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38 BAYNING State to James I, by Penelope, da. of Sir Thomas Perrot, and grand- daughter of Walter (Devereux), Earl of Essex. He d. s.p.m.^ 1 1 June 1638, at Little Bentley Hall, Essex, and was bur. at Little Bentley,(°) aged 22, when all his honours became extinct. Will dat. 6 Dec. 1634, pr. 9 Oct. 1638. Fun. certif. in P.R.O. His widow, who was b. at Charing Cross, and bap. 1 Oct. 1620 at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, w., as his ist wife, 28 Mar. 1639, Philip Herbert, styled Lord Herbert, afterwards 5th Earl of Pembroke (who d. 1 1 Dec. 1669). She d. in or before 1647, at Westm. Admon. 25 Jan. 1647/8. BEACONSFIELD VISCOUNTCY. I. Mary Anne Disraeli, wife of the Rt. Hon. Ben- I 1 8^8 jamin Disraeli, First Lord of the Treasury, afterwards J. (1876), cr. Earl of Beaconsfield (see below), was, on the o retirement of her husband from office, cr., 30 Nov. 1868, i»72. VISCOUNTESS BEACONSFIELD, Bucks, with rem. of the said Peerage to the heirs male of her body. She was da. of John Evans, Commander R.N., sometime of Exeter, by his cousin, Eleanor Scrope, da. of the Rev. James Viney,() B.C.L., sometime of Gloucester. She is said to have been b. in 1789. By the death, 2 July 1834, of her only surv. br., John Viney-Evans {b. posthumous 1794), she became h. to her uncle. Gen. Sir James Viney, of Taunton Manor, co. Gloucester, K.C.H. and C.B. She ;«., istly, in 18 16, Wyndham Lewis, of Pantwynglass Castle, CO. Glamorgan, who (being then M.P. for Maidstone) d. s.p. 14 Mar. 1838. She m., 2ndly, 28 Aug. 1839, at St. Geo., Han. Sq., Ben- jamin Disraeli (abovenamed), whose political success she made her prime study. She d. s.p., 18 Dec. 1872, aged 76 ('^) at Hughenden, Bucks, and was bur. there, when the Peerage became extinct.(^) Admon. 8 May 1874. (f) Of his two daughters and coheirs (who both d. s.p.), Penelope, the yr. (post- humous), wife of the Hon. John Herbert, was b. 3 Nov. 1638, and was bur. I May 1657, at Westm. Abbey; and Anne, the elder, b. 1 May 1637, ist wife of Aubrey (de Vere) 20th Earl of Oxford, was bur. there 27 Sep. 1659. Both these daughters d. s.p., and their father's great estates were divided among his 4 sisters; (i) Cicely, who m. Viscount Newark; (2) Elizabeth, who m. Francis, Lord Dacre; (3) Mary, who m., istly, Viscount Grandison, and 2ndly, the Earl of Anglesey; and (4) Anne, cf. Viscountess Bayning. V.G. () James, s. of William Viney Esquire, of the city of Gloucester, matric. at Oxford (Oriel Coll.), 2 June 1747, being then aged 17; B.C.L. (St. Mary Hall), 22 Feb. 1754. (f) So in reg. of death. In the obituary to IVhltaker^s Aimanac it is 83, while {per contra) the date of 1 1 Nov. 1798, has been assigned to her birth, which would make her two years younger than her husband (in the said reg.) stated her to have been. if) Sir William Gregory, in his autobiography (1894), gives the following rather spiteful account of her. — "She was a most repulsive woman: flat, angular, under- bred, with a harsh, grating voice; and though by no means a fool, yet constantly