fortune, he m. Frances, the dau. of the Rev. Mr. Moyser, and widow of George Heneage, Esq., of Lincolnshire, a woman of dissolute character, whose only recommendation was her large jointure. He d. 10 August, 1723, at Dancer's Hill, in the parish of South Mimms, in Middlesex; and the parish register there, for the year 1723, contains the following entry:-"Lord Buckingham, buried August ye 18th." He had no sons, and his claims, therefore to the Villiers peerages passed to a younger branch of the family, which will presently be treated of. His wife is described as having been the mother of two daus., who d. unm. Of one of these the burial register of Merton, in Surrey, for 18 May, 1703, thus disposes "Lady Mary Villiers, daughter of the Right Honourable Earl of Buckingham and Lord Viscount Purbeck, of this parish." The other dau., Lady Elizabeth Villiers, is stated in an imperfect modern pedigree, in the Heralds' College, to have been born in 1701. In the 56th vol. of the Gentleman's Magazine, p. 620, is a long obituary and genealogical notice of her, stating that she had died in Tavistock Court, Tavistock Street, London, 4 July, 1786. Returning to the children of Robert Villiers and Elizabeth Danvers, his wife, we shall recollect that there was a younger son, Edward Villiers. He was born at Knighton, in Radnorshire, 28 March, 1661, became a captain in the army, and d. at Canterbury, in 1691. He had m. Joan, dau. of Mr. William Heming, a brewer, at Worcester. The marriage took place in the private chapel of the bishop of Worcester, in consequence of the bride being related to Dr. Thomas, who then possessed this see. The issue of this marriage was George Villiers, who was born at Worcester, 11 April, 1690, and educated at Westminster school. He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, 28 June, 1709, and was thus described on this occasion in the books of the University: "George Villiers Edvardi de Civitat. Worcester gen. fil." He took his degree of M.A., 20 April, 1716; and, entering holy orders, became vicar of Chalgrove, in Oxfordshire. On the death of his first cousin, John Villiers, in 1723, without male issue, he claimed the title of Earl of Buckingham, but appears to have abstained from using it. He d. at Chalgrove in 1748. By his will, dated 30 March, 1748, and proved at Doctors' Commons, 10 May following-after reciting that he had settled his real property by a deed dated 20 May, 1731, and that he had given her fortune to his dau., Catherine, on her marriage to the Rev. Mr. Lewis-he directs that Mary, his other daughter, shall receive a like fortune, bequeaths to Mr. Lewis his wife's portrait, in water colours, and appoints his own wife sole executrix. He had married, according to a pedigree at p. 5 of a MS. vol. in the Heralds' College, lettered B.P., the dau. of T. Stephens, Esq.; and his will is proved by Catherine, his widow. The Rev. George Villiers and Catherine, his wife, had the following issue: George, Edward, Catherine (by whom alone the family was continued), and Mary. George, the eldest son, was entered at Christ Church, Oxford, 2 July, 1742, and having taken holy orders, was instituted vicar of Frodsham, in Cheshire, in 1772, and d. 24 June, 1774, aged fifty. His will, in which he styles himself of St. George, the parish of the Martyr, in Southwark, Surrey, Clerk, is dated 30 June, 1770, and proved 16 December, 1774. In it he devises to his wife, Mary, for life, and, in default of issue, to his right heir, his manor and rectory of Aylsham Burgh,— a property which had been settled by Sir Edward Coke on his dau. He d. 8. p. His brother, Edward, d. a bachelor; and, with these two brothers, expired the male line of this family. Their sister, Mary, d. unm. It has already been stated that the husband of Catherine Villiers was named Lewis. He, the Rev. John Lewis, was instituted dean of Ossory, in Ireland, 24 May, 1755. His wife, dying 13 April, 1756, he m. a second time, and had a second family, and d. 28 June, 1783. The children of the marriage of Catherine Villiers and John During the youth of this gentleman, some efforts are said to have been made by the family to obtain a summons to the House of Lords, which his devotion to the Jacobite cause is supposed to have rendered hopeless. Mr. Murray, afterwards Lord Mansfield, was consulted on the subject of the claim; and exchanged with this family assurances of devotion to the exiled Stuarts, which, when he received office, he was imagined to have betrayed, to the disadvantage of his former clients. Republicans during the reign of the Stuarts-Jacobites during the reign of the Guelphs-this unfortunate family seems always to have "had hold of the wrong end of the stick." ↑ It is to be observed that, in consequence of the claims of this family, the title of Buckingham was not again conferred till after its extinction in the male line; and that the Sheffields, though commonly called Dukes of Buckingham, were in fact created Dukes of Buckinghamshire. Lewis, were John Joseph Lewis, who d. unm. in early manhood, and is believed to have been drowned at sea, Villiers William Lewis, of whom presently, Elizabeth-Catherine Lewis, who was m. to William Surtees, Esq., of Seaton-burn, near Newcastle-on-Tyne, and had issue, and Cassandra Lewis, presumed to have d. unm. Villiers William Lewis, inheriting Aylsham Burgh Manor, as the right heir to his uncle, the Rev. George Villiers, of Frods ham, took the surname of Villiers, and marrying Matilda, dau. of the 11th Lord St. John of Bletsoe, had an only son, GeorgeWilliam Villiers, who was accidentally killed at Tours, in 1841. The eldest son of this gentleman, GEORGE-WILLIAM VILLIERS-VILLIERS, Esq., of Bath, is, through his greatgrandmother, Catherine Villiers, the present representative of this unfortunate, but historic line. He is also one of the coheirs of the Baronies of Scales, Playtz, &c. VILLIERS-EARLS OF ANGLESEY. By Letters Patent, dated 18 April, 1623. CHRISTOPHER VILLIERS, youngest brother of George, 1st Duke of Buckingham (see Villiers, Dukes of Buckingham,) was elevated to the peerage, 18 April, 1623, as Baron Villiers of Daventry, co. Northampton, and EARL OF ANGLESEY. His lordship m. Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Sheldon, Esq. of Houby, co. Leicester, and by her (who m. 2ndly, Hon. Benjamin Weston,) had issue, CHARLES, his successor. Anne, m. 1st, to Thomas, Viscount Savile, afterwards Earl of Sussex, and had JAMES, 2nd Earl of Sussex, who d. s. p. in 1761, when his Frances, m. Francis, Lord Brudenel, son and heir of Robert, Her ladyship m. 2ndly, - Barde, Esq., of Weston. The earl, who was gentleman of the horse to King JAMES I., d. in 1630, and was 8. by his son, CHARLES VILLIERS, 2nd Earl of Anglesey, who m. Mary, dau. of Paul, Viscount Bayning, and widow of William, Viscount Grandison, but d. s. p. in 1659, when all his honours became EXTINCT; while his sister Anne, Countess of Sussex, s. to the estates of the family. Arms-Arg., on a cross, gu., five escallops, or, a mullet for difference. VILLIERS-DUCHESS OF CLEVELAND. (See FITZ-ROY, Duke of Cleveland and Southampton.) VILLIERS-EARL OF GRANDISON. By Letters Patent, dated 11 September, 1721, and 19 February, 1767. Lineage. WILLIAM VILLIERS, Esq., of Brookesby, eldest son of Sir George Villiers, Knt. (by his 1st marriage with Audrey, dau. and heiress of William Sanders, Esq. of Harrington, co. Northampton,) was created a Baronet, 19 July, 1619, but the title ceased in 1711. at the demise of the grandson of the first pos sessor, s. p. The eldest son, by his 2nd marriage, of Sir George Villiers, and the half-brother of Sir William, the 1st baronet, was George, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM, the celebrated favourite of JAMES I. and CHARLES I., who fell by the hand of the assassin Felton, 23 August, 1628. The 2nd son of the above Sir George Villiers, Knt., by his 1st wife, and consequently brother of Sir William Villiers aforesaid, was SIR EDWARD VILLIERS, who received the honour of knighthood, 7 September, 1616, having been employed, in 1620, as ambassador to Bohemia, and was, in 1622, through the interest of his half-brother, the Duke of Buckingham, nominated Presi dent of the province of Munster, in Ireland, at the decease of the Earl of Thomond. Sir Edward m. Barbara, eldest dau. of Sir John St. John, of Lidiard Tregoze, co. Wilts, and niece of Sir Oliver St. John, who was created 3 January, 1620, VIL Viscount Grandison, in the peerage of Ireland, with remainder to the issue male of his sister, Lady Villiers. By this marriage Sir Edward had four sons and three daus., 1. WILLIAM. his heir. II. JOHN, successor to his brother. III. GEORGE, successor to his brother John. IV. EDWARD (Sir), ancestor of the EARLS OF JERSEY. 1. Anne, m. 1st, Richard, only son and heir of Lord Wenman; Sir Edward d. 7 September, 1626, lamented more deeply than "Munster may curse the time that Villiers came But those whose hearts are married to the state; Munster may bless the time that Villiers came." The eldest son, WILLIAM VILLIERS, Esq., s. to the estates of his father, and, on the demise of his uncle in 1630, became 2nd Viscount Grandison. Actively espousing the cause of CHARLES I., his lordship received a wound at the siege of Bristol, 26 July, 1643, of which he d. in the following month at Oxford, leaving, by Mary, his wife, dau. of Paul, Viscount Bayning, an only dau., Barbara (wife of Roger Palmer, Earl of Castlemaine, in Ireland,) afterwards Duchess of Cleveland, and mistress of CHARLES II. His brother and heir, JOHN VILLIERS, 3rd Viscount Grandison, d. s. p., when the honours devolved upon his brother, George VILLIERS, 4th viscount, who m. Lady Mary Legh, 2nd dau. (and co-heiress of Sir Francis Legh, Bart., created Lord Dunsmore in 1628, and Earl of Chichester in 1644, and had two sons and two daus., 1. Edward, a brigadier-general in the army, and lieut.