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302 JOHNSTONES OF DERWENT
Robert Walpole, the Princess Amelia, and several of the nobility lived in the
Tudor and Queen Anne houses, planted among magnificent trees, for Chiswick
was one of the most beautiful districts in England, and a favourite drive with
George II. from Kensington Palace. The house and park of the Duke of
Devonshire, built and laid out after the pattern of a smaller Versailles, was
close to Annandale House, and it was only five miles from Pall Mall, where
the Marchioness had passed her early life. She died there Nov. 23, 1762.
Her daughter survived till Feb. 17, 1789, predeceasing her half-brother, the
Marquis, whose guardian she virtually became. She left her brother, Charles,
her sole executor.
Sir Richard Johnstone of Hackness Hall married, first, Catherine, daughter
of James Agnew of Bishop Auckland. She died s.p. 1790. He married,
secondly, 1795, Margaret, daughter of John Scott of Charterhouse Square,
London (who married, secondly, William Gleadowe), and had (1) John, his
heir; (2) Charles, M.A., Canon of York, born 1800; (3) Margaret, married her
cousin, George ; (4) Charlotte, married William Fenton Scott ; (5) Laura, died
1817. _
Sir Richard died 1807, and was succeeded by his son, John, second Baronet,
born 1799. Married, 1825, Louisa Augusta Venables Vernon, daughter of the
Archbishop of York and his wife, Lady Anne, sister of the Duke of Sutherland.
They had :
(1) Harcourt, born 1829, created Lord Derwent 1881. Married Charlotte,
daughter of Sir Charles Mills, and has issue.
(2) Henry Richard, born 1830, took the name of Scott. Married, 1866,
Cressida, daughter of W. Selby Lowndes, and has—Henry Lister, J. P., and
others.
(3) Caroline, married, 1848, the Marquis of Abergavenny; died 1892.
Left issue.
(4) Elizabeth Margaret, married, 1855, Sir Thomas Erskine Perry.
(5) Blanche Maria, married, 1859, Robert Swann of Askham, Co. York.
(6) Georgiana Emily, died unmarried 1863.
Sir John Vanden Bempde-Johnstone died
hunting in 1869.
in consequence of a fall out
His brother, Charles (Rev. Canon), and his wife, Amelia, daughter of the
Rev. R. Hawksworth, left :
(1) Charles, Vicar of Hackness, born 1828.
(2) Frederick Richard, born 1829; died s.p. 1900.
(3) William John, born 1833; died 1855.
(4) Arthur George, born 1837 ; died s.p. 1871.
(5) Charlotte Frances, married Edmund Walker.
(6) Laura Georgiana.
(7) Caroline, and other daughters.
Harcourt, first Lord Derwent, succeeded his father 1869. Lady Derwent
died 1903. Their children are :
(1) Francis, J. P., Deputy-Lieutenant, late Captain 2nd Life Guards, born