Lancelot (Capability) Brown, famed landscape gardeneracquired the manor of Fenstanton in 1767 and was appointed High Sheriff for Huntingdon in 1770.
Known as Biddy.
Died in infancy
Original Spelling : Browne
Was made Lieutenant 1 Sept 1772. Was commissioned on the "Savage".
In 1775 was commissioned on the "Nautilus" during the American War of Independance. Commander 1 Dec 1777 Captain 25 Mar 1779 Rear Admiral of the Blue 1 June 1795 Rear Admiral of the Red 14 Feb 1799 Vice Admiral of the Blue 1 Jan 1801 Vice Admiral of the White 23 Apr 1804 Vice Admiral of the Red 9 Nov 1805 Admiral of the Blue 28 Apr 1808dsp
Died at the home of her brother.
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Education: MA, st John's College, Cambridge
Ordination - Priest: 4 May 1789, St George Hanover Square, Westminster
Rector: 11 May 1789 - 09 Nov 1829, St Mary's, Conington, Cambridge; 29 Oct 1825 - 28 Dec 1827, Wistow, Huntingdonshire
Most likely never married.
Committed suicide.
On the death of Sir Hans Sloane in 1753 the manor was left jointly to his daughters, Sarah widow of Sir George Stanley of Paultons (Hants.), and Elizabeth wife of Charles Cadogan, 2nd Lord Cadogan.
Sarah’s undivided moiety of the manor was inherited by her son Hans Stanley, who died unmarried in 1780: under his will and a subsequent settlement the Stanley moiety of Chelsea manor passed to his sisters, Anne (d. 1804), wife of Wellbore Ellis, Lord Mendip, and Sarah (d. 1821), wife of Christopher D’Oyley, for their lives and then to their issue,but both died childless, and in 1821 the estate was reunited in the Cadogan family.
A Lord of the Admiralty from 1757 to 1763.
Ambassador-extraordinary to the Empress of Russia
MP for Southampton - 15 Apr 1754 to Jan 1780
Lord Charles Cadogan 2nd Baron Cadogan of Oakley
Whig MP for Reading 1716-22, and Newport (Isle of Wight) 1723-26. Military ranks incl. Brigadier-General 1735, Major-General 1739, Lt. General 1745. Governor of Sheerness 1749-52, Governor of Gravesend and Tilbury Fort 1752-76.
The Fuller Letters, Crossley & Saville, p. 124
Became a Fellow of the Royal Society, 1/12/1718.
Chaplain to Archbishop Laud
Lawyer and MP for Thetford, Norfolk.
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