Have you accessed the details of Lancelot Brown's Prerogative Court of Canterbury will for information on his descendents?
Yes, thank you, Valda. Thank you very much.
I do have the Will of Lancelot Brown, which with Codicils runs to 29 Pages, and took me at the time 40 hours to decypher. The Total of Beneficiaries included therein is >2 dozen, principally relatives, but not grand children - but including "my brother George Brown . . ." I also have his wife's Will, the Will of his son "John Brown Esquire an Admiral in his Majesty's Navy", the Beneficiaries of "Mary Brown wife of the late Admiral John" (obtained from
http://www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp), The Wills of Thomas Brown his youngest son, James Rust son-in-Law, and Henry Holland nephew; and also (bachelor) John Fuller brother-in-Law of Lancelot Jnr, which runs to 18 pages of small handwriting and makes no mention of any of the Brown family. I could, briefly, detail these contents but when I did this for my family it took 7 pages of my handwriting.
However, it was interesting to note that in a Codicil made the day before he died, Capability reduced the legacy to his eldest son Lancelot (Lance, the MP) by £1,000; and to be brief, in a Will made the day he died, Lance directed all his possessions were to be converted to cash for the benefit of George Hall - but later added a Codicil that certain family heirlooms were to go to named family individuals etc, and the remainder in cash to George.
To answer your other question, Valda, I believer the Rev George Brown died in Bath.
[I am also aware of the entry in the Gentleman's Magazine Jan 1830 P89. - which is reputed to record that the Rev George was the son of Lance, but which detail disagrees with other detail I have found. After much searching, and several elapsed months, I found a copy of this Publication here in the Adelaide Library, in the rare books section - and this made no mention of George.
However, after even more investigation, it comes about that apparently in a later Edition, there appears a marginalized note
On the 9th Inst. Died at bath the Rev. George Brown, late of Pucklechurch, Gloucester, and of Sydney College, Cambridge, son of the late Lancelot Brown Esq., M.P. for Huntingdon.-Ipswich Journal, July 24 1819.]
According to the present Archivist of Sidney Sussex College, Cambrige, "from Venn's
Alumni Cantobrigienses George Brown, the son of Lancelot Brown of Hirtloe (sic - Stirtloe ?) House, Hunts., was born there on 27 September 1785 . . . He was admitted as Fellow-commoner at Sidney on 27 September 1810 . . ."
Whew . . .
