TABLE V.
ALPHABETICAL LIST OF THE PEERAGE,
WITH NOTES AND ANECDOTES, PERSONAL, ANTIQUARIAN, AND POLITICAL.
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(The figures after the title of each Peer in this List, point to its place in the List of Peers in the order of Creation.) Abercorn, M. 180
Is nephew-in-law and step-son to E. Aberdeen.
ABERCROMBY, B. 236 Aberdeen, E. 268 Is a diplomatic Peer : he acquired the mysteries of his profession at Vienna, and is considered a politician of the Metternich school, in which the grand art is to conceal your object. Few people would care to learn his Lordship's drift at the ex- pense of listening to the end of his speeches.
Abergavenny, E. 3 Abingdon, E. 37 Aboyne, E. 231 Ailesbury, M. 64 Aims, M. 260 ALBEMARLE, E. 90
This is a family of Dutch descent. The first Lord Albemarle was a favourite of William the Third, with whom he came over, and supplanted his older favourite Bentinck Lord Portland.
ALVANLEY, B. 235 The present possessor of the title is a well-established wit and homree d'esprit; being a remarkable instance of talent in the second generation of a Lawyer-Peer. AMHERST, E. 157 Earl Amherst is nephew of General Amherst, whose military exploits in the Canadian war, from 1758 to 1764, are well known : while be himself is known as the ratherunlucky successor of Lord Hastings in the Government of India.
ARGLESE; 31. 30 Arden, B. 247
Is a brother of the late Spencer Perceval the Minis-
ter, and has availed himself of that advantage. ARGYLL, D. 155 Arundel, B. 46 Ashburnham, B. 87 Was absent from the Reform division: he is a regu- lar absentee both from the House and England resides chiefly in Italy, and is devoted to viral. Athol], D. 62 "All antiquarians are agreed that the common an- cestor of the Murrays is one Faissmos, a gentle- man of note and figure in the reign of King David." Such is the information we derive from heralds and antiquaries. The present representative of Fais- al NUS is unhappily a lunatic. AUCKLAND, B. 196 AUDLEY, B. 5
This family was for a few years deprived of its ho- nours by attainder : they were subsequently restored
by act of Parliament. The present is the 17th lord.
Aylesford, E. 93 Bagot, B. 164 Balcarras, E. 307 BARHAM, B. 251 Bath, M. 81 The family name is Boteville : one John Boteville, however, got the name or John of M' lane—from residing in one of the inns of Courts whence the aristocratic uairie.of Thymic! Bathurst, E. 104 The Bathursts were originally clothiers of Canter- bury. The clothiers were a powerful body in Kent; and, under the name of Grey Coats of Kent, formed a kind of Political Union, and had great influence at elections. The first Lord Bathurst was a political adventurer, a nephew of Dr. Bathurst of Oxford, and a useful tool of Harley and St. John. He was one of the Twelve Peers they made to procure a majority in 1712. When his friends went out of office, Bathurst was famous for being a great protester. This family have always been fond of public money. In 1760, this first Lord Bathurst, "on account of his great age, refused to accept any office ; but on account of his great merit, took a pension on the Irish establish- ment of 2,0001. a year." It is made a matter of boast with the eulogisers of things as they are, that the younger sons of nobility are Commoners. This in- fusion of noble blood among the people is said to be a fortunate thing for the commonwealth. Metaphors are used, and we hear of pure sources and fertilizing streams of noble blood. The honour may be great, but it is very expensive. These Commoners are left too poor to live except from the national purse ; and in order to provide for them in the most commodious manner possible, the Public Offices, the Army, the Navy, and the Colonies are sacrificed to their Imbe- cility. It were better that an Earldom could be cut into six, If only the estates were similarly divided. A few thonsands are, however, left to each younger son, that the head of the family may be maintained as a prince, while thepublic are to pay for the honour of considering the Lord Georges, and the Hon. the Augustus Fredericks, as nominal Communal. - Bayning, B. 219 The motto of this family Is Stare super etas anti- guns." I stand in the track of my ancestors," us the Peerage translates it,—which accounts for his Ha- lies.
Beauchamp, E. 258 Beaufort, D. 21 It is remarkable, that so many of the highest rank of nobility, in so moral a country as England, should be the produce of conculd nage.
Lennox, first Duke of Richmond,
Was the son of Charles the Second, by a French woman, who was made Duchess of Portsmouth, In England; and Louis the Fourteenth, who was always glad to ennoble a bastard or his mo- ther, made her Duchess D'Aubigne In France, with a large domain ; and this was retained by the Dukes of Richmond till the French Revolu- tion.
Fitzroy, first Duke of Grafton,
Son of Charles the Second, by Barbara Villiers, afterwards Lady Castlemaine, created Duchess of Cleveland.
Deauelerk, first Duke of St. Albans.
Son of Charles the Secoud, by Eleanor Gwinn, the actress.
The descent in the Beaufort line is doubly bastard. The first Beaufort was a natural son of John of Gaunt : his descendant became Duke of Somerset, who, being beheaded after the battle of Hexham, left only a natural son, Charles, who took the name of Somerset—he probably did not know that of his mother, and dared not take that of Beaufort. He married the heiress of the Earl of Huntingdon, and was created Lord Herbert, and afterwards (1514) Earl of Worcester.
The Marquess of Worcester was of great service to Charles the First and his son, during and after the civil wars ; after the Restoration, he was made Duke of Beaufort. It was to this Marquess of Wor. cester that Charles the Second granted that extraor- dinary patent by which he was empowered to create peerages himself, without reference to the King, and which he was obliged to surrender at the demand of the House of Lords.
BEDFORD, D. 26
The rise of the Bedford family Is curious, though un- deserving the attack of Burke. Philip, Archduke of Austria, bound for Spain, was obliged to put in, from stress of weather, at Weymouth. He was here attended by Mr. John Russell, a gentleman who had travelled, and could converse with him. When the Archduke went to court at Windsor (in 21 Henry VIII.), Mr. Russell accompanied him; was recom- mended to Henry by the Prince, for his attention and intelligence ; and became a court favourite. lie had part of the spoils of Stafford, Duke of Bucking- ham ; and at the dissolution of the religious houses, a very considerable share of valuable property, more especially the Abbey lands of Tavistock.
Butatavax, B. 344
A descendant of the Lord Belhaven celebrated for the stand lie made against the Union : he succeeded to the Scotch barony of Belhaven in 1811. Motto, Ride through. Beresford, V. 269 A natural son of the late Marquess of Waterford, und raised to the Peerage for military services. BERKELEY, E. 4
(This is the younger brother of Lord Segrave ; who succeeded to the title on the legitimacy of Colonel Berkeley (then called Lord Dursley) being disal- lowed by the House of Lords.
Berwick, B. 177
This nobleman married a sister of the celebrated Harriet Wilson alias Dubouchet. The father of the first Baron Berwick took the surname of Hill from Ills mother's brother, Sir Richard Hill ; his father was one Harewood, a tobacconist in London. The first Baron was one of the batch of 171:11.
BEM:SR GOGH, E. 134
Beverley, E. 170 The Earl of Beverley, who succeeded to the title last year, is grandson of Sir Hugh Smithson, first Duke of Northumberland, grandfather of the present Duke, by Algernon, his second son, to whom the re- mainder of the Barony of Lovaine was specially limited. The late Lord Lovaine was created Earl of Beverley in 1799.
Bexley, B. 302 When a man is tried and found Incompetent to perform the business of the Nation, he quits office and is elevated to the Peerage ; which means, that a man who cannot perform legislative duties in a respousible situation, is immediately removed to an- other position, where he is called upon for legislative wisdom, and that in an irresponsible situation. What was there in Nicholas Vansittart which would qualify him for the performance of the duties of an irresponsible legislator t
BOLINGBROKE, V. 106
The present Lords Bolingbroke and Clarendon, some time ago, in honour of the great names they inherit, combined to return Horace Twiss forWootton Basset.
Bolton, B. 220 Boston, B. 146 Bradford, E. 199 A descendant of Sir Orlando Bridgman, who lost the Seals in 1672, because he refused to put them to the Toleration Act. His successor was made a peer in 1794, at the tune the Duke of Portland joined Mr. Pitt: be came in with the Alarmists, to share in the crusade against the French. Ten other creations were made at the same time. The present Lord Bradford and Lord Powis are the only two of this batch who remain true to the Pitt principle which elevated them to the Peerage. Wejudge merely by the vtoe on the present occasion ; for it is extraordi- nary how little is known of three parts of these here- ditary legislators. Many never attend in the House; very few of them ever open their mouths—to speak ; and are only known through the Game-laws and the Magistracy business of the county, where, by the aid of a few fawning clergymen, and a pair of led-cap- tains, they enjoy a petty sovereignty—as often led as leading.
