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 22d September 1748, that he died at Wimbledon, in Surrey, aged above ninety years. He had married Williamse, daughter of Sir Robert Henley of the Grange in Hampshire, and had five sons and three daughters, who survived him. The Genleman’s Magazine says, “He left France several years before the persecution of the Protestants, and settling here as a merchant, improved a fortune of £20,000, given him by his father, to above £300,000, which he possessed till the year 1720, when (so far from being in any secret), he lost above £50,000 by that year’s transactions. Yet, as he was unfortunately a director of the South Sea Company, the Parliament was pleased to take from him above £220,000 (nearly one half being real estate), by a law made ex post facto, which was given for the relief of the proprietors of that company, though they had gained several millions by the scheme, and though it appeared, when his allowance came to be settled in the House of Commons, that he had done many signal services to this nation.”

Three sons of the first baronet succeeded to the title in their turn. Sir Abraham died on 19th Nov. 1765, and Sir Henry on 21st Feb. 1766. Sir Stephen Theophilus Janssen, Chamberlain of the City of London, was the last baronet, and died 8th April 1777. Their sister, Barbara, was married to Thomas Bladen, M.P.; another sister, Mary, who married, 20th July 1730, Charles Calvert, sixth Lord Baltimore, was the mother of Frederick, seventh Lord Baltimore.

In 1619 Elie Darande, or D’Arande, appears as minister of the Walloon Church (or God’s house), Southampton. The name being often spelt D’Aranda, it is supposed that he was of Spanish ancestry, and that his parents had fled from Flanders from the Duke of Alva’s persecution. His tongue was French, and he died at Southampton, 13th May 1683. He had married Elizabeth Bonhomme, and left a son, Elie Paul D’Arande, or (as Calamy styles him), Rev. Elias Paul D’Aranda, who was educated at Oxford, and took the degree of M.A. This reverend gentleman (born 9 January 1625, died 1669), intended to live in the service of the Church of England, and served successively as a curate in Petworth, Patcham, and Mayfield. But his sympathy with the Nonconformists drove him from such employments in the year 1662, and in 1664 he became minister of the French Church at Canterbury. Calamy says of him, “He was a man of considerable accomplishments, a valuable preacher, and of an agreeable conversation.” He was the father of Paul D’Aranda (born 1652, died 1712), and grandfather of Paul D’Aranda (born 1686, died 1732), both Turkey merchants in London. The name has died out, the family being represented collaterally only.

Philippe Delmé was minister of the French Church of Canterbury. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Elie Muntois, and died 22d April 1653. His son was Peter Delme, merchant, London, father of Sir Peter Delm6, knight, who was Lord Mayor of London in 1724, and died 4th Sept. 1728. Sir Peter’s daughter, Anne, married Sir Henry Liddell, Bart., afterwards raised to the peerage as Lord Ravensworth; her only child, Anne, was married in 1756 to Augustus Henry, third Duke of Grafton, and is ancestress of the succeeding line of dukes. The Duchess of Grafton’s second son was General, Lord Charles Fitzroy, father of Vice-Admiral the Hon. Robert Fitzroy, M.P., the chief of the meteorological department of the Board of Trade. Sir Peter Delmé’s son and heir was Peter (born 1710, died 1770), M.P. for Southampton, whose son and heir was Peter (born 1748, died 1789), M.P. for Morpeth. The latter married, in 1759, Lady Elizabeth Howard, daughter of the fifth Earl of Carlisle, and founded two families. His eldest son was John Delmé, Esq., of Cams Hall (born 1772, died ____), who married Frances, daughter of George Garnier, Esq., and was the father of Henry Peter Delmé, Esq., of Cams Hall, and of Captain George Delmé, R.N. The younger son of Mr and Lady Elizabeth Delmé became in 1832 (in right of his wife, née Anne Milicent Clarke, representative of the Radcliffes), Emilius Henry Delmé Radcliffe, Esq., of Hitchin Priory (born 1774, died 1832). He was succeeded by his eldest son Frederick Peter Delmié Radcliffe, Esq., born in 1804; the third son, Rev. Charles Delmé Radcliffe is the father of Lieutenant-Colonel Emilius Charles Delmé Radcliffe of the 88th Regiment.

Among the ministers of God’s house, Southampton, Mr Burn names Philippe De la Motte,