Richard Aubrey (1744 - 1808)

Born 21 May 1744 in Llantrithyd, Glamorgan, Wales [uncertain]

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Died 31 Mar 1808 at age 63 in Taunton, England

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Biography

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Richard, born May 21, 1744, is the third and youngest son of Sir Thomas Aubrey, 5th Baronet and Martha Catherine Carter.

Educated at Exeter and All Souls Colleges, Oxford (matriculated 1765; BA 1771; MA 1775)

On February 20, 1780, he married Frances Digby daughter of the Hon. Wriothesly Digby.

Their children are:

• Julia Frances (Aubrey) Cartwright (1780-1856), baptized 31 December 1780; married, 29 May 1810 at St George, Hanover Square, London, William Ralph Cartwright MP of Aynho (Northants) and had issue; died at Edgcote (Northants), 19 November, and was buried at Aynho, 27 November 1856; will proved 20 December 1856
• Martha Maria Aubrey born September 1781 and buried October 1781
• Sir Thomas Digby Aubrey, 7th Bt.

Richard was an officer in the Royal Artillery; Col. of Royal Glamorganshire Militia, 1794-1808; JP and DL for Glamorganshire and was one of three deputy lieutenants who held the Lord Lieutenancy of Glamorganshire in commission, July-December 1794.

He was noted for 'a happy vein of wit and humor'.

He lived at Ash Hall (Glamorgan), which he acquired probably in the 1780s.

Richard died at Taunton (England), where his regiment was quartered, of an inflammation of the lungs on March 31, 1808.

He was buried at Llantrithyd where he is commemorated by a monument.

His wife died on December 12, 1782 and was buried at Llantrithyd, where she too is commemorated by a monument.

Sources

Landed Families of Britain and Ireland – Aubrey, later Aubrey-Fletcher, of Llantrithyd, Boarstall, Dorton and Chilton.