BILLTHRooss, B. 188
BREADALBANE, E. 262 Bristol, M. 96
Lord Bristol makes a little party with Liverpool, Mansfield, and Camden : they were joined by Lord Carnarvon, who, for himself and his son Lord For- chester, had golden prospects, after the result of General Gascoyne's motion. Earl Mansfield was to be the Premier of this hopeful party.
BROUGHAM AND \faux, B. 331
Lord Brougham, in his speech on the. Reform Bill, spoke with contempt of the pride of Norman blood : he himself claims to be Saxon. The Peerage tells its his ancestors were seated at Brougham in the time of Edward the Confessor. That Lord Brougham is not altogether above the feelings of the Order, may be in- ferred from his second title. Ile is descended, by the female side, from Robertson, the historian—a fact of which he might be much more legitimately proud than of this name of Vaux, or Faux, or whatever it was.
Brownlow, E. 158 Buceleugh, D. 72
This young nobleman is said to have come to a clear ,income of 250,0001. per annum.
Buckingham and Chandos, D. 113
This nubbanati may be considered the nominal head of a considerable faction. It includes Northumber- land, Beverley, Powis, Prudhoe. Arundel, Delamere, and the Wynns. Had they come into power, the Duke of Buckingham would have been Governor- General.
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, E. 121 The Hobarts all spring ..erom Sir James Hobart, an Attorney-General in the Time of Henry the Seventh. The first Lord Buckinghamshire got his title by his sister, Mrs. Howard, afterwards Lady Suffolk. being mistress to the King, George the Second. This is the lady so praised by Pope and Swift.
BURLINGTON, E. 339
Lord Burlington is the uncle of the Duke of Devon- shire ; and the grandfather of William now Lord Cavendish, the late member for Cambridge, now member for Derbyshire, and a young man of pro. m Bute, M. 142
BYRON, B. 66 Cadogan, E. 109
Calthorpe, B. 211 The original name of the Calthorpes was Gough ; Richard Gough, the laborious and learned antiquary. was a member of the family. They took the name of Calthorpe in 1713, with the estates of Sir Henry Cal- thorpe of Blvetham. Sir Henry Gough Calthorpe was afterwards raised to the Peerage in 1796. The present Peer is one of the party distinguished by the sobriquet of Saint : be writes tracts.
Camden, M. 151
The Peerage records this nobleman's resignation for many years of the proceeds of his Tellership ; but it says nothing of the immense amount he had already received. See his name in another list.
CAMPERDOWN, E. 226
Is known as the son of one of our bravest Admirals : It escapes recollection that Henry Dundas was his uncle, and the present Lord Melville is his cousin. These family connexions have never influenced his Lordship's politics; he is one of the very few inde- pendent Scotch noblemen, and a Reformer ou prin- ciple.
Canning, Bs. 321 This is the uidow of the celebrated Minister, and a sister of the Duchess of Portland.
Cardigan, E. 60 The ancestor of this Earl, when imprisoned in the Tower during the Commonwealth, spent his time in making abstracts and other collections from the re- cords there preserved. This was a respectable mode of employing the leisure of confinement. The old Earl of Northumberland, when imprisoned there for fifteen years, engaged three doctors of great. sci- entific acquirements at a high salary, to keep him company ; they used be called the Three Magi. Sir Walter Raleigh was In the Tower at the same time writing his History of the World, and the party used to spend their evenings together ; so that the Tower at that period probably contained the best society of the day. Much poetry has been composed within its terrible walls, by the British nobility.
CARLISLE, E. 69
Carnarvon, E. 166 A branch of the great family of Pembroke and Mont- gomery. Lord Carnarvon was a Whig and Re- former ; his present opposition arises, according to his own account, from not being able to get into the same quart bottle with Earl Grey. See his speech on the Reform Bill.
Carrington, B. 218 A man of very low, if not Jewish origin; and created first an Irish, then an English Peer, by Mr. Pitt, in consequence of his wealth. He assumed the title of "Carrington," to create the impression that he was connected with the ancient family of Smith, which formerly bore it, but with which he had no other affinity than a common descent from Adam.
Carteret, B. 171
Carysfort, E. 234 Cathcart, E. 265 CAWDOR, E. 215 Chatham, E. 147
Another name which is an argument against heredi- tary peerage. Is there any reason, because the first Lord Chatham was an illustrious orator, that the second should command the Walcheren expedition —An expedition of which the hopelessness, absurd- ity, and lamentable issue, none but such a general could have contrived to aggravate. This is the most mischievous appointment he has held, but not the most expensive.
Chesterfield E. 49 The celebrated Lord Chesterfield died without issue,
and the title went to a distant branch.
CHICHESTER, E. 97
Cholmondeley, M. 88 Churchill, B. 279
This is an offshoot from the house of Marlborough.
Clanearty, E. 301
CLawnicsana, M. 306
Clanwilliant, E. 326 Clare, E. 230
This is the son of the Lord Chancellor of Ireland Fitzgibbon, on whom the eloquence of Curran' wreaked all its vengeance.
CLARENDON, E. 137 CLEVELAND, M. 92 This nobleman and his son vote on opposite sides. No one makes a greater sacrifice of private interest in forwarding Reform than the Marquis; but his son, it seems, is incapable of the same magnanimity.
Crianesr, V. 203
CLIFFORD, B. 75 A Catholic Peer restored.
CL,INTON AND SAYE, B. 7 CLONCURRY, B. 354
Colchester, B. 285 Combermere, V. 271 Sir Stapylton Cotton used. in India, to be called Sir
Simpleton Cotton, not from any aptness in the name, but simply because ill-natured people are fond of al- literation. He is said to tike his legislative as well
as military orders from his' Commander-in-Chief, the
Duke of Wellington.
Conynghant, M. 287
His Lordship was in Italy during the last session: there is an expectation that he will vote for the Bill. CORK, E. 101 CORNWALLIS, E. 71
Descended from a Sheriff of London, in 1378; The. mas Cornwallis, merchant.
Courtown, E. 207
Coventry, E. 61 Descended from William Coventry, a ribbon-mane. facturer of Coventry. His son was Sheriff of Lon- don In 1416, and a mercer. He was one of the exe- cutors of 1,Vhittington, the thrice Lord Mayor ; and probably took care of his cat, if the said cat survived the said Lord Mayor. The first Lord Coventry was keeper of the Great Seal in James the First's reign, and an eminent lawyer. He is said to have greatly contributed to making the Court of Chancery what it is. There is a fine character of him in Clarendon; where he is praised for qualities which are not always hereditary. One of the ladies of this family is said to be the author of the Whole Duty of Nan'. • See Ballard's Learned Ladies.
Cowley, B. 322 Brother of Wellington, 'Wellesley, and Maryborongh, —four Pertain one family : this is the diplomatist. COVrPER, E. 98 The family was founded by Cowper, twice Lord Chan. cellor, in the reigns of Queen Anne and George. Of this family was Cowper the poet. CRAVEN, E. 74
CREWE, B. 257
Fuller observes of an ancestor of Lord Crewe, Sir Randal Crewe, Lord Chief Justice, that he had a vir- tuous wife I which is " very essential to the integrity of a married Judge, lest what Westminster Hall doth conclude, Westminster bedchamber doth revoke."
BACHE, B. 10 Dalhousie, E. 276 DARNLBY, B. 47 Dartmouth, E. 82
Of the honourable conduct which advances to place and peerage, Dodington gives an example in the con- _ duct which led to Legge's elevation in 1758. "At last, Legge found out, that in return for his thinking
of leaving his friends for the Duke of Newcastle, the Duke had betrayed him to them. He would have
expostulated with his friends, but they would not suffer It; and the negotiation taking place in their
favour, they bade him take the Exchequer Seals under the Duke of Newcastle, and enter into further eclaircissement. He has done so, detested by Mr. Pitt and Leicester House : acting under one whom he hates ; who hates him, and has betrayed him; breaking faith with Lord Halifax, without whom he had engaged not to act ; and with Oswald, to wit-on he had pledged his honour, helvould never come into the Treasury without him ;—and ALL FOR QUAR- TS R.DA Ir."
DR CLIFFORD, B. 8 The family of Be Clifford is as ancient as the Con- quest. Its honours were for nearly a hundred years In abeyance. It is related of one of the ancestors, that being on bad terms with his father, in conse- quence of his dissipation, he turned outlaw, to re- plenish his resources, assembled a band of dissolute followers, harassed the religious houses, beat thew tenants, and forced inhabitants of whole villages to take sanctuary in their churches. He is said, how- ever, to have been reclaimed in good time, and became Earl of Cumberland. This barony will again be in abeyance should the present Baron die without male Issue.
