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EGMONT. 245 was cr. VISCOUNT PERCEVAL OF KANTITRK.p) co. Cork [I.] He was M.P. for Harwich, 1722-34, and Recorder thereof 1728-34 ; President (the first ever appointed) op Georgia, 1732. On 6 Nov. 1733, he was cr. EARL OF EGMONT, co. Cork [I]. He m. 10 June 1710, at St. Giles in the fields, Midx., Catharine, 1st da. (whose issue, in 1775, became coheir) of Sir Philip Parker, 2d Bart., of Erwarton, Suffolk, by Mary, da. of Samuel Fortrey. He d. in London, 1 May 1748, aged 64, and was bur. at Erwarton.( r >) Will pr. 1748. His widow d. 22 Aug. 1749, aged 60, and was bur. there. M.I. Will pr. 1749. II. 1748. 2. John (Perceval), Eaul of Egmont, &c. [I.], only s. and h., 6. 24 Feb. 1710/11, at Westminster, slijied VISCOUNT Perceval, 1733-48; M.P. for Dingle [I.], 1731; for Westminster, 1741-47; for Weobley, 1747-54 ; and for Bridgwater, 1754-62; P.O., 1755. On 7 May 1762, he was cr. a Peer [G.B.] as LORD LOVEL AND HOLLAND, BARON LOVEL AND HOLLAND OF ENMORE, co. Somerset,(°) taking his seat on the 10th of the same month. Joint Postmaster Gen., 1762-63 ; First Com. of the Admiralty, 1763-66. He m. firstly, 15 Feb. 1736/7, at Kensington, Catharine, 2d da. of James (Cecil), 5th Earl or Salisbury, by Ann, 2d da. and coheir of Thomas (Tufton), 6th Earl op Thaset. She d. at Charlton, Kent, 16, and was bur. there 24 Aug. 1757, aged 33 years and 10 days. Admon. 23 June 1757. He m. secondly, 26 Jan. 1756, at Charlton, Catherine, sister of Charles and Spencer, 7th and 8th Earls of Northamp- ton, 3d da. of the Hon. Charles Comfton, by Mary, da. and h. of Sir Berkeley Lucy, Bart. She, who was b. 4 June 1731, was cr. 23 May 1770, BARONESS ARDEN OF LOHORT CASTLE, co. Cork [I.], with rem. of that Barony to the heirs male of her body. The Earl d. in Pall Mall, 4, and was bur. 23 Dec. 1770, at Charlton, aged 59. Will pr. Dec. 1770. His widow (the suo jure Baroness), who was b. 4 June 1731, at Quinta, near Lisbon, in Portugal, d. at Langley, Bucks, 11 June 1784, aged 53, and was bur. the 21st at Charlton afsd. Will pr. June 1784. C'J Kanturk (from " Ccann-Tuirc," i.e., " the Boar's Scad ") a market town, ten mile3 from Buttevant, co. Cork, belonged formerly to a branch of the Mac Carthys named Mac Douough, Toparchs or Princes of Duhallow, and was forfeited in 1641 by Mae Douough, the builder of the Castle, of which the " structure is behoved to be the finest [120 feet by 80] ever undertaken by an Irish chieftain." Pari. Gazetteer of Irdand, 1849. _( b ) His "beautiful character — "the best of husbands, of fathers, of masters, of friends," &c, is given in "Lodge," vol. ii, p. 265. (°) The coheirs of the Baronies of Lovel and Holland at that date (subject to its attainder in 1487) were (1) Thomas Stapleton and (2) the Earl of Abingdon ; the representatives of the two sisters (Lady Stapleton and Lady Norreys) of Francis (Lovel), Viscount Lovel, who was attainted. These two coheirs were the same as those to the Barony of Beaumont. See tabular pedigree, vol. i, p. 287, note "a," sub " Beaumont." The grantee of 1762 descended thro' his mother, Catherine Pai-ker, from Sir Philip Parker, of Erwarton, a younger brother of Henry (Parker), Lord Morley, whose issue (not that of his younger br. Philip) represents the Barony of Morley but not that of Lovel and Holland, the representation of these two Baronies (i.e., those whose titles were assigned to the grautee of 1762) never having devolved on the family of Parker. The two brothers abovenamed have, indeed, a descent from the families of Lovel and Holland thro' their great grandmother, the wife of Sir William Parker, Alice, sister and h. of Henry (Lovel), Lord Morley, da. of William (Lovel), Lord Morley (jure uxoris) which William Lovel was a younger brother of John, Lord Lovel and Holland, in whose descendants (i.e., those of his granddaughters Lady Stapleton and Lady Norreys abovenamed) was and is the representation of those Baronies as above stated. It is to be observed that it was not till the death of the cousin of the grantee of 1762, Martha, Baroness Chedworth, 30 Nov, 1775, that his son became (for he himself never did), a coheir (even) of the family of Parker, thro' whom tins descent (without representation) from Morley, Lovel and Holland was derived. Richard de Perceval, tho grantee's ancestor, living in 1161, was, however himself a, Lovel], according to the all glorifying pedigree in " the House of Yvery," indeed, possibly that authority may consider that he was a Holland also ; anyhow the rights of his decendauts (as therein set forth) are too vast to be fathomed and the grantee may have flattered himself that ho was entitled to a grant of these two Baronies as heir male of the house of Lovell, and (</ possible) of that of Holland also.