He married, 1720 (by licence dated Aug 2 for St Martin Outwich), being then of St Mary Woolnoth, Eleanor HUBBARD of St Martin, daughter of Captain Nathaniel HUBBARD, R.N., of Stepney. She died 1762 Feb 17 (Gent's Mag) and was buried in the upper churchyard at St Laurence Pountney.

Sir Thomas died the same year, 1762 Oct 18 (GM) in Mark Lane (CC) and was buried on the 25th near his wife and son.

He took over Merton Place, Surrey, from his bankrupt brother Joseph, and for some years managed the Chadwell estates for his nephew Joseph, absent in the Levant.

In his Will, Sir Thomas left property at Barking and elsewhere in Essex, in Mark Lane, Lombard Street and Clements Lane, at Ongar, Brentwood, and Hackney, and at least £20,000. He continued his pensions of £7 per month each to his brothers Joseph and Jacob, and remembered the Dissenting Ministers of St Dunstan in the East and All Hallows, Barking, as well as the poor of those parishes and of the Salters' Company. But his main heirs were his daughters and their families.

Sir Thomas and (Eleanor) Lady CHITTY had issue, with two children, Josiah and Rebecca, said to have died in infancy, two daughters and a son:

1. Eleanor, born 1721 Oct 14, died 1797 Mch 25, married 1749 Mch 30 (Gent's Mag) George BOND of Leadenhall Street who died 1792, leaving issue. The BONDs later sold Merton Place to Lord NELSON, and 'Viscount MERTON, of Trafalgar, and of Merton, Surrey' continues as one of the subsidiary titles of the Earls NELSON.

2. Thomas, born 1731 Apr 15, died 1755 Jan 10 and was buried at St Laurence Pountney. He had been made free of the Salters' Company, 1754 Feb 21.

3. Sarah, born 1734 Mch 17, dead by 1800 Apr 22; married 1761 Apr 11 (GM) Samuel SEAWELL junior, and had issue.


We return to the family of Joseph CHITTY of Smyrna and Chadwell, whose sons Joseph and Charles founded the two continuing branches of 'CHITTY of LONDON' - the Lawyers, and the Landed Gentry and Colonels, to epitomise the two sides.

And firstly to Joseph (1775-1841), best remembered by the legal profession for 'CHITTY'S STATUTES'.