Things to do without visiting Sutton Hoo

Sutton Hoo, the early-medieval ship burial site near Ipswich, was only an hour or so from where we were staying, but it was closed so we took ourselves off to Cambridge instead.

Cambridge had fewer tourists than Oxford, but there was no shortage – in fact our arrival increased the total by four. A solution to the crowding, one that seems to have been put into effect at King’s College Chapel, was an entrance fee so high that the punters would self-ration  their sightseeing. Greg says he remembers crying poor and rationing  himself out of the tour entirely to take a free rest in the sunshine outside. Peter, Charlotte, and I paid up. The magnificent carving, fan vaulting and stained-glass windows were worth it, of course, and Greg’s memory, possibly still scarred by the shock of the entrance charge, is completely wrong. He did pay, did wander awe-struck around the Chapel with us, and was, with us, overwhelmed by its magnificence.

Cambridge market

Cambridge market

Corn Exchange

Former Fosters’ Bank. Sidney Street, Cambridge

Kings College Chapel

Greg can be spotted gazing at the fan vaulting, carvings and stained glass

Arms of Henry VII with supporters of th red dragon of Wales for his Tudor fayjer and greyhound for his Beaufort mother

Adoration of the Magi by Rubens

very worn step

St Margaret – defaced probably by Puritan reformers

 

After the Chapel we went for a stroll through the Backs (a bit of geographical name dropping for you: open parkland where several of the Colleges back on to the River Cam). The flowers growing against the sunny wall at Clare College looked particularly wonderful.

Cambridge Clare College garden wall

Cambridge Clare College garden wall

River Cam

punting

Christ’s College

For lunch, after a couple of false starts we ended up at a Jamie Oliver Italian restaurant. The verdict was edible enough but not very interesting. Oliver’s restaurant chain went into receivership one day later; perhaps other customers shared our opinion. On the whole, however, English food seemed very much better than it was thirty years previously. There had been plenty of upside potential…

On the way home we took a slight detour to visit Anglesey Abbey, a National Trust property with a Jacobean(ish) house, quiet gardens, and a working watermill. Our favourite room was the library, and there is wonderful collection of clocks.

Anglesey Abbey

Anglesey Abbey library

Anglesey Abbey library

Anglesey Abbey dining room

Anglesey Abbey kitchen

Anglesey Abbey garden

Anglesey Abbey garden

Anglesey Abbey garden

Anglesey Abbey garden

Anglesey Abbey garden

 

[How innocent this all seems in retrospect. A year after our visit the Anglesea Abbey website is warning people to stay away: ‘All our houses, gardens, parks, toilets, cafes, shops and car parks are now closed to further restrict the spread of coronavirus. Anglesey Abbey, Gardens & Lode Mill are closed, please do not travel.’]

We had dinner at Ixworth, a pretty Suffolk village, home, apparently, of the Ixworth chicken. Peter ordered steak and kidney pudding.

The Pykkerell Inn Ixworth

Knickerbocker Glory

Steak and kidney suet pudding

St Mary the Virgin Ixworth

Ixworth

Ixworth

Ixworth

Suffolk sunset

Related posts

• U is for university
• Champion de Crespignys at Cambridge from the earliest times to 1900

Z is for zealot

My ninth great grandfather Charles Chauncy (1592-1672) was a non-conformist Divine, at one time imprisoned for his views by Archbishop Laud, who emigrated to America and later became a long-serving President of Harvard College.

Harvard president Charles Chauncy

In “Highways and Byways in Hertfordshire” (1902), H. W. Tompkins mentions Charles Chauncy in connection with Ardeley Bury:

