DOUGLAS-BARON DOUGLAS, OF DOUGLAS CASTLE. By Letters Patent, dated 9 July, 1790. Lineage. SIR JOHN STEWART, Bart. of Grandtully (brother and succesBor of Sir George Stewart, of Balcaskie, who inherited the estate of Grandtully, and 2nd son of Sir Thomas Stewart of Baleaskie, created a Baronet of Nova Scotia, 2 January, 1683), m. for his 2nd wife, THE LADY JANE DOUGLAS, only dau. of James, 2nd Marquess of Douglas, by whom he had two sons (twins), Sholto, the younger, who d. in infancy; and ARCHIBALD STEWART, b. 10 July, 1748. This gentleman, upon the demise of his uncle, Archibald, Duke of Douglas, without issue, 21 July, 1761 (when the dukedom expired), was returned heir of line and provision to that nobleman; but the Duke of Hamilton, who had inherited his grace's Marquessate of Douglas, disputing his return, on the ground of Mr. Stewart's birth being surreptitious, and the Scotch court determining in favour of Hamilton, an appeal was made to the House of Lords, which reversed the Scottish judgment, 27 February, 1769.* Mr. Stewart becoming thus entitled to the estates, assumed the surname and arms of DOUGLAS, and was elevated to the peerage as BARON DOUGLAS, of Douglas Castle, 9 July, 1790. His lordship m. 1st, in June, 1771, Lucy, only dau. of William, 2nd Duke of Montrose, by whom (who d. 13 February, 1780), he had issue, ARCHIBALD, 2nd baron. CHARLES, late peer. Jane-Margaret, m. 1804, to Henry-James, Lord Montague, of Boughton, who d. in 1845. Lord Douglas m. 2ndly, 13 May, 1783, Frances, posthumous dau. of Francis, Earl of Dalkeith, and sister of Henry, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch, by whom he had, Sholto-Scott, b. in 1785; d. in 1821. George, capt. R.N., b. 2 August, 1788; d. unm. in 1838. Mary-Sidney, m. in 1821, to Robert Douglas, Esq., of Strathany, who d. in 1844. His lordship d. 26 December, 1827, and was s. by his elder JAMES DOUGLAS, 4th Baron of Douglas Castle, co. Lanark, in holy orders, hereditary sheriff of the co. Forfar, b. 9 July, 1787; . 18 May, 1813, Wilhelmina, 2nd dau. of the late Gen. Hon. James Murray; d. s. p. 6 April, 1857, when the title became EXTINCT, and the estates devolved on his lordship's half-sister, Lady Montagu. Arme-Quarterly: 1st. az., a lion rampant, arg., crowned with an imperial crown, or, for the EARLDOM OF GALLOWAY; 2nd, or, a lion rampant, gu., surmounted of a bend, sa., for LORD ABERNETHY; 3rd, arg., three piles, gu., for WISHART of Brechin; 4th, or, a fesse, chequy, az, and arg., surmounted of a bend, gu., charged with three buckles of the 1st, for STEWART of Bonkle; over all, upon an escutcheon, arg., a man's heart, gu., ensigned with an imperial crown, ppr.; on a chief, az., three stars, of the 1st, the paternal coat of DOUGLAS. Sir John Stewart asserted that he had twin sons by the Lady Jane Douglas, born at the house of a Madame le Brun, 10 July, 1748, in the Faubourg St. Germain, at Paris, her ladyship being then in her 51st year. One of these children, Sholto, d. an infant, and against the other, ARCHIBALD STEWART, inheriting the estates of his maternal uncle, Archibald, Duke of Douglas, on that nobleman's decease, 21 July, 1761, to whom he was returned heir of line and provision, the guardians of JamesGeorge (the minor), Duke of Hamilton, instituted a suit-at-law, and the Scottish courts determined in favour of his grace. From the decision an appeal was made to the House of Lords, which eventually reversed it, and confirmed Sir Archibald in the possession of the Douglas estates. One of the guardians of the duke and institutors of the suit, Sir Andrew Stuart, subsequently published, in January 1773, some very strong letters, addressed to Lord Mansfield, arraigning the conduct of his lordship during the progress of this celebrated litigation, and maintaining the rectitude of the Scottish decision (See "Vicissitudes of Families.") DOUGLAS-BARON GLENBERVIE. By Letters Patent, dated 29 December, 1800. Lineage. JOHN DOUGLAS, Esq. (3rd son of Sylvester Douglas, by Margaret his wife, dau. and heir of George Keith, Esq., of Whiteriggs, in Kincardineshire, and grandson of Robert Douglas, bishop of Dumblane, who was lineally descended from Archbold Douglas, the great Earl of Angus), m. Margaret, dan. and co-heir of James Gordon, of Fectrel, and had, with a dau. (m. to Major Mercer, the poet), one son, SYLVESTER DOUGLAS, Esq., b. 24 May, 1743, barrister-at-law, and editor of the "Reports" which pass under his name. This gentleman, who attained considerable forensic eminence, represented Fowey in parliament, and having filled successively the appointments of chief secretary to the lord-lieutenant of Ireland, lord of the treasury, commissioner for Indian affairs, and governor of the Cape of Good Hope, was raised to the peerage of Ireland, in 1800, as BARON GLENBERVIE. His lordship was subsequently joint paymaster-general of the forces, and surveyor-general of the woods and forests. He m. in 1789, Catherine-Anne, eldest dau. of Frederick, 2nd Earl of Guilford (the celebrated Lord North), and had an only son, FREDERICK SYLVESTER - NORTH, M.P. for Вambury, b. 3 February, 1791; who m. Harriet, eldest dau. of William Wrighston, Esq., of Cusworth, in Yorkshire, but d. v. p., 8. p., His widow m. 26 April, 1825, the Hon. Lient.