CHANDOS 131 which in 1715 he had rebuilt. Will dat. 14 Apr. 1742 to 13 July 1743, pr. 4 Sep. 1744.0 His widow, by whom he had no issuejC") '^^ '^ Nov. 1750, at Shaw Hall, Berks, in her 58th year. Will pr. 1750. [John Brydges, styled Marquess of Carnarvon, 4th but ist surv. s. and h. ap., b. 1703; matric. at Oxford (Balliol Coll.) 14 Nov. 17 19, then aged 16. D.C.L. Oxford 8 Apr. 1721. M.P. (Whig) for Steyning^ Jan. 1725/6 to 1727. He w., i Sep. 1724, at Ham, Catherine,(<=) 2nd da. of Lionel (Tollemache), Earl of Dysart [S.], by Grace, 2nd da. and coh. of Sir Thomas Wilbraham, 3rd Bart. He d. of the smallpox, v.p. and s.p.m., in Arlington Str., 8, and was bur. 19 Apr. 1727, at Whitchurch, aged 24. His widow d. in Grosvenor Str., 17, and was bur. 31 Jan. 1754, at Whitchurch. Admon. 4 Feb. 1754, to her two daughters.] DUKEDOM II. BARONY X. 2 and 10. Henry (Brydges), Duke of Chandos, £5fc., 6th and yst. but only surv. s. and h. male, bap. at Kensington, Midx., i Feb. i^'^^'^- 1708. M.P.C') (as Marquess of Carnarvon) for Hereford, 1727-34; for Steyning, 1734-41; and for Bishop's Castle, 1741-44. To Frederick, Prince of Wales, he was first Lord of the Bed- chamber, 1728-35; nom. K.B. 12 Jan. 1731/2, inst. 30 June 1732; Master of the Horse to the Prince of Wales, 1735; Grand Master of Freemasons, 1738-39; Groom of the Stole, 1742-51. Clerk of the Hanaper office in Chancery, Ranger of Enfield Chase, and, 1754, High Steward of Winchester. He W7., istly, 21 Dec. 1728, by spec. lie. (Vic. Gen. Off.) at St. Martin's-in- the- Fields, Mary (then aged about 28), ist da. (whose issue, in 1796, became sole h.) of Charles (Bruce), 3rd Earl of Ailesbury, by his ist wife, Anne, da. and coh. of William (Savile), Marquess of Halifax. She d. at Twickenham, Midx., 14, and was bttr. (as Marchioness of Car- narvon) 22 Aug. 1738, at Whitchurch. C) He m., 2ndly, at Mr. Keith's chapel, Mayfair, Midx., 25 Dec. 1744 (4 months after his father's death), Anne Jefferies,(^ of St. Marylebone, Midx., and Newbury, Berks, da. (^) See for his character, ante, page 129, note "c." V.G. (^) On the death, in i 7 1 8, of her only son Thomas Davall, there was a prolonged Chancery suit (1719-22) for the Davall estates, ended by a compromise which left her with much of her first husband's wealth, {ex inform. J. H. Round). V.G. (<^) She must have been at least 40, and he 21 at the time of their marriage, but her paternity is given as in the text by all authorities. In the Orrery Papers, vol. ii, pp. 72-74, is a long account of her swearing, drunkenness, and brutality to her daughter Jane. V.G. {^)lie. was one of the Whigs who, under the leadership of Pulteney, opposed Walpole. V.G. (^) Mrs. Delaney writes of her and her husband as "The ugliest couple this day in England." V.G. See the story of her being sold "with a halter round her neck" by her husband (Jefferies), an ostler at the Pelican Inn, Newbury, and purchased by the Duke of
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