and her daughter, whom Lord Nugent called Chance, and we call Lady Louisa. The former seems to be seeking for a place to abide in, but unluckily she always meets with English who know her history, and English women who shun her acquaintance. Italy therefore, I believe, will not be the place. She is very free, and told Lord L[ucan] the other day that she wished Lord Nugent could see her daughter, as from her likeness to him he would be convinced at least she thought of him at the time."
A footnote about Louisa in the Yale Edition of the Walpole Correspondence says: "In Dec. 1761 it was reported that Lord Nugent disowned her as his daughter, and wanted to send her to the Foundling Hospital (GEC ix. 794, n[ote] a). Lady Mary Coke heard that Lady Louisa was reputed to be the daughter of WIlliam Skrine, M.P., but Lady Mary commented: 'I gave her a far more illustrious father than Mr Schreen and had some reason for my conjecture' (Lady Mary's 'MS Journals', 3 Aug 1783)." Presumably Lady Mary refers to a royal personage.
2. In reply to Mann's letter, Walpole wrote: "For the other lady, and her daughter Chance, be doubly upon your guard against the mother. There is nothing so black of which she is not capable. Her gallantries are the whitest specks about her." (this last is one of the best-known quips of Walpole.)
3. Walpole wrote to Mann 9 March 1779: "I asked you for a report of Lord Maynard's sudden death. We know it was false, and that his wife, who has always some fascinating powder, has established herself at the Court of Naples by dispensing James's [Powder, a quack medical cure popular at the time]. They say she is universally visited, except by those English prudes the Countesses of Berkeley and Orford [Walpole's own sister-in-law]. I should not wonder if the former [Lady Berkeley] was to dethrone Lady Maynard by distributing Keysar's pills". A footnote by Walpole himself explains that Keysar's pills were for venereal disease.
4. She had at least eight children with Lord Berkeley, including triplets born in 1748, who all seem to have died young. When her daughter, Lady Craven [later Margravine of Ansbach], split with her husband, Lady Berkeley took the husband's part, and her relations with Lady Craven were thereafter always very bad.
Paul Theroff
https://groups.google.com/g/peerage-news/c/soEUXZ7bUKQ/m/StSkAuiBAAAJ
Paul Theroff
It also mentions "Margaret, Nugent's sister". Presumably this means Earl Nugent's sister; I had not had a Margaret listed.
I quote the relevant section below, but you can read it yourself, and the following appendices about Edmund's sons, here:
https://archive.org/details/memoirofrobertear00nuge/page/270/mode/2up
"Nugent's only son, Edmund, by his first wife, Lady Emilia
Plunkett, was educated at Fagan's Academy in Wine Tavern
Street, Dublin, where his father had been educated before him,
and also his illegitimate half-brother Robert. Nugent subsequently
bought him a commission in the First Foot Guards. In
1 755 he is alleged to have married Elizabeth Vernon, but for
some reason, of which no record can be traced, this marriage was
afterwards set aside, owing, perhaps, to Robert Nugent's instrumentality,
or to some flaw in the legitimacy of the marriage, which
was not discovered till too late for rectification. Sure it is,
however, that they were married without the consent of their
parents, and that they remained in hiding some considerable time,
for in 1756 a daughter was christened in Chelsea Parish Church
under the name of Elizabeth O'Donnell; and two sons were
christened in St. Andrew's, Holborn, on June 30, 1757, and July
19, 1758, under the names of George and Edmund Jones, and
educated at the Charterhouse under the name of Fennings. The
Clandestine Marriage Bill was passed about this time, which
renders the solution not altogether untenable, that the young
couple, in their anxiety to escape the detection of their parents,
omitted some essential point in the marriage service which Robert
Nugent was only too eager to seize upon in order to effect its
dissolution. This seems the more probable, moreover, when we
find that Elizabeth Vernon, on discovering the illegitimacy of
the marriage, left her supposed husband, returned to her family,
and was eventually married to a Count Dupont.
It was not long before Robert Nugent forgave his son, acknowledged
his grand-children, and allowed them to assume the name
of Nugent; Elizabeth was placed under the care of Margaret,
Nugent's sister, but died at an early age, and the two boys were
sent respectively to Woolwich and into the navy. Elizabeth
died young, but the subsequent achievements of George and
Edmund went very far towards obliterating the unfortunate stain
which through no fault of their own sullied their names.
Their father meanwhile became engaged to Miss Katherine
Edgar, and presented her with a portrait of himself in pastilles,
which still hangs at the Red House, Ipswich, the family seat of
the Edgars. He died, however, in 1774, before he was able to
marry her, and Miss Edgar, who was afterwards called in the
family " Good Aunt Vi," died unmarried."
Paul Theroff
https://archive.org/details/memoirofrobertear00nuge/page/16/mode/2up
"In 1757 Nugent married Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Drax
of Charborough in Dorset, and relict of Augustus, fourth Earl of
Berkeley, who had only died two years previously. He thus became
possessed of yet another fortune, though he failed to obtain from
his third wife any greater degree of happiness than he had done
from his second. She survived him, but they were separated
many years before his death. She bore him two daughters, Mary
and Louisa, only the former of whom, who was destined to become his
heiress, he deigned to recognize. The latter left her father's roof
with her mother, and was eventually married to a Captain Hervey.
Mary was brought up by her Aunt Peggy, together with Nugent's
granddaughter Elizabeth, who was only a year or two older."
Paul Theroff
https://www.angelfire.com/realm/gotha/gotha/vernon.html