Bedfordshire) regiment of foot, each supporting a banner, that on the dexter side inscribed West Indies, and that on the sinister, Canada,” and that the said supporters, together with the motto ‘Servatum Cineri,’ may also be borne by Sir George Prevost, Bart., son and heir of the said late Lieutenant-General, and by his successors in the said dignity of a Baronet, provided the same be first duly exemplified according to the laws of arms, and recorded in the Herald’s Office. And his Royal Highness hath been also pleased to command that the said concession and especial mark of the royal favour be registered in his Majesty’s College of Arms.”
“Sir George Prevost was the eldest son of Major-General Augustine Prevost, who served under General Wolfe, and was severely wounded on the plains of Abraham, and who afterwards so eminently distinguished himself in the first American war, by his defence of Savannah. The surviving brothers of Sir George are both in his Majesty’s service, the eldest a post-captain in the Royal Navy, and the other a colonel in the army. Sir George Prevost married in the year 1789, Catharine, daughter of Major-General Phipps, who survives him, together with a son, a minor, who succeeds to the title, and two daughters.” — Gentleman’s Magazine, Feb. 1816.
(4.) The family of Du Boulay were refugees who adopted Holland as their home. Their arms, as they appear on a three-sided silver seal, one of the few relics preserved in their flight, are “argent, a fess wavy gules,” surmounted by a helmet, full faced, with open vizor of five bars, and a plume of three feathers. The tradition is so established in the family of its descent from a French nobleman with a marquis’ title now extinct, that it is probably founded on fact.
Benjamin François Houssemayne du Boulay, after studying theology in Holland, was elected in 1751 to the fifth place among the ministers of the French Church in Threadneedle Street. M. Du Boulay insisted on receiving ordination at the hands of Thomas Sherlock, Bishop of London. He married in 1756 Louise, daughter of Jean Lagier Lamotte, and his wife, Louise Dalbiac. A niece of Mrs Du Boulay, grand-daughter of Jean Lagier Lamotte, married, in 1795, Charles Abbott, first Lord Tenterden. The pasteur died, and was buried at Southampton in 1765. A sermon preached by M. Durand, on the occasion of installing his successor, says of him — “Il avait cette eloquence vive qui va au coeur, parcequ’elle en vient,” and again, “la seule façon de nous le faire oublier sera de nous en faire souvenir sans cesse.”
He left one son and four daughters, of whom three died unmarried, the fourth was married to James Cazenove, Esq., the English representative of a Huguenot branch of the noble family of De Cazenove de Pradines, still existing at Marmaude, in Guienne, and was mother of a large family, one of whom, Mr Philip Cazenove, is widely known for the large-hearted and substantial liberality with which he supports every good and charitable undertaking. The only son, François Jacques Houssemayne Du Boulay, married Elizabeth, daughter of John Paris, Esq.; he lived at Walthamstow, and became wealthy by business during the war with France. His name stood for some years first on the list at the Bank of England as holder of the largest amount at that time of government stock. He died in 1828, leaving eight children, all of whom married and have had families. The three daughters were married to Isaac Solly, Esq., and the Rev. Messieurs John and William Blennerhassett. The eldest son, the Rev. James Thomas Houssemayne Du Boulay, rector of Heddington, Wilts, is now represented by his son, Francis Houssemayne Du Boulay, also rector (and patron) of the same living; and the youngest son, John, who married Mary Farr, daughter of the Rev. Harry Farr Yeatman of Stock House, Dorsetshire, became in 1851 the owner of Donhead Hall, Wiltshire, once the residence of Sir Godfrey Kneller.
This family is at present largely represented in the Church, and is established in several of the southern counties. It exemplifies the manner in which the French colony clung together, though perhaps it is only a coincidence, that by the marriage of the widow of the Rev J. T. H. Du Boulay of Heddington, with the Rev. G. J. Majendie, son of the Bishop of Bangor, the Rev. Henry William Majendie, at present the representative of the Majendies, is half brother to the present head of the Du Boulays.
