SPOONER, Richard (1783-1864), of Elmdon Hall, Warwickshire; Henwood Lodge, Warwickshire

b. 28 July 1783, 5th s. of Isaac Spooner (d. 1816),The marriage of Isaac’s eldest son and grandson to heiresses and the consequent name changes meant that the senior branch of the family had become known as Innes Lillingston by the later part of the nineteenth century and the Spooner family is to be found under that heading in Burke’s landed gentry (1879), ii. 1500-1. of Elmdon Hall, Warws., and Barbara, da. of Sir Henry Gough MP, 1st bt., of Edgbaston Hall, Warws. educ. Rugby 1796. m. 20 Dec. 1804, Charlotte, da. of Very Rev. Nathan Wetherell, D.D., master of Univ. Coll. Oxf. and dean of Hereford. 2s. d. 24 Nov. 1864.