RICHARD WARNER (I7II-1775). 209 
“at his seat, West Bromwich Hall, Staffordshire. By his will, 
“dated the 15th of January 1808, he devised ”’ all the estate 
upon trust to his executors to be sold for the benefit of the chil- 
dren of the Rev. Samuel Clarke, who afterwards took the name 
of Jervoise ; and at the sale in 1811 the estate, which comprised 
Cold-Bath House, Cold-Bath Square, Little Warner Street, 
Great and Little Bath Streets, Ray and Dorrington Streets, 
the Phoenix Foundry, Red Lion Yard, a distillery and ten public- 
houses, realised nearly £77,000.4 
Robert Warner was, like his younger brother, a member 
of the University of Oxford.5 A printed slip, found in a book 
at Idsworth, is inscribed, ‘“‘ Mr. Robert Warner, near Temple 
Seaimeeonvdom, Printed at the Theatre in Oxford, Sept. 15, 
“An. Dom. 1718.’’ He may have married into the Leigh family, 
since his son was named John Leigh Warner, and there are 
portraits at Idsworth of Barnabas Eveleigh Leigh (born 1703) 
and his wife, painted in 1736 by Joseph Highmore, an artist 
who painted many portraits in his day of students and residents 
in or near Lincoln’s Inn. John Leigh Warner died in boyhood 
in 1765, and his father, whose will bears date May 8th, 1764, 
probably about the same time, leaving his daughter Katherine 
heiress to considerable property. Part at least of the Clerken- 
well property seems, however, from Richard Warner’s will, to 
have passed into his possession. 7 
From his books, now preserved at Idsworth, Robert Warner 
seems to have been a man of considerable education and classical 
study and to have maintained the friendship with the Burnet 
family. Some of his books also are presents from his younger 
brother. He possessed an estate at Belmont, near Bedhampton, 
in South Hants, which probably brought his family into connec- 
tion with the Clarke Jervoises of Idsworth. Mary Elizabeth, 
daughter of Thomas Jervoise, of Herriard, married Samuel 
Clarke, of West Bromwich, Staffordshire, son of Sir Samuel 
Clarke, High Sheriff of London in 1713, and had one son, Jer- 
voise Clarke, and a daughter Anne. Jervoise Clarke, who 
afterwards took the surname of Jervoise by act of parliament 
in compliance with the will of his mother’s father, and sat in 
Parliament for Hampshire, married in 1763 the heiress who is 
4 Pink’s History of Clerkenwell, p. 12 : 
5 He matriculated 13 February, es at Wadham, aged 16. Barrister-at-law, Lincoln’s 
Inn, 1729. 
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