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258 DESMOND influence of his said uncle, cr. 22 Nov. 1622, when about 8 years of age, Baron Feilding of Lecagh, co. Tipperary, and Viscount Callan, co. Kilkenny [I.], as also in reversion after the death of the present holder thereof without heir male of the body (the da. and h. presumptive of such holder being designed for, though she never became, his wife) EARL OF DESMOND [I.]. He was (as Viscount Callan) made K.B., i Feb. 1625/6, at the Coronation of Charles I. On 28 Oct. 1628 he became Earl of Desmond [I.] in possession, on the death, s.p.m., of the last Earl, under the spec. rem. in the creation of that dignity in 1622. He m., 17 Apr. 1630, at St. Peter's, Cornhill, London, Bridget (k about 161 5), youngest of the 3 daughters and co-heirs (*) of Sir Michael Stanhope, of Sudbury, Suffolk, by Anne, da. of Sir William Reade, of Osterley, Midx. In Apr. 1635 she was suing in the High Commission Court for a divorce from him.C") He d. 3 1 Jan. 1 665/6, in his 49th year, and was i?ur. at Euston, Suffolk; M.L(^) XVIII. 1666. 2. William (Feilding), Earl of Desmond, ^c. [I.], s. and h., ^. 29 Dec. 1640; styled Viscount Callan till 1666. On the death of his uncle, 28 Nov. 1675, he sue. him as Earl of Denbigh, ^c. See "Denbigh," Earldom of, cr. 1622, under the 3rd Earl. DESMOND AND CLAN GIBBON See " FitzGerald of Desmond and Clan Gibbon, co. Cork," Barony (FitzGera/d), cr. 1826; extinct 1843. DE SOMERY (of Dudley) see SOMERY (*) She was "brought up in a cottage," being disowned by her father, who, indeed, is supposed to have poisoned her mother, shortly after her birth. In the M.I. put up by her father, to himself, some 4 years after her birth and 2 years before his own death (which took place 18 Dec. 1 621), his issue is stated to have been two daughters [only], viz. (i) Jane, Lady Fitzwalter, and (2) Elizabeth, Lady Berkeley. See Smith's Lives of the Berkeleys, vol. ii, p. 429. (^) He being " accused of that I have hard fewe Fildings guiltie of, insufficiencie to please a reasonable woman." (Letter of G. Filding to Lord Feilding, Hist. MSS. Com., Denbigh MSS., part v, p. 14). V.G. (■=) " The Earl of Desmond says to Mr. Croftes ' your hose are too short ; ' Mr. Croftes replies 'so is your nose.' The Earl spurns him. Mr. C. knocked him in the Queen's presence and made him go crying to his Father. He (Lord Denbigh) sends his glove in token of a challenge, and into Hyde Park they go." (Letter of the Rev. Jos. Mead to Sir Martin Stuteville, 10 Jan. 1 630/1). V.G.