s BRAOSE — BRAYBROOKE. IT. 1395. 4. Thomas de Braose, only s. and h., who, with his only sister Joaue, (/. young and ia ward the same year as their Father. 5. Elizabeth, ««</ jur-; Baroxfss Say!) cousin iiiulh. , being da. and only surv. issue of William (de Save), LORD SAY, hy Beatrice, the only da. that had issue of Thomas, Lord dk HiiaoSK (1342) abovenamed. She d. s.p. 8 July 1 3ST>, when the Barony of Braose, all the Issue of the first Lord having failed, became extinct. BRASSEY OF BULK ELI' - . Y. Barony. jf, SlR Thomas Brassey, K.C.B., was, 011 1G Ally. I 1SSG 1SS6 ' BAK0N BRASS EY, OF BULKELEY, eo. Chester. He was 1st s. of Thomas B.(») of Bulkeley afsd. and of Buerton in Aldford, co. Chester (well known as one of the greatest of liaihvay- C'ontractors) by Maria Farringdon, 2nd da. of Thomas IIaihuson of Liverpool. He was 4. and bap. 11 Feb. 1S36 at St. Mary's, Station! ; was ed. at Kugbv School and at Univ. Coll., Oxford; B.A. 1859 ; M.A. 1862 ; Barrister (Line, fan) 186,4 ; M.P. for Devonport 1S65 ; for Hastings 1866-80 ; one of the Lords of the Admiralty 1880- 84; K.C.B. (civil) 18S1 ; Secretary to the Admiralty, 1S84-S5 ; advanced "to the Peerage, as above, in 1SS6. He ?n. 9 Oct. 1S60, Anna.f') da. of John Allnutt of Clapham, Surrey, by his 1st wife, Elizabeth Harriet, da. of John Fassctt BritNlOT of May Place, Crayford, Kent. Ftmttl) estates. — These, in 1SS3, consisted of 3,544 acres in Sussex, and 73 acres in Cheshire ; the first valued at about i'l and the other about £10 per acre. Total 3,617 acres, valued at £4,417 a year. Chief Residence. — Normauhurst Court, uear Battle, Sussex. BRAYBROOKE, and BRAYBROOKE CASTLE. Sec "GRIFFIN OF BRAYBROOKE CASTLE, eo. Northampton," Barony, cr. 16S8 ; ex. 1742. Barony. 2. Joux Griffin (Griffix), Loud Howard de I. 17 88. WAlDKN,( e ) was, on 5 Sep. 1788, er. LORD BRAYBROOKE, BARON OF BRAYBROOKE, co. Northampton with a spec, rem., failing heirs male of his body, to "Richard Aldworth Neville, Esq." and the hens male of liis body. He d. s.p. 25 May 1797. For fuller particulars see " Howard de Walden," Barony, cr. 1597, under the 4th Lord. II. 1797. 2. Richard (Aldworth-Neville, afterwards Griffin) Lord Bratbrooke, Baron of Braybrooke, 3rd cousin {ex parte matcrni) and h. according to the spec. limitation.( e ) He was only s. and h. of _(") This Thorna* Brassey (b. 7 Nov. 1805, d. 8 Dee. 1870) was a descendant of Richard Brassey of Bulkeley, who was living in 16G3, being then aged 68, whose ancestor had acquired lands at Bulkeley by marriage with one of the Bulkeley family. See Her. Visit, of Cheshire, 161 3 and 1663. The small property of Bulkeley, possessed by Lord Brassey, did not, however, come to his Father (who was of a cadet line) by inheritance but by purchase. Ormerod , under " Bulkeley " in his " Cheshire " (First edit. 1819, Vol. ii, p. 363) says "The Brassies continued resident there in great respectability for two-and-a-half centuries. The family have retained their property but have sunk to the rank of Yeomanry." ( b ) Lady Brassey is well known as an Authoress. ( c ) For the descent of the 1st Lord Braybrooke, thro' his mother, from the Lords Griffin and the Lords Howard dcWaldcn, and for the very distant connection of the second Lord Braybrooke with the first Lord, see tabular pedigree on next page, note " a." Y. 139f> to 1399.
