David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ His line failed in 1809, on the death of his son Richard (unmarried) . The refugee’s family was continued by his second and eighth sons. The fourth son, Claude’s, epitaph is beside that of his parents:— “To the memory of Claude Bosanquet, late of this parish, Esquire, who died 26th July 1786, aged 79; his life was the evidence of his faith in the Christian religion, his death the proof of its reward. ”

“ Pious and benevolent, he constantly exemplified his love to his fellow-creatures, his respect and reverence to his Maker. Ripe, both in years and virtue, he beheld his approaching end without fear, and retired at once with resignation and with confidence.” [It must be remembered that the deceased gentleman never endorsed either the phraseology or the doctrines of the above epitaph.] The founder of the chief line of the Bosanquets was the refugee’s second son, Samuel Bosanquet, of Forest House, Leyton, Essex, who was born in 1700, and married in 1732 Mary, the heiress of William Dunster, Esq. ”