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394 BUCKINGHAM pr. 3 Mar. 1634/5 and 14 Nov. 1663. His widow who, on the death of her father, 17 Dec. 1632, became suo jure Baroness Ros, w., as his ist wife, Apr. 1635, before the 12th, Randall (MacDonnell), Marquess of Antrim [I. 1645], ^^o d. s.p., 3 Feb. 1682. She d. late in Oct. 1649, at Waterford. Admon. as "late of the Kingdom of Ireland," 20 Nov. 1663 to her said husband. [Charles Villiers, stykd " Marquess of Buckingham and Earl of CovENTRY,"(*) 1st s. and h. ap., k 17 Nov. 1625, d. 16 Mar, 1626/7, and was ^«r. at Westm. Abbey the next day.] DUKEDOM V. MARQUESSATE II. EARLDOM. X. 1628 to 1687. 2. George (Villiers), Duke of Buck- ingham, &'c., 2nd{) but 1st surv. s. and h., i. 30 Jan., and i>ap, 14 Feb. 1627/8, at Wallingford House, Westm.; reg. at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields. M.A. Cambridge, (Trin. Coll.) 1642. On 7 July 1648 the House of Commons resolved that he, with several others, be proscribed and put to death. {'^) He was nom. K.G. 19 Sep. 1649, *t St. Germain-en-Laye, though not inst. till 15 Apr. 1 66 1. Gent, of the Bedchamber, 1650-57, 1661-67, and 1667-74; P.C. 6 Apr. 1650, resworn 28 Apr. 1662, removed Feb. 1666/7, re-admitted 13 Sep. 1667, removed 1673/4. Col. of a Reg. of Horse, with which he fought in the battle of Worcester, 3 Sep. 1651, whence he escaped with difficulty to Holland; Bearer of the Orb at the Coronation, 23 Apr. 1661. Lord Lieut, of the West Riding of CO. York, 1 661 to Feb. 1666/7, and Nov. 1667 to 1674. Original F.R.S. 20 May 1663. On 5 Feb. 1667 his right to the BARONY OF ROS, Jure matris, v/zs admitted. Master of the Horse, 1668-74; High Steward of the city of Oxford, 1669 ; Ambassador to Paris, 1670, 1671, and Joint Ambassador, 1672; Chancellor of the Univ. of Cambridge, 1671-74; Keeper of Enfield Chace, 1672-75; Lieut. Gen. of the Forces and Col. of a Reg. of Foot, 1672-73; one of the Lords of the Admiralty 1673 ^^^^ dismissed in 1674. Grand Master of Freemasons, Felton. His "noble nature and generous disposition" and "courage not to be daunted" are mentioned by Clarendon. G.E.C. His extreme beauty caused King James to give' him the pet name of "Steenie" — an allusion to St. Stephen, who had "the face of an angel" (Acts, vii, 15). V.G. (") So called in the entry of his burial. See Chester's Westm. Abbey Registers. ('■) The 3rd and posthumous s., the "beautiful Francis Villiers," bap. 21 Apr. 1629, at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, d. unm. 7 July 1648 (being slain in a skirmish near Kingston, Surrey), and was bur. in Westm. Abbey. See "The Loyalists' Bloody Roll," in which he is included, in Appendix A to this volume. (') See aHte,jp. 320, note " f."