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KENYON. 359 Hilton, of Gredington, afsd.) was 4. 5 Oct. 1732, at Gredington ; ed. at Ituthiu Grammar School ; was articled for five years to an attorney at Nantwich ; admitted to the Middle Temple 7 Nov. 1750; Banister 7 Feb. 1756; M.P. for Hindon, 1780-84 ; for Tregony 1784-SS ; Ch. Justice of Chester;"), 1780 ; Attorney General(«), March 1782 to April 1783, and again Dec. 1783 to March 1784(1') ; Master of the Rolls, 30 March 1784, beiug er. a Baronet, as "of Gredington, co. Flint," 28 July 1784 ; Chief Justice of the King's Bench 4 June 17i>S till his death, being cr. 9 June 1788 , Loud KenyoN, Baron ok Gredington(v), co. Flint, and taking his seat the 26th inst. He l». 10 Oct. 1733, at Deaue, co. Lancaster, his cousin, Mary, 3d da. of George Kenyon, of Peel Hall, co. Lancaster, Barrister at Law, by Peregrina, yst. da. and coheir of Robert Eddowes, aboveuamed. He d. (iu office) 4 April 1804,( d ) aged 71, and was bur. at [Iaumer, co. Flint. M.l. Will pr. 1802. His widow, who was 6. 21 July 1741, d. S Aug. 1S08, and was bur. at Hanmer. II. 1804. 2. George (Kenyon), Lord Kenton. Baron of Gred- ington, 2d but 1st surv. s. and h (°) 4. 22 July 1776 in Line. Inn F'ields (St. Giles in the Fields) Midx. ; mat. at Oxford (Ch. Ch.) 10 Uct, 1794 ; B.A. 1797 ; M.A., 1801 ; a: D.C.L. 16 June 1814; Custos Brevium of the Court of King's Bench; Barrister (Middle Temple) 1793 ; Bencher, 1811 ; Reader, 1S15 ; Treasurer, 1823, FS.A., &c. ; sue. tn the peerage 4 April, and took his seat. 5 May 1802. He m, 1 Feb. 1803, at Hanmer, co. Flint, Margaret Emma, da. of Sir Thomas Hanmer, 2d Bart., of Hanmer, by Margaret, da. and coheir of George KBKtOS, only s. and h. ap. of (his maternal grandfather) George Kenton (aboveuamed) of Peel Hall, co. Lancaster. She who was b. 7 July 1785, aud bap. at Manmer ; d. 24 Feb. 1S15, and was bur. at Haumer. Ho d. at Gredington Hall, 25 Feb. 1S55, aged 78, and was bur. at Hanmer. Will pr- June 1855. III. 1855. J. Lloyd (Kenton) Lord Kenton, Baron of Gred- ington, s. and h., b. 1 April 1S05 at Gredington Hall and bap. at Haumer ; mat. nt Oxford (Ch. Ch.) IS April lS-'3 ; B.A. 1826; M.A., 1829 ; was M.P. for St. Michael's, 1830-32 ; sue. to the peerage 25 Feb. , and took his seat 1 4 May 1S55. He m. 29 June 1S33, at Trinity Church, Alarylebone, Georgiua, 4th da. of Thomas (Pe Grey), 4th Baiion Walsinguam, by Elizabeth, da, of the Hon. Brownlow North, Bishop ok Winchester. He (/. 14 July 1S69, aged 64 at East- bourne, Sussex. His widow, who was 4. 7 July 1813, d. 22 April 1874, at 15, Cavendish Square. (■ " He attracted the attention of Lord Thm-low, whose idle habits required the aid of a laborious helper — this assistance was well rewarded, for not long after Thurlow became Lord Chancellor lie gratefully conferred ou his devil, iu 17S0, the Chief Justiceship of Chester," and "advanced him per saltum to the Attorney- Generalship iu March 1782 " [Fcss's "Judges."] He never received knighthood. It would appear indeed from a passage iu the " Memoirs oj Sir Samuel Jiomitly " (sub. 1 2 Feb. 1816, the date of Romilly's knighthood) that tho' "for the last 20 years of his reign " the King Knighted " all Attorneys and Solicitors Generals, and Judges on their appointment, he, 'for the first 25 years of his reign had never seen the necessity or propriety of it.' " ( c ) This form of creation is, it is presumed, equivalent to " Baron Keuyou of Gred- ington." Similar forms (inter alia) exist as under, viz., in 1720 "Lord Ducie, Baron of Moreton " ; in 1751, Lord llchester, co. Somerset, Baron of Woodford Strangways, co. Dorset " ; and again, in 1747, "Lord llchester and Stavordale, Baton of Redlyuch " ; tdso in 1747 " Lord Feversham, Baron of Downtou, co. "Wilts " ; in 1762 "Lord Vernon, Baron of Kiudertou, co. Chester," 4c, while in the Peerage of Ireland we have in 1797 "Lord Headley, Baron Allanson aud Winn of Aghadoe, co. Kerry, &c." The peers thus created stand iu the list of the House of Lords as "Lord Kenyon," " Lord Vernon," &c, under the first name designated in their creations, just (for instance) as " Uaron Coleridge of Ottery St. Mary, Devon (so cr. 1874), stands as "Lord Coleridge, &c." (<•) "Notwithstanding all his minor failings, the decisions aud rulings of no Judge Btand in higher estimation than those of Loid Kenyon." [Foss's " Judges."] (•) The death of his elder br., the Hon. Lloyd Kenyon, Filazer of the Court of King s Bench [1793—1801], who d. unm. v.p. 15 Sep. 1801, aged 26, is said to have battened that of the Chief Justice, their father.