• General Notes

  Baronet 1746
  
  3rd Baronet Chislehampton
  
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  Sir Thomas D'Oyly, Bart., eldest surviving son and heir, was born about 1700, and in 1727, during his father's lifetime, was put forward as a candidate for the parliamentary representation of Abingdon, co. Berks, but was worsted like his father five years before, and. like him, petitioned, but unavailingly.[388] Like his father also (and many others of his ancestry) he sought a wife from his own kindred, and married his cousin Mary Wotton, daughter of Samuel Wotton, Esquire, of Englebourn, co. Devon, by Mary his wife, daughter of Sir John D'Oyly the first Baronet. Having, however, no male issue, his family now rapidly sinking and declining in substance, Chislehampton alone remaining of its once vast possessions, and it being no doubt heavily mortgaged, that estate (Chislehampton) was now at last destined to leave them, and was sold about 1748 to Mr. Peers, who soon after pulled down the old hall which they had inhabited, and erected a modern edifice in its stead. Charles Peers, Esq. his grandson, is the present proprietor of Chislehampton, and resides at Chislehampton Lodge.[389] Meanwhile Sir Thomas D'Oyly, who had only a few years before succeeded to the baronetcy, and (it is stated) accelerated the impending ruin of his house by his unquenchable passion for fox-hunting, retired to Cuxham rectory, co. Oxon., the parsonage house of his next brother; and there he breathed his last the 6th Feb. 1759, æt. about 59.[390] His remains were brought back to Stadhampton for interment, and deposited among the ashes of his knightly forefathers, on the 14th February 1759. Dame Mary his wife survived him, and also her own children. She resided latterly at Henley-on-Thames, where she made her will 7th June 1780; leaving the bulk of her property to her grand-daughter, Maria Newcome, and appointing her son-in-law, William Newcome, Lord Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, executor. She died the same year, and her will was proved August 1780, in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. Sir Thomas D'Oyly had by her only two daughters,

Details of Thomas' family with Mary Wooten