De Dunstanville, B. 212 A gentleman of ancient family in Cornwall ; he was an extensive dealer in boroughs. By acquiring two seats, he became a baronet ; two additional nomina- tions made him a peer; one or two more procured him a new barony, with a limitation to his daughter and her issue male. His ambition being gratified, he gradually disposed of all his boroughs, and has at this moment very little, if any. Parliamentary intim. ence ; so that the commodity which raised him to the Peerage is now in the market for other specula- tors.
De GREY, B. 73 Delamere, B. 298 Delawarr, E. 11 An ancestor of Lord Delawar was the founder and colonizer of Virginia; which may be set against the blot in the escutcheon which follows. The ninth Baron obtained an act of Parliament to disqualify his nephew and heir, William, who had attempted his life by poison, from succeeding to the heritable estates and dignity; but thia William having subse- quently served in the English army, was knighted, and obtained at the same time a new creation of the dignity of Lord Delawar. DENBIGH, E. 52 Descended from a Count Geffrey of Hmsburg, who under the name of Fielding, served Henry the Third. Consequently this family is a branch of the reigning house of Austria—the descendants of Rodolph. Of this family is Henry Fielding, the author of Tom Jones—which is the greater distinction 1 DERBY, E. 16 De Roos, B. 1 That a person in whose favour this title arose from the dead in 1806, should be placed at the head of the Peerage arrayed in the order of antiquity, is one of the absurdities brought about by what is called ABEYANCE. In the case of baronies by writ of sum- mons, the barony is inheritable by a female, when there is no male heir; but if there are more than one female, it lies in abeyance until one of them, or her representative, become extinct: as soon as there is Only one claimant, the barony is revived. If the country really depended for its legislature upon the Peers, we wonder what would become of it in case of abeyance, in which the Peerage may lie dormant hundreds of years. The present Lord De Roos, in right of whose mother this barony happened to tarn up, is nephew of Lord Edward Fitzgerald, and a cousin of the present liberal Duke of Leinster. His father was Lord Henry, whose grief and indignation at the treatment his brother receive:1 from the Irish Government forms so affecting a part of the Life lately written by Moore. Lord De Roos voted against the Reform his uncle died for. He ought to know that people sometimes quote the trite saying of 4` evil communications," Sze.
DE SAVMAREZ, B. 355
Lord De Saumarez was knighted in 1793, for the gal- lant capture of the " Reunion :" he commanded the Orion in the action off Orient in 1795; he partici- pated in the victory of 1797, netir Cape St. Vincent, and in that of Aboukir in 1793. His great achieve- ment, however, was the battle of Algeziras, in which he defeated a very superior force, French and Spa- nish, on the 12th of June 1801. Sir James is of a very old family, settled time out of mind in the Is- land of Guernsey, of which be and his Countess are both natives.
De Tabby, B. 310 Devon, E. 32
The representative of this most ancient and noble family, known under the name of Lord Courtenay, has long resided abroad—under peculiar circum- stances. The moto of this house is,
" Ubi lapsus 1 quid feet ? "
DEVONSHIRE, D. 45 The glory of this family is the having produced the Honourable Henry Cavendish (son of Lord Charles Cavendish, brother to the third Duke). " Since the death of Newton," said Sir Humphry Davy, " Eng- land has sustained no scientific loss so great as that of Cavendish. His name will be an immortal honour to his house, his age, and his country." His dis- coveries respecting the nature of air and water laid the foundation of modern chemistry. He died worth one million two hundred thousand pounas—accumu- lotion.
Digby, E. 153 This Lord's ancestor, Sir Everard Digby, was exe- cuted for his concern in the Gunpowder Plot. Ano- ther ancestor was the celebrated Sir Kenelm Digby, who, in order to improve his wife's beauty—the famous Venetian—fed her with capons fattened cm serpents, and, as it is supposed, killed her with one of his newly-invented cosmetics.
Dmonne.N, B. 353
Colonel William Hughes, a great proprietor of cop-
. per-mines, and other property in Wales, and made a Peer through the influence of the Duke of Sussex. There is an interesting description of this nobleman's family and demesnes in the Tour of a Germmt Prince. DONEGAL, 51. 170
Donoughmore, E. 241 Dorchester, B. 185
General Sir Guy Carleton, who in 1786 received a peerage and 1,000/. a year for his Military services in America, was the founder of the family of Dor- chester. The present Baron is grand nephew of Sir Guy. DORMER, B. 58 This nobleman is a Roman Catholic : after the Emancipation, he returned from a foreign residence of so long continuance that be is said to speak his native language with difficulty.
Dorset, D. 35 The Sackrilles of the time of Queen Elisabeth used popularly to be called Fill-Sack—a truly aristocratic cognomen.
Douglas, B. 191 The present Lord Douglas is son to the Archibald Douglas whose claim to the estates of the Duke of Douglas was so warmly contested about sixty years ago, and which is still spoken of in Scotland as the "Great Douglas plea." He is doubly connected by marriage with the Duke of Buccleugh. DOVER, B. 337 An author of reputation; he has just completed the Life of Frederick the Great of Prussia.
Dowpre, V. 208
DOWNSHIRE, M. 136
Drogheda, M. 232
When an ancestor of this nobleman was made Baron Moore, of Mellefont (1615), Bishop Usher (then Dean) preached a sermon in St. Patrick's Cathedral, on the text, Acts xvii. 2, " THERE WERE MORE NOBLEIIEN TITAN THEY WHICH WERE AT Toss- SALONICA." This is the text oblige that the Arch. 'bishop of Canterbury should have been made to preach upon on the 9th October, in St. Paul's Cathe- dral: the Psalm should have been the 58th.
Ducm, B. 152
The noble blood of Dude is drawn from a Lord Mayor of London, who accumulated a large fortune In Charles the First's time, by the then not very ho- nourable profession of banker, or rather money- lender. Sir William, son of the Lord Mayor, was created Viscount Downe in Ireland at the corona- tion of Charles the Second.
Dudley, E. 67 This person is descended from William Ward, gold.
smith and jeweller to the Queen of Charles the First. Humble Ward; the jeweller's son, was made Lord Ward of Birmingham, in consequence of his having married the heiress of the family of Dudley, who was Burnness in her own right.
DLINDAS, B. 201
The first of the pandas family was a Lawrence Dun- das, af Kerse, Commissary-General and army con- tractor from 1748 to 1739. The son of Lawrence, and father of the present Lord, was created Baron Dundas in 1794.
DUNMORE, E. 3.12, A branch of the Athol family the present Earl is the fifth in succession ill Scotland. His sister was mar- ried to his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex ; the children take the name of D'Este.
DURHAM, B. 327
A steady and uncompromising advocate of liberal principles.
Dyne vor, B. 162 Eglinton, E. 254 EGMONT, E. 149
Egremont, E. 135
A nobleman eminent for his love of the fine arts, his patronage of British artists, and remarkable for his simple and unassuming manners.
Eldon, E. 229 Lord Eldon is said in Sit E. Brydges' edition of Col. line, to be the son of a merchant bf Newcastle-upon. Tyne. it is utterly impossible to descend lower in heraldry than a merchant ; had he been a coal-porter, he would still have been a merchant. We are only surprised that they did not take him up to the Con- queror.
Ellenborough, E. 245 Of the esisting Peers, the families of twenty-seven have been raised immediately from the Law. Of the extinct titles the number is proportionate.
Ely, M. 233 Irish Peerages have proved a most pernicious instru- ment in the hands of the packers of the House of Lords. An Irish Peerage is a step to the British, but it is one of which very little notice is ever taken ; and the slight estimation in which they have been held is shown by the following anecdote. A member of Parliament, of considerable influence, once ap- plied to Mr. Pitt for permission to enter one of the Parks through a particular gate, and was told it was impossible; but, to soothe his disappointment, the Minister offered to create him an Irish Peer. A man is created an Irish Peer for servility, oppression, and bigotry in his own country ; and then he is ready for transplanting to this, whenever his services shall be wanted. The misgovernment of Ireland Ins been a grand means of ruining England. When a man is made a Peer by corruption in Ireland, by corruption be is glad to take the next step in England. When the Ministry of 1752 wanted to get Boyle, the Irish Speaker, out of his seat, he was offered by Lord George Sackville a peerage, and a pension of 1,500/. a-year. He said, "If I were a Peer, I should think myself no greater than now that I am Mr. Boyle: as for t'other thing, I despise it as much as I do the per- son who offers it."—H. Walpole's Memoirs.
