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226 DUE AS — DURHAM. DUE AS OF HOLDENBY. Barony. Louis de Dubas, Marquis de Blanquefout, in France, was I 1673 m 29 Jan " 1673, BAR0N DURAS OF HOLDENBY, co. Northampton. " . ' He sue. his father-in-law, George (Sondes), Earl op Feversham, on 10 April 1677, as Eaul op Feversham, &c., under the spec rem. in the llUJ. crea tion, 8 April 1676, of that peerage, lie rf. s.p. 19 April 1709, when all his honours became extinct. See fuller particulars under " Fevehsham," Earldom of, cr. 1676 ; ex. 1709. DUEFORD, see " Cabyll of Dttbfobd." DUEHAM (city) and DURHAM OF LAMBTON CASTLE. [The Bishops of Durham were unquestionably, till the death (21 Feb. 1836) of Bishop Van Mildert, " from time immemorial, by prescriptive right, lord) of the Palatinate of Durham. Hence arose the " notion that the Bishops were Counts- Palatine of Durham and £arls of Sadberge, a demesne manor and wapentake in the county of Northumberland, which Bishop Pudsey had acquired in the reign of Richard I." See Mr. Longstaffe's interesting article on the " Jleraldry of Durham " in the " Her. and Gen.," vol. viii, p.p. 32-35, and 130-168. These Bishops, indeed, have often been spoken of, not only as ' ; Earls" but even as " Vn'nees-Palatine." Their real rank however, was that of Barons (Domini), not of Earls (Cumites), being, like that of other Bishops, below the grade of Viscount, but above that of the secular Baron.] 1. John Geobge Lajibton, of Lambton Castle, co. Durham, s. and h. of William Henry L. of the same, by Ann Barbara Frances, d. of George Bussey (Viluehs), 4th Earl op Jersey, was 6. 12 April 1792, sue. his father 30 Nov. 1797, at the age of 5 years ; ed. at Eton ; served iu the 10th Hussars, 1309-11 ; M.P. for co. Durham, 1813-28, and, having been a strong and consistent Whig, was, at the dissolution of the Goderich ministry, cr., 29 Jan. 1828, BARON DURHAM of the city op Durham and op Lambton Castle, co. Durham. In the Grey ministry he was made P.O., 1830, and a member of the Cabinet( b ) as Lord Privy Seal, 1830-33 ; was Ambassador to Russia, July to Sep. 1832 ; to Prussia and Austria, Sep. 1832, and again to Russia, 1835-37. He was cr., 23 March 1833, VISCOUNT LAMBTON and EARL OF DURHAM.^) G.C.B. 27 June 1837. Gov. Gen. op Canada, Jan. to Dec. 1838. He m. (when under age) I Jan. 1812, at Malpas, co. Chester, Harriet Cholmondeley, spinster, illegit. da. of George James (Cholmondeley), 1st Marquess Cholmondeley. She d., s.p.m., II July 1S15, and was bur. at Beckenham, Kent. He m. secondly, 9 Dec. 1816, at Barony. I. 1828. Earldom. I. 1833. ( a ) Preface to 30th Rep. of the Dep. Keeper of Public Records [25 Feb. 1869], where it is Btated that a " brief sketch of the history of the Palatinate of Durham " is given in the 16th Report, and that the " extensive liberties and rights thereof " devolved after 1836, by act of Pari., on " King William IV, his heirs aud successors." (•>) Together with Lord John Russell (afterwards Earl Russell), Sir James Graham, and Lord Duneannon (afterwards, 1844, 4th Earl of Bessborough), he " had entrusted to him the preparation of the Reform Bill, but his health, or temperament, would appear to have been unequal to the cares and bustle of ministerial life." See Ann. Reg. for 1840. ( c ) This Earldom must be considered as an Earldom of the city of Durham not of the County palatine, the Lordship of the County palatine not being at the date of its creation vested even in the Crown itself. By act 6 aud 7 Will. IV, cap. 19 (1835-36), " the whole of the Palatine jurisdiction " formerly vested in the Bishopric of Dur- ham, was (vacante scde) taken away therefrom " and rested in the Crown as a separate franchise and royalty ; the distinction of Durham, as a County palatine, being thus, for most practical purposes, abolished." See " Parliamentary Qazctteer," 1845.