-col. of the Queen's regiment of horse; m. in 1677, Catherine, dau. and heir of John Fitzgerald, Esq., of Dromana, co. Waterford, by whom he obtained a considerable landed property in that county. Hed. in 1693, leaving 1 JOHN, who 8. to the viscounty. 2 William. 1 Mary, m. to Brigadier-Gen. Stuart. 2 Harriet, m. to Robert Pitt, Esq, by whom she was mother Mrs. Villiers obtained a patent from King WILLIAM in 1699, II. William, d. 7 September, 1723, having m. Catherine, 2nd dau. of Sir Edward Villiers, his father's younger brother, and widow of Lewis-Jame Le Vassen, Marquess de Puissars, in France. 1. Audrey, m. to Richard Harrison, Esq., of Balls, near Hertford. 11. A dau. m. to Skinner Byde, Esq. Lord Grandison d. in 1699, and was 8. by his grandson, JOHN VILLIERS, 5th Viscount Grandison, who was created EARL GRANDISON, of Limerick, 11 September, 1721. His lordship m. Lady Frances Cary, dau. of Anthony, Viscount Falkland, by whom he had issue: 1 JAMES, Lord Villiers, M.P., who m. Jane, dau. and heir of Richard Butler, Esq., and had three children, who d. in infancy: he d. 12 December, 1732: his widow m. 2ndly, Lucius-Charles, Viscount Falkland; 2 WILLIAM, Lord Villiers, d. unm., 1739; and 3 ELIZABETH, eventual heiress. The earl d. 14 May, 1766, when the earldom EXPIRED, the viscounty descended to his kinsman, William, 3rd Earl of Jersey, and his estates passed to his dau., LADY ELIZABeth Villiers, who had been elevated to the peerage of Ireland, 10 April, 1746, as ViscoUNTESS GRANDISON, of Dromana, co. Waterford, and was, after her father's death, advanced to be COUNTESS GRANDISON, 19 February, 1767. Her ladyship m. 1st, 12 June, 1739, Aland John Mason, Esq., M.P.; and 2ndly, Gen. Charles Montague Halifax; by the former of whom she left at her decease, 29 May, 1782, an only surviving child, GEORGE MASON-VILLIERS, 2nd Earl of Grandison, b. 23 July, 1751; who m. 10 February, 1774, Lady Gertrude Conway, 3rd dau. of Francis, Earl of Hertford, and had an only dau. and heir, GERTRUDE-AMELIA, who m. 7 June, 1777, Lord Henry Stuart, HENRY VILLIERS-STUART, Lord Stuart de Decies. JOHN FITZ-GERALD, Lord of the Decies, co. Waterford, m. Ellen, dau. of Fitzgibbon, the White Knight, and d. 17 April, 1533, being buried at Youghal, 24 April following. He left issue, one son, GERALD FITZ-GERALD, Lord of the Decies, seised of the Barony of Comragh, co. Waterford: he m. Ellice, dau. of Pierce, Earl of Ormonde, and d. 1553, leaving issue, 1. SIR MAURICE FITZ-GERALD, Lord of the Decies, m. Ellen, dau. of John, Earl of Desmond, and d. 28 December, 1572, s. p. II. SIR JAMES FITZ-GERALD, of Dromana, Lord of the Decies, co. Waterford, æt. thirty, 1572, m. Ellen Carty, dau. of MacCarty Reagh, and d. 16 December, 1581, leaving an only son, GERALD, of Dromana, who m. Honora, dau. of David Barry, Lord Barry, and d. s. p.; his will, dated 1616, was proved in Dublin; he was buried in the abbey of St. Francis, at Youghal. III. GERALD, of whom hereafter. 1. Mary, wife of Sir Oliver Grace, Knt., of Leagan Castle, and of Ballylinch, co. Kilkenny. GERALD FITZ-GERALD, 3rd son, of Ballihenni, co. Waterford, Esq., m. Ellinor, dau. of John Butler, of Derryloskan, co. Tipperary, Esq., and d. 1 May, 1509, leaving issue an only son, SIR JOHN FITZ-GERALD, of Dromana, Knt., who had a grant of a fair at Dromana, on St. Bartholomew's Day, and on vigil of St. James, at the rock near White Mount, 1 December, 1607. He m. Ellen Fitzgibbon, dau. of Maurice, the White Knight, and by her, whose will was dated 30 May, 1630, he left at his decease, before 26 May, 1608, 1. JOHN, of whom presently. I. Catharine, wife of James Prendergast, Esq., of Newcastle, II. Ellinor, wife of James Butler of Nodstown. Iv. Mary, wife of Patrick Courcy, grandfather of Gerald, Lord v. Ellen, wife of Gerald de Courcy, Lord of Kinsale. VI. Ellice, wife 1st, of Thomas, Lord Cahir; and 2ndly, of Sir The only son, SIR JOHN OGE FITZGERALD, of Dromana, knighted by the Lord Deputy St. John, m. Elinor, dau. of James, Lord Dunboyne, by Dame Margaret, his wife, and d. 1 March, 1626 (administration dated 25 November, 1626) leaving issue, 1. SIR GERALD, of whom presently. 