Lawrence Trent Cumberbatch

Notes:

given name also spelled Laurence

verify christening date?

Baptism Register shows birth as "Jany 7 1824" dates for baptism agree(1157942 Page 172).

He died at 11:00 a.m. 18th August 1889 on board the yacht Evangeline in Salen Bay, Salen, Sunart, Acharcle, Argyll, Scotland.

LAWRENCE TRENT CUMBERBATCH, M.D. ST.ANDREWS, M.R.C.P.LOND.
THE BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL. [Sept. 14, 1889 pp628-9]

The sudden death of Dr. L. T. Cumberbatch on August 18th, which weannounced in a recent issue, has caused a widespread feeling of regretboth in metropolitan professional circles and throughout a largesection of the public in the West End of London. A few particulars asto the fatal attack and an account of his life and character, forwhich we are indebted to an intimate friend of the deceased gentleman,himself a man of the highest eminence in the profession, will no doubtbe interesting to many of our readers.

Dr. Cumberbatch had attended on the Friday previous to his death atthe Economic Life Office, of which he was physician, and appeared, tothose who saw him, to be in his usual health, and discharged hisduties on that day without any trouble or fatigue. He left town on thesame evening for Scotland for a few days yachting with some friends,prior to a proposed longer absence on the Continent. On the Saturdayafter his arrival at his destination he appeared in every respectwell, though perhaps somewhat
fatigued with the night journey. On the Sunday morning at breakfasthis friends did not observe the slightest evidence of any comingchange, and he was in his usual good spirits. But soon after this hewas seized with severe pain in the chest. He had complained of aslight attack of a similar character some days previously, and this hehad attributed to indigestion. But the pain became very severe, andwithin half an hour of its onset he ceased to breathe.

Some few of his professional friends who were intimate with him werenot quite unprepared for this sudden termination of the life of one souniversally beloved by all who knew him, and who, to the day of hisdeparture from town, was full of life and energy.

Some few years back Dr. Cumberbatch discovered that his pulse hadsuddenly fallen to forty in the minute. On this occasion, inconsultation with some of his professional friends, he was stronglyadvised at once to lessen work-to avoid all night work-andconsequently to give up active attendance on midwifery cases, and onlyto practise in this department in consultation; for of midwiferypractice he had a larger share than most men at the West End, and thiswork had told on him. He followed this advice; but, nevertheless, hisenergy and activity were called into full action by the large amountof private practice which now fell to his share as a generalphysician. Indeed, to the last week of his residence in town he was asmuch occupied as he well could be, and he longed for a holiday andchange of air.

Dr. Cumberbatch, who was, we believe, the son of a clergyman residingin the neighbourhood of London, studied at Trinity College, Dublin,where, in 1846, he took his B.A. degree. He next applied himself tothe study of medicine, first at Dublin and afterwards in Paris for ashort time. In 1848 he became a Member of the Royal College ofSurgeons of England. He next worked as assistant with a medicalpractitioner at Chipping Norton, and here it was he acquired thatsound practical knowledge which, aided by zeal, good sense andjudgment, and quick appreciation of all the general indications ofmischief or disease, rendered Lawrence Cumberbatch one of the mostjudicious and soundest practitioners in every department of his morespecial line of practice.

He was to have entered the army as an assistant-surgeon, and anappointment was obtained for him with this object, but it was not tobe. The then Director-General of the Army Medical Department refusedto appoint him, as his diploma of the College could not at the time beproduced, and so, fortunately for him, and for many others whosubsequently benefited by his skill and advice, he decided to try hisprofessional fortune in London. He had relations and connections ofgood position in the West End, and in a short time he was able to feelthat his success was by no means uncertain, These satisfactory resultssoon made it desirable that he should assume a higher grade in theprofession; accordingly, in 1886, he took the M.D. degree at St.Andrews, and was admitted a Member of the Royal College of Physiciansof London.

The late Sir Charles Locock influenced him largely as regards takingup midwifery as the chief department of his practice. The late Dr.Cape and Dr. Gream were also fully alive to the great skill and goodjudgment of Dr. Cumberbatch in all cases of difficult labour, andlearnt that he was implicitly to be trusted under all circumstanceswhen either of them had occasion to be absent. So his work increased,and with it the general as well as the professional estimate of theworth and ability of him whom we now have to mourn, and of whom thewriter of these few lines can only speak with the greatest feeling ofregret, and with the highest appreciation of his excellent qualities,professional and general.

