RICHARD WARNER (1711-1775). 209
"at his seat, West Bromwich Hall, Staffordshire. By his will,
"dated the 15th of January 1808, he devised" all the estate
upon trust to his executors to be sold for the benefit of the chil-
dren of the Rev. Samuel Clarke, who afterwards took the name
of Jervoise; and at the sale in 1811 the estate, which comprised
Cold-Bath House, Cold-Bath Square, Little Warner Street,
Great and Little Bath Streets, Ray and Dorrington Streets,
the Phoenix Foundry, Red Lion Yard, a distillery and ten public-
houses, realised nearly £77,000.4
Robert Warner was, like his younger brother, a member
of the University of Oxford.5 A printed slip, found in a book
at Idsworth, is inscribed," Mr. Robert Warner, near Temple
"Bar, London. Printed at the Theatre in Oxford, Sept. 15,
"An. Dom. 1718." He may have married into the Leigh family,
since his son was named John Leigh Warner, and there are
portraits at Idsworth of Barnabas Eveleigh Leigh (born 1703)
and his wife, painted in 1736 by Joseph Highmore, an artist
who painted many portraits in his day of students and residents
in or near Lincoln's Inn. John Leigh Warner died in boyhood
in 1765, and his father, whose will bears date May 8th, 1764,
probably about the same time, leaving his daughter Katherine
heiress to considerable property. Part at least of the Clerken-
well property seems, however, from Richard Warner's will, to
have passed into his possession.
From his books, now preserved at Idsworth, Robert Warner
seems to have been a man of considerable education and classical
study and to have maintained the friendship with the Burnet
family. Some of his books also are presents from his younger
brother. He possessed an estate at Belmont, near Bedhampton,
in South Hants, which probably brought his family into connec-
tion with the Clarke Jervoises of Idsworth. Mary Elizabeth,
daughter of Thomas Jervoise, of Herriard, married Samuel
Clarke, of West Bromwich, Staffordshire, son of Sir Samuel
Clarke, High Sheriff of London in 1713, and had one son, Jer-
voise Clarke, and a daughter Anne. Jervoise Clarke, who
afterwards took the surname of Jervoise by act of parliament
in compliance with the will of his mother's father, and sat in
Parliament for Hampshire, married in 1763 the heiress who is
4 Pink's History of Clerkenwell, p. 124.
5 He matriculated 13 February, 1721-2, at Wadham, aged 16. Barrister-at-law, Lincoln's
Inn, 1729.