-Col. HelyHenry Hutchinson, brother of the Earl of Donoughmore. Lord Glenbervie d. in 1823, when the peerage became EX TINCT. Arms Arg., a heart, gu., imperially crowned, or; on a chief, az., three mullets of the field. DRUMMOND-BARON PERTH. By Letters Patent, dated 14 October, 1797. JAMES DRUMMOND, 11th Earl of Perth, who became possessed of the Drummond estates in 1785, was created a British peer, as LORD PERTH, Baron Drummond, of Stobhall, to him and the heirs-male of his body, 14 October, 1797. His lordship m. in 1785, the Hon. Clementina Elphinstone, 4th dau. of Charles, 10th Lord Elphinstone; and dying 2 July, 1800 (when his title EXPIRED.) left an only dau. and heir, CLEMENTINA-SABAH, m. 20 October, 1807, the Hon. PeterRobert Burrell, who assumed the additional surname and arms of DRUMMOND. He inherited the Barony of Gwydyr in 1820, and that of WILLOUGHBY DE ERESBY in 1828. His heir-male was James-Lewis Drummond, Duke of Melfort, who d. in 1800. His nephew is the present GEORGE DRUMMOND, EARL OF PERTH (See BURKE's Peerage). Arms-Or, three bars, wavy, gu. DRUMMOND-DUKE OF MELFORT. By Letters Patent, dated 12 August, 1686. The HON. JOHN DRUMMOND, 2nd son of James, 3rd Earl of Perth, was appointed general of the ordnance, and deputygovernor of the castle of Edinburgh, 1680; treasurer-depute in 1682; and one of the principal secretaries of state in September, 1684. On the accession of King JAMES VII., 1685, he was continued in that office, and created VISCOUNT OF MELFORT, in Argyllshire (part of the forfeited estate of Argyll), and LORD DRUMMOND, of Gilestoun, 14 April, 1685; and for the better support of that honour, got a grant of the barony of Melfort, and estate of Duchal, which was dissolved from the crown by act of parliament. He was created EARL OF MELFORT, Viscount of Forth, Lord Drummond, of Riccartoun, Castlemains, and Gilston, 12 August, 1686, the patents of his honours being taken to him and the heirs-male of his body of his 2nd marriage; which failing, to the heirs-male whatever of his body, as he was disappointed by the family of Lundin, who were zealous Protestants, in his attempt to educate his two sons of the 1st marriage in the Catholic faith. When the Order of the Thistle was revived, in 1687, the Earl of Melfort was constituted one of the knights companions thereof, continued in the office of secretary till the Revolution, when he repaired to King JAMES in France; attended him to Ireland, in the year 1690, and was by him created DUKE OF MELFort and Marquess of Forth. and invested with the Order of the Garter. Not returning to Scotland within the time limited by law, he was outlawed by the court of justiciary, 23 July, 1694, and attainted. 2 July, 1694, by act of parliament. By a clause it was provided that his forfeiture should no ways affect or faint the blood of the children procreated betwixt him and Sophia Lundin his 1st wife. He had the chief administration at St. Germains for several years, and d. there in January, 1714. He m. 1st, 30 April, 1670, Sophia, dau. and heiress of Margaret Lundin, of Lundin, in Fife, by the Hon. Robert Maitland, brother of John, Duke of Lauderdale, and by her had issue (see DRUMMOND, Earl of Perth, BURKE's Extant Peerage); he m. 2ndly, Euphemia, dau. of Sir Thomas Wallace, of Craigie, a lord of Session, and by her (who lived to be above ninety years of age, and was supported by keeping one of the two faro tables authorized by LOUIS XIV.,) had issue, 1. John, b. 1679; d.s p. II. James, d. 8. p. 1698. III. Robert, s. his brother in 1698 to the estate of Lundin, near Largo, in Fife, on which he assumed her surname; m. 1704, Anne, dau. of Sir James Inglis, of Cramond. IV. JOHN. styled Duke of Melfort. v. Thomas, an officer in the service of CHARLES VI., Emperor VI. William, abbé-prirol of Liege; who d. in Spain, 1742. VIII Bernard, d. young, at Douay. DUDLEY-VISCOUNTS L'ISLE, EARLS OF Viscounty, by Letters Patent, dated 12 March, 1542. Lineage. SIR JOHN SUTTON, K.G., 4th Baron Dudley, of that family, m. Elizabeth, dau. and co-heir of Sir John Berkeley, Knt., of Beveston, and widow of Sir Edward Charlton, Lord Powis, and had, with other issue, John, his 