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24 GENEALOGICAL MEMOIRS OF JOHN KNOX,
forde, county Down. John, the second son, married, in 1766,
the only daughter of Henry Waring, Esq. of Waringstown,
county Down, by whom he had two sons, Henry and Thomas.
Thomas became a lieutenant-colonel in the foot-guards. He
married Emma, daughter of Thomas Williams, Esq., and by
her (who married, secondly, General Sir Henry Campbell,
K.C.B.) had three sons — Henry, Thomas, and Brownlow,
M.P. Brownlow Knox married Miss Sutton.
Thomas Knox, elder son of Thomas Knox of Dungannon,
was born 29th April 1729 ; he succeeded in 1769 to the
paternal estates. After long representing in Parliament the
borough of Dungannon, he was, on the 16th January 1781,
raised to the peerage of Ireland, as Baron Welles. On the
5th July 1791, he was created Viscount Northland. He died
5th November 1818. By his wife, Anne, second daughter
of John, first Lord Knapton, and sister of John, first Vis-
count de Vesci (she died 14th October 1803), he had seven
sons — Thomas, John, Vesey, William, George, Charles, and
Edmund.
John, the second son, a major-general in the army, was
appointed governor of Jamaica in 1800 ; he was drowned on
his passage to that island.
Vesey, third son, was born in 1760. He married, in 1792,
Catherine, daughter of General Gisborne (died 1830), and by
her had two sons and a daughter, Marian Diana, who married
the Eev. Richard Nugent Horner. Thomas Gisborne, the
elder son, born 6th May 1799, died unmarried in February
1853. Edmund Francis, the second son, born 1802, married,
in 1831, Mary Anne, daughter of the Ptev. Bernard Ward
(died 1850), and by her had Vesey Thomas Edmund, born
1836. An officer in the 52d Infantry, he married, 1st