David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ Bishop Saurin was a descendant of Jean Saurin, Sieur de la Blaquier, mestre-de-camp to the Duke de Rohan’s army in 1622, who was the brother of Saurin, the Huguenot envoy to our Charles I. in 1628, and father of Jean Saurin, advocate in Nismes. The latter (by Hippolyte Tournier, his wife) had three sons, Jacques, the pulpit orator (the Saurin par excellence) ; Captain Saurin, [1] refugee in England ”

“ Bishop Saurin died 19th April 1842, in his eighty-third year, having a great reputation as an efficient clergyman, a public-spirited Prelate, and a truly Catholic Christian. He had thirteen children, but only four have come under my observation — viz., Sarah (died in 1870) , wife of Rev. ”