4 REMINISCENCES, ETC. 



The estate was sold in 1846 by the subject of the present 

 memoir to Mr. (now Lord) Egerton, of Tatton Park. 

 Mr. Assheton Smith was also a descendant of the feudal 

 lords of Assheton-under-Lyne, in Lancashire, described by 

 Dr. Ormerod, of Sedbury Park, the historian of Cheshire, 

 as "the knightly family of Assheton-under-Lyne," whose 

 ancestor, Ormus Magnus, the Saxon Lord of Heletune, and 

 founder of the Church of Ormskirk, married Aliz, daughter 

 of Herveus, a Norman nobleman, grandfather of Theobald 

 Walter, Lord of Amounderness, and Chief Butler of Ire- 

 laud. 



Mr. Assheton Smith's mother was Elizabeth, daughter of 

 Watkin Wynn, Esq., of Voelas, North Wales. His father 

 died at the family mansion of Tedworth, Hants, on the 

 12th of May, 1828, aged seventy-six. The family consisted 

 of eight children, three sons and five daughters. The eldest 

 son died in early infancy. The third, William, a gallant 

 officer in the Royal Navy, and who distinguished himself 

 by his good conduct as lieutenant of the Temeraire in the 

 glorious battle of Trafalgar, met a premature death by 

 drowning, in the early part of the year 1806, in the heroic 

 attempt to rescue some fellow-creatures from a similar fate. 



Thus the subject of our memoir, Thomas, the second son, 

 alone survived to inherit the family estates. Of his five sisters 

 three were married ; viz. Jane, who became Mrs. Satterley ; 

 Elizabeth, who married Major William Buckler Astley ; and 

 Emma, who became Mrs. Illingworth, and subsequently 

 Mrs. Jervis. Two died unmarried ; viz. Fanny and Harriet. 

 An only daughter of Major Astley married Captain Duff, 

 whose son, George William, inherits, by the will of the late 

 Mrs. Assheton Smith, the landed property and slate-quar- 

 ries in Caernarvonshire. 



Mr. Smith never alluded to the melancholy death of his 

 brother William without evincing deep emotion. On his 

 epitaph, in the church at Tedworth, we find this record of 

 his act and life : — 



