was the elder great-grandson of Jacques Majendie and Charlotte de Saint-Leger, the younger being Lewis Majendie, afterwards of Hedingham Castle.
(3.) Page 273. James Saurin, Bishop of Dromore (born 1759, died 1842), was the great-grandson of Louis Saurin (brother of the pulpit orator), Dean of St Patrick’s, Ardagh, and Henriette Cornel de la Bretonnière.
(4.) Page 274. Daniel Letablere, Dean of Tuam (died 1775), was the son of a military refugee, Réné de la Donespe de Lestablere. In connection with him I mentioned Isaac Gervais, Dean of Tuam, and Theophilus Brocas, D.D., Dean of Killala.
Notes.
Mr Smiles gives several details concerning Dean Letablère’s ancestor. It seems that the manor of Lestablère was “in the parishes of Saint-Germain and Mouchamps, near Fontenai, in Lower Poitou;” that the refugee fled to Holland, and came to England with the Prince of Orange; that he died in Dublin in 1729, aged sixty-six. His relatives, who got possession of his French estates, behaved to him with humanity and affection, remitting to him at various times sums of money, total 5570 livres; and they gave him a present of 4000 livres in 1723, when he was on a visit to them. His heiress was his last surviving child, wife of Edward Litton, Esq., 37th foot (born 1754, died 1808), to whom she was married in 1783. [One of her sons held a good position as a lawyer and politician, namely, the Right Hon. Edward Litton, M.A., Q.C., M.P., and a Master in Chancery in Ireland (born 1787, died 1870), father of the Rev. Edward Arthur Litton, M.A. (who won double-first class honours at Oxford in 1835, and was Bampton Lecturer in 1856); also of John Letablere Litton, Barrister-at-Law; also of Mary Letablere Litton, wife of William Carus Wilson, Esq. The Rev. E. A. Litton married Anne Carus Wilson.]
With regard to Dean Brocas, I have also to refer to Smiles. The Dean died in Dublin in 1766; he must therefore have been brought to this country as a child, and been educated in Ireland. His only son and heir, John Brocas, D.D., became Dean of Killala in 1766, and survived till 1806. With the only son of the latter Dean, the Rev. Theophilus Brocas, Rector of Strabane, the male representation ceased. But through Dean John’s daughter, Georgina, married in 1804 to Captain Robert Lindesay, the present representative of the family is Walter Lindesay, Esq. of Glenview, county Wicklow, J.P.
(4.) Page 274. Gabriel James Maturin, Dean of St Patrick’s, Dublin (born 1700, died 1746), was the son of Peter Maturin, Dean of Killala, and grandson of Pasteur Gabriel Maturin, a refugee.
(5.) Page 275. George Lewis Fleury, Archdeacon of Waterford (died about 1825), was a great-grandson of a refugee pasteur. See the Naturalisations, List xiii.
(6.) Page 275. Daniel Cornelius de Beaufort, Archdeacon of Tuam (born 1700, died 1788), was of French refugee ancestry. [His grandson was the celebrated admiral and hydrographer. Sir Francis Beaufort. See chapter xxvi.]
(7.) Page 276. John Jortin, D.D., Archdeacon of London (born 1698, died 1770), was the son of Réné Jortin, a refugee gentleman of Brittany, by Martha, daughter of Rev. Daniel Rogers.
Notes.
The Rev. Vicesimus Knock, or Knox, was Dr Jortin’s curate, whose son, Vicesimus Knox, was the author of two volumes of “Essays.” Essay No. 215, entitled “Cursory Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr Jortin,” is highly eulogistic of the archdeacon as a man, a scholar, and an author. “Since the above remarks were written (says the essayist), I have been informed that several of the sermons of Dr Jortin are translations from the French. He certainly was a great reader of French divinity, and confessedly borrowed from it freely I must confess that it is possible I may have gone into the style of panegyric, from having known him personally, and beheld him, when a boy, with reverence.”
