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Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
NameCharlotte Bateman-Hanbury 
[3, Their marriage, Q3 of 1847, St Geo Han Sq, vol 1, p. 25], [62, 1914 edn, Bateman article, p. 195]
[3, Their marriage, Q3 of 1847, St Geo Han Sq, vol 1, p. 25], [62, 1914 edn, Bateman article, p. 195]Death29 Oct 1912
General2nd dau.
Spouses
Marriage7 Aug 1847, St George, Hanover Square, London [3, Their marriage, Q3 of 1847, St Geo Han Sq, vol 1, p. 25], [62, 1914 edn, Bateman article, p. 195]
ChildrenFlorence Elizabeth (1848-1929)
Notes for Charlotte Bateman-Hanbury
Her father was William, first baron Bateman.
m. (1) Geo J Whyte-Melville, (2) (7 Jun 1890) Leslie Frazer Duncan.
Her death?
Surname First name(s) Age District Vol Page
Deaths Sep 1912 (>99%)
Duncan Charlotte W M 87 Marylebone 1a 693
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Gavin Thompson of Tasmania has provided this superb account of her life and the husbands and their wives:
A Tangled Web: the complications of human families
Hon. Charlotte Bateman-Hanbury
Hon. Charlotte Bateman-Hanbury was born 4 May 1825, London, and baptised 27 May 1825 at St Mary, St Marylebone Road, St Marylebone, Londoni, the daughter of William Bateman-Hanbury, 1st Baron Bateman of Shobdon and Elizabeth Chichester. [Donegall, M]ii.
Charlotte married, firstly, Major George John Whyte-Melville, 7 August 1847, London, Englandiii.
Charlotte marriediv, secondly, as his second wife, Rev. Henry Peter Higginson, 2 Jun 1886, Geneva, Switzerlandv.
In November 1886 Higginson adopted, by deed poll, the name Henry Peter Higginson-Whyte-Melvillevi.
The marriage was declared a nullity in Sep 1887, by the Court of Divorce and Matrimonial Causesvii upon the grounds that at the time of the marriage Higginson was still legally married to his first wife notwithstanding a divorce had been granted by the Circuit Court of the County of Wayne, Michigan, USA on 6 Mar 1886: the English Court holding that by the law of the United Kingdom a marriage contracted between English subjects could not be dissolved by the Court of any other country, unless the parties to the marriage had abandoned their domicile in the United Kingdom, and that on the evidence it was clear that neither Higginson nor his first wife had acquired American domicile.
Charlotte married thirdly, as his fourth wife, Leslie Fraser Duncan, 7 June 1890, Greenwich, Londonviii.
She died 29 Oct 1912, Marylebone, London, Englandix and is buried at St Mary’s Church, Whersted, Suffolkx.
Major George John Whyte-Melville, son of John Whyte-Melville, of Strathkinniss, Fifeshire, Scotland and Lady Catherine Anne Sarah Osborne [Leeds, D], was born 19 Jun 1821, Mount Melville, near St Andrews, Scotland xi, and died 5 Dec 1878xii, as the result of a horse-riding accident while fox hunting near the Vale of the White Horse, near Malmesbury, Wiltshirexiii. He was buried at Tetbury, Gloucestershirexiv. He was a noted sportsman and authorxv.
Child of Hon. Charlotte Bateman-Hanbury and Major George John Whyte-Melville
1. Florence Elizabeth Whyte-Melville. She was born 26 Aug 1848, Marylebone, Londonxvi and died 14 Oct 1929 at Londonxvii. She married 4 Oct 1870, Onslow Gardens, Londonxviii, Clotworthy John Eyre Skeffington, 11th Viscount Massereene and 4th Viscount Ferrard, son of John Foster (afterwards John Foster Skeffington), 10th Viscount Massereene and 3rd Viscount Ferrard and Olivia Dean Grady. He was born 9 Oct 1842, at Dublin, Irelandxix, and died 26 Jun 1905 Londonxx. They are the ancestors of all subsequent Viscounts Massereene and Ferrardxxi.
Henry Peter Higginson, son of Henry Higginson and Anna Roundtree, was born circa 1837-1843 in (Dublin?), Irelandxxii.
Henry married, firstly, 11 Jan 1862, Dublin, Irelandxxiii, Annabella Jamesxxiv, daughter of Rev. John Jamesxxv and Annette Hatton. The children (if any) of Henry and Annabella have not been identifiedxxvi.
