Skrine of Warleigh

CHAPTER 3-D

The Skrines of Warleigh Manor

SUSANNE CAROLINE, eldest daughter and second surviving child, born 8th July 1816at Warleigh Manor; died 2nd November 1886. She married 27th February 1840 GeorgeJordan HARRIES, Esqr., of Priskilly Forest and Heathfield, co. Pembroke, born27th September 1815, and died 8th August 1865. He was eldest son of John HillHarries of Priskilly and Tresissillt, co. Pembroke, J.P. and D.L., High Sheriff1800, by his wife Frances, 4th daughter and coheir of Barret Bowen Jordan ofNeeston, co. Pembroke. There were four children of this marriage, all sons. (Forfurther pedigree see Harries of Tregwynt in L.G.) EMILY ANNE, second daughter and third surviving child, born 1st October 1817at Warleigh Manor; died 13th September 1846. She married 6th May 1840 at Bishamparish church, co. Berks., Walter Rice Howell POWELL, Esqr., of Maesgwynne, co.Carmarthen, J.P. for cos. Carmarthen and Pembroke, and D.L. for the former, forwhich he was High Sheriff 1849; M.P. for Carmarthen 1880-1885, and for West Carmarthenshire1885-1888; eldest son and heir of Walter Rice Howell Powell, Esqr., of Maesgwynne,by his wife Mary, daughter of Joshua Powell of Brislington. He was born 4th April1819, and died 25th June 1889. They had Issue:

i. Caroline Mary, of Maesgwynne, born 23 February 1841, succeeded her father on his death in 1889, and died spinster 30 March 1896, when her nephew George Powell Roch succeeded to Maesgwynne. ii. Walter Rice Howell Powell, born 1844, and died 1885 during his father's lifetime.

Mr. Powell married secondly, 1851, Catharine Anne Prudence, second daughter ofGrismond Phillipps, Esqr., of Cwmgwilly, co. Carmarthen, by whom he had a daughter:Emily Catharine, whose son George Powell Roch eventually succeeded to Maesgwynne.(For further detail see under Roch of Maesgwynne and Butter Hill in L.G.) Rev. WADHAM HUNTLEY SKRINE, second surviving son, Clerk in Holy Orders, Vicarof Charlton, Pewsey, co. Wilts., and later first vicar of St. James's Church,Stubbings; born 22nd October 1818 at Warleigh Manor, matriculated at Christ Church,Oxford, 19th October 1837, aged 15 years, B.A. 1841, M.A. 1846; died 5th February1887 at Camley, Maidenhead Thicket, Maidenhead; buried at Stubbings Church. When he was presented to the living of Stubbings the vicarage had only just beenbuilt by his father, and still stood in a ploughed field. He himself laid outthe grounds and garden in their present amenity. Camley, Maidenhead Thicket, was a house built by the Rev. W. H. Skrine with aview to his own retirement. His widow left it some little time after his deathto go and live with her daughter Emily Esther at Moorlands nearby. He married 27th May 1847 at Great Saxham Church, Clara Mary Anne eldest daughterof William MILLS, Esqr., of Saxham Hall, co. Suffolk (see Chapter VI). She wasborn 2nd November 1816, and dying 21st October 1905 at Moorlands, MaidenheadThicket, was buried at Stubbings Church 2nd November 1905, the anniversary ofher 86th birthday. They had Issue:

1. Emily Esther, born 29 May 1848 at Bury St. Edmunds, and baptised at Great Saxham Church 25 June 1848; died spinster at Moorlands, Maidenhead Thicket, 19 June 1909, and buried at Stubbings. 2. Agnes Clara, born 3 July 1849, and baptised 26 August following at Charlton near Pewsey, Wilts. She died in Ceylon I I February 1925, and was buried in Peredeniya Cemetery, near Kandy. She was married in Ceylon, 13 April 1882, to Cecil Harry Twig WILKINSON, Esqr., who died 17 June 1904, and was buried in Peredeniya Cemetery. He was born at "Newmarket" Bungalow, Ceylon, in 1856, and was the eldest child of Captain James Allix Wilkinson, 15th Ret., who sold out in 1854 and became a coffee-planter, having married, 7 March 1854, Elizabeth H., da. of W. H. WHITING, Esqr., Government Agent, Eastern Provinces (whose wife was a da. of Dr. Norman GARSTIN, L.L.D., d. 1831). Captain Wilkinson was afterwards employed in the Public Works Office at Peredeniya, where he died, aged 48, and was buried in the Garrison Cemetery at Kandy 23 March 1868 by the Right Rev. Piers Calverley Claughton, D.D., Bishop of Colombo. Issue:

(1) Cecil Wilkinson, died in infancy. (2) Huntley Wilkinson, Esqr., b. 13 August 1884; married, 24 March 1915, to Helen Douglas (b. 22 August 1882), da. of Sir John DOUGLAS, K.C.M.G., Colonial Secretary, Ceylon, youngest s. of General Sir James Dawes Douglas, G.C.B., by his wife Alice Ann, da. of Bishop CLAUGHTON of Colombo above named (see Peerage, Queensberry collaterals, under Sir James Dawes Douglas). Issue: Douglas Huntley Wilkinson, b. 19 July 1919. (3) Douglas Allix Wilkinson, Esqr., b. 17 August 1890, married first, 17 July 1915, Eva Frances St. John, elder daughter of Beauchamp Edward TYRWHITT, Esqr., of Oxford, by his wife Eva Elizabeth SHAW-YATES. Issue: Dawn, b. 11 November 1918. married second, 27 December 1925, Phyllis LEGGETT, da. of Arthur KENNEDY, Esqr., of Lincoln's Inn, by his wife Edith Grace Watkins Spencer GATE. Issue: Maximilian Wilkinson (W) 7, b. 28 March 1927.

3. Douglas Huntley Skrine, Esqr., born 10 January 1851, and baptised 24 February following at Charlton, Pewsey; educated at Marlborough College, Wilts.; in business as a stock-broker and lived with his sister Emily at Moorlands, Maidenhead Thicket; died unmarried 3 February 1904 at Moorlands; buried at Stubbings Church. 4. Rev. Herbert Henry Skrine, Clerk in Holy Orders, born 13 September 1852 at Charlton Vicarage, Pewsey, and baptised at St. James's, Stubbings, 28 October 1852; educated at Marlborough College; proceeded to Lichfield Theological College, and ordained Deacon 1877, Priest 1878; matriculated at Worcester College, Oxford, 18 October 1883, aged 31, B.A. 1886; Vicar of Greenham, near Newbury, 1890 to 1900, and Vicar of Stubbings 1900 to 1919 when he retired to Lent Hill, Ashburton, S. Devon, and there died 14 September 1927; buried at Stubbings Church 17 September 1927. He married 6 June 1882 at St. Alkmund's Church, Derby (where he was then curate), Evelyn 3rd daughter of Charles Hugh LUSHINGTON, Esqr., Bengal Civil Service (3rd son of William John Lushington, Esqr., of Rodmersham, co. Kent-see L.G., Lushington of Park House collaterals), by his wife Caroline Eleanor, daughter of G. P. Thompson, Esqr. She was born 12 October 1860 at Calcutta, India, and died 5 June 1931 at Lent Hill, Ashburton; buried 10 June 1931 at Stubbings Church. Issue:

Esther Evelyn, spinster, born 17 November 1887 at Pershore, where her father was then curate, and baptised at Holy Cross Church, Pershore, 5 December 1887; residence! Little Barn, Ashburton.

5. Edward Chalié Skrine, Esqr., born 27 April 1854 at the Vicarage, and baptised at St. James's, Stubbings, on Whit Monday, 5 June 1854; educated at Marlborough College; proceeded to Ceylon as planter in January 1877; and subsequently, in 1885, to the North West Province, Canada, to a cattle ranch; returned to Ceylon in 1886. He died unmarried at Chipstead, Surrey, 27 May 1918, and was buried at Stubbings. 6. Richard Huntley Skrine, Esqr., born I November 1855 at the Vicarage, and baptised at St. James's Church, Stubbings, 21 December 1855; educated at Marlborough College; proceeded to Ceylon in January 1877; returned in 1882, and went in the following year to the North West Province, Canada, to farm; there he had as partner Mr. Charles Tryon, son of Admiral Tryon. He left Canada in 1894; travelled in Persia in 1895, returning home in 1896. He died at Olton, near Birmingham, 3 August 1899, and was buried at Stubbings Church, 8 August 1899. He married at Stubbings 2 June 1887 Agnes Maud, youngest daughter of the Rev. Harris Jervoise BIGG-WITHER (who held the family living of Worting, near Basingstoke for forty-seven years) by his wife Elizabeth Maria, eldest daughter of Edward Walter BLUNT, Esqr., of Kempshott Park, near Basingstoke, and formerly a Judge at Agra, India. She was born 28 December 1859 at Worting Rectory. (See early editions of L.G. for Bigg-Wither and Blunt of Kempshott, and Peerage for Blunt, Bart.) Issue:

