Ruffigny

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6.12.1809 call on Ruffigny / 10.3.1810 call on Rouffigny / 21.9.1810 call on Roufigny / 24.4.1811 meet Roufigny / 26.7.1812 call on Roufigny / 12.1.1816 again / 18.2.1816 call on Roufigny (w. M(ary) J(ane))

The Abbé Francis de Rouffigny kept an academy for teaching French at 17 Castle-street Holborn from 1808 to 1821 and at other addresses before and after that. Ruffigny was also the name of a character in Godwin's novel Fleetwood (1805) said to be a portrait of Jean Jacques Rousseau.

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There was a noble family of Ruvigny, see Henry Ruvigny DNB 1648-1720 which title died out with him. Francis Gabriel De Ruvynes was an officer of Swiss origin on the English side in the American War of Independence, his son Louis served in the Royal Artillery and was killed in Grenada in 1796, leaving three sons born in the West Indies which he sent home to Liverpool, their guardian after their grandfather died about 1800 was Benjamin Emery. The eldest boy, Charles Augustus born 1789 was an ensign in 62nd foot from 1807, the second Lloyd Henry born 1791 also joined the British army, the third William Amadeus born 1792 I don't know. See the will PCC 1801 of Louis de Ruvynes, the most beautiful will I have ever read