Henry married, secondly, 2 Jun 1886, Geneva, Switzerland, the Hon. Charlotte Whyte-Melville (neé Bateman-Hanbury) - (as above).
Henry married, thirdly, 13 Jun1888 Detroit, Michigan, USAxxvii, Mary Chavelita Dunne.
Mary Chavelita Dunne (originally Mary Elizabeth Annie Dunne), daughter of Capt. John Joseph Dunne and Isabella George-Bynon., was born 14 Dec 1859, Emerald, Victoria, Australia xxviii, and subsequently adopted the second forename “Chavelita”xxix.
She married, secondly, 1891, Strand, Londonxxx, Egerton Tertius Clairmonte son of Adolphus Julian Clairmonte and Catherine Barber. He was born circa 1862, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africaxxxi. In numerous instances he is erroneously named as George Egerton Clairmonte. He is described (erroneously?) as a “minor Canadian novelist”xxxii. He was author of The Africander: a Plain Tale of Colonial Life, published 1896xxxiii. In that book he describes his life in South Africa to which he returned at the age fourteen and his involvement in the Zulu War (1879) and the Gun War (also known as the Basuto War) (1880-1881). He also discribes his engagement to a Mabel and her subsequent marriage under parental presure to a Colonel Sinclair. He was bankrupt in 1891xxxiv He fathered an illegitimate child born 1898xxxv. The marriage was dissolved in 1901xxxvi, and he died later the same yearxxxvii, possibly in Canada (but perhaps in the USA or South Africa).
Child of Mary Chavelita Dunne and Egerton Tertius Clairmonte
1. 2nd Lt. George Egerton Clairmonte. He was born 24 Nov 1895, The Rectory Cottage, Chesam, Buckinghamshirexxxviii. He was educated at Basle, Switzerland and had planned to attend Cambridge University, but with the outbreak of WWI attended Sandhurst, was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Gloucestershire Regiment, qualified as 1st Class Machine Gun Instructor and became commander of the regiment’s machine gun section. He was killed in action on or about 25 Sep 1915 at Bois Hugo, Loos, France. He is buried at Loos British Cemetery, Francexxxix.
She married, thirdly, Jul 1901, Londonxl, Reginald Edward Golding Bright, son of Dr. John Meaburn Bright and (his first wife) Fanny Kenyon Mallinson. He was born 1875, Lewisham, Kentxli, and died 1941, Londonxlii.
Under the pen-name George Egerton (derived from her mother’s maiden name and her second husband’s first namexliii), she was a noted feminist and authorxliv. She died 12 Aug 1945, Londonxlv.
Henry Peter Higginson was ordained as an Episcopalian priest by the Bishop of Bloemfontein, South Africa in 1877xlvi. In 1887 he eloped to Norway with Mary Chavelita Dunne, who had been companion to Charlotte Whyte-Melvillexlvii. On 12 Dec 1887 he was “arrested” and forced into a carriage by Dunne’s father, who, in the ensuing altercation fired a pistol at Higginson, however the bullet failed to penetrate a thick rug upon Higginson’s lapxlviii. Higginson died in 1889 (in Norway?)xlix.
Leslie Fraser Duncan (formerly Joseph Duncan), son of Joseph Duncan and Jane Fraser, was born 2 Oct 1821, Birnie, Morayshire, Scotland and baptised there 24 Oct 1821l. He appears to have adopted the forenames “Leslie Fraser” (derived from the maiden names of his grandmother and mother) prior to 1868li, possible prior to 1861lii.
Joseph married firstly, circa 1846liii, possibly to a woman named Lucy, of whom no specific details are known. She died circa 1858liv.
Leslie married secondly, 16 Jun 1868, Kensington, Londonlv, Jane Martin, daughter of John Martin and … . She was born circa 1837, Dover, Kentlvi, and died 3 Sep 1879, Brighton, Sussexlvii.
Leslie married thirdly, 7 May 1881, St George Hanover Square, Londonlviii, Emma Maria Hanson Gronow (neé Dodds).
Emma Maria Hanson Dodds, daughter of William Dodds and Sarah Mary Lewis, was born 29 Jul 1842, Wanstead, Essexlix, and died 16 Aug 1884, St George Hanover Square, Londonlx.
She married firstly, 28 Nov 1864, Londonlxi, Dr Owen Tudor Gronow, son of Rev. Thomas Gronow and Elizabeth Anne Grimsdale. He was born circa 1845, Reading, Berkshirelxii, and died 6 Apr 1878, Kensington, Londonlxiii.
