Sir Gregory Page, 2nd Bt (1689–1775) His Will and Legacy

      Sir Gregory Page, 2nd Bt (1689–1775) His Will  and Legacy

Sir Gregory Page 2nd Bt 1689-1775

 

The Will of Sir Gregory Page 2nd Bt and the Aftermarth,

made before the death of his wife was followed by two Codicils. An obstruct of these three documents follows

THE WILL OF SIR GREGORY PAGE (second Baronet) (Ref. st S.H. 1775. Alexander. Fo/320. The contents may be summarized

BEQUEST for burial in family vault in Parish Church of East Greenwich by his Executrix

BEQUEST to his wife Martha Page of £5,000 South Sea Stock £2000 cash Jewelry, linen, plate pictures, etc at his house in Spring Gardens, Middx with the

house for life.

RECITING    that he had £20,000 East India Stock to which his sister-in-law Juliana, widow of Thomas Page deceased, had a life interest under her marriage settlement with Thomas Page and to which Sir Gregory Page was entitled after her death, he left the dividends thereon to his widow for life.

BEQUEST : of £100 to the Rt Hon Richard, Viscount Howe and the same amount to:

 

" " " Juliana Page ‘

" " " Sir Edward Turner

" " " Sir John Shaw Bt

" " ” Lewis Way

" " " Williiam Hall a witness)

" " " Henry Wilnot a witness)

BEQUEST of £400 to the poor of East Greenwich

BEQUEST of £200 to the poor of the Baptist Meeting-House Devonshire Square 

BEQUEST to persons to be named on a separate document to be read as soon as embodied in his Will

BEQUEST of the residue to his wife for life and then subject to a legacy of £4,000 on trust for Sir Edward Turner absolutely

BEQUEST to Juliana Page of £4,000 on death of his wife if Juliana Page then living. If she shall have died then to such person as she shall by deed or Will appoint

BEQUEST of Wricklemarsh and lands in Kent, Middlesex, and Bedfordshire, with contents of Wricklemsrsh (except linen) to wife

for life and then to Sir Edward Turner forever

APPOINTMENT of a wife as sole Executrix

SIGNED December 16, 1763 (4 Geo 111)

Witnesses: William Hall, Henry Wilmot, and John Lancaster

CODICIL dated February 10, 1761

REQUEST to Viscount Howe of £5,000 on death of wife Martha, but if he should pre-decease her then as he should by will or

deed appoint

FURTHER CODICIL dated Dec 20, 1769

U RECITING death of Sir Edward Turner and of Martha, Lady Page

(Teststor'e wife)

BEQUEST of £5,000 to Viscount Howe to be paid at the Testator's death and a further £2,000 and £l5,000 East India Stock (three—fourths of the sum mentioned in the Will) after the death of Juliana Paqe. The remaining one—fourth to go with the residue

BEQUEST to Lady Shaw, wife of Sir John Show of £200 and to her sons Gregory and Howard 2100 each

BEQUEST of £2,000 each to nieces (daughters of Sir Edward Turner) or all to survive

REVOKED legacy of £4,000 to Juliana Page

BEQUEST of all arrears of Bedfordshire rents to Jillana Page arrears of other  rents to his nephew Sir Gregory Turner

BEQUEST of the residue of personal estate to younger sons of Sir Edward Turner equally at 21 or to survivor

BEQUEST of house at Battlesden and other Bedfordshire honors and lands etc and use of Spring Gardens house for rest of lease to

Juliana Page

CHARGE put on his Bedfordshire estate with a legacy of £4,000 each to the two younger sons of Sir Edward Turner, if living, or to survive.

BEQUEST of £1,000 each to niece (two daughters of Sir Edward Turner) over and above previous legacies o: £2,000)

APPOINTMENT of Richard Viscount Hove as sales Executor

BEQUEST of Bedfordshire property to Juliana Page for life and of Wricklemarsh House and Park and all lands in Kent end Middlesex to Sir Gregory Turner Bt for life and then to Viscount Hove and Henry Wilmot ne trustee to preserve contingent remainders and then in tail male of Sir Gregory Turner or his brothers in succession, or if no sons then to the daughter of Sir Ed. Turner as tenants in common or to survivor otherwise to daughters of William Turner as tenants in common or survivor. Alternatively, to third son John in the tail

BEQUEST of plates, books, pictures, and (furniture in each house to be heirlooms with each house containing them

