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Clement-Jones family 12/22 - Person Sheet
Clement-Jones family 12/22 - Person Sheet
Name
Rt Rev Sir George FLEMING 2nd Bt
, 10016
Death
1747
Father
Sir Daniel FLEMING
, 9991 (1633-1701)
Mother
Barbara FLETCHER
, 9992
Spouses
1
Catherine JEFFERSON
, 10017
Death
1736
Father
Robert JEFFERSON
, 10018
Marriage
1708
Children
William
, 10019 (1709-1742)
Mary
, 10024
Catherine
, 10025
Mildred
, 10026
Notes for Rt Rev Sir George FLEMING 2nd Bt
Bishop of Carlisle.
Sir George Fleming, 2nd Baronet (1667 – 2 July 1747) was a
British
churchman.
A member of the old
Westmorland
family, Fleming was the fifth son of Sir Daniel Le Fleming of
Rydal Hall
. He became Canon of
Carlisle Cathedral
in 1700,
Archdeacon
of Carlisle in 1705, Dean in 1727 and finally
Bishop of Carlisle
in 1734. He succeeded as 2nd
Baronet
in 1736. A successor, the Revd Sir Richard Le Fleming Bt, became rector of both
Windermere
and
Grasmere
and gave
William Wordsworth
a home at
Rydal Mount
.
Before moving to Rydal Hall, the Le Fleming family lived at
Coniston Hall
, which is now owned by the
National Trust
.
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