2nd son, who assuming the name of Dudley, became JOHN DUDLEY; this gentleman m. Elizabeth, one of the daus. and co-heirs of John Bramshot, Esq., of Bramshot, and was father of EDMUND DUDLEY, so well known, with his colleague, Richard Empson, as the rapacious minister of King HENRY VII. Dudley was brought up to the bar, having studied at Gray's Inn, and before he entered the service of the king, he had attained considerable eminence in his profession. Upon the accession of HENRY, he was sworn of the privy council, and he subsequently filled the speaker's chair of the House of Commons; whilst in the latter office, they were about making him a serjeant-at-law, when he petitioned the king, for what reason does not appear, that he might be discharged from assuming that dignity. This occurred in the 19th of HENRY VII., and in three years afterwards, he obtained the stewardship of the rape of Hastings, in the county of Suffolk. "Whether (writes Dugdale), Dudley, with Richard Empson, another lawyer, son to a sieve-maker, discerning King HENRY to be of a frugal disposition, did first project the taking advantage against such as had transgressed the penal laws, by exact IX. Phillip, an officer in the French service; d. of wounds ing from them the forfeitures according to those statutes, or received in the wars of LOUIS XIV. I Henrietta, d. unm. 1752. 11. Mary, m. to Don Jose de Rozas, Count Castel Blanco, a Spanish nobleman; but d. s. p. 1713. III. Frances, m. by dispensation from the pope, to her brotherin-law, Count Castel Blanco; and d. 1726, leaving a son, who m. an heiress in Spain, and two daus., the eldest m. 1st, to M. de Campillo, prime minister to PHILIP V., King of Spain; 2ndly, to Peter, 2nd son of the Duke of Liria, a grandee of Spain, and grandson of the Marshal Duke of Berwick; the youngest, Lady Margaret, m. also a Spanish grandee. IV. Louisa, d. at Paris, unm. v. Teresa-Margareta, d. unm. JOHN DRUMMOND, the eldest surviving son, b. 1682, assumed the title of DUKE OF MELFORT, and d. 1754. He m. 1707, Mary Gabrielle d'Audebert, Countess de Lusanne, widow of Henry Fitzjames, Duke of Albemarle, natural son of King JAMES II., and had four sons, 1. John, d. unm. 1735. 11. JAMES. his successor. II. Lewis, major-gen. in the French service, col. of the regt. of royal Scots; who, on the reduction of that corps, got a considerable pension from the court of France, d. 8. p. 1792. IV. John, lieut. of the guards of the King of Poland, Elector of Saxony, with the rank of major-gen., d. s. p. JAMES DRUMMOND, the eldest surviving son, assumed the title of the DUKE OF MELFORT, and had a considerable estate in Lower Languedoc. He m. Mary de Berenger, by whom he had issue, four sons and two daus., viz., James-Lewis, general in the French service, commander of the Order of St. Louis, d. 8. p. 1788; Charles-Edward, prelate in the household of the Pope, d. at Rome, 1840; Henry-Benedict, in the French navy, chevalier of the Order of St. Louis, killed 1778; Leon-Maurice; Mary-Cecilia-Henrietta, and Emilia-Felicitas. Leon-Maurice Drummond, m. 1794, Mary Longuemare, and had two daus., Leontina, who d. 1809, aged sixteen, and Lady LucyClementina, m. to Francis-Henry Davies, Esq., registrar of the Court of Chancery, and a son, GEORGE, EARL OF PERTH AND MELFORT. (See BURKE's Extant Peerage.) Arms-Or, three bars, wavy, gu. whether the king perceiving so fair a gap open, to rake vast sums of money from his subjects, finding those persons to be fit instruments for his purpose, did put them upon such courses for filling his coffers, 'tis hard to say. But certain it is, that these were they, whom he constituted his judices fiscales (Dudley being an eminent man, and one that could put hateful business into good language, as Lord Verulam saith)." The extortions of those men exciting universal clamour, HENRY VIII. commenced his reign by the popular acts of submitting their oppressive conduct to judicial investigation before a criminal court; Dudley was tried at Guildhall, in the city of London, and Empson at Northampton, and both being found guilty, were beheaded together on Tower Hill, on 28 August, in the 2nd year of HENRY VIII. Dudley, in the day of his power, having obtained the wardship of Elizabeth Grey, dau. of Edward, 1st Viscount L'1sle, by Elizabeth Talbot, dau. of John Talbot, Viscount L'Isle, and sister and co-heir of Thomas Talbot, 2nd and last Viscount L'Isle, of the Shrewsbury family, m. the said Elizabeth Grey, and left issue by her, Elizabeth, m. to William, 6th Lord Stourton. Of these, JOHN, the eldest son, had scarcely attained his eighth year at the period of his father's execution, and being in ward to Edward Guilford, Esq,, of the body of the king, that