William Henry Bouverie
Hon. William Henry Bouverie( 1752–1806) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons for 26 years from 1776 to 1802.
Bouverie was the second son of William Bouverie, 1st Earl of Radnor and his second wife Rebecca Alleyne, daughter of John Alleyne, and was born on 30 October 1752.
He was educated at Harrow School about 1765 and matriculated at University College, Oxford on 19 March 1771.
He was awarded BA in 1773 and MA in 1776.
He married Lady Bridget Douglas, daughter of James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton on 16 August 1777 In January 1776, Bouverie ’s father died and his step- brother was raised to the peerage, leaving a vacancy at Salisbury.
Bouverie was returned without a contest as Member of Parliament for Salisbury on the family interest in the ensuing by-election on 19 February 1776.
He was re-elected unopposed in 1780.
The English Chronicle wrote of him in 1781 “ He is a very constant attendant on his parliamentary duties, and as constantly divides with the Opposition.
He has never attempted to display his abilities as an orator in the House ...
He possesses an estate of near two thousand pounds per annum, and with this fortune supports the consequence of his rank with great liberality and great respect. ”
He was a member of the St. Alban's Tavern group which tried to bring together Fox and Pitt.
He was re-elected unopposed in 1784.
His first recorded speech was on 22 July 1784, eight years after he entered Parliament.
He then spoke several times during the Regency crisis, but few other speeches are reported by him.
A distant cousin Elizabeth Bouverie devised the manor and mansion- house at Betchworth to him in the 1780s.
He was returned unopposed at Salisbury again in 1790 and in 1796.
In 1797 he was a major in the Wiltshire supplementary militia.
His health was deteriorating and he retired from Parliament at the 1802 general election in favour of his nephew Viscount Folkestone.
He received thanks at Salisbury for his “ upright and judicious conduct ” during 26 years in the House.
Bouverie was major commandant of the Betchworth Volunteers in 1803 and 1804.
He died on 23 August 1806.
His obituary in the Gentleman ’s Magazine( 1806, p. 877) paid tribute to the “ polished elegance of his manners ”, mentioned his interest in literature and medicine, and added that “ there were few subjects on which he was not intimately well informed ”.
As well as lands in Betchworth and London, he left shares in the Drury Lane theatre and Covent Garden theatre.
His son Charles Henry Bouverie was also a Member of Parliament.
His daughter Rebecca married William à Court, 1st Baron Heytesbury
Robyn Lawley
Robyn Lawley( born 13 June 1989) is an Australian model.
William Ashe-à Court
General William Ashe -à Court(" c." 1708 – 2 August 1781) was a senior British Army officer and a Member of Parliament.
Born William à Court, he was the son of Pierce à Court, MP and Elizabeth Ashe of Ivy Church, Wiltshire.
He joined the British Army as an ensign in the 11th Foot in 1726.
He became a cornet in the 4th Dragoons in 1729 and in 1738 a lieutenant and captain in the 2nd Foot Guards, in which regiment he was subsequently promoted captain and lieutenant- colonel in 1745, 2nd major and colonel in 1755, major- general in 1759 and lieutenant- general in 1765.
He served in Flanders during the War of the Austrian succession( 1740 – 48).
He was given the colonelcy of the 11th Foot in 1765, a position he held until his death.
He was made full general on 19 March 1778.
He also sat as Member of Parliament for Heytesbury between 1751 and 1781.
In 1768 he assumed by Royal licence the additional surname of Ashe in compliance with the will of his uncle, Edward Ashe.
He died in 1781.
He had married Annabella Vernon, daughter of Thomas Vernon, in 1746.
Their only son William succeeded him as MP for Heytesbury and was created a baronet in 1795.
His grandson, also named William, was raised to the peerage as Baron Heytesbury in 1828.
William Court Gully, 1st Viscount Selby
William Court Gully, 1st Viscount Selby PC, KC( 29 August 1835 – 6 November 1909) was a British lawyer and Liberal politician.
He served as Speaker of the House of Commons between 1895 and 1905.
William à Court, 1st Baron Heytesbury
William à Court, 1st Baron Heytesbury GCB PC( 11 July 1779 – 31 May 1860), known as Sir William à Court, Bt, from 1817 to 1828, was a British diplomat and Conservative politician.
Sir William à Court, 1st Baronet
Sir William Pierce Ashe à Court, 1st Baronet( c. 1747 – 22 July 1817) was a British soldier and Member of Parliament( MP). à
Court was the son of General William Ashe -à Court and Anne Vernon.
He represented Heytesbury in the House of Commons from 1781 to 1790 and again from 1806 to 1807.
