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offered or taking up an English living. Huguenot 'conformist' belief
was compatible with Anglican liturgy, the main difference lay ir the
organization of the two churches.
Many of the nobility and gentry employed Huguenot tutors f or their
children. William Blathwayt appointed P. de Bla±nville as tutor to his
sons William and John by 1703.21 In 1693, Paul Rapin de Thoyras was
appointed tutor to Lord Woodstock, 22 the Earl of Portland's eldest son,
and Sir John Chardin, Jeweller to Charles II, accompanied Lord Tavistock
to Utrecht, Hamburg, Berlin, Dresden, and Nuremberg in 1697_8.23 Philip
Stanhope, kth Earl of Chesterfield, was educated by Monsieur Jouneau,
minister of the Huguenot church in Berwick Street, S0h0. 2' it is no
coincidence that William Blathwayt, the 2nd Duke of Bedford, the 2nd
Duke of Portland and Lord Chesterfield all patronized Ruguenot craftsmen.
The occurrence of the names of many prominent members of the nobility
and gentry as godparents in the registers of the Huguenot churches, reveals
the extent to which these patrons became involved with the Huguenot
community. From this point of view, the registers of the churches of
the Savoy, Spring Gardens and the Eglise des Grcs, are the most significant,
and the phenomenon recurs well into the late eighteenth century. The
names include William Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire, 17 09; Henry, Earl
of Grantham and the Countess of Arlington, who stood godparents to the
daughter of M. Ducros, Minister of the Savoy Chapel in 1710; Charles,
Lord Baltimore, 1715; Horace Walpole, 1719.25 As late as 1759, Lord
Chesterfield stood godfather to the son of Jacques Parent, minister of
the Huguenot church in Hammersmith, 2 It is of particular interest to
note that in 17 Lf0, John, Lord Ashburnham, and Lady Mary de Grey, stood
godparents to Marie Jemima, daughter of the painter Mark Anthony
Hauduroy, at the Huguenot church in Berwick Street, Soho. 27 Mark Anthony's
marriage to Charlotte Coulon, in 1738, is recorded in the registers of
Silsoe, the parish church nearest to Wrest Park, the home of Lady Mary de
Grey, which had been partially decorated by a member of the Hauduroy
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family.
It is highly probable that many of these aristocrats made a habit
of attending the Huguenot churches, if only to improve their French. Samuel
Marc, the Huguenot locksmith, who worked for Ralph, Duke of Montagu at
Boughton Rouse, Northamptonshire, charged in December 1697, 8d for ' a
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button to the lock at the Pew in the French church' which implies that
Lord Montagu had his own pew, and although the identity of the church has