Maj. Gen. William Selwyn

Notes:

Entry on the Queen's Royal Surrey's site

According to his entry in John Davis, the history of the Second Queen's
Royal Regiment, now the Queen's (Royal West) Surrey Regiment, vol. vi
(London, 1906), which covers officers serving between 1661 and 1904,
William Selwyn was commissioned as a Captain in the Guards on 1 September
1681, as Captain & Lieutenant Colonel, 2nd Foot Guards in 1688 and Colonel
of the 2nd Regiment of Foot on 18 December 1691. He was made a Brigadier
General in 1695, and exchanged to the Colonelcy of the 22nd Foot on 28 June
1701. On 9 March 1702, he was promoted to Major General and Governor of
Jamaica. He died in Jamaica on 6 April 1702. He served at the battles of
Landen, 19 July 1693 and Namur, 20 August 1695, serving in the allied army
under the command of William III. He appears to have served at some time
probably in the Anglo-Dutch Brigade in the United Netherlands, where he
came to the notice of the future William III.

Inherited Matson House in 1679

Entry on History of Parliament

M.P. for Gloucester, 1698 - Nov. 1701

s. William, of Gloucester (city), arm. ORIEL COLL., matric. 11 April 1674, aged 16; of Stonehouse, co. Gloucester; M.P. Gloucester 1698-1700, 1700-1, colonel 1701, major-general 1702; died 6 April, 1702. See Foster's Parliamentary History.

William married Albinia Betenson on 26 May 1681 in Westminster Abbey. Albinia (daughter of Richard Betenson and Albinia Wray) was born in 1657; died on 29 Dec 1737; was buried in Matson, Gloucester. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Albinia Selwyn was born in 1682; died in 1702 in Chislehurst; was buried on 13 Apr 1702 in Chislehurst .
2. William Selwyn was born in 1683; died about 1690.
3. Margaret Selwyn was born in 1684; died on 27 Apr 1742.
4. Elizabeth Frances Selwyn was born in 1685; was christened in 15 Oct.1685 in St. James, Westminster; died after 1722.
5. Col. John Selwyn was born on 20 Aug 1688 in Scadbury Park, Kent; died on 5 Nov 1751 in Matson.
6. Maj. Charles Selwyn was born in 1689; was christened on 23 Jan 1688 in St. James, Westminster; died on 9 Jun 1749 in St. Mary's Hampton, Kew.
7. Capt. Henry Selwyn was born on 19 Aug 1690; was christened on 06 Sep 1690 in St. James church, Westminster; died on 3 Sep 1734 in Matson; was buried on 5 Sep 1734 in Matson.

Notes:

Inherited Matson House in 1643

s. William, of Matson, co. Gloucester, arm. NEW INN HALL, matric 11 Dec, 1640, aged 15; died in 1679; father of the next.

Charles I used Matson House as his headquarters during the siege of Gloucester in 1643.

William married Margaret Nourse on 11 Mar 1640/41 in Matson. Margaret (daughter of Edward Nourse) was born in 1625; died on 18 Jan 1715-16 in Matson. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Inherited Matson House in 1635.

of co. Gloucester, arm. St.ALBAN HALL, matric. entry 5 June, 1607, aged 14; baptised 7 Oct, 1593; bar.-at-law, Lincoln's Inn, 1618 (as son Jasper of Matson, co. Gloucester), died 1643; father of the next. See Foster's Judges and Barristers.

William married Edith Bennet on 18 Sep 1621 in Stonehouse. Edith (daughter of Leonard Bennet) died in 1632 in Stonehouse ; was buried on 20 Jun 1632. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Resided: 1600, Matson House, Gloucester; Acquired from Ambrose Willoughby

Notes:

Acquired Matson House from Ambrose and Susan Willoughby in 1600.

of Co. Gloucester, pleb. MAGDALEN HALL, matric. entry under data 15 April, 1580, aged 19; of Matesdon, co. Gloucester, (2s. William, of Stanley Regis, co. Gloucester); bar.-at-law, Lincoln's Inn, 1591; treasurer 1620; buried 1634-35; father of William 1607. See Foster's Judges and Barristers.

From "British History Online" for Stonehouse: Manors and other estates

In the 16th century and early 17th an estate at Stonehouse and Ebley was acquired by the Selwyn family of Matson. In 1588 Jasper Selwyn bought a fulling-mill at Bridgend and lands from Humphrey Osborne, and in 1602 his estate in Stonehouse was described as 4 houses and over 100 a. of land. By his marriage to Margaret Robins in 1592 Jasper Selwyn acquired lands in Stonehouse and Ebley which had belonged in 1533 to Thomas Lane (d. 1544); Thomas's son, also Thomas, sold the lands in 1557 to John Robins of Matson, whose successor, Thomas Robins (d. c. 1578), left them to his daughter Margaret. In 1621 Jasper Selwyn's son William married Edith, daughter of an Ebley clothier, Leonard Bennett; her inheritance included Ebley Mill and the house called EBLEY COURT. Jasper Selwyn died in 1635 and William in 1643. The estate then passed to William's son, also William, who died in 1679. William the son of the younger William (d. 1702) then held the estate, and his widow Albinia (d. 1738) held it in 1711. In the late 17th century the property at Ebley included the cloth-mill with 70 a. of land, and another farm of 60 a., and, at Stonehouse, the Bridgend cloth-mill and c. 100 a. of land. Albinia Selwyn's son John died in 1751, and his son, George Augustus Selwyn, owned Ebley Mill in 1788 and died in 1791 when the estate passed to his nephew Thomas Townshend, Viscount Sydney.

Jasper married Margaret Robins on 13 Jan 1590/91 in Kings Stanley. Margaret (daughter of Thomas Robins and Joan) died on 28 May 1636. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]