90 WBNLOOK. of BerkbamptteAcI and HerU. He was P.O., and waa sum. to Pari, as a Baron(*) (LOUD WBNLOK), 26 July (Utfl) 1 Ed. IV., by writ directed '* Ji^anni Weidok de Wenhikt MiliU.**{^) He was employed by Ed. IV. on embasaiea to Burgundy and France, and (1469-70) made Lieut, of Calaia. He, however, again changed aides, and was slain on the Luncastiian side at the battle of Tewkesbury, 4 May 1471.(^) He is said to have m. EUzabetli, da. and coheir of Sir John Drayton, bat d, s.p., when the Barony became txUnct. II. 1831, i. Sir Robrut Lawlby, Bart., of Spoonbill, co. Salop, to Hud uf Cauford, co. Stafford, s. and h. uf Sir Robert Lawlkv, 5th 1834. l^ct- of Oanfunl afud., by Jane, da. and h. of Beilby TuuiiraoN, of Kscriuk, oo. York, was 6. 1768; sue. his father as /^th Bart, (a dignity cr, 16 Aug. 1641), 11 March 1793 ; M.P. for Newcaatle-under-Lyue. 1802-06 ; an officer in the QuitrdM, Kquerry to H.H.H. the Duke of Oumberlaud. and whs cr*, 10 Sep. ISSl.C^) BAROM WKNLOCK uf Weulock, Ci». Salop.(«) lie mi., 16 Sep. 1798, at Seainer, oo. York, Anue Blariu, da. of Joseph Dknison, of Denbies, co. Surrey, and of St. Mary's Axe, London, Bauker, by hid second wife, Elizabeth, da. of William BUTLKK, of Litfbon, Iderchaut. Ho c^. s.p. at his villa, near Florence, 10 April, and was bur,, 19 Aug. 1884, at Hints, oo. Stafford aged 66, when the Barony became eaetinUt but the Baronetcy devolved on his next br. and h. male. Will pr. Jnne 1884. His widow d. 20 Aug. 1850, in Oarlton House terrace. WUi pr. Oct. 1860. ^_^^^^^^^^^^^^^ in. 1839. 1, Paul Bbilby Thompson, /brf^ierZ// La wlky, of Escrick, CO. York, yr. br. of the above, being 4th and yst s. of Sir Uobert Lawlky, 6th Bart., by Jane, da. and h. of Beilby Thompsom, of Escrick, all above- named, was 6. at Oanwell, 1 May or July 1784 ; ed. at Uugby and at Ch. Ch., Oxford ; B.A., 1806 ; Fellow of All Souls Coll., 1806-17 ; B.C.L., 1810 ; D.C.L.. 1815; took the name of Tiumi'putn^ in lieu of that uf Lawleyi by ruyul lie,, 27 Sep. 1820 ; was M.P. for Weulock, 1826-32, ami for the East Hiding of Yorkshire, 1832-37, and was cr., 13 May 1839, BAUON WKNLOCK of Weulock, co. Salop. By royal lie, 1 June following, he resumed his patrouymic of LawUy, before that of ThompwM, his children being authorised to take the name of Lawley ouly. L. Lieut, of the East Riding of Yorkshire, 1840-47. By the death, 80 Jan. 1851, oi his next elder br.. Sir Francis Lawley, 7th Bart., he sue to the Baronetcy. He m., 10 May 1817, at St. James' Westm., Caroline, 8d da. of Ridiard (AiJ)W0BTfi-NKViLLK-QBiVFiN), 2d Barom Bbatbbooke, by Catherine, da. of the Rt Hon. George aRBKViLLB. lie d. 9 May 1852, at fiscridL park afsd., aged 67. Will pr. Aug. 1852. His widow, who was 6. 6 Oct 1792, at St Geo., Han. aq., d. 2 May 1868, at 29 Berkeley square, aged 75. IV. 1852. iB, Bbilby Richard (Lawlby, foi-nierly Thompson), Baeon Wbmlook, and a Baronet, 1st s. and h. ; 6. 21 April 1818, at 29 Berkeley square, and hap, at St Geo., Han. sq. ; was M.P. for Pontefract, 1851 >52 ; (*) " He is stated by some authorities to have been er, a Baron by patent, but no enrolment of the dignity has been found." [Oowiihop€. (b) There is proof in the rolls of Pari, of his sitting. (e) The following list (from Phillipp's MSS. 9785, No. 279) refers to the batUe of Tewkesbury, 4 May 1471 : " Dead in the add, Edward, that was called Prince ; Lord John of Somerset ; Erie of Devonshire ; Lord Wenlock. Beheaded, the Duke of Somerset ; made a Knight in the field. Lord Cobham." Aooordiug to the Paston letters, AVeulock was cleft down as a traitor (which very probably he, again, was) by the Duke of Somerset, for deluyiug to bring his forces up m time, whereby the battle and the Lancastrian cause was lost. C*) One of the coronation peerages of William IV., for a list of which see vol. ii, p. 812, note "a," tub "Cloncurry." (•) His anoestor, Sir Thomas Lawley, the 1st Bart, was 5th in descent from Thomas Lawley, who ("es inform, Dom. Tha Lawley, de Spoonbill, Bart") was "cousin and heir of John, Lord Wenlock, P,C. to Edward IV. and K Q. . and sue. to his lauds in Wenlock, Calowton, ^o. in oo. Salop, 17 Ed. IV." [Wottou's "SnfAUk BaronOaye'* 1741.]
