post he resigned on August 2d following. In March 1782, he was appointed master general of the ordnance; from which he was removed in April 1783, and again appointed December following, whence he held it till November 1795. In 1782, he was elected Knight of the Garter He wedded, on April 1st, 1757, Mary, eldest daughter and coheiress of Charles Bruce, late Earl of Ailesbury, by his Lady, Caroline, daughter of general John Campbell, afterwards Duke of Argyll, but had no issue by her, who died 1796. He died December 29th, 1806, leaving a character of persevering talents, and an assiduous love of business. He was succeeded by his nephew, Charles, fourth and present DUKE OF RICHMOND, born 1764, who is a lieutenant general in the army, and colonel of the thirtyfifth regiment of foot; and in April 1807, was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, in the room of the Duke of Bedford. He married September 9th, 1789, Charlotte, daughter of Alexander, Duke of Gordon, by whom he has, first, Mary, born August 15th, 1790; second, Charles, Earl of March, born August 3d, 1791; third, Sarah, born August 22d, 1792; fourth, John George, born October 3d, 1793; fifth, Georgina, born September 27th, 1795; sixth, Henry Adam, born September 6th, 1797; seventh, a son, born 1802; eighth, a daughter, born 1803; ninth, a daughter, born 1804. Titles. Charles Lenox, Duke of Richmond, Earl of March, and Baron Settrington, in England; Duke of Lenox, Earl of Darnley, and Baron Methuen of Torbolton, in Scotland; and Duke of Aubigny in France; which last title was confirmed by patent, and properly registered by the parliament of Paris in 1777. Creations. Duke of Richmond in Yorkshire, Earl of March (a title derived from the Marches in South Wales) and Baron of Settrington, in the county of York, on August 9th, 1675, 27 Car. II. Duke of Lenox, Earl of Darnley, and Baron Methuen of Torbolton, in Scotland, on September 9th, 1675; and Duke of Aubigny in France, in January, 1683-4, 41 Louis XIV. Arms. Quarterly, first and fourth, the arms of France and England, quarterly; the second, Scotland; and the third, Ireland (being the arms of Charles II) the whole within a border compone, Argent and gules, the first charged with verdoy of roses of the second, and seeded proper: over all, in an escutcheon, the arms of Aubigny, viz. gules, three oval buckles, Or. Crest. On a chapeau, gules, turned up ermine, a lion statant, guardant, Or, crowned with a ducal coronet, gules, and gorged with a collar gobone, charged as the border in the coat. Supporters. On the dexter side, an unicorn, Argent, armed, crested, and hoofed, Or. On the sinister, an antelope, argent, armed, maned, and hoofed, as the dexter. Each supporter gorged, as the crest. Motto. En la rose je fleurie. Chief Seat. At Goodwood, in the county of Sussex. HENRY FITZROY, second natural son of Charles II.a by Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland, was born on September 20th, 1663; and being of a brave and martial spirit, addicted himself, first, to the experience of maritime affairs, having been in several naval expeditions with Sir John Bury, Knight, vice admiral of England he was, by letters patent, bearing date August 16th, 1672, created Baron of Sudbury, Viscount Ipswich, and Earl of Euston, all in the county of Suffolk; also on September 11th, 1675, created DUKE OF GRAFTON, in the county of Northampton. On August 31st, 1680, he was elected a Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter; but being then at sea with the aforesaid Sir John Bury, he was installed at Windsor by his proxy, Sir Edward Villiers, Knight, afterwards Earl of Jersey, on September 30th following. On December 15th, 1681, he was chosen by the corporation of the Trinity House, to be one of their elder brothers; b and on the 30th of the same month, constituted colonel of the first regi Burnet says, "One of the race of Villiers, then married to Palmer, a Papist, soon after made Earl of Castemain, who afterwards being separated from him was advanced to be Duchess of Cleveland, was his first and longest mistress, by whom he had five children. She was a woman of great beauty, but most enormously vitious and ravenous; foolish, but imperious, very uneasy to the King, and always carrying on intrigues with other men, while yet she pretended she was jealous of him. His passion for her and her strange behaviour towards him, did so disorder him, that often he was not master of himself, nor capable of minding business, which in so critical a time required great application." Burnet's Hist. O. T. vol. i. p. 94 Hist of Eng. vol. iii p 391. ment of foot guards, which was given, in 1688, to the Earl of