(1) Honor Mary, born 22 June 1889 at Ceylon Farm, Grenfell, N.W.P., Canada, and baptised 18 August 1889 at St. Michael's Church, Grenfell; died 26 August 1890 at Ceylon Farm, and buried at St. Andrew's, Weed Hills, near Grenfell. (2) Ruth Honor, born 12 August 1890 at Ceylon Farm, and baptised at St. Andrew's, Weed Hills; spinster owner and director of an important business in South Kensington, London, as an expert in artistic decoration and furnishing. (3) Doris Honor, born 18 August 1891 at Ceylon Farm, and baptised at St. Andrew's Church, Weed Hills, 13 September 1891; died 8 October 1902 at Winchester, and buried at Otterbourne nearby. (4) Harris William Skrine, Commander, R.N. (retired 1931), of Kyre Park, co. Worcestershire, born 18 March 1893 at Ceylon Farm, Grenfell, and baptised at St. Andrew's Church, Weed Hills, N.W.P., 16 April 1893; educated at Bradfield College, Osborne and Dartmouth; served in the North Sea throughout the Great War (Battle of Jutland, etc.); on retiring from the Navy joined the Metropolitan Vickers (Associated Electrical) Co. in the Marine Department. He married, 21 December 1933, at St. Mark's, North Audley Street, W., Lettice, younger twin daughter of the late Henry RIMINGTON WILSON, Esqr., 2nd son of James Wilson Rimington Wilson of Broomhead Hall, co. Yorks., Esqr. (see L.G.), and the Hon. Ethel Mary BUTLER, his wife, daughter of Henry Edmund, 14th Viscount MOUNTGARRET (see Peerage). Lord Mountgarret's only sister, great-aunt of Mrs. H. W. Skrine, married Edward Arthur Whittuck, Esqr.; the Whittucks were tenants of Claverton Manor for some years after the death of H.D.S. (5) Florence Joyce, born 27 September 1895 at Olton, 00. Warwick, and baptised at Acock's Green 10 November 1895. She married 5 February 1924, in Tunis, Percy HASLUCK, Esqr., of The Wilderness, Southgate, and Mead House, Wescott, Dorking, Surrey; Arabic Scholar and Orientalist. Issue:

(i) Angela Joyce, born 3 February 1926 at Mead House, Wescott, and baptised 12 May following at Wescott Church. (ii) Philippa, born 26 August 1931 at Mead House, Wescott, and baptised at Wescott Church 10 September following.

(6) Capt. Philip Roger Huntley Skrine, born 22 July 1898 at Olton, co. Warwick; educated at Fettes School; passed through Sandhurst into the Indian Army, and completed his training at the Queta Staff College; appointed to the 1/6 Rajputana Rifles; saw service in the Great War in Mesopotamia, Kurdistan, Arab rebellion; mentioned in Despatches; seconded to the South Waziristan Scouts; a keen big-game hunter.

7. William Dickson Skrine, Esqr., born 9 March 1857 at the Vicarage, and baptised at St. James's Church, Stubbings, 19 April 1857; entered the Public Works Department, Ceylon, in 1879; died at Nawalaputiya, Ceylon, 12 April 1881, unmarried; buried at Kandy.

