Sir Edward’s elder brother was Daniel Waldo, of Gray’s Inn and of Harrow-on-the-Hill, Middlesex, Esq. Daniel’s son, Rev. Peter Waldo, D.D. (born 1672, died 1746), rector of Aston Clinton, Bucks, married, in Westminster Abbey in 1713, Emma, daughter of Theophilus Leigh, Esq., by Mary, daughter of the eighth Lord Chandos. Rev. Dr. Waldo was lineally represented in Harrow until 1790. Mr. Daniel Waldo had a large family; his eighth child, Elizabeth, Lady Wiseman, is represented by Sir William Wiseman, of Canfield, Essex, ninth baronet; her husband was Sir Edward Wiseman, Knight, younger brother of the second baronet; but her great-grandson became the sixth baronet on the failure of the senior line. Peter Waldo, who signed the merchants’ loyal manifesto in 1744, was a son of Samuel (died 1698), a younger brother of Sir Edward; this Peter Waldo (born 1689, died 1762) was an author in defence of the Athanasian Creed, and was the father of another Peter Waldo (born 1723, died 1804), author of a Commentary on the Liturgy of the Church of England; this branch resided at Mitcham, in Surrey, and possessed some ancient oak carving, in which is cut out the name, Peter Waldo, 1575” [or 3?]. It is remarkable that “Waldo on the Liturgy” is introduced with an Epistle, dated 9th March 1772, dedicating the book to Charles Jenkinson, Esq., one of the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty’s Treasury, the eminent statesman in whose descendants the Waldo wealth seems to have accumulated. (This statesman, who eventually inherited the baronetcy of Hawkesbury, was in 1786 created Lord Hawkesbury, and in 1796 Earl of Liverpool.)
Another brother of Sir Edward was Mr. Timothy Waldo. The Historical Register introduces him and his branch of the family, beginning with his grandson, whose marriage is announced thus: “April 4, 1730. Timothy Waldo, Esq., one of the Solicitors of the Court of Chancery, and one of the Common Council for Broad Street Ward, son of Timothy Waldo, of St. Martin’s-in-the Fields, Gent, and grandson of Timothy Waldo, wholesale linen draper in Broad Street, was married to Miss Wakefield, only child of Mrs. Wakefield, of Cambridge Street, Soho. She was given in marriage by Mr. Isaac Waldo, of Stretham, and the ceremony was performed by Dr. Waldo, of Harrow-on-the-Hill.” Of course the Timothy last mentioned was Sir Edward’s brother. The Timothy first mentioned was Timothy the third; he was knighted on 12th April 1769, and became Sir Timothy Waldo, of Clapham (Surrey) and of Hever Castle (Kent); he died in 1786. His heiress was his daughter Jane, born in 1738, who was married in 1762[1] to George Medley, Esq., M.P., but had no children; her husband died in 1797; she survived him for thirty-two years, and died on 14th December 1829, in her ninety-second year; her property was sworn under £180,000. We must now return to the first Earl of Liverpool; he died in 1808, and his titles were borne successively by his two sons, namely, by his first wife’s son, Sir Robert Bankes Jenkinson, Bart, second Earl of Liverpool (who died in 1828), and by the son of his second wife, Sir Charles Cecil Cope Jenkinson, Bart, third Earl of Liverpool (who died in 1851, aged sixty-seven). This third and last Earl of Liverpool had three daughters, and among them and their heirs the bulk of the Waldo money is settled, as I am informed. Their mother was Julia Evelyn Medley, daughter and heiress of Sir George Shuckburgh Evelyn, Bart. The eldest daughter, Lady Catherina, was married in 1837 to Colonel Francis Vernon Harcourt, ninth son of the Archbishop of York, and died in 1877; the second daughter, Lady Selina, was married, first, in 1833, to Viscount Milton, and is the mother of the Hon. Mrs. Portman; as Dowager Viscountess Milton she remarried in 1845 with George Savile Foljambe, Esq.; the third daughter, Lady Louisa, was married in 1839 to John Cotes, Esq., of Woodcote, and is the mother of Charles Cecil Cotes, Esq.
Although there are American Waldos with English descendants, the name of Waldo in connection with the Protestant refugee is preserved by the Sibthorp family only. Isaac Waldo, of London, brother of the first Peter, of Mitcham, had a daughter Sarah, wife of Humphrey Sibthorp, M.A., M.D., Fellow of Magdalene College, Oxford, and Sherardian Professor of Botany, to whom she was married on 20th September 1740, and who was succeeded in 1769 by his son Humphrey, who, like his sons, received military rank as an officer in the Royal South Lincolnshire Militia. Colonel Humphrey Sibthorp (born 1744, died 1815), M.P. for Boston, and afterwards for Lincoln, assumed in 1804 the surname and arms of Waldo in grateful remembrance of his kinsman, the second Peter Waldo, of Mitcham. His sons were Coningsby Waldo Waldo Sibthorp, Esq. (died 1822), M.P. for Lincoln, and Colonel Charles De Laet Waldo-Sibthorp (died 14th December 1855), “a favourite of the House of Commons for his humour and eccentricities,” who was M.P. for Lincoln for
- ↑ I find the marriage in a newspaper of the day:— “1762, Nov. 5. George Medley, Esq., of Buxted Place, in Sussex, to the only daughter of Timothy Waldo, Esq., of Clapham.”
