574 List of Parliamentary Families 1 Ld Lt 18th Notes: Sir Rowland Gwynne greatly diminished the value of the estate by wasteful spending. Sales of land took place later 18th c. One in ODNB. HADDOCK Origins: An old seafaring family, mariners from at least 1327. Naval service during the Commonwealth. Flag Captain RN 1660s-70s. Kt 1675. Admirals. 1. Sir Richard Haddock – Aldeburgh 1679 New Shoreham 1685-87 2. Nicholas Haddock – Rochester 1734-46 3. Nicholas Haddock – Rochester 1754-61 Seat: Wrotham Place, Kent (purch. 1723, sold 1790s) Notes: Family extinct in male line 1792. Two in ODNB. HALDANE [Duncan] SCOTLAND Haldane Origins: Seated at Gleneagles since the late 13th century. First [MP 1630 for Perthshire]. 1. Mungo Haldane – [Perthshire 1681 1685] 2. John Haldane – [Perthshire 1689-93 Dumbartonshire 1700-02 Perthshire 1703-07] Scotland 1707-08 3. Mungo Haldane – Stirlingshire 1715-22 Dumbartonshire 1722-25 Perthshire 1726-27 4. Patrick Haldane – Perth Burghs 1715-22 5. George Haldane – Stirling Burghs 1747-58 6. Robert Haldane – Stirling Burghs 1758-61 Seat: Gleneagles House (Castle), Perthshire (built early 16th c., new house 17th c., new house c. 1750, passed to Duncans later 18th c.) Estates: see Camperdown Notes: One in ODNB. Earl of Camperdown (1831-1933 UK) Origins: The 1 Viscount Duncan was the son of a Provost of Dundee whose ancestors were merchants who purchased landed property in the mid-17th century. He became a Rear Admiral in 1787, and enjoyed a very successful naval career. On the death of the 17th Haldane laird of Gleneagles in 1767 the estates passed to his daughters, the List of Parliamentary Families 575 younger of who married Alexander Duncan, father of the 1 Viscount. The Duncans also succeeded to the Philips estates in Warwickshire (see Philips I). 1. Adam Haldane Duncan 2 Earl of Camperdown – Southampton 1837-41 Bath 1841-52 Forfarshire 1854-59 Seats: Camperdown House, Forfarshire (medieval “Lundie Castle” acq. and demolished in 17th c. by Duncans and replaced by a house, then a new house built 1824-28, sold 1941); Gleneagles House (Castle), Perthshire (built early 16th c., new house 17th c., new house c. 1750, inher. by mar. later 18th c., remod. late 19th c., sold 1924, hotel) Estates: Bateman 13892 (S) 11720. Owned 4,000 acres in 1996. Title: Viscount Duncan 1797-1933 GB Peers: 5 peers 1797-1804 1806-1933 1 KT 19th Notes: Family extinct in male line 1933. 1 Viscount in ODNB. Viscount Haldane (1911- UK) Origins: A Cadet line of the Haldanes of Gleneagles. 1. Richard Haldane 1 Viscount Haldane – Haddingtonshire 1885-1911 Seat: Cloan (Cloanden), Perthshire (built 18th c., purch. 1852, remod. 1865, for sale 2013) Estates: The 1 Viscount left £69,000 in 1928. Peers: 1 peer 1911-28 1 in Cabinet 1905-15 1 KT 20th Notes: 1 Viscount and ten others in ODNB. HALE Hale Origins: A London grocer purchased King’s Walden in the later 16th century. High Sheriff 1647. 1. William Hale – Hertfordshire 1669-79 1681 2. William Hale – Bramber 1709-10 St. Albans 1713-17 3. Peggan Hale – Hertfordshire 1747-55 576 List of Parliamentary Families Seat: King’s Walden Park, Hertfordshire (purch. 1576, sold 1884, demolished 1958) Estates: Bateman 7999 (E) 11790 Notes: Three in ODNB. Hale Origins: A cadet line. John Hale MP acquired an estate in Devon by marriage 1634. 1. John Hale – Devon 1654 1656 Dartmouth 1660 Seat: Bowringsleigh (Bowrings Leigh), Devon (built 1303, rebuilt later 16th c., acq. by mar. 1634, passed out of family by mar. later 17th c.) HALES [Pym] Hales Origins: The family can be traced to the 14th century. Rose through the law (Master of the Rolls 1536), office (Baron of the Exchequer), and fortunate marriages in the 16th century. First MP 1512. Kt 1547. Six additional MPs 1523-1659, including Kent 1626. 1. Sir Thomas Hales 2 Bt – Kent 1701-05 Canterbury 1715-34 1735-41 1746-47 2. Sir Thomas Hales 3 Bt – Minehead 1722-27 Camelford 1727-34 Grampound 1734-41 Hythe 1744-61 East Grinstead 1761-62 3. Sir Thomas Hales 4 Bt – Downton 1762-68 Dover 1770-73 4. Sir Philip Hales 5 Bt – Downton 1775-80 Marlborough 1784-90 Seat: Bekesbourne (Beakesbourne), Kent (house called Howletts built 16th c., purch. c. 1620, became ruinous, occupied a different house later 17th c., sold 1787, demolished) Title: Baronet 1660-1824 Notes: Family extinct in male line 1824. Four in ODNB. Hales Origins: Junior line broke off in the 16th century. First MP 1547. Three additional MPs 1563-1628. 