74 THE ESSEX NATURALIST
father of Lord Chancellor Hatherly and of the Rev. Sir John
Page Wood, second Baronet, of Rivenhall Place, Essex, who held
the living of Cressing for thirty-four years, and grandfather of
Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood, V.C., who was born at Cressing,
where the family burial-place is.
Mrs. M. E. Bradhurst, niece of Sir Evelyn Wood and great-
great-granddaughter of the first Baronet, died at Rivenhall Place
only a year ago (1946).
The Barrett-Lennard family of Aveley is, I believe, a col-
lateral line of descent on the distaff side.
mr. denman. "Nor my Lords will I ever pay to anyone who may
usurp her Majesty's station that respect which belongs alone to her."
Mr. Thomas Denman, M.P., Her Majesty's Solicitor-
General, was later created a Baron (in 1834) and became Lord
Chief Justice of England: he was ancestor of the present Lord
Denman, whose wife, Lady Denman, is President of the
Federation of Women's Institutes.
earl grey. "With the deepest sense of the solemnity of the
occasion I can lay my hand upon my heart & fearlessly and conscien-
tiously say upon my honor 'Not Guilty'."
He was the second Earl.
mr. brougham. "The antagonist of the headless shapeless airy
being the retiring phantom without a local habitation or a name."
Mr. Henry Brougham, M.P., was Her Majesty's Attorney-
General: he was not always noted for the clarity of his language,
as this example goes to prove.
lord erskine. "Sooner than the Queen should have lost my vote
I would have been carried to the house on a litter." May Scotia ever
produce such men. "Nemo me Impune Lacessit."
Lord Erskine was great-grandfather to Mrs. Fanshawe
Tufnell, of Felsted, Essex.
sir f. burdett. "Her Majestys conduct deserves the sympathy &
admiration of every feeling man, her mode of procedure is evidently
the result of Conscious innocence."
Sir F. Burdett, Bart. was father of the well-known philan-
thropist, the Baroness Burdett-Coutts.
sir r. wilson. "To pass the Bill under such circumstances would
be an act of lawless violence which while I have life shall never be carried
into execution unresisted."
He was General Sir Robert Wilson.
earl Grosvenor. "Sooner would I have thrown the Liturgy in
the Kings face and trampled the Seals of Office under foot than have
been Guilty of such an Act."
Vertical columns, having armorial shields (which include
those of the City of London and of Colchester) divide the various
portraits, while marginal allegories announcing the "triumph of