Catalogue description Letters from his grandmother Eleanor Frewen [Turner], his uncle Charles Hay Frewen, and his cousins John Martin, Selina Mabelle Martin and Robert Frewen Martin

Charles Hay Frewen letters received, 1847-1875 are at the Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Record Office (DG6), while his letters to the Duke of Richmond, 1836-1860 are at the West Sussex Record Office.

Eleanor Frewen [Turner] (née Clark) of Cold Overton (1786-1879), the daughter of Charles Clark of Westminster and his second wife Elizabeth Hay, was born on 16 January 1786 (FRE/3171). On 1 August 1808 at St John Westminster she married Colonel John Frewen [Turner] of Cold Overton (1755-1829). He died at Coventry on 1 February 1829 and was buried at Cold Overton; she died in 1879.

Charles Hay Frewen (1813-1878), the second son of Colonel John Frewen Turner (1755-1829) and Eleanor Clark (1786-1879), was born at Birmingham on 25 May 1813. He was admitted as a pensioner to Trinity College, Cambridge on 24 March 1832 where he matriculated at Michaelmas 1832. Charles succeeded to his father's estates at Sigston and Winton in Kirby Sigston, Yorkshire, he was JP for Leicestershire, Rutland, Sussex and Kent where he had estates which were acquired by purchase. He served as Deputy Lieutenant for Sussex and Rutland, High Sheriff of Leicestershire, 1866, MP for Eastern Sussex, 1846-1857. He stood unsuccessfully as a candidtate for North Leicestershire in 1868 but it was reported that he 'has made a mess of North Leicestershire. He's so mortifying & his bad spelling. Everyone laughing at him' (FRE/4174/(53)) and he 'made a sad mess of his election. He might have been returned had he not written that foolish letter' (FRE/4174/(52)). In 1856 he married Frances, the daughter of Henry Woodgate of Pembury, Kent, and widow of Musgrave Briscoe of Coghurst Hall, Westfield, MP. Frances was buried at Northiam, aged 60, on 16 February 1867 and he died on 1 September 1878 at Cold Overton Hall.

Rev John Martin of Stoney Stanton, Leicestershire (1848-1922), the son of the Rev Robert Martin of Ansty Pastures, Leicestershire (1809-1871) and his first wife Selina Frewen (1809-1852), was born at Cold Overton on 6 June 1848. He was educated at Harrow before he was admitted as a pensioner to Trinity College, Cambridge on 9 June 1865, where he matriculated at Michaelmas 1866 and was awarded a BA in 1870 and an MA in 1873. John was ordained as a deacon (Canterbury) in 1871 and as a priest in 1872, and he served as curate of Brenchley, Kent, 1871-1875 and rector of Stoney Stanton, Leicestershire, 1875-1885. On 31 December 1878 he married Sophia Constance Bosworth, the daughter of William Bosworth of Charley Hall, Loughborough, Leicestershire. Latterly he resided there and he died there on 13 April 1922.

Robert Frewen Martin of The Brand, Loughborough, Leicestershire (1842-1912), the son of the Rev Robert Martin of Ansty Pastures, Leicestershire (1809-1871) and his first wife Selina Frewen (1809-1852), was born at Cold Overton on 9 April 1842. He was educated at Harrow before he was admitted as a pensioner to Trinity College, Cambridge on 28 October 1859, where he matriculated at Michaelmas 1860, became a scholar in 1863 and was awarded a BA in 1864 and an MA in 1867. Robert sold the family estae at Ansty Pastures in 1901 having purchased The Brand, near Loughborough, Leicestershire in 1892. He was a JP for Leicestershire and a Director of the Mountsorrel Granite Company. On 30 October 1873 he married Henrietta Susan Larken, the daughter of the late Rev Edmund Roberts Larken of Burton, Lincolnshire. Robert died at The Brand on 21 December 1912 and his correspondence and papers, 1853-1891 are at the Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Record Office (DG6).