Page:The Complete Peerage Ed 2 Vol 2.djvu/351

BROOKE 335 matric. at Oxford (Wadham Coll.), 5 Jan. 1710/1, and was a: M.A. 4 Nov. 1712. Recorder of Warwick 17 19 till his death. In politics a Tory.(^) He »;., 8 Nov. 17 16, at Leweston chapel, Dorset, (reg. at Long Burton) Mary, 2nd and yst. da. and coh. of the Hon. Henry Thynne,() by Grace, da. and h. of Sir George Strode, of Leweston afsd. She d. iq Mar. 1720, in her 19th year. Admon. 4 June 1720, and again 10 July i728.('^) He d. 28 July 1727, in his 33rd year, at his house in Poland Str., London. Will pr. 1728. Both bur. at St. Mary's, Warwick. VIIL 1727. I and 8. Francis (Greville), Baron Brooke of Beauchamps Court, 3rd() and yst., but only surv. s. EARLDOM. and h.,/?'. 10 Oct. 17 1 9. Ed. at Winchester. Recorder of L 1746. Warwick 1 74 1 till his death. On 7 July 1746, he was cr. EARL BROOKE C) OF WARWICK CASTLE.Q Lord Lieut, of CO. Warwick 1749-57. K.T. 29 Mar. 1753. (^) On 13 Nov. 1759 O he was cr. EARL OF WARWICK,(') and on 2 Apr. 1760 had a grant of "the crest anciently used by the Earls of Warwick,"(') for him- (^) Hearne calls him, in IJII, "A young, debauched, rakish man." His politics had not then developed, or Hearne would not have abused him. That writer, though from an opposite standpoint, has the same sense of historical fairness as Macaulay, and with him the Tories are gods and the Whigs devils. V.G. C") He was only s. and h. ap. of Thomas, 1st Viscount Weymouth, and d.v.p. and s.p.m., 20 Dec. 1708, aged 33. His father had obtained that peerage with a spec. rem., failing his issue male, to his (the grantee's) brothers. ('^) " A lady of sweet temper, strict virtue, exemplary piety, goodness and conde- scension." (Hearne's Collections, vol. viii, p. III). V.G. () An elder br., William, b. 7 Nov. 17 1 7, and hap. 2 Apr. 17 18, d. aged 4 months; and another, Fulke, h. 23 Oct. 17 18, and bap. i Apr. 1 7 19, d. aged 22 weeks and 6 days. V.G. (') See note mb Charles, Earl Cadogan [1800]. (') In the writ of summons he is styled "Earl Brooke" [only], and on 11 July 1746 he took his seat accordingly. (8) In the reign of George III, he acted with the Tories in the House of Lords. V.G. C') It is not clear how the House of Lords had cognizance of this creation. (') On 7 Sep. 1759 the Earldom of Warwick, which had been conferred, 2 Aug. 161 8, on the family of Rich, became extinct, so that little more than two months elapsed before it was regranted. It was natural enough that the owner of Warwick Castle (whose ancestors had possessed that Castle above 100 years) should desire to be made Earl of that county, but, though he was, as stated in Nicolas and Courthope, unquestionably '■'■descended from Walter Beauchamp, Baron of Alcester and Powyck, brother of William, Earl of Warwick," he was neither h. nor coh. of this cadet line of Beauchamp {i.e. that of Powick), still less so of the heads of that house, the Earls (Beauchamp) of Warwick, of whom indeed (though the issue of that long and illus- trious line of Earls was "legion") he was, apparently, not even a descendant. (') riz. A bear erect Argent, muzzled Gules, supporting a ragged staff of the first. His motto (not unappropriate for one who by Royal grant and not by descent from the old Earls of Warwick enjoyed not only their lands but their cognizance) was " Vix ea