The owners of Lackham in the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries ...

The Manor of Lackham IV : 19 th & 20 th century owners
Records in the Tower of London, on his death he was succeeded by
Thomas Astle (1735 – 1803) 44
Henry and Margaret had 6 sons and three daughters. Their second son,
Henry II., was born in 1749 in London, and educated at Tonbridge Public
School, Trinity College, Cambridge and the Inns of Court. He then joined
a Dragoons regiment, reaching the rank of major before transferring to
the 100th Regiment of Foot.
After leaving the army he travelled widely and was the author of two
books. His love of ancient Greek history and mythology drew him to
Greece and Cyprus 45 , where he died in 1814 46 while staying at a Greek
Orthodox monastery in the small village of Omodhos 47 . The Gentleman’s
Magazine reported that
In the island of Cyprus Lt Col Rooke formerly Major in the 100 th
Foot with the brevet rank of Lt Col. For his services at the siege
of Ancona in 1799 as a volunteer acting with the Russian Army he
had the order of St Anne of the Second Class 48 conferred on him
by the Emperor of Russia 49
44 http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/vcdf/detail?coll_id=3638&inst_id=13
45 Zavallis L. pers. comm.. 2003 Mr Zavallis has made a study of Lt Col Rooke
and I gratefully acknowledge his kindness in allowing me to reproduce the
results of his research
46 Gentleman’s Magazine (1814) vol 84 pt 2 p408 (not p407 as shown in the
Index of People and Places) July 7 th 1814
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in the foothills of the Troodos mountains in the SE of the island
48 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_St._Anna [accessed 6 April 09]
Initially, the order had but one class and was named the "Order of Anna". The
statutes of the Order promulgated in 1735 established as the principal insigne a
gilt and red-enamelled cross, with an image of Saint Ann imposed upon the
center of the cross; the reverse bore the initials "A.I.P.F." (for "Anna
Imperatoris Petri Filia": "Anna, Emperor Peter's daughter" in Latin). The same
letters also abbreviate the Latin motto (as the letter "J" did not exist in Latin,
"Iustitiam" was the original spelling of the word now rendered "Justitiam").
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