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William Devaynes (baptised 1730 - 29 November 1809) was an Africa trader, London banker, Government contractor, director of the East India Company, the Africa Company, Globe Insurance Company, the French Hospital〔He was first elected a director of the French Hospital in 1770. For a full list of directors, see: Tessa Murdoch and Randolph Vigne with foreword by Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 8th Earl of Radnor, ''The French Hospital in England: Its Huguenot History and Collections'' Cambridge: John Adamson ISBN 978-0-9524322-7-2, pp. 95–101.〕 and also five times Chairman of the East India Company. He was also for more than 26 years an undistinguished Member of Parliament for Barnstaple (UK Parliament constituency) or, for over five of those years, Winchelsea.〔(The India list and India Office list for ... - Great Britain. India Office - Google Books )〕 ==Huguenot origins== Devaynes was baptised at St Martin-in-the-Fields Westminster 25 October 1730. He was the fifth of six children baptised there for Huguenot peruke maker John Devaynes and his wife Mary, only surviving child of London's City remembrancer, William Barker. An elder brother was apothecary to King George III and Queen Charlotte from 1761 to 1795. He appears in Boswell's Life of Johnson—"that ever-cheerful companion Mr Devaynes, apothecary to his Majesty." He was John Devaynes (1726-1801) of Messrs Devaynes & Hingeston, court apothecaries, married to Juliana sister of Chambre Hallowes, son-in-law of Edward Lovett Pearce.〔 His first wife, Jane Wintle, provided a daughter (Harriott Augusta born 1773 who married Thomas Monsell) and a son also William Devaynes, born September 1783, who had children but died just 12 months after his father, 8 December 1810, aged 27.〔 Mary Wileman, his second wife who he married 3 February 1806, was said to be 60 years younger than he was. He is reported to have made a settlement on her by which it was in her interest to keep him alive as long as she could and that proved to be almost four years. He died 29 November 1809 in his 80th year. Years later on 13 April 1813 at Marylebone Mary married Serjeant Thomas Wilde who late in life was made Lord Chancellor and 1st Lord Truro. She bore Wilde a daughter and two sons.〔 Devaynes was also survived by an illegitimate daughter and grandson, William Devaynes of Liverpool.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William Devaynes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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