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28 BATH Peerages became extinct. Will pr. Aug. i8o8.(') Her husband enjoyed for life the vast Pulteney estates (about ^^50,000 a year), and d. from an accident, 26 Apr. 181 1, at Buckenham, Norfolk. Will pr. 181 1. BATHURST OF BATTLESDEN, AND BATHURST OF BATHURST BARONY. I. Allen Bathurst, s. and h. of Sir Benjamin B., of T Paulerspury, Northants, sometime Governor of the East ' ' India Company, and Cofferer to the Princess Anne of FART DOM Denmark, by Frances, da. of Sir Allen Apsley, and Frances, da. and h. of John Petre, of Bowhay, Devon, I. 1772. was b. in St. James's Sq., Westm., 16 Nov. 1684; matric. at Oxford (Trin. Coll.) 13 May 1700, sue. his father 27 Apr. 1704, was M.P. (Tory) for Cirencester, 1705 to 171 1/2, when, with eleven others, he was raised to the Peerage, being cr., i Jan. 171 1/2,() BARON BATHURST OF BATTLESDEN, Beds. He was (^) After her husband's death " her personal property, near ^^600, 000, is be- queathed to her cousin, wife of the Rev. Mr. Markham, da. of Sir Richard Sutton, divorced some years ago from her husband, and who has lived during several years principally under Lady Bath's protection. Sir John Johnston, the Earl of Darlington, and Sir Richard Sutton, all inherit very considerable estates." See Annual Register, 1808, p. 158. It may be observed that the Johnstone family were relatives through her father, and the Suttons through her maternal grandmother, Margaret Dering (da. and coh. of Benjamin Tichborne), whose sister Judith, Dowager Countess of Sunder- land, m. Sir Robert Sutton, K.B., and was mother of Richard Sutton, cr. a Baronet in 1773. The only relative benefited, who was related to the great statesman (from whom testatrix had derived the estates), was the Earl of Darlington (afterwards Duke of Cleveland), whose grandmother, Grace, was da. of Charles (Fitzroy), Duke of Cleveland, by Anne, da. of Sir William Pulteney, aunt to William, Earl of Bath, and to (his cousin) Daniel Pulteney, maternal grandfather of the testatrix. () '■'■Hora quartd post meridiem." Of the twelve Peers cr. in five days (to secure a majority in the House of Lords for the Tory administration) the writs to Lord Compton (s. and h. ap. of the Earl of Northampton), and to Lord Bruce (s. and h. ap. of the Earl of Ailesbury), bore date respectively 28 and 29 Dec. 171 1; the patent by which George Hay, styled Lord Dupplin (s. and h. ap. of the Earl of Kinnoul in Scotland), was cr. Baron Hay, bore date 31 Dec. 171 1 (the 30th being Sunday); while the patents to the remaining nine all bore the date of I Jan. I 71 1/2, the addition of the exact hour (7 a.m. to 4 p.m. — no Peer having been cr. at 12 o'clock noon) being added (in a smaller hand and apparently subsequently) to the date of their creation, notwithstanding that there is a warrant of Precedency ranking them accordingly. These nine, in their order of ranking, were Thomas (Windsor), Viscount Windsor [L], cr. Baron Mountjoy; Henry Paget (s. and h. ap. of Lord Paget), cr. Baron Burton; Sir Thomas Mansell, Bart., cr. Baron Mansell; Sir Thomas Willoughby, Bart., cr. Baron Middleton; Sir Thomas Trevor, cr. Baron Trevor; George Granville, cr. Baron Lansdown; Samuel Masham, cr. Baron Masham; Thomas Foley, cr. Baron Foley, and (lastly) Allen Bathurst, cr. Baron