gentleman petitioned that the attainder of Edmund Dudley might be repealed, and obtained a special act of parliament (3rd HENRY VIII.), which restored the said JOHN DUDLEY, in name, blood and degree, so that he might inherit all his deceased father's lands. From this period twelve years elapsed before John Dudley appeared in public, and the knighthood from Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, general of first we afterwards hear of him is his receiving the honour of the army sent into France against the Duke of Bourbon. In the 19th of HENRY VIII., Sir John Dudley was in the train of Cardinal Wolsey upon an embassy into France; and in eight years afterwards, "being the king's servant," he was made master of the armoury in the Tower of London for life, with the wages of twelve-pence per day for himself, and three-pence per day for his groom in the office. In the 31st of the same reign he was appointed master of the horse to Anne of Cleves; and the next year, in the jousts held at Westminster, Sir John was one of the principal challengers, his horse being accoutred with white velvet. In about two years after this he was elevated to the peerage, in the ancient dignity enjoyed by his mother's family, that of VisCOUNT L'ISLE, and made, the same DUD year, lord admiral of England for life. In this capacity his lordship displayed great gallantry, and did good service against "To say truth," remarks Sir John France and Scotland. Howard, "he was the minion of that time; so as few things he attempted, but he achieved with honour, which made him the more proud and ambitious. Generally he always increased both in estimation with the king and authority amongst the nobility; but doubtful, whether by fatal destiny to the state. or whether by his virtues or appearance of virtues." His lordship was one of the executors to the will of his royal master; and upon the accession of EDWARD VI., he was created EARL OF WARWICK, with a grant of Warwick Castle. At this period he was made lieut.-gen. of the army, and acquired an accession of military fame under the Earl of Hertford, in Picardy and Scotland, as well as by his successful defence of Boulogne, of which he was governor. In the 3rd of EDWARD VI. he was again made admiral of England, Ireland, and Wales, and the next year constituted lord steward of the household. Henceforward his lordship's ambition appears to have known no bounds, and to have hurried him into acts of great baseness and atrocity. Through his intrigues the quarrel arose between the Protector Somerset and his brother, Lord Thomas Seymour, which terminated in the public execution of the latter; and he is at this period accused of acquiring considerable wealth by plunder of the church. In the 6th of the same reign he was advanced to the dignity of DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, a peerage which, by the death of the last Earl of Northumberland, s. p., and the attainder and execution of his brother, Sir Thomas Percy, with the Percy estate, became vested in the His grace had previously been constituted earlmarshal of England. Having now attained the highest honour in the peerage, and power the most unlimited, the duke proceeded, with scarcely the semblance of restraint, in his ambitious projects; and the Protector Somerset, one of his earliest and steadiest patrons, soon fell a victim to their advancement. That distinguished personage was arraigned, through the intrigue of Northumberland, before his peers, and though acquitted of high treason, was condemned for felony, and sentenced to be hanged. The eventual fate of this unhappy nobleman is well known, and, considering his own conduct to his brother, not deplored. He was executed by decapitation on Tower Hill. From the death of Somerset, the Duke of Northumberland became so unremitting in his attentions upon the king, and had so much influence over him, that he prevailed upon his majesty to sign and seal a patent conferring the succession upon Lady Jane Grey, the wife of his son, Lord Guilford Dudley. His subsequent efforts, after the decease of EDWARD VI., to establish this patent by force of arms, proving abortive, he was arrested, upon a charge of high treason, at Cambridge, and being condemned thereof, he was beheaded, on Tower Hill, upon the 22nd of August, 1553, when all his honours became forfeited under the attainder. grace m. Jane, dau. of Sir Edward Guilford, Knt., and had issue, crown. Henry, d. at the siege of Boulogne. His Ambrose, created EARL OF WARWICK. (See Dudley, Earl of GUILFORD, who m. Lady JANE GREY, eldest dau. of Henry, Robert, K.G., created baron of Denbigh and Earl of Leicester. Henry, slain at St. Quintin. Charles, d. young. Mary, m. Sir Henry Sidney, K.G. Catherine, m. Henry Hastings, Earl of Huntingdon. Arme-Or, a lion rampant, az., double queued, vert. NOTE.