He first fled into Holland and took service under the Prince of Orange, whom he accompanied into England and Ireland, and fought in the battle of the Boyne in the regiment of Lord Lifford. Etienne Le Fanu, of Caen, having, in 1657, married a lady who professed the Roman Catholic religion, her relatives claimed to have her children brought up in the same faith. Dombrain, D�embrun, D�ambrain : a Protestant Huguenot family of high extraction, the head of which, Jacques d�Embrun, fled from the town of Embrun, near Gap, in the Hautes-Alpes, in 1572. He died at Bath in 1690. Another member of the family, Richard,was a distinguished chemist, member of the Royal Society in 1801, and author of many able works on science, including an Essay on National Character. The tradition, however, continued to exist in the family, that they were of Huguenot extraction; and since the publication of the first edition of this book, Lieutenant Burgess, late of the 46th Regiment, has, with the assistance of the Heralds� College of France and the Canterbury Registers, clearly traced the pedigree of his family back to the seigneurs of Gainache. While the corpse was being let down into the grave, the mourning assembly sang the 79th psalm. Garret, Mark : afterwards called Gerrard, the portrait-painter, a refugee from Bruges in Flanders, from whence he was driven into England by the religious persecutions in the Low Countries. There is a good memoir of Dr. Conant in Aikin�s Biography. The name, originally Von Blume, was changed to Antes, which it still bears; and there is no doubt but that it is from this family that the very marked engineering talent which has distinguished many of the descendants of Benjamin La Trobe, both in England and America, is derived. He was eventually raised to the rank of major-general in the Dutch army. Cheron, Louis : a painter and engraver who took refuge in England at the Revocation, and died in London in 1723. His son, Peter-Isaac, was created Baron Rendlesham. His daughter afterwards married the Rev. The school was once in the town centre, in the buildings that are now the main county library on Castle Street. Young Daniel Morell married the daughter of Conte, and the issue was Stephen Morell, who entered the navy, served under Hawke and Boscawen, and died at Maldon, in Essex, at an advanced age, leaving behind him three sons, all of whom became eminent as dissenting ministers. David fled from Bourdeaux and travelled by Saintonge, Poitou, and Brittany, to St. He was buried in St. Marylebone churchyard, 1744. His son Peter was captain in the 10th Dragoons; also a man of considerable military reputation. In 1721 he was elected governor of the French Hospital. We use cookies to collect information about how you use the Charity Commission Register of Charities and Digital Services, such as pages you visit. These portray the virtues "Lover of learning" and "Much learning" to convey the lesson that it is good to gain knowledge through a love of learning. He was a great promoter of the Dublin silk-manufacture, and was presented by the Mason�s Guild with the Freedom in a silver snuff-box, still in the possession of the family. Shrewsbury BID delivers on a five-year business plan of projects, which include major destination marketing campaigns, significant cost savings for businesses and strategic work ensuring the best possible town centre environment in which business can flourish. As Caer Guricon it is a possible alternative for the Dark Age seat of the Kingdom of Powys. Another grandson, Paul, married Marie Anne Fournier, and had five sons. His descendants still survive in England and Ireland under the name of Hassard. De Laine, Peter : a French refugee, who fled into England before the Revocation, and obtained letters of denisation dated 1681. The Countess was a Protestant�the daughter of Claude de la Tremouille and his wife, the Princess of Orange. He was a successful merchant; and at his death, he left legacies to the Dutch congregations in London, Norwich, and Haarlem. The present representative of the family is Robert Lewis Roumieu, the celebrated architect. The absolute maximum of 34.9 °C (94.8 °F)[59] was recorded in August 1990. He died in 1812, leaving issue, of whom Peter, a captain in the Coldstream Guards, died of fever contracted in the Walcheren expedition; Eliza married Mr. Whatman, of Vinters, near Maidstone; and Harriet married Colonel Best. Rou, Roux, Le Rou , etc. One of them, from Chartres, was minister in 1630. He was the author of several medical works. He composed a number of pieces for the theatre in Goodman�s Fields, in which David Carrick, or Garrigue, the son of another French refugee, made his first appearance as an actor. He was then made, in