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DEBRETT'S ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE. 459 Right and forward. SYDNEY, EARL. TOWNSHEND.) JOHN ROBERT TOWNSHEND, G.C.B., P.C., 1st Earl, Lord Lieut, of Kent. Born Aug. 9th, 1805; succeeded his father as 3rd Viscount in 1831 ; educated at Eton, and at St. John's College, Cambridge (M.A. 1824) ; sat as M.P. for Whitchurch 1826 31 ; was a Groom in Waiting 182831, Deputy Ranger of St. James's and Hyde Parks 182931, a Lord-in- Waiting 1835, and 18417, Capt. of the Yeomen of the Guard 18528, and Lord Chamberlain 1859-T-66, and 1868 74; was Lieut.-Col. Commandant of the West Kent Yeomanry Cavalry 1847 63, and has been Col. of the Kent Artillery Militia since 1853 ; *is a Magistrate for Kent, and a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Leopold of Belgium : married (1832) Lady Emily Caroline Paget, 6th daughter of the 1st Marquess of Anglesey, K.G. Patron of three livings, Paul's Cray, V. Bexley, V. Bexley Heath, V. Kent. Creations, Baron Sydney of Chislehurst, in the county of Kent 11783, Viscount Sydney of Upton, St. Leonard's, county of Gloucester, 1789,-r-Eari Sydney of Scadbury, Kent 18/4, all in the peerage of Great Britain. Srtns, 1st and 4th, azure, a, chevron, ermine, between three escallops, argent, Townshend; 2nd and 3rd, quarterly, gules and or; in the first quarter a mullet, or, in the centre point a crescent, Fere. (Erest, -A stag statant, proper. Joupportms, Dexter, a lion, or, collared, chained, and charged on the shoulder with a pheon, azure ; sinister, a stag, armed, argent, collared and chained, or, charged on the shoulder with an escallop, of the second. Seats, Frognal, Foot's Cray, Kentj and Matron-house, Gloucester. Town Residence, 3, Cleveland-square, S.W. C/wis, Travellers', White's. SYDNEY, Earl, His lordship's predecessor was his father, John Thomas, 2nd Viscount Sydney. He was b. Feb. 21, 1764, and succeeded his father, Jane 13, 1800 ; was High Steward of Yarmouth, and Ranger of St. James's and Hyde Parks : m. 1st, April 12, 1790, the Hon. Sophia Southwell, who d. 1775, daughter of the 20th Baron de Clifford, and by her had issue two daughters ; 2ndly, May 27, 1802, Lady Caroline Clements, who d. 1805, daughter of the 1st Earl of Leitrim ; and d. Jan. 20, 1831, having had issue from his last marriage an, only sou.