Sir Edward Vavasour, 1st Baronet

The Honourable Sir Edward Marmaduke Joseph Vavasour, 1st Baronet DL (formerly Edward Marmaduke Joseph Stourton; 6 May 1786 – 16 March 1847) was an English landowner and baronet.

Early life

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Vavasour was born on 6 May 1786 as Edward Marmaduke Joseph Stourton. He was the son of Charles Stourton, 17th Baron Stourton and Hon. Mary Langdale. His elder brother was William Stourton, 18th Baron Stourton and his younger brother was Charles Langdale, the Whig MP for Beverley and Knaresborough.[1]

His paternal grandparents were William Stourton, 16th Baron Stourton and Winifred Howard (a leading Roman Catholic who was a great-granddaughter of the 6th Duke of Norfolk).[2] His mother was a daughter of Marmaduke, 5th Baron Langdale and his wife, Constantia Smythe (a sister of Walter Smythe and, therefore, an aunt of Maria Anne Smythe, who, following her second marriage became known as Mrs. Fitzherbert, the longtime companion of George, Prince of Wales, later King George IV).[3]

Career

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He gained the rank of Captain between 1817 and 1824 in the Yorkshire Hussars. On 27 February 1826 his name was legally changed to Edward Marmaduke Joseph Vavasour by Royal Licence, after inheriting the Vavasour estates of his maternal cousin, Sir Thomas Vavasour, the seventh and last Vavasour Baronet of the 1628 creation.[4] He was created 1st Baronet Vavasour, of Hazelwood, in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 14 February 1828.[5]

He served as a Deputy Lieutenant of Yorkshire.[6]

Personal life

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On 6 August 1813, he married Marcia Bridget Lane-Fox, daughter of James Fox-Lane, MP for Horsham, and Hon. Marcia Lucy Pitt (daughter of British diplomat and politician George Pitt, 1st Baron Rivers). Together, they were the parents of:[1]

Sir Edward died on 16 March 1847 near Dijon in Burgundy,[6] while on a pilgrimage to Rome.[1] As his eldest son Edward died unmarried in 1885, the baronetcy passed to his grandson, William, a son of his third son, William.[7]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003.
  2. ^ Mowbray, Charles Botolph Joseph Baron (1899). History of the Noble House of Stourton, of Stourton, in the County of Wilts. E. Stock. p. 633. Retrieved 30 April 2024.
  3. ^ Abbot, Richard (2007-09-01). "Brighton's unofficial queen". The Tablet. The Tablet Publishing Company. p. 12.
  4. ^ Cokayne, George E. (George Edward) (1902). Complete baronetage. Exeter : W. Pollard & co., ltd.
  5. ^ Foster, Joseph (1881). The Baronetage and Knightage. Nichols and Sons. p. 623.
  6. ^ a b "DEATH OF THE HON. SIR EDWARD VAVASOUR, BART". The Observer. 29 Mar 1847. p. 4. Retrieved 30 April 2024.
  7. ^ Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage: Comprising Information Concerning All Persons Bearing Hereditary Or Courtesy Titles, Companions of All the Various Orders, and the Collateral Branches of All Peers and Baronets. Dean and Son. 1888. p. 526. Retrieved 30 April 2024.
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baronet
(of Hazlewood)
1828–1847
Succeeded by