Biography of Cecil Bisshopp 6th Baronet 1700-1778

Paternal Family Tree: Bisshop

On 30th October 1700 Cecil Bisshopp 6th Baronet was born to [his father] Cecil Bishopp 5th Baronet.

On 3rd June 1705 [his grandfather] Cecil Bishopp 4th Baronet (age 80) died. His son [his father] Cecil succeeded 5th Baronet Bishopp of Parham in Sussex.

On 25th October 1725 [his father] Cecil Bishopp 5th Baronet died. His son Cecil (age 24) succeeded 6th Baronet Bishopp of Parham in Sussex.

In 1726 Cecil Bisshopp 6th Baronet (age 25) and Anne Boscawen Lady Bishopp (age 22) were married. She by marriage Lady Bisshopp of Parham in Sussex.

In 1727 Cecil Bisshopp 6th Baronet (age 26) was elected MP Penryn.

Before 1728 [his daughter] Harriet Bishopp was born to Cecil Bisshopp 6th Baronet (age 27) and [his wife] Anne Boscawen Lady Bishopp (age 23). She married 1790 Nathaniel Dance-Holland.

In 1728 [his daughter] Anne Bishopp was born to Cecil Bisshopp 6th Baronet (age 27) and [his wife] Anne Boscawen Lady Bishopp (age 24). She married 27th January 1759 her half fourth cousin twice removed Robert Brudenell, son of George Brudenell 3rd Earl Cardigan and Elizabeth Bruce 3rd Countess Cardigan, and had issue.

In 1731 [his daughter] Charlotte Bishopp Baroness Maynard was born to Cecil Bisshopp 6th Baronet (age 30). She married 1751 William Maynard 4th Baronet, son of Henry Maynard 3rd Baronet and Catherine Gounter Lady Maynard, and had issue.

In 1739 [his wife] Anne Boscawen Lady Bishopp (age 35) died.

In 1741 [his daughter] Frances Bishopp was born to Cecil Bisshopp 6th Baronet (age 40).

In 30th November 1744 [his daughter] Catherine Bishopp Countess Liverpool was born to Cecil Bisshopp 6th Baronet (age 44). She married (1) 1767 Charles Cope 2nd Baronet and had issue (2) 22nd June 1782 Charles Jenkinson 1st Earl Liverpool and had issue.

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On 2nd October 1750 Cecil Bisshopp 6th Baronet (age 49) wrote to Thomas Pelham Holles 1st Duke Newcastle-under-Lyne (age 57): "The last time I had the honour to be with your Grace... you gave me leave to trouble you with a letter, in case an employment should become vacant... I then mentioned... superintendent of the royal brass foundries at Woolwich... Tis a sinecure, and the salary £500 a year, and no more.".

In 1751 [his son-in-law] William Maynard 4th Baronet (age 30) and [his daughter] Charlotte Bishopp Baroness Maynard (age 20) were married Baron Maynard of Wicklow. She by marriage Lady Maynard of Walthamstow in Essex.

Letters of Horace Walpole. 20th July 1752. Arlington Street. To George Montagu Esq (age 39).

You have threatened me with a messenger from the secretary's office to seize my papers; who would ever have taken you for a prophet? If Goody Compton (age 60)³²⁰, your colleague, had taken upon her to foretell, there was enough of the witch and prophetess in her person and mysteriousness to have made a superstitious person believe she might be a cousin of Nostradamus, and heiress of some of her visions; but how came you by second sight? Which of the Cues matched in the Highlands? In short, not to keep you in suspense, for I believe you are so far inspired as to be ignorant how your prophecy was to be accomplished, as we were sitting at dinner t'other day, word was brought that one of the King's messengers was at the door. Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold; Algernon Sidney danced before my eyes, and methought I heard my Lord Chief-Justice Lee, in a voice as dreadful as Jefferies', mumble out, Scribere est agere. How comfortable it was to find that Mr. Amyand, who was at table, had ordered this appanage of his dignity to attend him here for orders! However, I have buried the Memoires under the oak in my garden, where they are to be found a thousand years hence, and taken perhaps for a Runic history in rhyme. I have part of another valuable MS. to dispose of, which I shall beg leave to commit to your care, and desire it may be concealed behind the wainscot in Mr. Bentley's Gothic house, whenever you build it. As the great person is living to whom it belonged, it would be highly dangerous to make it public; as soon as she is in disgrace, I don't know whether it Will not be a good way of making court to her successor, to communicate it to the world, as I propose doing, under the following title: "The Treasury of Art and Nature, or a Collection of inestimable Receipts, stolen out of the Cabinet of Madame de Pompadour (age 30), and now first published for the use of his fair Countrywomen, by a true born Englishman and philomystic." * * * * * * * * * * * * *

