Francis Gregg
Francis Gregg (1734–1795) was an English lawyer and Member of Parliament.[1]
Family background
The Greggs were a family of legal professionals from Derbyshire, and the name "Francis Gregg" was found in successive generation. As explained by Daniel Lysons, the Gregg became armigerous in the early 18th century. Their background was in Ilkeston. The motif of trefoils alludes to the arms of Gregg(e) of Bradley.[2]
This Francis Gregg (Francis III) was an attorney and Member of Parliament, known also as Francis Gregg of Wallington. The arms were granted in 1725 to Foot Gregg of Derby; and descended to Francis III, his great-nephew;[3] the grant was to "the descendants of his father Francis, of Ilkeston and Norton Lees Hall."[4] Francis I (of Lees Hall, Derby and Putney) was one of the Six Clerks of Chancery (and married Mary Burton).[5] Francis II, the father of Francis III the MP, is given by the History of Parliament as "Francis Gregg of Putney"; he married Emilia/Emilie of Putney.[6]
The clerkship of the Worshipful Company of Skinners stayed in the extended Gregg family for over a century (see below).
Life
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Gregg was son of Francis Gregg of Putney, and was clerk to the Worshipful Company of Skinners from 1759.[1] He became a lawyer in practice at Skinners's Hall, Dowgate Hill, London, in the substantial legal firm Gregg & Potts.[7][8] They acted as the defence solicitors in the case around the arrest of George Pigot, 1st Baron Pigot.[9] Potts died in 1788.[10]
Gregg was legal adviser to Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle, and was asked to stand for parliament for Morpeth, while the Earl's heir Lord Morpeth reached the age of 21. He was duly elected for Morpeth in 1789, and held the seat until 1794.[1]
During the 1780s Gregg had a mansion built in Mitcham, Park House.[11]
Family
Gregg married Elizabeth Wellford on 6 October 1758, and they had a family of three sons and three daughters,.[1] Their children included:
- Henry Gregg (c.1759–1826), eldest son.[12]
- Francis junior (died 1825), who married Janet Bell (died 1841) of Mincing Lane in 1791.[13] He succeeded his father as clerk to the Skinners' Company (this is substantiated by the company history by Herbert).[14] From 1825 the clerk was George Gregg, son of Francis junior, who died in 1828; then from 1828 Thomas Glover Kensit, as given in the company history by Wadmore.[15][16] Kensit married Janet, the youngest daughter of Francis junior, in 1828.[17]
- William Frederick, youngest son, died 1823.[18][19][20]
- Caroline (1770–1823), who married Ralph Carr (1768–1837) of Stannington, Northumberland, a barrister.[21]
- Emily, who married in 1783 Richard Norman of Melton Mowbray, as his first wife.[21][22]
Notes
- 1 2 3 4 "Gregg, Francis (1734–95), of Mitcham, Surr., History of Parliament Online". Retrieved 14 January 2016.
- ↑ Daniel Lysons (1817). Magna Britannia. T. Cadell and W. Davies. p. cxxxi.
- ↑ William Berry (1828). Encyclopaedia Heraldica Or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry. Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper. pp. 396–7.
- ↑ Maxwell Craven (1 December 1991). A Derbyshire armory. Derbyshire Record Society. p. 73. ISBN 978-0-946324-13-2.
- ↑ "Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica". pp. 303–4. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
- ↑ "Gregg, Francis (1734–95), of Mitcham, Surr., History of Parliament Online". Retrieved 22 January 2016.
- ↑ Sylvanus Urban (1795). The Gentleman's Magazine: and Historical Chronicle. p. 353.
- ↑ Report from the Select Committee on Gauging in the Port of London. 1814. pp. 235–6.
- ↑ Thomas Jones Howell; David Jardine (1816). A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period to the Year 1783: With Notes and Other Illustrations. T. C. Hansard for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. p. 534.
- ↑ The Gentleman's Magazine (London, England). F. Jefferies. 1788. p. 840.
- ↑ Andrew Duncan (August 2006). Andrew Duncan's Favourite London Walks. New Holland Publishers. p. 236. ISBN 978-1-84537-454-9.
- ↑ s:Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Gregg, Henry
- ↑ Sylvanus Urban (1825). The Gentleman's Magazine. p. 574.
- ↑ Worshipful Company of Skinners; William Herbert (1837). History of the Worshipful Company of Skinners of London. J. & C. Adlard. p. 344.
- ↑ Wadmore, James Foster (1902). "Some Account of the Worshipful Company of Skinners of London, being the guild or fraternity of Corpus Christi". Internet Archive. Blades, East & Blades. p. 196. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
- ↑ http://www.mocavo.com/The-Harrow-School-Register-1800-1911/281026/84
- ↑ "Marriages". Oxford University and City Herald. 18 October 1828. p. 4. Retrieved 22 January 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle. E. Cave. 1823. p. 651.
- ↑ http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000221/17910106/015/0004
- ↑ Edward Cave; John Nichols (1841). The Gentleman's Magazine. Edw. Cave. p. 105.
- 1 2 Joseph J. Howard; Joseph J. Howard Frederick A. Crisp (1 September 1997). Visitation of England and Wales Notes: Volume 6 1906. Heritage Books. p. 193. ISBN 978-0-7884-0703-1.
- ↑ "Norman, Richard (?1757–1847), of Melton Mowbray, Leics., History of Parliament Online". Retrieved 15 January 2016.