Dr. Cumberbatch was very largely occupied for many years in extensivepractice, chiefly amongst the upper classes of society in the WestEnd of London. His success was due to his talent, industry, honesty,and to his gentlemanlike and strictly honourable conduct throughout along professional career. He was well read, and a good scholar. He wasgenerous-minded in every sense of the expression; liberal in hischarities, hospitable in his social life, full of anecdote andpleasant conversation, and in every respect a most sincere, mosttrustworthy friend. We need not draw aside the curtain of his happymarried life. He leaves a widow to mourn the loss of a devotedhusband, and two daughters and three sons that of a fond and attachedfather. He died in his 66th year.

Lawrence married Annie Cave 1 May 1854, Saint Maughans, Monmouth, England. Annie (daughter of George Cave and Ann Hiscox) was born Cal 1831, Frenchay, Gloucester, England, United Kingdom; died Dec 1880, Bristol, Glouchester, England, United Kingdom. [Group Sheet]

1. Charles Cave Cumberbatch was born 22 Apr 1855, Chelsea, Middlesex, England.
2. Edward Carlton Cumberbatch was born Apr 1856, London, Middlesex, England.
3. Lawrence Trent Cumberbatch was born Oct 1857, London, Middlesex, England; died , London, Middlesex, England; was buried 27 Feb 1858, Holy Trinity Brompton, Kensington, Middlesex, England.
4. Lementine W. Cumberbatch was born Cal 1858.
5. Laurentia Trent. Cumberbatch was born Jan 1859, London, Middlesex, England; died 30 Jul 1938, London, Middlesex, England.
6. Lawrence Cumberbatch was born Cal 1859.
7. Rosa Geraldine Cumberbatch was born Apr 1861, Belgrave, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom; died 23 Oct 1947, Kensington, London, England, United Kingdom.
8. Gertrude Cumberbatch was born Jul 1865, London, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom; died Oct 1866, London, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom.

Notes:

"In holy orders"?

Died at age 40

DUCATION: M.A., educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. Inholy orders. Head Master of Hitchin Grammar School 1832. Dies atReading 15th October 1835 Aged 40 (Marshall G.W. - Colelctions for aGenealogical Account of the Family of Comberbach)

Reverend - see his uncle Lawrence Trent Cumberbatch's Will. Also"1847, May 19. At Torquay, the relict of the Rev. Edward Carlton C.[Cumberbatch] of B. [Barbados] (Ibid., 106)" Caribbeana Volume II pp.85

PROB 11/1857 Quire 246
The Reverend Edward Carlton Cumberbatch

This is the last Will and Testament of me Edward Carlton Cumberbatchof Penzance in the county of Cornwall Clerk.
I nominate constitute and appoint my beloved Wife Mary Gertrude Honoria together with Charles Cave of Cadogan Place, Middlesex,Esquire and the Revd Henry Parr Hamilton of Wath in YorkshireEXECUTRIX and Executors of this my Will and Guardian of such of myChildren as shall be under the age of twenty one years at the time ofmy decease and it is my wish that my said Children shall continue toreside with their Mother.
I direct that all my debts, funeral and testamentary expences (sic)shall be in the first place paid and discharged and I authorise mysaid Executrix and Executors to sell and dispose of any part of myfurniture, plate and other effects as they shall deem necessarytowards payment thereof and I give and bequeath unto my dear Wife allsuch furniture, plate, liuew? china and household effectsfor her ownuse and benefit as my said Executrix and Executors shall not thinknecessary to sell for the purposes aforesaid and I give and bequeathunto my said Executrix and Executors all the Rest, Residue andRemainder of my Estate and Effects whatsoever and wheresoever upontrust to collect, get in and receive the same and to invest theproceeds thereof in the Government funds of Great Britain and to paythe dividends, interest and annual product thereof unto her my saiddear Wife or to persist and suffer her to receive the same during theterm of her natural life or during so long as she shall continue aWidow and from and after her decease or second marriage I give andbequeath all my residue Estate unto and equally between and among allmy children in equal shares and proportions. The shares of such ofthem as shall be so as to be transferred and paid to them at the ageof twenty one years and the shares of such as shall be Daughters to betransferred and paid to them at the age of eighteen years; and Iauthorise and empower my said Executors to apply the income of thepresumptive share of any of my Children in or towards theirmaintenance, education and support until they shall respectivelyattain the ages aforesaid. I revoke and make void all former and otherWills by me at any time heretofore made and I publish and declare hispaper writing to be and contain my last Will and Testament. As witnessmy hand and seal this sixth day of October one thousand, eight hundredand thirty five Edward Carlton Cumberbatch {SEAL} Signed, sealed,published and declared by the said Edward Carlton Cumberbatch as andfor his last Will and Testament in the presence of Francis Vickers 2Eading Place, Lundon (sic).

