In he took the degree of M.A. [39], The town suffered very little from the bombing runs in the Second World War that did damage to many English locations. La Touche : a noble Protestant family of the Blesois, between Blois and Orleans, where they possessed considerable estates. One of his sons, Sainte-Helene, took refuge in London, where he died in 1697. Henzell : a foreign Protestant who settled at Newcastle-on-Tyne, about the time of the massacre of St. Bartholomew. This boy, on arriving at manhood, entered the army, was lieutenant of Dragoons, afterwards captain of the Old Buffs; and it was while recruiting at Hereford, in 1716, that his son David, afterwards the celebrated actor, was born, in the Angel Inn there. The baronetcy expired in 1724. He became a wellknown manufacturer at Bow; and afterwards assumed the English name of James. Emeris : a refugee family of this name fled out of France at the massacre of St. Bartholomew, and purchased a small property in Norfolk, which descended from father to son, and is still in the possession of the family,at present represented by W. R. Emeris, Esq., of Louth, Lincolnshire. Bishop Hall designated Louis Cappel the grand oracle of the Hebraists. Louis son James was appointed professor of Hebrew in the same university at the early age of nineteen. The three main museums are Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery, Shrewsbury Castle (which houses the Shropshire Regimental Museum) and the Coleham Pumping Station. Peter Barre married Miss Raboteau, also a refugee. He died in London in 1693. James I. invited him over to England, and appointed him his first physician. It is believed that the family originally came from the neighbourhood of Lille, where there are still many of the same name; and that they joined the Walloon colony, which in the first place settled at Sandtort in Yorkshire, but migrated from thence to Thorney Abbey during the wars of the Commonwealth. Le Bas, Peter : a Protestant refugee naturalised in 1687, from whom descended the late eminent divine, the Rev. His son John became an eminent and wealthy merchant of London, of which he was an alderman. His eldest son, also called Daniel, emigrated to Maryland, US., where he settled in 1753. The family is now represented by Du Boulay, of Donhead Hall, Wiltshire. Amongst others, we observe those of Lieut.-General Henry Clinton de Vilettes in 1777, and of Major William de Vilettes in 1779. In the early part of last century, a lineal descendant of the Sieur de la Butte, named Louis Rou, officiated as minister of the French church at New York. Leo Blair, the father of former Prime Minister Tony Blair, was a resident of the town. Kerk appeared before the fortress in July 1628, but with his weak squadron he failed to make any impression on it. He drew up for Henry IV. Noodt, Nooth : an ancient family of North Brabant, frequently mentioned in Dutch history under the name of Van der Noodt. He was a very learned, but an exceedingly diffident and eccentric man. They doubtless intended to follow him, but were unable to make their escape. Edward, the grandson of Laurence, established himself in London as a Levant merchant; and from that time the family greatly prospered. He had doubtless returned to the faith of his fathers, for we find him bringing up his son as a minister of the Reformed Church. The family settled first at Canterbury, of which Pierre de Layarde was mayor; and we find in the church register there the baptism of his son Gaspard, in 1725. He was appointed pastor of the Walloon church in Threadneedle Street in 1710, but died of small-pox a few years later, aged only twenty-eight. He was allowed to sit in the Commons because his peerage was Irish. In 1847 Emerson visited Great Britain for the second time, was welcomed by Carlyle, lectured to appreciative audiences in Manchester, Liverpool, Edinburgh and London, made many new friends among the best English people, paid a brief visit to Paris, and returned home in July 1848. In the sixteenth century a branch of the family became Huguenot, and emigrated to England. One of their descendants, settled in Yorkshire, thus writes; They were from the first engaged in textile manufactures, and some members of the family still keep up that connection. Some of them went to North America; in 1724 we find Pierre (son of the pastor above named) a member of the French church at New York; while others fled to England, and established themselves at Hungerford. Some of the passages, especially those that pass through buildings from one street to the next, are called "shuts" (the word deriving from "to shoot through" from one street to another). Harenc : a refugee family from the south of France. Reynet , or De Reynet : a refugee family who held landed estates in the Vivarais, from whence they emigrated at the Revocation, and settled at Waterford. It is supposed that his parents sent him over to England to prevent him being taken from them and brought up as a Roman Catholic. 