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St Margaret's Church Cowlinge Suffolk, hatchment (dexter/husband's half black) to Henry Usborne (1778-1823) of Branches Park, (Source: https://www.britainexpress.com/attractions.htm?attraction=4894) which he purchased. He was born in Great Amwell, Hertfordshire. He married Phoebe Anne Birch (1787-1875), a daughter of Sir Joseph Birch, 1st Baronet (1755–1833) of The Hasles, Lancashire. Arms: Paly of six argent and gules, a lion passant proper on a chief azure an anchor or between two martlets of the first (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.1046 "Usborne, Cooling (sic), Suffolk", amended for tinctures shown here)) impaling: Azure, three fleurs-de-lis or on a chief argent three mullets sable (Burke, 1884, p.83, but with fleurs-de-lis argent, "Birch of The Hasles, Lancashire, Bart").

Text from http://www.usbornefamilytree.com/henry1778.htm (see also Dictionary of Canadian Biography On-line[1]:

Henry Usborne was a timber merchant in partnership with his elder brother, John. They traded as Usborne & Co. The firm is first recorded (circa 1799) in Riga, Latvia, supplying masts and oak to the navy. In the first years of 1800's there was a huge expansion of demand by the navy engendered by the war with France. Henry established a pioneering branch in Quebec city in 1801. By 1804 timber supply for the navy was in crisis. Supplies from New England had been cut off by the War of Independence. Napoleon's stranglehold on Baltic ports between 1807-1812 led to the doubling of timber prices. It cost twice as much to import from Canada but this was more than made up by the high taxes and naval blockades in the Baltic. Henry was ideally placed to profit from the shortage. They employed sub-contractors like Peter Paterson who denuded the shores of Lake Champlain and the Thousand Islands of their fine oak. Patterson was to harness the power of the Montmorency falls thereby establishing the largest sawmill operation of its time in the world. The company built several ships. A ship of 348 tons called the Anna Maria (after John's wife?) was built in 1804. In that year they were filling 20 ships a year with timber for England. In 1809 Henry, now a very wealthy man, returned to live in England but continued to manage his Canadian interests from London. In 1818 the firm negotiated an exclusive contract (till 1822) to supply Canadian timber to the British Navy. The partnership with Patterson was dissolved in 1823 when Patterson took over Henry's timber interests in Canada. He was one of the first directors of the Canada Company which was set up in 1824 to clear a million acres of forest (The Huron Tract) adjacent to Lake Huron in Canada and develop settlements. Usborne Township was named after him. The company was dissolved in 1953. Between 1811 and 1839 Usborne, Benson & Co (merchants) had offices at 2 & 4. Broad St. London. Henry and his brother Thomas were in partnership with Thomas Starling Benson. (Thomas withdrew from the partnership in 1825). In 1830 The company invested in an enterprise in Swansea, South Wales smelting copper from ore and recovering copper from slag. In 1823 he was deputy Lieutenant of Suffolk and High Sheriff. In 1837 Henry was a director and shareholder of the Northern and Eastern Railway. He became a member of the prestigious Canada Club, a London based dining club for wealthy returned merchants where friendships were cemented and prospective ventures discussed. He had a house in Bakers St, London in 1812. He lived at Heyden hall in Norfolk in 1816 (as a tenant?) and then bought the Branches Park Estate in Suffolk in 1820. In 1834 he was leasing a "mansion house" in Portland Place, London where he kept several horses and carriages. Heyden Hall , Norfolk The Coach House at Branches Park. In 1803 Henry had a short-lived illegitimate son by the "illiterate wife of a sergeant stationed in the town". He bought a "handsomely appointed house with cellars well stocked, and stables filled, entering horses in the Quebec Races. Among his possessions were a Pipe of the Best Brazil Madeira that has been 7 years in Canada, . . . excellent fowling pieces, and a pair of Pocket Pistols". By late 1808 he was parading around town in “a curricle with a Harness Compleat of the latest Fashion". In 1816 he bought a 45.000 acre sporting estate known as the Seigneury of the Rivière-de-la-Madeleine