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and his wife, Constantia Smythe, a sister of Walter Smythe and therefore an aunt of Maria Anne Smythe, who, following her second marriage became known as

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. Charles inherited

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in Leeds, from his father, whose father, Captain the Hon. Charles Stourton, son of William Stourton, XII Baron Stourton, had acquired the estate by marriage and inheritance but sold it in 1803 before acquiring the Allerton Mauleverer estate in Yorkshire. They had eight children, including

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and Sir Edward Marmaduke Joseph Vavasour, 1st Baronet Vavasour of Hazelwood. Their third son, Charles, became one of the first

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s in the

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and was a leading Roman Catholic layman in the 19th century.

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* Kidd, Charles and Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1995 edition). London: St. Martin's Press, 1995, 1752 births 1816 deaths *17 18th-century English people 19th-century English people {{England-baron-stub