POWER to grant lenses up to 21 years each

SIGNED on December 19, 1769

THE SEPARATE PAPER referred to in the Will contained the under-mentioned extra legacies

£100 to Mr: Ann Smith of Lee

£100 to Revd Moses Brown, Chaplain to Morden College

£20 to John Lancaster, Clerk to Mr Wilmot (Witness)

£300 to Trustees of Morden College for repairing and ornamenting the Chapel 

£500 to Christ's  Hospital

£500 Middlesex Hospital for the smallpox

£100 to servant John Lamb, if still in service

620 to servant Barbara Brook, if still in service

£10 each to all other servants, if still in service

SIGNED December 20, 1789

CODICIL dated June 24, 1772

BEQUEST to servant Dorothy Newman of £8 a year for life at ten shillings a month

BEQUEST to Widow Rollwright of Charlton ditto but during the life of Dorothy Newman only

CODICIL 10 January 1775

BEQUEST to Walter Fammett Lately my tenant has £10 for life at £5 half-yearly

AFFIDAVIT of Timothy Brett of Greenwich and Charles Brett identifying the testamentary document: and the separate list of

legacies. Sworn before a “Notary Public

PROBATE at London granted a 12 August 1775 on oath of Rt Hon

Richard Viscount Howe, sole Executor named in the Second codicil

SIR GREGORY PAGE, the second Baronet, died on August 3^rd, 1775

NOTES ON THE WILL

Viscount Howe, the famous Admiral later Earl Howe, victor the glorious First of June in 1795. (Son of Viscount Howe in the Irish Peerage, Born 1726, succeeded to the Irish title on the death of his brother in 1758 Created Viscount in the Peerage of Great Britain 1782 and Earl in 1788. He died in 1799.

Juliana Page was Howe’s eldest sister, having married Sir Gregory’s younger brother Thomas Page of Berry Hall, Battlesden Bedfordshire

SIR JOHN SHAW of Eltham, Baronet (4th Bart) married (as his second wife) Martha Kenward of Yalding, Kent, near Maidstone, in 1752. Born in 1730 she was the orphan daughter of John Kenwurd of Yalding (he died in 1749) and Alice Brooks of Rochester (she died in 1732) and therefore was a niece of Lady Martha Page (formerly also a Martha Kenward). She died in 1794. Sir John Shaw Bt her husband died in 1779, aged 51. Their eldest son preserved the Page connection by having the name Sir John Gregory Shaw (5th baronet) born in 1753. The ancestor, Sir John Shaw Bt (first baronet) was a banker who financed King Charles II in exile and at the Restoration was rewarded by a lease of a large part of the park of Eltham Palace and Built the splendid "Eltham Lodge", now the clubhouse of the Royal Blackheath Golf Club.

Sir Edward Turner baronet, married Sir Gregory Page's elder sister Mary. He lived at Ambroseden, Oxon, and was created a baronet in 1753, being Chairman of the East India Co in the same year. he died in 1735. his wife Mary had pre-deceased him in 1724. Through them, the  title to Wricklemarsh was to descend to a grandson (great nephew of Sir Gregory Page Bt)

William Turner was the second son of Sir Edward Turner Bt (second baronet) and he died in 1819 without issue

John Turner WAS THE YOUNGEST SON of Sir Edward Turner and married Elizabeth Dryden and assumed the name and arms of Dryden, his wife is n great—great—granddaughter of the poet John Dryden. John Turner Sir John Dryden was created a baronet in 1765. The son of this marriage was Sir Henry Leigh Dryden Bt (taking his grandmother's name Leigh among his own) and he became the 7th baronet in the Page—Turner line ‘

Moses Brown was Chaplain of Morden Collage for 24 years i.e. from 1763-1787. A friend of Dr Johnson. "

Nieces daughters of Sir Edward Turner  These were (1) Elizabeth, who married Thomas Twisleton, heir to the Barony of Saye & Sele, and (2) Cassandra, who married the Hon. Martin Bladen Hawke (1744—1805) at St George's: Hanover Square on the 6th February 1771. She died in 1813. They have one son, Edward, born 1774. ‘Martin B. Hawke succeeded to the Barony of Hawke of Towton. ‘

Trustees to preserve contingent remainders. To explain this in simple words: Contingent Remainders were possible gaps in the title of an entailed estate due to ownership vesting in an infant or an imbecile  (as it did in this case) or by s forfeiture of some sort So that in any such case the legal estate would automatically vest in the trustees appointed for soon on emergency. It was abolished in almost every respect by the Real Property Act 1845 ‘By A case in Chancery in the year 1740 (re Smith dec‘d, Dormer v Parkhurst) the Court held that in every case where an estate is given for life,  the grantor has on interest remaining in him to enter upon the estate if it should determine by any set of the tenant—for-life amounting to forfeiture, and this right may be conveyed to trustees as a vested remainder.

