710 HERA 
CAYLEY, of Brompton, Yorklhire; created April 
26, 1661.—Sir George Cayley, the fifth baronet, 
F.R.S. and prefident of the Philofophica-l Society at 
Manchefter, fucceeded his.father, fir George, ui 1.791 ; 
married, in 1795, a daughter of the Rev. George Waller, 
of Nottingham.—This family is of great antiquity in the 
county of Norfolk; for, by the rolls in the Pipe-office, 
Adam de Caili is mentioned, 7 King John, to have ac¬ 
counted five pounds for licenfe to plead before the king, 
touching the dowry of the wife of Michael de Pourings. 
From this Adam defcended Thomas de Caili, who lived 
in the reign of Edward I.—Family Seat, Brompton, 
nearvScarborough, Yorkfhi're. 
COOKE, of Wheatley, Yorklhire; created May 10, 
r66i.—Sir George Cooke, the feventh baronet, fuc¬ 
ceeded his father, fir Bryan, March 4, 1766; married, 
firft, in June 1770, Frances, fifier of the late fir William 
.Middleton, of Belfay Caftle, Northumberland, bart.and 
by her had ifi'ue three fons, one of whom is deceafed ; 
and eleven daughters, three of whom are deceafed. 
George-Augulhis, married, June 18, 1807, Eliza Mel- 
liih, fecond daughter of the late Charles Mellifli, of 
Blith, in the county of Nottingham, efq. William- 
Bryan, a lieutenant in the firfi regiment of foot-guards; 
Frances, eldeft daughter, married the Rev. John Ramf- 
den, and has ilfue three fons; Harriet, third daughter, 
married John Cookej jun. efq. of Bedford-fquare, and 
has ilfue three daughters; Louifa-Lucy, fifth daughter, 
married, Sept. 11, 1804, fir Charles-Lambert-Miles 
Monk, barr. and has ilfue one fon and one daughter; 
Georgiana, fixth daughter, married Capt. George Eyre, 
of the.royal navy, and has tw'o fons and one daughter. 
Sir George married, fecondly, Mrs. Hewett, relift of 
Thomas Hewett, of Bilham, efq. Sir George was for¬ 
merly an officer in the royal regiment of horfe-guards, 
blue 5 fince that period, colonel of the third battalion 
of the Weft York militia.—Family Seat, Wheatley, near 
Doncafter, in Yorklhire. 
ASHBURNHAM, of Bromham, Suffex ; created May 
15,1661.—Sir William Ashburnham, the fifth baro¬ 
net, fucceeded his father, the right reverend fir William 
Alhburnham, lord bifhop of Chichelter, Sept. 4, 1797 ; 
married Anne, daughter of the Rev. Francis Woodgate, 
of Mount-held, county of Suffex, by whom he has ilfue; 
of whom Denny, third fon, married, Feb. 27, 1802, the 
relidt of T. F. Bancroft, efq. and only child of Jofeph 
Dixon, of Calcutta,- efq. and the eldeft daughter mar¬ 
ried, in December 1804, James-Eldridge Weft, efq. of 
Poftern Park, Tunbridge, Kent.—This family, denomi¬ 
nated from the town of Afhburnham, anciently written 
RJfeburnham , in the county of Sulfex, is of great anti¬ 
quity, having been barons of England in the reign of 
Henry III. Bertram de Afhburnham, fon of Anchitel, 
fon of Piers lord of Alhburnham, was fheriff.of the 
counties of Surrey, Suffex, and Kent, and conftable of 
Dover-caftle, in the reign of king Harold ; which caftle 
he defended againft William the Conqueror; wherefore 
William, on his accelfion to the crown of England, 
cauled his head to be (truck off, together with the 
beads of his fons, Philip and Michael de Alhburnham. 
Philip de Alhburnham had one fon; from whom de¬ 
fcended, in the nineteenth generation, fir Denny, the 
fir ft baronet; he was a commiftioner of the excife, and 
afterwards victualler of the navy, and member of parlia¬ 
ment for Haltings.—Family Seat, Bromham, in Sulfex. 
