• General Notes

  1. Christopher D'Oyly, Esq. of Hampton Court, Middlesex, and of Twickenham, in the same shire, of the Inner Temple, barrister-at-law, M.P. for Wareham, afterwards for Seaford. This distinguished gentleman was born about 1718, and selecting the legal profession, soon became a barrister of considerable eminence, in which profession he practised till succeeding in 1754 to an estate at Walton on Thames, co. Surrey, under the will of Adria Boate,[615] widow, he relinquished it for higher pursuits. He was appointed First Clerk of the War Office 1761,[616] and was subsequently Under Secretary to Lord George Germain.[617] In 1774 he was elected M.P. for Wareham, co, Dorset, and sat for that borough till the dissolution of Parliament in 1780.[618] Soon after this he was appointed Commissary General of Musters; and, intending to retire from parliamentary life, in 1780 exchanged that appointment for the situation of Comptroller of the Accounts of his Majesty's army;[619] upon which subject a letter to him, from Lord North appears in the Gent. Mag.[620] But changing his mind, he re-entered Parliament as M.P. for Seaford (Cinque Port) in 1780, and sat for it till 1784.[621]—This Christopher D'Oyly married Sarah, sister and co-heir (with her sister Anne, wife of Welbore Ellis, afterwards Lord Mendip) of the Right Hon. Hans Stanley, Lord of the Admiralty from 1757 to 1763, and Ambassador Extraordinary, in 1765, to the Empress of Russia, and daughter of George Stanley, Esq. of Poultons, co. Hants, by Sarah his wife, daughter and coheir (with her sister Elizabeth, wife of Charles 2d Lord Cadogan, and grandmother of the present Earl Cadogan) of Sir Hans Sloane, of Chelsea, Bart. M.D. Lord of the Manor of Chelsea, the celebrated physician.[622] The arms of Stanley of Poultons were, it is presumed, "Argent, on a bend azure, 3 buck's beads cabosshed or," with due difference; those of Sloane, "Gules, a sword in pale, point downwards, blade argent, hilt or, between two boar's heads couped or, on a chief ermine a lion passant gules between 2 mascles sable." — Mrs. D'Oyly was coheiress to large estates at Chelsea and elsewhere, but, having no issue, they were inherited at her death by Lord Cadogan.— Christopher D'Oyly made his will, styling himself of Curzon Street, Mayfair, Hanover Square, 27 May, 1788; and codicils in 1789 and 1793; appoints Sarah, his wife, executrix, and mentions his estates in Bucks and Oxon., also at Walton on Thames, Surrey, and elsewhere; leaves that at Walton on Thames to his nephews Christopher and Oliver Aplin, and Richard Bignell, of Banbury, Gent. in trust to sell; and devises a large portion of his property to his wife for life; remainder to his said nephews, and other relatives. He died at Twickenham, 19-20 Jan. 1795, in his 78th year, and s.p.; and was buried at Walton on Thames, co. Surrey; where, on the south wall of the chancel of the Church, a neat white marble urn was placed, with the following inscription commemorating him:
  " To the memory of Christopher D'Oyly, Esq. descended from an ancient family in the county of Oxford, formerly a barrister of considerable eminence; a man of clear discernment and sound judgment; equally distinguished for an unsullied integrity, as for the exercise of every social virtue: his professional abilities were ever exercised in acts of humanity, in allaying animosities, in composing differences; firm was his confidence in the truth of Christianity ; and a lively hope of the rewards which it proposes, supported him under the pressure of a painful and lingering disease. He died on the 19th day of January, 1795, in the 78th year of his age."
  Sarah his wife survived him; proved his will in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Feb. 1795; and enjoyed a moiety of Chelsea manor till her death, but continued to reside at Twickenham.

Details of Christopher's family with Sarah Stanley