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34 LECHMERE — LEEDS. widow m. 25 Oct. 1723 (ur 3 Feb. 17S8/9), Sir Tlmmis I! >uinsd.v, IVirt. (30 cr 10 March 1730), ol liokeby Park, co. York (who £ a.p. 1777.*, ;ui d. at Bath 10 April 1739. Her udmon. S March 173!* to iter said husband. LECOX FIELD. Barony. |, ftEonGE VTyxdHAM, *>f PotwnvUi, 00. Sussex, elil^-st I 1859 " f th« 3 itjkgit, son*; 1 *) of Qeorge O'Brien , U'vsdii.sm:, 3d Eaui.uk EiiiiKMDNT^ 1 ) vvhi) </. until. 1 1 Nov. 1837, in his SStli ye ir! tiy ( — ) da. of the Itev. (— ) 1 1.1 kf (one c.f the Masters of Westm. School) was 6. 5 June 17S7 at Marylebono. Mi l.*. : entered the army (27lh foot}, becoming Ool»|i»J in 183'). and having, in 1*37. sec. to Petwurth, l.ecoutiel.l, and other of the c.-t lies of Wradham family. m» er. 1 1 April 1859, P.AKU.V I.IX'ON El ELD of Lei li.-l I in the east riding of CO. York- He M, 25 April ISI.%, Mary Kanny, da. of the Kev. William Blunt, of Orabbett. Sussex. She suddenly, 23 .l.iy 1883, at I Grosvenor place. He d. IS March i860, iu his 82.1 year at Petwurth. Will pr. IsOfl, under £250,000. IT. 18G9. 2. IIexry ( Wyxlham), Baros Lecpnpieuj, B. nml h., b. 31 July 1S10, at Brighton; ed. at Eton: m.-tric. at Oxford (<3h, C'h ), 15 June 1S48; sometime. 184!»-ti7, an officer in the 1st life Uuanla ; M.l'. for West Sussex, 1S54, till he UK. to the peeM'/c, IS March 1869. lie m. 15 July 1867, Constance Evelyn, sister of Arehibald l'hilip, 5th Eaiil OF UosKBEHY LS.], 2nd and yst. da. of Arch. bald PbIMHOSK, staled Long Dai.mkny, by Catherine Lucy Wilhelurina, da. of Philip Henry Sta.nuuI'i:), -Jtfi Eaul Stashukb. She was 6. 1 May 1846. Family Estates. These, in 1SS3. consisted of about 6(1,000 acres in England and about -H.Oi'O in Ireland, viz., 30,221 acies iu Sussex ; 21,733 ill Yorkshire and 11,117 in Cumberland, besides 37,292 in co. Clare ; 6,2611 iu co. Limerick and 273 in Co. Tippcr.uy. Total 100,1*35 acres, worth £88,1 12 a year. Prirttipttl Huidtact. Petwortli House, Sussex. Lord Leeotilicld is one of the 2S Noblemen, who, in 1S83, possessed above 100,000 acres in the United Kingdom and stands 21tb in order of acreage tbo' 10th iu order of income. See a list of these, vol. ii, p. 51, note •' a," sub " Buceleitch." LK DlvSPEXCEU, see Despexcer. LEE. i.e., " Uarixo of T.ee, co. Kent," Viscountcy [Baring), c> 1 S7G with the Eahldom (IF NOUTHBBOOK, which see. LEEDS. Dukedom. /, Sin Thomas OsboRSB, But., of Kivctan, co. York, L 1GU4. 2r "' ,Jllt lst *ttrv.(, 0 ) ». and b. of Sir Edward Osbounk, Bart. (so w. 13 July 1020), by his second wife, Ann, 2d da of Thomas WaLMKsI.KV, of Duukeuhalg co. Lanca ter. was 6. 1681 ; Ma, hit lather, as tttvnd Jl'imicl. 9 Sep. 1047 ; High bberill of Yorkshire, 1881) J.'int Coin, of Public Accounts, lo'o7 ; Joint Treasurer of the Navy, 1008 ; Tieasiirer of the Navy, 1671, for 1727), "of great parts and learning ami particularly consummate in the laws of England and parliamentary proceedings, a bold and strenuous stickler, in the worst of times, for the Protestant succession, but of a haughty and assoining temper, which made bim oppose any measures he did not like, ami which for some years past had rendered him obnoxious to those very ministers with (Thorn be agreed in principle." See vol. iii, p, 248, note '■c," sub - Kgivmoiit ' for an ace mat of these children t») The Earldom became extinct on the death pi the Uh Karl in 1845. («) Edward Osborne, the 1st s. sad b, ap. (only s. of his mother) d. v. p. unm., being killed 31 Oct. 1038, by a fall of a chimney-stack at York manor bouse,