Henry John Wentworth Hodgetts-Foley of Prestwood House, then in

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parish (9 December 1828 – 23 April 1894) was a British MP. He was the son of John Hodgetts Hodgetts-Foley''Burke's Peerage 2003'', page 1448 and a descendant of General

Thomas Gage General Thomas Gage (10 March 1718/192 April 1787) was a British Army general officer and colonial official best known for his many years of service in North America, including his role as British commander-in-chief in the early days of th ...

and Margaret Kemble, and it is through Kemble that he is a descendant of the

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, the

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, and the Delancey family from colonial

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. He represented

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in Parliament from 1857–1868. He inherited the Prestwood estate in

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(also partly then in

parish) from his father in 1861. He was appointed

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in 1877. He married Jane Frances Anne Vivian, the daughter of the first Lord Vivian. Their son Paul Henry Foley (19 March 1857 –21 January 1928) inherited the Stoke Edith estate in

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on the death in 1900 of his great aunt by marriage

Lady Emily Foley Lady Emily Foley (23 June 1805 – 1 January 1900) was a major landowner and benefactress in nineteenth-century England. She was born Lady Emily Graham, the daughter of James Graham, 3rd Duke of Montrose in 1805. In 1832, she married The Hon. ...

, the widow of

Edward Thomas Foley Edward Thomas Foley (21 December 1791 – 30 March 1846), of Stoke Edith, Herefordshire, was an English Tory (and later Conservative) politician. He was the eldest son of Hon. Edward Foley and his wife Eliza Maria Foley Hodgetts and elder bro ...

. The whole of the Prestwood estate and a substantial portion of the Stoke Edith estate were sold by Paul by auction in 1913 and 1919. Sir

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is a grandson of Paul.

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