The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-30
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Associated with Boxley Is George
sandys. poet and traveller, brother ia
Sir Edwin. He lived for some years
in Virginia as treasurer OF the Colony,
and while hero began his translation
OF the "Metamorphoses OF Ovid" the
first poetical production of the Eng
lish settlements. He died at Boxley, the
residence of his niece, Lady Wyatt.
Virginians have not merely historic
associations with the Sandys family.
Anne. daughter of Archbishop Sandys,
and n sister of Sir Edwin and George,
married Sir William Barnes, of Wool =.
wich, Kent, q member OF the Virginia
Company. Their daughter, Anne
Barnes, married Sir william Lovelace,
of Woolwich, also a member Of tho
Virginia Company. and was not only
mother of Richard Lovelace, the poet,
but grandmother of Ruth Gorsuch,
wife of william Whitby, of Warwick
county, Va. Speaker of tho House of
such. wife of Thomas Todd, OF Cilouces-
ter county. who has so many descend
ants in Virginia.
Another Kentish Governor was Ed :
ward Digges. a younger son OF Sir
Dudley Digges. of Chilham Castle,
Master of the Rolls. Edward Digges
was long one of the leading men of
Virginia, and his descendants in yir-
ginia and Maryland have been people
of prominence.
still later Governor from Kent was
Thomas. Lord Culpoper. the owner of
Leeds Castle. He acquired by grant
from Charles II. and James II. ali that
part of Virginia lying on the Rap
pahannock River nu near It's head
waters. This immense domain, to-
Ecther with Leeds. passed to his
grandson. Thomas. Lord Fairfax. who
lived many years In Virginia and died
here IN 1881 The Fairfax title passed
to another Virginian. Rev. Bryan Fair
fax. but Leeds Castle was inherited by
the nephew of Thomas. Lord Fairfax
The house is sim wonderfully pre-
served example of feudsl castle The
present owners and occupants, though
having no Fairfax blood. Inherited ii
from the Iairfaxes, and have many
relics of that family and of the Cul
pcpers.
Mention that tho St Leeers once
owned Leeds will remind some Vir.
glnians to go to Lflcombe three miles
away, which was for many generations
the seat Of that eminent family Rev
Daniel Horsmanden, who was rector OF
ulcombe until expelled as royalist.
married daughter of Sir Warham st.
a. =
den, spent many years In Virginia.
where his descendants. the Byrds and
other families, are numerous Governor
Edward Digges also had st. Leger
blood
In state to which, as colony, so
many OF the Kings adherents came
during the civil wars. the poems OF
Loveleoe have high repute The as
sociations. however, of the Lovelacc
family with woolwich ana Canterbury
nave more personal touch with us
The ancestral connection has already
been described. and in addition 10
this Colonel Francis Lovelace, the
poets brother. who was Cavalier ON
Ger. Ned to Virginia at the downfall
OF tho royal cause. and in 1852 was
sent by Governor Berkeley TO Charles
/. il. to tell him of the surrender OF
Virginia TO the Parliament Later
New York.
Besides the house of Richard Love
lace, the Virginian VIII find other con-
meeting links at Canterbury Daniel
Gookin, OF family long resident. In
that city or at Ripple Court. not far
away, removed frst to Ireland and ar.
forwards to virginia. whore he was
prominent among the early colonists.
In Virginia, as In England, there
was. after the restoration. reaction
airy Parliament. Tho General Assem-
bly, which met tn 1869 was without
any general election until 1876