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tranches of the family, after a lap'fe of 260 years, have 
bow again centered in.the fame perfons. 
The family of St. John is paternally'defcended from 
the Ports, lords 6f Baling, in Hampfliire, at the time of 
theconqueft,and maternally derive their furname from 
William de St. John, who entered England with the 
Conqueror; and whofe army he attended as grand mat¬ 
ter of tiie artillery. From him, the thirteenth in lineal 
defcent was fir Oliver St. John, who had two fobs ; fir 
John, anceftor to lord St. John', of Bletfo ; and Ol.iver, 
who died at Font-Arabia, in Spain, in 1492, and was the 
anceftor of the prefent baronet. This family }iave> 
through all their generations, allied themfelves to an¬ 
cient and noble families. SirPaulet, the late fir Heiiry- 
Paule.t-St.-John Mildmay’s grandfather, -married,‘fir-ft, 
a daughter of fir John Rulhout, baronet; fecondly, 
Maria, widow of fir Hafwell Tynte ; and, thirdly, Jane, 
widow of William Pefcod, efq. recorder of Winehefter. 
Fie was created a baronet in 1772, and died in 1780, aged 
feyenty-fix ; and was fucceeded by his eldeft fon by his 
fecond lady, fir Henry-Paulet, grandfather of the pre¬ 
fent baronet, who married Dorothea-Maria, daughter 
and co-heif of Abraham Tucker,efq. and.dyingin 1784, 
was fucceeded by his only fon, fir Henry-Paulet, (who 
alfumed the name of Mildmay,) the late baronet ; who 
dying at Bath, Nov. 11, 1S08, was fucceeded by his 
eldeft fon, Henry-Carew, the prefent baronet.—Motto, 
Alla taHara. —Family Seats, Moullham Hall, and Marks, 
Elfex; Dogmersfield Park, and Shawford, in Hants; 
Hazlegrove, Somerfetfliire. 
WILMOT, of Ofmafton, Derby Ihire.; created Sept. 
19, 1772.—-Sir Robert Wilmot, of Ofmafton, the fe¬ 
cond baronet, fucceeded his father, fir Robert, Nov. 14, 
1772; married, firft, Julia; fecond daughter of the late 
Hon. Admiral Byron, and relict of the Hon. William 
Byron, eldeft fon of lord Byron, who died March 15, 
1788, by whom he has a fon, Robert-John. He married, 
fecondly, in 1785, Mariana, daughter and heir of the 
late Charles Howard, efq. of Litchfield, by whom he 
has four children, Mary-Anne, Charles-Toley, Augufta- 
Anne, and Eardley-Nicholas.—This family is a younger 
branch of that of Chaddefden, in the county of Derby. 
Robert Wilmot, of Chaddefden, efq. who was the com¬ 
mon anceftor of the two families, had, by Dorothy, his 
wife^ daughter and heir of Laurence Sluigley, four 
fons; of which, Nicholas, the youngeft, to whom his 
father devifed the Ofmafton and other eftates in Derby- 
fhire, was born in Dec. 1611, was a ferjeant at law, and 
was knighted by Charles II. John Eardley, his grand- 
fon, in 1755, was knighted, and made one of the judges 
of the court of King’s. Bench, and, in Aug. 1766, was 
appointed .chief juftice of the Common Pleas, but re- 
figned in 1770., and lived in retirement till his death, 
Feb. 4, 1792. Robert, his eldeft brother, was the firft 
baronet.—Family Seat, Ofmafton, in Derbylhire. 
LEIGH, of South Carolina ; created Sept. 19, 1772. 
■—Sir Egerton Leigh, the fecond baronet, fucceeded 
his father, fir Egerton; married Theodofia, lifter of (ir 
Theodofius-Edward-AUefley Boughton, bart. and wi¬ 
dow of John Donnellan, efq. hanged for the murder of 
her brother ; and by her, who died Dec. 1801, has no 
ilfue.—At'High Leigh in Cheftiire are two jnanfions and 
eftates, called the Eaft Hall and Weft Hall ; at each has 
been fettled, from the time of Edward I. a family of the 
pame of Leigh, who bear different arms, and contend 
with each other for fuperior antiquity. The Leighs of 
the Weft Hall are the anceftors of the prefent baronet. 
The late baronet, at the time of his creation, was his 
majefty’s attorney general, lurveyor general, and mem¬ 
ber of the council, in South Carolina.—Family Seat, 
Rigby Hall, Warwicklhire. 
