Sir Francis Henry Drake 5th Bart
Member of Parliament from Bere Allston, Ranger of Dartmoor, Comptroller of Board of Green Cloth.
Died without issue so the Baronetcy became extinct. Left a will bequeathing his estate to Francis Augustus Elliott, son of his sister Anne Pollexfen Drake and George Augustus Elliot. This was in violation of the express provisions of the will of Sir Francis, second baronet.
"During Eliott's absence in Gibraltar - and also after his return when he live mainly in London - the family association with Bayley Park [now Heathfield Park] was maintained by his daugher Anne who in 1776 become the second wife of John Trayton Fuller...Eliott paid a dowry of £3000, and promised a further similar sum on his death, in the meantime making a substantial loan of £15,000 to his son-in-law. The newly-married couple move into Bayley Park where they had seven children in quick succession- Augustus Eliot (June 1777), Elizabeth Ann (July 1780), Francis John (March 1782), Sarah Maria (April 1783), Thomas Trayton (February 1785), William Stephen (March 1788) and Rose Henry (March 1789).
Heathfield Park: A private estate and a Wealden Town, Roy Pryce,1996, p. 72.
Trewman's Exeter Flying Post or Plymouth and Cornish Advertiser (Exeter, England), Thursday, March 5, 1835; Issue 3622.
DIED - On Tuesday the 24th Feb., at her seat Ashdown House, Sussex, at an advanced age the Honorable Mrs. Fuller, only daughter of the Right Honorable George Augustus Lord Heathfield, and Mother of Sir Trayton Eliott Drae, Bart; this Lady was lineally descended from Sir Francis Drake, the first Circumnavigator.
Officer of 20th Dragoons. Died unmarried.
Memorial: To the honour of God and in memory of Sarah Maria Fuller, daughter of John Trayton Fuller Esqre and the Hon. Ann Fuller. She died May 2nd 1845 aged 63. The gift of her brother Sir Thomas Trayton Fuller Eliott Drake Bart 1867
Died unmarried.
Died unmarried.
Sir Thomas Trayton Fuller Eliott Drake 5th Bart
Inherited the Drake estate from his mother's brother, Francis Augustus Elliott. He assumed the surname Elliott Drake. He was created baronet August 22, 1821. Since Sir Thomas Trayton Fuller Elliot Drake also died without issue, the estate passed to his nephew, Francis George Augustus Fuller.
Deputy Lieutenant for Devon. Was army officer and served in the Penninsular War. Major of the 52nd Regiment or Oxfordshire Light Infantry. Residences: 42 St. James Street, London SW and Nutwell Court. - County Families of the United Kingdom 1863
Sheriff for Devonshire, 1822.Devon: - Parish Registers Burials. Volume 3. Pedigree of the Drakes of Buckland Abbey. County: Devonshire Country: England The second Lord Heathfield dying unmarried in 1813 his sister became his heir, and her third son Thomas Trayton Fuller, was ultimately the owner of Buckland Abbey, and resided at Nutwell Court, in the parish of Woodbury. Mr. Fuller, who as an officer in the army served with distinction during the Peninsular war assumed by sign manual, under the settlement of Sir Francis Henry Drake, Bart., the additional surnames and arms of Eliott and Drake, and was himself created a Bart. 22 Aug 1821 with remainder, failing male issue, to his brothers William Stephen Fuller and Rose Henry Fuller. Sir Trayton, as he was usually styled, married 05 Aug 1819 Eleanor, only daughter of James Halford, Esq. of Laleham, Middlesex; she died in 1841 , without issue, Sir Trayton survived until the 06 Jun 1870 , when he had attained the ripe age of 85, having been born 18 Feb 1785. He was succeeded in his title and estates by his nephew, only son of his brother Captain Rose Henry Fuller, R.N., who had predeceased him in 1860. Sir Francis George Fuller, second and present Bart., was born 24 Dec 1837 , and was a Captain in the Royal Horse Guards; on the 03 Oct 1870 he assumed by Royal Licence the surname and arms of Eliott and Drake. He is the present owner of the ancient abbey of Buckland, but resides at Nutwell Court. He married in 1861 Elizabeth, daughter of the late Sir Robert Douglas, Bart., of Glenbervie, and has had issue a daughter, Elizabeth Beatrice who married at S. Paul's, Knightsbridge, 22 Jun 1887 , The Hon. John Reginald Upton Colborne, eldest son of James, second Baron Seaton, of Seaton, in this county.