11. Margaret, wife of Roche. The eldest son, SIR GERALD FITZ-GERALD, of Dromana, Knt., m. Mabel, dau. of Sir Robert Digby, and dying 6 August, 1643, left issue by her, viz., 1. JOHN, of whom presently. 1. Lettice, wife of Richard Franklyn of Coolbagh, co. Wexford, Esq. II. A dau., wife of Thomas Walsh of Piltown, co. Waterford. The son and heir, SIR JOHN FITZ-GERALD, of Dromana, Knt., M.P. for Dungarvan, m. 1st, Catharine, dau. of John, Lord Poer, she d. 22 August, 1660, and 2ndly, Helen, dau. of Donogh MacCarthy, Earl of Clancartay; he d. 1 March, 1664, leaving issue by his 1st wife, an only dau., CATHARINE, m. in 1677, to EDWARD VILLIERS, eldest son of 20 WAHULL-BARONS DE WAHULL. By Writ of Summons, dated 26 January, 1297. Lineage. Walter de FLANDERS came into England with the CoNQUEROR, and held, as a feudal lord, at the time of the Genera! Survey, considerable estates in the cos. Bedford and Northampton, of which WAHULL (now Wodhull or Odhull,) in the former shire, was the head of his barony. To this Walter succeeded WALTER DE WAHULL, whose son, SIMON DE WAHULL, in the time of King HENRY I. or STEPHEN, with Sibyll, his wife, gave the church of Langford to the Knights Templars. His son and successor, WALTER DE WAHULL, certified, 12th HENRY II., on the assessment of the aid for marrying the king's dau., his knights' fees, de veteri feoffamento, to be twenty-seven, and those de novo, three. He was subsequently concerned in the insurrection of Robert, Earl of Leicester, and was made prisoner in a battle near St. Edmundsbury. By his 1st wife, Albreda, widow of Guy de St. Valery, he had no issue, but by Roesia, his 2nd, he had two daus. and two sons, SIMON and John, and was s. by the elder, SIMON DE WAHULL, who was fined in the 22nd HENRY II., 10 marks for trespassing in the king's forests; and in the 2nd RICHARD I., upon levying the scutage of Wales, paid £13 10s. for his knights' fees: in the 6th of the same reign, he paid £27 towards the sum levied for the king's redemption. This Simon gave to the nuns at Godstone, into which convent his daus., Mary and Cicely had entered, a moiety of the church of Pateshill, in Northamptonshire. He d. in two years afterwards, when Henry, archbishop of Canterbury, paid £333 68. 8d., for the wardship of his heir, and benefit of his marriage, which heir was JOHN DE WAHULL. This feudal lord d. 1216, leaving his sisters his heirs, viz., ROESIA, m. to Robert L'Isle; and Agnes, m. 1st, to Robert de Bassingham, and 2ndly, to William Fitz. Warine; but neither sister appears to have had any surviving issue. At John de Wahull's death, the honour of Wahull devolved upon the heir male of the family, son of his uncle, SAIHER DE WAHULL, who d. in 1250, and was s. by his son, WALTER DE WAHULL, who, upon doing his homage, and giving security to pay £100 for his relief, had livery of the honour of Wahull, and the other lands of his inheritance. Не m. Helewyse, dau. of Hugh de Vivon, and dying in 1269, was 8. by his son, JOHN DE WAHULL, who, attaining majority in the next year, and doing his homage, had livery of his lands. In the 22nd EDWARD I., he had a military summons to march into Gascony, and had, subsequently, a similar summons to proceed against the Welsh, but d. in two years afterwards, seized of the manor of Wahull or Wodhull, which he held by the service of two knights' fees. He m. Agnes, dau. of Sir Henry Pinkeney, of Wedon Pinkeney, and dying 1295, was 8. by his son, THOMAS DE WAHULL. This feudal lord was summoned to parliament as a Baron, 26 January, 1297, 25th EDWARD I. He d. in 1304, seized of the Barony of Wahull, as also of the manor of Wahull, co. Bedford, and Pateshill, in Northamptonshire, leaving, by his wife Hawise, dau. of Henry Praers, an infant son and heir, JOHN DE WAHULL, who, although possessing the honour of Wahull, had no similar summons to parliament, nor had any ⚫ of his descendants. He d. in the 10th EDWARD III., leaving by Isabella, his wife, two sons, Lawrence, of Molington, co. Warwick. Mary, m. to Edward Cope, Esq., of Towes, co. Lincoln. Isabel, m. to Richard Tresham, Esq., of Newton, Northamp Mr. Woodhull d. 24th HENRY VII., and was s. by his eldest son, Mary, m. to Richard Burnaby, Esq., of Watford, Northampton- Sir Nicholas d. 23rd HENRY VIII., and was s. by his eldest son, ANTHONY WODEHULL, who, coming of age in the 31st HENRY VIII., had livery of his lands; but dying in two years after, left by Anne, his wife, dau. of Sir John Smith, an only dau. and heiress, AGNES WODEHULL, who m. 1st, Richard Chetwode, Esq. (3rd son of Roger Chetwode, Esq. of Oakley, by Ellen Masterson, his wife,) and had a son and heir, RICHARD CHETWODE, of whom presently. She m. 2ndly, Sir George Calverley, Knt., and had two sons, who both predeceased her. Lady Calverley was 8, at her decease, 