page_title: Pettiward family
section_title: Roger Pettiward (1754–1833)
hierarchical_section_title: Pettiward family / Roger Pettiward (1754–1833)
caption_attribution_description: English: Bookplate of Roger Pettiward (d.1833) of Finborough Hall, Suffolk. Arms: Argent, a cross raguly sable charged with five estoiles of the first (Pettiward), quartering: Sable, a fess embattled ermine between three roses argent (heiress of unknown family, possibly White of Putney; or the Mortlock family)
context_page_description: The Pettiward Family were a landed family prominent in Putney and Great Finborough, Suffolk who control the Pettiward Estate in Earl's Court, London.
context_section_description: Roger Pettiward (1754–1833), FRS, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (1788), eldest son and heir. He was a partner in the wholesale stationery firm of Wright and Gill, of Abchurch Lane, but soon retired from business. The firm had been founded on London Bridge by William Gill (d.26 March 1798), Sheriff of the City of London in 1781, Lord Mayor of London in 1788, and Treasure of Christ's Hospital in 1785, who amassed a fortune of £300,000. His original co-founding partner was Thomas Wright (d.7 April 1798) of Dulwich, Sheriff of the City of London in 1779, Lord Mayor of London in 1785, who amassed an equal if not greater fortune. The firm was situated in Abchurch Street, opposite the Post Office. Roger Pettiward (1754–1833) was Master of the Worshipful Company of Stationers (1831–32). In 1794 he purchased Finborough Hall, near Stowmarket, Suffolk, 
  from Col.William Wollaston (died 1797), MP.  He died in 1833 at Trafford Park, Lancashire, aged 78. The Pettiward family had owned the nearby manor of Onehouse since the 16th century. He rebuilt Finborough Hall in 1795 to a design by Francis Sandys of Bury St Edmonds (who also worked at Ickworth House) as the house which survives today used by Finborough school. He was Sheriff of Suffolk in 1811. He married Jane Seymour Colman (died 1856), a daughter and co-heiress (with her sister Laura, Lady de Trafford, wife of Sir Thomas de Trafford, 1st Baronet (1778–1852)), of Francis Colman of Hillersdon House, Devon, who remarried secondly to Admiral Sir William Hotham (1772–1848), when her married name became Lady Hotham. The marriage was without surviving male progeny. Roger had two sisters, Frances Pettiward (died 1868), wife of Robert Bussell and mother of Robert John Bussell (died 1908); and Caroline Pettiward (died 1843), wife of William Terry, MD and mother of Rev. Charles Terry of Tostock Old Hall, Suffolk, father of Charles Terry (1855–1933). In 1832 Roger Pettiward owned the freehold of an orchard and market garden situated in the parish of St Mary Abbott's, Kensington, which by his will dated 13 May 1833 he devised to trustees to settle as the will directed. Accordingly, as the will directed the trustees granted a life interest in the land to his widow, Jane Seymour Colman (died 1856), who remarried secondly to Admiral Sir William Hotham (1772–1848), when her married name became Lady Hotham. She was succeeded in 1856 as life tenant by her husband's great-nephew Robert John Bussell (died 1908), who under the terms of the inheritance adopted the surname Pettiward.
caption: Bookplate of Roger Pettiward (died 1833).  Arms: Argent, a cross raguly sable charged with five estoiles of the first (Pettiward), quartering: Sable, a fess embattled ermine between three roses argent (heiress of unknown family, possibly White of Putney; or the Mortlock family)
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