British Whig politician, physician and merchant (1720–1766)
Arms of Amyand: Vert, a chevron between three garbs or Organ donated by Sir George Amyand, 1st Baronet, St Peter's Church, Barnstaple Sir George Amyand, 1st Baronet (26 September 1720 – 16 August 1766)[ 1] Whig politician, physician and merchant.
Origins
He was the second son of Claudius Amyand , Surgeon-in-Ordinary to King George II ,[ 2] St James's Church, Piccadilly .[ 1] Huguenot who had quitted France following the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685.[ 2]
Career
Amyand was an assistant to the Russia Company in March 1756, an army contractor during the Seven Years' War ,[ 3] Nicholas Magens and Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland . He was a director of the East India Company in 1760 and 1763.[ 4] Frilsham , Berkshire from Willoughby Bertie, 4th Earl of Abingdon .[ 5]
Between 1754 and 1766, Amyand sat as Member of Parliament (MP) for Barnstaple ,[ 6] Devon . He lived nearby at Great George Street .[ 7] baronet , of Moccas Court , in the County of Hereford.[ 8]
Marriage and issue
In 1748 he married Anna Maria Korten (d. 1767), daughter and heiress of John Abraham Korten (1690-1742) a German merchant from Elberfeld who in 1718 had become a naturalised English subject, having become established at premises in Mincing Lance in the City of London, where he was engaged in exporting textiles and linen from Russia and Europe to the Caribbean, and importing from there Sugar, also importing tobacco and fur from North America.[ 9] [ 10] [ 4] [ 2]
Sir George Cornewall, 2nd Baronet (1748–1819), eldest son and heir, who changed his surname and arms to Cornewall following his marriage to the heiress of that family.John Amyand (1751–1780 ), MP for Camelford .Anna-Maria Amyand (1752–1829), married Gilbert Elliot, 1st Earl of Minto (after whom the Lady Elliot [ 11]
Anne and Caroline Amyand, twin daughters, bapt. 6 Jun 1754 & died 1754
Harriet Maria Amyand (1761–1830), married James Harris, 1st Earl of Malmesbury
Death and burial
Amyand died on 16 August 1766, aged 45, from unknown causes, and was buried at Carshalton a week later.[ 1]
Monument
In the outer south aisle of All Saints Church, Carshalton is a white marble urn, with an inscription in his memory.[ 12] [ 13]
Barnstaple organ donation
He donated the present organ in St Peter's Church, Barnstaple , one of the largest in Devon, made by John Crang in 1764.[ 14] Vert, a chevron between three garbs or [ 2] inescutcheon of pretence [ 15] Or, on a chief azure a crescent argent (Korten?).
References
^ a b c Cokayne, George Edward , ed. (1900). Complete Baronetage ^ a b c d Courthope, William , ed. (1835). Debrett's Baronetage of England 185 .^ "History" . Moccas Court . Archived from the original on 16 July 2014. Retrieved 16 June 2015 .^ a b Kimber, Edward (1771). Richard Johnson (ed.). The Baronetage of England: Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the English Baronets ^ Page, William ; Ditchfield, P H , eds. (1924). "Parishes: Frilsham". A History of the County of Berkshire . Retrieved 31 January 2016 .^ Namier, Lewis (1964). "Amyand, George (1720–66)" . In Namier, Sir Lewis ; Brooke, John (eds.). The House of Commons 1754–1790 . The History of Parliament Trust .^ "No. 11 Great George Street | British History Online" .^ "No. 10442" . The London Gazette ^ Margrit Schulte Beerbühl, The Forgotten Majority: German Merchants in London, Naturalization and Global Trade 1660-1815 , English edition Berghahn Books, New York & London, 2015, esp pp.192-6 [1]
By
^ British peerage sources states erroneously that Korten was from Hamburg
^ Yarrow, Stephen. "Naming Australia's Coastline" . Pocket Oz Guide to Australia . Retrieved 5 December 2020 . ^ Lysons, Daniel (1792). The Environs of London: Volume 1: County of Surrey ^ "Interior" . All Saints Carshalton . Retrieved 16 June 2015 .^ Per gilded inscription on organ
^ Indicating that his wife was an heraldic heiress
