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DE L'ISLE 167 of the Bedchamber, Jan. to Apr. 1835. On 14 Mar. 1849, he sue. his father in the family estates and Baronetcy. He m., 13 Aug. 1825, at her father's (then Duke of Clarence) house in Charles Str., Berkeley Sq., Mdix., Sophia, 1st sister of George (FitzClarence), ist Earl of Munster, and illegit. da. of William IV, by Mrs. Jordan. She, who was i>. Aug. 1 796, (*) was raised to the rank of the da. of a Marquess by (her father's) royal warrant, 24 May 1831. She J. in Kensington Palace, having recently been appointed "housekeeper" thereof, 10, and was /;ur. 18 Apr. 1837, at Pens- hurst. He d. at Penshurst, 4 Mar. 1851, aged nearly 51. II. 1851. 2. Philip (Sidney), Baron de L'Isle and Dudley OF Penshurst, ist s. and h., l>. 29 Jan. 1828, in Bolton Str., Piccadilly, and l^ap. at Hampton, Midx. ; ed. at Eton ; sometime an officer in the Royal Horse Guards. A Conservative. C*) He tn., istly, 23 Apr. 1850, at St. Geo., Han. Sq., Mary, only da. and h. of Sir William Foulis, 8th Bart., of Ingleby Manor, co. York, by Mary Jane, 2nd da. of Gen. Sir Charles Ross, 6th Bart. [S.], of Balnagowan, co. Ross. She, who was /). 19 May 1826, at York, J. suddenly, 14 June 1891, at 8 Lennox Gardens, Chelsea. He, on his marriage, assumed the additional name of Fou/is after that of Si.lmy by royal lie, 6 June 1850, under the will of the said Sir W. Foulis, but relinquished it again. He /«., 2ndly, 25 Jan. 1893, ^^ St. Peter's, Eaton Sq., Emily Frances, ist da. of William Fermor Ramsay, of Croughton Park, Northants, by Emily Susan, 4th and yst da. of the Rev. Robert Tredcroft, Prebendary of Chichester. He J. of bronchitis, at Wellington Court, Knightsbridge, 17, and was bur. 22 F"eb. 1898, at Penshurst, aged 70.(^) His widow »;., 21 Feb. 1903, at St. Geo., Han. Sq., Sir Walter George Stirling, 3rd Bart. [1800], of Faskine, co. Lanark, whom she divorced in 1909. She was living 191 5. III. 1898. 3. Philip (Sidney), Baron de L'Isle and Dudley [1835], is'^ ^- ^"<^ h- '^y ^^'^ ■^'^'^J ^- H May 1853, in Portland Place; sometime Capt. in the Rifle Brigade. A Conservative. The claim was, however, not successful (see fuller account under that dignity), though had the claimant been seized of the manor of Kingston L'Isle, he was undoubtedly heir of the body to John Talbot, cr. 26 July 14+4 Baron L'Isle of Kingston L'Isle, co. Berks, with rem. to his hc'in heing tenants of that manor. The grantee of 1 835 probably was deterred from choosing the title of "Z.'/i//'" by the existence, in the family of Lysaght, of the Irish Barony of '■'^ Lisle of Mountnorth," granted in 1758, and the prefix " de " was, also, quite in accordance with the taste for the modern antique which prevailed in the 19th century. See an article on " the prefix De " in the Her. and Gen., vol. i, pp. 138-158; and see also vol. vi of the present work, Appendix H. (*) She is "said to hae been the favourite daughter of her royal father, and [to have] occasionally acted as his amanuensis." [Annual Register for 1837). C") He voted for the disestablishment of the Irish Church in 1869, having opposed it in 1868. V.G. If) He was one of the numerous peers who have been directors of public companies, for a list of whom (in 1896) see vol. v. Appendix C. V.G.