Sir William Culpeper of Wakehurst, 2nd Bart.1

Male, #9156, (before 26 Nov 1668 - 28 Mar 1740)

Parent*Benjamin Culpeper of Wakehurst in Ardingly, co. Sussex (b 11 Nov 1628 - 1670)
Parent*Judith Wilson (s 1631 - 9 May 1685)
Sir William Culpeper of Wakehurst, 2nd Bart.|b. before 26 Nov 1668\nd. 28 Mar 1740|p9156.htm|Benjamin Culpeper of Wakehurst in Ardingly, co. Sussex|b. before 11 Nov 1628\nd. 1670|p9147.htm|Judith Wilson|b. say 1631\nd. 9 May 1685|p9154.htm|Sir William Culpeper of Wakehurst, Bart.|b. 4 Jul 1602\nd. before 6 Dec 1678|p9143.htm|Jane Pellett|b. before 4 Jul 1602\nd. 1660|p9144.htm|Sir William Wilson of Eastbourne, Bart.|b. say 1601|p9153.htm||||

Name Variation  Sir William Culpeper of Wakehurst, 2nd Bart. was also known as Colepeper of Wakehurst, 2nd Bart.. 
Name Variation  Sir William Culpeper of Wakehurst, 2nd Bart. was also known as Culpepper of Wakehurst, 2nd Bart.. 
Birth*before 26 Nov 1668 William was born before 26 Nov 1668. 
Baptism26 Nov 1668 He was baptized at Ardingly, co. Sussex, England, on 26 Nov 1668.  
 He was the son of Benjamin Culpeper of Wakehurst in Ardingly, co. Sussex and Judith Wilson. 
Burial*after 28 Mar 1740 His body was interred after 28 Mar 1740 at St. James, Westminster, London, England. 
Death*28 Mar 1740 He died on 28 Mar 1740. 
Biography* His mother, Judith, remarried Captain Christopher Mason. From the letter which Captain Mason writes to Sir William Wilson in 1684 we have some idea of the willful and perverse nature of the young Baronet. When only 26, Sir William sold Wakehurst for £9,000 to Dennis Lyddall, Esq., one of the Commissioners of the Navy, and he appears henceforth to have lived a gay and boisterous life, being satirized by Pope in the following lines:
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...Had Colepeper's whole wealth been hops and hogs
...Could he himself have sent it to the dogs.
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This passage occurs in Epistle III. On the Use of Riches, dedicated to Allen Lord Bathurst, and in a note is the following: "Sir William Culpeper Bart. a person of an ancient family and ample fortune without one other quality of a gentleman, who, after ruining himself at the gaming table, passed the rest of his days sitting there to see the ruin of others, preferring to subsist on borrowing and begging rather than to enter into any reputable method of life, and refusing a post in the army which was offered to him."
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He died 28 Mar 1740, unmarried and was buried at St. James', Westminster. The Gentleman's Magazine Obituary records him as uncle of the Duke of Roxburgh. And with this last unworthy descendant, the lineage of a grand old family concludes.
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Source: "The Sussex Colepepers-II."
 

Charts The Culpepers of Wakehurst, from 1437: Extinct after 8 generations
Last Edited 4 Oct 2002

Citations

  1. Col. F.W.T. Attree R.E./F.S.A. & Rev. J.H.L. Booker M.A., "The Sussex Colepepers, Part II", Sussex Archaeological Collections, XLVIII, 65-98, (1905) http://gen.culpepper.com/historical/sussex/default.htm.