Ennishillen, B. 283 ERROL, E. 333
ERMINE, B. 252
ESSEX, E. 65 Exeter, M. 36 Exmouth, V. 270 A brave naval officer, who, it must be regretted, seems to consider that he ought to be grateful to a party for that which he owes to the country. '
Falmouth, E. 115 Farnborough, B. 309 The arbiter elegantiarum of the late King, under the name of Sir Charles Long.
Ferrard, V. 295
This nobleman's real name is Foster; the name of Skeffington he adopted on his marriage with a lady of that name ; the Irish title he derives in right of his mother. He is the son of the late Right Honour- able John Foster, Baron Oriel, the last Speaker of the Irish House of Commons ; who for fifty years contrived to maintain himself in the representation of the county of Louth without a contest, alai yet lived to see his whole influence overthrown by the people. The present Lord Oriel has espoused his father's politics. He was absent on the Reform division, but he sent his proxy against it ; which, however, being signed " Ferrard," could not be re- ceived.
Feversham, B. 313 FIFE, E. 317 FINGALL, E. 334 As an Irish Peer, one of the most ancient nobles of the three kingdoms.
Fitzwilliam, E. 128
The history of this family is very curious, and the documents of a nature scarcely to be doubted. It is descended from Sir William Fitz-Godric, cousin to Edward the Confessor ; whose son and heir, Sir Wil. liam Fitzwilliam, was ambassador at the court of William Duke of Normandy, A.D. 1066, and came over with him as Marshal of his army, and fought at the battle of Hastings ; at which battle William gave him a scarf from his arm in honour of his bravery. From this man, in lineal descent of heirs male, comes the venerable Earl.
FoLEY, B. 160
The ancestor of the Foleys was an extensive iron- master in Worcester. His great-grandson was raised to the Peerage in 1711.
Forester, B. 299 FORTESCUE, E. 130 An ancestor of this family was the famous Sir John Fortescue, Lord Chancellor to Henry the Sixth, and the author of the book De Laudibus Legion dinglice.
Gage, V. 192
Galloway, E. 206
The Earl of Galloway traces his family to Alexander the Steward, great-grandfather of Robert the Second, King of Scotland, and first of the miserable race to whom he bequeathed his name. The Scotch honours go back, the barony to 1607, the earldom to 1623. The English barony was conferred on the late Earl in 1796. By his high Tory principles and overbear- ing conduct, he has Incurred the resentment of Burns, who has gibbeted him in several epigrams. One of them runs- " Bright ran thy line, 0 Galloway I
Through many a far-famed sire; So brightly ran the Roman way, So ended In a--moire l"
The present Earl is a Tory like his father, but no poet has written of him.
Gambier, B. 264 An Admiral of the Bethel Union Fleet. GARDENER, B. 261
Gifford, B. 303
A pensioner on the public, his father not having been low enough in office to make a fortune. Glasgow, E. 282
GLENLyoN, B. 293 GonErtici 1, V. 315
This nobleman gained a high reputation in the Lower House, as the most candid of Chancellors of the Ex- chequer. But candour cannot keep a cabinet to- gether.
Gordon, D. 25
Gow mi. B. 311
GRAFTON, 1). 78—See Beaufort.
GRANARD, E. 246 Grantham, B. lb The first of the Bobinsons (the original family name) was a Lord Mayor of York. The founder of their nobility was Sir Thomas Robinson, long time an am- bassador at Vienna, while the Ring of Prussia wag carrying on his cruel war against the Enmress Maria Theresa : he was afterwards Secretary of State, and Lord Grantham. Lord Grantham is the brother of Lord Goclerich : the house is divided against itself. He is also a connexion of the late Lord Castlereagh. Gran (ley, B. 107 The head of this house was the celebrated Sir Fletcher Norton, who was Speaker of the Commons from 1770 to 1774, sitting at the time for Guildford. Sir Fletcher was created Baron Grantley in 1782. The father of the present Peer was one of the Barons of the Scotch Exchequer.
GRANVILLE, V. 275
Grenville, B. 193
GREY, E. 237
The number of peerages created under this name is very curious, though only two, Grey of Kiwis and Tankerville, were connected with the ancestry of the Premier.
Grey of Codnor (in Abeyance) ; Grey of Glendale (Afterwards merged in Tanker-
vile: now Extinct) ; Grey of Groby (in Stamford);
Grey of Howick (now Earl Grey) ; Grey of Pools (claimed, but not decided : in Abey-
ance) ; Grey of Rolleston (Extinct) ; Grey of Itotherfield (Attainted) ; Grey of Rugemont (Forfeited);
Grey of Ruthyn (Present Marchioness of Hastings);
Grey of Werke (Extinct) •
Grey of Wilton (Barony by writ forfeited); Grey of Wilton (Barony and Viscounty in E.
Wilton)
The only rivals in number to the Greys are the Howard,. and Neoilles. Of Howard there are or were—
Howard of Howard (in Abeyance); Howard of Castle Rising ; Howard of Charlton (in Suffolk); Howard of Effingham; Howard of Escrick (Extinct); Howard of Marnhill (Extinat); Howard of Morpeth (in Carlisle); Howard de Walden.
Grey de Ruthyn, Bs. 13
Guilford, E. 84 Hadding ton, E. 320
Hamir.rox, D. 100 Harborough, E. 107
His Lordship was absent ; other cares requiring his attendance at his seat in .Nottinghamshire.
Hardwiehe, E. 124
Thus family was founded by the Lord Chancellor of
that name (l736 He was the son of an attorney at Dover. There is a vulgar rumour that this attorney was hanged for forgery: on the other hand, Sir Egerton 13rydges, in his edition of Collins, gives us every reason to believe that he died, as lie had lived, respectably ; and Sir Egerton haul good means of procuring correct information.
Harewood, E. 213 The descendant of a West Indian merchant : his Lordship still retains property in the Colouies, and receives his sugar in the hogshead.
Harrington, E. 123
The Earl of Harrington is marked as absent front the division. " He was married, and could not come." The fact is, his Lordship has not taken his seat in the present reign ; having, it is said, re- nounced the Court, and the fashionable world, of which he was once,the arbiter, as Lord Petersham.
Harris, B. 280
The son of the taker of Seringapatam.
Harrowby, E. 159 This family, like so many others, was made by the law. Sir Dudley Rider, Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench 0734), was the son of a mercer in Smithfield.
HASTINGS, M. 18 HAWKE, B. 156 The Hawkes are a very modern family; the first of the race was a certain Edward Hawke, a barrister, whose son was indebted to his naval victories in 1747 and 1759, for 2,0001. a year and a barony. HEADFORT, 51. ' 340 Was an Irish Representative Peer previous to this creation ; so that Reform gained nothing by it. He is originally of a very obscure English family. Hereford, V. 29 Hertford, 51. 95
Heyteabury, B. 324
A diplomatic Peer, whose merit It Is to have opposed the progress of freedom in belt the courts of Europe.
Hill, B. 273
The Commander in Chief; who hoisted a neutral flag.
HOLLAND, Vassal, B. 148 HOLLAND, Strangford, K rsto, Glengali, Bamr- BROOKS, Mount- Edycombe, DOvER, MUNSTER, Lauderdale, Div Lc RAVE, Londonderry, Grenville— these are the names of Ai:rime-Peers ; they are not aristocrats among the literati, but literati among the aristocrats. Out of so large a body of educated and wealthy individuals, it is surprising that a greater number have not in some shape or other given their thoughts to the world. Bvaosi is gone, or his name would have illuminated the whole House—that House in which he could not raise his voice, and which, If he did nut despise, he hated. Besides the above names, it may perhaps be fair to reckon eldest sons who will probably be Peers in their turu—Morpeth, son of Lord CARLISLE; Porchester, son of Lord Carnarvon; Mahon, son of Lord Stan- hope. To these may be added Lord F. Leveson Gower and Lord John Russell.
There are few very Illustrious names here, but still their pursuits are creditable, more especially when we consider how little reputable are the occupations of others; ant if there are not many illustrious, there are several writers among them far above mediocrity. Lord Holland is well known for his book on Lope de Vega and Spanish Dramatic Literature. Lord Strang. ford is, or was, a very pretty poetical translator. Lord Dover is an acute and industrious inquirer into most historical questions. Lord Mulgrave is the author of some volumes of fiction, showing a good deal of knowledge of life and character. Munster and Londonderry are military men and writers : the latter is said not to write his own books. Lauderdale Is an Ingenious political economist. Lord King is the author of a good Life of Locke, fall of new matter. Lord Braybrooke's name is known as the editor of some Pepysian MSS. from the Library of Magdalen College, Cambridge, of which his brother Is Master. Lord Mount-Edgcombe has written a charming book of his Recollections of the King's Theatre : his reminiscences of the Opera and its prima donnas are of a far more gratifying kind than those of many other noble lords. Lord Grenville is not only a patron of literature, but is the author of some late pamphlets, more especially one on the expulsion of Locke from Oxford. Lord Glengall is the author of some clever farces, one of which we have often laughed over, and hope to do again —The Irish Tutor. Lords Morpeth, Porchester, andLeve- son Gower, are poets and translators. Lord Mahon has chosen the laborious path of historical erudition. Lord John Russell has paid great attention to the history of Modern Europe.
