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Welby Is of great antiquity in the county of Lincoln, de¬ 
riving its name from the manor of Welby, near Grant¬ 
ham, which manor is now the property of fir William. 
John lord ofCaftleton, ance'ftor of all the Welbys, came 
out of Normandy with William the Conqueror. They 
originally fpelt their name Wcl’uic. The female branch 
is equally ancient; their name was Towers, and they 
came over about the fame time with the male branch; 
being direiT defendants of the De la Tour family. Se¬ 
veral of the Welbys have had the honour of reprefent- 
ing their native county of Lincoln in parliament, as 
Richard Welby, 9th Hen. V. Nicholas, 19th Hen. VI. 
Richard, 12th Edw. IV. and William, in 1654 and 1656. 
Many of them have ferved the office of Iheriff of Lin- 
colnfhire, when the office was committed to gentry of 
the firft rank and efteem only.—Family Seat, Denton 
Houfe, Lincolnffiire. 
BAYNES, of Harefield Place, Middlefex ; created 
June 29, 1801.—Sir Christopher Baynes, created a 
baronet as above, was born Auguft 6, 1755; married, 
March 1, 1788, Nanny, daughter of William Gregory, 
of Ryde, in the Ifle of Wight, efq. and has iffue, Wil¬ 
liam, born Nov. 8, 1789; Mary, born July 19, 1791; 
Walter-George, born Nov. 22, 1792; Donald-Chrifto- 
pher ; and a daughter, born Nov. 4, 1807.—This family 
received its name, which has been varioufly written, 
from its original anceftor, Donald Bane, king of Scot¬ 
land: it formed a clan of confiderable eminence in the 
north of Scotland, but migrated thence, and in 1484 a 
branch thereof was regularly eftablilhed at Middlefmoor 
in the county of York. Chriftopher Baynes, efq. born 
1603, was the eldeit fon and heir of Walter of Limley, 
and was the firlt of his line who, about 1673, or 1675, 
began to fign his name Baynes. Sir Chriftopher Baynes, 
the prefent baronet, is the fon of William Baynes, late 
of Kilburn, in the county of York, efq. and of Mary, 
the daughter of Chriftopher Roberts, efq. a defcendant 
in a direct line from Juftin ap Gurgan, prince of South 
Wales in the reign of William I.- 
Arms. Sable a fhin-bone in fefs, furmounted of ano¬ 
ther in pale argent; on a canton of the laft a vulture 
proper. Creft, a cubit arm, verted azure, cuffed ermi- 
nois, the hand holding a jaw-bone argent. Supporters, 
two favages wreathed about the head and waift with 
clubs over their arms, all proper. Thefe were confirmed 
and affigned to the prefent baronet by patent from the 
Lion-office, dated the roth of June 1805.—Motto, Furor 
anna minijlrat , Rage fupplies arms, (alluding to the 
jaw-bone in the creft.)—Family Seat, Harefield Place, 
Middlefex. 
BARRET-LENNARD, of Bell Houfe, Effex ; cre¬ 
ated June 30, 1801.—Sir Thomas Barret-Lennard, 
created a baronet as above; married, in 1787, Dorothy, 
lifter of fir John St. Aubyn, bart. of Clowance, Corn¬ 
wall; and has iffue, Thomas; John; George; Henry; 
Edward-Pomery ; Dacre; and Dorothy-Anne. —The 
maternal anceftors of this family for a confiderable time 
ranked amongft the principal ones in the county of 
Kent, were fertled at Chevening as early as the middle 
of the reign of Henry VI. when George Lennard was 
refident there, whofe grandfon, John, lies buried in the 
church of Chevening, under a tomb, on which in brafs 
are his arms, Or, on a fefs, gules, three fleurs-de-lis of 
the firft, quartering thofe of Bird, his mother, viz. 
Quarterly, argent and fable, in the firft, a fpread ea_gle 
of the fecond. Thomas Barrett-Lennard, lord Dacre, 
born in 1716, married Anne, daughter of fir John Pratt, 
knt. lord chief juftice of the court of King’s Bench, and 
fifter of Charles Pratt earl Camden, lord high chancel¬ 
lor of Great Britain; his lordlhip. died Jan. 12, 1786, 
leaving a fon, Thomas Barret-Lennard, to whom his 
lordfhip bequeathed his eftate and name, and who was 
created a baronet : s above.—Motto, Pour bien dfirer, To 
wifti for good.—Family Seat, Bell Houfe, Eliex. 
LDRY. 