In the Prerogative Court of Canterbury
In the Goods of The Reverend Edward Carlton Cumberbatch Clerk deceased

APPEARED personally Charles Crocker of the Town of Penzance in theCounty of Cornwall, Cabinet Maker and Upholsterer and made oath thathe knew and was well acquainted with the Revd Edward CarltonCumberbatch, late of Penzance in the County of Cornwall Clerkdeceased, for some time before and to the time of his death also withhis manner and character of handwriting and subscription havingfrequently seen him write and subscribe his name and having now cast,fully viewed and inspected the paper writing hereunto annexedpurporting to be and contain the last Will and Testament of the saiddeceased the said Will beginning thus "This is the last Will andTestament" ending thus "this sixth day of October one thousand, eighthundred and thirty five" and thus subscribed "Edward CarltonCumberbatch" and having observed the initials or letters "ECC" writtenopposite an obliteration in the eleventh and twelfth lines of firstside of the said Will.
He further made oath he verify and in his conscience believes the saidsubscription "Edward Carlton Cumberbatch" as subscribed to the saidWill and also the said recited initials to be of the properhandwriting and subscription of the said Edward Carlton Cumberbatchdeceased. Charles Crocker on the 12th day of Feby 1836 the saidCharles Crocker was duly sworn to the truth of this affidavit byvirtue of the annexed Commission before me Thomas H. V____?

PROVED at London 22nd Feby 1836 before the Judge by the Oath of MaryGertrude Honoria Cumberbatch Widow the Relict, one of the Executors towhom admon was granted having been first sworn by Comon (sic) duly toadminister. Power reserved of making the like grant to Charles CaveEsquire and the Revd Henry Parr Hamilton Clerk the other Executorswhen they shall apply for the same.

Edward married Mary Gertrude Honoria Ashe 6 Aug 1822, Walcot Saint Swithin, Somerset, England, United Kingdom. Mary (daughter of A. Ashe) was born Abt 1801, Bath, Somerset, England; died 19 May 1847, Torquay, Devon, England. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Born at Belvedere

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at Belvedere

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He bought the St Nicholas Plantation in 1811 with his brother LawrenceTrent Cumberbatch (Brandow J.C. Genealogies of Barbados Families page528)

Will dated 13 July 1821 of EDWARD CARLETON CUMBERBATCH of St. Peter,Barbados, now resident at Clifton in co. Gloucester, Esq.
To my daughter Sarah Cave, wife of Charles Cave Esq. £4000 to be paidto her five years after my decease. To Stephen Cave of Cliftonaforesaid and the said Charles Cave £1000 upon trust for my for mygrandson Stephen Cave, son of the said Charles and Sarah Cave, at 21,and in the meantime for his education. To my brother John TrentCumberbatch in Barbados £500 cy. To my sister Ann Sandiford, widow, ofBarbados £100 per an.
Subject to a bond of £4000 due to my said daughter on her marriagewith Charles Cave, I give to my brothers L.T.C. and J.T.C. all that myone-half part of Saint Nicholas estate in St. Peter and also anotherplantation and estate called Ebworth and all other estates in St.Peter or elsewhere with the stock etc. to the use of the said L.T.C.and J.T.C. upon trust as to £400 per an. to my son Edward CarletonCumberbatch for five years after my death and then for my sonabsolutely, and if he die within the period leaving no issue, upontrust for my daughter Sarah Cave. And if my said son should marry anydaughter of Andrew Ash of Bath, musician, at any time during the saidfive years, the trusts to be void and I allow him £300 per an. forlife. sd. Edwd. C. Cumberbatch. Witnesses: R.Hampden of Barbados,Esq., Thomas Bartof of Bristol, mariner, and Jer. Osborne, solicitorof Bristol. Proved 18 February 1822 by Oath of Hon. R. Hampden(Brandow James C. Genealogies of Barbados Families).

WILL: Original Will 1822 Cumberbatch E.C. RB4 Vol 62 Page 208.Reference found in Index to Wills RB6/44 Vol (ii) 1801 - 1945.

Edward C. Cumberbatch's Will received 18th February 1822 Recorded E.B.Witnesses to each page: R. Hamden of Barbados, Thomas Barton ofBristol, Jer. Osborne of Bristol.