The list of noble authors might be Increased : but we have taken in all of any note. We see no reason to include Lord Calthorpe because he has written several Tracts for the Bible Society.
HOOD, V. 204
Grandson of the Reverend Samuel Hood, vicar of Thorncombe in Devonshire, and son of Admiral Hood, who was made a Baronet, and subsequently a Baron of Ireland, for his share in the victory over De Grasse in 1782, and afterwards Viscount of Eng- land in 1796.
Ilopetoun, E. 267 HOWARD OF EFFINGHAM, B. 33 HOWARD DE WALDEN, B..39
llownErr, B. 345
Only son of the late John Cradock, Archbishop of Dublin. A distinguished General in the Peninsular war. He was raised to the Irish Peerage in 1819. The Cradocks are Welsh, and Welsh antiquaries identify Cradock and Caractacus,
Howe, E. 227 Howe, Bs. 189 HUNTINGDON, E. 23
Captain Hastings, R.N. laid claim to the eariclom of Huntingdon, and was successful ; but not succeed- ing to the estates, the son is a pauper-peer, and his sisters are pensioners on time people. Had Captain Hastings' claims been disallowed, or were similar ones parried by an act of the Legislature, there would be no instances of elevating a quiet and respectable family of the middle ranks into the miserable splen- dour of titled poverty.
ILCHESTER, E. 127 Jersey, E. 89
A former Whig : he took the place of Lord Cham- berlain under the Duke of Wellington, and was turned out by the present Ministry. His la ly has always been a leader either of fashion or politics. Her mother was the daughter of Child the banker.
Keith, Bs. 240 Kenyon, B. 186
KING, B. 120
It were to be wished that there were many Lords in the House like Lord King. He is remarkable for the point and terseness of his speeches, the liberality of his opinions, and the clearness of his views of po- litical economy. His manliness and straightforward- ness form a striking contrast to the crooked and canting style in which many of his Peers conduct the business of the country.
Kingston, E. 291
KmmAiito, B. 336
Kinnoul, E. 102 LAKE, V. 249 LANSDOWNE, M. 139 - The founder of this family was a physician and a man of science, Sir William Petty. He made a large fortune In Ireland, by purchasing land at a time when It was greatly depreciated. He was engaged in the survey of Ireland, and was secretary to Oliver Crom- well. Though the Lansdownes have assumed the name of Petty, Petty is only the maternal name; the male branch is that of Fitunanrice, Earls of Kerry.
Lauderdale, E. 255 They who merely judge of his Lordship's opinions by former speeches, will be SUrpiisea by then
La Zouche, Bs. 12
The remarks we have made on the barony of De Roos are also applicable to this; which, accounted one of the most ancient, was in abeyance from 1625 to 1815, when it was called up by the Crown in favour of Sir Cecil Bishopp. Sir Cecil dying without any male Issue surviving, It again fell into abeyance; which was terminated in 1828 in favour of the present Baroness, the eldest daughter of the late Lord La Zouche.
Le Despencer, Bs. 2 Leeds, D. 76
The first person of any note amongst his ancestors was Edward Osborne, apprentice to Sir Thomas Hewett, cloth-worker. When his master's only child, Anne, was accidentally dropped out of the nurse's arms into the Thames, the apprentice, Edward, leaped into the water and saved her life. He after- wards married this Anne Hewett ; and with her got several valuable estates. Osborne was Sheriff of London in 1575, and Lord Mayor in 1882. His great grandson, Thomas, was the first Duke of Leeds . he 'had previously been made Earl of Dan by and Marquis of Carmarthen, and, in DOI, was created Duke of Leeds ; "to colour the dismissing him from busi- ness," says Burnett, " with the increase of title."
LEINSTER, D. 131 LEITRIM, E. 338 LICHFIELD, E. 133 Lir.yoan, B. 224 Limerick, E. 277 It would be very curious to consider how many spe- cies of JOBBING there be which lead to peerages. Borough jobbing is the surest road ; but there are also jobbing in loans, jobbing in Protestantism, job- bing in alarm,jobbing in votes independent of bo- rough interest ; there are country and town jobs ; nay, even blood is jobbed in—many a man has been executed that his prosecutor might wear a coronet— in Ireland: then—to step across the Channel is easy.
Lindsey, E. 58 Liverpool, E. 183 Londonderry, M. 274 A cavalry officer, who became an ambassador because his brother was a minister. His motto might to be the sentence pencilled by Lord Liverpool on the back of his application for a pension,— Tuts is TOO BAD." He is a great proprietor of coal-mines, through his wife, the heiress of Sir Harry Vane Tem- pest; a ward in Chancery, whom he carried by a coup de main in opposition to all her connexions.
Longford, E. 292
Lonsdale, E. 173 The most noticeable man among the ancestry of the Lowthers, was Sir Richard Lowther, who succeeded Lord Scrope as Warden of the West Marches under Elizabeth, and was afterwards several times employed as a Commissioner in the disputes with Scotland. The great grandson of Sir Richard was representative of Westmoreland, and in 1640 was created a Nova Scotia baronet; he also represented the county until 1696, when he was created Viscount Lonsdale. The title lapsed in 1750. The grand nephew of the third Viscount was in 1784 raised to the Peerage as Baron and Viscount Lowther and Earl of Lonsdale. The present Earl Is second cousin of the first Earl. He has been one of the most extensive manufacturers of Representatives of the People in the House of Com- mons. Previous to the Delegation Parliament, he nominated the two members for Westmoreland, one for Cumberland, one for Carlisle, one for Appleby, two for Haslemere, and two for Cockermouth. He is now driven from Carlisle, Cumberland, and the half of Westmoreland, from which Lord Brougham on three occasions sought, but in vain to dislodge him. The eldest son of the Earl was al the head of the Woods and Forests, during the Duke of Welling- ton's Administration; he had been previously a Com- missioner ot the Board of Control and of the Trea- sury. The Lonsdale motto is "Eagistratus indieat vino n;" which, by the practice of the family, may be interpreted, "Nu person unless in authority has a right to be called a man."
Lothian, M. 286
LuDi.ow, E. 343
Lyndhurst, B. 316
This nobleman is an instance of the necessity of a ballast of principle in the voyage of political life. The highest talents alone will not insure either re- spectability or usefulness.
LYNDOCH, B. 272
LYTTELTON, B. 198 Lord Lyttelton is a descendant of the author of the " Treatise on Tenures," the conunentary on which has bestowed immortality on Lord Coke. The first Lord Lyttelton was Chancellor of the Exchequer in George the Second's time, created Baron Lytteltou of Frankly in 1787.
Macclesfield, E. 111
This family was founded by a Lord Chancellor ; Parker, the son of an attorney at I.eake in Stafford- shire. The lying Peerage compilers have had the Impudence to take the attorney's pedigree up to Richard the Second. The attoruey's clerk becoming a lord, he must necessarily be of Norman descent ; so his ancestor is found to be William le Parker, lord of a great many lands in 1271. It is very possible that the attorney of Leake was of Norman descent : what of that? it was not his pedigree that made him Lord Chancellor. The idea of the Lords being proud of their Norman blood after this, is certainly a joke. The same Lord Macclesfield was arraigned and con- victed of malpractices in his Court of Chancery, and sentenced to pay a line of 30,0001. as a punishment for his offence. He had sold the places under him. Was this his Norman blood 1 His descendant votes against Reform.
Malmesbury, E. 187
Is grandson of Mr. James Harris, long Secretary to the late Queen Charlotte.
Manchester, D. 54
This family claims a descent from Drogo de Monte- acuto, who tame over with the Conqueror there is, however, net a word of truth in the pedigree. The real ancestor was M. Thomas Montague, who died
Iii 1517. Salk wasAatudent tliehliddieTemple,
and came to he Speaker of the House of Commons, When the House of Commons refused to pass a subs !tidy Bill of Henry the Eighth, that Monarch sent for Montagu the Speaker, and said to him, " Ho ! will they not pass my bill?" And laying his hand on the head of Montagu, who was kneeling before him, he said, " Get my bill to pass by such a time to mor- row, or else by such a time this head of yours shall be off !" The bill was passed within the time. He became Chief Justice of the King's Bench, and after- wards of the Common Pleas—" a descent in honour, but an ascent in profit." From this man's son came the families of the Dukes of Montague (extinct), Dukes of Manchester, and Lord Sandwich, Manners, B. 263
Mansfield, E. 138
MANVERS, E. 216 The family of Meadows goes no further back in the male line than the commence:nein of the last cen- tury, when Sir Philip Medows was Marshal of the Palace. The son of Sir Philip married the heiress of the last Duke of Kingston, and the family assumed. the name of Pierrepoint in consequence.