SUTTON, of Norwood Park, Nottinghamlhire ; cre¬ 
ated Sept. 25, 1772.— Sir Rich-ard Sutton, the fe¬ 
cund baronet, fucceeded his grandfather, fir Richard, 
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in 1802.—Richard or Roland de Sutton upon Trent, 
the firft of this family, mentioned by Thornton, in his 
Antiquities of Nottingham, married Alice, filter of Ro¬ 
bert de Lexington. Sir William Sutton, thirteenth in 
defcent from Richard or Roland, had four fons ; Ro¬ 
bert, the eldeft,'was created by Charles I. lord Lex¬ 
ington, which title has fince become ex.tinft. The heir 
of that bdirich married John duke of. Rutland, (great 
randfather of the prefent duke,) whofe fons, lord Ro- 
ert, and lord George, fucceflively took the name of 
Sutton, aiid the latter was the father of the prefent 
archbifhop of Canterbury, and lord Manners, lord liigji 
chancello'r of Ireland, and many other children. Sir 
Richard, tire firft baronet, was born July 3#, 1733; be 
was. under fecretary of ftate from Augiift 1766, to Sep¬ 
tember 1772; on quitting which office, he was reward¬ 
ed with the baronetage. He was in parliament from 
1763, to the laft diftolution, for the borough of St. 
Alban’s, Sandwich, and Borouglibridge, fucceflively ; 
and was a. cpmmiflioner of thetreafury in 1781.—Motto, 
Touts jours preft, Always ready.—Family Seat, Norwood 
Park, Nottinghamlhire. 
WRIGHT, of Woodford, EfiTex; crealed Dec. 5, 
1772. —Sir James Wright, the fecond baronet, fuc¬ 
ceeded his father, fir James, in 1785.—The late fir 
James Wright, knt. was for many years the Britillt re- 
fident at Venice, and was created a baronet, as above. 
PALLISER, of the Vatch, Backs ; created June 25, 
1773. —Sir Hugh Palliser, the fecond baronet, born 
Old. 27, 1768; fucceeded his great uncle, admiral far 
Hugh, March 19, 1796; married Mary, youngeft daugh¬ 
ter and co-heir of John Gates, of Dedham, in Effex, ef- 
quire, Jan. 18, 1790; by whom he has ilfue, Hugh, 
born May 8, 1796; and Mary-Anne-Rachael, born 
March 16, 179S.—John Pallifer, of Newby fuper Wilke, 
in the north riding of Yorklhire; married Anne, daugh¬ 
ter of Michael Meeke, efq. by whom he had fix chil¬ 
dren. From Thomas, the eldeft fon, defeended, in the 
fourth generation, fir Hugh, who, after palling through 
every inferior gradation of rank in j'he navy with repu¬ 
tation, was at length promoted to be an admiral of the 
white, and was for federal years governor of Greenwich 
Holpital. He reprefented the town of Huntingdon for 
a Ihort time in parliament, and was created a baronet as 
above, with remainder, in default of his own ilfue male, 
to his nephew, George-Robinfon Walters, a captain in 
the royal navy ; he dying jn the lifetime of fir Hugh, 
the title, on the deceafe of the latter, and according to 
the limitation of the patent, defeended to the captain’s ' 
eldeft fony who therefore bears the name and arms of 
Palliser and Walters. —Family Seat, Lee, in Kent. 
HUGHES, of Eaft Bergholt, Suffolk; created July 
17, 1773-—Sir Richard Hughes, the fecond baronet, 
was born in 1729; fucceeded bis father in 1780 ; mar¬ 
ried about 1760, Jane, daughter of William Sloane, of ’ 
South Stoneham, in Hampfliire, efquire; by whom he 
has had two fons, and two daughters : Richard, a cap¬ 
tain in the navy ; John-Tliomas, a profeffor of the civil 
law in Jamaica; Louifa, died unmarried; and Rofe- 
Mary, married to John Brome, efq. a major in the army. 
Sir Richard was very early bred to the navy, became a 
poll captain in 1755 ; promoted to a flag in 1780 ; and 
is now an admiral of the red.—The family of Hughes is 
defeended firft from Gwarth Voed Mawr, prince off 
Cardigan, by Morveth, daughter and heir of Ynyr king 
of Gwent; fecondly, from Llewellyn with the golden 
chain, of Yalle, by Eva, daughter ofBlethenap Kynvyn 
prince of Powis; thirdly, from’ Conan, fon of Jago ap 
Idwell prince of Wales, by Ranulphe, daughter of Al- 
fayd king of Dublin; fourthly, from Elinftan, a natural 
fon of Gwaith Voed prince of Cardigan; fifthly, from 
Howel Dda, king of South Wales ; fixtlily, from 
Lluddock, eldeft fon of Tudor-Trevor, by Angliared, 
daughter of Jago ap Idwall king of Wales; feventhly, 
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