HERA 
was afterwards taken in a fkirmifli in Staffordfliire, and 
carried prifoner to Stafford ; where, in endeavouring to 
efcape, a foldier efpied him, and gave him a blow on 
the head, which, with other wounds he had .before re¬ 
ceived, threw him into a fever, of which he. died, 
March 24, 1645.—Motto, Pret d’accomplir, Ready to per¬ 
form.—Family Seat, Fareham, Hants. 
WISEMAN, of Canfield Hall, Eflex; created Aug. 
29,1628.'—Sir Thomas Wiseman, the lixth bafonet, 
fucceeded his coufin, dir William, May 25, 1774; he 
married Dec. 1,1757, Mary, daughter of Michael God- 
den, efq. matter-attendant of his majefty’s dockyard at 
Chatham, and by her, who died June n, 1766, had if- 
fu.e three Tons ; Edmund, who died fuddenly, May 7, 
1784, (who by Jemima, his wife, daughter of Michael 
Arne, left one fon, William Salftonftall Wifeman, born 
March 5, 1784, in the navy ; and a daughter, Marianne, 
boln in 1785.) Thoma^s, born in 1760, and married Su- 
fanna, daughter of Alexander Bookham, of Northfleet,- 
by whom he has Thomas, Mariana, Alexander, Sufanna- 
Frances, Elizabeth-Anne, and Edmund. William! of 
Brompton, born in 1762, and married Elizabeth, daugh¬ 
ter of John Roberfon, of London, afterwards pf Phila¬ 
delphia. Sir Thomas -married, fecondly, Sarah, daugh¬ 
ter of Thomas King, efq. of Gravefend, in Kent, who 
died in Dec. 1777, leaving him two daughters, Sarah 
and Anne.—In the ordination made by Edward I. for 
the better government of Scotland, after his conqueft 
-of that kingdom, William Wifeman was conftituted 
vifcount.or fheriff of Elgin, and Alexander Wifeman, 
vifcount of Foreis and Inner-van. Not long afterwards, 
Simon Wifeman was found to be-pofTeffor of lands at 
Cotes, in Northamptonfliire. The prefent baronet is 
the great grandfon of fir Edmund Wifeman, knt. fecond 
fon of the firft baronet.—Refidence, Northfleet, Kent. 
NIGHTINGALE, of Kneefworth Hall, Cambridge- 
fiiire; created Sept. 1, 1628.—Sir Charles Athel- 
ston Nightingale, the-feventh baronet, born Noy. 
1, 1784; fucceeded his father, fir Edward, Dec. 16, 1805,- 
married, in Dec. 1.805, the fole-daughter and heirof Tho¬ 
mas Dickonfon, efq.. of .Weft' Retford, in Nottingham- 
fliire,—Family Seat, Kneefworth Hall, Cambridgethire. 
POLE, of Shute, Devonfliire; created Sept. 12, 
1628.—Sir William-Templer Pole, the feventh ba¬ 
ronet, was born Aug. a, 1782; fucceeded his father, fir 
John-WilHam, Nov. 30, i’799; married, Aug. 21, 1804, 
Sophia-Atine, only daughter of George Templer, efq. 
of Shapwick, in the county of Somerfet, and has had 
iffue, a fon-and a daughter, who both died young; and 
another daughter, born Jan. 2, 1808.—This is a younger 
branch of the family of Poole, of Poole Hall, in Wirra.Il, 
iii the county of Chefier. The firft of the family who 
fettled in Devonfliire, was Arthur Pole, fecond fon of fir 
W T illiam Pole, of Wirrall, knt. he married Elizabeth, 
daughter and heir of John Pole, of Devonfliire, efquire, 
the grandfather and great grandfather of which John 
were returned members for the city of Ex.eter in parlia¬ 
ment 12 Edw. III. as was Thomas, another.of the fame 
family, for BamftapJe, in the 15th..of the fame reign. 
Sir John, the third baronet, in 1688, was a member in 
that parliament which fettled the crown on king Wil¬ 
liam and queen Mary ; as he was alio of thole parlia¬ 
ments which were fummoned 1 and “To Wm. III. Sir 
John-William, the late baronet,.ferved the office of Ihe- 
riff of his native county in 1802. He built' the prefent 
manfion-houfe, which Jtands about half a mile from the 
former one, a great part of which Hill remains, and is a 
venerable monument of antiquity; he aJfo added confi- 
derably to the family eftate, by purchafes from lord 
Petre, and fir George Yonge, bart. and after a life of 
public fervice to his country, in the capacity of an 
aftive juftice of the peace, died on the 30th Nov. 1799, 
and was buried in Shute church.—Motto, Pollet vixlus , 
Virtue is of great power,—^Family Seat, Shute, Devon, 
L D R Y. ' 697 
VAVASOUR, of Hafelwood, Yorkfliire ; created 061. 
