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Ten grants in money are made to different schools for the purchase 

 of Bibles, Testaments, and School Books. 



Frances, daughter of the last-named Gawen Wren married Mr. 

 John Langton. He was succeeded by his son, Gawen Wren 

 Langton, who died in 1790, and he was succeeded by his son, 

 Thomas Langton, who sold the capital mansion and estate 

 adjoining to the late Mr. Thomas Birkett of Portinscale, from 

 whom it passed to a nephew, whose daughter (Mrs. Barnes of 

 Carlisle) now owns it. 



The Brighouse, Howgate, and other tenements, were sold by 

 Mr. Thomas Langton to the late Mr. Joseph Tickell, formerly of 

 St. John's Vale. 



Excepting Miss Grace Wren's admirable charity, and a mural 

 tablet on the north wall of the parish church, there is now no 

 visible memorial of the former consequence of this influential 

 family in the parish. On the tablet is inscribed : — 



Erected in Memory of Mr. GAWEN WREN, 



of Castlerigg, 



who departed this life 



28th day of April, 1738, 



aged 86. 



Who was a lover of his parish, 



a kind friend, and 



a tender father. 



The late Mr. Abraham Wren once informed me that the old family 

 of the Wrens of Little Town in Newlands, was descended from a 

 junior branch of the Wrens of Castlerigg. 



Governor Stephenson, a na.ive of Keswick, was buried in 

 the parish church. In the pavement before the communion rails 

 is a large gravestone which bears the name of Edward Stephenson, 

 formerly Governor of Bengal, of whom a summary account may be 

 given. 



In a manuscript in the British Museum, written by one of the 

 family, it is stated that he was descended from Rowland Stephenson 

 of Swinefleet, in Yorkshire, who at the time of the Spanish Armada 

 led eighty men into the field for the defence of his native land. 