REV. CLARMONT SKRINE, Clerk in Holy Orders, of WarleighLodge, Wimbledon, co. Surrey, youngest son, born 28th January 1820 at WarleighManor, Bath; matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, 19th October 1837, aged 17years; Captain 78th and 47th Regts.; retired from the Army and studied Theologyat King's College, London (Class 1, 1853); ordained Deacon 4th March, and Priest23rd September 1855 by John Bird, Archbishop of Canterbury; licensed to the perpetualcuracy of the Church and District Chapelry of Christ Church, Enfield (followinga curacy at Linton, Kent), 11th January 1856 and lived at Ludgrove House, Enfield.This church had been built by the Bevan family of Trent Park, and was often calledTrent Church. After Christ Church, Trent, he was priest at Southborough, Kent;at St. Peter's, Buckingham Palace Road, London; and from 18th May 1876 incumbentof Emmanuel Church, Wimbledon, where he was a notable preacher to large congregations.He died 4th October 1886, and was buried at Stubbings Church, Berks. After hisdeath the Skrine Memorial Hall, Thornton Road, Wimbledon, was erected to hismemory and opened on Monday, 19th December 1887, his nephew, the Rev. VivianEccles Skrine, being present on the occasion. He married 16th December 1846 atCastletown, Isle of Man, Mary Ann Auchmuty, daughter of Major Charles ButsonBENNETT, late 64th Regt. (born at Limerick 17th September 1780) by his firstwife Maria CUTLER, whom he married 23rd May 1815 at Halifax, Nova Scotia. Shewas born at Gibraltar and baptised 9th August 1824, and died at Ramsey, Isleof Man, 13th March 1902. They had Issue:

1. Francis Henry Bennett Skrine, Esqr., Commissioner in the India Civil Service; Fellow Roy. Hist. Soc.; retired from I.C.S. 1897 and travelled in Central Asia; author of several notable historical and biographical works (see Who's Who); born 23 December 1847 at Cahir, co. Tipperary, Ireland; educated at Blackheath School, entered the Bengal Civil Service by open competition 1868, and proceeded to India 1870; died 8 December 1933 at Les Bosquets, Aix en Provence, France. He married 25 January 1887 at Cawnpore, India, Helen Lucy younger daughter of Colonel John STEWART, R.A., OF ARDVORLICH, Co. Perth (see L.G., Stewart of Ardvorlich), born 16 December 1867 at St. Andrews, co. Fife. Issue: Clarmont Perceval Skrine, Esqr., (Grampa's cousin) O.B.E., I.C.S., of the Political Department; Revenue and Judicial Commissioner in Baluchistan, Quetta; traveller and author; awarded Gill Memorial of the Roy. Geographical Soc. 1928. One of the Special Commissioners (Revenue) for the reorganisation at Quetta, 1935. Born 28 February 1888 in London, educated at Winchester College, Scholar of New College, Oxford, matriculated October 1906, B.A. Honours 1910 (see Who's Who). He married 20 November 1920 at Bombay, India, Doris Forbes, daughter of James WHITELAW, Esqr., of Nungate, North Berwick. 2. Charles Huntley Skrine, Esqr., born 24 October 1848 at Rathkeel, Ireland; died in London, December 1924. 3. Clarmont Alfred Skrine, Esqr., (Grampa's father) born 25 April 1850 at Douglas, Isle of Man; emigrated to California, and resided at Llagas, San Matteo. He visited England about 1910, when he called on the late Rev. Dr. J. H. Skrine at St. Peter's Vicarage, Oxford. He married in 1882 Mabel Jessie, daughter of John PAYNE, Esqr., of Maldon, co. Essex. Issue:

Clarmont Herbert Huntley Skrine, Esqr. of San Matteo, California.

4. Edward James Skrine, died in infancy. 5. Edith Mary, born 17 March 1852 in London and died December 1933; married 28 July 1875 at Wimbledon, co. Surrey, to Archibald Grahame Moncrieff GRAHAME, Esqr., of Surbiton, co. Surrey, who died in 1915. Issue:

Archibald Skrine Grahame, Esqr., born 20 May 1876; died November 1926 in London.

6. Tryon James Skrine, Esqr., born 17 May 1854 in London; died October 1928 at Sydney, New South Wales, and there buried. 7. Clarmont William Skrine, Esqr., born 9 August 1855 at Ludgrove House, Enfield; died 18 November 1930 at Albany, Western Australia; married circa 1892 at Sydney, New South Wales, Beatrice, daughter of William WOOLLEY, Esqr., of Chester. Issue:

Marjorie born circa 1896 in London.

