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Paternal Family Tree: Bennett
On 7th October 1771 [his father] Charles Bennet 4th Earl Tankerville (age 27) and [his mother] Emma Colebrooke Countess Tankerville (age 19) were married at Gatton, Surrey. She by marriage Countess Tankerville. He the son of [his grandfather] Charles Bennet 3rd Earl Tankerville and [his grandmother] Alice Astley Countess Tankerville (age 54).
On 28th April 1776 Charles Augustus Bennet 5th Earl Tankerville was born to Charles Bennet 4th Earl Tankerville (age 32) and Emma Colebrooke Countess Tankerville (age 24).
In 1803 Charles Augustus Bennet 5th Earl Tankerville (age 26) was elected MP Steyning.
In 1806 Charles Augustus Bennet 5th Earl Tankerville (age 29) was elected MP Knaresborough.
On 28th July 1806 Charles Augustus Bennet 5th Earl Tankerville (age 30) and Corisande Armandine Sophie Léonie Hélène Gramont Countess Tankerville (age 23) were married at Devonshire House. She the daughter of Antoine 8th Duke Gramont (age 50) and Aglae de Polignac "Guichette" Duchess Gramont. He the son of Charles Bennet 4th Earl Tankerville (age 62) and Emma Colebrooke Countess Tankerville (age 54).
On 10th August 1807 [his daughter] Corisande Emma Bennet Countess Malmesbury was born to Charles Augustus Bennet 5th Earl Tankerville (age 31) and [his wife] Corisande Armandine Sophie Léonie Hélène Gramont Countess Tankerville (age 24).
On 10th January 1810 [his son] Charles Bennet 6th Earl Tankerville was born to Charles Augustus Bennet 5th Earl Tankerville (age 33) and [his wife] Corisande Armandine Sophie Léonie Hélène Gramont Countess Tankerville (age 27) at Charles Street, Berkeley Square.
Letters of Harriet, Countess Granville. To the Marquis of Hartington (age 19). London. April 12, 1810.
Dearest Hartington, — You must think me a brute for having been so long without writing to you, but I have been for some time the idlest of human beings. We keep terrible late hours, and I do nothing from morning till night but think what an angel my husband is, which is more pleasant than profitable. Your absence furnishes me with conversation wherever I go. I really cannot explain your leaving London just now, your thinking Bath the best place for mathematics or Doctor Randolph's attractions. Poor worn-out Lady Warwick rien peut plus with it, but with a tremulous voice, like cowards just before they dip into the sea, follows me about — 'Where is he gone, my dear Lady Harriet, what can he be gone about?' There are shoals of Miss Mildmays, and the good-natured Dowager quite like a hen. Sir Henry and his wife go about in attitudes, but they match so well and look so handsome that one forgives them for it.
You will have seen in the papers all that has been going on about Sir Francis Burdett (age 40). London is quiet and dull again. The mob entirely dispersed and nothing but soldiers to be seen. These riots have been very animating to different people in different ways. Lord Carlisle (age 61)1 - got well pelted with mud and dirt. Think of the nose of nice nobility. Little 02. was obliged to explain his politics to the mob, who were going to swallow him, I believe. He is so factious that if he was not so small and inarticulate he might some day or other get into mischief. As it is he is never heard and scarcely seen. So passe, passe, petit bonhomme, very harmless and very ridiculous.
We all go to Court the day after to-morrow. Lady Stafford (age 44)3 presents me, Lady Liverpool (age 43) the Duchess (age 52)4.
Note 1. He married Lady Caroline Leveson Gower, a daughter of the first Marquis of Stafford and half-sister to Lord Granville (age 36). He was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1780 to 1782. He wrote indifferent poetry, and was sneered at in English Bards amd Scotch Beviewers by his relative and ward, Lord Byron (age 22).
Note 2. Lord Ossulston (age 33), who succeeded his father, [his father] Lord Tankerville (age 66), in 1822,. He married in 1806 Mlle. [his wife] Corisande de Gramont (age 27), of whom there is frequent mention in these letters.
