"On Saturday morning, died the Rt Hon Margaret Countess of Hardwicke, at the Earl of Hardwicke's house in Grosvenor Square." (Ipswich Journal, 26 Sep 1761, page 2)
"We must now relate the young barrister's good fortune in another sphere, that of matrimony. Margaret Lygon, the object of his affections, was the widow of W illiam Lygon, the heir of Madresfield, who had died almost immediately after the marriage, and by birth Margaret Cocks. She belonged to an old and respectable famiy of country gentlemen of Castleditch in Hereforeshire which, it is said, has held landed property in Kent from the reign of Edward I. She was a woman of sound sense with valuable domestic qualities and a strong personality, while the affection with which she was regarded by her children and by her friends testifies to her amiable character. She proved a devoted wife and brought up a large family of sons and daughters with great wisdom and extraordinary success. A long married life of great happiness, undisturbed by even a breath of scandal, and scarcely interrupted till its close by a single domestic loss or calamity, of which the full stream of prosperity widened every succeeding year as their children grew to maturity and provided their parents with fresh cause of satisfaction, was now in store for the fortunate young couple, and to his marriage the Chancellor owed much, not only of his happy home life, but something even perhaps of his success in public affairs.
"According to the marriage settlement of 1718 certain lands at Dover and in the neighbourhood, inherited from the elder Simon Yorke and the Gibbon family, were vested in his parents for their life, afterwards in himself and his wife, and afterwards in their children, he himself adding a further £800 and the trustees being directed to secure additional property bringing in £300 a year, while the elder Philip Yorke was allowed to charge the property with £2000. Mrs Yorke brought into the trust the sum of £6000.
"This marriage, which took place in May 1719, was the first connection between the two families of Yorke and Cocks, which had subsequently considerable influence on both. It moreover created a link between the two great Chancellors, Lord Somers and Lord Hardwicke. Charles Cocks, M.P. for Worcester and Droitwich, the father of Mrs Philip Yorke, had married Mary Somers, the eldest sister and representative of Lord Somers, who himself had died unmarried, leaving neither children nor brothers."
(The Life and Correspondence of Philip Yorke: Earl of Hardwicke, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, Volume 1, by Philip Chesney Yorke, University Press, 1913)
"We must now relate the young barrister's good fortune in another sphere, that of matrimony. Margaret Lygon, the object of his affections, was the widow of W illiam Lygon, the heir of Madresfield, who had died almost immediately after the marriage, and by birth Margaret Cocks. She belonged to an old and respectable famiy of country gentlemen of Castleditch in Hereforeshire which, it is said, has held landed property in Kent from the reign of Edward I. She was a woman of sound sense with valuable domestic qualities and a strong personality, while the affection with which she was regarded by her children and by her friends testifies to her amiable character. She proved a devoted wife and brought up a large family of sons and daughters with great wisdom and extraordinary success. A long married life of great happiness, undisturbed by even a breath of scandal, and scarcely interrupted till its close by a single domestic loss or calamity, of which the full stream of prosperity widened every succeeding year as their children grew to maturity and provided their parents with fresh cause of satisfaction, was now in store for the fortunate young couple, and to his marriage the Chancellor owed much, not only of his happy home life, but something even perhaps of his success in public affairs.
"According to the marriage settlement of 1718 certain lands at Dover and in the neighbourhood, inherited from the elder Simon Yorke and the Gibbon family, were vested in his parents for their life, afterwards in himself and his wife, and afterwards in their children, he himself adding a further £800 and the trustees being directed to secure additional property bringing in £300 a year, while the elder Philip Yorke was allowed to charge the property with £2000. Mrs Yorke brought into the trust the sum of £6000.
"This marriage, which took place in May 1719, was the first connection between the two families of Yorke and Cocks, which had subsequently considerable influence on both. It moreover created a link between the two great Chancellors, Lord Somers and Lord Hardwicke. Charles Cocks, M.P. for Worcester and Droitwich, the father of Mrs Philip Yorke, had married Mary Somers, the eldest sister and representative of Lord Somers, who himself had died unmarried, leaving neither children nor brothers."
