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44. Robert Were Fox, Esq., F.R.S., &c., JErm. on a chev. az. three 
foxes 1 heads erased or, a bord. fleury counter fleurette of the second, 
on a canton of the last a drinking-cup of the third charged with a 
rose gu., from the cup three fleur-de-lis gold : imp. Arg. a chev. betw. 
three crosses patee gu. ; Barclay. Robert Were Fox was the eldest 
son of Robert Were Fox, Esq., of Falmouth, by his wife Elizabeth, 
daughter of Joseph Tregelles, of Falmouth, and was born 26th 
April, 1789. He married, in 1814, Maria, fourth daughter of 
Robert Barclay, Esq., of Bury Hill, Surrey, by whom he had one 
son, Robert Were Fox (who married Jane Gurney Backhouse, and 
left four sons and one daughter), and two daughters. He died 
25th July, 1877, his wife having died in 1858. 
In this short notice it is impossible to do more than mention 
the high stand Mr. Fox took in scientific matters, and refer those 
interested to the sketch of his life by Mr. J. H. Collins, f.g.s., 
&c, in which is a long list of his writings. 
45. Rev. Edward Beauchamp St. John, m.a., Quarterly : 1 Arg. 
on a chief gu. two mullets or ; St. John. 2 Gu. a fess betw. six 
martlets or ; Beauchamp. 3 Or two bars gamelles and in chief a 
lion pass. gard. gu. ; Tregoze. J/. Quarterly erm. and gu., on the 
centre a crescent az. for diff. ; Stanhope. On the centre a mullet 
az. for diff. : imp. per fess, in .chief Arg. three horses 1 heads erased 
sa. a chief gu. ; Slade :' in base, Erm. three gadflies gu. ; Gwatkin. 
The Rev. E. B. St. John was the eldest son of George St. John 
(third son of John, eleventh Lord St. John), by his wife Lavinia, 
daughter of William Breton Wolstenholme, Esq. He was born 
26th March, 1795, entered holy orders, was for some time at 
Plymouth, and then rector of Ideford, Devon. He married first, 
in 1820, Jane, daughter of James Slade, Esq., by whom (who 
died in 1831) he had Henry Beauchamp Trefusis, born in 1822, 
and died in 1845; St. Andrew, born in 1827, and died in 1854; 
Lavinia Barbara, married 15th November, 1843, to John James 
Wynne, Esq., r.m. ; Laura; Jane, married 28th October, 1819, to 
Samuel Arthur Walker, Esq. ; Eliza ; Matilda, married 24th May, 
1855, to Captain (now Major-General) Edward Luddington Scott, 
of Plympton, South Devon, third son of the late Robert Scott, 
Esq., of Outlands, near Plymouth; his first wife dying, the 
Rev. E. B. St. John married secondly, in 1844, Mary, fourth 
daughter of Robert Lovell Gwatkin, Esq., of Killiow, Cornwall, 
