George Amyand
Sir George Amyand, 1st Baronet (26 September 1720 – 16 August 1766)[1] was a British Whig politician, physician and merchant.
Origins
He was the eldest son of Claudius Amyand, Surgeon-in-Ordinary to King George II,<ref name=Debrett's>Debrett, John (1824). Debrett's Baronetage of England. vol. I (fifth ed.). London: G. Woodfall. p. 478.</ref> by his wife Mary Rabache, and was baptised at the fashionable St James's Church, Piccadilly.[2] Claudius's father was a Huguenot who had quitted France following the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685.[3]
Career
Armyand was Army Contractor during the Seven Years' War,[4] an assistant to the Russia Company in 1756[5] and a director of the East India Company in 1762.[6] Between 1754 and 1766, Amyand sat as Member of Parliament (MP) for Barnstaple,[7] in North Devon. On 9 August 1764, he was created a baronet, of Moccas Court, in the County of Hereford.[8]
Marriage & progeny
In 1748 he married Anna Maria Korteen (1767), daughter of John Abraham Korteen (alias Kerton[9]), a German merchant of Hamburg,[6] by whom he had two sons and two daughters, including:
- Sir George Cornewall, 2nd Baronet, eldest son and heir, who changed his surname and arms to Cornewall following his marriage to the heiress of that family.
Death & burial
Amyand died on 16 August 1766, aged 45, from unknown causes, and was buried at Carshalton a week later.[2]
Monument
In the north aisle of Carshalton Church in Surrey is a white marble urn, with an inscription in his memory.[10][11]
Barnstaple organ donation
He donated the present organ in St Peter's Church, Barnstaple, one of the largest in Devon, made by John Crang in 1764.[12] It is decorated with his armorials: Vert, a chevron between three garbs or[13] with an inescutcheon of unidentified arms.
References
- ↑ "Leigh Rayment-Baronetage". Retrieved 31 March 2009.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "ThePeerage-Sir George Amyand, 1st Bt". Retrieved 31 January 2009.
- ↑ Courthope, William (ed.), Debrett's Baronetage of England, 7th Edition, London, 1835, p.185
- ↑ "Moccas Court, Official Website - History". Retrieved 31 March 2009.
- ↑ Burke, John (1832). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. vol. I (4th ed.). London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. p. 290.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Kimber, Edward (1771). Richard Johnson, ed. The Baronetage of England: Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the English Baronets. vol. III. London: Thomas Wotton. p. 203.
- ↑ "Leigh Rayment - British House of Commons, Barnstaple". Retrieved 31 March 2009.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 10442. p. 1. 7 August 1764. Retrieved 31 March 2009.
- ↑ Debrett's 1835
- ↑ Lysons, Daniel, The Environs of London: Volume 1: County of Surrey, 1792, pp.122-136
- ↑ Image of monument, Carshalton Church
- ↑ Per gilded inscription on organ
- ↑ Debrett's 1835
Parliament of Great Britain | ||
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Preceded by Thomas Benson Sir Bourchier Wrey |
Member of Parliament for Barnstaple 1754 – 1766 With: John Harris 1754–1761 Denys Rolle 1761–1766 |
Succeeded by Denys Rolle John Clevland |
Baronetage of Great Britain | ||
New creation | Baronet (of Moccas Court) 1764–1766 |
Succeeded by George Cornewall |