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as one of the two men of the best heads and best fortunes in British America, (Col. Edward Byam, as already mentioned, being the other,) and was very deservedly created a Baronet, 21 April, 1721. He died 17 Dec. 1738, leaving by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of William Bethel, of Swindon, co. York, Esq., four sons, WILLIAM, second Bart., who succeeded him, and of whom hereafter. n. John-Archibald, died s. p. in 1759. III. Christopher, m., and died s. p. in 1797. iv. Edward. I.
To John Archibald he bequeathed his Barbados estates. To Christopher he bequeathed an estate called " Rooms's," in Antigua. To Edward the Folly estate in that island, (now modernized into " Bath Lodge,") and comprising " Betty's Hope," the " Cotton Estate," and the " Cables," all in the Island of Antigua, and the entire Island of Barbuda, in the general bequest to his eldest son and successor, SIR WILLIAM, second Bart., M.P. for Minehead, co. Somerset, dying 11 March, 1792, left, by Anne, his wife, the dau . of — Acton, Esq., a son and heir of his own name—viz., SIR WILLIAM, third Bart., who died in France in 1816, whereupon his cousin, CHRISTOPHER-BETHEL CODRINGTON, of Dodington Park, co. Gloucester, assumed the title, asserting his cousin to have died in France, without lawful issue. He was the son of Edward, by his wife, Rebecca Le Sturgeon, and grandson of Sir William, the first Bart, the son of Col. John Codrington, Treasurer of Barbados, by his wife, the dau. of Col. Bates, of the same island, as already mentioned. Besides Christopher-Bethel, of Dodington Park, Edward was the father of Sir Edward Codrington, the hero of Navarino, G.C.B., K.S.L., K.S.G., and RearAdmiral of the Blue ; and also of Caroline, the wife of Joseph-Lyons Walrond, of Walrond's and Lyon's Estates, in Antigua, and of Dulford House, co. Devon, and by whom she has, Bethel Walrond, Esq., formerly M.P. for Sudbury, who m. in 1829, Lady Janet Erskine, dau. of the Earl of Rosslyn. Sir Christopher-Bethel, of Dodington Park, aforesaid, m. 15 Aug. 1796, the Hon. Carolina-Georgiana-Harriott Foley, dau. of Thomas, second Lord Foley, (by Harriott, dau. of William, second Earl of Harrington, by Caroline Fitzroy, dau. of Charles, second Duke of Grafton, K.G.,) and by her had, (among other children,) SIR WILLIAM-CHRISTOPHER, the present Bart., born 12 March, 1805, and m. Lady Georgiana Somerset, dau. of his Grace the present Duke of Beaufort. It may be right to observe, that the title is disputed by his cousin, William-Raimond Codrington, who alleges himself to be the legitimate son of William, the third Bart., but this is a litigation into which we shall not enter.