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296 MENDIP — MENTEITH. age of 80). a: 13 Aug. 1794, BARON MENDIP of Hendip, co. Somerset with vpcc rem. (failing heirs male of his body) in favour of the three elder sons)") (or their issue male) of his sister, Anne, by her husband Henry Agar, of Qowran. He was P.R.S., &c. lie m. firstly IS Nov. 1717, Elizabeth, only da ami h. of the Hon. Sir William STANHOPE, KB by his first wife, Margaret, da. of John RUDOK, of Wheatlield, Oxon. She d. Tylney hall, Hants, 1 Aug. 17til,( b ) and was bur. at Shelford, Notts. He m. secondly, 20 July 1765, at St. Geo. Han. so. (Lie. Fac.) Anne, sister and h. of the Rt. Hon. Hans. Stanley, 1st da. of Hans Stanley, of Pbitlton'e park in the New Forest, Hants. He d. s.p. in Brook street, 2 anil was bur. 7 Feb. 1808, at W'e.-tm. Abbey, aged SS. Will pr. 1802. His widow d. at Twickenham, Mid.v, 7 and was bur. 12 Dec. 1S0:J. at Westti). Abbey, aged 88. Will dat. ;'. March 1799, pr. Jan. 1804. II. 1802. 2. I Iicsitv Welhouu (Ellis formerly Agar), Viscount ClikDkn, fep. [I.], also Bahon Mendip, gn at nephew ami It., being s. and h. of James. 1st Viscount I'UKDKN of (Jowhan [1.], who was s. and h. of Henry Ac;ah. of (iowran, CO. Kilkenny, by Anne, sister of Welfare (Kms)j 1st Bahon Mendip abovenamed. He was b. 22 Jan. 1761 ; sue. hit Father in the peerage [I.], 1 Jan. 1789, and sue. his Great I'nc/ein the peerage [G.B.1, 7 Feb. 1802. See "CUFDEN OK Gowhas," Viscouutcy [1.], cr. 1781, sub the second Viscount. MENTEITH, ( c ) or MONTE1TI [.(..) [Stra^herse, with Menteith^) (now, together, forming lite southern part of Perthshire, was one of the sercn original Earldoms [Moruiaerehips] of Scotland,! 1 ') the holders of which, who in the 10th century were styled " Moiimaeks," were in the 12th century known as "Hauls. Before, however, the 12th century, " MENTEITH " had become separate from " SniATIIKHNE," tho' (unlike the ease of " Buchan," which, in a somewhat similar manner, had become separate from "-Map ") Menteith was not one of " the scren Earldoms " [S.] in 1115.] Earldom [S.] l. GiLCiiitisT, Karl of Menteith [S.], was apparently I 1 1 GO? one °^ " le ^arls <"• [1153 — 1166], by King Malcolm IV. [S.]. He was witness to a charier 1184, and was living 1175-1178 but d. between 1180 and 1199. II. 1100? 2. Murdoch, Earl of Menteith [S.], probably s. and h. ; living 1199 ; d. before 1213. ( ') The 4th and yst. sou was alone omitted. This was the Rev. Henry Agar, Rector of Inniscarra, co. Cork, who (/. 14 May 1798, leaving three sons. The eldest sou of Henry Agar (Me Father) by Anne (Kllis) was James, 1st Viscount Clifden [I.], who had (/. before the grantee) in 1798, leaving (also) three sons all mentioned, nominatUM, in that patent) of whom the eldest (the Id Viscount) sue. to the Mendip peerage. ( b ) Through her he inherited Pope's villa, at Twickenham, which had been bought in 1744, by her father. ( c ) Sir William Froser has dealt with this family in one of his sumptuous works, entitled " The Red Book of Menteith, 2 vols., 4to., 1880. ( d ) There are a few exceptional examples, in the seventeenth century, of the ortho- graphy of " Monteith," which is that adopted by Sir N. H. Nicolas in his " Earldoms of Strathern, Monteith, and Airth." They are, however, very few. In the charter of 1031, in the proceedings for cancelling the retour, in the Acts of Pari, passim, StO., the spelling is Menteith. ( e ) A considerable district, thro' which the river 7'ci(/i runs, is called the Stewartry of Menteith, Meneteth, Maneth, or Monteith. ( r ) See fuller account of these seven Earldoms in tho remarks under "Angus," vol. i, p. 88