(2.) The name of Labouchère., being of French Protestant descent, and connected with the directorate of the French Hospital, may be mentioned here, though, according to the following abridgement of Haag’s account of it, none of its members were refugees. On 12th January 1621, Jean Guyon Barrier, Sieur de Labouchère, married Catherine de la Broue; he was succeeded by his son Francois, who married Marie de Naymet on 12th March 1688 (daughter of Naymet and Saint Leger). The son of the latter was Pierre de Labouchère, merchant of Orthez; he married, 10th April 1708, Sara, daughter of Jacques de Peyrollet de la Bastide; one of Pierre’s daughters was kidnapped in infancy, received the spiritual name of Sister Scholastica, and became the lady superior of a convent; one of his sons, Matthieu de La Bouchtère (born 1st September 1721), was sent in his boyhood to England to be educated by Pastor Majendie, who appears to have been a relative. Matthieu settled at the Hague, where he died in 1796; he was twice married, both wives having been of French refugee families, the first a De Courcelles, the second Marie Madeleine Moliere. One of the sons of the second marriage was Pierre César Labouchère (born 1772); in 1790 he was at Nantes, the accredited correspondent of the house of Hope at Amsterdam; he became a partner of the house in 1794 along with Alexander Baring, whose sister, Dorothy, he married in 1796. In 1800 he represented his house in England; in which country he settled in 1821, on his retirement from business. He died in 1839. His elder son, Right Honourable Henry Labouchère (born 1798), for many years a Cabinet Minister, was raised to the peerage on i8th August 1859, as Lord Taunton, and died in 1869, leaving three daughters. The younger son, John Labouchere, Esq. of Broome Hall, Surrey (born 1799, died 1863), is represented by two sons and four daughters.
(3.) The family of Prevost was represented among Huguenot refugees in Geneva at the period of the Revocation Edict. There Augustine Prevost was born about 1695, married Louise, daughter of Gideon Martine, first Syndic of Geneva, and dying in January 1740, was buried at Besinge. His son, Augustine, removed to England, and entering our army rose to the rank of Major-General.
Major-General Prevost
(died 1786) = Anne, daughter of Chevalier George Grand,
of Amsterdam.
Sir George Prevost, Bart.
Admiral James Prevost.
Major-General William Augustus Prevost, C.B.
Venerable
Sir George Prevost, Bart.,
Arch-Deacon of Gloucester,
born 1804.
Rear-Admiral James Prevost,
and other issue,
As to the first baronet I insert the following paragraphs:—
Whitehall, Sept. 3, 1816. — His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, taking into his royal consideration the distinguished conduct and services of the late Lieutenant-General Sir George Prevost, Bart., during a long period of constant active employment in situations of great trust, both military and civil, in the course of which his gallantry, zeal, and able conduct were particularly displayed at the conquest of the island of St Lucie, in 1803, and of the island of Martinique in 1809; as also in successfully opposing, with a small garrison, the attack made in 1805, by a numerous French force, upon the island of Dominica, then under his government; and while Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief of the British Provinces in North America in the defence of Canada against the repeated invasions perseveringly attempted by the American forces during the late war; and His Royal Highness being desirous of evincing in an especird manner the sense which His Royal Highness entertains of these services, by conferring upon his family a lasting memorial of His Majesty’s royal favour, hath been pleased, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, to ordain that the supporters following may be borne and used by Dame Catharine Anne Prevost, widow of the said late Lieutenant-General Sir George Prevost, during her widowhood, viz., “On either side a grenadier of the 76th (or
