Baronía feudal de Hatch Beauchamp

Hatch Court , construido en 1755 en el lugar de la casa solariega fortificada medieval de la familia Beauchamp. Vista desde el oeste

Escotilla , frente de la entrada principal (frente sur), visto en 1989 desde el interior del parque de ciervos sobreviviente

1886 Mapa de Ordnance Survey que muestra Hatch Court, el parque de los ciervos y la antigua iglesia parroquial de San Juan Bautista (al norte inmediato de la casa). Antes de 1886, el parque fue dividido en dos por la rama Great Western Railway Taunton to Chard, cerrada y desmantelada en 1964 durante los cortes de Beeching . También a mediados del siglo XX. atravesada por la carretera A358 , desde que se reconstruyó un kilómetro hacia el oeste, ahora conecta la carretera principal A303 y la autopista M5

La baronía feudal de Hatch Beauchamp o el honor de Hatch Beauchamp era una baronía feudal inglesa con su caput en la mansión de Hatch Beauchamp en Somerset. El sitio de la casa solariega medieval, al sur inmediato de la antigua iglesia parroquial de San Juan Bautista, está hoy ocupado por Hatch Court , una mansión de grado I catalogada ^[1] construida alrededor de 1755 en estilo palladiano .

Nomenclatura

La palabra sajona Hache significa "puerta de entrada" y se cree que Hatch en Somerset formó la puerta de entrada al bosque de caza real de Neroche . El pequeño río Rag, que atraviesa Hache, era el límite norte del bosque. ^[2]

Descenso

Era sajona

Hache fue retenido del rey Eduardo el Confesor (fallecido en 1066) por los sajones Godric, Godwin y Bollo, como se indica en el Domesday Book de 1086. ^[3]

Era normanda

Robert, conde de Mortain

El Libro de Domesday de 1086 registra a Hache como una de las muchas posesiones en jefe de Robert, Conde de Mortain (c. 1031-1090), medio hermano del rey Guillermo el Conquistador , cuyo inquilino era Robert Fitz Ivo, conocido como "Robert el alguacil". Tras la rebelión del Conde de Mortain contra el hijo menor del rey Guillermo y sucesor del trono inglés, sus tierras pasaron a la corona y poco después se volvieron a otorgar a la familia de Beauchamp de Normandía.

de Beauchamp

La historia temprana de la familia de Beauchamp de Hatch es "de ninguna manera clara". ^[4]

• Robert I de Beauchamp (fl. 1092) en 1092 fue testigo de una carta. ^[4]
• Robert II de Beauchamp (fl. 1158) fue testigo de una carta de Somerset c. 1150, y se registra de nuevo en el Somerset Pipe Roll en 1158. ^[4] Posiblemente fue el "Robert de Beauchamp", que fue Sheriff de Somerset y Dorset entre 1176 y 1181. ^[5] En el regreso de Cartae Baronum de 1166 un cierto Robert de Beauchamp certificó que él llevó a cabo del rey en jefe, 17 cuotas de caballeros , conocido como el 'honor de Robert Beauchamp en Somerset y Dorset', ^[2] 2 celebró en demesne y 15 sub-enfeoffed a los inquilinos. ^[6]
• Robert III de Beauchamp (fallecido en 1195) presenció un estatuto en 1185. No dejó descendencia masculina, solo una hija y única heredera, que era la esposa de Simon de Vautort (fallecido en 1199), ^[4] cuyo nombre eran los barones feudales de Trematon en Cornualles. ^[7]

de Vautort ("de Beauchamp")

Armas de Beauchamp de Hatch, adoptadas al comienzo de la era de la heráldica , (c. 1200 - 1215): Vair . Estos brazos sugirieron a Sanders (1960) que la familia de Beauchamp de Hatch no estaba relacionada con la familia de Beauchamp, conde de Warwick de 1267, que llevaba brazos: Gules, una fesse entre seis cruces o ^{[8] [9]} Sin embargo, esto ignora el hecho de que las familias pueden haberse separado de una raíz común en los siglos XI o XII y, por lo tanto, naturalmente habían adoptado diferentes armas en aproximadamente 1200

Robert de Vautort / IV "de Beauchamp" (c. 1191-1251)

Robert de Vautort (c. 1191 - 1251), alias "Robert IV de Beauchamp", hijo y heredero de Simon de Vautort (muerto en 1199) por su esposa, la heredera de Beauchamp. Tenía unos 8 años cuando murió su padre y se convirtió en pupilo del rey Juan, quien otorgó la tutela a su chambelán Hubert de Burgh, primer conde de Kent (fallecido en 1243). Adoptó el apellido "de Beauchamp" en lugar de su patronímico, y al llegar a la mayoría de los 21 años se apoderó del Honor de Beauchamp.

