, a pious and worthy baronet, originally a physician and afterwards
, a pious and worthy baronet,
originally a physician and afterwards a divine, was the son
of Richard and Caroline Stonhouse, of Tubney, near Abingdon, in Berkshire, and was born July 20, 1716. His
father, who died when his son was ten years old, was, as
sir James informs us, “a country squire, kept a pack of
hounds, and was a violent Jacobite.
” Our author succeeded to the title of baronet late in life, by the death of
his collateral relation sir James Stonhouse cf Radley.