Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 26 - Baron de Teissier
Baron de Teissier. — The family of De Teissier is of noble descent, and has been characterised as Famillie noble, qui a traversé les siècles en se roidissant contre ses malheurs. Its cradle was Nice, but in the seventeenth century it was established at Anduze in Languedoc, where its chief became Le Baron de Marguerittes; his eldest son, Pierre (born 1644), founded the Roman Catholic family, and the younger, Jacques, founded the Huguenot family of De Teissier. Etienne de Teissier, son of the latter, took refuge in Switzerland. James and Stephen de Teissier, who came to England in 1712, were that refugee’s sons, and the English family springs from James and from the heir of James, namely, Louis de Teissier, Esq., of Woodcote Park, near Epsom (born 1735, died 1811), a merchant prince of the city of London. This Mr. De Teissier showed munificent hospitality and manifold beneficence to the fugitives from France in 1789. It is to specify but a portion of his generosity if we mention his supporting six Roman Catholic refugee priests for ten years, and promoting the resolves of the Prince de Broglie and the Baron D’Estrées to earn their livelihood by honourable toil. His son, James De Teissier (born 1794, died 1868), was invited back to France by Louis XVIII., to resume his position among the Noblesse of the kingdom. This invitation he begged leave to decline. The French king accordingly, in 1819, created him Baron De Teissier by patent to himself and his heirs male, without requiring him to renounce his English citizenship. The Prince Regent of Great Britain gave formal sanction to this creation. The second Baron De Teissier (James Fitzherbert De Teissier) was the eldest son and heir of the first baron; he was a Lieutenant-Colonel in our army, and. died at Brighton on 17th August 1884; he was succeeded by his next brother, Philippe Antoine, third baron. Other brothers are General Henry Price De Teissier of the Artillery, and Rev. George Frederick De Teissier, B.D., late Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Rector of Church-Brampton, near Northampton, and Rural Dean, author of two series of Village Sermons (1863-5), and “The House of Prayer” (1866), also of various translations in Wellesley’s Anthologia Polyglotta (1849).