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(XXVI)SIR GRIFFITH BOYNTON, 7th BART., eldest son of Sir Griffith, 6th Baronet, was born "and baptised July seventeenth, 1769." He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, proceeding to the degree of Master of Arts in 1789.[1] He married at Winchester, Ann Maria, daughter of Capt. Richard Parkhurst, 7th August, 1790 (this lady was married secondly to Rev. C. Drake Barnard). Sir Griffith died without issue at Burton Agnes, and was buried there 28th July, 1801.[2]


(XXVII)SIR FRANCIS BOYNTON, 8th BART., brother of Sir Griffith, 7th Baronet, and second son of Sir Griffith, 6th Baronet, baptised 28th March, 1777, at St. Marylebone.[3] He kept a famous breed of game cocks. He married Sarah Bucktrout, 10th June, 1815. This lady was a great hunter, and is one of the characters mentioned in the old local song "The Holderness Foxhounds."

Sir Francis died without issue 19th November, 1832.


(XXVIII)SIR HENRY BOYNTON, 9th BART., brother of Sir Francis, 8th Baronet, and third son of Sir Griffith, 6th Baronet, born 22nd March, 1778. He leased the shore and beach at Barmston from Sir T. A. Constable, Bart., in 1843, for a term of 14 years at a yearly rent of £3.[4] He married 1st January, 1810, Mary, daughter of Captain Gray, of Dover, and had issue—

  1. Henry (XXIX).
  2. Griffith (XXX).
  1. Grad. Cantab.
  2. Burton Agnes Par. Reg.
  3. Dugdale's Visitation of Yorks. (Clay).
  4. Papers at Burton Agnes.