Note 3. Countess of Sutherland, married in 1785 to the second Marquis of Stafford (age 52), half-brother to Lord Granville. He was Ambassador in Paris from 1790 to 1792. She did what she could for Marie Antoinette when in prison.
Note 4. Elizabeth.Duchess of Devonshire.
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In 1820 Charles Augustus Bennet 5th Earl Tankerville (age 43) was elected MP Berwick on Tweed.
On 10th December 1822 [his father] Charles Bennet 4th Earl Tankerville (age 79) died. His son Charles (age 46) succeeded 5th Earl Tankerville, 6th Baron Ossulston of Ossulston in Middlesex. [his wife] Corisande Armandine Sophie Léonie Hélène Gramont Countess Tankerville (age 40) by marriage Countess Tankerville.
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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 13th May 1830 [his son-in-law] James Harris 3rd Earl Malmesbury (age 23) and [his daughter] Corisande Emma Bennet Countess Malmesbury (age 22) were married. She by marriage Countess Malmesbury. She the daughter of Charles Augustus Bennet 5th Earl Tankerville (age 54) and [his wife] Corisande Armandine Sophie Léonie Hélène Gramont Countess Tankerville (age 47). He the son of James Edward Harris 2nd Earl Malmesbury (age 51) and Harriet Susan Dashwood.
In 1836 [his mother] Emma Colebrooke Countess Tankerville (age 84) died.
On 28th August 1836 [his father-in-law] Antoine 8th Duke Gramont (age 81) died. His son [his brother-in-law] Antoine (age 47) succeeded 9th Duke Gramont.
On 29th January 1850 [his son] Charles Bennet 6th Earl Tankerville (age 40) and [his daughter-in-law] Olivia Montagu Countess Tankerville (age 19) were married at Kimbolton Castle [Map]. The difference in their ages was 20 years. She the daughter of George Montagu 6th Duke Manchester (age 50) and Millicent Sparrow Duchess Manchester. He the son of Charles Augustus Bennet 5th Earl Tankerville (age 73) and [his wife] Corisande Armandine Sophie Léonie Hélène Gramont Countess Tankerville (age 67).
On 4th March 1855 [his brother-in-law] Antoine Héraclius Agénor 9th Duc de Gramont (age 65) died. His son Agénor (age 35) succeeded 10th Duke Gramont.
On 25th June 1859 Charles Augustus Bennet 5th Earl Tankerville (age 83) died. His son [his son] Charles (age 49) succeeded 6th Earl Tankerville, 7th Baron Ossulston of Ossulston in Middlesex. [his daughter-in-law] Olivia Montagu Countess Tankerville (age 28) by marriage Countess Tankerville.
On 23rd January 1865 [his former wife] Corisande Armandine Sophie Léonie Hélène Gramont Countess Tankerville (age 82) died.
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Great x 4 Grandfather: John Bennet
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Bennet 1st Baron Ossulston 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Dorothy Crofts 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Charles Bennet 1st Earl Tankerville 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Grobham Howe
Great x 3 Grandmother: Bridget Howe Baroness Ossulston 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Annabella Scrope 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Charles Bennet 2nd Earl Tankerville 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Ralph Grey 2nd Baron Grey Werke 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Ford Grey 1st Earl Tankerville 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Catherine Anna Ford
Great x 2 Grandmother: Mary Grey Baroness Ossulston 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: George Berkeley 1st Earl Berkeley 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Mary Berkeley Countess Tankerville 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Massingberd Couness Berkeley
GrandFather: Charles Bennet 3rd Earl Tankerville 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Edward Colville
Great x 1 Grandmother: Camilla Colville Countess Tankerville
Father: Charles Bennet 4th Earl Tankerville 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Astley 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Walter Astley 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Richard Astley 1st Baronet 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Francis Trentham of Rocester Priory in Staffordshire
Great x 3 Grandmother: Grace Trentham
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Astley 2nd Baronet 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
GrandMother: Alice Astley Countess Tankerville 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Charles Augustus Bennet 5th Earl Tankerville 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: James Colebrooke
GrandFather: James Colebrooke 1st Baronet