CROFTON, of Mohill Houfe, Leitrim; created 
July 7, 1801.—Sir Hugh Crofton, the fecond baro¬ 
net, born July 7, 1764; fucceeded his father in 1801 ; 
married Frances, fourth daughter of Ralph Smith, of 
Barbavilla, in Weftmeath, efq. and has iffue ;,of whom 
the eldcft fon, Morgan-George, is a lieutenant in the 
navy.—This family is originally from Devonfhire; the 
firft who fettled in Ireland was John Crofton, efcheator- 
general in queen Elizabeth’s reign; he, among other 
eftates, pitrchafed Mohill, &c. in the county of Leitrim, 
which he left to his fon, whofe grandfon, Thomas, mar¬ 
ried Bridget, daughter of major Hugh Morgan, of Dub¬ 
lin; and had iffue,.Hugh, who married Anne, daughter 
of George Crofton, of Lilburn, in Rofcommon, and had 
iffue, Morgan, who was created a baronet as above; 
and, dying foon after, was fucceeded by his fon, Hugh, 
the prefent baronet.—Motto, Dat Deus incrementum, God 
gives the increafe.—Family" Seat, Mohill Houfe, Lei¬ 
trim, Ireland. 
DE BATHE, of Knightftown, Meath, Ireland; cre¬ 
ated July 7, 1801.—Sir J ames-Wynne-Butler De 
Bathe, of Knightftown, Calhell, and Ladyrath, the 
fecond baronet, was born 0£t. 25, 1792; and fucceeded 
his father, fir James-Michael, Feb. i 8 o 3 .—This family 
came into England with William the Conqueror. Hugo 
de Bathe accompanied earl Strongbow into Ireland 
about 1172, and had grants of many manors and lands 
in the counties of Dublin, Meath, Louth, and Drogheda. 
By degrees the de was dropped, and the name became 
plain Bath. Peter Bath, efq. the fifteenth in defcent 
from Hugo de Bathe, married, in 1754, Bridget, daugh¬ 
ter and heir of Edmund de Fonte, of Boyle, in Rofcom- 
mon, efq. by whom he had iflue, fir James-Michael, of 
Knightftown, in Calhell, who re-alfumed, by virtue of 
his rnajefty’s fign manual, the ancient bearing of the 
name, (i. e. De Bathe,) and was created a baronet as 
above; he married Anna-Maria, daughter of William 
Wynne, of Merioneththire, efq. and had iffue, James- 
Wynne-Butler, his fucceffor, the prefent baronet.—Fa¬ 
mily Seats, Knightftown, Calhell, and Ladyrath, Ireland. 
MONTGOMERY, of Stanhope, Peebleslhire ; cre¬ 
ated July 16, 1801.—Sir James Montgomery, cre- 
ted a baronet as above ; prefenter of fignatures in the 
court of Exchequer in North Britain, and M.P. for the 
county of Peebles ; married Margaret, daughter and co¬ 
heir of Robert Scott, of Killeam, near Glafgow, efq. 
and has had iffue, William, a colonel in the army, died 
in 1800; James, a barrifter at law ; Archibald, collector 
of Rungpore in Bengal; Robert, barrifter at law ; Mar¬ 
garet, married Robert-Nutter Campbell, of Cailgie, in 
Peeblefliire, efq. Barbara; Anne, married Thomas Hart, 
efq.—^lotto, over the creft, Gardez bien, Take good 
cafe.—Family Seat, Stanhope, Peebleslhire. 
DOUGLAS, of Caftle Douglas, Kirkcudbright, North 
Britain; created July 17, 1801.—Sir William Doug¬ 
las, created a baronet as above. —- Motto, Audax et 
promptusy Bold and ready.—Family Seat; as above. 
DILLON, of Lefrnullen, in Meath, Ireland; created 
July 31, 1801.—Sir Charles-Drake Dillon, the fe¬ 
cond baronet, (a baron of the Holy Roman Empire,) 
fucceeded his father, fir John, in 1805; married Char¬ 
lotte, daughter of John Hamilton, efq. and by her, who 
is deccafed, has no iffue—Motto, Auxilium ab alto. Help 
from above. 
KEANE, of Belmont, Waterford, Ireland, and March- 
wood Lodge, Hants; created Aug. 1, 1801.—SirJOHN 
Keane, created a baronet as above, M.P. forYoughail 5 
married Sarah, fourth daughter of Richard Reiley, efq. 
of Lifmore, in Ireland; and has iflue, Richard, born in 
1780, lieutenant-colonel of the Waterford militia ; John, 
born in 1781, lieutenant-colonel of the 13th regiment of 
infantry ; Henley-Edward, captain in the 23d; and Sa¬ 
rah, deceafcd. Six John married, fecondly, in 1804, 
i Dorothy, 
