Francis Fowke , of Boughrood Castle, Radnorshire, Wales, edu. Cheam, in great measure brought up in the Clive household, formerly 4-times Resident of Benares, India, "returning from India with a fortunes of £70,000 from bribes, army contracting, opium and diamond dealing", with his father heavily involved with bringing notorious Impeachment Charges against Warren Hastings, etc. Of Wimbledon (1792, 1813). Of 13 Berry st, St James when he died in 1819. Educ. in the household of Sir Robert Clive (whose wife was Francis Fowke's mother's 1st cousin). He was with the East India Company as a writer in 1770, factor in 1776 and junior merchant in 1778. In 1778, he is described as being of Hartford st, Mayfair and of Boughrood Castle, Radnorshire. High Sheriff of Radnorshire (17)95 "of Boughrood". He was a good musician, well read, a linguist. He was obsessed by the idea of inventing a universal language in which all books were to be printed. He was disinherited by his uncle John (Walsh) presumably because he cohabited with Mary nee Lowe for some time before his marriage. Maybe? "Fowke, Francis (Male) Title(s): Esq. Date: 1786 Subscribed to Ayen Akbery: or, The Institutes of the Emperor Akber, Translated from the original Persian (Vol. 1), 1786, GLADWIN, Francis. Calcutta Subject: law " EICS - Writer 1770, Factor 1776, Junior merchant 1778. Recommended as Resident of Benares by Gen. Clavering (see Records at East india House, of Proceedings relative to Francis Fowke resident of Benares in the appointment and reappointment of him to that Residency, and his first and second recall from thence - London printed March 1782 - Copy in British Museum 100 M67). He spoke Persian. Of Hertford st, Mayfair, and of Beaughroot [sic] Castle, Radnorshire (1778). He bought Boughrood Castle on leaving India. See also: http://w4.ed.uiuc.edu/faculty/westbury/Paradigm/becher.html 1776 Fowke, F. Phaedri Augusti Liberti, Fabularum, Aesopiarurn Libri Quinque: or the Fables of Phaedrus in Latin and English, the English attempted in the stile of the Original with the Sentences numbered on both sides for the Ease of the Learner, and with notes critical and explanatory. Also an Appendix shewing certain passages and three different translations at one view, and several examples of the participle in `dus' and gerunds rendered into English uniformly by the participle `ing'. ALSO A Discourse on the Doctrine of Language by Francis Fowke Esq. LONDON: Printed for D. Wilson and G. Nicol, Booksellers in the Strand. He left India after the passing of Pitt's India Bill. He was in Paris in 1788. PRO ref. C 217/153 Copy Special Commissions of Escheat on deaths without heir of: Francis Fowke: Rad 1834-1874 Covering dates 1834-1874 Place of deposit Public Record Office, Kew C 205/10/5 Francis Fowke County: Rad 1831 July 20 "East Sussex Record Office ARCHIVE OF MESSRS PAPER AND FOVARGUE OF BATTLE, SOLICITORS Catalogue Ref. RAF Creator(s): Raper and Fovargue, solicitors [Access Conditions] Records are open to consultation unless otherwise indicated Deeds and Documents relating to lands formerly belonging to the family of Fuller of Brightling BRIGHTLING &c - ref. SAS-RF/8 The Manor of Socknersh and Hollingrove &c FILE - Attested Copy of Release in fee - ref. SAS-RF/8/184 - date: 16 Aug 1790 [from Scope and Content] (Following Lease for a year) by Joseph Windham, nephew and heir and sole executor of William Windham, and Stephen Comyn and others to Henry Strachey, Francis Fowke and John Benn and Richard Davenport, by way of transfer of Mortgage - for £9000 to the said Jos. Windham and a furter advance to Stephen Comyn and others of £5000 making £14000 in all - of the said premises " PRO ref. C 205/10/5 Francis Fowke County: Rad 1831 July 20 Item details: C 217/153 Copy Special Commissions of Escheat on deaths without heir of: Francis Fowke: Rad 1834-1874 Covering dates 1834-1874 Scope and content Copy Special Commissions of Escheat on deaths without heir of: Francis Fowke: Rad Held by The National Archives, Kew Portland (London) Collection: Catalogue of Family and Financial Papers of the Dukes of Portland, 1583-1940 Catalogue of marriage settlements and related papers for the daughters and other kinswomen of the Earls and Dukes of Portland. 