The Acton Family Line

The Acton Family line is in itself a huge complex line of Baronet's and the pinnacle achiever would have to be Lord Acton.

(3rd Great Grandmother) Sarah Acton brings this line to the Bond,s.

The Bond,s where also of high order at this time in history.

9th Great Grandfather.

1.Sir Edward Acton, 1st Baronet.

2.Sir Edward Acton, 1st Baronet (20 July 1600 - c. June 1659) was the son of Walter Acton, Sheriff of 3.Shropshire. He was created 1st Baronet Acton, of Aldenham, Aldenham Hall, in Morville, Shropshire England on 17 January 1643/44.

Sir Edward was a Royalist during the English Civil War and fought at the Battle of Edgehill and the Siege of Bridgnorth. At the Battle of Worcester he was wounded in the thigh.

Sir Edward was MP for Bridgnorth during the Long and Short Parliaments and also sat in King Charles I's Parliament at Oxford.

He married Sarah Mytton, and they had the following children:

1.Sir Walter Acton, 2nd Baronet (1621-1665)

2.Edward Acton (1623-1654)

3.Thomas Acton (1623-1677)

4.Frances Acton (1625-1626)

5.William Acton (c. 1627-1659)

6.Robert Acton (1628-1654)

7.Richard Acton (1630-1674)

8th GreatGrandfather.

Sir Walter Acton, 2nd Baronet (1621 – 1665) was the son of Sir Edward Acton, 1st Baronet, he succeeded to the baronetage upon the death of his father. Sir Walter was elected MP for Bridgnorth at the Convention Parliament of 1660.

He married Catherine Cresset, and they had the following children:

1.Sir Edward Acton, 3rd Baronet (1649-1716)

2.Walter Acton (1651-11 Mar 1718)

3.Richard Acton (b. c. 1652-Mar 1705)

4.Thomas Acton

5.William Acton

6.Robert Acton (b. 1655) 7th GreatGrandfather. > Robert Acton Jnr 6th G.Gf. > Charles Acton 5th G.Gf. > John Acton 4th G.Gf. > Sarah Acton 3rd G.Gm (hus) William Bond 3rd G.Gf. > William Robert Bond 2nd G.Gf. > James Robert Bond 1st G.Gf. > Harry Bond Grand father. > Cyril Leonard Bond. > Noel L Bond.

7.Francis Acton (1657-24 Aug 1733)

8.Catherine Acton

9.Elizabeth Acton

10.Sarah Acton

7th Great Grand Uncle.

Sir Edward Acton, 3rd Baronet(c. 1650 - 28 September 1716) was the son of Sir Walter Acton, 2nd Baronet, he succeeded to the baronetage upon the death of his father. He was Tory Member of Parliament for Bridgnorth from 1689 until 1705, and was a barrister, being a member of the Inner Temple.

He married Mary Walter, and they had the following children:

1.Sir Whitmore Acton, 4th Bt. (1678 - January 1732)

2.Mary Acton (born 1678)

3.Edward Acton (1681-1741)

4.John Acton (born bef. 1716)

5.Sarah Acton

6.Elizabeth Acton

7.Frances Acton (died 29 October 1718)

9.Catherine Acton

He held the office of High Sheriff of Shropshire from 1684 to 1685. He held the office of Recorder of Bridgnorth in 1701.

1st Cousin 8x Removed.

Sir Whitmore Acton, 4th Baronet (c. 1677 - 17 January 1731/32) was the son of Sir Edward Acton, 3rd Baronet, he succeeded to the baronetcy upon the death of his father.

He married Lady Elizabeth Gibbon, and they had the following children:

1.Sir Richard Acton, 5th Baronet (1 January 1712-20 November 1791)

2.Elizabeth Acton (b. bef 1730)

3.Jane Acton (b. bef 1732)

4.Mary Acton (b. bef 1732)

He held the office of High Sheriff of Shropshire from 1727 to 1728.

2nd Cousin7x removed

Sir Richard Acton, 5th Baronet (1 January 1712 - 20 November 1791) was an English baronet. The son of Sir Whitmore Acton, 4th Bt., he succeeded to the baronetcy upon the death of his father.

He married Lady Anne Grey, Daughter of Henry Grey, 3rd Earl of Stamford on 21 September 1744, and they had the following children:

1.Elizabeth Acton (b. 1746)

2.Frances Acton (1749-1762)

He held the office of High Sheriff of Shropshire from 1751 to 1752.

As he had no surviving male issue, the title went to his distant cousin, Sir John Acton.

Sir John Francis Edward Acton, 6th Baronet (3 June 1736 – 12 August 1811) was commander of the naval forces of Grand Duchy of Tuscany and prime minister of Naples under Ferdinand IV.[1]

He was the son of Edward Acton, a physician at Besançon, and was born there in 1736, succeeding to the title and estates in 1791, on the death of his second cousin once removed, Sir Richard Acton of Aldenham Hall, Shropshire. He served in the navy of Tuscany, and in 1775 commanded a frigate in the joint expedition of Spain and Tuscany against Algiers, in which he displayed such courage and resource that he was promoted to high command.

In 1779 Queen Maria Carolina of Naples persuaded her brother the Grand-Duke Leopold of Tuscany to allow Acton, who had been recommended to her by Prince Caramenico, to undertake the reorganisation of the Neapolitan navy. The ability displayed by him in this led to his rapid advancement. He became commander-in-chief of both the army and the navy of the Kingdom of Naples, minister of finance, and finally prime minister.

His policy was devised in concert with the English ambassador, Sir William Hamilton, and aimed at substituting the influence of Austria and Great Britain for that of Spain at Naples. Such policy consequently involved open opposition to France and the French party in Italy. The financial and administrative measures resulting from a policy which necessitated a great increase of armaments made him intensely unpopular, and in December 1798 he shared the flight of the king and queen.

For the reign of terror which followed the downfall of the Parthenopean Republic, five months later, Acton has been held responsible. In 1804 he was for a short time deprived of the reins of government at the demand of France; but he was speedily restored to his former position, which he held till, in February 1806, on the entry of the French into Naples, he had to flee with the royal family into Sicily. He died at Palermo.

He had married, by papal dispensation (13 January 1799) Mary Anne, the eldest daughter of his brother, General Joseph Edward Acton (1 Oct 1737-12 Jan 1830), who was in the Neapolitan service, and had three children:

Sir Ferdinand Richard Edward Acton (later Dalberg-Acton) (1801-1837)

Cardinal Acton (1803-1847)

Elizabeth Acton (1806-1850) married Sir Robert Throckmorton, 8th Bt and had issue.

The elder son, Sir Ferdinand, being the father of the first Baron Acton.

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