November 1717, Marie Rabache, the officiating clergyman being his uncle, Rev. Daniel Amiand. The great surgeon died on 6th July 1740, and his widow survived till 1760. They had two eminent sons:—
(1.) Claudius Aymand, born 10th August 1718. He became Keeper of the King’s Library in 1745. In 1750 he was an Under-Secretary of State. He was made a Commissioner of Customs on 10th December 1756, and his name remains in the list of Commissioners till 1765, when he received the appointment of Receiver-General of the Land Tax for Middlesex, London, and Westminster. On that occasion he addressed the following note to the Earl of Bute:—
“Mount Street, January 29, 1765. — My Lord, Persuaded as I have always been of your kind intentions to me whilst in office, and that an agreeable event to me would not be displeasing to you, I took the liberty last week of waiting upon your Lordship to acquaint you with my expectation of being appointed Receiver-General of the Land Tax for Middlesex, London, and Westminster; and as my commission is now passing, I shall soon leave the Board of Customs with great pleasure. — I have the honour to be, with true respect, my Lord, your Lordship’s most obedient humble servant,
“C. Amyand.”[1]
He married in 1761 the Dowager Countess of Northampton, and died on 1st April 1774.
(2.) George Amyand was born 26th September 1720; he was a Hamburg merchant, a Director of the East India Company, and M.P. for Barnstaple. He married in 1746 Anna Maria, daughter of John Abraham Corteen, Hamburg merchant. He was created a baronet on 4th August 1764. He latterly resided in the country, and Colonel Ruvigny De Cosne was his factor or agent in London. He died on 16th August 1766, and was buried at Carshalton in Surrey. His descendants were — 1st, Sir George, second baronet (ancestor of Rev. George Henry Cornewall, Bart); 2nd, John, M.P. for Camelford (unmarried); 3rd, Anna Maria, Countess of Minto, ancestress of the present Earl; 4th, Harriet, Countess of Malmesbury, ancestress of the present Earl, and of the late Charles Amyand Harris, D.D., Bishop of Gibraltar. A maternal grandson of the second Sir George was the late Right Hon. Sir George Cornewall Lewis, Bart., M.P., Secretary of State, and a learned author.
Another brother of Sir George Amyand, the first baronet, was Rev. Thomas Amyand (born 1728, died 1762), some time rector of Favvley in Buckinghamshire; he married Frances, daughter of William Rider of Madeira, and had three children — Thomas, Frances (Mrs. Haggard), and Charlotte. Mr. Smiles mentions that Amyand House, Twickenham, has descended to Mrs. Haggard’s heirs. The last-named Thomas was a Director of the Bank of England, and died in 1805, aged forty-two. (See the Amyand Pedigree by Henry Wagner, F.S.A.)
Boileau, Baronet. — John Peter Boileau, Esq. (born 1747, died 1837), fourth son of Simeon, married in 1790 Henrietta, daughter and co-heir of Rev. George Pollen. She was succeeded in her inheritance by their second son, George Pollen Boileau Pollen, Esq., of Little Bookham. The eldest son and heir was Sir John Peter Boileau, Bart, (so created, July 1838), of Tacolnestone Hall, Norfolk, and of Kettering Park in the same county. Sir John was a Fellow of the Royal Society, and Vice-President of the Society of Antiquaries, also President of the Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society. His services in the walks of science, antiquities, and agricultural improvement are detailed in The Register, 1869, vol. i. He was also a Director of the French Hospital in London. He was born on 2nd September 1794, and married in 1825 Lady Catherine Sarah Elliot, daughter of the Earl of Minto. Sir John died 9th March 1869. Lady Catherine Boileau had predeceased him (in 1862), and in her memory he added the Catherine Ward to the County Hospital. His successor, the eldest surviving son, is Sir Francis George Manningham Boileau, Bart.
Borough, Baronet. — The very learned Elie Bouhéreau (see chap, xii.) had a son, John, a clergyman, and another son, a Mayor of Dublin. The son of the latter, Richard, transmuted the surname into Borough. He had a son, Lieutenant-Colonel William Blakeney Borough, and a younger son, Sir Richard Borough, Bart, (so created 12th November 1813). Sir Richard (born 1756, died 1837), had married in 1799 Anna Maria, eldest daughter of Gerard, Viscount Lake, and was succeeded by his son, Sir Edward Richard Borough, Bart., D.C.L. (born 1800), who married Lady Elizabeth St. Lawrence, daughter of the Earl of Howth. Deep sympathy was felt for Sir Edward on the death of his two sons, Edward (before Sebastopol in 1855), and William (accidentally drowned in 1856). Thus he was the last baronet of
- ↑ Musgrave Collection of Autographs in the British Museum, vol. iii.
