COURT HOPE

William ( only son of Thomas Court hope of Rother hi the ). b. Rother hi the 6 May 1808; private clerk to Francis Town send, Rouge Dragon 1824; clerk to the College of Arms 1833; Rouge Croix pursuivant of arms Feb. 1839; sec. to Garter King of arms 1842; barrister I.T. 31 Jany. 1851; Somerset Herald 31 Jany. 1854; registrar of College of arms, Nov. 1859; author of Synopsis of extinct baronetage 1835; Memoir of Daniel Chamier 1852, privately printed; A pictorial history of the Earls of Warwick by John Rows dated 1845 but not published until 1859; edited Sir N. H. Nicolas’s Historic peerage of England 1853. d. Hastings 13 May 1866. bur. Wadhurst. COURTNEY, John Sampson ( eld. son of James Courtney of the Excise 1778–1860 ). b. Ilfracombe 10 Oct. 1803; clerk in Mount’s Bay bank, Penzance 1829, manager 1856 to death; author of A guide to Penzance and its neighbourhood, including the Islands of Scilly 1845; and of several papers in Transactions of Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society 1838–42. d. Alverton, Penzance 10 Feb. 1881. Half a century at Penzance (1825–1875) from notes by J. S. Courtney, written by Louise Courtney 1878; Times 12 Feb. 1881 p. 9, col. 6 .