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After the death of Mr. E. Lloyd Williams, Mrs. Williams married Col. T. Molyneux, who became Col. T. Molyneux Williams (Longueville 1299). He was the son of Sir Thomas Molyneux Bt. In 1846 the opinion of A. R. Sidebottom of Lincoln's Inn was sought by Mrs. Williams in order to try to take away the Power of Appointment from Col. Molyneux Williams after their separation (which accounts for his absence from Penbedw in 1861). Deeds of Settlement were made (Longue- ville 1299). Col. T. Molyneux Williams's Will of 1847 bequeathed all his property to his wife Annabella (Longueville 1306). APPENDIX III The Revbbend Robert Peddeb Buddicom, m.a., f.s.a. R. P. Buddioom was born in 1781, the eldest son and heir of Robert Joseph (or Josiah) Buddi- oom. Surgeon, of Liverpool.1 R. J. Buddioom married Frances, the daughter of Robert Pedder, in 1780, and from whom R. P. Buddioom took his middle name. Frances died in the early years of the nineteenth century, and Robert Joseph died in 1842. R. P. Buddioom was educated at Sedbergh School and was admitted Sizar at Pembroke College, Cambridge on 14 November 1801, matriculating at Michelmas 1802. He migrated to Queen's College as a Scholar of the House on 14 October 1803. He proceeded B.A. (8th Wrangler) in 1806, and took the degree of M.A. in 1809 from Queen's College of which he was elected a Fellow in 1807. His career in the Church of England began at his ordination in Peterborough Cathedral on 22 March 1807, and he was ordained priest on 23 April 1808. His first incumbency was as Rector of Everton in Lancashire, where he remained from 1814 to 1840. It was in 1814 that he married Ellin, daughter of Stephen Barber, and the second son of this marriage was William Barber Buddioom, Squire of Penbedw Hall. R. P. Buddioom's ministry at Everton was very successful and he was greatly loved by his flock. From Everton he moved to St Bees in Cumberland, as Vicar, where he also became Principal of St. Bees College from 1840 to 1846. When he first came to the College there were only 25 students, a number which he in- creased to 100 before his death. He was a man of deep and sound learning, with an extensive knowledge of the Classics. He was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, then called the Anti- quarian Society. He died suddenly on 2 July 1846 at Great Alne, in Warwickshire, while visiting a relative, at the age of 66. By persuasion, it appears, he was an Evangelical, for there is a letter2 still extant which was sent to him from an anonymous person in Liverpool on 23 January 1818 making reference to Mr. Buddicom's exertions in the cause of a Bible Society for the distribution of the Holy Scriptures. The writer had heard of Buddicom's sincere desire to prevent wives and daughters from violating, with the purest intentions, ideas of feminine delicacy. For, without the support of the Secretary of the Liverpool Auxiliary Bible Society Committee, Buddicom had opposed womens' partici- pation in Public Meetings to distribute Bibles. The writer sends £ 300, a hundred pounds for the benefit of each of Buddioom's children, in gratitude for his taking this stand as the guardian of our domestic honour and happiness He adds that it is against delicacy and propriety for women even to appear at these meetings as spectators, and then, under the countenance and protection of their male relations. Obviously embarrassed by such generosity, Mr Buddicom put a notice in the local press asking the donor to come forward. He received a reply on 18 February 1818, saying that the writer could not comply with the request, and begging Mr. Buddioom to think no more of returning the £ 300. In 1830, R. P. Buddicom decided to take his family, or more correctly, some members of it, on a tour of Italy, We have a letter3 sent by him from Italy to his son William Barber, who was at that time serving an engineering apprenticeship in Liverpool, giving a vivid account of the cholera outbreak in that country at the time, and the difficulties they were experiencing in consequence. In a later letter Buddioom gave his son advice about his first Chemistry experiments and in the retrospective knowledge that William subsequently became a railway engineer of international