To mention Ardeley, or to think of Ardeley Bury, is to call to mind the Chauncys, a good Hertfordshire family, whose talents were exercised in several spheres of usefulness. First, though not foremost from the standpoint of literary or historic importance, was old Charles, somewhat renowned in his day as a Nonconformist divine. Where he was born I am unable to say ; he was baptised in the church here on 5th November, 1592. He was an indefatigable reader and student, and was eminent as an oriental and classical scholar. For some time he gave the benefit of his learning to the townsmen of Ware ; but managed to fall foul of Archbishop Laud, as so many pastors did, and was summoned to appear before the High Commission Court on two occasions. I believe the precise nature of his misdemeanours, theological or political, is known to the learned, with whom I leave them. However trivial we might deem them now, they were heinous offences in the eyes of Laud, and Charles Chauncy was deprived of his living and placed in prison. I am sorry to remember that he was but a weak-kneed brother, and presently, finding that to him, at least, stone walls did make a prison, he submitted in the most abject manner before the mitred bigot. For this humiliation he never forgave himself. In 1637 he landed at Plymouth in New England, where he became for a short time an assistant pastor, going from thence to a town called Scituate. There he preached for several years, and then, the Puritans having triumphed over their enemies, the men of Ware besought their pastor to return. But his work now lay elsewhere. He was almost on the point of embarking for England when he was invited to become President of Harvard College — a position for which he was eminently qualified — and in November, 1654, he was installed as the second President of that now famous institution. At Harvard he laboured for the rest of his life, and dying there in 1672, was buried at New Cambridge. He was a rare and racy preacher of the old sort, whose mouth uttered quaint sayings in abundance, and who kept tongue and pen alike busy. The Plain Doctrine of the Justification of a Sinner in the Sight of God, was one of his productions — doubtless a pithy, profitable, and long discourse, which probably no man or woman now in Hertfordshire has ever read, and which rests in a few libraries in a repose almost as deep as the bones of its author.

Charles Chauncy graduated from Cambridge in 1613, and became a fellow of his college, Trinity College, and professor of Hebrew and Greek. In 1627 he was appointed Vicar of Ware, Hertfordshire, and from 1633 to 1637 vicar at Marston St Lawrence, Northamptonshire.

Chauncy had Puritanical opinions that placed him in opposition to the church hierarchy, including its most senior member, the Archbishop of Canterbury, William Laud. He asserted in a sermon that “idolatry was admitted into the church” and he opposed, as a “snare to men’s consciences” placing a barrier – the altar rail – around the communion table. He was suspended by Archbishop Laud for refusing to perform his duty to read from the pulpit the “Book of Sports”, which set out permissible Sunday recreations. He was brought before the Court of High Commission in 1629 and again in 1634. In 1634 he was imprisoned. He made a formal recantation in 1637 which – it is said – he later regretted.

In 1638 Charles Chauncy emigrated to America. From 1638 to 1641 he was an associate pastor at Plymouth, Massachusetts. However, the Plymouth church community was dissatisfied with Chauncy’s advocacy of baptism of infants by immersion. From 1641 to 1654 he served as pastor at Scituate, Massachusetts. From 1654 until his death in 1672 he was President of Harvard College.

Charles Chauncy and his wife Catherine Chauncy nee Eyre (1604 – 1667) had six sons and at least two daughters. All six sons were said to have been “bred to the ministry and graduates of Harvard”. I have previously written about Ichabod, their third child and second son.

I think Charles Chauncy is close to the definition of a zealot: a person who has very strong opinions about something, and tries to make other people have them too. Chauncy only seemed to compromise reluctantly.

Related post

I is for Ichabod

Source

• Tompkins, Herbert W (1902). Highways and byways in Hertfordshire. Macmillan, London ; New York viewed through archive.org https://archive.org/details/highwaysandbywa03griggoog/page/n10

U is for university

St John’s College, Cambridge by Joseph Murray Ince. Watercolour. Signed and dated 1835.

 

Quite a few of my forebears studied at Oxford and Cambridge. Many of their names appear in the universities’ lists of their alumni, some in very early lists.

The University of Cambridge was founded in 1209. Oxford is older, with teaching in some form there as long ago as 1096. The University of Oxford developed rapidly from 1167, when King Henry II banned English students from attending the University of Paris.

The earliest ancestor I have found at one of these universities is my fourteenth great grandfather Nicholas Vaux (1460 – 1523). He is listed as an Oxford alumnus. Unfortunately his college and dates of study there are not recorded.

Thomas Vaux (1509 – 1556), Nicholas’s son and my 13th great grandfather, studied at Cambridge university; again, I do not know when or which college.

When I looked at my Champion de Crespigny forebears who attended Cambridge University I found that there did not appear to be any familial loyalty to a college: all of them were at different colleges. My fourth great grandfather Charles Fox Champion Crespigny (1785 – 1875) was at Sidney College. Two of his three sons went to Cambridge. George Blicke Champion de Crespigny (1815 – 1893) went to Trinity Hall in 1832. Philip Robert Champion de Crespigny (1817 – 1889) went to Downing in 1838.

My Mainwaring forebears, by contrast, showed some degree of family loyalty to a particular college. My eighth great grandfather Edward Mainwaring (1635 – 1704) attended Christ’s College Cambridge. His son Edward (1681 – 1738) attended St John’s College Cambridge from 1699. His sons, Edward (1709 – 1795) and Henry (1710 – 1747), both also attended St John’s Cambridge.