Robert V de Beauchamp (fallecido en 1264)

Robert V de Beauchamp (fallecido en 1264), hijo y heredero, fue convocado en numerosas ocasiones por el rey Enrique III para realizar el servicio militar exigido por su mandato feudal por baroniam , en Escocia y Gales. ^[2] se casó con Alice de Mohun, hija de Reginald II de Mohun (1206-1258), del castillo de Dunster en Somerset, barón feudal de Dunster . ^[10]

Juan I de Beauchamp (fallecido en 1283)

Juan I de Beauchamp (fallecido en 1283), hijo y heredero, que se casó con Cecily de Vivonne / de Forz (fallecido en 1320), una de las cuatro hijas y coherederas de William de Vivonne / de Forz (fallecido en 1259), quien ocupó un un medio resto de la baronía feudal de Curry Mallet en Somerset. ^[11] Cecily heredó así una octava parte de la baronía de Curry Malet. Se desempeñó como gobernador del castillo de Carmarthen y del castillo de Cardigan , ambos en Gales. John construyó una casa solariega en su otra sede de Stoke-sub-Hamdon . Sus propiedades incluían las mansiones de Marston Magna y Shepton Malet ^[2] en Somerset. Fue convocado para unirse al ejército del rey enWorcester con caballos y armas para combatir al rebelde príncipe Llywelyn (fallecido en 1240) de Gales. ^[2] Murió en Hatch, Somerset el 24 de octubre de 1283 y fue enterrado en la Capilla de San Nicolás en la iglesia de Stoke-sub-Hamdon , Somerset el 31 de octubre de 1283. ^[2]

Juan II de Beauchamp, primer barón Beauchamp (1274-1336)

Juan II de Beauchamp, primer barón Beauchamp (1274-1336), hijo y heredero, recibió en 1333 del rey Eduardo III una licencia real para almenar su mansión en Hatch. ^[2] Se desempeñó como gobernador del castillo de Bridgwater en Somerset y luchó en las guerras escocesas. Recibió escritos regulares para asistir al rey en el Parlamento, por los cuales en 1299 fue nombrado barón por mandato judicial bajo el título de " Barón Beauchamp de Somerset".

John III de Beauchamp, segundo barón Beauchamp (1306-1343)

Juan III de Beauchamp, segundo barón Beauchamp (1306-1343), hijo y heredero, que luchó en las guerras en Francia y asistió al Parlamento de 1337 a 1342. ^[2] En 1301 se le concedió una licencia real para celebrar mercados semanales los jueves. y también una feria dentro de la mansión de Hatch Beauchamp. ^[12]

John IV de Beauchamp, tercer barón Beauchamp (1330-1361)

Juan IV de Beauchamp, tercer barón Beauchamp (1330-1361), hijo y heredero. Se casó con Lady Alice Beauchamp , hija de Sir Thomas de Beauchamp, undécimo conde de Warwick (que no tenía parentesco aparente) ^[13] ) con su esposa Katherine Mortimer . El matrimonio no tuvo descendencia y, por lo tanto, la baronía por mandato judicial se convirtió en abanico . Las co-herederas de la baronía feudal de Hatch y sus tierras eran sus tres tías, la más rica de las cuales ^[14] era Cecily de Beauchamp (c. 1321-1394), esposa de Roger Seymour, de cuya parte la mansión capital de Hatch formó parte.

Seymour

Brazos de Seymour: Gules, dos alas unidas en señuelo o

Recreación de focas supuestamente utilizado por Roger de Seymour (fallecido c. 1299) de Undy y Penhow Castle, según lo informado por la duquesa de Cleveland en su Battle Abbey Roll (1889) ^[14]

La familia Seymour (antiguamente de St. Maur ) de Hatch se registra por primera vez sentada en el castillo de Penhow en Glamorgan en el siglo XII. La iglesia parroquial de Penhow está dedicada a St Maur. Sin embargo, debe diferenciarse de la "familia baronial" anglo-normanda llamada St Maur, creada Baron St Maur por escrito en 1314, que llevaba diferentes armaduras ( Argent, dos galones de gules ) y que se originó en la mansión de St. Maur, cerca de Avranches, en Normandía. ^[15]

El antepasado del "baronial St Maurs" fue Wido de St Maur (fallecido antes de 1086) que llegó a Inglaterra durante la conquista normanda de 1066, cuyo hijo William FitzWido está registrado en el Domesday Book de 1086 como un inquilino sustancial de Geoffrey Bishop. de Coutances, y que tenía una baronía feudal con tierras en Somerset, Wiltshire y Gloucester, con diez mansiones en Somersetshire (de las cuales Portishead era una). Hizo conquistas en Gales alrededor de 1090, que luego ocupó su familia.

