Rouse-Boughton baronets of Rouse Lench (1791)

Escutcheon of the Rouse-Boughton baronets

Boughton-Rouse baronetcy, shortly thereafter Rouse-Boughton baronetcy, of Rouse Lench in the County of Worcester, was created on 28 July 1791 in the Baronetage of Great Britain for Charles William Boughton-Rouse, an East India Company employee who became Secretary of the India Board in 1784.[1] He was Member of Parliament for Evesham from 1780 to 1790, and for Bramber from 1796 to 1800.[2]

Originally Charles William Boughton, he had inherited in 1768 from Thomas Philips Rouse, and added Rouse to his surname. He married in 1782 the heiress Catherine Hall, daughter of William Pearce Hall of Downton Hall. In 1794 his brother Sir Edward Boughton, 8th Baronet, of the Boughton baronets of Lawford, died and Rouse-Boughton from that point held the united baronetcies.[2]

The 3rd, 4th and 5th baronets all served as High Sheriff of Shropshire.[3]< The baronetcies remained united, and became extinct in 1963.[4]

Rouse-Boughton baronets, of Rouse Lench (1791)

Notes

  1. 1 2 Cokayne, George Edward (1906). Complete Baronetage. Vol. V. Exeter: W. Pollard & Co., Ltd. p. 271.
  2. 1 2 3 Brooke, John. "Boughton-Rouse (afterwards Rouse Boughton), Charles William (1747-1821), of Rouse Lench, Worcs., History of Parliament Online". /www.historyofparliamentonline.org.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage (99th ed.). London: Burke's Peerage Ltd. and Shaw Publishing. 1949. pp. 322–323.
  4. 1 2 "Boughton, Sir Edward Hotham Rouse-". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  5. ↑ "Boughton, Sir Charles Henry Rouse-". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  6. ↑ "Boughton, Sir William St Andrew Rouse-". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)