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DORSET — DOUGLAS. 153 at Withyam. Will pr. Aug. 1799).(») Hia widow( b ) m. 7 April 1801, at Dorset House St. Margaret's Westin., Charles (Vhitwortii), Earl Whitworth, who d. (shortly before her) 13 May 1825, aged 70. She d, Bp. 1 Aug. 1825, at Knole, and was bur. at Withyam, the expense of her funeral being estimated at £ 2,000. Will pr. Sep. 1S25. Dukedom. ■) 4 and 10. George - Joror - Frederick (Sack- XV. i i -on ville), Duke ok Dorset, ka., only s. and h., 6. 15 Nov _ W7JJ. 1793 and 6a/>. 30 Dec. at Kuole afsd., being styled Earl iarldom. of Middlesex till 179!) ; ed. at Harrow aud at Ch. Ch. XIII. J Oxford; matrie. 23 Oct. 1S10 ; cr. M.A. 30 June 1813. He (/. unm. 14 Feb. 1S15 in his 22d year, being killed by a fall while out hunting at Lord Powerscourfs, near Killiney, co Dublin, ho being then on a visit to his stepfather (Lord Whitworth), the Viceroy. He was bar. at Withyam afsd. Adinou. Aug. 1815. 5 and 11. Charles (Sackville-Germaine), Duke of Dorset [1720], Earl of Dorset [160-1], Earl of Middlesex [1675], Viscount Sackville of Drayton [17823, Baron Bvckhurst [1567], Baron Cranfield [1675], and Baron Bolebrooke [17S2], cousin and h. male, being s. and h. of George, 1st Viscount Sackville, by Diana, 2d da. and coheir of John Sambrooke, which George (better known as Lord George Germaiue) was 3d audyst. s. of the 1st Duke of Dorset. He was b. 27 Aug. and hap. 25 Sep. 1767, at St. James' Westm.; ed. at Wcstm. School ; sue- his Father, 26 Aug. 17d5, as Viscount Sackville and Barou Bolebrooke, aud tUC his cousin, 30 years later, lit the Dukedom, &c. He was Bearer of the Sword of State at the Coronation, 19 July 1S21 ; P.C. 1S21 ; Master of the Horse, 1821-27, and again Jany. to April 1S35 ; K.G.. 30 Jany. 1S26. He d. unm. 29 July 1813, when all Ins honours became extinct. Will pr. Aug. 1843. Family Estates.... Raole Park in Seveuoaks, Sec, with the chief of the Sackville property devolved, in 1815, on the two sisters and coheirs of the 4th Duke. Of these, the eldest, the Countess of Plymouth s.p., 20 July 1S64 ; while the youngest, the Countess of Delawarr, was cr. Baroness Buekhurst (with a spec, rem.) in 1861, and d. 1870, when the estate of Knole passed, firstly, to her 3d son, Reginald, Lord Buekhurst, but secondly (after his succession, in 1873, to the Earldom of Delawarr) to her 4th sou, Mortimer, who was cr. in 1S76, Baron Sackville of Kuole. The property of the 5th and last Duke consisted of Drayton House, near Thrap- stoue, aud about 5,000 acres in Northamptonshire valued at some £9,000 a year) formerly the property of the family of Germaiue, from whom it passed in 17 69 by device to the 1st Viscount Sackville, the father of that Duke. On his Grace's death in 1843 it passed to his niece, Mrs. Stopford-Sackville, the only da. aud h. of his only brother. DOUGLAS. Earldom [S.] 1. Sir William Douglas, of Douglas,^) only suit .s. I. 1358. o£ Sil * Archibald Douglas, Regent of Scotland (April to July 1333), by Beatrice, da. of Sir Alexander Lindsay, of Crawford, having by the resignation of his uncle, Hugh Douglas, 26 May 1342 (confirmed by the King) obtained the vast estates of the Douglas family (formerly held by the well known Sir James Douglas, "the Good " slain in Spain, 25 Aug. 1330, elder br. of Hugh aud Archibald above named), attained full age about 1348, distinguished himself (1346-56) against the English in Scotland; slew his kinsman, William Dukedom. V Earldom. XIV. 1S15, to 1813. ("•) As to his love for "cricket," see vol. i, p. 352, note "a," sub " Bessborough." _ ft) She claimed the precedence of a Duchess at a stato banquet at Carlton House given by the Prince Uegeut, which was refused to her on account of her remarriage ; following the precedent of Juliana, sometime Dow. Duchess of Leeds, who, beiug (1761) the wife of the Earl of Portmore [SJ, claimed to walk as a Duchess at the Coronation of George III, but was refused such status. (°) See " The Douylas Book" vol. i, p. 233. This truly magnificent work, by Sir William Eraser, is in four vols. Ito, Edinburgh, 1SS5, with copious illustrations.