FLOWER - Person Sheet
FLOWER - Person Sheet
NameSir Richard Godolphin LONG 
Birth12 Nov 1761, West Lavington, wiltshire
Death1 Jul 1835, Rood Ashton
FatherSir Richard LONG (1718-1787)
MotherMeliora Lambe (1726-1806)
Spouses
Birth1766, B O A WILTS
Death16 May 1835, Wiltshire England
FatherSir Bourchier Wray 6th Baronet (1714-1784)
MotherEllen Thresher (~1731-1813)
Marriage28 Mar 1786
ChildrenWalter (1793-1867)
Florentina (1790-1862)
Ellen (1787-~1864)
Richard (1795-1825)
Anne Katherine (1796-1866)
Dionysia Meliora (1799-1860)
Notes for Sir Richard Godolphin LONG
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Godolphin_Long#Family
Baptised at West Lavington, Wiltshire a month after his birth, he was the son of Richard Long (d. 1787)[2] and his wife Meliora, descendant of Sir John Lambe.[3]
By 1800, Long was a partner in the Melksham Bank, together with his younger brother John Long, John Awdry and Thomas Bruges.[4] In 1799, he purchased Steeple Ashton Manor House and farm,[5] which remained in the family until 1967, and commissioned architect Jeffry Wyattville to build Rood Ashton House nearby in 1808.[6]
He was appointed High Sheriff of Wiltshire for 1794. Long entered the House of Commons in 1806, sitting for Wiltshire until 1818.[1] He was the founder of the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry.[7]
Family
On 28 March 1786, he married Florentina Wrey, third daughter of Sir Bourchier Wrey, 6th Baronet,[2] and had by her four daughters and two sons.[8] After a lingering illness Long died aged 73, at Rood Ashton House, six weeks after his wife, and was interred in the family's crypt at St Mary's Church, Steeple Ashton.[2]
His older son Walter was also a member of parliament, representing North Wiltshire.[9] His second daughter Florentina (Flora), having been previously engaged to Henry Cobbe (uncle of Frances Power Cobbe), who had died the day before the proposed marriage,[10] formed a strong attachment to the then-elderly poet George Crabbe.[11] Flora and her aunts were frequent visitors of novelist Jane Austen, who referred to Flora as her 'cousin', though their exact relationship is not known.[12] Austen never met Crabbe, but nursed a fantasy of becoming his wife.[13]
Mr Richard Long of Rood Ashton was a fox-hunting country squire, without any other qualifications to be a Member of Parliament than that of belonging to an ancient family of the county, in fact, he was proverbially a man of very inferior knowledge, remarkable only for being a stupid country squire, who, although a sportsman, scarcely knew how to address his tenants on his health being drunk on a rent day.
Baptised at West Lavington, Wiltshire a month after his birth, he was the son of Richard Long (d. 1787)[2] and his wife Meliora, descendant of Sir John Lambe.[3]
By 1800, Long was a partner in the Melksham Bank, together with his younger brother John Long, John Awdry and Thomas Bruges.[4] In 1799, he purchased Steeple Ashton Manor House and farm,[5] which remained in the family until 1967, and commissioned architect Jeffry Wyattville to build Rood Ashton House nearby in 1808.[6]
He was appointed High Sheriff of Wiltshire for 1794. Long entered the House of Commons in 1806, sitting for Wiltshire until 1818.[1] He was the founder of the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry.[7]
Family
On 28 March 1786, he married Florentina Wrey, third daughter of Sir Bourchier Wrey, 6th Baronet,[2] and had by her four daughters and two sons.[8] After a lingering illness Long died aged 73, at Rood Ashton House, six weeks after his wife, and was interred in the family's crypt at St Mary's Church, Steeple Ashton.[2]
His older son Walter was also a member of parliament, representing North Wiltshire.[9] His second daughter Florentina (Flora), having been previously engaged to Henry Cobbe (uncle of Frances Power Cobbe), who had died the day before the proposed marriage,[10] formed a strong attachment to the then-elderly poet George Crabbe.[11] Flora and her aunts were frequent visitors of novelist Jane Austen, who referred to Flora as her 'cousin', though their exact relationship is not known.[12] Austen never met Crabbe, but nursed a fantasy of becoming his wife.[13]
Mr Richard Long of Rood Ashton was a fox-hunting country squire, without any other qualifications to be a Member of Parliament than that of belonging to an ancient family of the county, in fact, he was proverbially a man of very inferior knowledge, remarkable only for being a stupid country squire, who, although a sportsman, scarcely knew how to address his tenants on his health being drunk on a rent day.