Old family; or, The Setons of Scotland and America

244 JN 0LD FAMILY. [a.d. 1828
de Clifton, and carried her great estates into that house, from
which they passed to the ancient family of Knyvet, now
represented in the Peerage by Baroness Berners. The only
son of Sir Thomas and Lady Cayley was George, the sixth
baronet. He sat in Parliament for Scarborough, and his por-
trait, as also that of his son-in-law and cousin, Edward Stil-
lingfleet Cayley, of Wydale House, who represented the North
Riding of Yorkshire, is in the large historical painting bv Sir
George Hayter, in the National Portrait Gallery, at London,
showing the interior of the old House of Commons during the
moving of the Address to the Crown, February 5, 1833. I
remember, as a boy, meeting Sir George Cayley and his
daughter Isabella, wife of Sir Thomas Style, Bart. ; also
Edward Stillingfleet Cayley, M.P., who was a tall and
stately gentleman.* Sir George was a singularly gifted
man ; a lover of literature and the fine arts. He died in
1857.
Of the children of Sir Thomas and Lady Cayley, the one
most frequently mentioned in our old letters from England
is "sweet Anne," their youngest child, who married at
fifteen the Rev. George Worslev, and was mother of -Sir
William Worsley, Baronet, of Hovingham Hall, County
York, of a family that goes back to the Conquest. Lady
Cayley died in 1828. She was godmother to my dear and
valued friend, kinsman, and correspondent, the late Edward
Stillingfleet Cayley, Esq., of Wydale and Low Hall, County
York, J. P. and D.L. Her great-great-grandson is the
* He took me one afternoon to see Parliament sitting. In the House of
Commons I heard Palmerston, Disraeli, and Bulwer-Lytton speak ; and in
the Lords, Brougham and Derby and other orators and debaters. While
here, a fine old gentleman — the Duke of Grafton — came up to our little
corner and spoke to Mr. Cayley. I was introduced, and was immediately
asked about the crops in America, and then he talked of corn and turnips
and then of mangel-wurzel — things that didn't interest me at all, particularly
in a place so novel and magnificent.