common with the other remaining members, a fellow of the latter society. into England. Le Thieullier, John : a Protestant refugee from Valenciennes. Four days after his reordination, he was inducted into the United Parishes of St. Sampson and the Yale in the Island of Guernsey. He was also colonel of the Westminster militia. Pailin. La Rive : a refugee settled in Ireland, who escaped with his wife, by pretending to be sellers of oranges, and going about with a donkey and panniers. When a youth he was compelled to fly into England for life. One of them, a colonel, distinguished himself greatly at the siege of Ostend. But in 1681, when the persecution of the Protestants set in with increased severity, Rousseau was excluded from the Academy because of his being a Huguenot. [84] Shrewsbury's position of being the only sizable town for a large area, especially to the west in Mid-Wales, allows it to attract a large retail base beyond that of its resident population. He was killed at the battle of Villa Viciosa, Spain, in 1710. In 1660 Charles II. His two sons also followed the career of arms with distinction. Peter Forester was minister of the French church, La Nouvelle Patente, 1708. : son of one of the Protestant pastors of La Rochelle, from which port he escaped at the Revocation, carrying with him the records of the Consistory, of which his father was president. He built throwing-mills at Pebmarsh and Braintree, the latter of which is now one of the largest establishments in England for the manufacture of silk crape. [176] Heart of Wales line trains also operate to Swansea. A town hall was built in the Market Place on the site of an ancient guildhall in 1730;[32] it was demolished and a new combined guildhall and shirehall was erected on the site in 1837. Corcellis, Nicholas : son of Zeager Corcellis of Ruselier, in Flanders, who took refuge in England from the persecutions of the Duke of Alva. Pierre Langlois left four sons, three of whom died unmarried. Within this sector, the largest employers are the administration and distribution sectors, which includes retail, food and accommodation.[76]. His letters are among the most brilliant specimens of that style of composition in which the French so much excel; but his other works are almost forgotten. He afterwards entered Parliament, where he distinguished himself by his eloquence and his opposition to the American Stamp Act. [23] The Shrewsbury Drapers Company dominated the trade in Welsh wool for many years. He took service under William of Orange, and saw much service in the campaigns in Piedmont and Germany, where he lost an arm. Cambon : a refugee French officer, who commanded one of the Huguenot regiments raised in London in 1689. He was an officer in Du Cambon�s Foot at the battle of the Boyne, and afterwards in Lifford�s Horse. Du Moulin : an ancient and noble family of the Isle of France, that has furnished dignitaries to the Roman Church as well as produced many eminent Protestant writers. The motto of the branch of the family settled in Ireland, Au Ciel de la Cour, was adopted on their leaving France, intimating that they had left a high position at Court for the sake of the religion which they professed. Henry Honywood D�ombrain, is vicar of West-well, Kent, and his grandson, the Rev. To this illustrious family belonged Hector Hamon, one of the first ministers of a Huguenot congregation that settled in England. Guerin : a French refugee family long settled at Rye, now represented by the Crofts. He died about 1728. Returning to England, he obtained commissions to paint altar-pictures for Holy Trinity Church, Hull, and St. Peter�s, Leeds; as well as pictures for Worksop Manor, and Painter�s Hall, London. [19], In the period directly after Napoleon's surrender after Waterloo (18 June 1815), the town's own 53rd (Shropshire) Regiment of Foot was sent to guard him in his exile on St Helena. At the Revocation, the brothers Philip and David entered the army of William of Orange. The flag of Shropshire, and other county crests etc., also uses the three loggerheads. Mauduit, Isaac : descended From a Norman refugee settled at Exeter as a merchant. His descendants for the most part removed to Ireland, where the family still exists. The most affluent areas of the town are generally to the south and west, around the grounds of Shrewsbury School, and the Copthorne area. Subsequently, in 1992, a 17-mile (27 km) dual carriageway was completed at a cost of £79 million to the south of the town and was made to form part of the A5 route. In the year 1686, he was made a free burgess of the city of Amsterdam. He was one of the Commissioners for the Review of the Liturgy in 1661. While the former represented the city in Parliament