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BEAUFORT 55 Symes Berkeley, of Stoke GifFord, co. Gloucester, by Elizabeth, Dowager Viscountess Hereford, da. and coh. of Walter Norborne, of Calne, Wilts. He d. 28 Oct. 1756, In his 48th year, and was bur. at Badminton. (^) Will pr. Dec. 1756. His widow d. 8 Apr. 1799, in Hanover Sq., aged 80. Will pr. Apr. 1799. V. 1756. 5. Henry (Somerset), Duke of Beaufort, {tfc, s. and h., b. 16 Oct. 1744, in Brook Str., St. Geo., Han. Sq. Matric. at Oxford (Oriel Coll.) 18 Oct. 1760; cr. D.C.L. 7 July 1763; Grand Master of Freemasons [E.] 1767-72; Master of the Horse to the Queen Consort, 1768-70; Lord Lieut, of co. Monmouth from 1771, and of CO. Brecknock from 1787, till his death; and of co. Leicester, 1787-99; nom. and inv. K.G. 2 June 1786, inst. by dispensation, 29 May 1801. On 4 June 1 803 he obtained, by patent, a declaration of the termination in his favour of the abeyance of the BARONY OF BOTETOURT, to which, jure matris, he was one of the co-heirs. C') In politics he was a Tory. He «/., 2 Apr. 1766, at St. Geo., Han. Sq., Elizabeth, sister of George Evelyn (Boscawen), 3rd Viscount Falmouth, 2nd and yst. da. of Admiral the Hon. Edward Boscawen, by Frances, da. and h. of William Evelyn Glanville, of St. Clair, Kent. He d., of gout In the stomach, 1 1, and was bur. 20 Oct. 1803, at Badminton, aged 59. Will pr. Dec. 1803. His widow, who was 1^. 28 May 1747, d. 15 June 1828, at Stoke, near Bristol, having lived to see nearly 80 of her descendants of the name of Somerset. Will pr. Mar. 1829. VI. 1803. 6. Henry Charles (Somerset), Duke of Beaufort, fsfc, s. and h., b. 22 Dec. 1766; ed. at Westm. school; matric. at Oxford (Trin. Coll.) 4 Feb. 1784; cr. M.A. 28 June 1786; M.P. (Tory) for Monmouth, 1788-90; for Bristol, 1790-96; and for co. Gloucester, 1 796-1 803; Lord Lieut, of cos. Monmouth and Brecknock from 1803, and of co. Gloucester from 18 10, till his death; Vice Admiral of Gloucester; Constable of St. Briavel's Castle and Warden of the Forest of Dean, 18 12 till his death; nom. and Inv. K.G. 17 Jan., inst. 23 Apr. 1805. At the coronation of William IV, 8 Sep. 1831, he bore the crown of the Queen Consort. High Steward of Bristol 1834 till his death. He w., 16 May 1 79 1, at Lambeth Church, Charlotte Sophia, da. of Granville (Leveson-Gower), 1st Marquess of Stafford, by his 3rd wife, Susanna, (*) Tindal says of him, " A man of sense, spirit and activity, unblameable in his morals, but questionable in his political capacity." An account of his widow is given in very stilted style in the form of an epitaph. — "She had in her veins the blood of Berkeley and of Botetourt, in her demarche the greatness of the Queen of Sheba" and so on for several lines, Cleopatra, Margaret of Anjou, and Joan of Arc, being dragged in. [The Abbey of Kilkhampton, by Sir Herbert Croft, p. 109, edn. I 788). This book, judging from the number of its editions, had many admirers at the end of the l8th century; it would have but few at the beginning of the 20th. V.G. C") See Botetourt, Barony, cr. 1305; and vol. vi, Appendix G, where is given a list of the only recognised Parliaments (down to 1500) which furnish a date of origin for Baronies by writ now (1910) existing. V.G.