Henry Salusbury Thrale (Harry)

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• Education: St Thomas's school

Notes:

See also: http://www.thrale.com/henry_salusbury_thrale

Died:
Samuel Johnson, learned of his death, in a letter received whilst having breakfast with James Boswell and Miss Porter on 25 March 1776. Johnson exclaimed "Sir! one of the most dreadful things that has happened in my time!" Boswell asked "What is it Sir?". "Why Sir" replied Johnson, "Mr. Thrale has lost his only son. It is a total extinction of the family. He?ll no more value his daughters than ... why sir, he wishes to propagate his name ... I would have gone to the extremity of the earth to have preserved this boy."

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• Education: Eton, Buckinghamshire, England; Eton College
• Education: Oxford, Oxfordshire, England; Oxford University
• Property: 64 West Street, Brighton, Sussex, England
• Property: Streatham Park, Streatham, Surrey, England
• Occupation: Anchor Brewery, Southwark, Surrey, England; Brewer
• Will: 17 Mar 1781; Address:
  http://www.thrale.com/henry_thrales_will
• Occupation: 20 Nov 1765-13 Sep 1980, Southwark, Surrey, England; Member of Parliament

Notes:

See also http://www.thrale.com/henry_thrale_17249_1781

Henry married Hester Lynch Salusbury on 11 Oct 1763 in Saint Anne's Church, Soho, Middlesex, England. Hester (daughter of John Salusbury and Hester Maria Cotton) was born on 16 Jan 1741 in Bodvel, Caernarvonshire, Wales; died on 2 May 1821 in Clifton, Gloucestershire, England; was buried on 16 May 1821 in Church of Corpus Christi, Tremeirchion, Flintshire, Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Note: Hester Maria's brother (Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton) sought to protect his sister Hester Maria from her husband John Salusbury. John Salusbury had squandered his own money and was starting to dip into his sister's money. Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton offered his sister Hester Maria and daughter Hester Lynch the use of his London home in Albermarle Street if they would make a break from him. Sir Robert also intended to change his will leaving his estate to Hester Lynch, but he died before his Will was changed. Hester later wrote …

  "at which period we left Wales and came to my uncle's house in Albemarle Street, where he told my mother he should follow in less than 2 months; make a new will, and leave poor Fiddle 10,000. ... I fancy some rough words passed concerning this by my uncle certainly but ill-brooked my father's pride, and he still less willingly endured being informed that, if his quality friends would provide him some distant establishment, my mother and myself should share the old baronet's fortune."

• Property: Brynbella, Tremeirchion, Flintshire, Wales
• Property: Bodvel, Caernarvonshire, Wales; Cottage
• Publication: London, England; Thraliana - The diary of Mrs Hester Lynch Thrale (later Mrs Piozzi)
• Property: 31 May 1781, Anchor Brewery, Southwark, Surrey, England; Sale of brewery inherited from husband
• Publication: 26 Mar 1786; Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. During the Last Twenty Years of His Life by Hester Thrale, was first published 26 March 1786
• Publication: 1801; Retrospection or A review of the most striking and important events, characters, situations and their consequences which the last eighteen hundred years have presented to the view of mankind by Hester Lynch Piozzi

Notes:

http://www.thrale.com/hester_thrale_1741_1821

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• Obituary: Upon his death a popular London Magazine of the time described Ralph as "the greatest brewer in England". Grand Magazine I, 203.
• Occupation: Anchor Brewery, Southwark, Surrey, England; Brewer
• Occupation: Surrey, England; High Sheriff
• Occupation: Anchor Brewery, Southwark, Surrey, England; Master of The Brewers Company
• Residence: Brighton, Sussex, England; Address:
  64 West Street
  http://www.thrale.com/brighton
• Occupation: 1741-1747, Southwark, Surrey, England; Member of Parliament
• Property: 25 Feb 1747, Old Bailey, Middlesex, England

Notes:

See also: http://www.thrale.com/ralph_thrale_mp_owner_1729_1758

Ralph married Mary Dabbins. Mary died about 1760. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Mary Dobbins
• Name: Mary Dobbinson

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• Note: Hester Maria's brother (Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton) sought to protect his sister Hester Maria from her husband John Salusbury. John Salusbury had squandered his own money and was starting to dip into his sister's money. Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton offered his sister Hester Maria and daughter Hester Lynch the use of his London home in Albermarle Street if they would make a break from him. Sir Robert also intended to change his will leaving his estate to Hester Lynch, but he died before his Will was changed. Hester later wrote …

  "at which period we left Wales and came to my uncle's house in Albemarle Street, where he told my mother he should follow in less than 2 months; make a new will, and leave poor Fiddle 10,000. ... I fancy some rough words passed concerning this by my uncle certainly but ill-brooked my father's pride, and he still less willingly endured being informed that, if his quality friends would provide him some distant establishment, my mother and myself should share the old baronet's fortune."

• Occupation: 1749, Nova Scotia, Canada; British Governor

Notes:

John Salusbury's Patron was Lord Halifax, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland and President of the Board of Trade in October 1748 (a title for a ministerial post in the British Government).

John Salusbury appears in the background of Zoffany's painting of his widow.