-John Sutton, the 7th Lord Dudley of the Sutton family, disposed of Dudley Castle to the Duke of Northumberland, and having alienated other property, was ever afterwards known as Lord Quondam. DUDLEY-DUCHESS OF DUDLEY. By Letters Patent, dated 23 May, 1644 ROBERT DUDLEY, Earl of Leicester, the notorious favourite The earl apprehending a diminution of his influence with his SIR ROBERT DUDLEY, who having in vain endeavoured to Alice, d. unm. Catherine, m. to Sir Richard Leveson, K.B. Frances, m. to Sir Gilbert Kniveton, of Bradley, co. Derby. Sir Robert Dudley took up his abode in the territories of the ALICE DUDLEY, was elevated to the peerage for life, by King The following is a copy of the grant, viz.: "CHARLES, by the grace of God, &c. "Whereas, in the reign of King JAMES, a suit was commenced in the Star Chamber Court against Sir Robert Dudley, for pretending himself lawful heir to the honours and lands of the earldoms of Warwick and Leicester, as son and heir of Robert, Earl of Leicester, by Douglas, wife to the said earl, and all proceedings stayed in the ecclesiastical courts, in which the said suit depended for proof of his legitimation; yet, nevertheless, did the said court vouchsafe liberty to the said Sir Robert to examine witnesses in the Star Chamber Court, to make good his legitimacy. Whereupon, by full testimony of the Lady Douglas herself, and other witnesses it was made appear. But a special order being made, that the depositions Robert, to leave the kingdom; whereof his adversaries taking should be sealed up, and no copies taken, did cause the said Sir advantage, occasioned his lands to be seized on, to the king, And not long after, Prince Henry made our father's use. overture to the said Sir Robert, to obtain his title by purchase of Kenilworth Castle, &c., valued at £50,000, but bought by the prince in consideration of £14,500, and promise of his princely favour to restore Sir Robert in honours and fortunes; but before payment thereof was made (if any at all), to the said Sir Robert's hands, the prince was dead. And it appearing that Alice, Lady Dudley, wife of Sir Robert had an estate of inheritance in the same, descendible unto her posterity, in the 19th of JAMES I., an act was passed to enable her to alien her estate from her children as a feme sole; which she accordingly did, in consideration of £4,000, and further payments yearly to be made out of the exchequer, &c.; which having not been And the accordingly paid for many years, are to the damage of the said Lady Alice and her children, to a very great value. said Sir Robert settling himself in Tuscany, within the terri tories of the great duke, (from whom he had extraordinary esteem,) had from the emperor, FERDINAND II., the title of a duke given him, to be used by himself and his heirs throughout the sacred empire. "And whereas, our father not knowing the truth of the lawful birth of the said Sir Robert, (as we piously believe), granted away the titles of the said earldom to others, which we now hold not fit to call in question. And yet having a very deep sense of the injuries done to Sir Robert Dudley, and the Lady Alice, and their children, &c., and holding ourselves in honour and conscience obliged to make reparation; and also taking into consideration the said great estate which the Lady Alice had in Kenilworth, and sold at our desire to us at a very great undervalue, and yet not performed or satisfied to many thousand pounds damage. And we also, casting our princely eye upon the faithful services done by Sir Richard Leveson, who married the Lady Catherine, one of the daughters of the said duke, and also the great services which Robert Holbourne, Esq., hath done us by his learned pen, and otherwise, who married Anne, another of the daughters; we have conceived ourselves bound in honour and conscience to give the said Lady Alice and her children such honours and precedencies as is, or are due to them in marriage or blood. And therefore we do not only give and grant unto the said Lady Alice Dudley the title of Duchess of Dudley for life, in England, and other our realms, &c., with such precedencies as she might have had, if she had lived in the dominions of the sacred empire, &c.; but we do also further grant unto the said Lady Catherine and Lady Anne, her daughters, the places, titles, and precedencies of the said duke's daughters, as from the time of their father's creation during their respective lives, &c. Conceiving ourselves obliged to do much more for them, if it were in our power, in these unhappy times of distraction, &c., witness