Sir William Beaumauris Rush
Sir William Beaumauris Rush
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Obituary: Sir William Beaumauris Rush
Source: the Gentlemen’s Magazine, and Historical Chronical, vol 103, part 2
July, 8th, at Wimbledon, in his 83rd year, Sir William Beaumauris Rush, Knight.
Sir William Beaumauris Rush was grandson of Samuel Rush, of Bishops Stortford in Hertfordshire, Esquire., who was grandson of Samuel Rush, Esquire. , of Clapham, Surrey, 2nd son of William Rush of Colchester, Esquire.
His father was William Rush, Esquire, of Lambeth, who was buried in 1779, and his mother was Mary, daughter of George Smith, of London, gentleman.
He received his second name from having been born at sea, off Beaumauris, on the 21st August 1750.
The family were for a century and a half the proprietors of the great vinegar yard in Southwark, afterwards Potts; and from the last of those wealthy merchants Sir William inherited a large fortune and an estate in Roydon, Suffolk.
In 1800, he served the office of Sherriff of that county, and he received the honour of Knighthood, on the 19th of June.
The Suffolk estate was afterwards sold to Admiral Sir Hyde Parker, and after his death resold, and after the mansion (which had cost the preceding Mr Rush 36,000l),was pulled down. Note by Mr. Bray, in history of Surrey, iii, 590.)
Sir William then removed to Wimbledon, where he remained for the last thirty years of his life.
Sir William married, 10 April 1782, Laura, daughter of Cremer Carter, of Southwark, gentleman, and by that lady, who died November 14th, 1882, he had issue 6 daughters.
1. Laura, married at Glasgow in 1801 to Basil Montagu, Esquire, of Grays Inn, barrister-at-law, editor of the works of Lord Bacon; she died at Wimbledon, June 16th, 1806, leaving issue;
2. Julian Caroline, married in 1803 to John Leach, Esquire, of Chelsea, and has issue; 3. Charlotte, married in 1806, to Sir John Martin Cripps, of Stanton in Sussex, Esquire and has issue;
4. Clarissa, married in 1810 to her fathers cousin-German George Rush, of Elsenham, in Essex, and Farthingbo in Northamptonshire, Esquire, high Sherriff of the latter county in 1813; they have a numerous family (see the pedigree of Rush in Bakers history of Northamptonshire, vol. 1, p. 622);
5. Angelica, married in 1816 to the Rev. Edward Daniel Clarke, L.L.D., the celebrated Traveller, and left his widow with issue, in 1822; and
6. Louisa, married in 1812 to John A. Knipe of Belterbet, Co. Cavan, Esquire.