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MONKSWELL - MONMOITII. a Justice of the Common Plens nn the 7th, mid (two weeks later} made on (he 22d Nov. 1871 (the former appointment being necessary to qualify for the latter one) our of the Judges of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. ( :l ) He was (15 years later), er. 1 July 1 SS5,( b ) BARON MoNKSWHLL of Monkswell, co. Devon. He m. 1 1 April 1SI I, Isabella Rose, da. of William Rose Ruse, formerly Hdldkn. of Wolstou Heath, Co. Warwick, and of Daventry, co. Northampton, by Maria Isabella, da. and coheir of the Rev. tleorge Stuahan, D.D., Canon Res. of Rochester. She, who was 4. 8 March 1815, 11 April 1880, at 7 Chelsea Embankment, and was bur. in Brumpton cemetery. He d. six months later, 27 Oct. 1SS6, aged 09, at Grassc, near Cannes, in France, and was bur. with her. Will pr. 10 Dec. 1886 at above £82,000. II. 1SSG. 8. Rouert (Collier), Baron Monkswell, s. aud b,, b- 20 March 1815 ; ed. at Eton and at Triu. Coll., Cambridge ; B.A- (1st Class, Law), 180b"; Barrister (Inner Temple), 1S09 1 sometime Conveyancing Counsel to the Treasury and an Examiner of the High Court of Justice; sue. to the parage, 27 Oct. 18S0 a Lord-in- Waiting, 1S92. He m., 21 Aug. 1S73, Mary Josephine, da. of Joseph Alfred Haudcastle, of Holt, co. Norfolk. Family Estates — These, in 1883, were under 2,000 acres. MONMOUTH. Earldom. l. « Sir Robert Gary, Knt., Chamberlain of the I 1622 Household of Charles, Prince of Wales, "("J 9th and yst. s. of Henry (Cahey), 1st BaRON HunsDON, by Anne, da. of Sir Thomas Morgan, was b. 1500 ; M.P. for Morpeth, 1580-S9 ; for Callington, 1593 ; for Northumberland, 1597-9S, and 1001 ; and for Gramp-uiid, 1021-22 ; served as a volunteer against the Spanish Armada in 158S, and was in command in Normandy in 1591, being knhjhted (by the Earl of Essex) in Oct. 1591 ; sometime Deputy Warden of the West and East Marches, and afterwards Warden of the East and Middle Marches ; was the first to announce the death of Queen Elizabeth to King James in Scotland, with whom he had previously ingratiated himself, and to whom he was a Gent, of the Bedchamber, from March to May 1003, when he was made a Gent, of the Privy Chamber; was, in 1005, Master of the Household to Prince ( il ) This appointment which lasted but a few days (7 to 22 Nov. 1871), was practically an illusory one, and was in direct contravention of the act which, but a few months before, had established the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council as a body that should consist of none save those who had previously been Judges, either in India or in the superior courts at Westminster. " The Collier Jwjyle " (as it was generally called) created great scandal. It was marvellously well hit off by a cartoon in " Punch " of that date, representing Sir Robert (with his legal robes well held up), jumping from the back of a horse, as a performer in an equestrian circus, through a series of hoops at once, held up for him by Sir. Gladstone as "the clown." The manner in which the Prime Minister (Gladstone) tried to throw the blame on the (not-over- strong-minded) Chancellor, Lord Hatherley, is well depicted in the " Personal Remembrances of Sir Frederick Pollock " under an account of a dinner party, 1 Feb. 1S72, more than two mouths after this stroke of legerdemain, which was still, aparently, uppermost, in conversation. "The Lord Chancellor seemed very happy, notwithstanding the Collier affair, iii which the course taken by the Government is almost universally condemned. Frank Doyle, the other day, said that the division of responsibility between the Chancellor and Mr. Gladstone in the recent appointment of Collier to the Judgeship-iu-tke-Privy Council, so as to make each individually innocent, reminded him of Sterne's story of the Abbess of Andouillet and the Novice, when dividing between them the pronunciation of the naui/hty words used to make the obstinate mule go on." Both the Chief Justices (Cockburn and Bovill) protested against this fraud on an act so recently passed, and a vote of censure on the Ministry was moved in 1872, in both houses, being lost in the Commons by 268 to 241, aud in the Lords by only two votes, viz. S9 to 87. ( b ) See vol. iv, p. 235, note " a," sub " Hobhouse " for a batch of a dozen Baronies, of which this was one, eft in June and July 18S5. ( c ) So described when er. a Baron (1622) in the "Creations, HS3 — 1616," in ap. 47th Rep. D.K. Pub. Records.