GLYNNE, of Bilfeter, Oxfordlhire; created May 20, 
1661.—-SirSTEPHEN-RiCKARD Glynn, the eighth ba¬ 
ronet, born in May 1780, and immediately became baro¬ 
net, being pofthumous and only child of the reverend 
tir Stephen, the laft baronet; married, April 11, 1806, 
the honourable Mary Neville, fecond daughter of Rich- 
ard-Aldworth lord Braybrooke, by Catharine, filter to 
George marquis of Buckingham, knight of the garter; 
and has ilfue a fon, born Auguft 1807.—This very an- 
L D R Y. 
cient family is defcended from Cilmin Droed~tu, of one 
of the fifteen tribes of North Wales ; he lived in the 
time of Merfyn Frych, king- of Man, being his brother’s 
fon, with whom he came from the north of Britain, when 
Merfyn married Efyllt, the daughter and heir of Conan 
Tindaethwy, king of the Britons. His pofterity were 
wife and difcreet men, in all their ages; and many of 
them were learned in the laws in the time of the kings 
and princes of Wales, and were judges; as Morgeneu 
(or judge) Ynad ap Gwydr, and Gy-fnerth his fon, 
:whole law-book is yet extant, fairly written on parch¬ 
ment. Droed-tu was father of Lliwon ap Cilmin Droed- 
tu, whofe defcendant, in the twenty-firftgeneration, was 
fir William, the firft baronet.—Family Seat, Hawarden 
Caftle, Flintlhire. 
CLAVERING, of Axwell, Durham; created June 
5, 1661.—Sir Thomas-John Clavering, the eighth 
baronet, was born April 5, 1771; fucceeded his uncle, 
fir Thomas, Oft. 14, 1794; married, in 1791, Clara, 
daughter of John de Gallars de la Barnardine, of Anjou, 
in France; by whom he has ilfue, James,' born Feb. 12, 
1793 * Clara-Anna-Martha, Feb. 7, 1794; Agatha-Ca- 
tharine, Aug. 12, 1795; Thomas-Charles, Oft. 5, 1796; 
Auguftus-George, Jan. 24, 1799; William-Elvilius, 
Jan. 21, 1800.—Euftaee, a noble Norman, was tlie firft 
of this ancient family. He had two fons, who came in¬ 
to England with William the Conqueror; the elder was 
Serlo de Burgo, who built the caftle of Knarelborough,' 
and died without ilfue. John Monoculus, or the One- 
eyed, the fecond fon, heir to his brother, had three fons; 
Pagan, who died without ilfue; Euftaee ; and William. 
-Thefe three brothers were living in 1133, and were wit- 
nefles to the royal foundation of the priory of Ciren- 
cefter in Gloucefterlhire. From Euftaee, the eldeft fur- 
viving fon, defcended fir James, the firft baronet.—Fa¬ 
mily Seats, Axwell, Whitehoufe, and Greencroft, ail 
in the county of Durham. 
STANLEY, of Hooton, Chelhire ; created June 17, 
j66i.—Sir Thomas Stanley, the feventh baronet,, 
fucceeded his brother, fir Malfey, in 18034 married, 
Jan. 1805, Mil's Haggerfton, daughter to lir Carnaby 
Haggerfton, bart. of Haggerfton Caltle, Northumberland, 
and niece to Mrs. Fitzherbert.—The family of Stanley 
is of fuch antiquity, that it would be endlefs to trace 
their original farther than their taking that furname, 
which was occafioned by the father dividing his eftate 
between his two fons, Leudolph and Adam. To the firft 
he gave Aldelegh, alias Audley, from whence the lords 
of that name defcended : to the other he gave Thalk, 
in Statt’ordlhire.—F'amily Seat, Hooton, in Chelhire. 
WILLIAMS, of Penrhyn, Carnarvonlhire; created, 
June 17, 1661.—Sir Robert Williams, the ninth ba¬ 
ronet, born July 20, 1764; fucceeded his father, lir. 
Hugh, Aug. 19, 1794; married, in June 1799, Anne, 
fecond daughter of the Rev. E. Hughes, of Kimmell, in 
Carmarthenlhire; by whom he has Harriet-Georgina, 
born June 4, i8oe; Richard-Bulkely, born Sept. 23, 
1801 ; and a fecond daughter, born Sept. 3, 1803. Sir 
Robert was elefted reprefentative in parliament for Car¬ 
narvonlhire in 1790, 1796, 1802, 1806, and 1807,—This 
family is lineally defcended from Marchudd ap Cynan,. 
lord of Abergeleu, in Denbighlhire, of one of the fifteen 
tribes of North Wales, who lived in the time of Rodri 
Mawr, (Roderic the Great,) king of the Britons, about 
the year 849. Of him was defcended Ednyfed Fycham, 
who being general of the prince’s holt (Llewelyn ap 
Jerworth), was fent to the marches, to deiend the fron¬ 
tiers from the approach of the Englilh army, which was 
ready to invade them, under the command of Ranulph 
earl of Chefter, and killed three of their chief captains 
and commanders, and a great many of the common fol- 
diers ; the reft he put to flight, and triumphantly re¬ 
turned to his prince; who, in recompence for his good 
lervices, gave him, among other honours, a new coat 