Related post

• Champion de Crespignys at Cambridge from the earliest times to 1900

Sources

• retrieved through ancestry.com and googlebooks:
  • Venn, J. A., comp. Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900 2 Volume Set also available through Google books . Cambridge University Press, 2011
  •  Foster, Joseph. Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886 and Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714. Oxford: Parker and Co., 1888-1892.

I is for Ichabod

One of my 8th great grandfathers was Ichabod Chauncy (1635 -1691), a Dissenter and Puritan, whose father, Charles Chauncy (1592-1672), was a long-serving President of Harvard College.

Harvard president Charles Chauncy

Charles Chauncy graduated at Cambridge in 1613, and became a fellow of his college and a professor of Hebrew and Greek. In 1627 he was appointed Vicar of Ware, Hertfordshire, and from 1633 to 1637 he was vicar at Marston St Lawrence, Northamptonshire.

Chauncy had Puritanical opinions that placed him in opposition to the church hierarchy, including its most senior member, the Archbishop of Canterbury, William Laud. He asserted in a sermon that “idolatry was admitted into the church” and he opposed, as a “snare to men’s consciences” placing a barrier – the altar rail – around the communion table. He was suspended by Archbishop Laud for refusing to read from the pulpit the “Book of Sports”, which set out permissible Sunday recreations. He was brought before the Court of High Commission in 1629 and again in 1634. In 1634 he was imprisoned. He made a formal recantation in 1637 (which he later regretted).

In 1638 Charles Chauncy emigrated to America, and from 1638 to 1641 he was an associate pastor at Plymouth, Massachusetts. However, the Plymouth church community was dissatisfied with his advocacy of the baptism of infants by immersion. From 1641 to 1654 he served as pastor at Scituate, Massachusetts. From 1654 until his death in 1672 Charles was President of Harvard College.

Charles Chauncy and his wife Catherine Chauncy nee Eyre (1604-1667) had six sons and at least two daughters. All six sons were said to have been “bred to the ministry and graduates of Harvard”. Ichabod was the third child and second son.

The unusual name ‘Ichabod’ appears to be an allusion to an Old Testament story. In 1 Samuel 4, the Philistines defeat Israel and capture the Ark of the Covenant. At this news the wife of the high priest Phineas falls into labour and gives birth to a son whom she names ‘Ichabod‘, conventionally translated as ‘the glory has departed’. Charles Chauncey was very likely giving expression to his rather strong opinion of the the lapsed and degenerate state of the Church of England.

Ichabod was brought to Massachusetts in 1638, when he was about three years old. In 1651, at about the age of 16, he and his older brother Isaac graduated from Harvard College.

Returning to England Ichabod Chauncey became an army chaplain to Sir Edward Harley’s Regiment at Dunkirk. However, in 1662, at the time of the Act of Uniformity, Ichabod was one of some 2,000 Puritan ministers who were forced out of their positions by Church of England clergy, following the changes after the restoration to power of Charles II. The Act of Uniformity prescribed that any minister who refused to conform to the Book of Common Prayer by St. Bartholomew’s Day (24 August) 1662 should be ejected from the Church of England.

With his clerical career at an end Ichabod took up the practice of medicine. On 13 October 1666 he was admitted an Extra-Licentiate of the College of Physicians. He settled at Bristol, Gloucestershire.

In 1682 Ichabod Chauncey was prosecuted for not attending church and was convicted and fined. In 1684 he was again prosecuted, imprisoned for 18 weeks, and was sentenced to lose his estate both real and personal, and to leave the realm within three months. He went to Leiden, Holland,and practiced as a physician there until 1686 when he returned to Bristol. There is a suggestion that Ichabod’s persecution may have originated in the private malice of the Bristol town clerk.

Ichabod married Mary King (c. 1646-1736) on 12 August 1669 at St Michael’s Bristol. They had eight children. Three sons survived him:

• Stanton, who died in 1707
•  Charles 1674-1763 (my seventh great grandfather, who became a London merchant)
• Nathaniel 1679-1750

Ichabod Chauncey died at Bristol on 25 July 1691 and was buried on 27 July at St Philip’s Bristol.