I Edward Cumberbatch of the Parish of Saint Peter in the Island ofBarbados now resident at Clifton in the County of Gloucester in thatpart of the United Kingdom called England, Esquire do make this mylast Will and Testament as follows (that is to say) first I directthat all my just debts, funeral and testamentary expenses be paid assoon as conveniently may be after my decease and I give and bequeathto my daughter Sarah Cave the wife of Charles Cave Esquire the sum offour hundred pounds of sterling English money the same to be payableto her at the expiration of five years from the day of my decease orat such earlier period as it may be convenient for my Executors hereinafter named to raise and pay the same and as they in their discretionshall think fit with interest for the same in the mean time and afterthe rate of five pounds per centum per annum to commence and becomputed from the end of twelve calendar months after my decease. AndI give and bequeath unto Stephen Cave of Clifton of the aforesaidEsquire and the said Charles Cave the sum of one thousand pounds oflike Sterling money upon trust for my Grandson Stephen Cave the son ofsaid Charles Cave and Sarah his wife to be paid to him my saidGrandson on his attaining the age of 21 years. And in the mean timethe said principal sum when received by the said trustees Stephen Caveand Charles Cave must be by them invested at interest in Governmentfunds or in good real or postal security at their discretion. And theinterest thereof to be paid and applied by them the said trustees inor towards the maintenance, education and bringing up of my saidGrandson or otherwise accumulated with the principal for his benefitin such manner as they shall think fit and proper. And it is my willthat the said one thousand pounds shall be paid to the said trusteesthat as the expriation of five years from my decease or at suchearlier period as it may be convenient for my Executors to raise andpay the same with interest or the same in the mean time at and afterthe rate of five pounds per centum per annum to commence and becomputed from the end of twelve calendar months from my decease. And Igive and Bequeath unto my brother John Trent Cumberbatch of the saidIsland of Barbados Esquire five hundred pounds currency of the saidIsland. Also I give and bequeath unto my sister Ann Sandiford of thesaid Island Widow one annuity or yearly sum of one hundred poundscurrency the said Island clear of all deductions whatsoever for andduring the term of her natural life to be payable and paid to her orher Assigns half yearly on the twenty fifth day of March and thetwenty ninth day of September in each and every year. The first ofsuch half yearly payments to commence and be made on such of the saidday as they shall first and next happen after my decease. Also I giveand bequeath to my true and faithful servant Thomas Gibbs one annuityor yearly sum of twenty pounds currency of the said Island for andduring the term of his natural life to be payable and paid to him orhis Assigns half yearly on the said twenty fifth day of March and thetwenty ninth day of September in each and every year. The first ofsuch half yearly payments to commence and be made on such of the saiddays as shall first and next happen after my decease subject to acharge and chargeable with said legacies and annuities and also withthe sum of four thousand pounds secured by my bond on the marriage ofmy daughter with the said Charles Cave. I give, devise and bequeathunto my brothers Lawrence Trent Cumberbatch of the said Island ofBarbados and the said John Trent Cumberbatch all that my undividedmoity or half part of and in certain Plantations and Estate situate inthe said Parish of Saint Peter in the said Island of Barbados and theyare commonly called or known by the name of Saint Nicholas Estate andalso of and in another Plantation and Estate situated in the sameParish commonly called or known by the name of Ebworth and also allother my Plantation and Estates and parts and shares of Plantationsand Estates, Messuages, Land, Tenements, Hereditaments, Premises andReal Estate whatsoever whether in possession, reversion, remainder orexpectancy situate in the said Parish of Saint Peter or elsewhere inthe said Island of Barbados and all negroes, men, women and childrenand the increase and progeny of the same and also the houses and othercattle, coppers, boilers, cisterns and plantation tools and all otherimplements, goods and chattels whatsoever and stores of or belongingto the said Estates and premises respectfully or of which I may beseized or possessed and likewise all monies and securities for money,goods or chattels and effects and all other my personal Estates andEffects whatsoever and wheresoever and of what nature or kind soeverthe same may be or consist of at the time of my decease to hold thesame unto and to the use of the said Lawrence Trent Cumberbatch & JohnTrent Cumberbatch their heirs, Executors, administrators and assignsaccording to the nature of the several tenures which I hold or shallor maybe intilled. And to to the same at the time of my decease uponthe several trusts nevertheless and the several ends, intents andpurposes hereinafter mentioned