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20 BATH VII. 1661. I. John Granville, 2nd, but ist surv. s. and h. of the celebrated Sir Bevil G., of Stow, Cornwall, (among the bravest of the many brave cavaliers who fought for the King), by- Grace, da. of Sir George Smyth e, of Madford, in Heavitree, Devon, was b. 29 Aug. and bap. 16 Sep. 1628, at Kilkhampton, Cornwall, C*) sue. his father (who was slain in the victory at Lansdown) 5 July 1643, was knighted 3 Aug. 1643, and having fought, when a youth, for Charles I in his father's Reg., was made Gent, of the Bedchamber to the Prince of Wales in 1645. He accompanied Charles II in his exile, and was chosen by that King to mediate between him and the Pari, as to the Restoration, and accordingly, soon after the King's accession, was made Warden of the Stannaries 1660-1701 ; Keeper of St. James's Palace 1660; Groom of the Stole, 1660-85. On 20 Apr. 1661, he was cr. BARON GRAN- VILLE OF KILKHAMPTON AND BIDEFORD, VISCOUNT GRANVILLE OF LANSDOWN, AND EARL OF BATH. (") By royal lie. of the 26th of the same month, he was permitted to use the titles of Count of Corbeil, Lord of Thorigny and Granville^ and given a conditional promise of the Earldom of Glamorgan. (^) The same year he had a royal promise of a contingent reversion to the Dukedom of Albemarle() (being, through his mother, i st cousin of George Monk, cr. Duke by that title in Library of Trin. Coll. Dublin " as a Signall Memorial] of the kindness her Lord had for this College, haveing beene formerly a Fellow of itt." V.G. (^) He is sometimes said to have been ed. at Glouc. Hall, Oxford, but no such matriculation appears in the registers of that Univ., though on 13 Apr. 1638 there is that of his elder br., Richard, at Glouc. Hall, then aged 16. (^) For an account of the ceremonies attending this creation see note sub Edward Earl of Clarendon [1661]. He supported the Court and voted with the Tories in later years. V.G. {f) In the preamble of this document were these words, " Whereas it appears to us that our right trusty, is'c. John, Earl of Bath, Wc. is derived in a direct line as heir male, to Robert Fitz Hamon, Lord of Gloucester and Glamorgan, fi^c., who was the s. and h. of Hamon Dentatus, Earl of Corboil and Lord of Thorigny and Granville in Normandy, which titles they held before Normandy was lost to the Crown of England; whereby he justly claims his descent from the yst. s. of the Duke of Normandy as we ourselves do from the eldest, ^c." Collectanea Topographica et Genealogka, vol. vii, p. 193. As to the above, J. H. Round writes: "In the Roman de Rou (ed. Andresen) Hamon is thus described: — Haim as Denz esteit un Normanz De feus e d'omes bien poissanz, Sire esteit cil de Torigny E d'Evrecie e de Croillie. He is not styled Earl of Corbeil, nor is Granville named here among his fiefs; and there appears to be no proof that the Granvilles are descended from him." V.G. if) Biographia Britannica, vol. iv, p. 2335. Neither of the promises took effect, the contingency {i.e. the failure of issue male of the then Marquess of Worcester) as to the Earldom of Glamorgan (see that title) never arising: as to the Dukedom of Albemarle, see vol. i, p. 90.