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RICHARD STEPHENS, Esq., of Eastington, and other manors, co. Gloucester,married July, 1654, Anne, daughter of Sir Hugh Cholmley, Knight andBaronet, of Whitby, co. York, M. P. for Scarborough, who distinguishedhimself as a royalist during the civil war in the time of King Charles I,suffered the siege and capture of his castle, and was banished, but laterrestored. Richard Stephens who qualified as a Knight of the proposedOrder of the Royal Oak, 1660,2 died March 4, 1678, and his wife 1712. Hiswill dated January 9, 1675, was proved March 26, 1680, by hisbrother-in-law Sir Hugh Cholmley,Bart. He had issue; I. NATHANIEL, born 1655, his heir, of whom presently. II. Richard, of the Middle Temple, London, Barrister at Law, who diedchildless at the age of twenty-five. III. Cholmley, who died at nineteen, in the East Indies childless. IV. Francis, who died childless. V. Henry, who died at fifteen, in Smyrna. VI. Robert, born 1664, of the Middle Temple, Barrister at Law, Solicitorof Customs to Queen Anne and King George I, Historiographer Royal of England by appointment of theKing. He studied at Lincoln College, Oxford1 and was called to the bar in1689. He was one of the founders of the Society of Antiquaries, ofEngland, and published as editor, "Letters and Reminiscences of LordChancellor Bacon". His catalogue of letters and papers of Lord Bacon arepreserved in the British Museum. Having married Mary, daughter of SirHugh Cholmley, Bart., of Whitby, co. York, widow of Nathaniel Cholmley,Esq., of Leicestershire, he died childless at the age of sixty-seven atGravesend, November 9, 1732, and was buried at Eastington.2 VII. Catherine, who died unmarried. VIII. Ann, who married Sir Charles Page or Pye, of Clifton Camwell, co.Stafford. -----William Lackey Stephens;http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/s/t/e/William-Lackey--Stephens/index.html
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