References

• Appletons’ Cyclopedia of American Biography, 1600-1889, Volume 1, Charles Chauncy, page 594 retrieved through ancestry.com
• Stephen, Sir Leslie, ed.; London, England: Oxford University Press; Dictionary of National Biography, 1921-22, Volumes 1-20, 22;Volume: Vol 22; Page: 230 retrieved through ancestry.com
• Farmer, John. A Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New-England; Containing an Alphabetical List of the Governours, Deputy-Governours, Assistants or Counsellors, and Ministers of the Gospel in the Several Colonies, from 1620 to 1692; Graduates of Harvard College to 1662; Members of the Ancient and Honourable Artillery Company to 1662; Freemen Admitted to the Massachusetts Colony from 1630 to 1662; With Many Other of the Early Inhabitants of New-England and …, page 57 retrieved through ancestry.com
• Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 10, Chauncey, Ichabod, by Augustus Charles Bickley
• Munk, William. “Ichabod Chauncey.” Munk’s Roll Details, Royal College of Physicians, munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/828.
• John Langdon Sibley (1642). Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Johnson Reprint Corporation. pp. 308–9.

Champion de Crespignys at Cambridge from the earliest times to 1900

Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900 includes eleven members of the Champion de Crespigny family.

Title: Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900
Cambridge Library Collection – Cambridge 
Part 2 of Alumni Cantabrigienses 2 Volume Set
Editor: John Venn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2011
ISBN: 1108036120, 9781108036122
Length: 604 pages

The book is partially digitised on Google books for sampling and the relevant page for the Champion de Crespigny family (page 175 of volume 2) is included in that digitisation at http://books.google.com.au/books?id=-FjmQ4xTgkQC&pg=PA175 . Ancestry.com have similar, but not always identical information in their database: Ancestry.com. Cambridge University Alumni, 1261-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.
Original data: Venn, J. A., comp.. Alumni Cantabrigienses. London, England: Cambridge University Press, 1922-1954.

 Of the colleges, Trinity Hall was the most popular with six members of the family attending.  Three attended Trinity College. Other colleges were Downing and Magdelene and Sidney.

There are two family groupings of those who attended Cambridge but they are closely related:

• Charles James Fox (1785-1875) nephew of the first baronet
• Thomas (1763-1799) his half-brother
• George Blicke (1815-1893) his second son
• Philip Robert (1817-1889) his third son

• Claude William (1734-1818) the first baronet
• Claude William (1818-1868) the third baronet, great grandson of the first baronet, grandson of the second baronet.
• Frederick John (1822-1887) brother of the third baronet, great grandson of the first baronet
• Heaton (1796-1858) son of the second baronet, grandson of the first baronet
• Herbert Joseph (1805-1881) brother of Heaton, grandson of the first baronet
• William (1765-1829) second baronet, son of first baronet, father of Heaton and Herbert
• William Other (1789-1816), son of the second baronet, brother of Heaton and Herbert

Name: Charles [James] Fox Champion Crespigny or De Crespigny
College: SIDNEY
Entered: Michs. 1803
Born: 30 Aug 1785
More information: Adm. pens. (age 18) at SIDNEY, Apr. 14, 1803. 3rd s. of Philip [Champion de Crespigny], of Aldeburgh, Suffolk. B. Aug. 30, 1785. School, Reading (Dr Valpy). Migrated to Trinity, May 31, 1803; matric. Michs. 1803. Of Tal-y-llyn House, Brecon. J.P. for Suffolk. Married Eliza Julia, dau. of John Trent, Esq., of Dallington House, Suffolk, Mar. 20, 1813. Died Mar. 4, 1875. Half-brother of Thomas (1779); father of George B. C. (1832) and Philip R. C. (1838). (Foster, Baronetage, 1883.)

Charles Fox Champion Crespigny (1785-1875) photographed about 1858 with his grandson Constantine

Name: Claude Champion Crespigny
College: TRINITY HALL
Entered: 19 Dec 1734
Born: 29 Jan 1818
More information: Probably adm. at TRINITY HALL, c. 1748. B. Dec. 19, 1734. LL.B. 1758; LL.D. 1763. Fellow, 1757-64. 1st s. of Philip Champion, of Doctors’ Commons, Esq. Adm. at Lincoln’s Inn, Oct. 23, 1750. Created Baronet, 1805. Died in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, Jan. 29, 1818. (J. Ch. Smith.)

