“Sir Theophilus was born in 1652; and was bred to arms.  He fought, under the Duke of Monmouth, in the affair at Bothwell bridge, where a tumultary insurrection of the Scots was suppressed, June 22, 1679.  He commanded a party of horse at Sedgmoor fight, where the Duke was defeated, July 6, 1685; and was Lieutenant Colonel to the Duke of York’s troop of his Majesty’s horse-guards, and Commissioner for executing the office of Master of the Horse to King Charles II.  He was afterwards first Equerry and Major General of the army of King James II.; and suffered banishment with his Royal Master.”  After his return to his native country he purchased a seat in the County of Surrey, called “the Westbrook place,” near adjoining the town of Godalming; a beautiful situation, in a fine country.  It stands on the slope of a hill, at the foot of which are meadows watered by the river Wey.  It commands the view of several hills, running in different directions; their sides laid out in corn fields, interspersed with hanging woods.  Behind it is a small park, well wooded; and one side is a capacious garden fronting the south-east.

Sir Theophilus was for several years a member of Parliament for Haslemere, a small borough in the south-west angle of the county of Surrey.  This place was, afterwards, in the reigns of Anne, George I., and George II., successively represented by his three sons, Lewis, Theophilus, and James.  He died April 10,1702, as appears by a pedigree in the collection of the late J.C.  Brooke, Esq., though the following inscription in the parish church of St. James, Westminster, where he was buried, has a year earlier.—­“Hie jacet THEOPHILUS OGLETHORPE, Eques auratus, ab atavo Vice-comite Eborum, Normanno victore, ducens originem.  Cujus armis ad pontem Bothwelliensem, succubuit Scotus:  necnon Sedgmoriensi palude fusi Rebellos.  Qui, per varies casus et rerum discrimina, magnanimum erga Principem et Patriam fidem, sed non temere, sustinuit.  Obiit Londini anno 1701, aetat. 50.”

Sir Theophilus married Eleanora Wall, of a respectable family in Ireland, by whom he had four sons and five daughters; namely, Lewis, Theophilus, Sutton, and James; Eleanora, Henrietta, Mary, and Frances-Charlotte.

I. LEWIS, born February, 1680-1; admitted into Corpus Christi College, in the University of Oxford, March 16,1698-9.  He was Equerry to Queen Anne, and afterwards Aid-de-camp to the Duke of Marlborough; and, in 1702, member of Parliament for Haslemere.  Having been mortally wounded in the battle of Schellenburgh, on the 24th October, 1704, he died on the 30th.

The following inscription to his memory is placed below that of Sir Theophilus.

“Hujus claudit latus LUDOVICUS OGLETHORPE, tam paternae virtutis, quam fortunae, haeres; qui, proelio Schellenbergensi victoria Hockstatensis preludio tempestivum suis inclinantibus ferens auxilium vulnere honestissima accepit, et praeclarae spe Indolis frustrata.—­Ob.  XXII aetatis, Anno Dom. 1704.