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unusual facts about Sir John Austen, 1st Baronet



Bridgeman baronets

The Bridgeman Baronetcy, of Ridley in the County of Chester, was created on 12 November 1773 for Orlando Bridgeman, Member of Parliament for Horsham and younger son of the 1st Baronet, of the Great Lever creation.

John Copley

For over 50 years Copley has been the partner of John Hugh Chadwyck-Healey (born 1922), grandson of Charles Chadwyck-Healey, 1st Baronet.

Sir John Austen, 1st Baronet

He inherited the Manor of Tyburn, or Marylebone, from his mother's family and sold it in 1710 to John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle.

He was the son of Thomas Austen, of South Mimms and Hoxton, by Arabella Forset, the daughter and heir of Edward Forset, of Ashford and Tyburn.

Viscount Hanworth

Pollock was the fifth son of Mr George Pollock, fourth son of Sir Frederick Pollock (1st Baronet, of Hatton) (elder brother of Field Marshal Sir George Pollock, 1st Baronet, of The Khyber Pass).


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