18th ELIZABETH, by her only son, SIR RICHARD CHETWODE. This gentleman, in the time of JAMES I., preferred a claim to the BARONY OF WAHULL, of WODHULL, as possessor of the manor and castle of Odell (Wahull), and his petition being referred to the Duke of Lennox, the Lord Howard, and the Earl of Nottingham, these noblemen returned the following certificate: "According to your majesty's direction, we have met and considered the petition of Sir Richard Chetwode, and find that the petition is true: and that before any usual calling of barons by writs, his ancestors were barons in their own right, and were summoned to serve the kings in their wars, with 1. JOHN (Sir), whose line terminated in heiresses, his grand- other barons; and were also summoned to parliament. And daus., NICOLAS doubts if this writ constituted a parliamentary Baron because it was only directed to the temporality. "The writ, he observes, "commands the persons to whom it is addressed, to attend at Salisbury, on Sunday, the feast of S. Matthew the Apostle next ensuing, viz., 21st September, 'nobiscum super dictis negotiis colloquium et tractatum specialiter habituri, vestrumque consilium impensuri; et hoc, sicut nos et honorem nostrum ac salvationem regni, nostri ac incolarum diligitis, nullatenus omittatis;' and it was directed to six earls and seventy-five barons, and to the judges; but not one of the bishops or abbots were included." He admits, however, that two subsequent writs in the same year supplied this omission, and he states, that the validity of the writ had never before been questioned, and that in a special case brought before parliament (that of Frescheville,) the slightest objection was not made. we conceive the discontinuance to have arisen from the lords of the honour dying at one year of age, and the troubles of the time ensuing but still the title of baron was allowed in all the reigns by conveyances of their estates, and by pardon of alienation from the crown by the king's own officers, and £9 per annum, being the ancient fee for the castle guard of Rockingham, was constantly paid, and is paid to this day: so that, though there has been a disuse, yet the right so fully appearing which cannot die, we have not seen or heard of any one so much to be regarded in grace, and in consideration of so many knights' fees, held from the very time of the Conquest, and by him held at this day; and a pedigree both on the father and mother's side, proved by authentic records from the time of the CONQUEROR (which in such cases are very rare), we hold him worthy the honour of a baron, if your majesty thinks 1 It appears, however, that notwithstanding so favourable a report, the king did not think fit to summon the petitioner in the ancient barony, but he offered to make him BARON of WODHULL, by patent. This Sir Richard thought derogatory, and declined. Sir Richard Chetwode m. twice, but had issue only by his 1st wife, Jane, dau. and co-heir of Sir William Drury, Knt., viz., William, who d. v. p. RICHARD, also d. v. p., leaving issue by his wife Anne, dau. and heiress of Sir Valentine Knightley, a son, VALENTINE CHETWOOD, who m. Mary, dau. and co-heir of Francis Shute, Esq., of Upton, co. Leicester, and had two sons, with young Simon de Montfort, at Kenilworth, but by some means or other effected his escape, and made head once more after the defeat of Evesham, with Robert Ferrers, Earl of Derby, under whom he fought at the battle of Chesterfield, but had the good fortune to escape with his life. He subsequently submitted to the king, and received a pardon, with restitution of his lands. He m., according to Dugdale, Hawise, dau. and co-heir of Robert de Quinci, and was 8. by his son, JOHN WAKE, who was summoned to parliament as a Baron, 1 October, 1295, and from that period to 29 December, 1299. This nobleman was engaged in the French and Scottish wars of King EDWARD I., and in the 27th of that monarch, his Knightley Chetwood, dean of Gloucester, whose son and lordship was one of the commissioners assigned (with the dau. both d. unm. JOHN CHETWOOD, in holy orders, D.D., whose son, KNIGHTLEY CHETWOOD, of Woodbrook, Queen's co., m. Hester, dau. and heir of Richard Brooking, Esq., of Totness, co. Devon, and had issue, 1 VALENTINE-KNIGHTLEY CHETWOOD, who m Henrietta-Maria, dau. of Sir Jonathan Cope, of Oxfordshire, and left the late JONATHAN CHETWOOD, Esq., of Woodbrooke, Queen's co., who m. Margaret, dau. and co-heir of Laurence Clutterbuck, Esq., of Derrylusken, co. Tipperary, and d. 8. p. 2 CREWE, of Woodbrooke, who m. Anna-Maria, dau. of Allan Holford, co. Chester, and relict of Ralph Sneyd, Esq., of Keele, co. Stafford, and had, with two daus., one son, John, in holy orders, of