(The Life and Correspondence of Philip Yorke: Earl of Hardwicke, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, Volume 1, by Philip Chesney Yorke, University Press, 1913)
"On Saturday morning, died the Rt Hon Margaret Countess of Hardwicke, at the Earl of Hardwicke's house in Grosvenor Square." (Ipswich Journal, 26 Sep 1761, page 2)
"We must now relate the young barrister's good fortune in another sphere, that of matrimony. Margaret Lygon, the object of his affections, was the widow of W illiam Lygon, the heir of Madresfield, who had died almost immediately after the marriage, and by birth Margaret Cocks. She belonged to an old and respectable famiy of country gentlemen of Castleditch in Hereforeshire which, it is said, has held landed property in Kent from the reign of Edward I. She was a woman of sound sense with valuable domestic qualities and a strong personality, while the affection with which she was regarded by her children and by her friends testifies to her amiable character. She proved a devoted wife and brought up a large family of sons and daughters with great wisdom and extraordinary success. A long married life of great happiness, undisturbed by even a breath of scandal, and scarcely interrupted till its close by a single domestic loss or calamity, of which the full stream of prosperity widened every succeeding year as their children grew to maturity and provided their parents with fresh cause of satisfaction, was now in store for the fortunate young couple, and to his marriage the Chancellor owed much, not only of his happy home life, but something even perhaps of his success in public affairs.
"According to the marriage settlement of 1718 certain lands at Dover and in the neighbourhood, inherited from the elder Simon Yorke and the Gibbon family, were vested in his parents for their life, afterwards in himself and his wife, and afterwards in their children, he himself adding a further £800 and the trustees being directed to secure additional property bringing in £300 a year, while the elder Philip Yorke was allowed to charge the property with £2000. Mrs Yorke brought into the trust the sum of £6000.
"This marriage, which took place in May 1719, was the first connection between the two families of Yorke and Cocks, which had subsequently considerable influence on both. It moreover created a link between the two great Chancellors, Lord Somers and Lord Hardwicke. Charles Cocks, M.P. for Worcester and Droitwich, the father of Mrs Philip Yorke, had married Mary Somers, the eldest sister and representative of Lord Somers, who himself had died unmarried, leaving neither children nor brothers."
(The Life and Correspondence of Philip Yorke: Earl of Hardwicke, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, Volume 1, by Philip Chesney Yorke, University Press, 1913)
"We must now relate the young barrister's good fortune in another sphere, that of matrimony. Margaret Lygon, the object of his affections, was the widow of W illiam Lygon, the heir of Madresfield, who had died almost immediately after the marriage, and by birth Margaret Cocks. She belonged to an old and respectable famiy of country gentlemen of Castleditch in Hereforeshire which, it is said, has held landed property in Kent from the reign of Edward I. She was a woman of sound sense with valuable domestic qualities and a strong personality, while the affection with which she was regarded by her children and by her friends testifies to her amiable character. She proved a devoted wife and brought up a large family of sons and daughters with great wisdom and extraordinary success. A long married life of great happiness, undisturbed by even a breath of scandal, and scarcely interrupted till its close by a single domestic loss or calamity, of which the full stream of prosperity widened every succeeding year as their children grew to maturity and provided their parents with fresh cause of satisfaction, was now in store for the fortunate young couple, and to his marriage the Chancellor owed much, not only of his happy home life, but something even perhaps of his success in public affairs.
"According to the marriage settlement of 1718 certain lands at Dover and in the neighbourhood, inherited from the elder Simon Yorke and the Gibbon family, were vested in his parents for their life, afterwards in himself and his wife, and afterwards in their children, he himself adding a further £800 and the trustees being directed to secure additional property bringing in £300 a year, while the elder Philip Yorke was allowed to charge the property with £2000. Mrs Yorke brought into the trust the sum of £6000.
"This marriage, which took place in May 1719, was the first connection between the two families of Yorke and Cocks, which had subsequently considerable influence on both. It moreover created a link between the two great Chancellors, Lord Somers and Lord Hardwicke. Charles Cocks, M.P. for Worcester and Droitwich, the father of Mrs Philip Yorke, had married Mary Somers, the eldest sister and representative of Lord Somers, who himself had died unmarried, leaving neither children nor brothers."
(The Life and Correspondence of Philip Yorke: Earl of Hardwicke, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, Volume 1, by Philip Chesney Yorke, University Press, 1913)
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