‘it was reported in 1775 that "Sir Gregory Page-Turner Bt  & Philip Buckingham at Ambrosden Esq were returning to town from Blackheath when they were stopped near the Halfway House, Deptford, by two footpads and robbed of their watches and a considerable sum of money."

As regards the contents of Wrickleamarsh House, a sale of jewels and various curiosities belonging to Sir Gregory Page was held on Nov 10 1775 by Messrs, Christie in St. James's. A second sale was held from 23—29 April 1783 of sculpture, porcelain, curiosities, and furniture, and a priced catalogue is in the possession of Christie's. 0n 8—9 May of the same year some pictures belonging to Sir Gregory Page were sold by Christie's along with a large collection brought from Brussels by a Mrs Bertels. other Page property was sold from 8 to 14 October of the same year. “Messrs. Christie has the priced catalogue. From 28 May to 6 June 1781 sculptures belonging to Sir Gregory Page were sold by Christie's.

At Denham Place, Bucks, the seat of Lord Vansittart, is a large portrait of the First Lady Page (Mary Trotman), mother of the second baronet. Her daughter Sophia married Lewis Way. Lady Page left sane of her furniture to him. Colonel Way sold Denham Place, and some of the Page furniture was sold for £3,000. A mirror with a crest was sold for £610. The fellow-mirror is held, in trust for Major Way of Gerrard. Way, Bucks, who has also a very fine silver-gilt cup with the Page crest (e demi—horse forming the top at the lid by Paul Lemeric). This was all recorded in a letter by the nephew of Frances H. Page-Turner of No. 21 Leonard Court Edwards Square, Kensington, W.8. in an issue of ‘Country Life" 12 Sept 1947.

Sir Edward Turner Bt, the son of Sir Gregory's sister Mary, had died before the testator and the Wricklemarsh estate vested in his eldest son, Sir Gregory Turner Bt who by Letters Patent in 1175 assumed the name end arms of Page and became known as Sir Gregory Page-Turner Bt. He did not require Wricklemersh for his own residence, as he had inherited the Ambroseden estate in the tail from his father. A private Act of Parliament was therefore obtained authorizing the sale of the entailed estate of Wricklemarsh and adjusting any effect which this would have on the second baronet‘s Will above recited. A copy of this act will be found among state papers at the British Museum under Gee III c.21 It is entitled.

AN ACT for vesting part of the Freehold estates of Sir Gregory Pace Baronet deceased in Trustees to sell the same for discharging Incumbrances and for laying out the residue of the money arising by sale in the purchase or other lands & hereditaments to he settled in lieu thereof to the like uses and for the other purposes therein mentioned. The following notes are an Abstract of the Act:

It begins by RECITING that Sir Gregory Page Bart had made his will dated 16 December 1763 whereby he gave devised and bequeathed his house, lands, tenements, hereditaments, and real estate in Kent, Middlesex & Bedfordshire or elsewhere in England together with the use of the plate, pictures, hooks, furniture of every sort and kind (except linen) in his house at Wricklemarsh aforesaid to his wife Martha Page for life, and after her decease he gave and devised the same unto his nephew Sir Edward Turner Bart etc forever -

AND RECITING a Codicil dated l9 December 1789 stating that both his said nephew and his wife had died, he gave and devised his Bedfordshire estate to his sister-i-law the hon. Juliana Page for life and his house at Spring Gardens, Middlesex, for the remainder of the lease; and thereafter all his real estate was charged with the payment of £4,000 each to the 2 younger sons of Sir Edward Turner Bt decd if living at the death of his said sister-in-law And £1,000 each to his nieces the 2 daughters of the said Sir Edward Turner Bt deceased if living at the death of his said sister-in-law

AND SUBJECT to the said charge and bequest to "his sister" Page for life (meaning his sister-in-law) including his house and park at Wricklemarsh etc to Sir Gregory Page-Turner bt (therein referred to as Sir Gregory Turner Bt) for life with the remainder to Richard Viscount Howe and Henry Wilmott and their heirs on trust to preserve contingent remainders (a legal device to preserve the legal estate already explained in the "Notes to the will") _

AND AFTER the death of Sir Gregory Page-Turner Bt then in tail male, and in default of issue then to William Turner 2nd son of Sir Edward Turner bt for life and then in tail male, and in default to John Turner 3rd son of Sir Edward Turner bt tor life and then in tail male.