Lieutenant 52nd Regiment 5 October 1804,Major 26 May 1814 to 25 May 1815; served in the Peninsular War; succeeded in 1813 to the estates of his uncle, Francis Augustus,2nd Baron Heathfield, and assumed by Royal Licence dated 31 March 1813, the additional surnames and arms of Eliott and Drake;created a Baronet 22 August 1821; High Sheriff for co.Devon 1822.
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Died without issue.
Commissioner of Appeals in Excise. d.s.p.
Died in the Fleet Prison. d.s.p.
director of East India Company
General Sir Augustus Elliot Fuller MP
Served as Member of Parliament for Sussex from 1841 until his death in 1857. He inherited the Rose Hill estate from John "Mad Jack" Fuller. He held the estates of Catsfield, Hooe and Ashdown House, Sussex.
Was JP and DL for East Sussex 1841-57.
"Ashdown House, originally called Lavertye, is a little way out of Forest Row on the Hartfield road...The house was originally built for Lord Heathfeld, whose titile, Baron of Gibralter (sic), is commemorated by the Gibralter (sic) Tower in Heathfield Park; the Tower was erected by an admiring later owner of the Park at a cost of £3,000 -- a stiffish sum for an 18th Century folly. Lord Heathfield died in 1790 and he seems never to have lived in [Lavertye], an extremely beautiful example of its date, described most conclusively by Pevsner as 'very perfect indeed.' Lord Heathfield's daughter, Anne, certainly lived in the house when it was still Lavertye. She married John Trayton Fuller and we know already that the eccentric [Elliott] Augustus Elliot Fuller lived there while it was still Lavertye-- he was the one who kept his own pack of hounds to aid his great obsession, the hunting of the hare."
The Forest: Ashdown in East Sussex by Barbara Willard, 1989, pp131- 132.Once the hare abounded but has now vanished--thanks, perhaps, to the eccentric Mr Fuller of Lavertye. Time and again in Forest reporting of the 19th century come tales of this volatile character. Cast in the mould of such as Squire Weston, Fuller mus have dreamt of hares, been nourished by jare jugged or roast; his tempting of the locals to hare seeking and betraying makes extraordinary reading. He seems never quite matched by rival neighbours, retired generals and the like, who none the less eagerly suported him--the owner of Twyford Lodge, for instance. Willard, pp 94.
"Heaver's nephew, whose name was Buss, has memories of the eccentric Mr Fuller of Lavertye, whose hare hunting proclivities appear and re-appear throughout the records of the Forest during these years. His private pack of harriers is most often spoke of with respect amounting almost to affection. ' I remember one occasion when the hare wes so hard pressed that it fell dead in front of the hounds.' On another occasion, having failed to find a hare, Fuller offered anyone 1/- who would put him in the way of finding one. Buss had seen a hare 'sitiing' just before. So off went the hunt, to check this claim, taking the shilling with them to the spot. Fortunately for Buss, if not for the quarry, the hare was quickly put up and the reward handed over. Willard, pp. 50
The Examiner (London, England), Saturday, August 15, 1857; Issue 2585.
DEAD - Mr Augustus E Fuller, late M.P. for East Sussex, died on Thursday week, after a very short illness from diarrhoea. He was born in 1777, and was the son of the late Mr J Trayton Fuller, by the daughter of the late first Lord Heathfield. He was returned for the eastern division of Sussex at the general election in 1841, and cntinued in Parliament up to the late election, when he was defeated by Mr Dodson, his former opponent.
Owen John Augustus Fuller-Meyrick
Assumed the name Meyrick by Royal License in 1825. Involved in the development of Bournemouth, Dorset as a seaside resort. He inherited the Bodorgan estate on the death of his grandfather. Was sheriff of Angelsey in 1827.
Succeeded in 1858. Educated at Harrow, Brasenose College Oxford. JP and DL for Anglesey and Sussex. Residences:
Bodorgan Angelsey, Rosehill, Ashdown House, 16 Clifford St., London. - County Families of the United Kingdom 1863
Was a trustee of the Bangor Friars School and director of the Anglesey Central Railway.d.s.p
North Wales Chronicle (Bangor, Wales), Saturday, February 19, 1876; Issue 2557.