8. Henrietta May, born 22 May 1857 at Whitby, co. Yorks.; married 26 June 1902 to the Rev. William ROLSTON of the Duoan Chapel, Ramsey, Isle of Man. 9. Frances Clara, born 15 September 1861 at Ludgrove House, Enfield, Middlesex; married firstly, 1 November 1885 at Wimbledon, co. Surrey, to Francis Arthur Patrick KNIPE, Esqr., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., of Leigh Linton, co. Worcester, who died without issue; married secondly, 8 September 1890 at Bombay, India, to General Henry Wickham STEVENSON, Surgeon-General with the Bombay Government, Additional Member of the Council of Bombay C.S.I. (retired), and now of Balladoole, Castletown, Isle of Man, J.P., fourth son of W. B. Stevenson, Esqr., of Balladoole and Ballakeighan, Isle of Man (see L.G., Stevenson of Balladoole). Issue:

(1) Ralph Clarmont Skrine Stevenson, Esqr., of the Foreign Office, H.M. Diplomatic Service, Cairo; late Captain Rifle Brigade; born 10 May 1893 in India. He married 27 October 1921 Helen Barbara Izabel, daughter of Robert John Ralph Boreel, Esqr. (see Peerage, Boreel, Bart.) and had issue. (2) John Huntley Wickham Stevenson, Esqr., Lieut. 46th Regt. Punjabis, Indian Army; born 19 April 1897 at Ahmednagar, India; killed at the taking of Kut-el-Amara, Mesopotamia, 5 February 1917.

10. Rev. Walter de Vere Skrine, Rector of Woodleigh, Loddiswell, S. Devon; born 18 August 1863 at Ludgrove House, Enfield; educated at Haileybury School, and MacGill University, Montreal, Canada; ordained Deacon 1887; Priest 1889 to the parish of Ballaugh, Isle of Man; married firstly, 6 February 1889 Amy Roberta, youngest daughter of the Rev. William KERMODE, Rector of Ballaugh; born 18 December 1863 at Ramsey Parsonage, Isle of Man; died 20 May 1920. Issue:

(1) Walter Francis de Vere Skrine, Esqr. of the Sarawak Civil Service (retired) ; born 25 November 1889 at Bridge Cottage, Ballaugh, Isle of Man. He married in June 1934 at Berne Switzerland, Carlotta (b. 18 September 1899 at Bulle Switzerland) daughter of Pastor Roemer of the Swiss Church at Berne by his wife Sophie, nee Schwartz). Issue:

Peter Norman Skrine, born in London 19 December 1935.

(2) Gladys Margaret Rosa, born 6 July 1902 at Huntley, co. Glos., where her father took duty for a few months at that time.

He married secondly, 14 October 1931 at the Cathedral Church of St. Mary, Edinburgh, Mary Helen, youngest daughter of John NISBET, Esq., of 12, Warrinden Park, Edinburgh; born 7 July 1880.