No existe evidencia concluyente para confirmar el "baronial St Maurs" y el "Seymours of Hatch" como derivados de una acción común, sin embargo, Camden creía que esto era lo más probable. ^[16] Las dos familias adoptaron armas diferentes al comienzo de la era de la heráldica , c. 1200-1215, con el rumbo "Baronial St Maurs": Argent, dos galones de gules . Ciertamente, el "baronial St Maurs" murió en la línea masculina en 1409 cuando su heredero se convirtió en el barón Zouche de Haryngworth , a saber, William la Zouche, quinto barón Zouche (c. 1402-1462), cuyo hijo fue William la Zouche, sexto barón Zouche. , Séptimo barón St Maur (c. 1432-1468/9).Uno de los herederos de la familia St Maur / Zouche fue la familia Bampfield de Poltimoreen Devon (más tarde Baron Poltimore ) que heredó la mansión Devon de North Molton de la familia Zouche. ^[17]

Sir Roger I Seymour (1314 - c. 1361)

Sir Roger I Seymour ( alias St. Maur) (1314-pre-1361), nacido en Even Swindon , Wiltshire, esposo de Cecily de Beauchamp (fallecido en 1393 ^[18] ), heredera de Hatch Beauchamp. Cecily de Beauchamp heredó las mansiones de Hatch Beauchamp, Shepton Beauchamp , Merryfield, Ilton o 'Murifield', y un tercio de la mansión de Shepton Mallet , Somerset , las mansiones de Boultbery y Haberton , Devon , de Dorton , Buckinghamshire y de Little Haw , Suffolk. Sobrevivió a su marido y se volvió a casar en segundo lugar el 14 de septiembre de 1368 con Sir Gilbert Turberville de Coity Castle , Glamorgan. ^{[19] [20]}

Sir William Seymour (c. 1342-1391)

Sir William Seymour (c. 1342-1391). Sirvió bajo el Príncipe Negro en Gascogny en 1362. Residió principalmente en su mansión de Undy ( alias Woundy), cerca de Caldicot en Monmouthshire. Se casó con Margaret de Blackburn, hija de Simon de Blackburn. ^[21]

Roger II Seymour (c. 1367/70 - 1420)

Roger II Seymour (c. 1367/70 - 1420), que se casó con Maud Esturmy ( alias Esturmi, etc.), una hija y co-heredera de Sir William Esturmy (muerto en 1427), de Wolfhall en Wiltshire, ^[22] Portavoz de la Cámara de los Comunes y el Guardián hereditario de Savernake Forest en Wiltshire. Tras la herencia de su esposa, trasladó su asiento principal de Undy a Wolfhall. ^[22]

Sir John Seymour (c. 1395/1402 - 1464)

Sir John Seymour (c. 1395/1402 - 1464), hijo y heredero de Wulfhall en Savernake Forest , Wiltshire , y de Hatch Beauchamp. Se desempeñó como Miembro del Parlamento de Ludgershall en 1422 y Caballero de la Comarca de Wiltshire en 1435, 1439 y 1445 ^[23] También fue Alto Sheriff de Wiltshire en 1431-1432, habiendo servido anteriormente como Alto Sheriff de Hampshire . ^[24] Se casó con Isabel William ( alias Williams) (fallecida en 1486), hija de Mark William , ^[25] acomerciante y alcalde de Bristol , ^[26]

John Seymour (fallecido en 1491)

John Seymour (fallecido en 1491), nieto y heredero, hijo de John Seymour (1425-1463), quien falleció antes de su padre. Su primera esposa fue Elizabeth Darrell (nacida c. 1451), hija de Sir George Darrell (fallecido c. 1474) de Littlecote , Wiltshire, por su esposa Margaret Stourton (nacida c. 1433), una hija de John Stourton, primer barón Stourton y de Margery o Marjory Wadham, hija de Sir John Wadham .

Sir John Seymour (1474-1536)

Sir John Seymour (1474-1536), hijo mayor del primer matrimonio, nombrado caballero en 1497 después de la batalla de Deptford Bridge , padre de la reina Jane Seymour (1508-1537), tercera esposa del rey Enrique VIII.

