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142 DORCHESTER. Walton, 1792-9S; and for Nans [I.], 1794-07 : being ttyled Viscount Milton, 1792- 98. Major 87th Foot, 1779, and Lieut. Col. in the West Indies, 1782; Ch.-Sec. to the Lord Lieut [I.], 1794-95 ; P.O., 1794 ; P.O. [1.], 1795; Lord Lieut, of co. Dorset, 1803. He'd. num. at Dorchester House, Park lane. Midx., 7 March ISOSnged 62, when all his honours became extinct. (■) Adrnon. May 1S0S. DORCHESTER (co. Oxford). Viscountcy. "Dudley Caiu.etox, Knt., Vice Chamberlain of the t Iftoa Household and one of the Privv Council," was cr. 22 May 1626, ♦„ ' " BARON CARLTON OK IMBKUCOURT, co. Surrey," and. 25 July , '° 0 1628, VISCOUNT DORCHESTER, co. Oxford. (*>) He was 2d h. of l"- 3 -" Anthony Carlton, of Baldwin Brightwell, Oxon, by his 2d wife, Joyce, da. of John Goodwin, of Winchington. Rucks, and was h. 10 and Imp. 21 March 1578/4, at Baldwin Brightwell afsd ; eil. at Westm. and at Ch. Ch. Oxford ; M.A. 12 July 1G00 ; M.P. forSfc Mawes, 1601-11 ; and for Hastings, 1620-28 ; Knighted 25 June 1610, at Windsor. Ho was a most distinguished Diplomatist and Statesman: being five years (1610-15) Ambassador to the States of Venice; nearly tin years (1615/6 to 1625) at Hague to the United Provinces ; joint Ambassador to France, Dec. 1625 to March following, &c. B.C. 1625. He was Vice-Chamberlain of the Household 1625 to 1628, in which interval he was raised to the Peerage as above mentioned. He was (being then " Lord Carleton ") Ambassador Extraordinary to Paris, July 1626 and to the Hague, April 1627, where he was first Commissioner to invest the Prince of Orange with the Order of the Garter ( c ) He was o M.A. of Cambridge, 3 March 1627. Priuc. Secy, of State, IS Dee. 1G28, till his death. Ho m. firstly, Oct. 1607, Anne, da. and coheir of George Garuahd (2d s. of Sir William G. of Dorney, Bucks), by Margaret, da. of George Dacres of Cheshunt, Herts. Lady Carleton, d. 18 and was bur. 21 April 1627 in her 42d year in Westm. Abbey. M.I. He m. secondly, 14 June 1630, Anne, Dow. Viscountess BaTOTNO of Sldbuhy, da. of Sir Henry Glemham of Glemham, Suffolk, by Anne, da. of Thomas (Sack- ville), 1st Earl ok Dorskt. He </. s.p.s.(' 1 ) at his house in Westm., 15 and was bur. 19 Feb. 1631/2 in Westm. Abbey, when all his horumrt became extinct. Fun. certif. in Coll. of Arms. Will dat. 18 Aug. 1630 to 13 Feb. 1631/2, pr. 4 April 1632. His widow d. at Westm., 10 and was bur. 31 Jany. 1838/9 at Gosfield, Essex. Her will dat. 1 to 3 Sep. 1638, pr. 15 Jany. 1633/9. Barony. %, Gut Carleton, 3d s. of Christopher C. of Newiy, I. 178G. co ' Down, by Catharine, da. of Henry Ball, h. 3 Sep. 1724, at Strabane ; entered the Army, 1712, serving chiefly in the 1st Foot Guards ; Lieut-Col. 72d Foot, 1758 : was wounded at the siege of Quebec, 1759, as also at Belleisle, 1761 ; Lieut. Gov. of Canada, 1766 to 1770 ; Governor, 1775 to 1778, effecting a brilliant repulse of the Americans in 1776 ; nom. K.B., 6 July 1776, iust. 22 May 1779. In 1781, being then a Lieut.-Gen., he was made Commander-in- Chief in America, till the final treaty of peace in 1 783. From April 1 786 to 1 796, ho was Governor of Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, being on 21 Aug. 17S6, cr. LORD DORCHESTER, BARON OF DORCHESTER, co. Oxford. (°) In 1793, he ( a ) His sister, Lady Caroline Darner, b. 4 Slay 1752, well known as a sculptor, inherited the estates for her life. She d. unm. in 1829, when the estates passed to* the children of John (Dawson), 1st Earl of Portarh'ngton [I.], s. and ii. of the 1st Viscount Carlow [I.], by Mary, eldest sister of Joseph (Darner), 1st Earl of Dor- chester abovenamed. Of these children, two took the name of Darner after that of Dawson. ( b ) . See "Creations 1483-1646," in ap. 47th Rep. D.K., Pub. Records. ( c ) See list of the Commissioners for these " Garter Missions," vol. ii, p. 192, note " a," sub " Cathcart." C) His widow gave birth to a posthumous da, Frances, Imp. 27 June 1632, at St. Margaret's, Westm., who d. an infant and was bur. 2 Jany. 1 632/3 at St. Olave's, Hart Street, London. CO Sir Egerton Brydges very appositely remarks (" Collins," vol. viii, p. 116, note " k ") that " He Beems to have taken the title because it had been used by one of his