Sir Henry Paston-Bedingfeld, 7th Baronet

Sir Henry Paston-Bedingfeld, Bt
DL
Photograph of Sir Henry by Camille Silvy, 1863
High Sheriff of Norfolk
In office
1882–1882
Preceded byGeorge Duckett Berney
Succeeded byWilliam Earle Gascoyne Lytton Bulwer
Personal details
BornHenry George Paston-Bedingfeld
(1830-06-21)21 June 1830
Norwich, Norfolk
Died18 January 1902(1902-01-18) (aged 71)
Cromwell Road, London
Spouse
Augusta Lucy Clavering
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(m. 1859)​
Children11
Parent(s)Sir Henry Paston-Bedingfeld, 6th Baronet
Margaret Paston
EducationStonyhurst College

Sir Henry George Paston-Bedingfeld, 7th Baronet DL (21 June 1830 – 18 January 1902) was an English landowner.

Early life

He was the eldest son of Sir Henry Paston-Bedingfeld, 6th Baronet, of Oxburgh Hall, and heiress Margaret Paston, who inherited the Brailes estate in Warwickshire in 1841.[1] His younger brother, Raoul, married Katherine Gregory (née Walker) Stephens, widow of Henry Alexander Claremont Lyne-Stephens.

His paternal grandparents were Sir Richard Bedingfeld, 5th Baronet and Charlotte Georgiana Jerningham.[1][2] Among his extended paternal family was aunt Frances "Fanny" Bedingfeld (wife of William Petre, 11th Baron Petre),[3] Matilda Bedingfeld (wife of George Stanley Cary),[3] Agnes Bedingfeld (wife of Maj. Thomas Molyneux-Seel),[3] and uncle Felix Bedingfeld (who married Mary Woodward Lightbourn Chads, eldest daughter of John Cornell Chads, Governor of the British Virgin Islands).[4] His maternal grandparents were Lucy (née Brown) Paston and Edward Paston, of Appleton, Norfolk, the last of the Pastons of Paston, formerly Earls of Yarmouth.[1]

A member of a prominent English Roman Catholic family, he was educated at Stonyhurst College.[5]

Career

The Bedingfeld seat, Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk

As a young man, he served for some time with the Austrian Cuirassiers before becoming a captain in the West Norfolk Militia.[6]

Upon the death of his father on 4 February 1862, he succeeded his father as 7th Baronet Paston-Bedingfeld, of Oxburgh.[3] He also served as a Deputy Lieutenant for Norfolk and was High Sheriff of Norfolk in 1882.[7]

Personal life

Photograph of Augusta, Lady Paston-Bedingfeld by Camille Silvy, 1863

On 17 October 1859, he married Augusta Lucy Clavering (d. 1929), only child of Edward John Clavering, of Callaly Castle.[8] Together, they were the parents of:[9]

  • Sir Henry Edward Paston-Bedingfeld, 8th Baronet (1860–1941), a Major in the Liverpool Regiment who served in the Boer War; he married Sybil Lyne-Stephens, eldest daughter of Henry Alexander Claremont Lyne-Stephens of Grove House, Roehampton (son of Edward Stopford Claremont), in 1904.[10]
  • Richard Henry Clavering Paston-Bedingfeld (1862–1931), who emigrated to United States, where he bought land in Wyoming in 1897, and later to Canada; he died unmarried.[3]
  • Alice Mary Paston-Bedingfeld (1863–1947), who was awarded the Order of the Chefakat; she married Vice-Adm. James Lacon Hammet, Admiral Superintendent of Malta Dockyard, in 1891. After his death in 1905, she married Cdr. Hon. Clement La Primaudaye, Commissioner of the Malta Police Force, in 1906.[3]
  • Charles Paston-Bedingfeld (1864–1936), who also emigrated to United States and bought land in Wyoming in 1897 where he raised cattle; later became a gold miner; he died unmarried.[3]
  • Mary Maud Paston-Bedingfeld (1866–1962), who became a nun of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus.[3]
  • Mary Augusta Paston-Bedingfeld (1868–1868), who died in infancy.[3]
  • Edward Arthur Paston-Bedingfeld (1870–1878), who died young.[3]
  • William Felix Paston-Bedingfeld (1873–1911), who emigrated to South Africa and worked as a wine and spirit merchant in Middleburg; he died unmarried.[3]
  • Francis Augustus Paston-Bedingfeld (1874–1950), who also emigrated to South Africa after his 1926 marriage to Dorothy Mary Hooker of Kingston upon Thames.[3]
  • Edith Mary Paston-Bedingfeld (1876–1972), who also became a nun of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus.[3]
  • Hubert Paston-Bedingfeld (1877–1956), who emigrated to the United States with his brother Charles; he also died unmarried.[3]

Sir Henry died on 18 January 1902, at age 71, at 45 Cromwell Houses, Cromwell Road, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London.[11] Lady Paston-Bedingfeld died on 2 March 1929.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c "OBITUARY OF EMINENT PERSONS | SIR H.R. PASTON-BEDINGFELD, BART ". The Illustrated London News. Elm House: 181. 1862. Retrieved 24 July 2024.
  2. ^ Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage. 1885. p. 113.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 3, page 3068.
  4. ^ "SIR RICHARD BEDINGFELD, BART". The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ... Edw. Cave, 1736-[1868]: 79–80. 1830. Retrieved 22 July 2024.
  5. ^ George Edward Cokayne, editor, The Complete Baronetage, 5 volumes (no date (c. 1900); reprint, Gloucester: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1983), volume III, page 152.
  6. ^ Pollen, John Hungerford (1909). Bedingfeld papers, &c. [ed. by J.H. Pollen]. p. 231. Retrieved 24 July 2024.
  7. ^ "No. 25078". The London Gazette. 28 February 1882. p. 870.
  8. ^ Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1910). Armorial Families: A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-armour. T.C. & E.C. Jack. p. 1251. Retrieved 24 July 2024.
  9. ^ Lodge, Edmund (1907). The Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage & Companionage of the British Empire for 1907. Kelly's Directories. p. 263. Retrieved 24 July 2024.
  10. ^ Debrett's Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage: In which is Included Much Information Respecting the Collateral Brances of Baronets, and the Issue of Knights. Dean & Son. 1921. p. 53. Retrieved 24 July 2024.
  11. ^ "Obituary -- SIR HENRY PASTON-BEDINGFELD". The Times. 21 January 1902. Retrieved 24 July 2024.
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