Edward Seymour, primer duque de Somerset (c. 1500-1552)

Armas de Edward Seymour, primer duque de Somerset: trimestral , primero y cuarto: O, en un montón de gules entre seis flores de lis azules, tres leones de Inglaterra (concesión especial de su sobrino, el rey Eduardo VI); 2º y 3º: Gules, dos alas unidas en señuelo o (Seymour) ^[27] Estos brazos conceden las posiciones de mayor honor, el 1º y 4º trimestres , a una concesión especial de armas que incorporan las flores de lis y los leones de la armas reales de Plantagenet

Edward Seymour, primer duque de Somerset , KG , (c. 1500-1552), hijo mayor y heredero, tío del rey Eduardo VI (1547-1553) y Lord Protector de Inglaterra (1547-1549). en 1536 ^[27] en el matrimonio de su hermana con el rey Enrique VIII, fue creado vizconde Beauchamp de Hache y en 1537 fue creado por el mismo rey conde de Hertford . Recibió su ducado junto con el título subsidiario de barón Seymour cuando su sobrino subió al trono en 1547. En 1531 se había desempeñado como alguacil de Somerset y durante este tiempo probablemente residió en Hache Court. ^[2] El duque fue ejecutado en 1552 por un delito grave por orden de su sobrino, el rey Eduardo VI, y poco tiempo después el Parlamento lo adjudicó cuando todos sus títulos fueron confiscados.

Edward Seymour, primer conde de Hertford (1539-1621)

Edward Seymour, primer conde de Hertford (1539–1621), hijo mayor sobreviviente del segundo matrimonio de su padre, los hijos del primer matrimonio fueron heredados debido a la sospecha de adulterio por parte de su madre. No heredó los títulos de su padre que se habían perdido, pero fue elevado a la nobleza en 1559 por la reina Isabel I (media hermana del rey Eduardo VI) como barón Beauchamp y conde de Hertford . Su hermano mayor, Edward Seymour (1537-1539), que falleció antes que su padre cuando era un bebé de dos años, había sido conocido por el título de cortesía "Vizconde Beauchamp de Hache", uno de los títulos subsidiarios de su padre. Se casó tres veces: primero en noviembre de 1560 con Lady Catherine Gray , hermana menor deLady Jane Grey , "La Reina de los Nueve Días", con quien tuvo dos hijos; en segundo lugar en 1582 a Frances Howard; en tercer lugar en 1601 a Frances Prannell .

• • Edward Seymour, Viscount Beauchamp (1561–1612), eldest son and heir apparent by his father's first wife Lady Catherine Grey. He predeceased his father so never inherited his titles, and was known by the courtesy title Viscount Beauchamp, a subsidiary title of his father's. Under the will of King Henry VIII, he had a strong claim to the English throne through his mother, but in 1603 on the death of Queen Elizabeth I the will was disregarded by Parliament and the throne went to the Scottish King James VI of the Stuart dynasty, which line of descent was not favoured by Henry VIII's will.

William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset (1588–1660)

William Seymour, segundo duque de Somerset , segundo conde de Hertford , primer marqués de Hertford (1588-1660), que sucedió a su abuelo Edward Seymour, primer conde de Hertford (1539-1621) y en 1641 fue creado marqués de Hertford por el rey Carlos I. Finalmente, en la Restauración de la Monarquía , recuperó, en 1660 a instancias del rey Carlos II, el ducado que había sido otorgado en 1547 a su bisabuelo Edward Seymour, primer duque de Somerset (c. 1500-1552). Aproximadamente en 1633, la casa solariega fue visitada por el historiador de Somerset Thomas Gerard (muerto en 1634), quien escribió lo siguiente: ^[28]

La mansión en la que vivían los nobles que fui a ver está tan arruinada que si no se llamara Hach Court, no creerías que fuera uno de los restos de la casa de un barón, sin embargo, vi en la sala de armas de Beauchampe y en un pequeño Chappell en la parte superior de las alas de la casa Seymer " o" in a red sheild, and going a little farther to the Church to see some monuments I find not one, the Church having bin new built long since the Beauchamps time; only in a large North Ile I saw the Armes of Seymour, Beauchampe, Stermy and Coker quartered, which shewes that it must be noe older then Henry the seaventh his time, when peace upon the union of the houses of Lancaster and Yorke produced plentie, and that pious workes, for that Sir John Seymer which married Coker's heire did die the nineteenth of Edward the fourth and his wife seaven yeares before him wherefore it must be his sonne that built it, otherwise he could not have quartered Coker's Armes

William Seymour, 3rd Duke of Somerset (1654–1671)

William Seymour, 3rd Duke of Somerset (1654–1671), grandson, son of Henry Seymour, Lord Beauchamp (1626–1654), 3rd but eldest surviving son of the 2nd Duke, who predeceased his father having married Mary Capell. He died unmarried and without progeny and was succeeded in the Dukedom by his uncle, but his estates, which were not entailed with the dukedom, were inherited by his sister Lady Elizabeth Seymour, wife of Thomas Bruce, 3rd Earl of Elgin and 2nd Earl of Ailesbury.

