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Paternal Family Tree: Colebrooke
On 14th June 1729 George Colebrooke 2nd Baronet was born to James Colebrooke (age 49) at Chilham, Kent [Map].
On 18th November 1752 [his father] James Colebrooke (age 72) died.
In 1754 George Colebrooke 2nd Baronet (age 24) and Mary Gaynor were married. She bought significant wealth to the marriage being the heiress of her father Peter aka Patrick Gaynor who had considerable slave-holdings.
In 1754 George Colebrooke 2nd Baronet (age 24) was elected MP Arundel which seat he controlled. He held the seat until 1774.
On 12th October 1759 [his brother] James Colebrooke 1st Baronet (age 37) was created 1st Baronet Colebrooke of Gatton in Surrey with a special remainder to his brother George (age 30) since James only had daughters.
In 1761 [his son] James Edward Colebrooke 3rd Baronet was born to George Colebrooke 2nd Baronet (age 31) and [his wife] Mary Gaynor.
On 10th May 1761 [his brother] James Colebrooke 1st Baronet (age 38) died. His brother George (age 31) succeeded 2nd Baronet Colebrooke of Gatton in Surrey. George was left in sole charge of the family bank in Threadneedle Street. He invested some of his wealth in buying control of the borough of Arundel where the family lived. Arundel was not a classic pocket borough, where the power to return MPs was literally tied to property rights that could be freely bought and sold, but a thoroughly corrupt one where bribery was routine and where maintaining influence of the elections required constant expenditure.
Around 1764 George Colebrooke 2nd Baronet (age 34) purchased plantations in Antigua (where his wife already had interests), Grenada and Dominica and was a slave-owner.
All About History Books
The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
On 15th June 1765 [his son] Henry Thomas Colebrooke was born to George Colebrooke 2nd Baronet (age 36) and [his wife] Mary Gaynor.
In 1767 George Colebrooke 2nd Baronet (age 37) was appointed Director of the East India Company.
In 1777 George Colebrooke 2nd Baronet (age 47) moved to Boulogne sur Mer [Map] where he relied on an East India Company pension.
On 21st January 1777 the bank owned by George Colebrooke 2nd Baronet (age 47) was declaredd bankrupt with losses including £190,000 in speculation on hemp.
In 1789 George Colebrooke 2nd Baronet (age 59), during the French Revolution, returned to England and managed eventually to pay his creditors in full so that some inheritance was left for his descendants.
On 5th August 1809 George Colebrooke 2nd Baronet (age 80) died. His son [his son] James (age 48) succeeded 3rd Baronet Colebrooke of Gatton in Surrey.