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58 BEAUFORT dences. — Badminton Park, co. Gloucester; Troy House, co. Monmouth, and Llangattock Park, co. Brecknock. BEAUFORT i.e. "Beaufort," Marquessate, see " Fraser," Dukedom, cr. 1740 by the titular James III; and vol. i, Appendix F. BEAULIEU i.e. " Lord Lovat of Beaulieu," see " Fraser," Dukedom, cr. 1740 by the titular James III; and vol. i. Appendix F. BARONY. I. Edward Hussey-Montagu, formerly Edward , ^ HussEY, s. and h. of James Hussey, of Westown, co. ' ■ Dublin, and of Courtown, co. Kildare, by Catherine, da. of FART nOM Richard (Parsons), ist Viscount Rosse [I.], j«c. his father in 1759; and having w., 1743, Isabella, Dowager Duchess I. 1784 OF Manchester, ist of the two surv. daughters and to coheirs of John (Montagu), 2nd Duke of Montagu, by 1802. Mary, da. and coh. of John (Churchill), the celebrated Duke of Marlborough, assumed the name of Montagu in addition to that of Hussey, in 1749, on the death of his father-in-law abovenamed. He was M.P. (Whig) (^) for Tiverton 1758-62; K.B. 27 Aug. 1753. On II May 1762, he was cr. BARON BEAULIEU of Beaulieu, co. Southampton, with rem. to the heirs male of his body by " Isabella, Duchess Dowager of Manchester,() ist da. of John, Duke of Montagu, deed." On 8 July 1784, he was cr. EARL OF BEAULIEU. High Steward of Windsor 1786. Her Grace (for she retained the style of her former husband) d. 20 Dec. 1786, in Dover Str., Midx. He d. s.p.s., in Dover Str. afsd., 25 Nov., and was l?ur. 2 Dec. 1802, at Beaulieu, aged 8 !,('=) when all his honours became extinct.(^) Admon. Feb. 1803. (^) In the Upper House he voted steadily with the Whigs during the North administration, but opposed the India Bill of the Coalition in 1783, and received his Earldom from Pitt in the following year. V.G. C") It is somewhat remarkable that, being the ivife of a commoner, her style as the relict of a Peer should thus be formally recognised. ("=) He appears in 1776, "Lord B u, and Signorina G." [i.e. Gabrielli] in the tete-a-tete portraits in the Town and Country Mag., vol. viii, p. 1 80. See Appendix B in the last vol. of this work. if') Ditton Park, in Stoke Pogis, Bucks (which had descended from Sir Ralph Win- wood, Sec. of State to James I, to the family of Montagu), passed at Lord Beaulieu's death to his wife's niece (the da. and sole h. of her only sister) Elizabeth, Duchess of Buccleuch [S.], by whom, having been destroyed by fire on 2 8 Apr. 1 8 1 2, it was rebuilt.