FRANCES CATHERINE third daughter, born 31st May 1825 at Stubbings House, co. Berks., and baptised at Bisham Church; died 24th September 1878 at Dieppe, and buried in the family vault at St. James's Church, Stubbings, M.I. She was married 18th September 1851 at Bisham Church, co. Berks., to James HANNING, Esqr., of Kilkrone, co. Cork, later one of the Gentlemen at Arms to Queen Victoria, son of James Hanning, Esqr., of Kilkrone by his wife, Patience, daughter of John WALLIS, Esqr., of Drishane Castle, co. Cork, whose ancestor Thomas Wallis obtained grants of land in co. Cork and co. Waterford in 1595 (see L.G., vol. 2, Wallis of Drishane); born at Kilkrone 20th December 1820; died 30th August 1881 at Worcester Park, co. Surrey, and buried in the vault at Stubbings Church, M.I. James Hanning was a very tall and singularly handsome man, and possessed a lively sense of humour. He had become a friend of Clarmont Skrine whose regiment was quartered in Ireland and was invited to stay with the Skrines when he came over to England for the Great Exhibition of 1851. He then met his future wife and was married in the autumn of that year. After the potato famine in Ireland, Kilkrone was sold and the Hannings lived at Stubbings with Mrs. Skrine until her death in1867. The Hanning family are said to have migrated to Ireland from the neighbourhoodof Ilminster in Somerset during the seventeenth century. James Hanning came toCloyne from Cashel in 1709 and lived to the great age of 105. He was buried inthe Church of Cloyne, co. Cork. He and his son John Hanning were agents to theInchiquin family for a period of about a hundred years. This John Hanning livedmuch in France for his health in later life, and during the Napoleonic War wasimprisoned as an English subject. He died at Aix-la-Chapelle about 1815. Hissecond wife was a niece of Sir Edward ROWLAND and by her he had an only childJames Hanning of Kilkrone, d. 1845, father of James Hanning who married FrancesCatherine Skrine. Through his mother, Patience Wallis, James Hanning, d. 1881,was descended from the Pauls of Paulville (see Peerage, Paul of Paulville, Bart.);from the Irish Carews (see Peerage, Carew, B.); from the Longfields (see L.G.,Longfield of Longueville); from the Mountiford Westropps of Attyflin (see L.G.,that family); from the Fosters (see Peerage, Massereene and Ferrard); and fromother well-known Irish families. Issue:

i. Emily Mary, born 8 November 1852 in Green Street, Grosvenor Square, London, W.; died 31 May 1930, and buried at Bathford. She was married 10 July 1883 in London to her cousin James Henry MORTON, Esqr., of co. Cork, son of James Morton, Esqr., of co. Cork, by his wife Mary K., daughter of James Hanning, senior, of Kilkrone above. At the time of his marriage Mr. J. H. Morton was a mining engineer in co. Notts. He subsequently lived at his estate, Carrigmore, co. Cork. His wife Emily Mary died without issue. He married secondly, 25 July 1931, his first wife's cousin Eleanor Sisson, daughter of John Henry Harries of Heathfield and Tregwynt, Esqr., J.P., and granddaughter of George Jordan Harries by his wife Susan Caroline, nee Skrine (see L.G., Harries of Tregwynt), and now lives at Batheaston. ii. James Henry Skrine, Hanning, Esqr., of Hill Crest, Tadworth, co. Surrey, stock-broker and accountant; born 22 November 1853 at Green Street, Grosvenor Square; died 12 April 1930, and buried at Kingswood, co. Surrey. He married 11 October 1883 at Old Malden, co. Surrey, Annie Louisa, born 28 August 1858, daughter of the Rev. John William Thomas by his wife Louisa, nee SELLS. Issue:

(1) John Rowland Hanning, Esqr., of Elmshurst, Woodham Road, Woking, solicitor; born 11 July 1884; married 24 August 1920 at St. Paul's Church, Barrow-in-Furness, to Valentine, daughter of Robert Bateson Dixon BRADSHAW, Esqr., by his wife Bridget, nee FISHER. Issue:

1. John Guy Hanning, born 9 September 1921. 2. Hugh Peter James Hanning, born 5 February 1925.

(2) Ethel Mary, born and baptised at Ewell, co. Surrey, 29 December 1886; a Roman Catholic nun. (3) Agnes Annie, born 21 December 1888 at Worcester Park, co. Surrey, and baptised at Old Malden Church.

iii. Frances Caroline, spinster, born 17 May 1855 at Stubbings House. iv. Rev. Clement Hugh Hanning, Vicar of St. Matthew's, Fulham, London, S.W. ; born at Stubbings House 12 May 1857; died 23 November 1930, and buried at Little Melton, co. Norfolk. He married 17 April 1894 Brenda Christie daughter of the Rev. Henry SALWEY of Shropshire by his wife Brenda, da. of G. H. CHRISTIE, Esqr., of Framingham Manor, Norwich (see L. G. Salwey of Overton). Issue:

(1) Geoffrey Hugh Hanning, born 17 June 1895; now of Little Melton Vicarage, co. Norfolk; engaged in farming; he was severely wounded in the Great War, and lost a leg. (2) James Henry Rowland Hanning, born 9 December 1896; killed in action Septemter 1916. (3) Arthur Salwey Hanning, Captain Grenadier Guards; born ...

end of page 61 / Ainely-Walker book