AND IN DEFAULT of male issue than to all the daughters of Sir Edward Turner bt or to the survivor as tenants in common in tail general ‘

AND ALL his plate, hooks, pictures, and household furniture of every sort and kind which should be in or about his house in Wricklemarsh or any other his houses should he heirlooms tied to such houses

AND RECITING that Codicil Viscount Howe was appointed sole Executor of the Will 

AND RECITING the death of Sir Gregory Page bt on Aug 3 1775 and that Viscount Howe had proved his will and five Codicils thereto

AND RECITING that the Honble Juliana Page had died on July 2^nd l780

AND RECITIVG that Sir Gregory Pope-Turner Bt was the eldest son of Sir Edward Turner Bart and that Willing Turner was the 2^nd son and John Turner the 3rd son and that all three were then unmarried and that the two daughters of Sir Edward  Turner Bt were Elizabeth Twisleton, wife of Thomas Twisleton Esq and the Hon Cassandra Hawke, wife of the Hon Martin Bladen  Hawke, and that Sir Gregory Page-Turner Bt was the testator's rightful heir.

AND RECITING that Sir Gregory Page-Turner bt was entitled to life to Wricklemarsh and its contents and to land in Kent and Middlesex and that after the death of Juliana Page, he became entitled to life to the Bedfordshire property and the house at Spring Burdens, Middlesex

AND RECITING that the house and park at Wricklemarsh were settled apart from the title to the other property but being in the vicinity of London would on sale produce a considerable amount of money.

AND RECITING that Sir Gregory Page-Turner Bt did not reside at Wrinklemarsh but at Battlesden in Bedfordshire (then called Battlesden Park) and that Wricklemarsh being unoccupied or let to tenants had become much out at repair and that the sum of £10,000 legacies payable on the death of Juliana Page had become payable

and that there were no powers in the Will or the Codicils for raising money by sale or mortgage as they were entailed to devisees.

AND RECITING that the sale of Wricklemarsh to all persons interested under the Will or Codicils but that without an Act of Parliament a good title could not be made to a purchaser.

IT WAS BESAUGHT that His Majesty through Parliament would enact that the capital messuage or mansion house called Wricklemarsh House, situate standing and being on or near Blackheath in the County of Kent, and the courtyard, coach houses, stables, out-offices and buildings belonging thereto nr used therewith and also all the gardens to the said house last in the occupation of the Rt Hon George Lord Viscount Townshend and also all the park called Wricklemarsh Park of 271 acres and lately in the occupation of William Allen should be vested in Trustees to uses freed from payment of the legacies (a legal device separating the land from the terms of the Will) and being John Holliday of Lincolns Inn Esq and Thomas Astley Maberley of Christ's Hospital, London, Gentleman, and similarly about the plate, books, pictures and

furniture etc

IT WAS ORDERED

That the house and park of Wricklemarsh should he sold and that the purchase—money should he paid to the too trustees above—named and that the balance of purchase—money should be invested in land in Bedfordshire and that all money to be banked should be lodged at the Bank of England in the names of the said Trustees for uses John Holliday and Thomas Astley Maberly.

THE BILL was duly passed through both Houses of Parliament and received the Royal Assent thus becoming an Act with the title first above quoted.

Wricklemarsh was let to various tenants, including the Earl of Suffolk, and eventually sold. For many years it had stood empty, until in 1787 "it was at length determined to pull down the costly building at Blackheath." Parts of the building Were taken away for the Lord Chancellor's house at Norwood. Workman who demolished Wrinklemarsh said: "There was never a better-built house in the world". The structure began to deteriorate and the estate was sold to John Cator of Beckenham in 1784 for £22,000. The estate was then re-sold by him by auction in lots in 1181 The house fell into ruin, the stone being taken away bit by bit to be used in building houses facing Blackheath. The stone-faced Heathview Hotel Montpelier Row is probably built with some of the Wricklemarsh stone.  The Ionic portico was taken to John Cator's house Beckenham Place (he was Lord of the Manor of Beckenham situated on Stump's Hill. The house remained in the Cator family for many years but was eventually sold and used in turn as n Boys' School, a Sanatorium, and lastly as the L.C.C. Foxgrove Golf Club House.