expressed and declared of andconcerning the same (that is to say) as to the fore and concerning thesaid Plantations, Estates and Premises the appurtenances and all othermy said Real Estate upon trust that they the said Lawrence TrentCumberbatch & John Trent Cumberbatch and their heirs do and shall takeupon themselves and himself the management and direction of the saidPlantations and the Real Estate with the appurtenances and do andshall from time to time conduct, carry-on and improve and by alllawful means protect and defend the same as they in their discretionshall judge fit and do and shall ship and consign the crop and produceof the said Plantations or Real Estate from time to time as they shallthink fit or expedient. And for the purposes aforesaid it shall belawful for my said trustees to purchase any negroes, or other slaves,and cattle, houses, mules, steers, plantation tools, implements,utensils live and dead stock for the use of the said Plantations orEstates necessary to keep up the working stock of the same and to buyin the said Island of Barbados such provisions or other stores for theuse of the said Plantations and Estates and the new and other slaves,cattle, houses, mules, steers and other livestock from time to timebelonging to the said Plantations and Premises as shall be deemednecessary for that purpose and to appoint any Overseer or Overseers,Keepers and European Mechanics or any Agent or Agents, Attorney orAttorneys to act under the said trustees for the time being in theirplace and to allow them such salary or salaries, commission orcommissions or other compensation for his or their or their servicesrespectfully as they the said Lawrence Trent Cumberbatch and JohnTrent Cumberbatch or the survivor of them or their heirs, Executors oradministrators of such survivors shall in his or their discretionthink fit and proper. And as to for and concerning my said personalEstate and aspects upon trust that they my said trustees do and shallmake, sell and dispose of and convert into money all such part andparts thereof and shall not consist of money and securities for moneyand call in and collect all debts and monies on security as the samebecome due and do and shall place the same out at interest in suchGovernment Real or Personal securities as they my said trustees shallthink fit and from time to time alter, vary and change the securitiesat their discretion. And as to the whole of my said Plantations andEstates and Real and Personal Estates and purposes herein beforegiven, devised and bequeathed as aforesaid upon trust that they mysaid trustees do and shall and out of the rent, issues and annualproduce dividends and interests of my said Real and Personal Estatethey allow my son Edward Carlton Cumberbatch and his Assigns for thespace of five years next after my decease one annuity or yearly sum offour hundred pounds sterling English money clear of all deductionswhatsoever to be paid and payable to him or them half yearly on thetwenty fifth day of March and the twenty ninth day of September ineach and every year. The first payment thereof to be made on such ofthe said days as shall first and next happen after my decease andsubject thereto do and shall during the said period of five years anduntil the end or expiration thereof and accumulate the residue of thesaid lands, issues, annual produce and income of my said Real andPersonal Estates and hold the same as part of my general PersonalEstate and effects to be paid and applied as hereafter directed andfrom immediately thereupon and after the expiration of the said term aperiod of five years then as to all my said Real and Personal Estatesand effects and the accumulation thereof as aforesaid upon trust formy said son Edward Carlton Cumberbatch if he shall be then living hisheirs, Executors and Administrators and Assigns according to thetenures hereof and to be conveyed, assigned and transferred to him andthem accordingly and incase my said son shall happen to depart thislife before the end or expiration of the said term of five yearsleaving one or more child or children by any wife he may hereaftermarry (accepted as hereinafter mentioned) then in trust and for thebenefit of his eldest or only son his heirs, executors, administratorsand assigns forever. And in case there shall be no such son then intrust and for the benefit for all and every the daughters of my saidson then living if more than one equally to divided between andamongst them as tenants in common and not as joint tenants and totheir respective heirs, executors, administrators and assigns forever.And if but one such daughter then in trust for the benefit of suchonly daughter her heirs, executors, administrators and assigns but incase there shall be no such child or children of my said son then fromand immediately after such is deceased before the expiration of thesaid term of five years as aforesaid in trust and for the benefit ofmy said daughter Sarah Cave, her heirs, executors, administrators andassigns forever. Provided always and it is my will and meaning and Ido hereby express, declare and direct that in any case my said sonshall inter-marry with any daughter of Andrew Ash of the City of Bathmusician