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Gladstone, William Henry

"The Hawarden Visitors' Hand-Book Revised Edition, 1890"

{10} In
1656 he was returned for Carnarvonshire, and in the Rump Parliament he
sat again for Westminster. Meanwhile he contrived to ingratiate himself
with the opposite side, and in 1660 we find him assisting on horseback at
the coronation of Charles II. He now resigned the Chief Justiceship,
made himself very useful in settling legal difficulties consequent upon
the usurpation, and became as loyal as any cavalier: the King, as a mark
of his favour, {11a} bestowing a baronetcy upon his son in 1661. He
possessed Henley Park, {11b} in Surrey, and an estate at Bicester, in
Oxfordshire, (of which church, as well as Ambrosden, he was patron) where
the family resided. He died at his house in Westminster in 1666, and was
buried in a vault beneath the altar of S. Margaret's Church.
His son, Sir William Glynne, the first baronet, sat in Parliament for
Woodstock, and died in 1721. It was not till 1723 that the Glynnes moved
to Hawarden, from Bicester. An old stone records the building of a house
in Broadlane in 1727. In 1732 Sir John Glynne, nephew of Sir William,
married Honora Conway, co-heiress with her sister Catherine of the
Ravenscrofts of Bretton and Broadlane, an old family connected with
Hawarden for many generations. {11c} This lady was the great great grand-
daughter of Sir Kenelm Digby, and with her one-half of the Ravenscroft
lands came into possession of the Glynnes; the other half in Bretton
passing eventually to the Grosvenors.


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