Anthony Hodges I

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1757

Biography

Son of Anthony Hodges jun. of Montserrat (d. by 1710). Moved by 1746 to Bolney Court, Oxfordshire, which he first leased and then bought, and where he died in 1757.

Will of Anthony Hodges of Bolney proved 08/09/1757. In his will he said that the had leased Apps Court farm in Surrey which was his wife's separate property under her father's will for £300 p.a., and willed that the lease should continue for her life with his son Jeremiah having the benefit of the farm. He also said that he had charged his unnamed estates in St Kitts and Montserrat with the £8000 he had borrowed from Mrs Jane Kendall towards the purchase of lands in Oxfordshire, and he directed that the profits from the estates, other than £500 p.a. to his son Anthony II, be dedicated to servicing that mortgage. He entailed the estates themselves to his son Anthony II and then to his grandson Anthony III and his heirs, failing whom to his son Jeremiah.

Sources

Vere Langford Oliver, History of Antigua Vol. 2 pp.79-81; https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/oxon/vol16/pp231-265 [accessed 05/01/2016].

PROB 11/832/345

Further Information

Absentee?

British/Irish

Spouse

Elizabeth Browne

Children

Anthony II; Jeremiah

Associated Estates (1)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

SD - Association Start Date
SY - Association Start Year
EA - Earliest Known Association
ED - Association End Date
EY - Association End Year
LA - Latest Known Association

- 1757 [EY] → Owner

Clay Hill [ St Kitts | St Peter Basseterre ]

Legacies Summary

Physical (1)

Estate

Bolney Court [Purchased]

Details

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Estate leased and then purchased by Anthony Hodges I (d. 1757). The original mediaeval house had been replaced by 1786 by a stucco and brick mansion, possibly built by his vendors and possibly by...