and at any time during the said state or term of five yearsthen in such case the said several trusts herein before declared ofand concerning my said Plantations and Real and Personal Estates andpremises so given to the said Lawrence Trent Cumberbatch and JohnTrent Cumberbatch as aforesaid shall cease determine and becomeabsolutely void. And then and from thence forth the said LawrenceTrent Cumberbatch and John Trent Cumberbatch and their heirs,executors, administrators and assigns shall stand be seized andpossessed of the said Plantations and Real and Personal Estate andeffects. In trust out of events, issues, annual produce, dividends andinterest thereof to pay and allow to my said son and his assigns forand during the term of his natural life one annuity or clear yearlysum of three hundred pounds sterling money as aforesaid. The same tobe paid half yearly on the said twenty fifth day of March and thetwenty ninth day of September in each and every year during such hisnatural life. The first payment thereof to begin and be made on thefirst such days as shall happen next after such marriage and subjectto the said annuity. In trust and for the benefit of my said daughterSarah Cave or her heirs, executors, administrators and assigns foreverprovided always and I do hereby declare it to be my will and meaningthat in any case either of my said trusstees herein named or any othertrustee or trustees to be appointed under this present provision ortheir respective heirs, executors or administrators shall depart thislife or decline or become incapable to act in the trust hereby createdthen and in such case as often as it shall so happen it shall and maybe lawful for the surviving or continuing trustee or trustees for thetime being of this my will by any writing under his hand to appoint atrustee in the room of the trustee so dying or declining or becomingincapable to act and upon the appointment of every such new trusteethe said trust estate monies, effects and premises shall be vested insuch new trustee jointly with the surviving or continuing trusteesolely on as occasion shall require. And every such new trustee shallhave the same powers and authorities as the trustee in whose room heshall be so appointed. And I hereby declare that the trustees herebyappointed or to be appointed as herein before is mentioned shall notbe charged or chargeable with or for any more monies than theyrespectively shall actually receive under or by virtue of the trusthereby created and in them and him reposed nor shall they or neitherof them be answerable or accountable for any bank, banker, broker,agent, attorney or officer or other person or persons with whom or inwhose hands the trust money or any part thereof shall or may bedeposited or lodged for safe custody or otherwise in the execution orperformance of the said trusts nor any of them. Nor for theresponsibility of any person or persons into whom any of the produceor the proceeds of the said trust estates and premises or may be soldin the execution or performance of the said trusts or any of them northe payments of any promissary note or notes or bill or bills orexchange or other written security or securities which shall or may behad or received by them or in respect or in payment for the saidproduce or proceeds or any part thereof or otherwise in theperformance an execution of the said trusts or any of them. Nor forany other loss, damage or deficiency that shall or may arise or happento or in the said trust, estates and premises in the execution orperformance of all or any of the said trusts unless the same shallhappen by or through the wilful defanet (sic) of them the saidtrustees respectfully or their respective heirs, executors,administrators or assigns and that it shall and may be lawful to andfor them respectively buy with and out of all or any of the moniesthat shall come to their respective hands under or by virtue of thesame trusts to reimburse, retain, satisfy and pay unto for themselvesrespectively and to pay and to allow to their respective co-trusteeand co-trustees all costs, charges, losses, damages and expenseswhatsoever which they respectively shall or may pay, bear, suffer,sustain, incur, be at or to be put into for or by reason or means ofthe said trusts or in relation thereto.
And lastly I hereby nominate, constitute and appoint the said LawrenceTrent Cumberbatch & John Trent Cumberbatch executors of this my Willand hereby revoking all former and other wills by me at any timeheretofore made. I do declare this only to be my last Will andTestament in witness whereof I have to this my last Will and Testamentcontained in six sheets of paper to the five first sheets thereof setmy hand and to the sixth and last my hand and the seal on thethirtieth day of July in the year of Our Lord one thousand eighthundred and twenty one. Signed, sealed, published and declared by thesaid Testator Edward Carlton Cumberbatch as and for his last Will andTestament in the presence of us who at his request in his presence andin the presence of each other have subscribed our names as witnesseshereto. R. Hamden of Barbados Esquire, Thomas Barton of Bristol, Jer.Osborne of Bristol. Edward C. Cumberbatch [Seal]

