LADY EMILY ESTHER ANNE HESKETH is youngest daughter of the late Earl Beauchamp, and wife of LLOYD HESKETH BAMFORD Hesketh, Esq., of Gwrych Castle, High Sheriff of Denbighshire in 1828. The Heskeths were established in England by one of the companions in arms of the Conqueror, and have flourished in the county of Lancaster for more than seven hundred years, being now in the actual enjoyment of the greater part of the landed property acquired at the commencement of that remote era. The family became eventually separated into two distinguished branches-the Heskeths of Rufford, now represented by Sir Thomas Dalrymple Hesketh, Bart.; and the Heskeths of Rossal, whose chief is the present Peter Hesketh Fleetwood, Esq., M.P. for Preston. ROBERT HESKETH, Esq., of Upton in Cheshire, a younger son of the Rossal line, marrying an heiress named Nicholson, acquired the Bamford estates, and had a son and successor, ROBERT HESKETH BAMFORD HESKETH, Esq., of Upton, who wedded, in 1785, Miss Frances Lloyd of Gwrych Castle, and thus became possessed of the whole of the Welsh estates of the Lloyds of Gwrych, which that family had held time immemorial. He died 16th January 1815, leaving issue, LLOYD HESKETH BAMFORD HESKETH, Esq., of Gwrych Castle, who is married to LADY EMILY ESTHER ANNE LYGON, THE END. |