John Cator "of Ross, Herefordshire, and Bromley, Kent" was born March 12 1728, married Mary Collinson (she died on August 13, 1804), and had a daughter Marin (1762/86). He bought Beckenham Place and Wricklemarsh and contested Gloucester for Parliament in 1768 but was eventually elected M.P. for Wallingford (Berks) in  1773-9. Elected M.P. for Ipswich in 1784 but unseated. He acted as co-trustee with Dr Samuel Johnson for Mrs Thrale and was guardian of her children in 1180, Lord 0f the Manor of Beckenham, High Sheriff for Kent 1781. He died at Bath on 26 February l806 and was buried at Beckenham. A descendant of Lt- Col Henry John Cator  MC- of Woodbastwick Hall, Norwich, who is still Lord of the Manor of Beckenham but the manorial rights have passed away and the manorial customs fallen into disuse. There is still a Cator Estate at Beckenham and” the Lord of the Manor still has the advowson and right to appoint the incumbents to the Parish churches of St George and St. Paul. _ _

The old Wricklemarsh Estate was cut up by John Cater for building leases. Hence the beautiful Georgian houses in Blackheath Park and the Paragon (the latter designed by Michael Searle in 1789). The whole estate is controlled by restrictive covenants preserving the beauty, and quiet dignity of the nelghbourhood until the present day. the principal roads are still "private roads" with no public right of way. They were closed by a chain on a Sunday in the late Autumn of 1965 to remind the public that the Cator Estate had the right to close the roads at will.

There was a footpath leading from what is now Cresswell Park to the kitchen gardens of Wricklemarsh House. When Wricklemarsh was demolished it is not known whether any of the structure was used unaltered in any other buildings, but in 1789 when the house that became the Presbytery of the Catholic Church in Cresswell Park was built it had a porticoed front door with a semicircular flight of steps with wrought iron handrails, so much in the style of Wricklemarsh that tradition has it that it was a side-entrance to that mansion. 

From the Will of Sir Gregory Page, 2nd bt, it will have been seen that the intended heir of the Page estate was Sir Edward Turner Rt, younger son of Sir Gregory Page's sister Mary who had married Sir Edward Turner, first baronet of Ambroseden, Oxen. The son was born in 1719. His elder brother was John Turner “of Sunbury" who was disinherited for his “undutiful and stubborn carriage" by his father's Will dated August 30, 1726. He seems however to have been not withstanding very wealthy. He died on Dec 28 1764 aged 54 leaving £100,000 to his nephew the second Baronet, and £10,000 each to his said nephew's live children, — Gregory, William, John, Elizabeth, and Cassandra. Their father was a Director at the East India Company from 1717 to 1722 but his sons' names do not appear in the list Of E.I.C. Directors.

Sir Edward Turner, the second Baronet, was the only surviving son of the first Baronet. Born on April 18 1719 in London he succeeded to the baronetcy in 1735 in which year he entered Balliol College, Oxford, on Oct 7 aged 17. He was M.A. in 1738 and C.C.L. in 1740. Admitted a barrister in Lincoln Inn in 1745, he was M.P. for Bedwyn from 1741—1747 for Oxfordshire from 1754 -1761, and for Penrhyn from 1761 to 1766. He married on Sept 8 1739 at Adlestrop (Glos) Cassandra, the eldest daughter of

William & Mary Leigh (refer to note In the Leigh Family). He died on Oct 31 1766 and was buried at Bicester in the family vault on Nov 21 1766 awed 47.

His Will was proved on Dec 1^st 1766. His wife was born in the parish of St Martin-in-the-fields, London, in 1723 but baptized at Adelstrop and buried in Bicester with her husband on  Oct 15, 1770. Her Will was proved on Nov 6, 1770. In it, she left £50 to the poor of Adlestrop. And through this Sir Gregory Page-Turner Bt, there is a connection with the famous novelist Jane Austen.

Sir Gregory‘s mother and elder sister 1nd the baptismal name of Cassandra, which ran through the Page-Turner pedigree on the female side as noticeably as Gregory did on the male side. As already mentioned, Sir Gregory's sister Cassandra Turner married the heir to lord Hawke of Tewten and as "the Rt Hon Cassandra, Lady Hawke" wrote a novel entitled "Julie de Grammont" in two volumes, published in London and Dublin in 1788 (nobody reads it today but it ranks an "a rare novel" in the lists of the antiquarian booksellers today and is priced expensively.) l have already outlined the Leigh family. Theophilus Leigh married the Hon Mary Brydges, niece of the Duke of Chandos and they had ten children, the elder daughter being Cassandra who married the Rev George Austen. These Austens had seven children, the eldest daughter again Cassandra, and the youngest Jane Austen the novelist.

