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DOVER — DOWNE. 165 to the Hague, which office he resigned in 1 "SO, being, 8 years later, raised to tho Peerage as above stated. He m. at Antwerp 23 June 1783, Christiana-Charlotte- Margarct, Baroness de Stiicken, da. of Hans-Henry, Karon de Stocken of Denmark, Counsellor of State, by Anua-C'atlierina DE BoETKELa.BR. He ct. s.p. in Hill Street, Midx. 2 Dec. 1792, aged G8 when the peerage became extinct. Will pr. Dee. 1792. Admou. of his widow dat. April 1793. III. 1831. i. The Pa. Hon. George-James-Weldore Agar- Ellis, only s. and h. ap. of Henry (Ellis), 2d Viscount Clifden of Gowiun, &e. [I.], mid Bahon Menhir, by Caroline, 1st da. of George (Spencer), Duke of Marlborough, was 6. 17 Jany. 1797 ; mat. at Oxford (Ch. Ch.) 27 Jany. 1814 | B.A. 1S16 ; M.A. 1819 ; M.P. for Heytesbury, 1818-20 ; for Seaford, 1820-26 ; for Ludgershall, 1820-30, and for Okehampion 1830-31, when he was, 20 June 1831, er. BARON DOVER of Dover, co. Kent, having in Nov. 1830, been for a few weeks Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forest, the only office he ever held. P.C., F.S.A, trustee of the Brit. Museum and of the Nat. Gallery, &c. He m. 7 March 1822, at Chiswiek, Middx., Georgians, 2d da. of George (Howard), 0th Earl ok Carlisle, by Georgiana-Dorothy, da. of William (Cavendish), Duke of Devonshire. He d. v.p. 10 and was bur. 17 July 1833, at Twickenham, Middx., aged 36. Will pr. July 1833.(«) His widow who was b. 10 May 1801, d. at Dover House, Whitehall, Midx., 17 March 1860, aged 55. IV. 1833. 2. Henry (Agar-Ellis), Baron Dover, 1st s. and h., b. 25 Feb. 1S25. On 13 July 1836, he sue. his grandfather, 33 VISCOUNT CLIFDEN, fee. [I.] See that dignity, ci: 1781. DOWNE. Earldom [I.] 1. Sm William Poi>e, Bart.( b ), of "Wroxton and I. 1G28 Wilcot, co. Oxford, only surv. s. and h. of John P. of the same (who was yr. br. of Sir Thomas Pope, the Founder, 1555, of Trinity College, Oxford), by his 2d wife Elizabeth, da. of Sir John Brocket, of Brocket, Herts, was bap., 15 Oct. 1573, at Wroxton, sue. his father, 24 June 15S3 ; K.B., 25 July 1603, at the Coronation of James I ; er. a Baronet as of Wilcote, Oxon," 29 June 1611, was er. 16 Oct. 1628, BARON POPE OF BEALTIRBIT [i.e. BELTURBET], co. Cavan, and EARL OF DOWNE [I.](°) He m. in 1595, Anne, widow of Henry (Wentworth), Lord Wentworth (who d. 1591), da. of Sir Owen HorroN, Lieut, of the Tower of London, by Anne, da. and h. of Sir Edward Itchinq- HAM. She was bur. 10 May 1625, at Wroxton. He d, 2 and was bur. 4 June 1631, at Wroxton. M.I. Will dat, 31 Dec. 1630, pr. 8 June 1631. II] 1631. 2. TnoMAK (Pgte), Earl of Dowse, &c. [I.], grand- son and h., being s. and h. of Sir William Pope, by Elizabeth, da. and h. of Sir Thomas Watson, of Halstead, co. Kent, which Sir William was 1st s. and h. ap. of the 1st Earl, but d. v.p. (before his father's elevation to the peerage), Aug. 1621, aged 27. He was bap. 16 Dec. 1622, at Cogges, co. Oxford. He matric. at Oxford (Ch. Ch.), 21 June 1639. He distinguished himself, as an active Royalist, during the Civil War. He m. Elizabeth, da and coheir of William Dutton, of Sherborne, co. Gloucester, by his 1st wife Elizabeth, da. of Sir Henry Baynton, of Bromhall, Wilts. See d, 6 April 1656. He d. s.p.m. at Oxford, 28 Dec. 1660, and was bur. 11 Jany. 1660/1, at Wroxton.^) ( a ) He was a liberal patron of the fine arts, and au author of some note, the history of the " Prisoner with the Iron Mask " being perhaps the most known of his works, ( b ) See a good pedigree of Pope in Baker's " Northamptonshire," vol. i, p. 707. (°) See " Creations, 1483-1616," in ap. 47th Rep. D.K. Pub. Records. . ('•) Elizabeth, his da. and h. in. firstly, Sir Francis-Henry Lee, 4th Bart., o£ Ditchley, and secondly, Robert (Bertie), 3d Earl of Lindsey. She d. 1 July 1719, being ancestress of the Earls of Lichfield. She, however, does not appear to have inherited the family estates.