Biography of Anne Clayton Lady Blackwell -1772

Anne Clayton Lady Blackwell was born to William Clayton 1st Baronet and Martha Kenrick.

In or before 1721 Charles Blackwell 2nd Baronet (age 20) and Anne Clayton Lady Blackwell were married.

On 27th October 1727 [her father-in-law] Lambert Blackwell 1st Baronet died. His son [her husband] Charles (age 27) succeeded 2nd Baronet Blackwell of Sprowston Hall in Norfolk. Anne Clayton Lady Blackwell by marriage Lady Blackwell of Sprowston Hall in Norfolk.

Around 1732 [her son] Lambert Blackwell 3rd Baronet was born to [her husband] Charles Blackwell 2nd Baronet (age 32) and Anne Clayton Lady Blackwell.

On 27th January 1738 [her future husband] John Thomas (age 26) became Rector of Bletchingley in Surrey, a living in the gift of [her grandfather] William Clayton of Hambledon in Buckinghamshire whose daughter Anne Clayton Lady Blackwell he would subsequently marry.

On 18th July 1741 [her husband] Charles Blackwell 2nd Baronet (age 41) died. His son [her son] Lambert (age 9) succeeded 3rd Baronet Blackwell of Sprowston Hall in Norfolk.

On 19th August 1742 John Thomas (age 30) and Anne Clayton Lady Blackwell were married at the Chapel Royal, Whitehall Palace. There was no issue. She the sister of his former pupil William Clayton 1st Baronet.

On 28th December 1744 [her father] William Clayton 1st Baronet died. His son [her brother] Kenrick (age 31) succeeded 2nd Baronet Clayton of Marden Park in Surrey.

On 7th July 1772 Anne Clayton Lady Blackwell died.

On 12th January 1775 [her former husband] John Thomas (age 63) and Elizabeth Baldwin were married at Westminster Abbey [Map]. There was no issue.

On 22nd August 1793 [her former husband] John Thomas (age 81) died. He has a memorial in the South Aisle of the Nave of Westminster Abbey. A grey and white marble with a bust and relief of the Holy Lamb, with a mitre and crozier behind. On either side are a chalice and paten and other emblems of the Eucharist made by John "The Elder" Bacon (age 52). The inscription reads .... Sacred to the memory of the Right Reverend John THOMAS, Doctor of Laws, Bishop of Rochester, Dean of this Collegiate Church, and of the most honourable Order of the Bath. Having passed a well spent boyhood at Carlisle School, he gathered the riper fruits of learning at Oxford, whence, by reason of his intellect, his character, his humane and profound scholarship, he emerged as an ornament to the legal profession. His fame thereafter growing and duly spreading abroad, he adorned his offices by his worthiness, increased his riches by his bounty, governed this church with his wisdom, protected it by his authority, and instructed it by his example. Unweared in his labours, indefatigable in his studies, his constant principle was edification: until, having virtuously fulfilled all life obligations, and for long sore pressed by a cruel disease, which was borne however with indomitable patience, he resigned his soul to God on 20th August 1793 in his 81st year. It fell to the lot of his relative, G.A.T., A.M. [Master of Arts] to offer this vain tribute, this token of sorrow, mean though it be.