Meaburn Smith Tatham b. 22 May 1832 45 Torrington Square, Bloomsbury d. 05 Oct 1870 Bournemouth: The Tatham Family of County Durham

1832 - 1870 (38 years)

Name	Meaburn Smith Tatham [1, 2, 3, 4]
Birth	22 May 1832	45 Torrington Square, Bloomsbury [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
Birth	born at 10 o'Clock in the morning [Family Bible] born Highgate per Curtis
Baptism	23 May 1832	45 Torrington Square, Bloomsbury [7]
Baptism	privately baptized by the Rev. Mr. Nicolay the following Day [7]
Christening	26 Jan 1833	St Michael Paternoster Royal, London [4, 7]
Christening		Meaburn Smith Tatham (1832-1870) Baptism register (Christening after private baptism)
Education	May 1840 - Dec 1844	Highgate School [8]
Residence	Jun 1841	Mill Field Lane, Highgate [3]
Education	abt Feb 1845 - Jun 1850	Sedbergh School [2, 5]
Education	abt 1850 - 1854	St John's College, Cambridge [5]
Residence	Mar 1851	St John's College, Cambridge [9]
Degree/Qualif.	1854	Cambridge University ; BA [5]
Degree/Qualif.	1857	Cambridge University ; MA [2, 5]
Degree/Qualif.	1857	Solicitor [5]
Occupation	1857 - 1870	3 Frederick's Place, Old Jewry, London ; Solicitor [5]
Occupation	in partnership with his father; both with Fyson, Tathams, Curling and Walls in 1865.
Marriage	12 Apr 1860	Holy Trinity, Paddington
Marriage	Eliza Mary Warter, b. 07 Apr 1835, The Grove, Highgate d. 27 Nov 1897, Lemoenfontein, South Africa
Residence	Mar 1861	1 Sussex Gardens, Paddington [10]
Occupation	Apr 1861	Solicitor [1, 2]
Residence	Apr 1861	Merton Lodge, Highgate [1]
Residence	visiting?
Residence	1870	Sussex Gardens, Paddington [11]
Death	05 Oct 1870	Bournemouth [2, 12, 13, 14]
	1870 5th October. Meaburn Smith Tatham departed this life at a 1/4 past 12 at night & was buried at Bournemouth Hampshire. Aged 38. [12] 04 Oct 1870 per Highgate School Register 11 Oct 1870 per GWR shareholders register
		Meaburn Smith Tatham (1832-1870) Window in Great Ryburgh Church. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. MST. In Memory. By his sister and brothers. October 7th, 1870.
Burial	abt 07 Oct 1870	St Peter, Bournemouth [2, 12]
Probate	14 Dec 1870	London ; < £20,000 [15]
Probate	The Will of Meaburn Smith Tatham late of Sussex Gardens Hyde Park in the County of Middlesex Esquire deceased who died 5 October 1870 at Bournemouth in the County of Southampton was proved at the Principal Registry by the oaths of Henry de Gray Warter of Longden Manor in the County of Salop Esquire and William Tatham of 118 Pall Mall in the County of Middlesex the Brother the Executors. 14 December 1870. Effects under £20,000. [NPC]
Notes	Meaburn Smith Tatham: Adm. pens. at St John's, June 13, 1850. S. of Meaburn, solicitor, of London (and Elizabeth). B. May 22, 1832, in Torrington Square, London. School, Sedbergh. Matric. Michs. 1850; B.A. 1854; M.A. 1857. Adm. Solicitor, 1857; practised in London (Messrs Meaburn, Carling and Walls, 3, Frederick's Place, Old Jewry). Married, Apr. 22, 1860, Mary Eliza, only dau. of Henry de Grey Warter, of Cruck Meole House, Salop. Died in 1870. Father of Henry de G. W. (1880); brother of Charles M. (1847). (Sedbergh Sch. Reg.; Law Lists; The Guardian, Apr. 18, 1860.) [Cambridge University Alumni] President, Old Cholmelians Dinner, Star & Garter, Richmond, 13 Jul 1869. [8] Good cricketer: played for Shropshire against Birkenhead Park at the County Ground, Frankwell, Shrewsbury, on 4th, 5th September 1868 (2-day match). Shropshire won by 10 wickets. M S Tatham was out for 1 run (c and b Brice) in the 1st innings & did not bat in the 2nd. [Wisden Cricketers' Almanack]
Person ID	I0026	Tatham \| Meaburn branch \| Descendant - male line
Last Modified	27 Jan 2021

