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4o8 BUCKINGHAM 1800 she was cr. Baroness Nugent of Carlanstown, co. Westmeath [I.], with a spec. rem. to Lord George Nugent-Grenville, her 2nd s.() She d. id Mar. 18 12, at Buckingham House, Pall Mall, Westm., and was bur. at Wotton Underwood, Bucks. He d. 11 Feb. 18 13, and was bur. at Wotton afsd., aged 59.() Will pr. 18 13. 11. 1 8 13. 2 and i. Richard (Temple-Nugent-Brydges- Chandos-Grenville), Marquess of Buckingham, {t'c, DUKEDOM, also Earl Nugent [I.], i st s. and h., b. 20 Mar. 1 776, in London; matric. at Oxford (Brasenose Coll.) 7 Dec. 1791 ■*• 1822. (then styled Earl Temple), and afterwards at Cambridge (Magd. Coll.); M.P.('^) for Bucks 1797-1813; took by royal lie, 1 5 Nov. 1799, the additional surnames of Brydges-Chandos, having m. the heiress of those families; was a Commissioner of the India Board, 1800-01; P.C. 5 Feb. 1806; Vice-President of the Board of Trade and Joint Paymaster-Gen., 1806-07; D.C.L. Oxford (together with his father) 3 July 18 10; Lord Lieut, of Bucks, 18 13 till his death; LL.D. Cambridge 5 July 1819; nom. K.G. 7, and inst. 12 June 1820; F.S.A. 20 Dec. 1 821. On 4 Feb. 1822 he was cr. EARL TEMPLE OF STOWE, CO. Buckingham (with a spec. rem. thereof failing heirs male of his body), MARQUESS OF CHANDOS and DUKE OF BUCKING- HAM AND CHANDOS.('i) From July to Nov. 1830, he was Lord (^) This latter dignity became extinct on his death, s.p., 27 Nov. 1850. C') Robert Hobart writes of him to the Duke of Rutland, 28 Dec. 1785, "If pride, arrogance, and self sufficiency be qualities for a Popish minister, the noble Marquis himself, by embracing that religion which he appeared to encourage in his wife, may be at the head of the Papistical Court." " An undoubtedly able man, but only as possessing very ordinary qualities to an extraordinary degree ... he brought to the Government an untiring industry, a rare business faculty, a courage that flinched from no opponent, and an obstinacy that was only strengthened by disaster. . . . He was free from all suspicion of personal corrup- tion. . . . He was hard, narrow, formal, and self sufficient without extended views or generous sympathies, and signally destitute of the tact of statesmanship. . . . Minute, accurate, methodical, parsimonious, and pacific . . . desponding to a fault in his judg- ment of events, clear and powerful indeed, but very tedious in debate." (Lecky). See iuh Grenville for a tabular pedigree showing the various peerages conferred on the Grenvilles, and their devolution. V.G. ('=) He entered Pari, as a supporter of Pitt and the Tories, but acted with the Whigs from 1802, and in 1805 was one of the 24 Managers of the impeachment of Lord Melville. In 1822 he was bought off; see note next below. V.G. (^) He was the only Duke created by George IV, who is said to have conferred that dignity on him as a mark of his personal friendship. As a matter of fact it was part of a bargain by which Lord Liverpool secured the support of the Grenville band for the Tory party, on which occasion Lord Holland remarked that "all articles were now to be had at low prices except Grenvilles." The Duke was a greedy politician, " never satis- fied but always asking for more." Sir Charles Bagot writes at this time: " I am glad that the Grenvilles are taken into the Governmentj and (for Grenvilles) they come