274 Kingston House, Bradford. 
Tue DuxKes or Kinesron. 
Rachel Baynton, granddaughter and by the death of her only 
brother Henry Baynton, sole heiress, of John Hall, married the 
Hon. Wm. Pierrepoint, only son and heir of Evelyn Pierrepoint 
then Marquis of Dorchester, afterwards first Duke of Kingston. 
Mr. Wm. Pierrepoint died in 1713 at the age of 21, during his 
father’s lifetime. Rachel his wife died in 1722. The first Duke 
of Kingston (her father-in-law) died in 1726, and was succeeded 
by his grandson Evelyn, (only son of Wm. Pierrepoint and Rachel 
Baynton,) the second and last Duke of Kingston, who died 1773. 
This nobleman, as representative of the Halls, had large estates in 
Bradford and the neighbouring parishes: viz., Great Chalfield 
manor and advowson, the constableship of Trowbridge, the manor 
of Trowbridge, Monkton near Broughton Giffard, Storridge Pastures 
in Brooke, the manors and lordships of Bradford, Great Trowle, 
Little Trowle, Leigh and Woolley, Paxcroft farm in the parish of 
Steeple Ashton; with lands, &c., in Atford, Hilperton, Trowbridge, 
Studley, Staverton, Westbury, Melksham, Holt, Steeple Ashton, 
North Bradley, and Winkfield. 
The name of Evelyn was adopted as a christian name in the 
Duke of Kingston’s family from the Evelyns of West Deane, in the 
Hundred of Alderbury in South Wilts. Robert Pierrepoint (who 
died about 1670), Father of the second Ear/ of Kingston, had mar- 
ried Elizabeth, daughter and coheiress of Sir John Evelyn of that 
place, and obtained the estate. 
The second and last Duke of Kingston, in making his selection 
of a partner for life, either had never read or had forgotten, or at 
all events took no manner of heed to, that celebrated sentence on 
female character, which the great historian of Greece enunciates 
by the mouth of Pericles: viz., that her reputation is the best, with 
which fewest tongues are busy amongst the other sex, either for 
praise or blame. For he fixed his choice on one with whom during 
a great part of the last century all tongues were busy; not all in- 
deed for blame, but certainly not all for praise. The lady rejoiced 
in a plurality of names, being known.first as Elizabeth Chudleigh, 