Child of Emma Maria Hanson Dodds and Owen Tudor Gronow
1. Owen Tudor Montague Gronow. He was born 10 Sep 1867, Kensington, Londonlxiv, and died 5 May 1951, Londonlxv. He married 1891, St George Hanover Square Londonlxvi, Ada Catherine Burnham, daughter of George Henry Burnham and Alice Parkins. She was born circa 1864, Brixton, Surreylxvii, and died 26 Jun 1926, Worthing, Sussexlxviii. They had no issuelxix.
He became engaged, in Apr 1889, to Teresa Carlotta Gladys Knowleslxx, but the marriage did not proceed. In 1890, she successfully sued for breach of promise of marriage and was awarded £10,000lxxi, subsequently reduced upon appeal, to £6,500lxxii.
As a result of the breach of promise of marriage action, bankruptcy proceeding were commenced by Miss Knowles in an endeavour to recover the amount awarded by the Court, involving both civil and criminal aspectslxxiii.
Teresa Carlotta Gladys Knowles, daughter of Capt. Charles Henry Knowles, RN (son of Sir Frances George Knowles, 3rd Baronet by his first wife Carlotta)lxxiv and Elizabeth. She was born circa 1869, Belgiumlxxv. The date and place of her death is not known.
She married 25 Mar 1891, Brighton, Sussexlxxvi, Alfred Joseph Prager, a London dentist. He was born 1861 Liverpool, Lancashirelxxvii. The date and place of his death is not known. The children (if any) of Alfred and Gladys have not been identified.
Leslie married, fourthly, 7 June 1890 Greenwich, London, the Hon. Charlotte Whyte-Melville (neé Bateman-Hanbury) – (as above).
During the breach of promise of marriage action, it was stated that Leslie Fraser Duncan had 7 children by his first two wives and in addition to have fathered six other children by five other womenlxxviii.
He was proprietor and editor of the Matrimonial News from 1870 until he sold it to his stepson, Owen Tudor Montague Gronow, in 1890lxxix.
He died 21 Nov 1913, Hyde Park, Middlesexlxxx, as the result of a fall (Coroner’s finding 25 Nov 1913)lxxxi. Probate of his Will was granted to his stepson, Owen Tudor Montague Gronow (who was the sole beneficiary) 24 Dec 1913lxxxii.
© 2010 Gavin D Thompson 29 Hillside Crescent
Revised 2012
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m. (1) Geo J Whyte-Melville, (2) (7 Jun 1890) Leslie Frazer Duncan.
Her death?
Surname First name(s) Age District Vol Page
Deaths Sep 1912 (>99%)
Duncan Charlotte W M 87 Marylebone 1a 693
_________________
Gavin Thompson of Tasmania has provided this superb account of her life and the husbands and their wives:
A Tangled Web: the complications of human families
Hon. Charlotte Bateman-Hanbury
Hon. Charlotte Bateman-Hanbury was born 4 May 1825, London, and baptised 27 May 1825 at St Mary, St Marylebone Road, St Marylebone, Londoni, the daughter of William Bateman-Hanbury, 1st Baron Bateman of Shobdon and Elizabeth Chichester. [Donegall, M]ii.
Charlotte married, firstly, Major George John Whyte-Melville, 7 August 1847, London, Englandiii.
Charlotte marriediv, secondly, as his second wife, Rev. Henry Peter Higginson, 2 Jun 1886, Geneva, Switzerlandv.
In November 1886 Higginson adopted, by deed poll, the name Henry Peter Higginson-Whyte-Melvillevi.
The marriage was declared a nullity in Sep 1887, by the Court of Divorce and Matrimonial Causesvii upon the grounds that at the time of the marriage Higginson was still legally married to his first wife notwithstanding a divorce had been granted by the Circuit Court of the County of Wayne, Michigan, USA on 6 Mar 1886: the English Court holding that by the law of the United Kingdom a marriage contracted between English subjects could not be dissolved by the Court of any other country, unless the parties to the marriage had abandoned their domicile in the United Kingdom, and that on the evidence it was clear that neither Higginson nor his first wife had acquired American domicile.
Charlotte married thirdly, as his fourth wife, Leslie Fraser Duncan, 7 June 1890, Greenwich, Londonviii.
She died 29 Oct 1912, Marylebone, London, Englandix and is buried at St Mary’s Church, Whersted, Suffolkx.