Marlborough, D. 42 : Maryborough, B. 294
A brother of the Duke of Wellington, who has had even more than the usnal luck of the family, by being selected as the heir of a wealthy individnal, Mr. Pole, which was the beginning of his fortunes.
Maynard, V. 154
MEATH, E. 341 Jaques de Brabazon figures in the Battle Abbey roll. The first Irish creation goes as far back as 1616. MELBOURNE, V. 278 Melville, V. 242 A fewyears ago, this name would not have been passed over as insignificant. At present, it is re- peatedly called to our recollection by the recurrence of complaints against the existing abuses in the Navy.
Middleton, B. 103
The present Viscount is fourth in descent from Middleton, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, in the begin- ning of the reign of George the First. The family is one of the hundreds on hundreds which have been successively enriched, and ultimately ennobled, by grants arising from the forfeiture of the ancient no- bility and gentry of Ireland.
Middleton, V. 209 MINTO, E. 221
Monson, B. 122 =
Lord Monson is the owner Of Gatton. His Lord- ship's representatives in the Lower House also voted against Reform. This Peer having but lately attained his majority, it is difficult to assert that he has changed his principles : but as his family have been always Whigs, and as it was ostentatiously declared that in those principles he had been edu- cated, it seems fair to suppose that the Wellington web of affected liberality entangled him sufficiently to second the address on the night of the Duke's notorious declaration against Reform, and that this, coupled with the unlucky purchase of Gatton, has placed him in a false position.
Montague, B. 179
Lord Montague is uncle to the present Duke of Due- clench. lie succeeded to the barony as heir of his grandfather, John, last Duke of Montague; who in 1786 procured its revival, with a special remainder for that purpose. MONTFORT, B. 126
Montrose, D. 117
Is one of those respectable nonentities who have passed a life in place, chiefly because accident had given them a title, and nature had not disqualified them from appearing at quarter-day.
Moray, E. 205
The Earl of Moray (Lord Stuart of Castle Stuart in 1796) is lineally descended from the famous Prior of St. Andrews, natural brother of Mary Queen of Scots, and, after her deposition, Regent of the kingdom until his assassination by a ruffian named Hamilton, whom Sir Walter Scott has praised for the deed. The present Earl Moray was married first to Miss Scott of Balcommie, sister to the Duchess of Port- land, and Viscountess Canning, by whom he has two suns—the eldest a lunatic.
MORLEY, E. 176
MosTrN, B. 350
A Welsh Baronet, and late H.P. for Flint.
Mount- Edgeombe, B. 129 The present Lord Mount-Edgcombe a few years ago wrote a book of his recollections of all the prima donnas that had appeared at the Opera in his time. His Lordship needs not fear that the Reform Bill will deprive lovers of Italian music of their boxes at the King's Theatre.
Mt; LGRAVE, E. 228 The most noted member of this family was Commo- dore Phipps, afterwards Lord Mulgrave, who made an extremely interesting voyage with a view to dis- cover the North-west Passage. The present Lord Mulgrave is a man of talents and of elegant pursuits, and is the author of several works. Though his family was of the Tory party, he has always been a Reformer.
MUNSTER, E. 332 The King's son, an author, a traveller, and a soldier. NELSON, E. 239
A clergyman.
Newcastle, D. 38
There is little to be said of this nobleman, except that he never was remarkable for anything. until ap- prehension for the loss of his boroughs drew him from obscurity.
NORFOLK, 1). 19
The Duke of Norfolk ofJames the Second's time was a staunch Protestant. "One day," says Burnet,' the King gave the Duke of Norforlk the Sword of State to carry before him to the Popish chapel: and be stood at the door. Upon which the King said to him, 'My Lord, your father would have gone fur- ther:' to which the Duke answered, Your Majesty's father was the better man, and he would oat have go= so far." It 'mowing to his nephew =need-
inghim that the title came again into the Roman Catholic line.
1, Ancestry is but a relative affair. In 1621, when Lord Spencer was talking about what their ancestors did In the House of Lords, Lord Arundel cut him short, saying," My Lord, when these things you speak of were doing, your ancestors were keeping sheep." Spencer instantly replied , " When my ancestors, as you say, were keeping sheep, your ancestors were plotting treason !" Lord Howard, first Duke of Norfolk, commonly called Jocky of Norfolk, was a pensioner of France, and received, in addition to his pension from Louis the Eleventh, in less than two years, in money cud plate, 24,000 crowns by way of direct bribe,—(Phiip de Comines.) He got all the honours of Earl Mar- shal from the Mowbrays, Dukes of Norfolk, just then extinct, in return for his favouring the usurpation of Richard Crookback. He was killed, with his master, in Bosworth Field, Aug. 22d, 1485. The first of this
line was killed in battle, and the three next were all executed on Tower Hill ; the fourth died in the Tower.
Thomas, Earl of Arundel, seventh In descent from Jockey of Norfolk, a man of proud and peculiar ha- bits, introduced the Arundel Marbles into England. NORTHAMPTON, M. 51
Northumberland, D. 118 This wealthy nobleman is descended from Sir Hugh Smithson, Bart. of Stanwick, in Yorkshire : he is called Percy only by act of Parliament. He will lose the patronage of two boroughs by the Reform Bill, and has set his face against it. His income is said to be 300,0001. per annum : surely he might be con- tent with the legitimate influence of so much wealth. It is chiefly derived from the ancient feudal posses- sions of the Percies, which came into the family by marriage with the heiress.
Northwich, B. 223 OAKLEY, B. 347 Brother and presumptive heir to Earl Cadogan. ONSLOW, B. 108 Orford, E. 119 ORMOND, M. 288 OXFORD, E. 99 PANMURE, B. 346 Brother of the Earl of Dalhousie: he inherited the estates of Earl Panmure of Forth. He has been for many years in the House of Commons, as Member for Forfarshire, and never omitted a single occasion of voting for Reform.
Pembroke and Montgomery, E. 311 The present representative of this family is an ab- sentee. One of his ancestors was the favourite of James the First; Philip Earl of Montgomery, of whom Clarendon says, "he pretended to no other qualification than to understand horses and dogs."
PETRE, B. 43 PLUNKETT, B. 319
Plymouth, E. 24 The present Earl is named Other Archer Windsor : Other is an affectation of a Norwegian or Saxon
Dame: a powerful Lord so called lived in this coun- try before the Conquest, from whom this family has some pretensions to its descent. The male line, how-
ever, became extinct. The present Earl of Plymouth derives his origin from a gentleman of the name of Dixie Hickman of Kew ; but his ancestor, on be- coming the representative of the Lord Windsor, assumed that name.
POLTIMORE, E. 348 The Bamfyldes were Lords of Poitimore, in Devon- shire, in the reign of Edward the First. The baron- etcy dates from 1641.
POMFRET, E. 91 PONSONBY, B. 259 PORTLAND, D. 86 The first Bentinck came over with William—not the Conqueror, but the Revolutionizer. He was page to the Prince of Orange. His services are thus spoken of by Sir William Temple: " I cannot forbear to give M. Bentinck the character due to him, of the best servant I have known in prince's or private families. lie tended his master during the whole course of his disease, both night and day : and the Prince told me, that whether he slept or no he could not tell ; but in sixteen days and nights, he never called once that he was not answered by Bentinck as If he had been awake. The first time the Prince was
well enough to have his head opened and combed, N. Bentinck, as soon as it was done, begged of his master to give him leave to go home, for he was able
to hold up no longer : he did so, and fell immediately sick of the same disease, and in great extremity : but recovered just soon enough to attend the Prince into
the field, where he was ever next his person."— Memoirs I., 97-8.
Portsmouth, E. 114
The Wallops go a long way back into history. The patent of nobility granted in 6 George I. (1720), says, "We have determined to place among the Peers our trusty and well-beloved John Wallop, Esq. one of the Lords of our Treasury: of a very ancient, and during the reign of our Royal ancestors, the Saxons, in this Island, of an illustrious family." Nothing needs be said of the Wallop of the present day.
