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HALIFAX. 135 h. expectant of Sir Samuel Grimston, 3d and last Bart,, by bis first wife, Elizabeth, da. of Hcncagc (Finch), 1st Earl ok Nottingham. She, who was bap. 19 Jan. 1671, at Kensington, d. 1694. He m. secondly (her fortune £20,000) 2 April 169:), in Rutlandshire, Mary, 1st da, of Daniel (Finch), 2d Earl of Notting- ham, only child of his first wife, Essex, 2d da. and coheir of Robert (Rich), Earl op Warwick. He d. B.pm.s.( a ) 31 Aug. 1700, when all his peerage dignities became extinct.^) Will pr. March 1701. His widow, *Uo was bap. 18 May 1677, at Kensington, m. 1 Jan. 1708, John (Kkhr), 1st Duke of Roxburgh [S.], who d. 21 Feb. 1741, and d. 19 Sep. 1718, being said(<=) to have been bur. in Westm. Abbey on 5 Oct. following. [William Saville, styled Lord Eland, s. and h. ap., by 2d wife, b. 21 March and bap. 2 April 1696, at St. James's, Westm., d. v.p. and was bur. there 18 Feb. following.] ( — ) Saville, styled Lord Eland, 1st surv. s. and h. ap., bur. (as a iki) 21 March 1697/8, at St. James's afsd.] Barony. 1, Charles Montague, 4th s. of the Hon. George M. I 1700 ( a y r- S- °* ^ eur y> 1 st Karl of Manchester), by Elizabeth, da. of Sir Anthony Irbv, was 6. at Horton, co. Northampton, 16 April Earldom. 1661, and bap. 12 May at St. Margarets., Westm. : ed. at Westm. TTT i-u School and Trin. Coll., Cambridge; M.P. for Maiden, 1689-95, and ILL, li It, fur Vfestm., 1695-1700 ; a Lord of the Treasury, 1692-97 ; P.O., to 1694 ; Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1694-99 : First Lord of the 1715. Treasury, 1697-99 ; one of the Lords Justices (Regents) during the King's absence from the Realm, July to Dec. 169S, and June to Oct, 1699 ;( d ) one of the Auditors of the Exchequer, 1700-14, being cr. 13 Dec. 1700, BARON HALIFAX, co. Vork, with a spec, rem., failing heirs male of his body, to his nephew George Montague, of Horton, co. Northampton. He was Cr. LL.D. of Cambridge, 16 April 1705 ; was a Commissioner for the Union with Scotland, 10 April 1706 ; was Envoy to Hanover for the iuvestiture, 13 Jane 1706, of the Prince Electoral (afterwards King George II.) as a Knight of the Garter ;(•) was one of the Lords Justices of the Realm, (^) 1 Aug. to IS Sep. 1714 ; el. K.Gh, 16 Oct. and inst. 9 Dec. 1714 ; was cr., 19 Oct. 1714, VISCOUNT SUNBURY, co. Midx., and EARL OF HALIFAX ; was First Lord of the Treasury, Oct. 1714, till his death; Lord Lieut, of Surrey, 1714, &c. He m., after March 1683, Anne, Dow. Countess OP Manchester, da. of Sir Christopher Yelverton, 1st Bart., of Easton Mauduit, co. Northampton, by Ann, da. of Sir William Twisden, Bart. She d. July 1698.(8) He d. a. p. 19 May 1715, and was bur. 26th at Westm. Abbey, aged 54. Will dat. 10 April 1706, to 13 Aug. 1713, pr. IS June 1715.( h ) On his death the Earldom of Halifax, and Viscountcy of Sutibury became extinct. ( a ) He had .three daughters and coheirs of whom (1) Anne (by the 1st wife) was Countess of Ailesbury, ancestress of the Dukes of Buckingham and Chaudos (2) Dorothy (by the 2d wife) was Countess of Burlington and (3) Mary, Countess of Thanet. ( b ) The Baronetcy (cr. 1611) devolved on his cousin (the heir male), becoming extinct in 1784 on the death of Sir George Savile, 8th Bart., of Rufford, Notts. ( c ) Wood's " Douglas," vol. ii, p. 451. No such entry of her burial is recorded in the registers of the Abbey. ( d ) See vol. iii, p. 115, note " c," sub "Devonshire," for a list of these Regents temp. William III. (°) See vol. ii, p. 192, note " a," sub " Cathcart," for a list of these Commissioners. O See vol. iii, p, 116, note " b," tub " Devonshire," for a list of these great officers . (8) " The Countess Dow. of Manchester, wife of Mr. Chancellor Montague is dead, and her fortune of £1,500 per annum fallen to her son, the Earl of Manchester. Luttrell's "diary," under 28 July, 1698. (>') Macky, in his " Characters " alludes to his having been ed. " at the Univ. of Cambridge, where, writing a satire called The City House and the Country Mouse, in answer to Dryden's Hind and I'anther, in King James's reign, he was much taken notice of." He does not, however, appear to have graduated, the Gharles Montagu,