Name: Claude [Champion]. Crespigny or De Crespigny second entry
College: TRINITY HALL
Entered: Lent, 1755
Born: 28 Jan 1818
More information: Adm. pens. at TRINITY HALL, May 27, 1752. S. and h. of Philip Champion [de Crespigny], of Champion Lodge, Camberwell, Surrey. [B. Dec. 19, 1734.] School, (?) Eton. Scholar, 1753; matric. Lent, 1755; LL.B. 1758; LL.D. 1763. Fellow, 1757-64 [the circumstances which resulted in his election are described in D. A. Winstanley, Cambridge in the XVIIIth Century]. Adm. at Lincoln’s Inn, Oct. 23, 1750. Adm. advocate in Doctors’ Commons, 1763. Receiver-General of the droits of Admiralty for over 50 years. Created Bart., Oct. 31, 1805, having had the honour of receiving the Prince Regent at Champion Lodge. Major-Commandant of the Camberwell Volunteers. Of Champion Lodge, Camberwell, Surrey. Married Mary, dau. of Joseph Clerke, Esq., of Rigton, Yorks., Feb. 16, 1764, and eventually heir to Isaac Heaton, of Peckham Lodge, Camberwell. Died Jan. 28, 1818, aged 83. Buried at Camberwell. M.I. Father of William (1780). (Foster, P. and B.; Parish of Camberwell, 39, 208; G. Mag., 1818.)

Claude Champion Crespigny (1734-1818) 1st baronet Champion Crespigny	(my 5th great grand uncle)

Name: Sir Claude William Champion, Bart. Crespigny or De Crespigny
College: TRINITY
Entered: Michs. 1836
Born: 25 Jun 1818
Died: 11 Aug 1868
More information: Adm. pens. at TRINITY, July 1, 1836. S. and h. of Augustus James Champion, Capt., R.N. (served under Nelson and Collingwood). B. June 25, 1818. Matric. Michs. 1836; M.A. 1840. Succeeded his grandfather, Sir William Champion (de Crespigny) as 3rd Bart., Dec. 28, 1829. For many years Lieut.-Col., and afterwards Hon. Col., 1st Batt., Essex Rifle Volunteers. Married Mary, dau. of Sir John Tyssen-Tyrrell, Bart., M.P., Aug. 22, 1843. Died Aug. 11, 1868. Brother of the next. (Burke, P. and B.)

Name: Frederick John Champion. Crespigny or De Crespigny
College: MAGDALENE
Entered: Michs. 1840
Born: 12 Dec 1822
More information: Adm. pens. (age 18) at MAGDALENE, May 4, 1840. [3rd s. of Augustus (James) Champion, Capt., R.N., of Camberwell, Surrey. B. Dec. 12, 1822.] Matric. Michs. 1840; B.A. 1844; M.A. 1847. Ord. deacon, 1847; priest (Lincoln) 1848; P.C. of Emmanuel Church, Camberwell, Surrey, 1850-8. V. of Hampton Wick, Middlesex, 1858-87. Domestic Chaplain to Lord Rodney. Married Rosabelle Mary, widow of Thomas Mallett Wythe, in 1857. Died s.p. June 25, 1887. Window to his memory in Hampton Wick church. Brother of the above. (Burke, P. and B.; Crockford.)

Reverend Frederick John Champion de Crespigny (1822–1887) by British (English) School Oil on canvas, 73 x 60 cm Collection: Kelmarsh Hall Retrieved from http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/reverend-frederick-john-champion-de-crespigny-18221887-49097 (my third cousin four times removed)

Name: George Blicke Champion. Crespigny or De Crespigny
College: TRINITY HALL
More information: Adm. pens. at TRINITY HALL, Oct. 17, 1832. [2nd s. of Charles Fox Champion (1803), Esq., of Tal-y-llyn House, Brecon.] Adm. at Lincoln’s Inn, Nov. 4, 1833; age 17. Lieut.-Col., late 20th Regt.; Paymaster, Army service, 1880. Sometime on the staff of the School of Musketry, at Hythe, Kent. Married Elizabeth Jane, dau. of Alexander Buchanan, Esq., of Montreal, Canada, Q.C. (Canadian Bar), June 11, 1851. Brother of Philip R. C. (1838). (Foster, Baronetage, 1883.)

Name: Heaton Champion. Crespigny or De Crespigny
College: TRINITY HALL
Entered: Michs. 1816
Died: 15 Nov 1858
More information: Adm. pens. at TRINITY HALL, Nov. 9, 1815. [4th s. of William Champion (1780), Esq. (afterwards Bart.) and grandson of Sir Claude Champion, Bart.] Matric. Michs. 1816; LL.B. 1825. At first in the Royal Navy, serving under Admiral the Hon. F. Irby in the memorable action between the Amelia and the Arethusa. Ord. deacon (Norwich) Dec. 12, 1819; V. of Neatishead, Norfolk, 1822-. R. of Stoke Doyle, Northants., 1822-33. Married Caroline, dau. of Henry Bathurst, Bishop of Norwich, July 19, 1820. Died Nov. 15, 1858, aged 62, at Ballarat, Australia. Brother of the next. (Burke, P. and B.; Foster, Index Eccles.; G. Mag., 1859, II. 197.)

