Descent of (Clinton) Richard Dawkins from Edward III:

By Oliver Pereira


Sources:

1. "The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal being a Complete Table of all
the Descendants now living of Edward III., King of England" by the Marquis
of Ruvigny and Raineval: The Clarence Volume (London, T.C. & E.C. Jack,
1905) 

2. "Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry" edited
by L.G. Pine. Seventeenth edition. (London, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1952) 

3. "The Balliol College Register Fifth Edition 1930-1980" edited by John
Jones and Sally Viney. (Printed for private circulation, 1983) 

4. "The Balliol College Register Sixth Edition 1940-1990" edited by John
Jones and Catherine Willbery. (Printed for private circulation, 1993) 

5. "People of Today" edited by Jonathan Parker. Tenth Annual Edition. 
(Debrett's Peerage Limited 1997) 

6. Burke's Peerage. [can't remember which edition - it contains Dawkins's
1st wife]


X =(n) Y means that Y was the nth spouse of X;
X (n)= Y means that X was the nth spouse of Y.


Descent: 

(Generations 0-9 are the same as for Charles Dodgson.) 

0. Edward III., King of England, 1312-1377. 
   = 1328 Philippa of Hainault, c.1309-1369. 

1. Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence, K.G., 1338-1368. 
   =(1) Lady Elizabeth de Burgh, d.1363. 

2. Philippa of Clarence, 1355-1382. 
   = 1368 Edmund de Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March, 1352-1381. 

3. Roger, 4th Earl of March, 1374-1398. 
   (1)= Lady Eleanor Holland, d.1405. 

4. Lady Anne Mortimer. 
   (1)= Richard, Earl of Cambridge, c.1375-1415. 

5. Richard, 3rd Duke of York, K.G., 1412-1460. 
   = a.1424 Lady Cecily Nevill, 1415-1495. 

6. George, Duke of Clarence, K.G., 1449-1478. 
   = 1469 Lady Isabel Nevill, da. and heiress of Richard, Earl of Warwick and Salisbury, the "King Maker," 1451-1476. 

7. Margaret, Countess of Salisbury, called the BLESSED PRINCESS MARGARET, THE LAST OF THE PLANTAGENETS, 1473-1541. Beheaded on Tower Hill, 27th May. 
   = 1494 Sir Reginald Pole, K.G., d.1505. 

8. Henry, Baron Montagu, K.G., c.1492-1539. 
   = c.1513 Hon. Janet Nevill. 

9. Hon. Katherine Pole, elder da. and co-heir, d.1576. 
   = 1532 Francis, 2nd Earl of Huntingdon, K.G., c.1514-1561. 

10. Lady Katherine Hastings, 1542-a.1579. 
    (1)= 1557 Henry, 2nd Earl of Lincoln, K.B., 1540-1616. 

11. Hon. Sir Edward Clinton. 
    = Mary Dighton. 

12. Francis Clinton, of Stourton Parva, co. Linc. (3rd son). 
    = Priscilla Hill. 

13. Francis, 6th Earl of Lincoln, c.1634-1693. 
    =(2) c.1683 Susan Penyston, d.1720. 

14. Hon. George Clinton, Adm. R.N., M.P., c.1686-1761. 
    = Anne Carle, d.1761. 

15. Sir Henry Clinton, K.B., Lt.-Gen., d.1795. 
    = 1767 Harriet Carter, d.1772. 

16. Augusta Clinton, b. 21 July 1768, d. 18.. 
    = 1788 Henry Dawkins, M.P. for Aldborough, b.1765, d. 25 Oct. 1852. 

17. Clinton George Augustus Dawkins, H.B.M. Consul-General at Venice, b. 28 Dec. 1808, d. 13 Oct. 1871. 
    = 21 May 1850 Marianne Jane, da. of James Robarts. d. 3 Aug. 1907. 

18. Francis Henry Dawkins, Barrister-at-law, b. 6 Nov.[Ruvigny] or 6 Dec.[Burke] 1854, d. 3 Jan. 1929. 
    = 27 July 1881 Alice Clara, da. of the Rev. George Cressner Tufnell. 

19. Clinton George Evelyn Dawkins, Imperial Forest Service, b. 16 [Ruvigny] or 10 [Burke] June 1882,
 educ. Glenalmond and Balliol College, Oxford. 
    = 17 Nov. 1913 Frances Enid, dau. of A. Smythies of Dolton, N. Devon. 

20. Clinton John Dawkins, of Over Norton, Oxfordshire, b. 14 Feb. 1915. 
    = 1939 Jean Mary Vyvyan, d. of A.W. Ladner, Little Baddow, Essex. 1 son, 1 daughter. 

21. (Clinton) Richard Dawkins, b. 26 March 1941, MA and DPhil. 1967, DSc. 
1989, Asst. Prof. of Zoology, Univ. of California, Berkeley 1967, Univ.
Lectr. in Zoology (and Fellow of New Coll., still in 1993) Oxford 1970-90,
Reader from 1990, RSL Award 1987...author of "The Selfish Gene" (1976, 2nd
edn 1989), "The Extended Phenotype" (1982), "The Blind Watchmaker" (1986),
etc. 
     =(1) 1967 Marian Ellina Stamp, granddaughter of 1st Baron Stamp; 
     =(2) 1984 Eve Barham: 1 daughter, Juliet Emma Dawkins; 
     =(3) 1992 Hon Sarah Ward (the actress Lalla Ward), only da of 7th Viscount Bangor (d.1993), and formerly w of Tom Baker.