So the pretty [his daughter] Miss Bishop (age 24)³²¹, instead of being my niece, is to be Mrs. [his future son-in-law] Bob Brudenel (age 25). What foolish birds are turtles when they have scarce a hole to roost in! Adieu!

Note 320. The Hon. George Compton son of Lord Northampton, Mr. Montagu's colleague for Northampton.-E.

Note 321. Daughter of Sir Cecil Bishop (age 51).

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In 1755 Cecil Bisshopp 6th Baronet (age 54) was elected MP Boroughbridge which seat he held until 1768.

On 27th January 1759 [his son-in-law] Robert Brudenell (age 32) and [his daughter] Anne Bishopp (age 31) were married. He the son of George Brudenell 3rd Earl Cardigan and Elizabeth Bruce 3rd Countess Cardigan. They were half fourth cousin twice removed.

In June 1760 Horace Walpole 4th Earl Orford (age 42) commented on Cecil Bisshop's (age 59) "endless hoard of beautiful daughters".

On 7th June 1760 at a ball Horace Walpole (age 42) wrote to the Earl of Strafford (age 38)... that there appeared a [his daughter] new Miss Bishop (age 19) from Sir Cecil's (age 59) endless hoard of beautiful daughters, who is still prettier than her sisters.

In 1767 [his son-in-law] Charles Cope 2nd Baronet (age 24) and [his daughter] Catherine Bishopp Countess Liverpool (age 22) were married at her house in Hertford Street. She by marriage Lady Cope of Bruern in Oxfordshire.

Before 15th June 1778 Cecil Bisshopp 6th Baronet (age 77) owned a house at 11 Berkeley Square, Mayfair which was subsequently bought from his heirs by Horace Walpole 4th Earl Orford (age 60) in 1779.

On 15th June 1778 Cecil Bisshopp 6th Baronet (age 77) died. His son Cecil succeeded 7th Baronet Bishopp of Parham in Sussex.

[his son] Cecil Bishopp 7th Baronet was born to Cecil Bisshopp 6th Baronet and Anne Boscawen Lady Bishopp.

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[his son] Edward Bishopp was born to Cecil Bisshopp 6th Baronet and Anne Boscawen Lady Bishopp. He married before 5th July 1791 Jane Atkinson and had issue.

Ancestors of Cecil Bisshopp 6th Baronet 1700-1778

Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Bishopp of Henfield in Surrey

Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Bishopp 1st Baronet

Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward Belknapp of Blackfriars in London

Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Belknap

Great x 1 Grandfather: Edward Bishopp 2nd Baronet 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Weston

Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard Weston 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Dorothy Arundell 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Jane Weston 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Dister of Bergholt in Essex

Great x 3 Grandmother: Jane Dister

GrandFather: Cecil Bishopp 4th Baronet 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: John Tufton 1st Baronet

Great x 2 Grandfather: Nicholas Tufton 1st Earl of Thanet 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Humphrey Browne 9 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Christian Browne 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Hussey 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 1 Grandmother: Mary Tufton 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: William Cecil 1st Baron Burghley

Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Cecil 1st Earl Exeter

Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary Cheke

Great x 2 Grandmother: Frances Cecil Countess Isle Thanet 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Neville 4th Baron Latimer of Snape 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Dorothy Neville Countess Exeter 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Lucy Somerset Baroness Latimer Snape 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Father: Cecil Bishopp 5th Baronet 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Cecil Bishopp 6th Baronet 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Biography of Cecil Bisshopp 6th Baronet 1700-1778

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Ancestors of Cecil Bisshopp 6th Baronet 1700-1778