Bruce

Arms of Bruce, Earl of Elgin: Or, a saltire and chief gules on a canton argent a lion rampant azure armed and langued of the second

Lady Elizabeth Seymour (c. 1655 – 1697), heiress of Hatch and other Seymour estates including Savernake Forest, Wiltshire. She also became representative as senior co-heir of Princess Mary Tudor (1496–1533), sister of King Henry VIII, through the families of Grey and Brandon.^[29][30] In 1676 she married Thomas Bruce, 3rd Earl of Elgin and 2nd Earl of Ailesbury (1656–1741). Thus the lands of Hatch passed to the Bruce family but were not long retained.^[2]

Uttermare

• John Uttermare (died 1750) of Hatch Green, a member of an old Somerset family, purchased the lordship of the manor of Hatch Beauchamp in 1722.^[2] He and his descendants lived in the house now called "Lodge".^[2]
• James Uttermare (died 1800)^[2]
• John Uttermare (died 1841).^[2] A mural monument survives in Hatch Beauchamp Church to members of the Uttermare family.^[31] His eventual heir was Mr. R. J. Liston Foulis, who in 1905 sold the lordship of Hatch Beauchamp with Hatch Green Farm and its 174 acres of land to Mr. F. J. Rails.^[2]

Collins

The descent in the Collins family of the estate of Hatch Beauchamp, but apparently not the lordship of the manor (held by the heirs of the Uttermares), was as follows:

• John Collins (1725–1792) was the son of John I Collins (died 1738) of Ilminster, from a family of wool and cloth merchants.^[2] He matriculated at New College, Oxford in 1743–44, aged 19.^[32] In 1755 he built Hatch Court, which survives today, to the designs of Thomas Prowse, MP, of Axbridge. He was Sheriff of Somerset in 1757. In 1769 he married Jane Langford, one of the daughters and co-heiresses of Jonas Langford of Theobalds Park, Hertfordshire^[33] and of the Island of Antigua.^[34] She brought considerable wealth to the marriage, presumably from the West Indian sugar trade.^[2] He died in 1792 aged 67 and was buried at Ilminster. He left five children, all minors.
• John Raw Collins (died 1807), eldest son and heir.^[2]
• Henry Powell Collins (1776–1854), younger brother, twice MP for Taunton (1811–1818, 1819–1820)^[35] resided at Hatch Court from 1809 to 1821.^[36] He was a churchwarden of Hatch Beauchamp Church from 1814 to 1819 and again in 1821. He was Sheriff of Somerset in 1827. He married Dorothea Lethbridge, daughter of Sir John Lethbridge, 1st Baronet (1746–1815), MP, of Sandhill Park in Bishops Lydeard, Somerset.^[37] He declined to stand for election a third time in 1820 due to his wife's ill health, and in an open letter to the electors of Taunton dated 8 February 1820 he stated his intention of taking his wife abroad to a warmer climate.^[2] In 1822 Thomas Clifton Esq. is recorded as residing there. Henry Powell Collins built a private pew in Hatch Beauchamp Church, for which he received a faculty dated 6 July 1825, in which he was described as the "owner and occupier of a newly erected messuage or mansion in the parish of Hatch Beauchamp." This mansion was Hatch Park, which was bequeathed to him by his father, and on which he built a new house. He died in 1854 and was buried at Ilminster. His only child and sole-heiress apparent was his daughter Dorothea Jacintha Collins (died 1822), who predeceased her father, having married and had a son by William Gore Langton, son and heir of William Gore Langton of Newton Park near Bath in Somerset. She died on 26 June 1822 at the Pulteney Hotel in London; her body was brought to Ilminster for burial.

Gore-Langton

Arms of Temple-Gore-Langton, Earl Temple of Stowe: Quarterly: 1st & 4th grand quarters: Quarterly sable and or a bend argent (Langton); 2nd grand quarter; Gules, a fesse between three cross-crosslets fitchée or (Gore); 3rd grand quarter: quarterly 1st & 4th: Or, an eagle displayed sable (Temple); 2nd & 3rd: Argent, two bars sable each charged with three martlets or (Temple)^[38]

