JOHN TWYFORD JOLIFFE, ESQ.,
OF AMMERDOWN-PARK, COUNTY SOMERSET.
This much respected and lamented country gentleman died, after a lingering and painful illness, on the 15th inst., at his beautiful seat, near Bath.
Colonel Joliffe was eldest son of the late Thomas Samuel Joliffe, Esq., M.P. for Petersfield, by Mary Anne Twyford, his wife, heiress of Kilmersdon; and grandson of John Joliffe, Esq., M.P.; whose father, Benjamin Joliffe, Esq,, of Copton Hall, county Worcester, represented a family of considerable antiquity in the counties of Stafford and Worcester. Colonel Joliffe was Lieutenant-Colonel in the First Somerset Regiment of Militia, and a Magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant for Somersetshire. So great was the public good effected by this excellent gentleman’s benevolence, and by his influence as an extensive landholder, that his loss will be long and deeply felt by his numerous tenantry. His hereditary estates devolve by entail on his only surviving brother, the Rev. Thomas Robert Joliffe, now of Ammerdown. There was one other brother, Charles Joliffe, an officer in the army, who fell at Waterloo.
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