In 1795 he was created a Baronet, of Heytesbury in the County of Wiltshire.
He was appointed Lieutenant- Colonel of the Wiltshire Militia in 1797 and High Sheriff of Wiltshire for 1812. à
Court married, firstly, Catherine Bradford, daughter of John Bradford, in 1769.
In 1777 Catherine A' Court died in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire; her memorial plaque in Cheltenham's parish church suggests this was due to her having been poisoned with arsenic by a servant.
The following year à Court married Laetitia Wyndham, daughter of Henry Wyndham and sister of Henry Penruddocke Wyndham.
He died in July 1817 and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son from his second marriage, William, who became Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and was elevated to the peerage as Baron Heytesbury in 1828.
Lady à
Court died in 1821.
His granddaughter Elizabeth Ash à Court- Repington( d. 1911), the only daughter of General Charles Ashe à Court- Repington and niece of William à Court, 1st Baron Heytesbury, married in 1846 the Rt. Hon. Sidney Herbert and had seven children, including the 13th and 14th Earls of Pembroke& Montgomery.
Edward O'Brien, 14th Baron Inchiquin
Edward Donough O'Brien, 14th Baron Inchiquin KP( 14 May 1839 – 9 April 1900) was the holder of a hereditary peerage in the Peerage of Ireland, as well as Chief of the Name of O'Brien and Prince of Thomond in the Gaelic Irish nobility.
In 1862, he was appointed High Sheriff of Clare.
Born the eldest son of Lucius O' Brien, 13th Baron Inchiquin and Mary Fitzgerald.
He took the title in March 1872, upon the death of his father, and was appointed a Knight of the Order of St. Patrick on 5 August 1892.
He married firstly Emily Holmes -á Court, the daughter of William Holmes- á Court, 2nd Baron Heytesbury, and together they had four children; Geraldine Mary O'Brien( 1863-?), Lucius William O'Brien, 15th Baron Inchiquin( 1864- 1929), Murrogh O'Brien( 1866- 1934), and Edward Donough O'Brien( 1867- 1943).
He then married Ellen Harriet, the daughter of Luke White, 2nd Baron Annaly, with whom he had a further ten children.
One daughter, Beatrice, married Guglielmo Marconi, the radio pioneer.
William à Court-Holmes, 2nd Baron Heytesbury
William Henry Ashe à Court- Holmes" later" Holmes -à Court, 2nd Baron Heytesbury( 11 July 1809 – 21 April 1891) was a British peer and Conservative Member of Parliament.
Born William Henry Ashe à Court, Lord Heytesbury was the only son of William à Court, 1st Baron Heytesbury, and Maria Rebecca Bouverie.
In 1828 he went up to St John's College, Cambridge.
He was elected to the House of Commons for the Isle of Wight in 1837, a seat he held until 1847.
In 1860 he succeeded his father as second Baron Heytesbury and entered the House of Lords.
Lord Heytesbury married Elizabeth Holmes, daughter of Sir Leonard Thomas Worsley Holmes, 9th Baronet Worsley, in 1833.
He assumed by Royal licence the additional surname of Holmes after that of à Court at the same time.
In 1860 he changed the family name, by Royal Licence, from à Court- Holmes to Holmes -à Court.
Lord Heytesbury died in April 1891, aged 81, and was succeeded by his grandson, William Holmes à Court.
Robert Holmes à Court
Michael Robert Hamilton Holmes à Court (27 July 1937 – 2 September 1990) was a South African-born Australian entrepreneur who became Australia's first billionaire, before dying suddenly of a heart attack in 1990 at the age of 53.
A great-great-grandson of William Holmes à Court, 2nd Baron Heytesbury, and a grand-nephew of William Frederick Holmes à Court, 3rd Baron Heytesbury, Holmes à Court was one of the world's most feared corporate raiders through the 1980s, having built his empire single-handedly from virtually nothing to a diversified resources and media group with an estimated value immediately before the 1987 stockmarket crash of about A$2 billion.
Shareholders in the company enjoyed enormous investment growth.
1984 saw Robert Holmes à Court's horse Black Knight win the Melbourne Cup with a time of 3 minutes 18.19 seconds.
Holmes à Court died intestate and his estate was to be divided one third for his widow Janet (née Ranford), and the remainder equally among their four children.
David Wingrove
David Wingrove( born September 1954) is a British science fiction writer.
He is well known as the author of the" Chung Kuo" novels.
He is also the co-author( with Rand and Robyn Miller) of the three" Myst" novels.

Question: Are William À Court, 1St Baron Heytesbury and Robyn Lawley both from the same country?
Answer: no