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CADOGAN 461 with a spec. rem. of the Barony (only), failing the heirs male of his body, to his br. Charles Cadogan in like manner. In Feb. 1720 he assisted in arranging the terms on which Spain acceded to "the quadruple alliance." Col. of the 1st Reg. of Foot Guards 1722 till his death,(^) and was Master Gen. of the Ordnance 1722-25. One of the Lords Justices of the Realm during the King's absence from England, 23 June 1723. He m., early in life, at the Hague, Margaretta CeciHa, da. of John (or WilHam) Munter, Dr. of Laws (Utrecht), Councillor of the Court of Holland, by Margaret, da. of Hendrick Tripp, of Amsterdam, and Cecilia Godin his wife. He d. in his 57th year, at his house at Kensington Gravel pits, s.p.m., 17, and was bur. 21 July 1726, in Westm. Abbey, when the Barony of 1716 and the Earldom and Viscountcy of 1718 became extinct. Will dat. 27 June, pr. 7 Nov. 1726. His widow, who was i". 29 July 1675, d. 22 Oct. 1749, at the Hague, in her 75th year.C*) Willpr. 1750. BARONY. 2. Charles (Cadogan), Baron Cadogan of Oakley, br. and h. male, who sue. to the above peerage under the IL 1726. spec. rem. He was b. 1685, was M.P. (Whig) for Reading 1716-22, and for Newport (Isle of Wight) 1722-26. He served in the army in Flanders, being Lieut. Col. Cold- stream Foot Guards, 171 5; Col. 4th Foot, 1719-34; Col. 6th Dragoons, 1734-42; Brig. Gen. 1735; Major Gen. 1739; Col. 2nd troop of Horse Guards, 1742-76; Lieut. Gen. 1745; Gen. 1761; Gov. of Sheerness, 1749-52; Gov. of Gravesend and Tilbury Fort, 1752-76; F.R.S. 30 Nov. 1 71 8; Sloane Trustee of the Brit. Museum, 1753 till his death. He m., 25 July 1717, at St. Geo. the Martyr, Queen Sq., Midx., Elizabeth, 2nd('^) and yr. da. and coh. (whose issue became sole h.) of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart., President of the College of Physicians, and Lord of the Manor of Chelsea, Midx., by Elizabeth, da. and coh. of John Lanoley, Alderman of London. She, who was b. after 1695, d. 20 May 1768, and was bur. at Caversham, Oxon. Will pr. Sep. 1768. He d. 24, and was bur. 30 Sep. 1776, at Caversham, in his 92nd year. Will pr. Oct. ijjS.^^) (*) He is wrongly stated in Doyle to have sue. Marlborough, in 1722, as Com- mander in Chief, whereas the post was not filled up until the Duke of Cumberland was appointed in 1744/5. It may be mentioned here that notes of this kind, though not specially acknowledged, are almost always based on information furnished by that well-known and most accurate historian the Rev. A. B. Beaven. V.G. () According to Col/ins she was bur. next month with her husband in Westm. Abbey. No such entry, however, appears among the burials. They had two daughters and coheirs, viz. (i) Sarah, m. Charles (Lennox), Duke of Richmond, and (2) Margaret, m. Charles John Bentinck, Count Bentinck, who d. 1J'J<). (•=) "Sir Hans Sloane having 2 daughters, Mrs. Jenny which is one of them, and a vast fortune, is married to Colonel Cadogan, brother of General C, a loose person, and of no great income." (T. Hearne, 28 July 1717). V.G. {^) Pope quotes Atterbury's account of him as " a bold, bad, blundering, blustering, bloody booby." (V.G.)