Pardett, E. 59 Fowls, E. 197 Earl Powis is one of those who, according to the plan suggested by Sir John Malcolm, would have a large share in the nomination of the Members of Parlia- ment for Bengal, for beholds no less than 32,0001. of East India stock. The founder and maker of the family of Powis, was the notorious General Clive, who having extorted from the unhappy natives of India half a million and upwards, found himself, in 1762, powerful enough to purchase indemnity for the acts by which his wealth had been accumulated, and an Irish coronet to consecrate its future application. Prudhoe, B. 284
RADNOR, E. 132
One of the few noblemen who cherish the love Of liberty which their ancestors evinced. His motto, " Patria cars, carior libertas," was assumed in con- sequence of the emigration of his ancestor to this country to avoid religious persecution. Sir Jacob Aouverie, the &at Lord Longford, was a merchant
In London; and his peerage is said, by Horace Wal- pole, to have cost him 10,000/.
RANFURLV, E. 308
Ruvensworth, B. 297
Rayleigh, Bs. 300
Redesdule, B. 243 Son of the late Lord Redesdale. Chancellor, created In 1802, Solicitor-General in 1793. Attorney-General 1797 ;—a bigoted lawyer, wile bad no other idea than the one which lies hid under the word precedent. His uncle was William Blitford, the historian of Greece; whose work is an elaborate historical libel on popu- lar power. Its maxims are, that though an aristo- cracy may do wrong, they can never do worse than the people ; and that the most odious of yokes is that which a democracy imposes. This is one of the great reasons why Mitford's elaborate, but at the same time superficial work, has been adopted at the Universities, and in all places of education, where the aristocracy, or its creatures the dignified clergy, have sway. Thus are the sources of knowledge poisoned.
Ribblesdale, B. 225 RICHMOND, D. 77 See Beaufort.
Rivers, B. 244 Roden, E. 290 This nobleman derives his English title from his grand-uncle, by whose demise without issue, his father became possessed of the Dundalk estate, in Ireland. He is nephew to the notorious Ex.Bishop of Clogher, Percy Jocelyn. His father's propensity to gambling embarrassed the estate considerably: whilst, rice versa, the son's opposite habits render the natural advantages it possesses of inconsiderable value to himself and of little interest to the inhabit- ants thereon. He is proprietor of the rotten bo- rough of Dundalk. His family appointed the mem- bers for seventy or eighty years, and the representa- tion was regularly sold to the highest bidder. The present representative for Dundalk, Lieutenant Gordon, the bosom friend and brother Biblical of Lord Roden, is probably the only member that has been returned without purchase for the last century. His Lordship divided with Lord Oriel the representation of the county of Louth, which was as close as the borough for fifty years ; but in the glorious contest of 1826, his political power was anni- hilated there, by the return of the late worthy and patriotic Alexander Dawson. His father sup- ported the measure of the Union ; and the present Lord was joint Auditor-General for Ireland, a sine- cure worth 3,5001. per annum. He was also Gauger of Wine for the port of Galway, with 700L per an- num, and Vice-Chamberlain to the late King, with 1,7001. per annum ; which he resigned, rather than vote with the Wellington Ministry for Catholic Eman- cipation. Rodney, B. 168
The present Lord Rodney is grandson of the famous Sir George Rodney, commander of the English fleet in the action with Count de Grasse ; and by the mother's side, of Thomas Harley. an Alderman of London.
Balk, B. 214 ROMNEY, E. 110 ROSEBERY, E. 325 Rosily'', E. 161 The present Lord Rosslyn is the great nephew of the Chancellor Lord Loughborough. He was a Whig, and an able defender of Queen Caroline. He ac- cepted office under the administration of the Duke of Wellington, and deserted his party.
Rutland, D. 22 Sr. ALBANS, D. 79. See Richmond St. Germain's, E. 172
The patriotic Sir John Eliot, who was one of the Commissioners of Impeachment of the Duke of Buckingham in Charles the First's time, and who, because he would not submit to the insolent detnands of the Court, closed his life in the Tower, was the first great man of the house of Eliot.
Si. Helens, B. 238
St. John, B. 34 ST. VINCENT, V. 231
Salisbury, M. 41 First Earl if Staisbary : "No act a power was ever proposed which he did not advance and execute with the utmost rigour. No man so great a tyrant in his country, or less swayed by any motives of justice or honour."—Lerd Clarendon.
Sandwich, E. 68 Sandys, Bs. 246 SAYE AND SELF., B. 15
Scarborough, E. 80 Scarsdae, B. 145 SEAFORD, B. 314 SEFTON, B. 335 SEGRAVE, B. 351
Colonel Berkeley, during the lifetime of his father,
was known as Viscount Dursley. He did not suc- ceed to the earldom, as it appeared that he was born before marriage. A younger brother then became the heir to the title : he has not claimed. The estates descended by will to Colonel Berkeley. Se- grave is an ancient barony, of which the present Earl of Berkeley is a co-heir.
SELSEA, B. 200 Shaftesbury, E. 70 SHANNON, E. 182 Sheffield, E. 248 Made an Irish Peer in 1781, in return for his having raised at his own expense a regiment of light dra- goons (the 22nd), when the combined fleets of France and Spain were off the coast. In 1781 he was made an Engiish Peer, in return foals support of Mr. Pitt. We may see bow a bribe of this sort is distributed and divided, for the sake of keeping a hold upon the sub- ject—
In 1781, Lord Sheffield, Baron of Dunamore.
1783, Lord Sheffield, of Roscommon; entailing the honour on heirs female.
1802, A British Peerage.
This was the father of the present Earl, and Gibbon's intimate friend. • SIIERBORNE, B. 178 SHREWSBURY, E. 14
Sic/mouth, V. 250 Skelmersdale, B. 328
&Too, 51. 253 Somers, E. 175 The family of Somers owes its nobility to its borough influence. The honours of the celebrated Chancel- lor, of whose famii'yche present is a collateral branch, expired with hint. The present barony of Somers was created in 1784 ; the viscounty of Eastnor and the earldom of Somers in 1821.
SOMERSET, D. 28
The ancient line of Seymour is not only direct from the great Protector Somerset, uncle to Edward the Sixtli,—who, if he had a fault in the estimation of his time, it was a sympathy with the people, and to which he fell a sacrifice,—but boasts, as its second founder, one of the brightest patriots our country numbers among her children. Sir Edward Seymour, seventh Duke, was an able member of Parliament in the reign of Charles the Second, to whom we are above all things indebted for his strenuous exertions which procured the passing of the Habeas Corpus Act.
SONDES, B. 140
The first Lord Sondes was a member of the Monson family ; he took the name of Watson on account of the estates derived from his mother, Lady Margaret Watson, daughter of the first Earl of Rockingham ; Lady Margaret married the first Lord Blouson. Southampton, B. 165
The Southamptons are a branch of the Fitzroys, of the house of Grafton.
SPENCER, E. 141
The founder of the Spencer family, a rich knight of Henry the Eighth's time, was of so conscientious a character, that, in his will, " he requires his execu- tors to recompense every one that can lawfully prove that he has hurt hint in any wise, so that they may make their claim within two years:" and re- quires his executors to make proclamation thereof, once a month during the first year after his decease, at Warwick, Southampton, Coventry, Banbury. Da- ventry, and Northampton. His will is dated 1522. Sir Robert Spencer, first Lord Spencer, was created by James the First. He was reported to have by him the most money of any person in the kingdom : "this was the motive of his creation" in 1603.
STAFFORD, M. 94 The family of Gower has some pretension to be con- sidered of Anglo-Saxon origin. The object of the creation, in Queen Anne's time, is thus stated by Burnet: "Finch, Cower, Granville and Young Sey- mour were made Peers in 1702, to create a majority in the Upper House; while Hervey was advanced at the same time, through private favour."
Stamford and Warrington, E. 44
Lady Jane Grey was of this family. The founder of its great wealth was the regicide Lord Grey, who ob- tained immense sums from the estates of the Royal- ists, while one of the principal leaders of the Parlia- ment forces and in their councils. He died in prison. It was Lord Grey who is said by the Royalist his- torians to have garbled the House of Commons by means of Colonel Pride's Purge ; and that though Pride was the agent, Lord Grey stood behind with a paper in his hand of the names of such members as were too honest."
Stanhope, E. 112
STOURTON, B. 17
This is one of the most ancient ennobled families in the male line in the kingdom: they have always been Catholics, they preserve the same name from a time beyond William the Conqueror. Charles, the seventh Lord Stourton, had the misfortune to be hanged for murder at Salisbury, in 1557; but then, in respect of his nobility, he was accommodsted with a halter of silk, and is buried in the Cathedral.
Stowell, B. 296
Stradlimke, E. 210
Strangfurd, V. 334 Is celebrated on various grounds ; among others, his poetry, his diplomacy, and his anxiety to kiss:the King at the late coronation.
