The Vulliamy family originated in Switzerland, they were notable as clockmakers in 18th and 19th century Britain, and as architects in the 19th and 20th century.
*(François) Justin Vulliamy (1712–1797), born in Switzerland, moved to London to study in the 1730s and ended up settling there. He set up a business in partnership with Benjamin Gray (1676–1764), who was in 1742 appointed watchmaker in ordinary to
King George II; he married Gray's daughter Mary and had four children with her, namely:
**Jane Vulliamy (born 1743)
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Benjamin Vulliamy
Benjamin Vulliamy (1747 – 31 December 1811), was a British clockmaker responsible for building the Regulator Clock, which, between 1780 and 1884, was the main timekeeper of the King's Observatory Kew and the official regulator of time in Londo ...
(1747–1811), took over the business from his father, he married Sarah de Gingins (1758–1841) and had fourteen children, namely:
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Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy
Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (25 January 1780 – 8 January 1854) was a clockmaker, active in 18th and 19th century Britain. He succeeded his father Benjamin Vulliamy as head of the firm and Clockmaker to the Crown.
Biography
The family was of Sw ...
(1780–1854), last in the family clockmaking firm, as none of his children went into it; he married Frances Moulton Stiles (1796–1868) and had three children, namely:
****Benjamin Lewis (1815–1895), fundholder
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George John Vulliamy
George John Vulliamy (19 May 1817 – 1886) was a British architect who designed some buildings in Victoria Street London, several fire-brigade stations, the pedestal and sphinxes for Cleopatra's Needle on the Thames Embankment, and the sturg ...
(1817–1886), architect and civil engineer, married Eliza Umfreville (1822–1891), had five children, namely:
*****Eliza Vulliamy (1852– ), married William John Blake (1847– ) and had one child.
*****Benjamin George Vulliamy (1854–1855)
*****Jane Fanny Vulliamy (1856–1942), married Henry Wyndham Burrowes (1852–1929).
*****Lucy Emma Vulliamy (1858–1943), married John James King.
*****Mary Umfreville Vulliamy (1860–1934).
****Lucy Frances Sarah Vulliamy (1819–1872), married Stephen Jordan Rigaud (1816–1859) and had ten children.
***Mary Vulliamy (1781–1865)
***Sarah Vulliamy (born 1783)
***Francis Vulliamy (born 1785)
***Justin Theodore Vulliamy (1787–1870), gentleman worsted spinner, married Elizabeth Bull (1800–1863) and had seven children, namely:
****Sarah Vulliamy (1826–1910), married Henri Poussielque and had two children.
****Edward Vulliamy (1828–1911), of independent means, married Antoinette La Bouchere (1839–1905) and had four children, namely:
*****Edward Vulliamy (1862–1862)
*****Henrietta Caroline Vulliamy (1864–1949), married Robert Llewellyn Devonshire (1862–1921) and had three children.
*****Anna Marguerite Vulliamy (1867–1946), married the plastic surgeon,
William Henry Battle (1855–1936) and had five children.
*****Antoinette Caroline Vulliamy (1869– ), married Frederic Charles Auguste Jung.
****Justin Vulliamy (1831–1912), of independent means, married Jeanne La Bouchere (1842–1901) and had six children, namely:
*****Agnes Vulliamy (1865–1869)
*****Lucie Vulliamy (1866–1936), married Horace Mark Gregory (1859–1945) and had two children.
*****Gertrude Vulliamy (1872–1926)
*****Lionel Vulliamy (1874–1882)
*****George Alfred Vulliamy (1877–1901)
****Elizabeth Vulliamy (died 1908)
****Theodore Vulliamy (1834–1921), of independent means, married Amenaide de Champlois (1844–1902) and had five children, namely:
*****Marie Elizabeth Vulliamy (1863–1941), married John Chevallier (1862–1917) and had three children.
*****Alice Vulliamy (1864–1902)
*****Herbert Vulliamy (1868–1868)
*****Justin Thedore Vulliamy (1869–1911), married Dora Anna Kilburn (1869–1959)
*****Edward Owen Vulliamy (1876–1962), married Katherine Juliet Felicite Tite (1876–1965) and had four children:
******Justin Edward (1902–1995)
******Margaret Katherine Felicite Vulliamy (1904–2007) married William Attich Reitzel (1901–) and had three children.
******Adrian Theodore Vulliamy (1907–1989) married firstly Wendy Joyce Morel (1911–1980) and had three children. Married secondly Felicity Anne Hector Seers (1929–2003).
******Nicholas Martin Felix Vulliamy (1915–2006) married Audrey Anna Albon (1918–1992) and had two children.
****Katherine Vulliamy (1836–1919), married Francis Wheatcroft (1835–1870) and had three children.
****Marie Vulliamy (1840–1885), married
George Meredith
George Meredith (12 February 1828 – 18 May 1909) was an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era. At first his focus was poetry, influenced by John Keats among others, but he gradually established a reputation as a novelist. ''The Ord ...
(1828–1909) and had two children:
*****William Maxse Meredith (1865–1937)
*****Marie Eveleen, known as Mariette (1871–1933), who married
Henry Parkman Sturgis
Henry Parkman Sturgis (1 March 1847 – 1 March 1929) was an American-born banker in England and a Liberal politician.
Early life
Sturgis was born in the United States on 1 March 1847. He was a son of Russell Sturgis and his third wife, Julia O ...
