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Descent from Richard Wykeham to Alice Wykeham-Martin (Line 55)

Last updated:  15 April 2005

Richard Wykeham, of Swalcliffe; married Vere Alicia (sister and coheir of Richard Fiennes, last Viscount Saye and Seal)

Richard Wykeham, d. 1805 (A); Vicar of Sulgrave and Chacombe, Northants.; Rector of Newton Purcell, Oxon.; married Mary Fox (daughter of Charles Fox, of Chacombe Priory)

Fiennes Wykeham, b. 12 Jan 1768 (A), d. 14 Sep 1840 (A), of Leeds Castle; changed his name by roy licence to Wykeham-Martin 18 Oct 1821 (A); High Sheriff of Kent 1824; married Eliza Bignell (daughter of Richard Bignell, of Doddington, Oxon.)

Charles Wykeham-Martin b. 11 Sep 1801 (A); d. 30 Oct 1870 (A); of Leeds Castle, DL, JP, MP W Kent (A). He married Lady Jemima Isabella Mann (daughter of James Cornwallis, 5th Earl Cornwallis and Maria Isabella Dickens; d. 17 Dec 1836 (A)) on 12 Apr 1828 (A)

Cornwallis Wykeham-Martin b. 1834 in Leeds Castle, Kent, England, died 1903 at The Hill, Purton, Wiltshire, England (B). Royal Navy, serving in Baltic Fleet, 1854; Panama; invalided home 1859; resigned as Captain, October 1860 (B). He married Ann Katherine Rolls (daughter of John Rolls; d. 1912 (B)) in Jan1861 at The Hill, Purton, Wiltshitre, England (B)

Alice Wykeham-Martin b. 2 Jul 1868 at The Hill, Purton, Wiltshire (B); d.19 Oct 1971 in Haslemere, Surrey (A, D). She married Hugh Pollock (son of George David Pollock and Marianne Charity Saunders; b. 15 Jan 1859 in London (A, C); d. 1944 (A, E). Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge (MA); Barrister, Assistant Registrar - Land Registry 1898-1921) on 8 Jun 1898 in Purton, Wiltshire (A, B, C).  Alice Pollock wrote "Memoirs of my Victorian Youth" at age of 100

Sources: 

A       Burke’s Peerage and Baronetage

B       Memories of My Victorian Youth by Alice Pollock

C       Family of David Pollock by Alexander Pollock

D       Newspaper cuttings

E       National Registry of Archives