Stuart de Rothsay, B. 323
St:Frici.n, B. 184
Second son to the first Baron, Sir Harbord Har- bord, who was member for Norwich previous to his elevation to the Pcerkfc in l7.86. The present Peer is an active and intc■ligent magistrate, and a liberal and benevolent man, lle has published si.veral pamphlets.
SUFFOLK AND BERKSHIRE, E. 40 Sy/ney, V. 169 Lord Sydney is grandson of that Tommy Townshend of whom Goldsmith speaks in his Retaliation. Talbot, E. 125 Tankervil le, E. 83 TEMPLEMORE, B.352 Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Chichester. grandson of the late and nephew of the present Marquis of Done- gal. He was member for the county of Wexford. He married a daughter of the Marquis of Anglesea. Tenterden, B. 318 Baron Tenterden, Lord Gifford, Boron Wynford, Baron Eldon, Baron Ens KIXE, Lord Chief Justice of the King's Ileneb,—if it required any strong argu- ment to prove the wisdom and almost necessity of creating Peers for Life only, it would be found in the mere enumeration of these names. Lord Tenterdea himself, actually and literally at one (hoe a barber's boy (lie talks of springing from the middle classes,) and having now a cousin a butler in the family of Sir Trayton Drake, though he may be a tolerably good Judge and a decent lawyer—what is there in him or his son that they and their posterity should go down as legislators, honoured, titled, andpensioned I Lord Gifford's progeny has already begun the line of poverty: the country must "set apart In honour from the womb" the son of an eit.attorney, who was mistaken for a clergyman and a lawyer, and made Attorney-General, and who himself, perhaps. had he not been titled and pensioned, might have followed
some respectable profession. Ellenborough had alma. dant time to dignify his peerage with wealth. What :the future Lords Eldon and Best areklikely to be, we seek not to inquire: one at least will stand in no need of a pension, whatever else he may require. It lets down the name of Erskine sadly, to see the Whigs, in imitation of the Tories, thrusting the orator's descendants into every gap. When will the reign of APTI mos arrive?
TEYNEIABI, B. 50 -THANET, E. 57
Thoiriond, M. 305 Thurlow, B. 194 Torrington, V. 116 Townshend, M. 9
VERNON, B. 159
Verulam, E. 195
It is the popular notion that Lord Verulam is de- scended front the great Lord Bacon ; than which no- thing ens be more unfounded. They come from a family Grimstons; who of course came in with William the Conqueror.—so says the original patent. Sir Harbottle Grimstone was of this race. We have heard that the present Lord used at Harrow to be called " the Bacon Lord," as the antipodes of his supposed ancestor Lord Bacon. Pope's lines on the present family possessing the seat of the philosopher, are well known :—
"Shades that to Bacon could retreat afford, Become the portion of a booby Lord."
Waldegrave, E. 85 Wallace, B. 359 galsingham, B. 163 Is a Peer by the melancholy death of his brother, by fire, lately. He is a clergyman, and did hope to be a Bishop, it is said ; and revenges his disappoint- ment on the People by an Anti-Reform vote ; for which, and his intemperate zeal, he was recently dis- missed from the situation of Chaplain to the King.
Warwick, E. 53 Waterford, M. 181 This powerful family is originally from the county of Stafford. Tristram Beresford, the founder of the Irish branch, was agent of the London Company for Planting Ulster. The son of Tristrani represented Londonderry in 1661, and in 1666 was made a Baronet of Ireland. The fourth Baronet married the heiress of the Earl of Tyrone, and was raised to the Irish Peerage in 1720, as Baron Beresford and Viscount Tyrone, and afterwards, in 1746, as Earl of Tyrone. The father of the late Marquis was raised to the Barony of Tyrone in England in 1786, and to the Marquisate of Waterford in Ireland in 1789. The family of the Beresfords monopolized until lately a very large proportion of the representation of Ire- land; and the Church equally with the State hag been for the greater part at their disposal, WELLESLEY, M. 217
This nobleman has been twice a viceroy—first, over an Indian empire, and next over the kingdom of Ireland.
Wellington, D. 266 We grieve to write this name in ignoble Italies,—it ought to have blazed in our brightest capitals.
Wemyss, E. 289 WENLOCK, B. 349 The Barony of Wenlock became extinct in 1471. The estates passed to Thomas Lawley of Spoonhill, Shropshire, cousin of the last Baron. The grandson of this Thomas was created a baronet in 1841. Lord Wenlock is the sixth baronet.
WESTMINSTER, M. 144
Westmorland, E. 56
One of the creations of James the First.: It is .a sin- gular fact, that of the tri PTV-TWO peerages conferred by James the First,.fonrteed only remain, and two are merged in other fain ilicA—Muntgotnery in Pem- broke, and Berkshire in Suffolk.
Wharnelitre, B. 312 Lord Witarncliffe owes a place in the Peerage partly to his personal importance, and partly to election- eering considerations he is said to have found it more convenient to step quietly into the House of Lords than to retain his seat in the Commons at the expense of a contest for Yorkshire. He is a younger branch of the Bute family, and is descended from the celebrated Lady Mary Wortley Montague. He has always professed to be independent in politics, and has sometimes acted as if he were. He moved the declaration of incompetence against the remnant of the Perceval Administration, and has been for ten years the unsuccessful advocate' of the repeal of the Game Laws.
Willoughby de Broke, B. 20 WILLOUGHBY BE EltESBY, B. 6 The barony of Willoughby de Eresby was originally a barony Writ; and, in consequence, at the death of the last Lord Willoughby, remained in abeyance be- tween his two sisters until it was granted by patent in I7o0 to the elder sister. The present Lord Wil- loughby is a son of Sir Peter Burrell, first Lord Gwydyr ; he married, in 1807, Miss Drummond of Perth, the wealthiest heiress that ever Scotland boasted of. He was deputy Great Chamberlain, by appointment of his mother, who held that office con- jointly with her sister, until her death, in 1828, gave the nomination to the mother of Lord Chohnondeley.
Wilton, E. 174
WINCHESTER, M. 27 The man who founded this family enjoyed the place of Treasurer during Mary and Elizabeth, for thirty
• years. Being asked how he preserved himself in the place through so many changes of government, he answered, By keine. a willow, and not an oak. The third Marquis of Winchester published a collection e, of essays, entitled Lord Marquis Idleness. (London, 1586, 410.) " He had four natural sons by one Mrs. Lambert, a concubine, all knights ; viz. Sir William, Sir Hercules, Sir John, and Sir Hector, to whom, as I have heard, he granted leases of lands for the term of one hundred years, of little less than 1,000/. per annum value ; which lands unto this day are called the Bastard Lands."—Dugdale. This man's grand- son was the first Duke of Bolton. He used to bunt by torch-light, and only spoke at a particular hour of the day. A most extravagant and avaricious person : " he was," says Burnet, "a most knowing and crafty man an artful flatterer, always carried his point, and in short the great riddle of his age."
The third Duke of Bolton married Lavinia Bee. wick, the original Polly Peachum of the Beggars' Opera. She had been his mistress.
Winchilsea and Nottingham, E. 55
The Earl of Nottingham, ancestor of Lord Winchil- sea, deserted his party in the reign of Queen Anne. He was thus advertised for by Swift " Wc, sitEas a very tall, thin, swarthy-complexioned man, between sixty and seventy years of age, wearing a brown coat, with little sleeves and long pockets, has lately with.. drawn himself from his friends, being seduced by wicked persons to fellow ill courses,—these are to give notice, that whoever shall discover him shall have ten shillings reward; or if he will voluntarily return," &c.
The head of this family was the Viscountess Maid- stone : she bought her peerage from James the First, at the price other beautiful seat of Copt Hall, Essex, which she presented to the Lord Treasurer Crautield. The reign of the women in this family is not, there- fore, illegitimate.
Wodeho use B. 222 Wynford, B. 330 Sir William Best was Chief Justice of the Common Pleas ; the Ministers finding Sir Nicholas Tindal in- efficient as Attorney-General, were compelled tci remove him, which could only be done by finding him a better post : Best was infirm, and the necessity of his retirement evident : offers of various kinds were made to tempt him to vacate, but he manfully resisted all minor inducements. A peerage was the sine pie non of his moving: the Judge was firm, and even the conqueror of Buonaparte was compelled to give way. This, at least, is the common rumour; but we have heard that the Peer himself gives a different view of the transaction.
YARBOROUGH, B. 202 Lord Yarborough is a descendant, by the female side, of Sir William Pelham, famous for his military exploits ill Queen Elizabeth's time. His sou, Charles Anderson Pelham, is member for Lincoln.
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