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 the Connaught Rangers (88th Foot), was present at Vittoria, the battles of the Pyrenees, and other engagements, for which he received the Peninsular medal with six clasps. He married Mary (who died in 1871), eldest daughter of John Gage, Esq., of Rogate, brother of the third Viscount Gage, and died 29th January 1883, aged ninety. The third son of John Delmé, Esq., was Captain George Delmé, R.N.

The younger son of Mr. and Lady Elizabeth Delmd 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 Delmé Radcliffe, Esq., born in 1804; the third son, the late Rev. Charles Delmé Radcliffe, was the father of LieutenantColonel Emilius Charles Delmé Radcliffe, of the 88th Regiment, and of Rev. Henry Eliot Delmé Radcliffe, Rector of South Tedworth. The above-named FrederickPeter died 30th November 1875, and was succeeded by his fifth but eldest surviving son, Captain Hubert Delmé Radcliffe, of the 23rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers. This gallant officer died 13th October 1878, aged thirty-nine; and he was succeeded by his next brother, Francis Augustus Delmé Radcliffe, Esq., now of Hitchin Priory, born 1st June 1845, married, 14th April 1874, Georgy Melosina Mary Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the late Admiral Sir Charles Talbot, K.C.B.  

The refugee ancestry of this family has been detailed in my Chapter II., at the beginning of a Memoir of Pasteur Jean Bulteel, of the French Church, Canterbury. The witnesses of the baptisms of his children, as given in the Historical Introduction and commented upon in my Chapter II., bring before us a living exhibition of the three brothers, James, John (the pastor), and Peter, sons of Giles Bulteel and Marie Brontin, as they appear in the visitation-pedigree of 1633-4. It is with Peter that we have now to do. By the Government-List (see Camden Society Volume) we know that he was thirty-seven years of age in the year 1618; this brings us to a formal commencement.

Peter Bulteel, of London, merchant in Broad Street Ward, was born in 1581. His wife was Hester, daughter of Hugh Harber (anglicised Herbert), a refugee at Norwich. His sons seem to have been grown-up men in the year 1633, for the fourth son, Charles, signed the official pedigree for his father in that year. There were two daughters, Hester and Sarah, and five sons, Peter, John, James, Charles, and Samuel. Peter, the son and heir, married Susanna, daughter of Peter Fortry (or de la Forterye) of London, and of East Coombe, Kent, by Leah, daughter of Laurens Des Bouverie; this Mrs. Peter Bulteel died in 1692, her only son died unmarried, and her daughters were Mrs. Mills, Mrs. Miller, Mrs. Creech, Mrs. Daniel, and Mrs. Gratwich. The other sons of the elder Peter Bulteel are unrepresented, except the third son, James. He is styled James Bulteel, of London, afterwards of Barnstaple in Devonshire, and he married Miss Peard of Barnstaple. Two children of this marriage are on record. Mary, the wife of Sir Richard Vyvyan, Knt, M.P., Master of the Mint at Exeter, who was created a baronet in 1645, and is still represented in the same rank. Samuel Bulteel, of Tavistock, her brother, married a daughter of John Kekewich, Esq., of Catchfrench, Cornwall, and died in 1679. His son and successor was another Samuel Bulteel, of Tavistock, who had married Azrael, daughter of Daniel Condy, of Tavistock; but he died a year after his father, and at the early age of twenty-eight. He, however, left two sons, besides a daughter, Jane, who died young. His eldest son, a third Samuel Bulteel, died unmarried; but the second son, born in 1676, founded a family which is still existent. He was James Bulteel, Esq., of Flete, M.P. for Tavistock; his wife was Mary, daughter and heiress of Courtenay Crocker, Esq., of Lynam (or Lynham, or Lyneham). Mr. Bulteel died in 1756, aged eighty; and his eldest son, James, died leaving a son, Courtenay Crocker Bulteel, unmarried. The daughters of Mr. Bulteel, M.P., were Mary, wife of John Francis Pengelly, Esq., of Scotridge; Jane, wife of Rev. John Gandy, of Plymouth; and Catherine and Azrael, both unmarried. One surviving son continued the family, namely, John Bulteel, Esq., of Flete, who married Hon. Diana Bellenden, daughter of John, Lord Bellenden, and had four sons and three daughters — the latter being Catherine, Mrs. Harris, Diana, Mrs. Hutcheson, and Mary. The eldest son, James, was unmarried. And the next head of the family was John Bulteel, Esq., of Flete and Lyneham, who married Elizabeth, daughter of