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 LACON, Sir Ed- mund Heney Knowles, j.p. d.l. Norfolk (1818, U.K.), M.p. Great Yarmouth 1852/7,18.59/68,Nortii Norfolk since 1868, high steward Great Yarmouth sincel875, hon. col. E. Norfolk mil. 1881, lieut.-col. com. 1860/81, lieut.- col. Norfolk art. vols, since 1864 ; s. his father as 3rd Baronet in 1839; b. 14 Aug. 1807; m. 23 Mar. 1889, Eliza Geor- gina, eldest dau. of James Esdaile Ham- met, Esq. of Batter- sea, and has 4 sons and 2 daus. (1) Efltnund Broughton Knowles, j.p. major East Norfolk mil., 1881, capt. 1867/81, late lieut. 73rd foot; b. 9 May, 1842; m. 9 May 1808, Henrietta Julia, eldest dau. of Sir Robert John Harvev- Harvey, Bart.; she d. 3 Sept. 1873. He m. 2ndly— 18 Feb. 1878, Florence Amelia, youngest dau. of Morgan Hugh Foster, Esq. C.B. of Brickhill, Beds. (2) Thomas Beecroft Ussher, b. 24 Feb. 1845 ; m. 20 June, 1877, Florence Dunbar, youngest dau. of R 0- Bankes,Esq. of Hayroyd, Rossdale, Toronto, Canada, and has had 3 sons, Edmund Beecroft Heathoote, b. 26 Sept. 1878.— Reginald Dunbar, b. 21 Feb. 1880; d. 8 April following.— A son, b. 14 Mar. 1881. (3) Henry Sidney, late capt. East Norfolk mil.; b. Dec. 1847. (4) Ernest de Montesquieu, capt. R. Cornwall rangers ; b. 4 May, 1850; m. 6 July, 1876, Charlotte Amelia, 3rd dau. of Lieut.- Col. Marcon, of Wallington Hall, Norfolk, and has a son and dau. Sidney Ernest de Montesquieu, b. 25 Nov. 1878. — Dorothy Mortlock, b. 8 Nov. 1881. (5) Georgiana, m. 10 Aug. 1865, to Major-Gen. Charles Henry Gordon, O.B. K.L.n.&M. lieut.-col. brigade depot, Aberdeen, 1858/63. (6) Eliza Walpole. Arms— Quarterly per fesse indented erminois and az., in the second quarter a wolf's head erased or. CREST — On a mount vert a falcon ppr. beaked and belled or, charged with a cross-flory and collared gu. MOTTO — Probitas verus honos. Residence — Ormesby House, Great Yarmouth. SIR EDMUND m. 2ndly— 1783, Sarah, dau. of John Mortlock, Esq. of Abingdon, Cambridge; she d. 5 Feb. 1829, having had with 4 daus. 2 sons, [2] John Mortlock, capt. 72nd highlanders, formerly 27th foot, D.L. Yarmouth, mayor Great Yarmouth 1827 ; b. 9 Feb. 1786; d. 1855, having m. Jane, dau. of Patrick Stirling-Grahame, Esq. of Pittendreich and Duntrune, co. Forfar; she d. 1 Sept. 1868, having had 7 sons and 4 daus. (1) John Edmund, of Duntrune, co. Forfar, J.P. as heir of his aunt, Miss Clementina Stirling-Grahame, comptroller of customs ; b. 2 Nov. 1810 ; m. 14 May, 1844, Louisa Matilda dau. of Edward Shewell, Esq. of Southampton, and had an only son, /I/ Frederick Grahame, lieut. 17th foot; b. 7 June, 1849; d. 1875, having m. 21 Oct. 1874, Annie Mnrgaret, elder dau. of Yen. Augustus Maodonald Hopper, archdeacon of Norwich (she re-m. 14 Nov. 1878, to Hugh William Tyrwhitt-Drake), and had a dau. — Ida Clementina. (2) Henry, R.N.; b. 16 Jan. 1812; d. unm. (3) William Stirling, of Duntrune; b. 9 June. 1813 ; d. unm. 4 Aug. 1879. (4) Mortlock, b. 5 Jan. 1817; d. unm. 1865. (5) Grahame, surgeon (E.I.C.S.) 9th N.I.; b. 18 Jan. 1818; d. 13 Feb. 1857, having m. Harriet, dau. of Rev. Edward Missenden Love, rector of Somerleyton and Blnndes- ton, Suff. ; she d. 10 Oct. 1881, having had 2 daus. /I/ Alice Graham, m. 19 July, 1881, to Rev. David Wil- liam Evans, rector of St. George, Abergele. /2/ Edith Jane. (6) Charles, b. 9 Feb. 1819; d. unm. 17 Oct "^SS, (7) Francis, lieut. R.N.; b. 8 Jan. 1824; d. ul n. 2 June, 1841. (8) Emilia Graham, m. 11 Feb. 1840, to Charles John Palmer, Esq. of Yarmouth, F.S.A. mayor of Yarmovith 1864/6, D.L. Norfolk, s.p. (Q) Jane, unm. (10) Clementina Louisa, m. 19 May, 1846, to Capt. Thomas j Spankie, E.i.c.S. (son of Mr. Sergeant Spankie, M.P.); he d. s. p. 1869. "V (11) Harriot Ellen, m. 5 Feb. 1852, to Major-Gen. Francis Montagu MaxAvell Ommaney, R.A. who d. s. p. 5 Mar. 1877. [3] Henry, E.l.C.s.; b. 5 Dec. 1791 ; d., having m. , dau. of Rev. William Dampier; she d. s.p. in 1830. He m. 2ndly, Mary, dau. of J. Roberts, Esq.; she d. 21 Mar. 1874. SIR EDMUND KNOWLES, 2nd Baronet, M.P. Great Yar- mouth, capt. commanding Yarmouth vol. cav. high sheriff Norfolk 1823; b. 28 Feb. 1780; d. 3 July, 1839, having m. 30 Aug. 1804, Eliza Dixon, eldest dau. and coVieir of Thomas Beecroft, Esq. of Saxthorpe Hall, Norfolk; she d. 23 April, 1865, having had with other issue 2 sons and 2 daus. (1) Sir Edmund Henry Knowles, 3rd and present Baronet. (2) Henry James, capt. R.X.; b. 27 Nov. 1810 ; d. 16 May, 1867, having m. 9 July, 1844, Louisa Bartlett, 2nd dau. of late J. Roberts, Esq. of Buckingham, and had a son and 2 daus. [1] Henry Edmund, capt. 71st highland L.L 1878; b. (i July, 1849. [2] Caroline Henrietta. [3] Laura Louisa. (3) Eliza Beecroft, d. 17 April, 1881, having m. 28 Mar. 1826, to Roger Kerrison Harvey Esq. (B.rt.). and had issue. (4) Anna Maria, m. Ib37, to Herbert J Lewis, Esq. Ulrtfage. SIR EDMUND LACON, of Yarmouth, alderman (grandson of Edmund Lacon, of Otley, Yorks. by Martha, dau. of Rev. William Beevor, rector of South Walsham, Norfolk — Beevoii), knighted 19 Dec. 1792, created a BARONET 11 Dec. 1818; b. 22 Oct. 1750; d. 30 Oct. 1820, having m. 1st, in 1779, Eleanor, younger dau. and coheir of Rev. Thomas Knowles, D.D. prebendary of Ely; she d. 1781, having had with other issue an only surviving son, [1] Sir Edmund Knowles, s. as 2nd Baronet. I