169) two British regiments, the 11th and 91st, came up and turned the tide of battle, which, until then, had gone in favour of the French. He was the author of the well-known French and English Dictionary, as well as of several historical works. Justel, Henry : a great Protestant scholar, formerly secretary to Louis XIV., but a fugitive at the Revocation. [85], Businesses in Shrewsbury voted in favour of a Business Improvement District in late 2013 and Shrewsbury BID started operating in April 2014. Fourdrinier, Henry : the inventor of the paper-making machine. He passed two years at Oxford, during which he principally occupied himself with the study of the Semitic languages. When a youth he was compelled to fly into England for life. Francis Maseres, the grandson of the refugee, also studied at Cambridge; and after distinguishing himself in mathematics, he embraced the profession of the law. He was expelled from Paris, where he was one of the ministers of the great Protestant church of Charenton, at the Revocation. 9 miles (14km) east of the Welsh border, Shrewsbury serves as the commercial centre for Shropshire and mid-Wales, with a retail output of over 299 million per year and light industry and distribution centres, such as Battlefield Enterprise Park, on the outskirts. Vicose, Guy De , Baron de la Court: a Protestant noble, who suffered frightful cruelties during the dragonhades. The family is now represented by E. Knatchbull-Hugessen, M.P. He died in 1802. 694.] He died a few years ago, a major-general, K.H. The local topography, being that of a low-lying plain surrounded by higher ground to the west, south and east gives the Shrewsbury area its own microclimate the absolute maximum at Shawbury of 34.9C (94.8F) and absolute minimum of 25.2C (13.4F) represents the largest temperature range of any individual weather station in the British Isles although the maximum range of average temperatures tends to peak to the south east of the Shrewsbury area, particularly in the south east midlands, inland East Anglia and inland south east England. the celebrated Edict of Nantes. It closed as part of reorganisation in July 2013. The family appears to have been originally from Picardy, where the name Leffroy is still to be found. 253, 331. Another emigrant of the same name was Pierre Grostete du Butsson. Admiral Puget also belonged to the family. His son, probably by a second marriage, was born in England in 1707. Francis also entered the army, and eventually settled at Dublin, where his descendants still live. Dampier : the navigator, is said to have belonged to an old Huguenot family settled in Somersetshire. for Truro; and for several years sergeant-at-arms to the House of Commons: he died in 1848. 0.4% of the population is Indian, Pakistani or Bangladeshi, and 0.1% of the population is South Asian or British Asian. He had several sons, of whom Peter-Caesar established the branch of the family which ultimately settled in England; while Samuel-Peter continued the descent in Holland. His son Timothy became a prosperous merchant in London, and founded the present Norfolk family of the Crusos. The NWRR will involve the construction of a new bridge over the River Severn, upstream from the town centre. His second son, John, was a lieutenant in the 11th Regiment at Toulouse, where (according to Sir Win. He raised the regiment, called after him, Lamelonieres Foot. He served throughout the campaigns in Ireland and Flanders, and was raised to the rank of major-general. There we find him acting as captain in the service of William III. But he was found so zealous a Royalist that he was forced to fly again into France, from which, however, he returned at the Restoration, and obtained a canonry at Canterbury, which he enjoyed until his death. The road is now the A5. [167] Opposite it on the other side of the river is Shrewsbury High School, an independent girls' day school. He afterwards left France, joined his father at Nimuegen, and was permitted to practise at the bar in Holland. Prelleur, Peter : a musi- cal composer, born in London of a French refugee family. A member of the family, Jacques Louis des Ormeaux, was elected a director of the French Hospital in 1798. He routed the new road via Shrewsbury, which opened in 1830. But the great-grandson of the original emigrant, not finding a small place like Neuchatel to his taste, left it about a century ago, and naturalized himself in England. Rousseau, Samuel : an