• William Henry Powell Gore Langton (1824–1873), twiceMP for West Somerset (1851–59 and 1863–73), in 1854 succeeded his maternal grandfather Henry Powell Collins to Hatch Court and to the family pew. He had also been the heir in 1847 to the Somerset estates of his grandfather William Gore Langton (c. 1760 – 1847), MP, of Newton Park, near Bath in Somerset and of Dean House, Oxfordshire and 12 Grosvenor Square, Mayfair.^[39] He was a churchwarden from 1855 to 1869 and in 1867 was largely responsible for employing George Gilbert Scott to restore the church. In 1846 he married Lady Anna Eliza Mary Temple-Grenville (died 1879), daughter of Richard Temple-Grenville, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, by whom he had several children. His wife was in special remainder to the Earldom of Temple of Stowe created for her grandfather Richard Temple-Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos. Memorial windows survive to W. H. P. Gore Langton and to Lady Anna Eliza Mary in the family pew in Hatch Beauchamp Church. His eldest son was William Temple-Gore-Langton, 4th Earl Temple of Stowe, who succeeded as the 4th Earl in 1889. His younger son Henry Powell Gore Langton inherited Hatch Court.^[2]
• Henry Powell Gore Langton, younger son, heir to Hatch Court.
• Commander Hubert Edwin Gore Langton (died 1968), son. He married his cousin, Lady Alice Mary Temple-Gore-Langton, daughter of Earl Temple of Stowe. He served in both world wars. In World War I he commanded destroyers on the Dover Patrol and took part in Battle of Zeebrugge, for which he won the D.S.O. and the Croix de Guerre. In memory of his wife in 1964 he presented a piece of land to the village to be called the "Lady Alice Gore Langton Memorial Field". Early in World War II several evacuee children from London were billeted in Hatch Park. During the night of 3 February 1940 the house caught fire and Miss Sarah Tennant, the Gore Langton family nurse and at the time the housekeeper, died whilst searching a burning room to make sure that all the children were safe. Her funeral in Hatch Beauchamp church on 8 February was attended by a great concourse of friends and villagers in tribute to her act of self-sacrifice and devotion. The old house was totally destroyed and now a new and smaller house stands on its site.

Oakes

During the early 19th century Hatch Court had many different occupiers. From 1838 to 1855 William Oakes owned it He was a churchwarden and there is a memorial to him in the west porch.

Hardstaff

From 1856 to the end of the century various members of the Hardstaff family resided at Hatch Court. They were Methodists, and Henry Hardstaff built a small Methodist chapel on the edge of the park. However, the Hardstaff family as owners of Hatch Court retained the right to the use of five pews in the north aisle of the church, and this is Shawn on the Gilbert Scott plan of the church (1867).

Lloyd

Arms of Lloyd of Dolobran, Montgomery, Wales (of which family were the Lloyd Quakers, bankers and steel manufacturers of Birmingham: Azure, a chevron between three cocks argent armed crested and wattled or^[40]

(William) Henry Lloyd (1839–1916), who in 1899 purchased Hatch Court

In 1899 (William) Henry Lloyd (1839–1916) purchased Hatch Court and its 360-acre estate. He was a member of the wealthy Lloyd family of Birmingham, Quakers by religion, long established steel manufacturers and founders of Lloyds Bank, which originated at Dolobran Hall, Montgomeryshire in Wales. He was the fifth son of Samuel II "Quaker" Lloyd (1795–1862), who established the iron founder "Lloyds Foster & Co." which owned the "Old Park Works" foundry and colliery in Wednesbury. The firm however lost a fortune supplying materials for Blackfriars Bridge in London. In 1818 "Quaker" Lloyd moved residence to The Hollies, Wood Green, Wednesbury to supervise his mining estate. He took over Bills & Mills ironworks and renamed it "Darlastan Iron Company" and built Kings Hill Ironworks. "Quaker" Lloyd married Mary Honeychurch (1795–1865). "Quaker" Lloyd's father was Samuel I Lloyd (1768–1849), banker, the second son of Sampson III Lloyd (1728–1807) who with his own father Sampson II Lloyd (1699–1779) of Farm, Bordesley, Birmingham, had co-founded Lloyds Bank in 1765.^[41] Sampson II Lloyd was an ironmaster from Dolobran in Montgomeryshire and lived at Farm, Bordesley (now the historic building known as "Lloyd's Farmhouse", Farm Park, Sampson Road, Sparkbrook).^[42] Together with his brother Charles Lloyd, Sampson II Lloyd bought the Town Mill iron-forge in Burton-upon-Trent and traded in iron.

In 1874 (William) Henry Lloyd, later of Hatch Beauchamp, toured the U.S.A. and Canada, researching the latest industrial developments and making contacts with fellow Quakers.^[43] He served as Mayor of Wednesbury (1892–94),^[44] when he was living in Hall Green, Birmingham. He married (Margaret) Percie Chirnside (1861–1933), twenty years his junior, a daughter of Jack Chirnside (1833–1902), born in Northumberland, a pioneering sheep farmer and wool producer in Australia, whose uncles Thomas Chirnside and Andrew Chirnside (owner of Skibo Castle in Scotland^[45]) founded the "Chirnside Pastoral Empire"^[44] and built the Italianate style mansion Werribee Park in Victoria.^[46] in Victoria, Australia. Henry Lloyd left Birmingham in 1899 and lived in Hatch Court until his death in 1917, having renovated the house and improved the woods and deer-park.^[2] He converted the Methodist chapel as a reading room for the village boys, now used as the parish council meeting room. As he was a Quaker, his wife performed on his behalf the manorial role of patron of Hatch Beauchamp church.^[2] His widow remarried to Rev. Herbert Stanley Gallimore, Rector of Hatch Beauchamp Church and twenty years her junior, who out of modesty for his clerical position preferred not to live in the grand manor house, and the couple moved into Laburnum Cottage on the estate.^[44]