Glanmire, co. Cork, who m. Elizabeth, dau. of William Hamilton, Esq., and had a son, JOHN, captain in the 33rd regiment (who m. Eliza, dau. of G. Patton, Esq., governor of St. Helena, and d. leaving an only dau., ELIZA - CONSTANCE, heir-general of the BARONY of WAHULL, m. to PETER AIKEN, Esq., of Clifton), and several daus., the eldest of whom, Elizabeth-Hester, m 23 September, 1798, RobertRogers Wilmot, elder son and heir of Edward Wilmot, Esq., by Martha, his wife, dau. and coheir of Charles Moore, Esq., of Lisapooka, and grandson of Robert Wilmot, elder brother of Dr. Ryder Wilmot, archbishop of Tuam, and had issue, Edward Wilmot-Chetwode, Esq., of Woodbrooke, and Emily-Margaret, m. William Brooke, Esq., master in chancery, in Ireland. Arms-Or, three crescents, gu. archbishop of York and others) to see to the fortification of the castles of Scotland, and guarding the marches. He d. in 1304, and was s. by his son, THOMAS WAKE, 2nd baron, summoned to parliament from 20 November, 1317, to 20 November, 1348. This nobleman taking part with Queen ISABEL against EDWARD II., was appointed by that princess, acting in the name of the king, justice of all the forests south of Trent, and constable of the Tower of London. On the accession of EDWARD III., his lordship was constituted governor of the castle of Hertford, and obtained license to make a castle of his manor-house of Cotingham, co. York. He was subsequently a leading personage for seventeen years of the reign of King EDWARD, during which period he was constantly in the wars of Scotland, and once in those of France. He was also governor of Jersey and Guernsey, and constable of the Tower of London. His lordship m. Blanche, dau. of Henry Plantagenet, Earl of Lancaster, but d. s. p. in 1349, leaving his sister Margaret, Countess of Kent, widow of Edmund of Woodstock, Earl of Kent, his heir, who carried the Barony of Wake into the family of Plantagenet, whence it was conveyed by JOANE PLANTAGENET, the Fair Maid of Kent, the countess's eventual heiress into the family of her 1st husband, Sir Thomas Holland, Lord Holland, K.G. (See Plantagenet, Barons of Woodstock, and Earls of Kent. See likewise, Holland, Barons Holland, Earls of Kent, and Duke of Surrey). Arms-Or, two bars, gu., in chief three torteaux. NOTE. From this old baronial family, the Wakes, Baronets of Clevedon, co. Somerset, claim descent. HUGH LE WAKE, m. Emma, dau. and eventually heiress of Faldwin Fitz-Gilbert, by Adelidis, his wife, dau. of Richard de Kullos, which Baldwin was uncle of Gilbert de Gant, 1st Earl of Lincoln of that family. This Hugh le Wake gave the lordship of Wilesford, co. Lincoln, to the monks of Bec, in Normandy, when it became a cell to that great abbey. He d. in 1172, and was 8. by his son, BALDWIN WAKE, who, in the 12th HENRY II., on the assessment in aid of marrying the king's dau., certified his knights' fees to be in number ten, and that they were bestowed upon his ancestor by King HENRY I. This Baldwin was one of the barons who assisted at the coronation of King RICHARD I., on the accession of that monarch. He d. in 1201, and was 8. by his son, BALDWIN WAKE, who m. Agnes, dau. of William de Humet, constable of Normandy, by whom he acquired the manor of Wichendon. He was s. by his son, BALDWIN WAKE. This feudal lord m. Isabel, dau. of William de Briwere, and dying about the year 1213, was 8. by his son, HUGH WAKE, who m. Joane, dau. and eventual heiress of Nicholas de Stuteville, Lord of Liddell, and at the death of his uncle, William de Briwere, s. p., in 17th HENRY III., 8. to his property. This Hugh d. at Jerusalem in 1246 (his widow m. 2ndly, Hugh Bigod), and was 8. by his son, BALDWIN WAKE. This feudal lord, who took up arms with the barons in the reign of HENRY III., was made prisoner at the storming of the castle of Northampton, in the 48th of that monarch's reign; but afterwards participated in the success of his party at Lewes. He was again, however, taken prisoner On the execution and attainder of Waltheof, Earl of Nor thumberland, in 1075 (he was beheaded at Winchester, and the first so put to death after the Norman Conquest), WALCHER DE LORRAINE, bishop of Durham, was entrusted with the government or earldom of the co. Northumberland. This prelate, a native of Lorraine, was a person of excellent endowments, greatly esteemed for his piety, integrity, and benevolence, but of so gentle a disposition, that he was unable to repress the arbitrary proceedings of his servants and soldiers; whereupon loud murmurs arose amongst the people, and a day was at length appointed for an amicable adjustment, when oppressors and oppressed assembled at a place called Gateshead, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne. But