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unusual facts about Sir Justinian Isham, 2nd Baronet



Bibby Line

In 2002 Sir Derek Bibby, 2nd baronet, and great-great-grandson of the founder and past chairman and president of the firm, was aged 80 and terminally ill with leukemia.

Gilbert Clerke

In the next year he was following the lines of Torricelli and Robert Boyle; and, dedicating the resulting work to Sir Justinian Isham, he brought it out in 1662 as Tractatus de Restitutione Corporum, which replied to Francis Line.

Sir Edmund Isham, 6th Baronet

He died on 15 December 1772, and was succeeded as baronet by his nephew Justian Isham, the son of his younger brother, the Reverend Euseby Isham.

Sir Justinian Isham, 2nd Baronet

Loans to the king as well as fines to the parliament had greatly injured the Isham estates, when in 1651, Sir Justinian succeeded to the Isham baronetcy.

Sir Justinian Isham, 7th Baronet

Justinian Isham IV was born on 8 July 1740, probably at Oxford, to Euseby Isham, the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University and his wife Elizabeth (Mary) Panting.


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