866 Bradford-on- Avon. [ Old Families & Worthies. 
and heir of Evelyn Pierrepont, then Marquis of Dorchester, 
afterwards first Duke of Kingston. A brief space only of mar- 
ried happiness was granted to her; for before she had completed 
her nineteenth year she was a widow. Two children, a boy and 
a girl, were the issue of the marriage. Evelyn, whilst yet in early 
youth, succeeded his grand-father as second and last Duke of 
Kingston; his mother died four years before her son came to the 
proud title. His union, in later life, with ‘Elizabeth Chudleigh,’ 
better known as the Duchess of Kingston,—(though she had no 
real claim to this designation),—the strange life of this eccentric, 
yet gifted, woman,—her subsequent trial and conviction for bigamy, 
—her closing career at St. Petersburgh,—all these have been rela- 
ted by an abler pen in the pages of this Magazine, and therefore on 
these it is needless to dwell. And ‘Elizabeth Chudleigh’ is, after all, 
hardly to be reckoned among the ‘ Worthies’ of Bradford-on-Avon. 
Under the will of the last Duke of Kingston, however, she inherited 
all his personal property, and had secured to her a life interest 
in all his real estate. On her death, the latter passed to Frances, 
the other child of Rachel Pierrepont, who had married Philip, 
eldest son of Sir Philip Meadows, Deputy Ranger of Richmond 
Park. Their son, Charles Meadows, who assumed by sign-manual 
the surname and arms of Pierrepont, was created Earl Manvers in 
1806. On his decease in 1816, his son, who succeeded to the title 
as second Earl Manvers, inherited the property, and is now the 
representative of the ‘Halls’ of Bradford-on-Avon. 
Tue ‘Rocers’ FAMIty. 
The ‘ancient aud knightly house’ of Rogers, from which sprung 
many well-esteemed though untitled families, were seated from an 
early period at Brianstone, Dorset, now the residence of Lord Port- 
man. In the early part of the fifteenth century they settled in Glou- 
ing effect:—‘ Provided that nothing in this Act shall be deemed, taken, or 
construed, to be any allowance of, or any ways to approve or confirm any 
articles, or supposed articles of agreement made, or pretended to be made, or 
agreed upon, by or between the said Lord Marquis of Dorchester, and the said 
John Hall, deceased, concerning the marriage of the said Mrs. Baynton with 
the said William Pierrepont, Esq., commonly called Lord Kingston, &c.” 