1. Sir Edward Hales 2 Bt – Maidstone 1660 Queenborough 1661-79 2. Sir Edward Hales 3 Bt – Canterbury 1679-81 3. John Hales – New Shoreham 1679-81 4. Edward Hales – Hythe 1679-81 1689-90 List of Parliamentary Families 577 Seats: Hales’ Place (Woodchurch), Kent (medieval, acq. by mar. 1602, sold 1680, demolished 1928); Paulerspury, Northamptonshire (acq. by mar. 1644, sold c. 1670- 74); Tunstall Place, Kent (medieval, inher. by mar. and rebuilt 1613, held into 18th c.) Estates: Bateman 2980 (E) 3843 Title: Baronet 1611-1829 Notes: Sir Edward Hales 3 Bt MP was created Earl of Tenterdon in the Jacobite peerage 1692. The family remained Roman Catholic in the 18th century and were not involved in politics. Notes: 3 Bt in ODNB. Pym Origins: The Pyms were gentry from the reign of Edward I when they were first recorded at Brymore. First MP 1584. Two additional MPs 1621-48. Sir Thomas Hales 2 Bt of Bekesbourne married in 1688 Mary, daughter and heiress of Sir Charles Pym 1 Bt. 1. Sir Charles Pym 1 Bt – Bere Alston 1641-48 Minehead 1660 Seat: Brymore (Brummer), Somerset (acq. 13th c., medieval house, sold 1729) Title: Baronet (Cromwellian Bt) and 1663-88 Note: John Pym MP 1621-43 was one of Charles I’s most implacable opponents. One in ODNB. HALL [Herbert, Howe, Jones, Stephens] WALES & IRELAND Baron Llanover (1859-67 UK) Origins: The grandfather of the first MP was Dean of Llandaff. His son was a barrister and married 1801 into the Crawshay ironmasters family, became a partner in the business in 1803, and inherited considerable industrial wealth. Sold iron interest 1816. 1. Benjamin Hall – Totnes 1806-12 Westbury 1812-14 Glamorganshire 1814-17 2. Benjamin Hall 1 Baron Llanover – Monmouth 1831 1832-34 Marylebone 1837-59 3. Ivor Herbert 1 Baron Treowen – S. Div. Monmouthshire 1906-17 Seats: Llanarth Court, Monmouthshire (medieval, Jones family acq. by mar. c. 15th c., rebuilt c. 1770, rebuilt 1849-50, passed to Herberts 1896, donated 1948, now a hospital, family still own estate); Treowen, Monmouthshire (built 15th c., rebuilt by Jones family 1623-27, family depart 1670s, became a farm house, passed to Herberts 1896, sold 1945); Llanover (Llanofer Court), Monmouthshire (acq. by Hall family 1826, rebuilt 1828, passed to Herberts 1896, still own); Abercarn, Monmouthshire (acq. 578 List of Parliamentary Families 1808, passed to Herberts 1896, still own); Hensol Castle, Glamorganshire (built late 17th/early 18th c., add. c. 1735, Halls purch. 1815 for £45,000, sold 1826, now hospital) Estates: Bateman 4641 (W) 24355; 6533 (W) 8136; 4542 (W) 10623. Still own 5,000 acres 2015. Rubinstein – Benjamin Hall MP left £100,000 probate in 1817. Titles: Baron Treowen (Herbert) 1917-33 UK; Baronet 1838-67; 1907-33 Peers: 2 peers 1859-67 1917-33 2 Lds Lt 19th, 20th Notes: On the death of the only Lord Llanover (Hall) in 1867 (family extinct in male line), he left his estates to his wife. In 1896 she was succeeded by her daughter who married 1846 John Jones, who took the name Herbert in 1848, of Llanarth Court, 1 Baron Treowen. Jones family took name Jones in the 16th c. Long a distinguished Roman Catholic family. First Jones MP 1589. Another Jones MP 1614. First MP, of Treowen, a London grocer, had a brother who was Sherfff of Monmouthshire. 1 Baron Llanover in ODNB. Earl of Ranelagh (1677-1712 I) Origins: The family settled in Ireland in the 1570s, Archbishop of Dublin 1605. Became courtiers. Viscount 1628. First {MP 1634}. That MP also sat for an English seat in the Long Parliament. Another {MP 1639}. This was the senior line of the Jones family of which the junior was seated at Treowen and Llanarth (see above). 1. Richard Jones 1 Earl of Ranelagh – {Roscommon 1661-66} Plymouth 1685-87 Newtown 1689-95 Chichester 1695-98 Marlborough 1698-1701 West Looe 1701-03 2. William Jones – {Athlone 1703-23} Seats: Dormstown Castle (Durhamstown), Meath (old castle, acq. later 16th c., sold late 18th c.); Horsham St. Faith, Norfolk (owned by Cornwallis family from 1602, passed by mar. to Jones family, passed out of family in 1885 when the male line became extinct) Estates: The estate in Ireland was worth £1,200 pa in the 1640s. Titles: Baron Jones 1628-1885 I; Viscount Ranelagh 1628-1885 I Peers: {3 peers 1660-1712 1759-97} Notes: The family fell on hard times in the 18th century and lost its Irish estates. 1 Earl and one other in ODNB. Stephens Origins: Cadets of the Stephens family of Eastington Manor, Gloucestershire (see Stephens), gentry in the 12th century. An illegitimate daughter and heiress of Sir Philip Stephens 1 Bt married the 6 Viscount Ranelagh (see above). Stephens Howe rose to Brigadier General through the influence of his maternal uncle Philip Stephens, Chief List of Parliamentary Families 579 Secretary to the Admiralty. He married a Stephens cousin, and had he lived would have succeeded to the Stephens Baronetcy. 1. Sir Philip Stephens 1 Bt – Liskeard 1759-68 Sandwich 1768-1806 2. Stephens Howe – Great Yarmouth 1795-96 Seats: Horsham St.