Before 5th March 1807 [his father] Beriah Botfield of Norton Hall, Northamptonshire and [his mother] Charlotte Withering [aged 29] were married.
On 5th March 1807 Beriah Botfield was born to Beriah Botfield of Norton Hall, Northamptonshire and Charlotte Withering [aged 29] at Earl's Ditton, Shropshire.
In 1813 [his father] Beriah Botfield of Norton Hall, Northamptonshire died.
In 1831 Beriah Botfield [aged 23] was appointed High Sheriff of Northamptonshire.
In January 1839 Beriah Botfield [aged 31] was elected Fellow of the Royal Society.
In 1840 Beriah Botfield [aged 32] was elected MP Ludlow at a by-election which seat he held until 1847.
On 17th January 1843 [his uncle] Thomas Botfield [aged 80] died. He was buried at St Michael and All Angels' Church, Hopton Wafers where he and his wife have a fine monument by Edward Hodges Baily [aged 54]. His nephew Beriah Botfield [aged 35] inherited a life interest in Hopton Court, Shropshire.
In 1857 Beriah Botfield [aged 49] was elected MP Ludlow at a by-election which seat he held until his death in 1863.
In 1857 Beriah Botfield [aged 49] commissioned a stone cross near the Wales–England border on Shadwell Hill, to commemorate a pedlar named William Cantlin who was robbed and murdered there in 1691.
Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke
Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson.
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On 21st October 1858 Beriah Botfield [aged 51] and Isabel Leighton were married at Alderbury, Shropshire. There was no issue from the marriage.
1859. West Window. The stone tracery of this window dates from the remodelling of the church in the second quarter of the 15th century; but the glass is all 19th Century. The glass was installed under the supervision of Gilbert Scott during the 1859-60 restoration. The artist was Thomas Willement, the 'Father of Victorian Stained Glass' who had 'reinvented' the art of traditional stained glass-making from the observation of 15th Century examples at York Minster and elsewhere. The window was the gift of Beriah Botfield [aged 51] and his wife Isabel Leighton. The window features eleven men, each with a connection to the town's history:
Roger of Montgomery, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, the biggest landowner in Shropshire at the time of the Doomsday Book,
Josce de Dinan,
Piers Geneville,
Roger Mortimer 1st Earl March,
Edmund Mortimer 3rd Earl March, Earl of Ulster,
Richard of Conisbrough 1st Earl Cambridge,
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Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, who inherited the Lordship of Ludlow from his uncle, Edmund Mortimer, and was father of Edward IV and Richard III;
King Edward IV, crowned King after winning the Battle of Mortimer's Cross near Ludlow);
King Edward V, son of Edward IV, he was raised at Ludlow Castle with his brother Richard of Shrewsbury 1st Duke of York.
Isabel Leighton: she was born to Baldwin Leighton 7th Baronet and Mary Parker Lady Leighton. On 21st October 1858 Beriah Botfield and she were married at Alderbury, Shropshire. There was no issue from the marriage.
On 7th August 1863 Beriah Botfield [aged 56] died at his home in Grosvenor Square, Belgravia. Hopton Court, Shropshire was inherited by Reverend Woodward, the son of Sarah Skelhorn who was the sister of his aunt Lucy Skelhorn.
Great x 1 Grandfather: Beriah Botfield
Grandfather: Thomas Botfield
father: Beriah Botfield of Norton Hall, Northamptonshire
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Baker of Bromley, Worfield, Shropshire
Grandmother: Margaret Baker
Grandfather: William Withering
mother: Charlotte Withering