ourself, at Oxford, 23rd May, in the 20th year of our reign." This honour was also confirmed to her grace by King CHARLES II. The Duchess of Dudley d. 22 January, 1669-70, and was buried at Stoneleigh, co. Warwick, under a noble monument erected by herself, when her peerage, being for life only, EX. PIRED. DUDLEY-EARL OF WARWICK. By Letters Patent, dated 26 September, 1561. Lineage. Through the especial favour of the Queen, in the 3rd and 4th of PHILIP and MARY, LORD AMBROSE DUDLEY, then eldest surviving son of the attainted John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, was restored in blood; and in the 1st year of ELIZABETH, he obtained a grant of the manor of Ribworth Beauchamp, co. Leicester, to be held by the service of pantler to the kings and queens of England at their coronations, which manor and office his father and other of his ancestors, Earls of Warwick, formerly enjoyed. In the next year he was made master of the ordnance for life, and two years afterwards, 25 December, 1561, advanced to the peerage as BARON L'ISLE, preparatory to his being created next day Earl of WARWICK, when he obtained a grant of Warwick Castle, and divers other lordships in the same co., which had come to the crown upon the attainder of his father. His lordship was afterwards elected a knight of the Garter. In the 12th ELIZABETH, upon the insurrection in the North of the Earls of Northumberland and Westmoreland the Earl of Sussex being first despatched against the rebels with 700 men, the Earl of Warwick, with the Lord Admiral Clinton, followed with 13,000 more, the earl being nominated lieut-gen. of the army. The next year his lordship was constituted chief butler of England, and soon afterwards sworn of her majesty's privy council; in which latter year, 15th ELIZABETH, he was one of the peers who sat in Westminster Hall on the trial and judgment of Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, as he did in fourteen years after at Fotheringay, on the trial of Mary of Scotland. His lordship m. 1st, Anne, dau. and co-heir of William Whorwood, Esq., attorney-general to King HENRY VIII.; 2ndly, Elizabeth, dau. and heir of Gilbert Talboys, and sister and heir of George, Lord Talboys; and 3rdly, Anne, dau. of Francis, Earl of Bedford; but d. s. p. in 1589, when all his honours became EXTINCT, and the lordships and lands, which he had obtained by grant (part of the inheritance of the old Earls of Warwick), reverted to the crown. Of these the ancient park of Wedgenock was granted in 1601 by Queen ELIZABETH to Sir Fulke Greville, to whom, in four years afterwards, King JAMES likewise granted the castle of Warwick, with the gardens and dependencies. This Sir Fulke Greville was descended through his grandmother, Elizabeth, one of the daus. and co-heirs of Lord Beauchamp, of Powyk, from the old Beauchamps, Earls of Warwick; and from him have sprung the existing Earls of Brooke and Warwick. Arms-Or, a lion rampant, az., double queued, vert. DUDLEY-BARON DENBIGH, EARL OF LEICESTER. Barony, by Letters Patent, dated 28 September, 1563. Earldom, by Letters Patent, dated 29 September, 1563. Lineage. SIR ROBERT DUDLEY, a younger son of John, Duke of Northumberland, and brother of Lord Guilford Dudley, the unhappy husband of Lady Jane Grey, was appointed according to his biographist, Sir John Hayward, in the 5th of EDWARD VI., one of the six gentlemen in ordinary of the privy-chamber to that king; and Hayward adds, "that he was the true heir, both of his father's hate against persons of nobility, and cunning to dissemble the same; and afterwards for lust and cruelty, a monster of the court. And, as apt to hate, so a true executioner of his hate; yet rather by practice than by open dealing, as wanting rather courage than wit: and that, after his entertainment into a place of so near service the king enjoyed his health not long." Upon the accession of MARY, Dudley was sent to the Tower with his father, and attainted; but, escaping the fate of that ambitious nobleman, he was soon afterwards restored, and made master of the ordnance. By Queen ELIZABETH he was at once taken into favour, raised to high rank, and invested with wealth and power. In the 1st year of her majesty's reign, he was made master of the horse, with a fee of 100 marks per annum, and elected a knight of the most noble order of the Garter. He was soon afterwards constituted constable of Windsor Castle for life, and the queen subsequently proposed that he should become the husband of the beautiful but unfortunate MARY STUART, promising, in the event of the princess's assent, that she would, by authority of parliament, declare her heir to the crown of England, in case she died herself without issue. The