in 1698, the latter served it as Lord Mayor in 1695. [46], Shrewsbury won the West Midlands Capital of Enterprise award in 2004. His son Benjamin succeeded his father as minister of Charenton, and was head of the Protestant assembly held at Rochelle, in 1622. His elder brother, Samuel, was a commissioner of the navy; and other members of the family held high rank in the same service. [183], Shrewsbury has a comprehensive network of on-road and traffic-free cycle routes. Barry : a Protestant family of Pont-Gibau, near Rochelle, several members of which settled in Ireland. He settled at Shrewsbury, where he founded a ribbon manufactory. Wyle Cop in Shrewsbury is said to have the 'longest uninterrupted row of independent shops'. [67] The Royal Navy submarine HMS Talent is affiliated with Shrewsbury and the town also served as the administrative headquarters of the British Army's regional 143 (West Midlands) Brigade whose administrative HQ was based at Copthorne Barracks, until 2014.[68]. The Rev. 93. He lived for a time in London, but eventually settled at Copenhagen, where he achieved a high reputation. There in an annual rowing regatta in the town in May. a day. His nephew, also named Peter, was a minister of one of the French churches in London. Des Champs John : a native of Bergerac, belonging to an ancient family established in Perigord. He was the father of Jasper Mauduit, Esq, of Hackney. J. De Brosses : One of the descendants of the distinguished refugee of this name officiated as secretary of the Bank of England under the name of Bros. His son is a barrister on the Oxford circuit. Dubois, Francois : fled from the massacre of St. Bartholomew into England. He commanded an independent company at the siege of Derry. He afterwards married the niece of Marlborough. Nicholas became a prosperous London merchant. At nine years of age he spoke Latin with fluency. � His eldest son, James, carried on the business of a Calendarer and Tabby Waterer in Moorfields, London,�whose third son, Philip, the grandfather of Philip James, settled in Spitalfields as a silk dyer,�the firm continuing for three generations. After Thomas Mytton captured Shrewsbury in February 1645; in following with the ordnance of no quarter; a dozen Irish prisoners were selected to be killed after picking lots. The present head of the family is the Earl of Kinnoul, who continues to bear the name of Auriol. One of the sons of Louis sat for Gowran in the Irish Parliament; another held a benefice in the Church. They had all been taken from her and sent to convents to be educated as Roman Catholics. Shrewsbury has been home to many contributors to literature. John was born at Yeatenton in 1608. He died a few years ago, a major-general, K.H. For notice, see p. 326. [11] The town is subject to flooding from the river. The town is home to a semi-professional football club, Haughmond, who take their name from the nearby Haughmond Hill. Chevalier, Antoine-Rodolphe : a zealous Huguenot, born at Montchamps in 1507. [75] Shrewsbury is Shropshire's second largest town, after Telford. For notice see p. 253. [180], Shrewsbury has been an important centre for road traffic. Waldo : Mr. Agnew gives particulars of this family. The same sense of sadness may be observed in the expression of the Jews in Poland.�. D�altera : The ancestors of this family possessed large estates near Nismes, in Languedoc. [194], A potential twinning of Shrewsbury with Bayreuth, Germany, was under discussion in 2009. From him descended the Rev. He was king�s painter in 1618. Further along from the Welsh Bridge is the Porthill Bridge, a pedestrian suspension bridge running between The Quarry and Porthill, built in 1922. There are still descendants of the Savary family in England, bearing the name. The present head of the family is David Papillon, Esq., of Crowhurst, Sussex. The name of La Trobe has been more particularly and honourably associated, for the last hundred years, with Protestant missionary work among the heathen in the British dependencies, in consequence of the connection of the elder branch of the family with the church of the United Brethren or Moravians. Also run by Barnabas are projects including '360 Journey to Work,' which help people gain skills in applying for jobs and basics like CV writing, and 'Cage football,' an initiative that is lent out to local community groups, youth clubs and other churches.