instead of a peaceable result, a violent turmoil commenced, in which the church, where the bishop sought safety, was set on fire, and the venerable prelate barbarously murdered, anno 1080. Arms-Az., a cross between four lions rampant, or: these are still the arms of the bishops of Durham. WALEYS-BARON WALEYS. By Writ of Summons, dated 15 May, 1321. Lineage. RICHARD WALEYS, had summons to parliament as a Baron, 15 May, 1321, but never afterwards. Of this nobleman, Dugdale gives no account, nor are there any particulars recorded of him. He, however, left (Courthope's Historic Peerage) a son, Stephen, | Simpson, Esq., of Carleton Hall, co. Cumberland (by Elizabeth, WALLACE-BARON WALLACE. By Letters Patent, dated 2 February, 1828. Lineage. It appears from Hutchinson's History of Cumberland, published 1794, that this family claims descent from a cadet of Craigie-Wallace, in Ayrshire; and a pedigree of that house states that many of the posterity of Alexander, 2nd son of John Wallace, of Craigie, who s. about the year 1500, settled upon the eastern border of England; and there is also a stone in the east wall of St. Mary's porch, in the church of St. Nicholas, at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, with the arms of the Scottish Wallaces, quartering those of "Lindsay of Craigie." In 1550, Henry Wallace is described in a MS. in the British Museum, as one of the gentlemen inhabiting the middle marches in Northumberland; in 1552, he was one of the commissioners of ⚫ enclosures there; in 1553, he is rated as owner of property in Lambley in Tyndale Ward; and the same year (6th EDWARD VI.) he, and Albany Featherstonhaugh, are appointed by the lord warden, overseers of the watches, 1st at Bellistar and Milner Peth: 2nd at Cowenwoodburn and Lambley; 3rd at Purkenford and Shawbenfoot; and 4th, the rest of the lordship of Knaresdale. THOMAS WALLACE, of Lambley, living in the reigns of JAMES I. and CHARLES I., purchased lands in Asholme, co. of Northumberland, 13 December, 1637. He is said to have been slain in the battle of Worcester, on the side of the royalists, 3 September, 1651; by his wife, an heiress of the Blenkinsop family, he had three sons, of whom, THOMAS WALLACE, of Asholme, s. his father, and added to the property the manor or lordship of East and West Coanwood, contiguous to Asholme, 3 March, 1657. By Alice, his wife, a dau. of Sir Thomas Carleton, Knt., he had two sons, of whom, the elder, ALBANY WALLACE, of Asholme, succeeded. His will, dated 17 November, 1677, was proved at Durham, 1678, in which will he devises "all his lands, farms, and farmholds, with woods and all privileges thereupon to his eldest son, Thomas, as his right, being his only heir." By Isabella, his wife, a dau. of the family of Graham, of Breckonhill Castle, co. Cumberland, he had two sons; 1. THOMAS, his heir; and II. John. The elder, THOMAS WALLACE, of Asholme, is styled in the Haltwhistle Registers "Lord of the Asholme, &c, &c." By Grace, his 1st wife (who d. 1695), he had no issue; and he m. 2ndly, 17 May, 1696, Margaret, dau. of Hugh Ridley, of Plenmeller (Chief Ridley), and by her had two sons, and two daus. This gentleman was buried at Haltwhistle, 4 July, 1721, having greatly reduced his estate by prodigal living, and s. by his eldest son, THOMAS WALLACE, of Asholme, attorney-at-law, b. 1697, who purchased an estate at Brampton, co. Cumberland, where he resided. He m. 2 January, 1728, Dulcibella, 7th dau. of John Sowerbye, of Brampton-Gillesland and Botcherby, 2nd son of Daniel Sowerbye, of Sleetbeck and Sowerbyes, by whom he had issue, two sons and one dau., 1. JAMES, his heir. 11. JOHN, of Sedcop House and Golden Square (of whom hereafter). 1. Margaret, baptised 4 July, 1735. m. 30 September, 1762, Edward Atkinson, lieut. R.N., and d. (leaving issue) in April, 1812. Mr. Wallace, dying 11 December, 1737, his widow m. 2ndly, the Rev. William Plaskett, vicar of Ganton, co. York, and Brampton, co. Cumberland, by whom she had a dau., Anne, b. 4 August, 1741, who m. 1st, 22 October, 1761, John, son and heir of the Rev. John Tomlinson, lord of the manors of Blencogo and Allonby, in Cumberland, and 2ndly, 17 January, 1782, John Law, D.D., lord bishop of Elphin, brother to Edward, 1st Lord Ellenborough. Mr. Wallace's elder son, JAMES WALLACE, Esq., of Asholme, baptised 12 March, 1729, added to his paternal estates the manors of Knaresdale and Thornhope, and Featherstone Castle, all near Asholme. He was called to the bar in 1757; appointed solicitor-general in 1777, and attorney-general in 1780; and sat in parliament for Horsham, co. Sussex, from 1770 till his death. He m. 8 January, 1767, Elizabeth, only dau. and sole heir of