Orientalist scholar, the son of a French refugee settled in London. Finding it unsafe to remain in Paris, he set out for Amsterdam. He was minister of the French church of La Patente, in London, in 1776, and afterwards of the Chapel Royal of St. James. Its features include: - Digitally signed automatic security updates - The community is always in control of any add-ons it produces - Supports a multi-site architecture out of the box - On 28 April 2008, open access operator Wrexham & Shropshire commenced services from Wrexham General to London Marylebone, restoring the county's direct rail link to the capital; previously, Shropshire had been one of only two mainland English counties without a dedicated service to the capital, the other being Rutland. Sheffield Wednesday and Scotland striker Steven Fletcher was born in the town, where his serviceman father was stationed. The Mayor of Shrewsbury for 201819 is Peter Nutting. He settled in London, and became a silk-mauufacturer in Spitalfields. He is now Somerset Herald, with the title of Rouge Croix. Post-16 education is handled by Shrewsbury Sixth Form College, previously the Priory School for Boys[172] recently ranked 17th in the top 20 of sixth form colleges nationally by the Sunday Times newspaper and Shrewsbury College of Arts and Technology, which handles primarily vocational courses. The Rev. It is also said that he superintended the erection of the buildings. Today, after several major reorganisations, the Light Infantry now forms part of the regiment known simply as the Rifles. One of them, Pierre, officiated as minister of the French church at Plymouth between 1733 and 1737. They were originally known as De Vallencey, or LEstampes de Vallencey. 3 Before some proper names viz. He died in London, leaving behind him an only son, Samuel, who practised medicine at Lyme-Regis in Norfolk. He was an officer in the English army, and served against the Pretender in 1745-6. Haag says that one of the female Brissacs became famous at Berlin for her sausages, and especially for her black puddings, which continue to be known there as boudins francais.. Unwin, Onwhyn : several refugees of this name came from the Low Countries in the time of the persecutions of the Duke of Alva; and there are three branches of them now settled in England,one, the most numerous, in Essex and the eastern counties, another in Leicestershire, and the third in the neighbourhood of Sheffield. Blosset : a Nivernais Protestant family, the head of which was the Sieur de Fleury. The coat of arms of the former Shrewsbury Borough Council, and now the Town Council, depicts three loggerheads (leopards), with the motto Floreat Salopia, a Latin phrase that can be translated to "May Shrewsbury Flourish". There are two retail warehouse clusters: at Meole Brace Retail Park to the south, and at Sundorne Retail Park to the north. They emigrated to England early in the sixteenth century, and afterwards took refuge in the county of Cork, Ireland. [29], Shrewsbury is the administrative centre for the new Shropshire Council, the unitary authority covering most of Shropshire (but excluding the Borough of Telford and Wrekin, a separate unitary authority area). He afterwards died at Belfast, on his way to join his regiment in Ireland. The Rev. Others of the name came from French Flanders. He was a native of Lorraine, a gentleman born, and possessed of the genius of a true artist. One of them, Samuel Say, who died in 1743, was a dissenting minister in London; anothor, Francis-Samuel, was minister of the French church in Wheeler Street. paid for half Robyn Hodes cote; also 3s. In 1617, Elie DAranda was minister of the Walloon church at Southampton; in 1619, moderateur de colloques at Norwich. Evremond was not a Protestant, nor would he be a Catholic. The Borough of Shrewsbury's first Charter was granted by King Henry I allowing the collection of rents. [86], Although a less prominent brewing centre than at Burton-on-Trent, beer made in Shrewsbury was celebrated as early as about 1400 when the bard Iolo Goch praised the supply of "Crwg Amwythig" dispensed at the Sycharth palace of Owain Glyndr. for Warwick, and a lieutenant-colonel of the militia. See p. 288. He established himself in business, with his son Peter Bondeau, in Abchurch Lane, and is said to have owed his prosperity to the manufacture of French hoods. Guill, George : a refugee from the neighbourhood of Tours. [81] Riverside provides further retail accommodation for stores including Wilko. : there were many refugees of this name, some of whom were long settled at Canterbury. One of his sons was Dean of Guernsey. We use this information to make the website works as well as possible and to improve our services.