Editing Walter Raleigh (section)

==Raleigh's descendants==

[[File:Statue of Walter Raleigh, Greenwich (II).jpg|thumb|right|A statue of Raleigh in [[Greenwich]], southeast London]]
Many people claim descent from Sir Walter Raleigh, but nearly all have no basis in fact. The only authentic lines of descent are as follows:

Raleigh's only surviving child, [[Carew Raleigh (1605–1666)|Carew Raleigh]], had three surviving children—Walter (d. 1660), Anne (d. 1708) and Philip (d. 1705).
 
The elder son, Walter Raleigh, was knighted in June 1660, but died two months later. He was buried at West Horsley. He left three surviving children{{snd}}Elizabeth, Philippa and Anne. Philippa (who married Oliver Weekes, of Tortingdon, Sussex) and Anne (who married William Knight, of Barrells, Warwickshire) left descendants. It was Philippa Weekes' daughter, Elizabeth Elwes, who seems to have owned the main store of Raleigh memorabilia and was consulted by William Oldys in 1735 when he was writing his ''Life of Raleigh''.<ref>''The History of the World'' by Sir Walter Ralegh Kt.... by Mr Oldys... London, 1706</ref>

Anne Raleigh married Sir Peter Tyrrell, Bt. of Castlethorpe, Bucks. Their son Thomas Tyrrell, 2nd Bt. left two daughters – Christobella, who married as her third husband, [[Viscount Saye and Sele|Richard Fiennes, 6th Viscount Saye & Sele]], but died without surviving issue in 1789. The younger daughter, Harriet, married Francis Mann, of Kidlington, Oxfordshire, and died in 1785, having had a daughter, Harriet, who married Capt. Joseph Mead and died in 1784, leaving issue.<ref>Her son was Rev Francis Mead, rector of Candlebury, Lincs. His great aunt, Lady Saye and Sele, left him £2000 and all her plate in her will.</ref>

Philip Raleigh championed his grandfather's cause, publishing several of his hitherto unpublished papers. He had a family of four sons and three daughters. The youngest son, Carew Raleigh, page of honour to William III, was serving as a captain's servant on {{HMS|Breda|1692|6}} when he died of fever in the West Indies in 1697, aged seventeen. The second son, Lieut. Brudenell Raleigh, was also serving in the navy in the West Indies when he died of fever in June 1698, aged 22. The eldest son, Captain Walter Raleigh, Grenadier Guards, was page of honour to Queen Mary, and was killed at the siege of Schellenberg in 1704, aged 31. He was unmarried. After Walter's death, his father was granted a pension by the crown, 'in consideration of his 3 sons being slain in the late and present war'.<ref>'Minute Book: June 1706', in Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 20, 1705–1706, ed. William A Shaw (London, 1952), pp. 79–86. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-treasury-books/vol20/pp.79-86{{Dead link|date=April 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} [accessed 29 March 2019].</ref> The third son, Captain-Lieutenant Grenville Raleigh, served in the [[John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough|Duke of Marlborough]]'s army throughout the [[War of the Spanish Succession]] and died of fever in 1717, while guarding the prisoners at Chester after the 1715 [[Jacobite rising]]. He had married and had two sons and a daughter, Mary. On the death of his daughter in Bath in 1783, it was noted that she was 'the only surviving descendant in the direct line of Sir Walter Raleigh'.<ref>The Bath Chronicle, November 1783. Her will, signed on 5 April 1781, makes no mention of any Raleigh relatives.</ref>

Of Philip Raleigh's daughters, Anne and Elizabeth both died unmarried.<ref>Anne was unmarried when William Oldys published his life of Raleigh in 1736, when she would have been in her 60s. She died in 1743. There is a memorial to Elizabeth Raleigh in the church at Cheriton, Kent – her sister, Frances Honywood, lived at nearby Enbrook Manor. Elizabeth died in 1716, aged 42.</ref>  The eldest daughter, Frances, married William Honywood, eldest son of [[Sir William Honywood, 2nd Baronet|Sir William Honywood]], of Evington Place, Elmsted, Kent and died in 1730. Her many descendants include the present [[Norton Knatchbull, 3rd Earl Mountbatten of Burma|Lord Mountbatten]] and the actor [[Hugh Grant]].{{sfn|King|2019|p=}}