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WOTTON-BAfiSETT — ^WROTTRSLBY. 205 WOTTON-BASSETT. t.«., Wotton-Babsett, oa Wilts," Barony (ffpde), cr. 1681 with the VisoouiiTOT Htdr or Kbiiilwoiith ; see ** RocHnvxa *' Earldom, er. 1682 ; all becoming extind in 1763. WOTTON-UNDER-BERNEWOOD. Seo '< GitBNviLLK OF Wotton-undbr-Bbunswood, CO. Backingham," BtJTonj (OrenwUe), cr. 1790 ; ex. 1884. WREST. See " Db Grbt of Wrbbt, oo. Bedford/' Earldom (Humb-Oampbbll nei ToRKi) cr, 1816, with a ■poo. rem. WRINQTON. %.e.t " PuLTBtncT OF Wrinoton, 00. Somerset^" Viaoountcy {PuJieney) er, 174S with the Eabldom of Bath, whioh see ; eae. 1764. WRIOTHESLEY. ».«., "Wriothbblbt," Barony (Wrioihaley)^ cr. 1544; see "Southamp- ton," Bwldom, er. 1547 ; forftiUi 1601. WRIOTHESLEY OF TITCHFIELD. f.e., "Wriothbslbt of Titohfibld, co. Southampton," Barony (WrieikaftifU cr. 1603, with the Barldoii op Southamfton (which see), with the precedency (1647) of the former Barony of Wriotheeley ; ex. 1667. WRITTLE See " Pbtbr of Writtlb, co. Essex," Barony (Petre)^ cr. 1603. WROTTESLEY. Barony. /. Sir John Wrottb8T4BY, Bart., of Wrottesley Hall, I 1838 ^' Stafford, let 8. and h. of Major Qen. Sir John WnomsLiT. 8th Bart, of the same, by Francen, da. of William (Gourtiiiat), let VnoouifT CouRTBif AT OF PowDBRHAif , and dc jwr^^) BarIi or Dbton, was h. 4 Oct. 1771 ; 9ue, as 8th Bart (a dignity er. 80 Aug. 1642), on the death of his father, 23 April 1787 ; was an officer in the 18ih Lanorrs, serving in Holland and France ; M.P., in the Whig interest, for Lichfield, 1799-1806 ; for Staffordshire, 1823-32, and for South Staffordshire, 1832-37 ; and waa er., 11 July 1%Z%X^) BARON WROTTESLEY of Wrottesley, co. Stafford.(o) F.S.A. ; Lieut. Col. of the West Staff. Militia He si. firstly, 23 Jan. 1795, OaroHue, 1st da. of Charles (Bbrhit), 4th Earl op Tamrbrvillb, by Emma, da. of Sir James Colbroorr, Bart She, who was h. 2 Oct. 1772, d. 7 March 1818. Will pr. 1823. He m. secondly, Julia (sister-in-law to his late wife), widow of Capt the Hon. John Astley Brnmbt, 11.N., do. of John CnRVRRS, of Copt Hall. CO. Essex. He d. at Wrottesley Ilnll, 16 and was bur. 24 March 1841, at Tettenhall, co. Stafford, in bis 70th year. Will pr. June 1841. His widow, by whom he had no issue, d. 29 Sep. 1866, st Clifton near Bristol, aged 78. (*) According to an extraordinary decision of the House of Lords, confirmed 18 March 1831, respecting that dignity. (^) This is one of the coronation peerages of Queen Victoris, for a list of which see vol.ii,p. 145, note «b," iub Carew.'* (^) Tnis is apparently the only existing peerage held by a direct descendant of one of the original Knights of the Garter, the grantee (1838) being 14th in descent from Sir Hugh Wrottesley, K.O., 1348.