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 BTTRKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. 767 Arm.i — O^nje-v on a rJierroii helween three rinquefoili or. Crexl — On ii mount rerl a hear jmssanf proper, muzzled, from the muzzle a chain pendant and reflexed over the hack got d. Motto — En dieu e.it font. Sesidence — Middlemoiint, Riclimcitnl, Cape Colony. w ARNER OTTLEY GROOl^I, of Suva, Fiji Islaiul.s, first clerk H.M. Cu.stoms, Suva, Fiji Islands, h. 26th April, 1847, m. 14th February, 1887, Marie Augusta, daughter of Johu Frederick STRAunE,by his wife Autonie BUEECKNER. Itinrngc. ,-ffamil{i of ffiioom. I railway system. He was much esteemed as a citizen of Loudon, and was a major in the Militia, and in aiding and su]i])ressiu{; a riot in the east of Loudon, received personally the thanks of the Prince Regent. Through a de- faulting partner he lost liis fortune except about f 14-,000, and was occupied for some years as a draughtsman of parliamentary commercial bills and for these services was offered and declined a baronetcy. Lord Lyndhurst, his intimate friend, on succeeding to the chancellorship, sent for him, and nomi- nated him an official assignee in the court of bankruptcy under the Reform Act. He carried on this business for above twenty years at 12, Abchurch Lane, London, E.G. Ho m. Mary Gattek, daughter of Mr. de tiatrcs or G-aeta, of Italy (a nobleman wliose family had been some generations settled in England), by his wife the daughter ot Tliomas Dickes, grandson of Sir Thomas Dickes, aide-de-camp to the Duke of Marl- borough at the battle of Blenheim, who was knighted, and received a purse of 200 guineas as compensation from the Queen for the loss of his luggage (the purse and one guinea are in possession of Charles, Prince of Mantua). Mr. J. F. Q-room d.ai his country house at Tottenham, aged 70 years, December, 1857, leaving issue, I. James, who became a large landowner in Tasmania, whither he emigrated. II. Charles Edward, went to Tobago, West Indies, became a jilanter and a lieutenant in tlic Militia, and mendicr of the Assembly. Hi' d. 2nd Septem- ber, 1838, aged twenty-live years, having shortly before m. Ann, daugliter of the Hon. Archibald Napier, of Murchison, Tobago. His son, Charles Oltley tirooni Najiier, 4. (posthumous) Mt'h May, 183;», and assumed the name of Napikk in 1865. III. Fli.^NCis, of whojn j^rcsentlv. I, Ennna, m. Mr. H.MUilsOiV. II. Mary Ann, ni. Mr. Ci,.HKSON. The third son, EuANCis Gkoom, who »ctth-d at Harelh-lil, in Tasmania, 181.;i, m. 18;!;>, Matilda Emma, fourth daughter of Paul Minnitt {see heloio), Roheet Graeme, youngest son of Mal- roi.M Graeme, by Ellen DoroLAS (Lady of the Lake) his wife ; 7«. Mary, daughter and heiress of Roger GltOlIE, of Lavingham or Lauenham,aud assumed the name of Grome. Their son, William Gbome, of Lauenham, m. Mary, daugliter of Robert Dandt, of Spaich, and had a son, William Grome, m. Jane Howard, and had a son, James Grome, of Lauenham, m. Anne, daughter of David Rowlet, and had a son, John Gkomk, m. Rachel, daughter of Edward Russel, by his wife Rachael Israel, daughter of Manasseh Bex Israel, who proposed a treaty for the Jews to Cromwell. Rabbi Manasseh was seventy-second in lineal descent from David, King of Israel. He proposed to pay Cromwell a large sum of money and receive St. Paul's Cathedral as a synagogue for the Jews. Their son, Charles Grome, of Lauenham, was father of, Francis John Geome, who was father of, Thomas Grome, m. Mary Cromwell, a descendant of the Protector, and had a son, James Grome, who was father of, John Grome, of Lauenham, who had thirteen children. He sold his patrimonial estate, which not having been entailed, sank gradually from 8,000 acres which it was in the days of Queen Elizabeth to about 700 acres. When in the middle of life, he sold his estate for £18,0tl0 and settled in London a!id changed the sjjelling of his name to " Groom." He had with other issue, I. Frank, master of the City of London School. II. James, m. Jane Gresham, descended from the brother of Sir Thomas Gresham, temp. Elizabeth. HI. James Foster, of whoin presently, The yoimgest son, James Foster tiBOOME, ap|irenlice to a merchant in London, and by his skill in ae- eounts and finance, acquired half a million sterling. He was the founder of several most succcssfid banking companies, and greatly helped the developuicnt of the British
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