Thomas his wife, dau. and co-heir of John Pattinson, Esq., of Carleton Hall, a near relative of Thomas Pattinson, Esq., of Melmerby, high sheriff for the county in 1793), by whom (who d. 18 April, 1811) he had one son and one dau., I. THOMAS, his heir. 1. Elizabeth, baptised 2 April, 1770, d. unm. 12 May, 1792. Mr. Wallace d. in the office of attorney-general, and was buried in Exeter Cathedral, 16 November, 1783. His only son, THOMAS WALLACE, Esq., of Asholme, Knaresdale, and Featherstone Castle, b. in 1768, was sworn of the privy council, 21 May, 1801, and created BARON WALLACE, of Karesiale, 2 February, 1828, having previously, as a member of the administration, filled several public offices, and sat in parliament at different elections for many places, and lastly, for Weymouth. He m. 16 February, 1814, Lady Jane Hope, dan of John, 2nd Earl of Hopetoun, and relict of Henry, 1st Viscount Melville, by whom (who d. 6 June, 1829) he had no issue. His lordship d. 23 February, 1844, when the title became EXTINCT. The estates devolved on John-George-Frederick. Hope Wallace, Esq., and the representation of the family devolved upon the issue of his uncle. That gentleman, JOHN WALLACE, Esq., long resident at Sedcop House, Kent, and in Golden Square, baptised 26 March, 1733 (2nd son of Thomas Wallace, of Asholme and Brampton, and only brother to the Attorney-General), was an eminent contractor in London, in the commission of the peace for the ca. Middlesex, and treasurer to the New Westminster Lying-in Hospital. He m. 6 March, 1764, Elizabeth, only child of Robert French (son and heir of David French, of Frenchland, M.P. for the borough of New Galloway, in the Sooteh parliament of 1702, and lineal representer of the Frenches, of Frenchland and Thornidykes, in Annandale and the Merse), by Elizabeth, dau. of Christopher Hull, of Brampton, and sister to Christopher Hull, of Sedcop House, by whom he had six sons and five daus., 1 James, A.B., in holy orders, and formerly a fellow com moner of Christ's College, Cambridge, b. 4 February, 1766, m. Miss Mercey Coombes, and d. 14 January, 1829. 2 JOHN, b. 13 December, 1770, late commercial-resident st Irgeram, in the Madras Presidency, who succeeded to the representation of the family on the death of his cousingerman, Lord Wallace, which, on his demise, 4 August, 1846, fell (as already mentioned) to his next brother, Albany. 3 Thomas-Hull, in the H.E.I.C.'s service at Madras, b. 15 June. 1774, d. in India, in 1800, s. p. 4 William, a capt. in the 90th regt. of foot, b. 8 September, 1785; d. in the year 1804, of the yellow fever, on his pas sage homewards from the West Indies, 8. p. 5 ALBANY, the present representative of the Wallace family, late of Queen Anne Street, Cavendish Square, and now of Worthing, Sussex, b. 27 June, 1788. 6 Robert-Clerke, a colonel in the army, late major in the king's dragoon-guards, and K.H., b. 1 November, 1789; m. 22 February, 1814, Henrietta, dau. of Major El is, of Abbeyfeal, co. Cork (and sister to the late Thomas Ellis, Esq., one of the four masters in chancery in Ireland, and M.P. for Dublin), by whom he had eight sons and two dau., John, b. 3 April, 1815, a lieut. in the 94th and 41st regts, d. at Callao, in Peru, South America, 27 June, 1945 8. P. Robert, b. 31 August, 1816, a capt. in the H.E.I.C.'s ser vice, and late major in the Essex rifle militia, m. 30 July, 1840, Corbetta, dau. to Edward Lord, Esq., of Van Diemen's Land (brother to Sir John Owen, Bart, M.P. of Orielton, co. Pembroke), by whom he had three sons Robert-Edward, ensign, 94th regt.; Albany-John, who d. in infancy; and Charles-Mansel, who d. young; and three daus., Mary-Eliza-Owen; Henrietta-Ellis, who d in childhood; and Corry-Janetta. Richard-Ellis, d. an infant. Thomas-French, b. 12 February, 1819, m. 20 April, 1889, Eliza, dau. of the Rev James Wallace, and had iss James-Charlessix sons, Robert-French-Algernon ; Stuart; John-Henry; Albany-French; Thomas-Alexander, who d. an infant; and Charles-Malcolm, who also d. in infancy; and six daus., Mercy-Louisa-Ehes beth; Henrietta-Adeliza; Elizabeth-Mary-Emily: MaryBlanch-Annie; Louiza-Eliza; and Alice-Fanny-Mande. William, d. an infant. Albany-French, b. 11 April, 1821, a capt. in the 7th rurs! fusiliers, who d. at Varna, in Turkey, in consequence of a fall from his horse, in June, 1854; this meritorios officer had served in China and India, and had a medal with several clasps. Charles-James-Stewart, b. 16 May, 1823, major in the 25th regt., m. 27 October, 1857, Florence, only dau. of Capt T. Macnamara, R.N., of the family of Doolan, co. Clar and has issue, Charles-Albany-Ellis, 6.6 February, 101; Florence-Dora-Anna; and Mabel-Henrietta. Henry, d. young. |