Sir Henry Oxenden, 7th Baronet
Sir Henry Oxenden, Bt | |
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_-_Sir_Henry_Oxenden_(b.1756)_-_CANCM-11418_-_Canterbury_Museums_and_Galleries.jpg) Portrait of Sir Henry, by James Godsell Middleton | |
| Born | 14 May 1756 |
| Died | 22 September 1838 (aged 82) |
| Spouse |
Mary Graham
(m. 1793; died 1814) |
| Children | 11, including Ashton |
| Parent(s) | Sir Henry Oxenden, 6th Baronet Margaret Chudleigh |
| Relatives | Sir Percy Dixwell-Oxenden, 10th Baronet (grandson) Philip Oxenden Papillon (grandson) |
Sir Henry Oxenden, 7th Baronet (14 May 1756 – 22 September 1838) was an English landowner and baronet.
Early life
Oxenden was born on 14 May 1756. He was the son of Sir Henry Oxenden, 6th Baronet and Margaret Chudleigh.[1]
His paternal grandparents were Sir George Oxenden, 5th Baronet, MP for Sandwich, and the former Elizabeth Dunch (the daughter of Edmund Dunch, the Master of the Royal Household to Queen Anne). His grandmother's sister, Harriet Dunch, married the 3rd Duke of Manchester. His mother was the younger daughter and co-heiress of Sir George Chudleigh, 4th Baronet of Haldon House near Exeter, and Frances Davie (a daughter of Sir William Davie, 4th Baronet).[2]
Career
Upon the death of his father, he became the 7th Baronet Oxenden and inherited the family seat, Broome Park in Kent.[3]
He served fifty years as a Commissioner of Dover Harbour.[3]
Personal life
On 30 June 1793 at Salisbury, Wiltshire, he was married to Mary Graham (d. 1814), the daughter of Col. John Graham, of St. Lawrence House, near Canterbury; former Lieutenant governor of Georgia. Together, they were the parents of eleven children, six sons and five daughters, including:[3]
- Mary Graham Oxenden (1794–1870), who married William Osmond Hammond, a son of William Hammond and Elizabeth (née Beauvoir) Hammond, in 1815.[4]
- Sir Henry Chudleigh Oxenden, 8th Baronet (1795–1889), who married Charlotte Brown, a daughter of Capt. Brown of the Royal Navy, in 1830. After her death in 1843, he married Elizabeth Phoebe King, a daughter of James King of Brighton, at St George's, Hanover Square in 1848.[3]
- George Chichester Oxenden (1798–1875), who died unmarried.[3]
- Montagu Oxenden (1799–1880), the Rector of Eastwell and Luddenham; he married Elizabeth Wilson, daughter of Robert Wilson, in 1824. After her death in 1862, he married Elizabeth, widow of James Marjoribanks of Sandgate, in 1869.[3]
- Charles Oxenden (1800–1874), the Rector of Barham, Kent and honorary canon of Canterbury Cathedral; he married Catherine Elizabeth Holcombe, daughter of the Rev. George Holcombe, D.D. prebendary of Westminster.[3]
- Frances Margaret Oxenden (1804–1885), who married Thomas Papillon of Crowhurst Park, son of Thomas Papillon and Anne Cressett-Pelham, in 1825.[3]
- Ashton Oxenden (1808–1892), the Bishop of Montreal; he married Sarah Bradshaw, a daughter of London banker Joseph Hoare Bradshaw, in 1864.[5]
- William Dixwell Oxenden (1813–1859), who married Anna Maria Edwards, the only daughter of William Edwards, in 1847.[3]
Lady Oxenden died in 1814. Sir Henry died on 22 September 1838 at Broome Park, Kent.[6]
Descendants
Through his younger son Montagu, he was a grandfather of Agnes Graham Oxenden, who married Rev. William Robert Finch-Hatton (a son of the Rev. Daniel Heneage Finch-Hatton), Sir Henry Montagu Oxenden, 9th Baronet (1826–1895), who died unmarried, and Sir Percy Dixwell Nowell Dixwell-Oxenden, 10th Baronet (1833–1924), upon whose death the baronetcy became extinct. Sir Percy sold the Broome Park estate to Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener in 1911.[7][8]
Through his daughter Frances, he was a grandafther of Philip Oxenden Papillon (1826–1899), an MP for Colchester who married Emily Caroline Garnier, third daughter of Thomas Garnier, in 1862.[9][10]
References
- ^ Ashworth P. Burke, editor, Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 75th edition (London: Harrison and Sons Ltd, 1913), p. 1502.
- ^ Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh. Burke's Irish Family Records. London: Burkes Peerage Ltd, 1976, p. 377.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Lodge, Edmund (1907). The Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage & Companionage of the British Empire for 1907. Kelly's Directories. p. 1385. Retrieved 1 August 2025.
- ^ Chapman, John Henry (1886). The Register Book of Marriages Belonging to the Parish of St George, Hanover Square, in the County of Middlesex. Mitchell and Hughes. p. 381. Retrieved 1 August 2025.
- ^ "OXENDEN, ASHTON". www.biographi.ca. Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Retrieved 1 August 2025.
- ^ Burke, John; Burke, John Bernard (1858). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. H. Colburn. p. 772. Retrieved 1 August 2025.
- ^ Groser, Horace George (1916). Lord Kitchener: The Story of His Life. C. A. Pearson, Limited. p. 191. Retrieved 1 August 2025.
- ^ Manners, Lady Victoria (1914). "The Oxenden Collection Part I." The Connoisseur. Hearst Corporation: 3–12. Retrieved 1 August 2025.
- ^ Kelly's Handbook to the Upper Ten Thousand for ...: Containing about Twenty Thousand Names of the Titled, Landed and Official Classes. Kelly and Company. 1878. p. 451.
- ^ Craig, F. W. S., ed. (1977). British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (e-book) (1st ed.). London: Macmillan Press. ISBN 978-1-349-02349-3.