Richard then purchased the adjacent property to Park Gate, Broomham Farm before 1688.
Life in Catsfield 1800-1910: History on our Doorstep - Chapter 3 Later 18th & 19th Century Landowners by Don Phillips, pp 9.
Of Etchingham
Studied at Edinburgh; MP for Great Marlow, Buckinghamshire 1768-1774; MP for Great Marlow 1768-1774; MP for Rye, Sussex 20 May 1777-1790 (He succeeded his wife's uncle Rose Fuller who died in 1777) ; MP for Somerset 1796 - 26 May1806.
http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/dickinson-william-i-1745-1806
Built Kingweston House, which stands near the Church, in 1780.
"Yet, as two hundred years earlier, there were also new arrivals, who had only recently made their money, usually from the sugar plantations of the West Indies or the slave trade. One of them was Caleb Dickinson, a Quaker merchant trading in Bristol who purchased Kingweston near Somerton in 1740. His son, William, soon followed gentry custom in the county, becoming a Member of Parliament, rebuilding Kingweston House and acting with the arrogance of power that characterised the nobility and gentry of England at the time, by diverting roads and removing a village in order to create a park. "
Source: http://www.britannia.com/history/somerset/somhist8.html
Commander Royal Navy
On the 26th. of November, off Cape Rousse, island of Corsica, the boats of the British 74-gun ship Swiftsure, Captain Edward Stirling Dickson, under the orders of Lieutenant William Smith, the 4th, were detached in pursuit of the French privateer schooner Charlemagne, of eight guns and 93 men, who was using every exertion by sweeping to effect her escape. On the approach of the boats, the privateer made every preparation for resistance, and reserved her fire till the boats had opened theirs ; when the schooner returned it in the most determined manner for some minutes, until the boats got close alongside. The British then boarded the Charlemagne on the bow and quarter and instantly carried her ; but not without a serious loss, having had one midshipman (Joseph Douglas) and four seamen killed, and two lieutenants (Rose Henry Fuller and John Harvey, the latter mortally), one lieutenant of marines (James Robert Thompson), one midshipman (----- Field), and 11 seamen wounded
Source: Naval History of Great Britain by William James, Vol VI, p 183
1813 BOATS OF SWIFTSURE BOARD CHARLEMAGNEhttp://www.pbenyon.plus.com/Naval_History/Vol_VI/P_183.html
Trewman's Exeter Flying Post or Plymouth and Cornish Advertiser (Exeter, England), Thursday, November 21, 1833; Issue 3550.
EXETER, WEDNESDAY, November 20, 1833
On the 15th instant, at 27 Montague-square, the lady of Captain Rose Henry Fuller, R.N., of a son.
Monumental Inscription: St James Anglican Cathedral, Spanish Town, Parish of St. Catherines -
HERE LYETH INTERRED THE BODY OF THE HONBLE RICHARD MILL ESQ MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL RECEIVER GENERAL AND LATE CHIEF JUSTICE OF THIS ISLAND WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE 16th DAY OF JUNE 1739 AGED 60 YEARS.
Planter, Member of Jamaica Council, Receiver-General of Customs, of West Grange, Jamaica.
Chief Justice of Jamaica, 1833 - 1835.
John matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford. He later served as Deputy Lieutenant of Sussex and Deputy Master of Horse to George II. He was also a Colonel of Militia for Rape and Lewes.
Source: http://www.olympus.net/personal/wtclark/bridger/bfhpg6.html
Died unmarried.
Died in infancy.
Became Cashier of the Bank of England. Died unmarried and bequeathed his estate to his housekeeper.
Died unmarried.
Died in infancy.
The British General James Woolfe who died in the Battle of Quebec in 1759 was born in the vicarage in Westerham, Kent and later moved to Spiers House in the same village which is now owned by The National Trust. General Woolfe was baptized by the Rev. George Lewis. Source: Derek Wenham
Education: BA
Ordination - Deacon: 10 Jun 1682
Curate: 15 May 1683, Hailsham, Sussex
Rector: 22 Feb 1692 - 21 Jan 1737, Rotherfield, Sussex
Ocupation: attorney
JP of Lewes
Inherited Hamsey estates on the death of the Rev. John Wenham in 1773, selling the advowson to Sir John Bridger in 1777.