Litchfield, but restored that year to his Grace by the Prince of Orange. On December 2d, 1682, he was appointed vice admiral of England; on October 20th, 1684, was sworn recorder of St. Edmunsbury in Suffolk; and on May 6th, 1685, appointed Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of that county. He was also, by patent, remembrancer in the first fruits office; ranger of Whittlebury forest in Northamptonshire; and gamekeeper at Newmarket. d At the coronation of James II. he performed the office of lord high constable of England. And on the landing of the Duke of Monmouth in the West, 1685, he commanded a part of King James's forces, and behaved with great gallantry in the action of Philips Norton Lane, in com. Somerset, e narrowly escaping with his life. In 1687, the Duke of Somerset having declined conducting Ferdinand Dadda, Archbishop of Amasia, Pope Innocent Xl's Nuncio, to his public audience, he was prevailed on by the King to perform it; and accordingly, on the 3d of July that year, he solemnly conducted him to Windsor, attended by Sir Charles Cotterel, master of the ceremonies, in one of his Majesty's coaches. The same year (being then vice admiral of England) he had the command of a squadron of his Majesty's ships of war, to receive Mary Sophia, Queen of Pedro II. King of Portugal; in Holland, and conduct her to Lisbon. His Grace afterwards sailed for Tunis, where he arrived on October 16th, 1687, and having brought the Corsairs of that place to amity, he returned to England in March 1688, and waiting on the King, was very graciously received. On the landing of the Prince of Orange, his Grace was one of the Protestant peers then in London, who, with the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, &c. signed a petition to King James, "That in the deep sense of the miseries of a war, &c. they did think themselves bound in conscience, and out of the duty they owe to God, their holy religion, &c, most humbly to offer to his Majesty, that in their opinions, the only visible way to preserve his Majesty and his kingdom, would be the calling of a parliament, regular and free in all respects, &c." The Jesuits were so enraged at this petition, that they published a paper with Hist. of Eng. vol. iii. p. 397. • Hist. of Eng. vol. iii. p. 431. Hist. of King James's Coronation. this title, Some Reflections upon the humble Petition to the King, of the Lords, who subscribed the same; presented November 17th, 1688. On King James's arrival with his army at Salisbury, November 19th, his Grace, with the Lord Churchill (afterwards Duke of Marlborough) were the first that went over to the Prince of Orange. And such confidence had his Highness in his Grace's good disposition to him, that when King James had the first time withdrawn himself from Whitehall, he dispatched the Duke of Grafton from his camp at Henley, to go and take possession of Tilbury Fort, with his regiment of foot guards. But after the meeting of the convention, when it came to be debated in the house of peers, whether the throne being vacant, it ought to be filled up by a Regent, or a King, the Duke was one of the forty-nine, that voted for a Regent. However, his Grace, with the Duke of Ormond, the Dukes of Southampton and Northumberland, soon after acknowledged the Prince and Princess of Orange for King and Queen. At their coronation, his Grace attended, and bore the King's Orb. In 1690, he embarked with the Earl of Marlborough for Ireland, who arrived before the harbour of Cork on September 21st; and two days after, the greatest part of the land forces went on shore, headed by the Duke of Grafton, who, coming the next day within a mile of the town of Cork, began a formal siege. And a considerable breach being made, the grenadiers were ordered to storm the town, headed by his Grace, and some resolute volunteers, But as he was leading them on to the assault, on September 28th, he received a wound with a shot, which broke two of his ribs, whereof he died, at Cork, on October 9th follow.ing; and his corpse was brought to England, and buried at Euston in Suffolk. His Grace married, on August 1st, 1672, the Lady Isabella, only daughter, and at length heir, to Henry Bennet, Earl of Arlington, Viscount Thetford, &c. Secretary of State, and of the privy-council, Knight of the most noble order of the Garter, and Lord Chamberlain of the houshold to Charles II. by the Lady Isabella of Nassau, his wife, one of the daughters of Lewis of Nassau, Lord of Beaverwaert, and Count of Nassau, and sister to Henry of Nassau, Seignior de Auverquerque, master of the horse h Hist. of Eng P. 529. * Ibid. p.544. 1 Ibid. p. 560. ¡ Ibid. p. 535. m Ibid. p. 610, 611. |