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DELAVAL 139 BARON DELAVAL OF SEATON DELAVAL,(*) co. Northumber- land [G.B.]. He m., istly, 2 Apr. 1750, at Duke Str. Chapel, Westm., his 1st cousin, Susanna, widow of John Potter, Under Sec. of State, da. of R. Robinson, by Margaret, da. of Edward Delaval, and sister of Francis Blake D. abovenamed. She </. in Hanover Sq., i, and was l/ur. i i Oct. 1783, with great pomp, in Westm. Abbey. He »;., 2ndly, 5 Jan. 1 803, at Earsdon, Northumberland, Susanna Elizabeth Knight, spinster. He d'. suddenly, while at breakfast, at Seaton Delaval, s.p.m.s.,(^) 1 7 May, and was bur. 13 June 1808, aged 80, in Westm. Abbey. At his death all his honours became extinct. (f) Will dat. 24 Sep. 1806, pr. 12 July 1808. His widow J. s.p., 20 Aug. 1822, at the Old Bath, Matlock, aged 60. Will pr. 1823. DE LA WARD see WARD LA WARRE, now DE LA WARR() BARONY BY i. Sir Roger la Warre,(') of Wickwar, co. Glou- WRIT. cester, Brislington, Somerset, Milton, Folkington, Isfield, i£rc., Sussex, s. and h. of Sir John la Warre (living I. 1299. 27 May I277),(') of Wickwar and Brislington, by Olimpia, da. of Sir Hugh de Fokinton, of Folking- (•) He got the first peerage from the Coalition Government, and, changing sides, the second from Pitt. His double creation is thus jeered at in the Rolliad: — " The noble convert, Berwick's honoured choice That faithful echo of the people's voice, One day, to gain an Irish title glad, For Fox he voted: — so the people bade — 'Mongst English Lords ambitious grown to sit, Next day the people bade him vote for Pitt. To join the stream our Patriot nothing loath By turns discreetly gave his voice to both." These "same wits" also, "composed a poem called The Delaval-iad parodied from Orlando's verses to Rosalind in Ai you like it, but Lord Delaval stood in no awe of such lampoons." His " person at 70 years of age remained graceful and slender, his manners, elegant, gay and pleasing." (Wraxall's Memoirs, ibid.) G.E.C. and V.G. C") By his 1st wife (only) he had issue, viz. one son, John, who was b. 26 May 1756, and d. v.p. (having been kicked in the testicles by a laundry maid to whom he was paying his addresses), 7 July 1775, and was bur. at Doddington; and six daughters, of whom Elizabeth was Baroness Audley, and Sarah, Countess of Tyrconnel [I.]. To Lady Tyrconnel's only da. and h., Susanna, Marchioness of Waterford [I.], he devised all his estates (on the death of his widow). G.E.C. and V.G. (') The extinction of the Irish Barony was used, in 1 8 1 2, as one of those required (under the Act of Union) for the creation of the Barony of Castlemaine. His chief seats arc stated in 1789 to have been Seaton Delaval and Ford Castle, Northumber- land, and Doddington, co. Lincoln. V.G. C^) This article, down to the year 1476, is by G. W. Watson. V.G. (•) The arms of this family were. Gules, crusilly fitchy, a lion rampant Argent. Cf. seals, Harl. Charters, 57, E 21 and 22, Cotton Charter, v, no. 21, and Addit. Charter, no. 22005. Close Rolls, I Edw. I, ;;i. I d; 5 Edw. I, m. 6 d; 13 Edw. I, m. 2 d. John