But the connection does not end there. Going back to Theophilus Leigh his daughter who married Sir Edward Turner Bt was the mother of Sir Gregory Page-Turner Bt the heir of Wricklemarsh. So Jane Austen was cousin to Sir Gregory Page-Turner bt, but as he inherited Wricklemarsh in 1775, the year in which Jane Austen was born, it is hardly likely that she was ever in Blackheath in the twelve years before the bin house was demolished. Curiously, there is a letter of hers in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, written to her elder sister Cassandra, dated "Paragon. May 5, 1801“. Alas, not the Blackheath Paragon near where once stood the mansion of Wricklemarsh but a Paragon at Bath, at the Foot of a steep hill rising to Lansdown. The house is still their hut turned into flats.

SIR EDWARD TURNER, second Baronet, who died in 1766 had nine children by Cassandra Leigh of Adlestrop whom he married in 1739, namely:

ELIZABETH was born in 1741. She married Thomas Twisleton who became the 11th Baron Saye & Sale. The Barony of Saye & Sele is an ancient one created in 1441. The first Baron had the surname Fiennes and by marrying into the Wykehams he changed his family name to Wykeham- Fiennes. But in 1715 the Barony came into abeyance through the death of co-heirs, and in 1781 was revived for a Lady Cecil  Saye & Sele, a daughter of John Twisleton who became the 10th Baron. He married Elizabeth Turner, great-niece of Sir Gregory Page of Wricklemarsh. Both Thomas Twisleton and his wife died in 1788 and their son Gregory William Twisleton became the 12th Baron Saye & Sele.

JOHN (first of that name) born in 1742 but died in 1743

JOHN (second of that name) born in 1144 but died in 1751

CASSANDRA, born at Ambroseden (2 m. S.E. of Bicester, Oxon) on 28 Feb 1746. She married the Hon. Martin Bladen Hawke at St George's, Hanover Square, \n 6th Febr 1771. He became an LL.D. and succeeded to the Barony of Hawke of Towton (Yorks) in 1181. Previously he had been M.P. for Saltash (Cornwall). He died on 27 Mar 1805 aged 60. She died on 19 Nov 1813, aged 61. They had one child, a son, Martin Bladen Edward, born in 1774, heir to the Barony.

GREGORY, born at Ambrosden on 16 February 1747, inherited Wricklemarsh and other property from Sir Gregory Page bt in August 1775. Being already a Baroronet in 1766 as the eldest surviving son of his father (Turner) he added the name Page to that of Turner by Royal license on 15 Novr 1775 and became Sir Gregory Page-Turner Bt.  He had entered Hertford College, Oxford, in 1766 aged 18. Sheriff for Oxfordshire 1783-4. M.P. for Thirsk (Yorks) in four Parliaments from 1784 to his death in 1805. He died at

Bicester aged 56 on 4 January 1805, his Will being proved the following month. He had married on 2 Jan 1788 at 11 Portland Place, Marylebone, Frances Howell, daughter of Joseph and Ann Howell of Elm near Wisbeach (then Norfolk, later Cambs). His widow, Lady Frances Page-Turner, died on 12 February 1828 at Rome

and was buried in the Protestant Cemetery there. Her Will was proved on 13 Apr 1833 (7). They had four children (see later)

EDWARD, was born in 1749 and died in 1755

WILLIAM, was born in 1750 and died in 1819

JOHN (3rd of that name) born 1752. He married Elizabeth Dryden, heiress of Canons Ashby, Northants, and took the name of Dryden by Royal license on 16 Dec 1791. She claimed descent from the poet Dryden. He was created a Baronet as "Sir John Dryden bt" in 1795. He died in 1797 aged 44. Eldest son was Sir John Edmund Dryden, 2^nd baronet, born 1782, died 1818, where the title passed to his younger brother Sir Henry Dryden, 3rd baronet born 1787, died 1827, having married Elizabeth Hutchinson, daughter of Revd. Julian Hutchinson of Rothorpe, Notts. One child UP whom later. ‘

MARY, born 1753, died 1756

The children of (Sir Gregory Page Turner, Bt, owner of Wricklemarsh) above.