Father	Meaburn Tatham, b. 14 Dec 1784, Barton, Whittingham d. 02 Apr 1875, Merton Lodge, Highgate (Age 90 years)
Mother	Elizabeth Parker, b. 30 Oct 1799, Durham d. 14 Jan 1872, Merton Lodge, Highgate (Age 72 years)
Marriage	29 Apr 1824	St Katharine-by-the-Tower, London [2, 7, 16, 17, 18]
	Marriage settlement of Meaburn Tatham of Lincolns Inn, gentleman and Elizabeth Parker of St Catherine's Cloisters near the Tower of London. 27 April 1824. [Durham Diocesan Records, Add.MS. 1632/7] Minister: G F L Nicolay [her guardian]. Witnesses: Thomas Porrett Hayes [1772-1850, solicitor in Bloomsbury], Sarah Jane Mitchell [her sister], Hannah Maria Wells, [...] Parker [unidentified], William Mitchell [her brother-in-law]. [Sarah Jane Parker & William Mitchell were married 2 months earlier on 24 Feb 1824, at the same church, by the same minister and with 2 of the same witnesses]
		Meaburn Tatham & Elizabeth Parker Marriage register
Notes	It is curious fact that one day, two or three years it may be before our going to Highgate, my Father and a friend of his, taking a long walk from Town, reached a field on the left of West Hill, Highgate, from which there was a beautiful view, comprising Caen Wood, a large pond, almost like a small lake in the next field between them and the open country as far, I believe, as Dutton Gap in Surrey. Stopping there for a few moments my father said: "This is the spot where I should like to build a house if I was ever to build one". It was the very spot where, two or three years later, he did build his house. It was, I think in the year 1834 that we left London and went into lodgings in Highgate, when the building began. [Charles Tatham, Recollections] (about the cottage on Highgate Hill where the family lived before Merton Lodge was completed). My Father returning home one evening from Town found my Mother in the little front garden shedding tears of despair because she could not get all the furniture - which had been brought from where it had been stored, I suppose - put inside the house. She was sitting in the midst of it, like Marius on the ruins of Carthage. It was all ultimately put in. [Charles Tatham, Recollections] Sunday, August 6th 1837. ... in the evening we took a walk up Milfield Lane & went to look at the new house which young Mr Tatham [sic; then aged 52] is building for himself; it is a very nice one & the situation lovely; ... . [Diary of Parthenia Pardoe, wife of Allen Williams Block. Their daughter Elizabeth (Betha) married Meaburn Tatham's son George at Highgate, 20 years later. ] Merton Lane was cut when Mr Meaburn Tatham built Merton Lodge, now in the possession of Mr John Glover, J.P. It was an ancient footpath leading across the fields in Hampstead; it was a field path in the time of Coleridge and was his favourite and constant walk. [John H Lloyd, History of Highgate, 1888] 1861 census: 3 live-in servants + 3 next door. In Apr 1881 Merton Lodge was the residence of John Glover, shipowner, age 51 b South Shields, his wife Louisa and 5 children.
Photos » Slide Show		Merton Lodge, Highgate Only known image of house in 20th century. Cropped from photo of former Holly Court School, closed 02 Aug 1990. Building then demolished and built over.
		Merton Lodge Coach House, Highgate. Photo abt 1900. Part of Merton Lodge, formerly the home of Meaburn Tatham (1784-1875) & family.
		Merton Lodge, Highgate In about 1888. Home of Meaburn Tatham (1784-1875) and family from its construction in 1838; house & contents sold after his death.
		Meaburn Tathams: Family grave Churchyard of St Andrew's, Great Ryburgh
		Meaburn Tathams: Family grave Detail of headstone showing damaged lettering
		Meaburn Tatham Family Vault Plaque set in south wall of St Andrew's Church, Great Ryburgh
		Meaburn Tathams - Family Grave at Great Ryburgh
Documents » Slide Show		Family Bible - Meaburn Tathams Page 3: 1825-1831
		Family Bible - Meaburn Tathams Page 4: 1832-1872
		Family Bible - Meaburn Tathams Page 6: 1872-1917
Histories		The Tatham family and Ryburgh parish, Norfolk
Family ID	F0013	Family Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Eliza Mary Warter, b. 07 Apr 1835, The Grove, Highgate d. 27 Nov 1897, Lemoenfontein, South Africa (Age 62 years)