1673-1824 Most of this material seems to have been boxed together ('Box 88') according to the 1817 brief list of the Duke of Portland's papers [see Pl L8/2 in the Portland (London) Legal Papers]; this distinctiveness has been maintained. The sections within are for daughters of the 1st Earl of Portland (Pl F4/1), of the 1st Duke (Pl F4/2), 2nd Duke (Pl F4/3), 3rd Duke (Pl F4/4), etc. Pl F4/3/5 21.3.1789 2.4.1828 Mortgage of Viscount Weymouth's settled estates; 21 Mar. 1789 (90 ff, attached + wrapper, paper) First Party: Thomas, Viscount Weymouth, Baron Thynne of Warminster, KG; and the Hon. Thomas Thynne, his eldest son and heir. Second Party: Edward, Lord Thurlow, Baron Thurlow of Ashfield, Suffolk; John, Earl of Ashburnham of Ashburnham Place, Sussex; Robert Smith of St James's Place, St James Westminster, Middlesex, Esq.; Charles Graeme of Ropley, Hampshire, Esq.; Arthur Balfour, now residing at Paris, France, Esq.; James Bradshaw of Portland Place, St Marylebone, Middlesex, Esq.; Francies Fowke of Clifford Street, Burlington Gardens, Middlesex, Esq.; Henry Strachey of Hill Street, Berkeley Square, Middlesex, Esq.; Archibald Robertson of Lawers, Scotland, Esq.; William Fawkener of South Street, Grosvenor Square, Middlesex, Esq.; Robert Drummond of Cadland, Hampshire, Esquire; Henry Drummond of the Grange, Hampshire, Esq.; John Wells the younger of New Street, Spring Gardens, Middlesex, Esq.; Charles Drummond of Charing Cross, Middlesex, Esq.; Lord Frederick Campbell of Coombank, Kent; and Henry Drummond aforementioned. Third Party: James, Marquess of Graham; Andrew Barclay Drummond of New Street, Spring Gardens, Middlesex, Esq.; and Daniel Macnamara of Lincolns Inn Fields, Middlesex, Esq. Attested copy of release and appointment by way of mortgage by (1) to (3) of the Weymouth estates in Wiltshire, Somerset, Herefordshire as specified (except burgages conferring the right to vote in parliamentary elections for the borough of Weobley, Herefordshire) to the use of (3) for a term of 3000 years in trust for (2). Covenant by (1) to levy a fine of the premises in Wiltshire and Somerset. Recites previous deeds, and the details of the arrangements reached regarding the various mortgages on the Weymouth estates. Itemised schedules of manorial tenants and rents, cottagers, woods and timber, rack rents, etc. Consideration: £ 147500 by (2) in the proportions specified to the mortgagees, £ 112500 by (2) in the proportions states to (1) and £ 5000 and £ 5000 by (2) in the proportions stated to Lord Thurlow to repay mortgages - £ 270000 in total. Examined, 2 Apr. 1828. T. H. Bowyer, `Fowke, Joseph (1716-1800)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/63560, accessed 23 Sept 2005] Radnorshire Society transactions - Vol. 52 1982 Archdeacon de Winton and the building of the first rectory in Llandrindod Wells "Llain Pwllyn had been part of the estate of Francis Fowke, senior (1754-1819), who hd built Boughrood castle, a pleasant georgian-type house overlooking the Wye, in the year 1817, close to the site of the medieval castle. On the death of his heir, Francis Fowke (1789-1826), unmarried, his remaining 12 brothers and sisters became involved in bitter personal and legal wrangles, bu no means ended when in 1833 Walter Wilkins (later de Winton), esqr. of Maesllwych Castle bought all the Fowke property in the parishes of Boughrood and llanstephan. edward, the fifth son, having some legal qualifications, was appointed agent for the maessllwch estate; he "occupied" Llain Pwyllyn though his residence was Glanhenwye near the eat entrance to Maesllwch park, some 4 mile down-Wye."
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