Major George John Whyte-Melville, son of John Whyte-Melville, of Strathkinniss, Fifeshire, Scotland and Lady Catherine Anne Sarah Osborne [Leeds, D], was born 19 Jun 1821, Mount Melville, near St Andrews, Scotland xi, and died 5 Dec 1878xii, as the result of a horse-riding accident while fox hunting near the Vale of the White Horse, near Malmesbury, Wiltshirexiii. He was buried at Tetbury, Gloucestershirexiv. He was a noted sportsman and authorxv.
Child of Hon. Charlotte Bateman-Hanbury and Major George John Whyte-Melville
1. Florence Elizabeth Whyte-Melville. She was born 26 Aug 1848, Marylebone, Londonxvi and died 14 Oct 1929 at Londonxvii. She married 4 Oct 1870, Onslow Gardens, Londonxviii, Clotworthy John Eyre Skeffington, 11th Viscount Massereene and 4th Viscount Ferrard, son of John Foster (afterwards John Foster Skeffington), 10th Viscount Massereene and 3rd Viscount Ferrard and Olivia Dean Grady. He was born 9 Oct 1842, at Dublin, Irelandxix, and died 26 Jun 1905 Londonxx. They are the ancestors of all subsequent Viscounts Massereene and Ferrardxxi.
Henry Peter Higginson, son of Henry Higginson and Anna Roundtree, was born circa 1837-1843 in (Dublin?), Irelandxxii.
Henry married, firstly, 11 Jan 1862, Dublin, Irelandxxiii, Annabella Jamesxxiv, daughter of Rev. John Jamesxxv and Annette Hatton. The children (if any) of Henry and Annabella have not been identifiedxxvi.
Henry married, secondly, 2 Jun 1886, Geneva, Switzerland, the Hon. Charlotte Whyte-Melville (neé Bateman-Hanbury) - (as above).
Henry married, thirdly, 13 Jun1888 Detroit, Michigan, USAxxvii, Mary Chavelita Dunne.
Mary Chavelita Dunne (originally Mary Elizabeth Annie Dunne), daughter of Capt. John Joseph Dunne and Isabella George-Bynon., was born 14 Dec 1859, Emerald, Victoria, Australia xxviii, and subsequently adopted the second forename “Chavelita”xxix.
She married, secondly, 1891, Strand, Londonxxx, Egerton Tertius Clairmonte son of Adolphus Julian Clairmonte and Catherine Barber. He was born circa 1862, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africaxxxi. In numerous instances he is erroneously named as George Egerton Clairmonte. He is described (erroneously?) as a “minor Canadian novelist”xxxii. He was author of The Africander: a Plain Tale of Colonial Life, published 1896xxxiii. In that book he describes his life in South Africa to which he returned at the age fourteen and his involvement in the Zulu War (1879) and the Gun War (also known as the Basuto War) (1880-1881). He also discribes his engagement to a Mabel and her subsequent marriage under parental presure to a Colonel Sinclair. He was bankrupt in 1891xxxiv He fathered an illegitimate child born 1898xxxv. The marriage was dissolved in 1901xxxvi, and he died later the same yearxxxvii, possibly in Canada (but perhaps in the USA or South Africa).
Child of Mary Chavelita Dunne and Egerton Tertius Clairmonte
1. 2nd Lt. George Egerton Clairmonte. He was born 24 Nov 1895, The Rectory Cottage, Chesam, Buckinghamshirexxxviii. He was educated at Basle, Switzerland and had planned to attend Cambridge University, but with the outbreak of WWI attended Sandhurst, was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Gloucestershire Regiment, qualified as 1st Class Machine Gun Instructor and became commander of the regiment’s machine gun section. He was killed in action on or about 25 Sep 1915 at Bois Hugo, Loos, France. He is buried at Loos British Cemetery, Francexxxix.
She married, thirdly, Jul 1901, Londonxl, Reginald Edward Golding Bright, son of Dr. John Meaburn Bright and (his first wife) Fanny Kenyon Mallinson. He was born 1875, Lewisham, Kentxli, and died 1941, Londonxlii.
Under the pen-name George Egerton (derived from her mother’s maiden name and her second husband’s first namexliii), she was a noted feminist and authorxliv. She died 12 Aug 1945, Londonxlv.
Henry Peter Higginson was ordained as an Episcopalian priest by the Bishop of Bloemfontein, South Africa in 1877xlvi. In 1887 he eloped to Norway with Mary Chavelita Dunne, who had been companion to Charlotte Whyte-Melvillexlvii. On 12 Dec 1887 he was “arrested” and forced into a carriage by Dunne’s father, who, in the ensuing altercation fired a pistol at Higginson, however the bullet failed to penetrate a thick rug upon Higginson’s lapxlviii. Higginson died in 1889 (in Norway?)xlix.