alliance was marred, however, through the influence of France, although the favourite had been advanced the same year, that he might be deemed the more worthy of his royal bride, to the dignities of Baron Denbigh and EARL OF LEICESTER. But this proceeding of ELIZABETH has been considered as a mere experiment to enable herself to espouse Dudley with less dishonour, if he had been accepted by the Queen of Scots. In 1572 his lordship was one of the peers who sat upon the trial of the Duke of Norfolk, and he was appointed some years afterwards captaingeneral of an expedition sent into the Low Countries for the service of the United Provinces against the Spaniards; but in this enterprise, incurring, by his insolence, incapacity, and caprice, the displeasure of the Dutch, he was recalled, and constrained upon his return to humble himself to the queen, and with tears to beg of her majesty, "that, having sent him thither with honour, she would not receive him back with disgrace; and that whom she had raised from the dust, she would not bury alive!" He intended afterwards to retire to his castle of Kenilworth, and commenced his journey thither, but died on the way at Cornbury Park, in Oxfordshire, 4 September, 1588. His lordship was a knight of the Garter, and a knight of St. Michael, a privy-councillor, master of the horse, steward of the queen's household, constable of Windsor Castle, chancellor of the university of Oxford, justice in cyre of all the forests south of Trent, and lieutenant and captain-general of the English forces in the Netherlands. "His death," says Rapin, "drew tears from the queen, who, nevertheless, ordered his goods to be sold at public sale for payment of the sums she had lent him. This infamous nobleman m. 1st, the beautiful AMY ROBSART, dau. of Sir John Robsart, Knt.; and that unhappy lady he is accused but too justly of having murdered in the house of Forster, one of his tenants, at Cumnor, near Oxford. To this lone habitation she was removed, and there, after poison had proved inefficacious, she was strangled, and her corpse flung from a high staircase, that her death might appear to have been occasioned by the fall. He m. 2ndly, Douglas, dau. of William, Lord Howard, of Effingham, and widow of John, Lord Sheffield, by whom he had a son, ROBERT (Sir). Fearing that this latter alliance would cause a diminution of his influence with the queen, he tried by every means to repu diate her ladyship, and he subsequently attempted her life by | Upon the decease of the earl, his honours became EXTINCT. His son, Sir Robert Dudley, failing to establish his legitimacy, retired to Italy in disgust, and lived there the remainder of his life. (See Dudley, Duchess of Dudley.) Of Dudley, Walpole, in his Royal and Noble Authors, thus speaks: "Robert Dudley, called the natural son, probably the legitimate son of the great Earl of Leicester, having been deprived of his birthright, and never acknowledged as a peer of England, could not with propriety be classed among that order; yet he was too great an honour to his country to be omitted; and it is the duty of the meanest historian, and his felicity to have it in his power, to do justice to the memory of the deserving, which falls not within the compass of particulars to procure to the living. The author of those curious Lives of the Dudleys in the Biographia has already retrieved the fame of this extraordinary person from oblivion; and therefore I shall touch very few particulars of his story. He was educated under Sir Thomas Chaloner, the accomplished governor of Prince HENRY, and distinguished his youth by martial achievements, and by useful discoveries in the West Indies: but it was the house of Medici, those patrons of learning and talent, who fostered this enterprising spirit, and who were amply rewarded for their munificence by his projecting the free port of Leghorn. He flourished in their court, and in that of the emperor, who declared him Duke of Northumberland, a dukedom remarkably confirmed to his widow, whom CHARLES I. created Duchess of Dudley. Anthony Wood says, 'the duke was a complete gentleman in all suitable employments, an exact seaman, an excellent architect, mathematician, physician, chymist, and what not. He was a handsome, personable man, tall of stature, red-haired, and of admirable comport, and, above all, noted for riding the great horse, for tilting, and for his being the first of all that taught a dog to sit in order to catch partridges.'" Arms-Or, a lion rampant, double queued, vert. DUFF-BARON FIFE. By Letters Patent, dated 5 July, 1790. Lineage. JAMES DUFF, 2nd Earl of Fife, in the peerage of Ireland, was created a peer of Great Britain, in the dignity of BARON