Men of mark 'twixt Tyne and Tweed . 627 was High Sheriff of the his father, he was twice married. Like him, also, he had sixsons. There was no immediate fear, therefore, of the race dyingout. His heir, Charles Brandling (i), wedded Annie Pudsey, ofPlessy—an heiress, whose mother was a Widdrington. The thirdson of this marriage, Ralph Brandling, sold Alnwick Abbey to John CHARLES JOHN BRANDLING. 379 Doubleday, a Quaker, and brought (by marriage) the estate ofMiddleton, near Leeds, into the family. Dying without progeny, astwo elder brothers had done before him, he left Middleton to
Men of mark 'twixt Tyne and Tweed . 627 was High Sheriff of the his father, he was twice married. Like him, also, he had sixsons. There was no immediate fear, therefore, of the race dyingout. His heir, Charles Brandling (i), wedded Annie Pudsey, ofPlessy—an heiress, whose mother was a Widdrington. The thirdson of this marriage, Ralph Brandling, sold Alnwick Abbey to John CHARLES JOHN BRANDLING. 379 Doubleday, a Quaker, and brought (by marriage) the estate ofMiddleton, near Leeds, into the family. Dying without progeny, astwo elder brothers had done before him, he left Middleton to thenext heir—his brother Charles Brandling (2), who had marriedMargaret, daughter of John Grey, of Howick, ancestor of EarlGrey. Ralph Brandling (2), the only son of Charles Brandling (2),inherited Felling, Gosforth, and Middleton, and transmitted themto his second son, Charles Brandling number three. A considerable interval of abstinence from public affairs on thepart of the Brandling family had occurred since Sir Francis held. Chas Jn?. BTandling. high office in the county of Northumberland. Charles Brandlingthe third was destined to end it. He was united on the istSeptember, 1756, to Elizabeth, heiress of John Thompson, ofShotton, and shortly afterwards, finding the old seat of theBrandlings of Felling inadequate to his ideas of a family residence,he erected Gosforth House, and took up his permanent abode twenty years, surrendering most of his time to local business,and making himself useful and popular in town and country, heprepared himself for more responsible duties. In 1784, having acouple of years earlier filled the office of High Sheriff of Northumber-land, he was elected with Sir Matthew White Ridley to represent 38o CHARLES JOHN BRANDLING. Newcastle in Parliament. Opposition to his return had beenthreatened by Stoney Bowes, the profligate husband of LadyStrathmore, who had represented the town in the previous Parlia-ment, but it did not reach the po
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