Gault

Brigadier Andrew Hamilton Gault (1882–1958)

From 1923 Brigadier Andrew Hamilton Gault (1882–1958) and his second wife Dorothy Blanche Shuckburgh (1898–1972) (granddaughter of R.H. Shuckburgh, JP, of Bourton Hall, Warwickshire),^[47] became tenants of Hatch Court, rented from Dorothy's aunt Mrs (Margaret) Percie Gallimore (née Chirnside and widow of (William) Henry Lloyd of Hatch Beauchamp),^[44] and in 1931 Brigadier Gault bought the property and gave it to his wife. He was the eldest son of Andrew Frederick Gault (1833–1903)^[48] of Montreal in Canada, "The Cotton King of Canada", a merchant, industrialist, and philanthropist born in Strabane, Northern Ireland, the youngest son of Leslie Gault, a merchant and shipowner, by his wife Mary Hamilton.^[49] His brother was Mathew Hamilton Gault (1822–1887) who founded the "Sun Insurance Company of Montreal", now Sun Life Financial Incorporated, one of the largest life insurance companies in the world. He served as Conservative and Unionist MP for Taunton from 1922 to 1935. He was a churchwarden and He gave the Hamilton Gault and Galmington playing fields to the Borough of Taunton, and for these benefactions he was made a Freeman of the Borough. He returned to Canada after World War II for tax reasons, where he died in 1958, having occupied for only three weeks his newly built mansion house on his estate at Mont Saint-Hilaire, which he bequeathed to his alma mater McGill University. A Bronze Memorial was placed in the floor of the south aisle of Hatch Beauchamp Church by his widow. Part of the inscription reads: '1882–1958. Brigadier A. Hamilton Gault, D.S.O., E,D., C.N., of Hatch Court and Mount St. Hilaire, Canada. Founder of Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. Freeman of the Borough of Taunton." Brigadier Gault came with this famous regiment to France in 1914 and took command of it in 1915. He was the last private citizen of the British Empire to raise and equip a regiment. Following his death his widow returned to Hatch Court in 1959, and to keep her company invited her niece Mrs Anne Blanche Townson (1922–1995) and her family to live with her. Anne was the eldest daughter of Lily Ellen Margaret ("Pearl") Shuckburgh (1894–1981) by her husband (Walter) Cecil Collett Sykes (died 1945), of Horsham in Sussex, of the Royal Flying Corps. She was the wife of John ("Jack") Strover Townson, Royal Navy.^[44]

Odgers

Mrs Anne Townson's first husband died in 1967 and she remarried in 1971 to Barry Nation, a retired officer in the Fleet Air Arm. In 1984, 11 years before her death,^[44] she handed over Hatch Court to her daughter Mrs Jane Margaret Odgers (born 1951), who as a child had lived at Hatch Court with her family to provide company for her widowed great-aunt Mrs Dorothy Gault, and recalled that "My great aunt loved having us children around ... every Saturday morning we used to have breakfast in her bed, brought up by her Italian butler". Jane is the wife of Dr Robin Odgers, a GP who became the local doctor after the couple with their two daughters, Susannah and Emma-Jane, moved there from London in 1983. Dr Odgers renovated the one-and-a-half acre walled kitchen garden, from which he supplied the restaurant of the Castle Hotel in nearby Taunton.^[50] In 2000, anticipating the departure of their daughters to boarding school and having concluded that the house was too large for their needs, they sold Hatch Court for an asking price of £3 million,^[51] including 33 acres and three cottages,^[52] and moved to Corton Denham House, near Sherborne in Dorset.^[53][54]Jane's brother John Townson (born 1949) still lives at Belmont Farm, the former home farm of the Hatch estate which he took over with 200 acres in 1978.^[44]

Further reading

• Locke, Amy Audrey, The Seymour family, 1914
• Loades, David, The Seymours of Wolf Hall: A Tudor Family Story, Chapter 1: The Origins[7]

Sources

• Sanders, I.J. English Baronies: A Study of their Origin and Descent 1086–1327, Oxford, 1960, p. 51, Hatch Beauchamp, Somerset
• Batten, John, The Barony of Beauchamp of Somerset, published in Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society, Vol.36.
• Cookson, Christopher, Hatch Beauchamp Church, section: Historical Note on the Church and its Associations, 1972 [8]
• Townson, John, John Bell Chirnside (1833–1902): His Life, Family and Descendants, 2009 [9]. The author lives at Belmont Farm, Hatch Beauchamp, and is the son of Anne Blanche Townson (née Sykes) (1922–1995), owner Hatch Court.
• Collinson, John, History and Antiquities of the County of Somerset, Volume 1, Bath, 1791, pp. 43–6, Hatch-Beauchamp[10]
• Wilhelmina, Duchess of Cleveland The Battle Abbey Roll with some Account of the Norman Lineages, 3 volumes, London, 1889, vol.1, Sent More[11]