BARBADOS. By his Excellency The Governor. The honourable Ren. Hamdenone of the subscribing witnesses to the foregoing Will this daypresently appeared before me and made Oath on the Holy Evangelists ofAlmighty God that he was present and did see Edward CarltonCumberbatch the Testator therein named, since deceased, sign, seal,publish and declare the same as and for his last Will and Testamentand that he was at the executing thereof of sound and disposing mindand memory to the best of his the Deponent's judgement and belief.Given at The Government House eighteenth day of February 1822. HenryWarde.

Edward married Sarah Howell 9 Sep 1794, Saint Peter, Barbados, West Indies. Sarah was born Abt 1770; was buried 14 Oct 1797, , Barbados, West Indies. [Group Sheet]

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[BarbadosCumberbatchSettlers.FTW]

A Sarah Cumberbatch was buried 14 October 1797. This Sarah would have been 27 years old. Was it her or was it her daughter? Her daughter was baptised 31st October.

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resided at Belvedere

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Born Abraham Carlton; "assumed the name of Cumberbatch"

"He was a Member of the Council of Barbadoes for thirty years."

Died at College Green

Inherited the Cleland and The Farm plantations from his grandfather Abraham Cumberbatch's will, in which he insisted that Abraham Carleton adopted and use the name Cumberbatch (Brandow J.C. Genealogies of Barbados Families page 527).

Carleton's Name. A Petition of Abraham Cumberbatch, heretofore called Abraham Carleton, was presented to the House [of Parliament], and read; setting forth, That Abraham Cumberbatch, late of the Parish of Saint Andrew, in the Island of Barbadoes, in America, Esquire, deceased, by his last Will and Testament, bearing Date the 22nd Day of November 1750, after several Legacies therein given, gave all the rest of his Eftate, with the Improvements, Additions, and Interest, to and for the Use of the Petitioner, by the Name and Description of his Grandson Abraham Carleton, to be received by him under the Trustees appointed by his said Will, during the Term of his natural Life, with Remainders to the Petitioner's First and and other Sons successively, in Tail Male, with Remainders over, upon Condition, that the petitioner should take upon him the Surname of Cumberbatch; declaring by his said Will, that it was his Intention that his Estate should continue through all the Limitations thereof, in the Name of Cumberbatch; and that the Petitioner, upon the Death of the said Abraham Cumberbatch, which happened on or about the 25th Day of December 1750, became possessed of the Premises given him by the said Will; and hath taken upon himself, and used, the Surname of Cumberbatch; and is desirous that the said Surname may be established on him, and his Issue Male, by Authority of Parliament : And therefore praying the House to give leave to bring in a Bill, for enabling the Petitioner, and his Issue Male, to take and use the Surname of Cumberbatch.
Ordered, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill, pursuant to the Prayer of the said Petition: And that Mr. Alderman Bethell, and Mr. Nathanael Newnham, do prepare, and bring in, the same. (The Journal of the House of Commons 1753 Volume 26 Page 537-538 26o Geo II Parl 4 Sess 6 A.1753), also quoted in Collections for a Genealogical Account of the Family of Comberbach by G.W. Marshall LL.B London:1866

Index of The Journal of the House of Commons 1753 Volume 26 - 26th Geo. II Parl. 4 Seff 6. A. 1753 :
Carlton, Abraham, Petition for a Bill to take the Name of Cumberbatch, presented: and Bill ordered, 26 Jan. Read, 1 Feb. Committed, 5. Reported, and to be ingrossed, 14. Passed, 21. Agreed to by the Lords, 28. Royal Assent , 8 Mar (Journals of the House of Commons from January the 17th 1750 in the twenty-fourth Year of the Reign of King George the Second to April the 6th 1754 in the twenty-seventh Year of the Reign of King George the Second - Reprinted by Order of the House of Commons 1803).

ARMS: Gules, an eagle displayed between three trefoils, two in chief and one in base, Or.
CREST: An eagle's head couped.
MOTTO of Abraham Cumberbatch - Ne tentes aut perfice [Attempt Not, or Accomplish - Pine L.G. A Dictionary of Mottoes Routledge & Kegan Paul: London 1983 pp 146 AND Urdang L. & Dame Robbins C. Mottoes 1st Edition Gale Research Company USA: 1986 pp 44]. Authority for the Arms were his book-plate. I have also found these listed in West Indian Bookplates SOG/WI 37 pp 21 by Vere Langford: as above but also with : 179. "ABRAHAM CUMBERBATCH" (F., 7545.) Arm. spade shield...There were three generations of these names. The first died 1753, the second 1785, and the third 1786 (ANTE, II., 84).

Will dated 26 April 1785 of Abraham Cumberbatch of Saint Andrew, Barbados, intending shortly for England. To my wife Eliza £3000 cy. in full of our marriage articles, and the further sum of £1000 cy. All my plate and that of my grandfather Abraham Cumberbatch to my wife and six negroes and one-half my furniture. The other half of my furniture to my son Abraham. All my lands in the Parish of St. Peter to be purchased by my son Abraham and my stonewall house in Speightstown and the money to go to pay the legacy to my wife. The residue to be divided between my sons Lawrence Trent Cumberbatch, Edward Carleton Cumberbatch, and John Trent Cumberbatch.
WHEREAS my grandfather Abraham Cumberbatch directed that 250 slaves be kept on his plantation: I direct that all others to be sold and the money divided between my three sons. On the marriage of my said daughter Ann Sandiford with Mr. William Sandiford. I promised £3000: I direct any balance due to be paid to her. To my two grandchildren Alexander and Abraham Cumberbatch Sandiford, children of my said daughter Ann.
I appoint my wife Elizabeth and son Abraham Executrix and executor. sd. A. Cumberbatch. Witnesses: Wm. Craigg, Wm. Bovell, Wm. Cadogan. Proved 15 December 1785 by Oath of Wm. Bovell before Governor D. Parry (Brandow James C. Genealogies of Barbados Families pp.539).