Leslie Fraser Duncan (formerly Joseph Duncan), son of Joseph Duncan and Jane Fraser, was born 2 Oct 1821, Birnie, Morayshire, Scotland and baptised there 24 Oct 1821l. He appears to have adopted the forenames “Leslie Fraser” (derived from the maiden names of his grandmother and mother) prior to 1868li, possible prior to 1861lii.
Joseph married firstly, circa 1846liii, possibly to a woman named Lucy, of whom no specific details are known. She died circa 1858liv.
Leslie married secondly, 16 Jun 1868, Kensington, Londonlv, Jane Martin, daughter of John Martin and … . She was born circa 1837, Dover, Kentlvi, and died 3 Sep 1879, Brighton, Sussexlvii.
Leslie married thirdly, 7 May 1881, St George Hanover Square, Londonlviii, Emma Maria Hanson Gronow (neé Dodds).
Emma Maria Hanson Dodds, daughter of William Dodds and Sarah Mary Lewis, was born 29 Jul 1842, Wanstead, Essexlix, and died 16 Aug 1884, St George Hanover Square, Londonlx.
She married firstly, 28 Nov 1864, Londonlxi, Dr Owen Tudor Gronow, son of Rev. Thomas Gronow and Elizabeth Anne Grimsdale. He was born circa 1845, Reading, Berkshirelxii, and died 6 Apr 1878, Kensington, Londonlxiii.
Child of Emma Maria Hanson Dodds and Owen Tudor Gronow
1. Owen Tudor Montague Gronow. He was born 10 Sep 1867, Kensington, Londonlxiv, and died 5 May 1951, Londonlxv. He married 1891, St George Hanover Square Londonlxvi, Ada Catherine Burnham, daughter of George Henry Burnham and Alice Parkins. She was born circa 1864, Brixton, Surreylxvii, and died 26 Jun 1926, Worthing, Sussexlxviii. They had no issuelxix.
He became engaged, in Apr 1889, to Teresa Carlotta Gladys Knowleslxx, but the marriage did not proceed. In 1890, she successfully sued for breach of promise of marriage and was awarded £10,000lxxi, subsequently reduced upon appeal, to £6,500lxxii.
As a result of the breach of promise of marriage action, bankruptcy proceeding were commenced by Miss Knowles in an endeavour to recover the amount awarded by the Court, involving both civil and criminal aspectslxxiii.
Teresa Carlotta Gladys Knowles, daughter of Capt. Charles Henry Knowles, RN (son of Sir Frances George Knowles, 3rd Baronet by his first wife Carlotta)lxxiv and Elizabeth. She was born circa 1869, Belgiumlxxv. The date and place of her death is not known.
She married 25 Mar 1891, Brighton, Sussexlxxvi, Alfred Joseph Prager, a London dentist. He was born 1861 Liverpool, Lancashirelxxvii. The date and place of his death is not known. The children (if any) of Alfred and Gladys have not been identified.
Leslie married, fourthly, 7 June 1890 Greenwich, London, the Hon. Charlotte Whyte-Melville (neé Bateman-Hanbury) – (as above).
During the breach of promise of marriage action, it was stated that Leslie Fraser Duncan had 7 children by his first two wives and in addition to have fathered six other children by five other womenlxxviii.
He was proprietor and editor of the Matrimonial News from 1870 until he sold it to his stepson, Owen Tudor Montague Gronow, in 1890lxxix.
He died 21 Nov 1913, Hyde Park, Middlesexlxxx, as the result of a fall (Coroner’s finding 25 Nov 1913)lxxxi. Probate of his Will was granted to his stepson, Owen Tudor Montague Gronow (who was the sole beneficiary) 24 Dec 1913lxxxii.
© 2010 Gavin D Thompson 29 Hillside Crescent
Revised 2012
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Notes for George John & Charlotte (Family)
Their marriage:
Surname First name(s) District Vol Page
Marriages Sep 1847 (>99%)
Hanbury Charlotte Bateman St. Geo. Han. Sqr 1 25
Melville George John Whyte St Geo Han Sq 1 25
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Surname First name(s) District Vol Page
Marriages Sep 1847 (>99%)
Hanbury Charlotte Bateman St. Geo. Han. Sqr 1 25
Melville George John Whyte St Geo Han Sq 1 25
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