2 PROFESSOR OWEN ch. I. 



Eskrigge and Mr. Beresford (Cashier in the 

 Bank of England). 



1 Elizabeth Owen died December 5, 1754. 



* Elizabeth, wife of Richard Eskrigge, died 

 July 16, 1756. They were both buried in Wan- 

 stead parish, in Essex, in the vault of Elizabeth 

 Froysell, my wife's mother. Ann Froysell and Ann 

 Eskrigge, her niece, are buried in the same place.' 



Then in Sir Richard Owen's handwriting a 

 few explanatory remarks are added. ' The above 

 entries,' he writes, * are in the handwriting of my 

 great-grandfather, Richard Eskrigge, of Fulmer 

 Place, Fulmer, Bucks, and relate to the birth of 

 his grandson and heir, my father, Richard Owen. 

 My father's mother died soon after his birth, and 

 he was brought up by his grandfather Eskrigge, 

 and his education was directed by the executors 

 or trustees after Richard Eskrigge's demise.' 



The following table makes the relationship 

 clearer : — 



Robert Eskrigge of Eskrigge 



Richard Eskrigge = Elizabeth Froysell 

 (of Fulmer Place), 

 High Sheriff of 

 Bucks, 1 741 



Elizabeth Eskrigge = William Owen 

 (died the year after 

 her marriage) 



Richard Owen = Catherine Longworth 



inherited 

 Fulmer Place 



{nee Parrin) 

 Sir Richard Owen, K.C.B. 