[118]. By the 18th century Shrewsbury had become an important market town and stop off for stagecoaches travelling between London and Holyhead on their way to Ireland; this led to the establishment of a number of coaching inns, many of which, such as the Lion Hotel, are extant to this day. More locally, the town is to the east of Welshpool, with Bridgnorth and Kidderminster to the south-east. Other descendants of the family have been officers in the army and navy. However, the nuclear bunker still stands just inside Holywell Street near the Abbey as a lasting reminder of the Cold War, but is now converted and used as a veterinary practice. Daillon, James De : a member of the illustrious family of Du Lude. Marc-Conrad was a magistrate, and councillor to the Parliament of Grenoble�a man highly esteemed for his learning and integrity. He fled into Westphalia, where he lived for a year, and then proceeded to Schaffhausen in Switzerland. He was Burgomaster of the city, and his arms are carved on the Hotel de Ville. He abandoned an estate and property in France of the value of 12,000 pounds. 225, 231. Kerk was then appointed Governor of Quebec, and he held the office until the conclusion of a peace with France, when it was restored to its former owners. At the early age of 23, he was appointed minister of the great Protestant church at Grand Queville, near Rouen, capable of accommodating 10,500 persons. At the Revocation the members fled into Holland and England. Both sons became officers in the army; one saw much service in Flanders, was brigade-major at Fontenoy and Dettingen, and subsequently became major-general and colonel of the 66th Regiment. Arnaud : a Huguenot family of noble descent. On the death of Sir John Foulis, Master of the Mint in Scotland, Briot was appointed to the office in 1635, and superintended the coinage for several years. In 1617, Elie D�Aranda was minister of the Walloon church at Southampton; in 1619, �moderateur de colloques� at Norwich. One was minister of the French church in Glass-House Street, London, and afterwards of the Artillery church. St John the Baptist hospital passed to the Wood family, and became almshouses. Jacques Boileau, fifth Baron, counsellor of Nismes, born 1657, died in prison in France, after a confinement of ten years and six months, for his adherence to the Protestant religion. paid for the friar’s coat, 8s. He, judging who they were, called Joseph, and he immediately got on his clothes and made his escape over the garden wall, with his Bible, and travelled away directly into France, to St. And among the churchmen of the family may be mentioned the Rev. At the Revocation he fled into England, and was selected by the Duke of Ormond as tutor to his grandson. Le Courrayer died in London in 1776. The present head of the family is Sir C. Des Voeux, Bart. The civil war is decided in a great battle at Shrewsbury. For notice of him, see p. 296. Daude, Peter : a member of one of the best families of Maruejols in the Gevaudan. Victoria, Queen : for notice of her Huguenot descent, see p. 324. For further notice see p. 320. His eldest son, Paul, was twice mayor of the town, and left descendants. Prince of Cake Compounders Like Jacques, he took refuge in Holland, and died there. Vicose, Guy De , Baron de la Court: a Protestant noble, who suffered frightful cruelties during the dragonhades. Duncan : a Scotch family naturalised in France at the beginning of the seventeenth century. For notice see p. 257. Dr. Charles Terrot, Bishop of Edinburgh. Be officiated there for twentyfour years, during which he often incurred great peril, having had his house twice pillaged by the populace. Pelessier, Abel : a refugee Huguenot officer who settled at Portarlington. His son, Dr. The first La Tranche emigrated from France and settled in England at the massacre of St. Bartholomew. In 1569 his house was pillaged by the populace, while he himself was condemned to death because of his religion, and hanged. [48], A 2005 report on prison population found that HM Prison Shrewsbury was the most overcrowded in England and Wales. and XV.� The late Albany Fonblanque was for many years editor of the Examiner. His two sons, Peter and Louis, both settled in England. and afterwards of St. John�s Church, London. Vallentin : the De Vallentins of Eschepy, in Normandy, were among the refugees who settled in London after the Revocation. One of them, Pierre, officiated as minister of the French church at Plymouth between 1733 and 1737. Andre : the name of a French refugee family settled in Southampton, to whom the celebrated and unfortunate Major Andre belonged,�though the latter was brought up at Lichfield. Allix, Peter : an able preacher and controversialist. and Most Rev. Tahorudin, Gabriel : a Protestant refugee from the province of Anjou, who came to England on the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, leaving behind considerable landed property, which was confiscated. Evremond, Charles De St. Denys, Seigneur, Ste. 3 Before some proper names viz. The fourth in descent from him was the �Noble Fulcrand de la Cour, Seigneur de Labilliere.