Marriage 12 Apr 1860 Holy Trinity, Paddington [2, 19]

Witnesses: H D Warter (her father), M Tatham (his father), E C Warter, J I Vaughan
marr 22 Apr 1860 per Curtis

Meaburn Smith Tatham & Eliza Mary Warter
Marriage register

Children

	1. Mary Gertrude Tatham, b. 02 Feb 1861, 1 Sussex Gardens, Paddington d. 28 May 1945, West Lodge, The Terrace, Wokingham (Age 84 years)
+	2. Henry de Grey Warter Tatham, b. 22 Feb 1862, Sussex Gardens, Paddington d. 02 Jul 1927, Buckland St Mary (Age 65 years)
	3. Mabel Tatham, b. 17 Feb 1863, 1 Sussex Gardens, Paddington d. 29 Mar 1909, Wokingham (Age 46 years)
	4. Charles Edward Meaburn Warter Tatham, b. 03 Feb 1865, 1 Sussex Gardens, Paddington d. 22 Jun 1865, 1 Sussex Gardens, Paddington (Age 0 years)
	5. Edith Florence Tatham, b. 23 Jul 1867, 26 Sussex Gardens, Paddington d. 18 Mar 1881, Sanremo, Italy (Age 13 years)
	6. Beatrice Margaret Tatham, b. 14 Jan 1869, 26 Sussex Gardens, Paddington d. 27 Nov 1918, Markham House, Broad St, Wokingham (Age 49 years)
	7. Alice Yolande Elizabeth Tatham, b. 25 Aug 1870, Bournemouth d. 20 Mar 1899, Montreux, Switzerland (Age 28 years)

Photos

Longden Manor
Home of the Warter / Tatham-Warter family abt 1860-1910

Family ID F0018 Family Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 18 Aug 2019

Histories
Meaburn Tatham and the Lyne Stephens fortune

Sources

[S01] Census, 1861, UK.
age 28 b Torrington Square
[S04] H Curtis: Notes for a Pedigree of the Tathams of Co. Durham.
[S01] Census, 1841, UK.
age 9
[S06] Parish Registers, 26 Jan 1833, baptisms, St Michael Paternoster Royal.
b 22 May 1832
[S15] Cambridge University Alumni.
b 22 May 1832, in Torrington Square, London
[S42] Charles Meaburn Tatham - Recollections.
[S28] Family Bible, Meaburn Tathams.
[S20] School and College Registers, Highgate.
[S01] Census, 1851, UK.
[S06] Parish Registers, 10 Mar 1861, baptisms, St James, Paddington.
dau Mary Gertrude
[S48] Will, 1870, Index to death duty registers.
ref PR1477
[S28] Family Bible.
[S02] BMD Index, 4Q1870, death reg Christchurch.
age 38
[S23] Monumental Inscription, 05 Oct 1870, St Andrew, Great Ryburgh, church window.
[S14] Probate Register.
[S06] Parish Registers, 29 Apr 1824, marriages, St Katharine-by-the-Tower.
[S53] Marriage Licence, 27 Apr 1824, Faculty Office Marriage Licence Allegations.
[S22] FamilySearch / LDS/ IGI / BVRI, batch M019072.
[S02] BMD Index, 2Q1860, marriage reg Kensington.