Reverend Heaton Champion_de_Crespigny (1796–1858) by Philip August Gaugain Oil on canvas, 73 x 62 cm Collection: Kelmarsh Hall URL http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/reverend-heaton-champion-de-crespigny-17961858-49124 retrieved 5 November 201. (my second cousin five times removed)

Name: Herbert Joseph William Scott Champion. Crespigny or De Crespigny
College: TRINITY
Entered: Michs. 1824
Died: 24 Oct 1825
More information: Adm. pens. (age 18) at TRINITY, June 29, 1824. [5th s. of Sir William Champion (1780), Bart.] B. at King’s Rew, Hants. School, Winchester. Matric. Michs. 1824. Adm.at the Middle Temple, Apr. 23, 1822. Called to the Bar, 1832. Married Caroline, dau. of Sir William Smijth, Bart., and widow of his brother, Capt. Augustus James de Crespigny, R.N. (who died Oct. 24, 1825). Died July 1, 1881. Brother of the above. (Burke, P. and B.)

Name: Philip Robert Champion. Crespigny
College: DOWNING
More information: Adm. Fell.-Com. at DOWNING, Nov. 7, 1838. [3rd s. of Charles James Fox (1803).] B. Oct. 4, 1817. Went to Australia. SometimeWarden and Police-Magistrate of goldfields, Ararat, Victoria. Married Charlotte Frances, dau. of William Pulteney Dana, Capt., 6th Foot, July 18, 1849. Brother of George B. C. (1832). (Foster, Baronetage, 1883.)

Philip Robert Champion Crespigny (1817-1889) (my third great grandfather)

Name: Thomas Champion. Crespigny or De Crespigny
College: TRINITY HALL
Entered: Michs. 1782
More information: Adm. pens. at TRINITY HALL, June 22, 1779. [2nd s. of Philip (Champion de Crespigny), of Aldeburgh, Suffolk.] Scholar, 1781; matric. Michs. 1782; LL.B. 1785; LL.D. 1790. Adm. Advocate, Doctors’ Commons, 1790. Of Ufford, Suffolk. Married Augusta Thelluson, sister of Sir Peter Isaac (Thelluson), 1st Lord Rendlesham, Mar. 26,  1793. Died Aug. 2, 1799. Half-brother of Charles F. C. (1803). (Foster, Baronetage, 1883.)

Name: William Champion. Crespigny or De Crespigny
College: TRINITY HALL
Entered: Michs. 1783
Died: 28 Dec 1829
More information: Adm. pens. at TRINITY HALL, July 1, 1780. [S. and h. of Sir Claude (1752), Bart. B. Jan. 1, 1765.] School, (?) Eton. Matric. Michs. 1783; LL.B. 1786. Succeeded his father as 2nd Bart., Jan. 28, 1818. M.P. for Southampton, 1818-26. F.S.A. J.P. for Surrey and Hants. Provincial Grand Master of the Order of Freemasons in Hampshire. Married Sarah, dau. of Other Lewis (Windsor), Earl of Plymouth, Aug. 4, 1786. Died Dec. 28, 1829. Father of Heaton C. (1815) and Herbert J. W. S. C. (1824). (Burke, P. and B.; G. Mag., 1830, I. 189.)

Sir William Champion de Crespigny (1765–1829), 2nd Bt by Philip August Gaugain Oil on canvas, 121 x 94 cm Collection: Kelmarsh Hall (my first cousin six times removed).

Name: William Champion. Crespigny or De Crespigny
College: TRINITY HALL
Entered: Easter, 1811
Died: 1816
More information: Adm. pens. at TRINITY HALL, Mar. 5, 1811. S. of —, of Lincoln’s Inn. Matric. Easter, 1811; Scholar. [William Other Champion de Crespigny, 2nd s. of Sir William (1780), entered the Royal Navy and died on active service, in 1816. He was apparently previously adm. at the Middle Temple, Nov. 6, 1807, as ‘William Other Robert Champion de C., 2nd s. of William of Crespigny, of King’s Rew, near Fawley, Hants.’ Called to the Bar, 1814.] (Burke, P. and B.)