� In his will he declared that he belonged to the Reformed Faith. 253, 331. definition of - senses, usage, synonyms, thesaurus. One of his sons became eminent as a London merchant; another settled at Lisburn, where his sister married John Crommelin, son of Louis. By intermarriages his descendants are connected with the families of Hamon, Champagne, Bouherau (Burrowes), Des Voeux, etc. Nicholas, Abel : descended from an ancient family in Brittany. After reaching London, one of his sons was employed in the Bank of England.�. The Darwin and Pride Hill shopping centres house many high street retailers such as Marks & Spencer, H&M, Topshop and Primark. When once asked to sign a petition in favour of Roman Catholic Emancipation, he declined, with the remark that �the Roman Catholics had kicked his family out of France, and he had no wished to be kicked back again.�. Many descendant of the family have served in the British army, and held offices in church and state. Petitot, Jean : an excellent painter in enamel, patronised by Charles I., who knighted him, and gave him apartments at Whitehall to live in. A. M. Carre officiated as reader in the French church at Hammersmith; and another of the same name was minister of La Patente, London. He was the son of a French refugee from Rochelle, and is well known as a song writer and dramatic author. Their descendants still survive in Ireland. A Roman Catholic branch of the Gaussens, who remained in France, still holds large property in the neighbourhood of Montpellier; and many members of the family have distinguished themselves in the French military and diplomatic services. Cavalier, John : the Cevennol leader, afterwards brigadier-general in the British army, and lieutenant-governor of Jersey. This is not only evident in the retail sector, but also in the healthcare sector, where the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital has the only A&E department westwards until Aberystwyth, about 75 miles (121 km) away. D� espagne, Jean : a Huguenot pastor, who fled from Dauphiny, shortly after the assassination of Henry IV. In the fourth generation, the Dubois changed their name to Wood. He afterwards served under Lord Galway in Spain, after which the king of Portugal made him lieutenant-general and engineer-in-chief. Returning to Dublin, he settled, and died there in 1729, at the age of 66. He was the author of numerous works on medicine; amongst others, of a treatise on the cattle distemper, which originally appeared in the Philosophical Transactions, and has since been frequently reprinted. Vanderputt, Henry : born in Antwerp; he fled to England from the religious persecution in the Low Countries in 1568, and became a London merchant. Belcastel took a prominent part in the Irish campaigns of 1690-91. At the mother�s death, the maternal uncle of the children claimed to bring them up, and to set aside their father, because of his being a Protestant; and the magistrates of Caen ordered Le Fanu to give up the children accordingly. At the most recent general election, in 2017, Daniel Kawczynski of the Conservative Party was elected with a majority of 6,627. The sole descendant of this Antoine established himself in business. He returned to France, but again fled back to England after the massacre of St. Bartholomew, and died in London. The ministers of Geneva, however, having given it as their opinion that the duties of Captain and Minister were incompatible, he resigned the former office, and remained Chaplain of the Regiment of Baltasar. From the 1220s, there was also a general hospital dedicated to St John the Baptist. In his youth he studied at Sedan and afterwards at Oxford and Leyden. The team currently compete in the Midland Football League and play their home games at Shrewsbury Sports Village, in the Sundorne area of the town. In May 1998, Virgin Trains West Coast introduced a service from Shrewsbury to London Euston;[177] it was withdrawn in 2000. Josue, the original refugee, possessed lands in Poitou, which he lost by his flight for conscience� sake. About the period of the Revocation, John Gaussen, son of Pierre (noble), emigrated from Lunel to Geneva, where he married Marie Bosanquet (also an emigre family still existing in England), by whom he had six children; of these Francis emigrated to London, where he died, unmarried, in 1744; and Peter, who married in London a Mademoiselle Molet, died at Geneva without issue. The late M.P. [26], In 1403 the Battle of Shrewsbury was fought a few miles north of the town centre, at Battlefield; it was fought between King Henry IV and Henry Hotspur Percy, with the King emerging victorious,[27] an event celebrated in William Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1, Act 5. The political make-up of the town council, as of the 2017 local elections, sees Labour as the largest party with 7 seats, the Conservatives on 6, the Liberal Democrats on 3 and the Green Party with 1. He published several works on religions subjects. Lock became internationally recognised as a high scoring fighter ace of the Royal Air Force in the Second World War with 26 victories before his death in combat at the age of 21. His son Francis there joined him; the old refugee died at the advanced age of eighty-four. A minor canon of Chester, he was made rector of Handley, Cheshire, in 1684, also rector of Waverton, Cheshire, in 1696. To force him to sign his abjuration, they made him drink from twenty-five to thirty glasses of water; but this means failing, they next dropped into his eyes the hot tallow of a lighted candle. Delaune : a refugee family from Normandy, who took refuge in England as early as 1599, when a Delaune officiated as minister of the Walloon Church in London. He was admitted a fellow of the Royal Society, of which he was appointed secretary in 1758. Du Veil : three brothers of this name, Jews by birth, were won over by the Roman Catholic Church. A locket containing a lock of the emperor's hair (presented to an officer of the 53rd) remains to this day in the collections of the Shropshire Regimental Museum at Shrewsbury Castle. Garencieres, Theophilus De : a doctor of medicine, native of Caen, who came over to England as physician to the French ambassador, and embraced Protestantism. [143] Michael Palin, the writer, actor and comedian; John Peel, the tastemaker and radio DJ also attended Shrewsbury School. Two newspapers are published for Shrewsbury – the local edition of the county's Shropshire Star and the more traditional Shrewsbury Chronicle, which is one of the oldest weekly newspapers in the country, having produced its first edition in 1772. Simon died at London in 1755. Among his descendants are names which have Since been of note in literature, science, and art, both in England and in the United States of America. Shrewsbury had a large cheese market in Victorian times. Be was pastor of the church of New Patente in 1728; of the Artillery in 1728; and of the Savoy, and probably Spring Gardens, in 1741. See Lefroy. The representative of the family is the Rev. Passavant, Jean-Ulric : a refugee from Strasburg, where he was born in 1678. Above the main entrance are two statues bearing the Greek inscriptions "Philomathes" and "Polymathes". Two cousins are in the church. Durfort De Duras : an ancient Protestant family of Guienne. The eldest of the three brothers, Daniel, held the office of governor of Pondicherry in the East Indies, to which he was nominated by King William; and in that capacity he realized a considerable fortune. William Wood�s fourth son was Charles Wood,�the discoverer of platinum. The following account is contained in a MS. in the possession of his family:��An information having been given against him to the Inquisition, they sent their officers in the night to apprehend him; they knocked at the door and told his master (who answered them) that they wanted his man. In 1720 he returned to England, and devoted the rest of his life to the improvement of agriculture, on which subject he wrote and published many useful works. He died in the following year. He died in great torture, 1685. He was thereupon seized and thrown into the Bastile, where he lay for many years, during several of which he was insane. The independent cinema features daily screens of films from around the world along with a cafe and bar. A second branch of the Olier family in France held the Marquisate of Verneuil, and numbered many illustrious names.�The late Rev. [8] The town is the birthplace of Charles Darwin and is where he spent 27 years of his life.[9]. For the sale of them, a shop was opened in the High Street. Dobree Bonamy, the well-known author and political economist, belongs to this family. The son of the latter, John Ezekiel, entered the civil service of the East India Company, and became member of Council of the Presidency of Madras. Following the Greyfriars Bridge is the English Bridge, historically called Stone Bridge, which was rebuilt in the 1920s. One of their descendants, settled in Yorkshire, thus writes; �They were from the first engaged in textile manufactures, and some members of the family still keep up that connection. Mercier, Jean Le : born at Usez in Languedoc. The baronetcy expired in 1724. During his life he was engaged in nineteen pitched battles and twenty-three sieges, without ever having received a wound.
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