John married Hester Maria Cotton in 1738. Hester (daughter of Sir, 2nd Baronet Thomas Cotton and Philadelphia Lynch) was born in 1707 in Tremeirchion, Tremeirchion, Flintshire, Wales; died on 18 Jun 1773 in Streatham Park, Streatham, Surrey, England; was buried in Saint Leonards Church, Streatham, Surrey, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Physical Description: "She was for all personal and mental Excellence the most accomplished female that ever my Eyes beheld. Her shape so accurate, her Carriage so graceful, her Eyes so brilliant, her Knowledge so extensive, & her manners so pleasing that it was no wonder She had such Choice of Lovers in her Youth, & admirers in her advanced Age: She died aged 66. leaving behind her no equal for Powers of delighting her Friends and Companions"
• Note: Hester Maria's brother (Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton) sought to protect his sister Hester Maria from her husband John Salusbury. John Salusbury had squandered his own money and was starting to dip into his sister's money. Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton offered his sister Hester Maria and daughter Hester Lynch the use of his London home in Albermarle Street if they would make a break from him. Sir Robert also intended to change his will leaving his estate to Hester Lynch, but he died before his Will was changed. Hester later wrote …

  "at which period we left Wales and came to my uncle's house in Albemarle Street, where he told my mother he should follow in less than 2 months; make a new will, and leave poor Fiddle 10,000. ... I fancy some rough words passed concerning this by my uncle certainly but ill-brooked my father's pride, and he still less willingly endured being informed that, if his quality friends would provide him some distant establishment, my mother and myself should share the old baronet's fortune."

• Property: Brynbella, Tremeirchion, Flintshire, Wales; Address:
  Lleweney Hall

Notes:

Her daughter Hester was the first surviving child. There were 2 or 3 earlier non-surviving babies. John Salusbury and Hester Maria were distant cousins.

Buried:
She was buried at St Leonard's Church, Streatham. This epitaph to Hester Maria Salusbury was written by Samuel Johnson, who like Hester Maria Salusbury, lived with the Thrale family for many years. The following commentary is Hester Thrale's from her journal Thraliana.

The epitaph engraved on my mother's monument shows how deserving she was of general applause. I asked Johnson why he named her person before her mind. He said it was "because everybody could judge of the one, and but few of the other."

Juxta sepulta est HESTERA MARIA Thomæ Cotton de Combermere Baronetti Cestriensis Filia, Johannis Salusbury Armigeri Flintiensis, uxor; Forma felix, felix ingenio: Omnibus jucunda, suorum amantissima. Linguis artibusque ita exculta Ut loquenti nunquam deessent Sermonis nitor, sententiarum flosculi, Sapientiae gravitas, leporum gratia: Modum servandi adeo perita, ut domestica inter negotia literis oblectaretur, Literarum inter delicias, rem familiarem sedulo curaret, Multis illi multos annos precantibus diri carcinomatis veneno contabuit, nexibusque vitae paulatim resolutis, e terris ? meliora sperans ? emigravit. Nata 1707. Nupta 1739. Obiit 1773.

Mr. Murphy (Henry Thrale's closest friend), who admired her talents and delighted in her company, did me the favour to paraphrase this elegant inscription in verses which I fancy have never yet been published. His fame has long been out of my power to increase as a poet: as a man of sensibility perhaps these lines may set him higher than he now stands. I remember with gratitude the friendly tears which prevented him from speaking as he put them into my hand. [From Anecdotes]

Murphy has been very kind to me, he has translated the Epitaph Johnson wrote upon my Mothers Monument; his kindness is more acceptable to me than his Verses?but the Verses are well enough too. [From Thraliana 14 January 1779]

Near this place Are deposited the remains of HESTER MARIA. The daughter of Sir Thomas Cotton of Combermere, in the County of Cheshire, Bart., the wife of John Salusbury Esqr of the county of Flint. She was born in the year 1707. Married 1739. died in 1773.

A pleasing form, where every grace combined, With genius blest, a pure enlightened mind; Benevolence on all that smiles bestowed, A heart that for her friends with love o'erflowed: In language skilled, by science formed to please, Her mirth was wit, her gravity was ease.

Graceful in all, the happy mien she knew, Which even to virtue gives the limits due; Whate'er employed her, that she seemed to choose, Her house, her friends, her business, or the muse. Admired and loved, the theme of general praise, All to such virtue wished a length of days.

But sad reverse! with slow-consuming pains, Th' envenomed cancer revelled in her veins; Preyed on her spirits?stole each power away; Gradual she sank, yet smiling in decay; She smiled in hope, by sore affliction tried, And in that hope the pious Christian died.

Died:
On her death bed, Samuel Johnson kissed her and said "God bless you dearest Madam! for Jesus Christ's sake, and receive your Soul to Salvation!".

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• Occupation: Cottager
• Residence: Offley, Hertfordshire, England; Offley
• Note: 1697, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England
• Religion: 1702; Sacrament certificate signed by Ralph Thrale

Notes:

Residence:
Moved to Offley from Sandridge

Note:
Elizabeth Zarvite, wife of Francis Zarvite, was attacked by other women for breaking marriage vows by consorting with Ralph Thrale

Ralph married Anne Halsey on 7 Sep 1693 in St James Garlickhythe, Middlesex, England. Anne (daughter of ? Halsey) died in 1704. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Descended through Richard Clough and Anne Clough, the heiress, from the Cloughs of Bachygraig. It was from the Clough's that the Salusbury's inheireted the estate of Bachygraig. Anne Clough was married to Roger Salusbury of Llewenney in Denbighshire.

Thomas married Lucy Salusbury. Lucy (daughter of John Salusbury and Mary Pennant) died in 1745. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Philadelphia Lynch on 2 Nov 1689. Philadelphia (daughter of Sir Thomas Lynch) died in 1758 in Finchley, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Philadelphia Lynch had seventeen children, the eleventh of which was Hester Maria Cotton (Hester Lynch Thrale's mother)