(1847–1929)
***Frances Vulliamy (1788–1798)
***Frances Lucy Vulliamy (1789–1846), married Frederick Neale (1807–1872)
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Lewis Vulliamy
Lewis Vulliamy (15 March 1791 – 4 January 1871) was an English architect descended from the Vulliamy family of clockmakers.
Life
Lewis Vulliamy was the son of the clockmaker Benjamin Vulliamy. He was born in Pall Mall, London on 15 March 179 ...
(1791–1871), architect, married Elizabeth Ann Papendiek (1811–1867) and had five children, namely:
****Lewis Llewelyn Vulliamy (1838–1899), Civil engineer, married Sarah Walker (1845–1880), had three children:
*****Norah Winifred Vulliamy (1875–1923)
*****Llewellyn Douglas Vulliamy (1876–1966) Chartered Accountant, married Elsie Gibb (1877–1962) and had two children.
*****Lewis Henry Vulliamy (1878–1879)
****Lewis married secondly Catherine King (1854–1935) and had four children:
*****Ethel Catherine Sinclair Vulliamy (1885–1970), married James Henry Branscombe Petter (1872–1943)
*****Lewis Campbell Vulliamy (1886–1971), married Irene Sherlock Forbes Ross (1895–1959), had two children.
*****Mona Florence Vulliamy (1886–1963), married Justin Drayton Vulliamy (1876–1943), had two children.
*****Mabel Papendiek Vulliamy (1890–1960), married Edward Lynn West and had one child.
****Henry Paschal Vulliamy (1840–1895), architectural draughtsman, married Alice Mary Marston (1852–1930)
****Edith Elizabeth Vulliamy (1841–1930), married Nicholas Esterhazy Stephen Armytage Hamilton (1829–1915), had two children.
****Edwyn Papendiek Vulliamy (1843–1914), married Edith Jane Beavan (1865–1953), had one child,
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Colwyn Edward Vulliamy
Colwyn Edward Vulliamy (20 June 1886 – 4 September 1971), was an Anglo-Welsh biographer and author. He was mostly credited as C. E. Vulliamy, but he sometimes used the pen name Anthony Rolls for his crime fiction.
Born in Glasbury, Radnorshire, ...
(1886–1971) (the Welsh author whose nom-de-plume was Anthony Rolls), married Eileen Muriel Hynes (1886–1943), had two children
******John Sebastian Papendiek Vulliamy (1919–2007), architect married Winifred
Shirley Hughes
Winifred Shirley Hughes (16 July 1927 – 25 February 2022) was an English author and illustrator. She wrote more than fifty books, which have sold more than 11.5 million copies, and illustrated more than two hundred. As of 2007, she lived i ...
, had three children
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Edward Sebastian Vulliamy (born 1954), a journalist and writer.
******Patricia Drift Vulliamy (1917–1987), married Arthur Frederick James (1907–1984) and had four children
****Colwyn Williams (1845–1919), an army officer, married Lilian Isabel Gosling (1866–1949) and had five children:
*****Lilian Isabel Dyddgu Mary Vulliamy (1893–1894)
*****Colwyn Henry Hughes Vulliamy (1894–1972), married Veronica Mary Ellis (1897–1978) and had three children.
*****Beatrice Joyce Papendiek Vulliamy (1895–1950)
*****Joan Isabel Vulliamy (1898–1984), married Francis James Lidderdale (1898–1984) and had two children.
*****Edmund Lewis Llewelyn Vulliamy (1906–1995), married Rosamond Daphne Farrell Palliser (1914–2012) and had two children.
***Henry Vulliamy (1797–1800)
***Francis Vulliamy (1794–1798)
***Lucy Vulliamy (born 1795)
***Henry Vulliamy (1797–1800)
***Frances Vulliamy (1798–1798)
***Frederick Vulliamy (1803–1892), banker, gentleman, married Charlotte Feldwick Crake (1816–1853) and had five children, namely:
****Alice Hall Vulliamy (1836–1865), married John Smith Owen (1838–1922) and had one child.
****Arthur Frederick Vulliamy (1838–1915), solicitor, coroner for Ipswich, married Anna Marie Museur (1836–1926) and had thirteen children, including
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Blanche Georgiana Vulliamy
Blanche Georgiana Vulliamy (1869 – 4 August 1923) was an English ceramic artist, painter, and writer.
Half-Belgian, after training as a portrait artist Vulliamy worked mainly as a designer of art pottery and is best known for her work portr ...
(1869–1923)
****Herbert Edward Vulliamy (1840–1860)
****Henry Vulliamy (1842–1933), land agent and surveyor, married firstly Frances Maria Cutler (1842–1875); secondly married Ellen Maria Williams (1852–1882) and had two children; thirdly married Emily Agnes Trigge (1865–1935) and had two further children.
****Rose Charlotte Vulliamy (1845–1921)
**Lewis Vulliamy (1749–1822), sugar refiner, married Lucy Frances Lucadou (1765–1849)
**Mary Vulliamy (born 1750)
Macartney mission to China
A "Vulliamy clock" was presented to the Chinese emperor by the diplomatic mission of
George Macartney to Beijing in 1793.
[William Proudfoot]
Biographical Memoir of James Dinwiddie: Embracing Some Account of His Travels in China and Residence in India
(Liverpool: Edward Howell, 1868), 45.
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