Abraham Carlton Cumberbatch 1727-1785
He was born in Barbados, the son of Edward Carlton and Ann Cumberbatch. Under the terms of the will of his maternal grandfather, he would inherit all his grandfather's estate if he changed his name to Cumberbatch, thereby retaining that name here in Barbados, which would otherwise have died out on his grandfather's death. In those days you could only change your surname by an Act of the Westminster Parliament and this was duly done. Thereafter, all the male descendants, even to this day, added Carlton as their last Christian name.

He married Elizabeth Trent, daughter of Lawrence Trent of Barbados, and they had four sons and one daughter. One of their sons, Edward Cumberbatch, was the father of Sarah, who married, in 1818, Charles Cave, fourth son of Stephen Cave and Anne Daniel. Sarah Cave nee Cumberbatch would later inherit St Nicholas Abbey in Barbados from her brothers.

Abraham Cumberbatch, as he now became, was a member of the Barbados Legislative Assembly for thirty years, and indeed, at the time of his death in 1785, he was the senior member of that Assembly. Towards the end of his life, he had failing health and went to England to try and recover, but sadly he died in Bristol.

He is buried in Bristol Cathedral where there is a fine memorial to him. (source: A Family History Leaflet from St. Nicholas Abbey written by Lt. Col. Stephen Cave).

Monumental Inscription : Bristol Cathedral: Choir vestry leading out of the east cloister, high up on the north wall:

To the Memory of ABRAHAM CUMBERBATCH Esqr : A Native and Inhabitant of the Island of Barbados, Senior Member of his Majesty's Council of that Island, to which honorable board he had belonged near Thirty Years. He bore a long and painful Illness with uncommon Patience and Fortitude, and came to England in hopes of receiving Benefit from a change of Climate and died in this City July 25, 1785.

1785, July 30. Abraham Cumberbatch Esqr was buried by the Precentor (Cathedral Burial Register).
1785, Sat. July 30. Monday, died at lodgings in College Green, - Cumberland (sic), Esq ; a West India Merchant.
The ARMS noted by Rev. J. Woodward in 1867, were : 1, Cumberbatch (Gules, an eagle displayed between three trefoils, two in chief and one in base, Or. ) Quarterly, 1 and 4, Sable, two swords in saltire proper, hilted Or, between three coronets of the last, one in chief, two in flanks ; 2 and 3, Vert, a fess dancettee Ermine. This tablet was in 1867 in the north aisle near his son's.

North transept, floor marbles over vault:; ABRAHAM CUMBERBATCH Esqr 1785 The Honble Abraham Cumberbatch Esqr Eldest son of the above, died June 16th 1796. (source: Caribbeana Volume II Page 84)

Monument in Bristol Cathedral - Choir Vestry leading out of the east cloister, high up on the north wall :-
To the Memory
of ABRAHAM CUMBERBATCH Esqr:
A Native and Inhabitant of the Island of Barbados,
Senior Member of his MAJESTY'S Council of that Island,
to which honorable board he had belonged near Thirty Years.
He bore a long and painful Ilness
with uncommon Patience and Fortitude,
and came to England in hopes of receiving Benefit
from a change if Climate
and died in this City July 25, 1785. (Source: Caribbeana Vol II p. 84)

The title "Honourable" was granted as he was a member of His Majesty's Council of Barbados - roughly similar to England's House of Lords. He was also a Senior Member of His Majesty's Council of Barbados. Members of the Barbados legaslative Assembly, such as his son Abraham, were entitled to be called "Esquire".
"The local importance of these titles is indicated by the fact that members of the Assembly and judges by custom might use four horses to their coaches while members of the Council drove a team of six." (Genealogists Magazine March 1974, Vol.17 No. 9 p.494).

Abraham married Elizabeth Trent Abt 1750. Elizabeth (daughter of Lawrence Trent and Jane Somers) was born Abt 1725, of, Barbados, West Indies; died 26 Jan 1794, Barbados, West Indies; was buried , , Barbados, West Indies. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Died at West, Nimba, Liberia?

Buried 14 Oct 1797?