DEATH OF MR. O. J. A. FULLER MEYRICK OF BODORGAN:
We regret to record the demize of another extensive Welsh landowner, the esteemed representative of an ancient Welsh family, and a staunch adherant to the Conservative cause, - a gentleman moreover who, although be passed latterly a retired and unostentatious life, had endeared himself to many. On Saturday last, after a long illness, the death occurred, at his Anglesey seat, of Mr Owen John A Fuller Meyrick of Bodorgan, in his seventy-second year. Mr Meyrick succeeded to the Bodorgan estate, which is one of the largest in Anglesey on the death of his grandfather Mr O Putland Meyrick, of Bodorgan, which event took place in 1858. He was born in 1804, and was the eldest son of the late Mr A. Elliott Fuller, M.P., of Rosehill, Sussex. The "Heraldic Visitation of Wales" states that "upon the death of the late Owen Putland Meyrick, Esq., Bodorgan and its extensive possessions passed under will to his grandson, Owen John Augustus Fuller, only son of his daughter Clara by her marriage with Augustus Elliott Fuller, Esq., of Ashdown House, Sussex. He had adopted the additional surname of Meyrick; was sheriff of Anglesey, 1827" As a landlord, Mr Fuller Meyrick was much respected. His tenentry were encouraged by him to cultivate their farms in the best manner, and he personally took a keen interest in promoting an improved system of agriculture in the island. Of late years, Mr Meyrick has refrained from actively participating in public life, but in his younger days he did his part in discharging certain onerous duties which devolved upon him. In 1827, he filled the annual office of president of Carnarvonshire and Anglesley Loyal Dispensary, and in resigning his post made a handsome donation to the funds of the institution. In policies he was a Conservative, and in that interest in 1835 he contested the representation of the county of Anglesey, but was defeated by his Liberal opponent the Hon. Wm. Owen Stanley of Penrhos. Mr Meyrick was a justice of the peace and deputy-lieutenant for Anglesey, and he also held the commission of peace for Sussex. He died unmarried, and the Bodorgan estate is inherited by his nephew, Mr George Henry Augustus Elliott Gervis, the only son of Sir George Elliott Meyrick Tapps Gervis, of Hinton Admiral, Hants, who attains his majority on the 9th of March next. Extensive preparations have been made in the county to celebrate this auspicious event, but in consequence of the present mournful occurence, these preparations are, of course, indefinitely postponed.
The deceased gentleman claimed his Welsh descent through his mother, who was of purely Cymbric lineage from Einion Sais and Cadavael, Lord of Cydewain, in Montgomeryshire. We learn from Nicholas' "County Families" that: - "According to the pedigree authenticated by Dwnn. 1594, and bearing the signature of 'Richard Meirig' then of Bodorgan, Einion Sais, of Bordorgan (who is said to have been usher of the palace of Sheen, or Richmond, temp. Henry VI, and was so much out of Wales that he acquired the nicknme of 'Sais'), was married to Eva, daughter of Cadwgan ap Llywarch ap Bran of Bodorgan, founder of one of the noble tribes; and from them, through their younger son, Heilin, a yeoman of the guard to Henry VIII. (or, as the Dale Castle M.S. has it, Henry VII), from whose son, Richard Meirig, who was married to Jane, daughter of Llywelyn ap Rhys ap Llywelyn ap hwlkyn, at about the seventh degree, Owen Putland Meyrick, of Bodorgan, grandfather of the present proprietor (Mr Fuller Meyrick) derived." The funeral took place of Friday (yesterday).
The interment was at Llangadwaladr Church. The mournful cortege coach left Bodorgan in the following order: - First, mourning coach, containing the Rev R. W. Griffith, Rev Montague Taylor, Dr Hughes, Mr Prichard and Mr Roper.
Bearers. Hearse. Bearers.
Second mourning coach, containing Sir George Gervis and Mr Gervis. Third mourning coach, containing Messrs Muir, Ellam, Dickens and Colley. Mr Meyrick's private coach (closed). Abundant signs of the feelings of the neighbourhood were shown in drawn blinds - there being scarcely a house to be seen without its blinds down..
Died in infancy.
Died unmarried.
Died unmarried.
Alternatively Gaynisford.