24, 1628.—Sir Thomas Vavasour, the feventh baro¬ 
net, fucceeded his brother,® fir Walter, November 3, 
1802.—This famous and very ancient family of Vava- 
four, or Valvafor, have their name from their office, 
being formerly the king’s valvafors, (a degree then little 
inferior to a baron.) Sir Manger le Valvafour is men¬ 
tioned in Doomfday Rook.—Family Seat, Haflewood, 
Yorkfliire. 
WOLSELEY, of Wolfeley, Staffordfliire; created 
Nov. 28, 1628.—Sir William WolSeley, the fixth 
baronet; born Aug. 24, 1740; fucceeded his father, fir 
William, in 1779; married, 1765, Mifs Chambers, of 
Wimbledon, in Surrey, by whom he has Robert, lieute¬ 
nant-colonel of the fecond Staffordfliire militia, married, 
in Feb. 1805, the only daughter of the late Rev. Archdea¬ 
con Hand; Charles, who married,in 1792, Mary,fecond 
daughter of the Hon. Thomas Clifford ; a daughter* 
who married, in 1803, lieutenant-colonel Thomas 
Browne, late of the 59th.regiment of infantry.—This is 
a family of great antiquity, and has been long feated in 
the county of Stafford : the firft mentioned in the pedi¬ 
gree is Siwardus, lord of Wlfele. The fifth in defcent 
front him was Robert, who was lord of Wolfeley, and 
lived in 1281. Ralph, another defcendant, was one of 
the barons of the exchequer in the reign of Edward IV. 
Robert, the firft baronet, Was clerk of the king’s letters 
patent. His fifth fon, William, accompanied king Wil¬ 
liam into Ireland, and commanded the Innifkillen m§n 
at the battle of the Boyne: after which he was made, 
matter of the ordnance, privy courifellor, and one of the 
lords juftices of Ireland; he died a bachelor, in 1697. 
Sir William, the third baronet, was unfortunately 
drowned in his chariot and four, returning home from 
Litchfield, July 8, 1728, between feven and eight 
o’clock in the evening, paffing a little brook, in a vil¬ 
lage called Long, in the high road. This accident hap¬ 
pened by the fudden breaking down of a mill-dam at a 
frr.all diftance,' occafioned by a violent thunder.ffiower, 
which brought down fuch a body of water, the very in- 
ftant the chariot was paffing the brook, as funk it.— 
Family Seat, Wolfeley, in Staffordfhire. 
EVERARD, of Much Waltham, Eflex ; created 
Jan. 29, 1628.—Sir Hugh Everard, the fixth baronet, 
fucceeded his brother, fir Richard, March 7, 1742.— 
Ralph Everard is the firft of this ancient family that 
we have an account of: he lived in the reigns of Hen¬ 
ry III. and' Edward I.—Family Seat, at Bromfield 
Green, Eflex. 
EVERY, ofEgginton, Derbyfhire; created May 26, 
1641.—Sir Henry Every, the ninth baronet, was born 
June 4,-1777; fucceeded his father, fir-Edward, Dec. 
28, 1785; married, Dec. 22, 1798, Penelope, daughter 
of the late fir John Parker Mofley, bart. by whom he 
has, Henry, born Jan. 1800; Edward, born March 
1802; Frederic-Simon, born June 1804.—This family is 
defcended from a noble Norman family, denominated 
Yvfcry; of whom a particular account is to be found in 
the genealogy of Perceval, earl of Egmont in Ireland, 
and lord Lovel and Holland in Great Britain, who 
quarters the fame arms. See p. -640.—Family Seat, Ego 
ginton, in Derbyfhire. 
LANGLEY, of Higham-Gobion, Bedfordfhire; ere-, 
ated May 29, 1641.—Sir Henry Langley, the fixth 
baronet, fucceeded his father, fir Haldanby.—Of this 
family was Thomas Langley, lord chancellor of Eng-, 
land, bifhop of Durham, and a cardinal, in 1417.—-Fa¬ 
mily Seat, Higham-Gobion, Bedfordfhire. 
CAVE, of Stanford, Northamptonfhire ; created 
June 30, 1641.—The Rev. Sir Charles Cave, the 
eighth baronet, LL.D. fucceeded his nephew, fir Tho¬ 
mas, Jan 15, 1792 : he is redtor of Thingdon, in North¬ 
amptonfhire. and vicar of Thedingworth in Leicefter- 
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