Earldom [I.]II. 1788.2. George (Nugent-Temple-Grenville, formerly Grenville), Marquess of Buckingham (so cr. 1784), Earl Temple, &c., also Earl Nugent [I.], son in law of the above, having m. 16 April 1775, Mary Elizabeth his 1st da. (by the third wife) and coheir(a)[1]; suc. to the Irish peerage, 13 Oct. 1788, as Earl Nugent [I.]. on the death of the late Earl. The dignity, however, became extinct on the death s.p.m., 26 March 1889, of his great grandson the last heir male of his body. See "Buckingham" Marquessate, cr. 1784, ex. (with the Dukedom of Buckingham and Chandus) 1889.
Barony [I.]II. 1800.1. Mary Eelizabeth, Marchioness of Buckingham, wife of George, Marquess of Buckinham, &c., also Earl Nugent [1.], next abovenamed. 1st da. and coheir of Robert (Nugent), 1st Earl Nugent, &c. [I.], by Elizabeth, his third wife, all abovenamed, having m. her said husband, 16 April 1755 (who d. 11 Feb. 1813, aged 60), was cr. 26 Dec. 1800, (b)[2] BARONESS NUGENT OF CARLANSTOWN, co. Westmeath [I.], with a spec. rem. of that dignity to Lord George Nugent Grenville, her second son. She d. 16 March 1812, at Buckingham house, Pall Mall, and was bur. at Wotton, Underwood, Bucks.
III. 1812, to 1850. 2. George (Nugent-Grenville), Baron Nugent of Carlanstown [I.], second son, b. 31 Dec. 1789; matric. at Oxford (Brasenose Coll.), 25 April 1804, aged 15; D.C.L., 6 July 1810; suc. to the peerage [I.], on the death of his mother, 16 March under the spec. rem. in the creation of that dignity; M.P. for Buckingham, 1810-12; for Aylesbury, 1812-32, and 1847-50; one of the Lords of the Treasury, 1830-32; G.C.M.G., 12 Aug. 1832: Lord High Commissioner to the Ionian islands, 1832-35.(c)[3] He m. 6 Sep. 1813, Anne Lucy, 2d da. of Major Gen. the Hon. Vere l'OULETT, by (—) da of (—) Beecher. She, who was b. 1 Jan. 1790, d. 18 April 1848, aged 58. He d. ap. 26 Nov. 1850, aged 60, at Lillies, Bucks, when the peerage became extinct. Will pr. March 1851.
NUGENT OF RIVERSTON.
[The validity of this Peerage, cr. 3 April 1689, depends on the fact as to whether or no at that date, James II, was legally King of Ireland. By the English Parl, his throne was declared to have been vacated on 11 Dec. 1888, such declaration, however, was not made in Scotland till 4 April 1689, while in Ireland that King was in full possession of Royal authority, the Government being solely carried on in his name, until the landing of Gen. Schomberg in Ulster in Aug. 1689, some four months after this creation. Indeed James II. appears to have been the de facto King of Ireland even as late as the battle of Boyne in July 1690. It is to be noted that Charles II., on 2 July 1650, when he was King of Ireland alone (monarchy in England having been abolished on the deposition of Charles I.), cr. Thomas Preston, Viscount Tara [I.], a dignity which was always
fully recognised. Peerages made by a Sovereign in possession have always been recognised by his successor, as by Ed. IV. in the case of those made by Henry VI., &c. The peerage granted to Nugent was recognised not only by Jac. II. (who by patent 28 Junr 1689, styles the grantee, "Lord Baron Nugent of Riverston," and subsequently " Lord Baron of Riverston), but by Gen. de- ↑ (a) Louisa, the yr. da, and coheir m. in 1784, Admiral Sir Eliab Hervey, G.C.B., and had a numerous issue. Wraxall, however, states that her elder sister, the Marchioness of Buckingham was the only issue of this match, recognised by Lord Nugent."
- ↑ (b) See vol. i, p. 166, note "a" as to the Irish peerages conferred in Dec. 1800.
- ↑ (c) He was an extreme Whig or rather Whig Radical in politics; a zealous partisan of the Queen Consort Caroline against her husband, &c. In 1832, he published his sympathetic "Memorials of John Hampden."
