Antigua and the Antiguans. Volume 2

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young at the date of his father's death, in 1664, but who afterwards emigrated to Antigua, where he became a member of the legislature in 1676, on 25 July of which year, in such capacity, he signed a remonstrance in vindication of Col. Philip Warner, inserted in another place, (vide p. 317.) His son, COL. FRANCIS CARLISLE, was still alive in 1732, when we find him named as executor to the will of Col. Edward Warner, the representative, in this island, of Sir Thomas Warner, and the owner of the Folly and Savannah estates. He (Col. Francis Carlisle) m. at St. John's, Antigua, 28 April, 1708, Anne, dau. of Daniel Mackinnon, Esq., and had an only dau. and heiress, ALICE CARLISLE, who m. at St. John's, Antigua, 8 July, 1735, the Hon. Ralph Payne, chief justice, and afterwards governor of St. Christopher's, and by whom, who died 1762, she had (besides a dau. Elizabeth, the wife of Drury Ottley, Esq., who died at his house in Bryanstone-square, London, 22 April, 1822) a son, SIR RALPH PAYNE, K.B., created Lord Lavington, who succeeded to this estate on the death of his mother, at St. Christopher's, in 1760, at the time when a general sickness prevailed in that island. Lord Lavington was born at Basseterre, in the parish of St. George, in the island of St. Christopher's, 19 March, 1739, and before his elevation to the peerage, in the imperial parliament, he represented the several places of Shaftesbury, Camelford, and Plympton. In 1771, he was made Knight of the Bath ; and in 1795, was raised to the peerage by the title of Baron Lavington of Lavington. He m. at St. George's, Hanover-square, 1 Sept. 1767, Frances, Baroness Kolbel, one of the ladies who accompanied her Majesty Queen Charlotte, on her leaving Germany, as the bride elect of King George III. Lord Lavington died at Antigua, 1 Aug. 1807, leaving to his lady his estates for her life.

No. 17. GENEALOGY OF SIR CHARLES AUGUSTUS FITZROY. WILLIAM CROSBY, brigadier-general, col. of the Royal Irish, equerry to the Queen of George II., appointed governor of the Leeward Islands, and afterwards of New York, in 1730,* m. Grace, the sister of George

* Philip Crosby, Esq., another descendant of this family, and a distinguished admiral in the British navy, in 1/92, in. Elizabeth, dau. of William Gunthorpe, Esq. of Bugle Hall. co. Southampton, and of Winthorpe, in the island of Antigua. Lieut.-Gen. Henry Crosby, another of that family, died at Bath, 17 Jan. 1822, aged 79 ; m. Anne, dau. of the late Samuel Eliot, Esq. of Belfast Division, in the island of Antigua.


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