William Ashe A’Court, Esq., son of Sir William Pierce Ashe A’Court, Bart, who succeeded to the baronetcy in 1817, and in 1828 was created Baron Heytesbury; she was the mother of the present Baron, and died, 6th October 1844. Her mother, Lady Bridget Bouverie, had died on 26th February 1842.
Under Miss Bouverie of Teston’s will, the family of Bouverie of Sutton-Vallence, in Kent, was founded in 1798, in the person of Hon. Bartholomew Bouverie, M.P. for Downton, next younger brother of the Bouverie just memorialized. He was born, 29th October 1753, and married, 9th March 1779, Mary Wyndham, second daughter of Hon. James Everard Arundel. He was one of the Commissioners for Auditing the Public Accounts. His wife died in 1832, and the same year his eldest son, Henry James Bouverie, Commissioner of Customs, died, unmarried, aged fifty-one. His other sons shall be noticed among the clergy. He died 31st May 1835. His daughter, Harriet, was the mother of the late Lord Dalmeny, M.P. (who died in 1851), and of Hon. Bouverie Francis Primrose, C.B., Secretary of the Boards of British White Herring Fishery and Scottish Manufactures, and grandmother of the present Earl of Rosebery.
Pusey of Pusey (in Berkshire). The Pusey estate has been held since the Saxon times by the tenure of a horn, still preserved at Pusey. This tenure is known as Cornage, or the service of a horn, and the estate was granted by Canute, according to Camden and Fuller (quoted by Burke). The direct line failed in 17 10 by the death of Charles Pusey of Pusey, Esq. That gentleman’s sister was Mrs Allen; to her son, John Allen, the ancient estate came in the said year 1710, and he assumed the additional name of Pusey. Jane, daughter of Sir William Des Bouverie, first baronet, was the wife of this John Allen Pusey of Pusey, in the county of Berke, Esq. — which Mrs Pusey died on 10th January 1742, and was buried at Pusey, leaving no children. Her brother, Sir Jacob Bouverie, Bart., on 21st April 1741, had married a second wife, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Sir Robert Marsham, Bart, first Baron Romney, by Elizabeth, eldest daughter and co-heir of Admiral Sir Cloudesly Shovell; the one surviving son of this marriage was Philip, born in 1746 (Oct. 8), who, on his father’s elevation to the peerage in 1747, became the Hon. Philip Bouverie. The date of Mr Allen Pusey’s death I cannot find, indeed dates are here very scarce, but he died a widower, and at least two sisters succeeded him. His sister, Elizabeth, was the wife of Mr William Brotherton, and was, as well as her husband, deceased before 1st March 1760, on which day Miss Jane Allen was sworn to administer, as her brother’s only surviving next-of-kin. She probably inherited the estate and name of Pusey in 1760, the ultimate heir having been already, by some bequest or settlement, declared to be the last Mr Allen Pusey’s wife’s nephew — namely, her youngest nephew, the Hon. Philip Bouverie. He, after the death of the last Miss Allen Pusey, entered into possession, dropped the name of Bouverie, and adopted that of Pusey only. Here I have no date, but we may get an approximation by quoting a clause of the will of good Miss Bouverie of Teston, dated 12th October 1785:—
“And I do also give and devise unto the Honorable Philip Pusey of Pusey, in the county of Berks, all that the manor and lordship (or reputed manor and lordship) of Langley, in the said county of Kent, . . . also the perpetual advowson right of patronage and presentation to the parish church of Langley.” [Then follows a long description of the woods and farms, with the tenants’ names.]
It thus appears that the Hon. Philip Pusey had this surname and estate in the year 1786. And probably that is the exact year of his succession, because I find in Nichols’ Literary Anecdotes a letter from Mr Daniel Prince, dated September 17, 1789, in which the writer says, “My wife and I were last week at Mr Pusey’s house at Pusey, that ancient Danish-hold estate. Mr Pusey, whose name was Bouverie, is making great improvements in that new-acquired estate, in well preserving, and adding, by modern sculpture and painting, to the memory of that ancient grant.” On 20th August 1798, Mr Pusey married Lady Lucy Cave (née Sherard), widow of Sir Thomas Cave, Bart., and daughter of Robert, fourth Earl of Harborough. Mr Pusey died 14th April 1828; Lady Lucy Pusey survived until 27th March 1828. They had three sons. The eldest, Philip Pusey, Esq., M.P. successively for Chippenham, Cashel, and Berkshire, was an influential and popular country gentleman, President of the Royal Agricultural Society of England in 1854, and editor of the journal of that Society. He was born in 1799, married in 1822 Lady Emily Frances Theresa Herbert (who died 16th November 1854), daughter of the second Earl of Carnarvon, and dying on 6th July 1855, was succeeded by his only son, the present head of the family, Sydney Edward Bouverie Pusey, Esq. of Pusey, born 15th September 1839, author of “Permanence and Evolution, an inquiry into the supposed