FIFE, 5 July, 1790. His lordship m. in 1766, Lady Dorothea Sinclair, sole heir of Alexander, 9th Earl of Caithness; but dying without male issue, 24 January, 1809, the British BARONY OF FIFE became EXTINCT, while his lordship's Irish honours devolved upon his brother, the HON. ALEXANDER DUFF, as 3rd Earl of Fife, whose eldest son, JAMES, 4th Earl of Fife, was created a Baron of the United Kingdom, as BARON FIFE, 28 April, 1827, but d. 8. p. 9 March, 1857, when that title became EXTINCT: his lordship's nephew is JAMES, present EARL OF FIFE. Arms-Quarterly: 1st and 4th, or, a lion rampant, gu. for MAC DUFF; 2nd and 3rd, vert, a fesse, dancettée, erm. between a hart's head, cabossed, in chief, and two escallops in base, or, for Durr. DUNBAR-EARLS OF DUNBAR AND DUNBAR-EARL OF MORAY. DUNCOMBE-LORD FEVERSHAM, BARON By Letters Patent, dated 23 June, 1747. Lineage. The Duncombes, originally of Barley-End, co. Buckingham, spread in different branches into other counties during the reigns of King HENRY VIII. and his son EDWARD VI. WILLIAM DUNCOMBE, of Ivingho (at the time of the Visitation in 1634), m. Mary, dau. of John Theed, gentleman, and had four sons, of whom the 2nd, ANTHONY DUNCOMBE, Esq., of Drayton, Bucks, m. dau. of Paulye, lord of the manor of Whitchurch, and had issue, Charles (Sir), a banker in London. who served the office of sheriff for that city, anno 1700, and filled, in nine years afterwards, the civic chair. Sir Charles d. um., possessed of immense wealth, acquired by himself, which he devised to his nephews, Anthony Duncombe, the son of his brother, and Thomas Brown, the son of his sister. ANTHONY, of whom presently. Mary, m. to Thomas Brown, Esq., of the city of London; by whom she had an only son, Thomas, whose grandson, Charles Duncombe, Esq., of Duncombe Park, co. York, was created Baron Feversham in 1826. (See BURKE'S Extant Peerage). ANTHONY DUNCOMBE, Esq. (the 2nd son) m. Jane, eldest dau. and co-heiress of the Hon. Frederick Cornwallis, 2nd son of Frederick, 1st Lord Cornwallis, and had an only son, ANTHONY DUNCOMBE, Esq., who inherited, as stated above, a moiety of his uncle, Sir Charles Duncombe's large fortune, and was elevated to the peerage by letters patent, dated 23 June, 1747, as LORD FEVERSHAM, Baron of Downton, co. Wilts. His lordship m. 1st, the Hon. Margery Verney, dau. of George, Lord Willoughby de Broke; by whom he had three sons, Charles and Anthony, who both d. young, and George, who attained his nineteenth year, but d. in 1741; he had likewise a dau. that d. in infancy. Lord Feversham m. 2ndly, Frances, dau. of Peter Bathurst, Esq., of Clarendon Park, Wilts; this lady d. in childbed, 21 November, 1757; and he m. 3rdly, Anne, dau. of Sir Thomas Hales, Bart., by whom he had a dau., Anne, who m. Jacob, 2nd Earl of Radnor, by whom she was mother of William, 3rd Earl of Radnor, and other issue. His lordship d. in 1763, and leaving no male issue, the BARONY OF FEVERSHAM, OF DOWNTON, became EXTINCT. His widow m. 22 July, 1765, William, 1st Earl of Radnor. Arms-Per chev., engrailed, gu. and arg., three talbots' heads erased, counterchanged. NOTE.-Sir Saunders Duncombe (probably a member of this family), a gentleman pensioner to King JAMES I. and his son King CHARLES, was the introducer of 8 dans or close chairs into this country in 1634, when he obtained a patent, vesting in himself and his heirs the sole right of carrying persons "up and down in them" for a certain sum. It is somewhat singular that the same year introduced hackney coaches into London; they were first brought into use by Captain Bayley. DUNDAS-BARON AMESBURY. By Letters Patent, dated 10 May, 1832. Alexander DuNDAS, of Fingask, son of James Dundas, of Dundas, by Christian his wife, dau. of John, Lord Innermeath and Lorn, was returned heir to his father in divers lands, anno 1431. He m. Eupham, dau. of Sir Alexander Livingston, of Callendar, and d. in 1451, during his confinement in Dumbarton Castle, wherein he had been imprisoned through the hostility of William, Earl of Douglas: he was s. by his son, ALEXANDER DUNDAS, of Fingask, who m. Isabel, dau. of Lawrence, Lord Oliphant, and had several sons, and one dau., the wife of Law, of Lawbridge. He fell at Flodden, in 1513, together with four of his sons, and was 8. by his eldest son, ALEXANDER DUNDAS, of Fingask, who m. Elizabeth, dau. of Sir David Bruce, of Clackmannan, and had issue. He was slain at Pinkie, and s. by his eldest son, ARCHIBALD DUNDAS, of Fingask, a man of much influence in the time of JAMES VI., who was 8. at his decease by his son, WILLIAM DUNDAS, of Fingask, who m. in 1582, Margaret, eldest dau. and heir of Sir David Carnegie, of Clouthie, but having no issue, was s. by his brother, |
