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374 M OH LEY. EAML OP MQM»EV,M '" <*>• Devon. He m. firstly, 20 Juno 1804, at her father' 8 house in Berkeley square, St. Geo. Han. M}., Augusta, 2d da. of John (Fank), lOtli Faiii. of WksTMORLaNO, hy his first wife, Sarah Anne, da. and h. of Hubert Klin n, of Oaterley Park, Slid*- She, wlin was h. 17 March 17si>, vins divorced 1 I Feb, ISO!' ( b ) lie Bl. secondly, ••!•'{ Aug. 1806, Francos, da. of Thomas Taliiot, of Gonville, COi Norfolk. He (/. It". March IS 10, ill his 68th year, at Saltram, near riymouth. Will |>r. April I s 10. His widow cf. at Saltram, 7 Dee. 1857, aged 70. [Henry Yilueus Fakkhu, sfyled (since 1815), Viscount Borixgdon, 1st s, and h. ftp., being unlv child by first wife; b. 28 May ISOti ; d. v.p., near mm*, i Nov. it;i7,;-) aged ii.j II. IS 10. -'. Edmund (Paukeii), Haul of MOBUB¥,(*) &<"-, 2.1 but oftly surv. s. and It, being 1st s. by the second wife ; b. 10 June 1<10, in r.nndun ; sh/hd Viscount lloitlNODoN, 1817-10 ; mat. at Oxford (Ch. Ch.j, 21 Jan. 1828; B.A., 18:10 ; Lord of the Bedchamber to H.U.I I. Prince Albert, 1840; sue. to the peerage, H March IS 10; Col. South Devon Militia, 1845; a Lord in Waiting, 1810-52; Spe.-. Dep. Warden of the Stannaries, !S52*o4. He ;«.. 1 March 1842, his cousin, Harriet Sophia, widow ot William Corvtos, da. of Montagu Kdinund I'arkkr, of Wliitcway, Devon, by Harriet, da. and coheir of John KkWCOMBK, of Starcross, Djvoii. He if. 'JS Aug. 1804, aged 54, at Wliitcway ofsd. Will pr. at Exeter, Peb. 1865, under foO.OuO. His widow living 1803. Iir. 1SG1. J. Ai.iiEitT Edmund (P.vitKKii), Eaui. or Moiu.icv [181.")], Viscount Borinodon of North Molton [1815], and Baron Borinb- DOB (17S4J, only s. and h. : b. 11 June 1843, at Kent House; styhd VlSCOtlST ISoHINODON till 1804 ; ed. at Kton and at llalliol Coll., Oxford ; matric. 10 Oct. 1801 ; 1st Class (Clonic*}, 1865; H.A., I860, having nte. to the peerage, 28 Aug, 1864; n Lord in waiting, 1808-74 : See. to the Local Goverument Hoard, 1870-71 ; Under See. of State for War, 1880-85 ; First Coinmr. of Works, Feb. to April ISSti ; Chairman of Committees and Dep. Speaker of the House of Lords, 1S89. He M., 17 June 187u', at St. Geo. Han. sq., Margaret, 1st da. of Robert Stanyer HoUOHD, of ("} The c.-tate at Moreleigh, or Morley, a small village, near Totnes, co. Devon, was sold ill 1778 to the family of Scale, from whom it was purchased by Lord lioringdoii, just in time to enable its possessor to make use of its name as the title of his Earldom. It is impossible to speak too stiongly ol the contemptible and vulgar vanity and want of all right feeling which induced the grantee of 1815 to select his title from this newly acquired and unimportant property, such selection being doubtless (as was, in all probability the purchase itself) in the hope of [fraudulently], palming himself oil' as being of the ancient, stock of the family of Parker, who for many generations (in the 15th, Kith, and 17th centuries) were Lord* MoriciJ. There was not however the tliyhttut Connection between these families, wIiobo armorial healings grs totally distinct; the one family (of historic note) springing from a Standard bearer to one of the l'lantagcnet Kings, and having its chief possessions in East Anglia, while the other family (which has the very different origin of being first known as the tenants of a monastery at North Moltoii, Devon), acquired early ill the 17th century the position of Gentry in Devonshire, out of which county they have never (at any period) held any lands or petition. (I') She m. (two days subsequently), 10 Feb. ISOfl, at HeekGeld, Hants, Sir Arthur Paget, from whom damages of £10,000 had been awarded to Lord Loringdou, in au action (1808) of etl'tt. eon. (*j His recent death is thus recorded in the Scots Mag. Ixxix, ii, 502 (Dec. 1817). " At St. Maude near Paris, aged 11 years, Lord Boriugdon, eldest son of the Earl of .Morley. A stalk of rye which he had inadvertently swallowed the latter end of July, was the cause of his sufferings ; it was found, after his death, three inches in length, hi its original state, lodged in the intestines."