Waller family (Kent)

Edmund Waller (the politician-poet), by David Loggon, 1685, National Portrait Gallery.

The Waller family was a Kentish family, of Groombridge Place, that migrated to Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire in the fouteenth or sixteenth century, and then to Gloucestershire, and, for a generation, North Yorkshire.^[1]

Several members carried the name Edmund Waller. These Edmund Wallers are listed here father to son or grandson, or uncle to nephew:

• Edmund, of Coleshill, Buckinghamshire, grandfather of the poet;

• Edmund Waller, MP and poet;

• Edmund, (1652-dsp Bristol 1699/1700), MP for Amersham 1689-98,^[2] educuted Christ Church, Oxford and Middle Temple, bencher 1696. Became a Quaker. Married (1686) Abigail Tylney;

Edmund Waller VI or VII (1828-98), JP, DL

• Edmund, (1699–1771), MP for Great Marlow 1722–1741, and Chipping Wycombe 1741–1754,^[3] Cofferer of the Household December 1744 – December 1746. Married before 1720, his step-sister, Mary, daughter of John Aislabie, of Studley Royal, Ripon. Succeeded his uncle Edmund Waller in Gloucestershire estates c.1700 (Farmington, Turkdean & Hazleton), and his father in 1707. A step-brother of William Aislabie, MP;

• Edmund, (?1725-88), 'took to the bottle', MP for Chipping Wycombe 1747–1754 and late 1757–1761. Master, St. Katherine’s Hospital 1747-88,^[3] educated St. Mary Hall, Oxford, and Lincoln's Inn. Married (1755) Martha (d. 8.8.1788), daughter of Rowland Philipps of Orlandon, Pembroke;^[4]

• Edmund, (1757–1810), lord of the manor of Farmington, left £5,000 stock to provide an income for life for his housekeeper Anna Joynes, and then to benefit the poor of Beaconsfield (Bucks.), Upper Turkdean, and Farmington in bread, clothing, and blankets;^[5]

• Edmund, (1828-98), JP, DL, High Sheriff Gloucestershire 1876, once of Little Hall Barn, Bucks, and of Farmington Lodge, near Northleach and Kirkby Fleetham, North Riding of Yorkshire (the unentailed later sold 1889). Married (1858) Lucy Georgiana Elwes (died 1878), and then (1880) Emily Mary Young (dsp 1923), she was a great-granddaughter of Sir William Young, 2nd Baronet.

Arms of Waller

• Shield: On a mount, vert, a walnut tree, proper, on a sinister side an escrutcheon, pendant, charged with arms of France, with a label of three points, argent.
• Crest: Sable, three walnut leaves, or, between two bendlets, argent.
• Motto: Hic fructus virtutis; Azincourt.

References

1. "WALLER, Edmund I (1606-87), of Hall Barn, Beaconsfield, Bucks. and St. James's Street, Westminster. | History of Parliament Online". historyofparliamentonline.org. Retrieved 2014-05-31.
2. The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1690–1715, ed. D. Hayton, E. Cruickshanks, S. Handley, 2002
3. The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715–1754, ed. R. Sedgwick, 1970
4. The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1754–1790, ed. L. Namier, J. Brooke., 1964
5. 'The charity became active on Anna's death in 1835, by which time the costs of a suit brought by her against Edmund's trustees had reduced the principal to £3,692 stock. In 1887 the principal was divided into three, with £1,231 assigned to each place, under separate trustees. Farmington was receiving £36 a year as its share of the proceeds in 1889. About 1970 the income, £29 a year, was being distributed in coal. (From VCH 'Parishes: Farmington', A History of the County of Gloucester: volume 9: Bradley hundred. The Northleach area of the Cotswolds (2001), pp. 69-81. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=66463 Date accessed: 31 May 2014).