BRYAN FAMILY HISTORY.




The entries below were copied from various books in Poole library by Eardley Bryan Some, or most of them, may have no relevance whatsoever to our Family History.  On the other hand, some might, and later on they could well be slotted in when more information has been found.

1.  Sir Francis.  Died at Clonmel, Ireland  2nd Feb 1550. English poet, soldier and diplomat.  (The Century Cyclopaedia of Names. SMITH)

2.  (Dictionary of Universal Biography. HYAMSON)
Augustine.  English classical scholar.  d.1726.
Sir Francis. British soldier statesman and poet.  d.1550.
George.  American Jurist.  1731 1791.
John. English Logician.  Eton & King's Coll Cambridge  d.1545.
John. English ejected minister.  d.1676.
Margaret. English scientific writer 1815.
Matthew. English Jacobite preacher.  d.1699.
Michael. English art connoisseur and biographer. 1757 1821.
Thos Jeff. American Art Collector.  1800 1870.

3. (Who was Who 1897 1916)
Col William Booth (Bryan), VD MCICE Etc d.27/10/1914.
  Son of JOHN BRYAN, Nottingham Lace Manufacturer.

4. (Dictionary of National Biography Vol III Oxford)
Augustine. Trin Coll Cambridge BA 1711, MA 1716, Rector Piddlehinton, Dorset 16/1/1722.  d. 6/4/1726
Sir Thomas. Knighted by Henry VII.  Chief Justice of Common Pleas from 1471 until his death in 1500.
Sir Francis. (See 1 & 2.) Grandson of above.  Permanent favourite of King Henry VIII.  d.1550.

5. (Who's Who of British MP's Vol 1 1832 1885 Harvester Humanities.)
Major George.  Son of George  Bryan, Esq. by Catherine Xaveria only child of Henry Byrne, Esq.  MP for Kilkenny 1837 1843, when he died.
George Leopold. m.1849 Lady Elizabeth Georgiana daughter of 2nd Marquis of  Conyngham.  MP for Kilkenny July 1865 1880, when he retired.  His platform was "Home rule for Ireland".  Died 1880.

6. 1482. Chief Justice Brian. (Ed IV) declared that his "opinion hath always been, and ever shall be, that if such tenant by custom paying his services be ejected by the lord, he shall have an action of trespass against him."

7.  Early 16th Century.  Martin  Brian, clothier from Manchester kept "a great number of servants at work, spinners, corders, weavers, fullers, dyers and shearsmen etc., to the great admiration of all that came into his house to behold him." (Lipson. The History of the Woollen & Worsted Industries)

8.  (The History of Parliament, The House of Commons 1558 1603. P W HASLER HMSO)
1571.  James Bryan of Hastings Sussex (MP). Bailiff Hastings 1574, Jurat by 1589.
Little has been discovered about Bryan.  The churchwardens of All Saints, Hastings, noted in 1578 that he had not paid 4/  rent he owed them for a stable in the parish: by a new arrangement in the same year he was required to keep the stable in repair and pay an annual rent of 13s 3d.  The last reference found to him is his being mentioned in the 1598 charter as jurat.

The Thomas  Bryan, baron of the Cinque Ports, who carried the canopy at the coronation of Charles I, may have been connected.

9. (The Political History of England in 12 Volumes Vol II)
1069.  Brian of Brittany beat off the Irish who were attacking Devon or Somerset.