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DERBY 2IS 15 Oct. 1 65 1, at Bolton, co. Lancaster.(*) He was hur. at Ormskirk, aged 44. Admon. May 1662. His widow who had letters of denization, Sep. i626,() d. 21 Mar. 1663/4, at Chester, and was bur. at Ormskirk. Will pr. 1664. XVII. 1651. 8. Charles (Stanley), Earl of Derby [1485] and Lord Strange [1628], s. and h., b. 19 Jan. 1628; styled Lord Strange till 1651. He joined in Booth's rising in Aug. 1659 on behalf of the King; Lord Lieut, cos. Lancaster and Chester 1660-72 ; Joint Chamberlain ot Chester tor lite with his son William, in survivorship, 15 Aug. i66o('^) to 1672; bearer of the third Sword at the Coronation 23 Apr. 1661; Vice Adm. of cos. Lancaster and Chester 1661-72. He w., 1650, Dorothea Helena (Maid of Honour to the Queen of Bohemia), da. of Jan VAN DEN Kerckhove, Lord of Heenvliet in Zealand, by Catherine, suo jure Countess of Chesterfield. He d. "of a dropsie," 21 Dec. 1672, and was bur. 29 Jan. 1672/3, at Ormskirk, aged 45. Admon. as late of Knowsley, co. Lancaster, 3 Oct. 1674. His widow, who was naturalized by Act of Pari., 13 Sep. 1660, d. 6, and was bur. 16 Apr. 1703, at Ormskirk. XVIII. 1672. 9. William George Richard ('^) (Stanley), Earl of Derby [1485] and Lord Strange [1628], s. and h., b. about 1655, styled Lord Strange till 1672; Vice Adm. of cos. Lancaster and Chester from 1673; Lord Lieut, of cos. Lancaster and Chester 1676-87,0 and 1688-89, ^"^^ of '^°- Lancaster June to Nov. 1702; Chamberlain of Chester 1677- 1702; bearer of the second sword at the Coronation of James II 23 Apr. i685;(*) was one of the pall bearers, ^ Mar. 1694/5, at the funeral of Queen Mary; Lord Lieut, of North Wales (save co. Denbigh) June 1702 till his death. (f^) He w., 10 July i673,(^) Elizabeth, sister of James, 2nd Duke of Ormond, da. of Thomas (*) See "The Loyalists' Bloody Roll," in vol. ii. Appendix A. His words on the scaffold were, "I die for God, the King, and the Laws, and this makes me not be ashamed of my life, nor afraid of my death." V.G. (t") Ch. Privy Seal!, 2 Car. I, no. 288 (6 Sep.): Patent, 12 Sep. V.G. («) Recog. Rolls of Chester, 12 Car. II, m. 1. V.G. (^) This is an early instance of a peer having more than one Christian name. See vol. iii. Appendix C. V.G. (') See list of the Lord Lieuts. dismissed by James II, vol. ii. Appendix G. A portrait of his handsome and intellectual face is in Sandford's magnificent work The Coronation ofjamei II, and is reproduced by Doyle in his Official Baronage. (^) He generally voted with the Whigs, but supported the Tories in the impeachment of William Ill's Whig ministers in 1701. V.G. C") When sent to Paris, after his marriage, with a governor to complete his education, he conducted himself very ill, becoming debauched "tant par les femmes de mauvaise vie que par le jeu." His father-in-law, the Earl of Ossory, writing in May 1679, calls him "very nast)', ill-natured, and obstinate," and writes again later in the same year of " his brutality and ill-usage of my daughter." V.G.