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132 CHANDOS of John Wells. She a. s.p.m., at Keynsham Abbey, 12, and was bui. 30 Aug. 1759, at Whitchurch. He m., ydy, 28 July 1767, at West Ham, Essex, Elizabeth, 2nd da. and coh. of Sir John Major, Bart, (so cr. 1765), of Worlingworth Hall, Suffolk, by Elizabeth, da. of Daniel Dale, of Bridlington, co. York. He d. at Biddesden, Hants, 28 Nov., and was bur. 12 Dec. 1771, at Whitchurch, aged ();!).(^) Admon. 4 Feb. 1772. His widow d. s.p., 30 Mar. 1813, aged 82, at Major house, near Thwaite, Suffolk. DUKEDOM III. BARONY XI. 3 and II. James (Brydges), Duke of Chan- Dos and Marquess of Carnarvon [17 19], Earl ^' OF Carnarvon and Viscount Wilton [17 14], „ and Baron Chandos of Sudeley [1554], also ' "■ (from 1747) dejureQ) Lord Kinloss [S.], and a Baronet [1627], only s. and h. by ist wife, b. 16 Dec. 1 73 1, and bap. 11 Jan. 173 1/2, at St. James's, Westm. He was ed. at Cambridge. On 10 Feb. 1746/7, by the death of his maternal grandfather, the Earl of Ailesbury, he sue. as dejure(^) Lord Kinloss [S.], but was never so styled. He was (as Marquess of Carnarvon) Ranger of Enfield Chase, 1753; Grand Master of Freemasons 1754-57; M.P. (Whig) for Winchester, 1754-61 ;(*=) and for co. Radnor 1761-68; a Lord of the Bedchamber, 1760-64; Lord Lieut, of Hants, 1 763-64 and again 1771-80. HighStewardof Winchester; P. C. 12 May 1775; Lord Steward of the Household, 1783 till his death. He m., istly, 22 Mar. 1753, at St. Geo., Han. Sq., Margaret (a fortune of /^ 1 50,000), da. and h. of John NicoL, of Minchenden house, in Southgate, Midx., by Margaret (widow of John Keck), da. of Benjamin Poole, of London. She d. s.p., at Southgate, 14, and was bur. (as Marchioness of Carnarvon) 29 Aug. Chandos, in N. and Q., 4th Ser., vol. vi, p. 179. G.E.C. She had been his mistress for some years. Lord Orrery writes of her, 15 Jan. 1744/5, "of her person and character, people speak variously, but all agree that both are very bad." V.G. (^) George II remarked of him, "There is my Lord Carnarvon, a hot headed, passionate, half-witted coxcomb." (Hervey's Memoirs). V.G. () According to the decision of 21 July 1868 as to that dignity. ('^) From the accession of George III he attached himself to the Court. In 1778 he was one of the peers who protested against the payment of the Earl of Chatham's debts by the Nation (as to which see vol. ii, p. 30, note " d "), but in 1783 he took office under Pitt and supported his Govt, till his death. The Editor is indebted to J. H. Round for the following, from Leigh Hunt's Autobiography: "The Duke was Master of the Horse, and originated the famous epithet of 'heaven-born minister,' applied to Mr. Pitt. I have heard my father describe him as a man of great sweetness of nature and good-breeding. He was the grandson of Pope's and Swift's Duke of Chandos. He died in 1789, and left a widow, who survived him for several years in a state of mental alienation. She was a woman of great animal spirits, and, happening to thrust aside the duke's chair when he was going to sit down, the consequences were such that, being extremely attached to him, she could never forgive herself, but lost her husband and senses at once." V.G.