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Elizabeth Wastell Honywood


(b. 1719, England – d. 1774, England )

Gender: F

Elizabeth Wastell was the daughter of John Wastell of Tower Hill. She married General Philip Honywood (c1710-1785), a general in the British army who saw active service at the battle of Dettingen and during the Jacobite Rising in 1745. He was MP for Appleby from 1754-1784. They lived at Marks Hall, a Jacobean mansion at Coggeshill in Essex (demolished in 1950). Their only child died aged nineteen.

Also known as:

  • Elizabeth Honywood (née  Wastell)


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