References

1. Listed building text
2. Cookson
3. See image of original entry
4. Sanders, p.51
5. Sanders, p.51, note 4
6. Sanders, p.51, note 3
7. Sanders, pp.91-2
8. Sanders, I.J. English Baronies: A Study of their Origin and Descent 1086–1327, Oxford, 1960, p.51, note 2
9. Cookson: "They were a distinct family from the Beauchamps of Warwick, though probably of the same original Norman stock"
10. Sanders, p.51, note 5
11. Sanders, pp.38-9
12. Collinson, p.45
13. Based on the different armorials borne by each family, per: Sanders, I.J. English Baronies: A Study of their Origin and Descent 1086–1327, Oxford, 1960, p.51, note 2
14. Wilhelmina, Duchess of Cleveland The Battle Abbey Roll with some Account of the Norman Lineages, 3 volumes, London, 1889, vol.1, Sent More[1]
15. Battle Abbey Roll. quoting "The Norman People"
16. Battle Abbey Roll
17. The monument in North Molton Church to Sir Amyas Bampfylde (1560–1626) displays an escutcheon quartering Zouche and St Maur (Argent, two chevrons gules a label of three points vert)
18. Loades
19. G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910–1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, p. 50.
20. Peter W. Hammond, editor, The Complete Peerage or a History of the House of Lords and All its Members From the Earliest Times, Volume XIV: Addenda & Corrigenda (Stroud, Gloucestershire, U.K.: Sutton Publishing, 1998), p. 76.
21. Loades, Chapter 1
22. Loader
23. J. S. Roskell, The Commons in the Parliament of 1422 (Manchester University Press), p. 126 (see footnotes)
24. Mervyn Archdall, The Peerage of Ireland, p. 16
25. alias William MacWilliam or Williams of Gloucestershire,(see: Thomas Nicholas, Annals and Antiquities of the Counties and County Families of Wales (1991), p. 194)
26. Douglas Richardson, Kimball G. Everingham, Magna Carta ancestry: a study in colonial and medieval families (2005), p. 554
27. Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p.1036
28. The Particular Description of the county of Somerset drawn up by Thomas Gerard of Trent 1633, pp.147-9 [2]
29. Cokayne, Complete Peerage, new edition, vol. 1, 1910, "Ailesbury", pp. 59–60
30. McClain, Molly, Harsh and Unjust Slanders: The Duchess of Beaufort and her Daughter Quarrel over the Seymour Estate, published in Wiltshire Archaeological & Natural History Magazine, Volume 96, 2003. pp. 98–110
31. Cookson; text see Collinson, Vol.1, 1791, p.46
32. Cookson, quoting Oxford University Alumni
33. History of Parliament biography of Henry Powell Collins (1776–1854)
34. Cookson, quoting Hatch church baptisms
35. History of Parliament biography [3]
36. Cookson, quoting "Church rate book"
37. History of Parliament biography
38. Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p.1088, Temple of Stowe, Earl
39. History of Parliament biography of William Gore Langton (c. 1760 – 1847)[4]
40. Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 15th Edition, ed. Pirie-Gordon, H., London, 1937, pp.1392-3
41. Parker, Bev, A History of Wednesbury
42. For a complete history and pedigree of the lloyd family see Lowe, Rachel J., Farm and its Inhabitants with Some Account of the Lloyds of Dolobran, London, 1883
43. Parker, Bev, Generations of Lloyds
44. Townson, 2009
45. Chirnside, John Percy (1865–1944), biography by Heather B. Ronald, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 7, 1979[]
46. Further reading see: Ronald, Heather B., Wool Past the Winning Post: A History of the Chirnside Family, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1978
47. Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 15th Edition, ed. Pirie-Gordon, H., London, 1937, p.872
48. Burke's, 1937
49. Dictionary of Canadian Biography, biography of "Gault, Andrew Frederick"[5]
50. https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/why-taking-pot-luck-is-so-british-1364560.html
51. Marketed by Knight Frank in Exeter
52. Garrett, Alexander, Daily Telegraph newspaper, 17 Jun 2000 Good sense and Sensibility: Hatch Court is a lovely, big house with nine bedrooms, an orangery and deer on the doorstep: why sell it?[6]
53. http://www.cortondenhamhouse.co.uk/contact.php
54. http://www.ownersdirect.co.uk/accommodation/p8141802