Sir Standish Hartstonge, 2nd Baronet

Sir Standish Hartstonge, 2nd Baronet (between 1671 and 1673 – 1751) was an Anglo-Irish landowner and politician, who sat in the Irish House of Commons for many years. His teenage marriage caused a bitter family feud which led to many years of controversy and litigation.

He was born between 1671 and 1673, probably in Cork. He was the only surviving son of Francis Hartstonge of Rockbarton, near Bruff, Co. Limerick, and his wife Mary Brettridge, one of the three daughters and co-heiresses of Captain Roger Brettridge (1630–1683) of Castles Brettridge, Cope and Magner, Co. Cork. Francis was the eldest son by his first marriage (to Elizabeth Jermyn) of Sir Standish Hartstonge, 1st Baronet, an eminent lawyer, originally from Norfolk, who was twice Baron of the Court of Exchequer (Ireland). Francis died in 1688, and Standish went to live with his grandfather, who was in retirement in Herefordshire. Standish was assigned a room in Trinity College Dublin in 1686, for himself and his descendants. It is unclear whether he actually studied there, although his son and grandson were both Trinity alumni.

Within two years of his arrival in Hereford, young Standish had quarrelled bitterly with his grandfather, leading to a feud which eventually involved most of the Hartstonge family. The cause was his marriage: about 1690, when he was still in his teens, young Standish married Anne Price of Presteigne, daughter of Mr. Justice Price, who was about six years older than her husband. His grandfather's anger about the marriage is still evident in his will, which was drawn up almost ten years later: as to "my grandchild who disobliged me by his marriage; I shall only say God give him joy of it but I shall not add to it for that cause." Apart from the failure to consult him on such a vital matter, and his grandson's youth, he apparently objected to the bride's family, who were heavily in debt. This was an issue on which the old man no doubt felt strongly, as in his later years he had himself married into a debt-ridden Welsh family, the Gwynnes of Llanelwedd; his brother-in-law, Sir Rowland Gwynne, was to die in a debtors' prison.

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