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DURHAM 559 as " Princes-Palatine." Their real rank, however, was that ot' Barons {Domini)^ not of Earls (Comites), being, like that of other Bishops, below the grade of Viscount, but above that of the secular Baron.] BARONY. I I. John George Lambton,s. and h. of William Henry I L., of Lambton Castle, co. Durham, by Anne Barbara ' ^ ■ 1 Frances, da. of George Bussey (Villiers), 4th Eari. FART noM I °^ Jersey, was k 12 Apr. 1792, sue. his father 30 Nov. nnKi.uwm. j_,^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^- ^ ^.^^^^. ^j_ ^^ g^^^^ ^.^.^^^ 1803-9; I. 1833. I served in the loth Dragoons (now Hussars), 1 809-11; M.P. for CO. Durham, 1813-28, and, having been a strong and consistent Whig,(^) was, at the dissolution of the Goderich minisVy, cr., 29 Jan. 1828, BARON DURHAM OF THE CITY OF DURHAM AND OF LAMBTON CASTLE, co. Durham. P.C. 22 Nov. 1830. In the Grey ministry he was made a member of the CabinetC") as Lord Privy Seal, Nov. 1830 to Mar. 1833; on special missions to Russia, July to Sep. 1832, and to Prussia and Austria, Sep. 1832; Ambassador to Russia, 1835-37. He was cr., on resigning office, 23 Mar. 1833, VISCOUNT LAMBTON and EARL OF DUR- HAM. (■=) G.C.B. 27 June 1837. Gov. Gen. of Canada, Jan. to Dec. 1838. Pro Grand Master of Freemasons, 1839-40. He m. (when under age), I Jan. 18 12, at Malpas, co. Chester, Harriet Cholmondeley, spinster,^) illegit. da. of George James (Cholmondeley), ist Marquess Cholmon- deley. She d. s.p.m., 11 July 18 15, and was bur. at Beckenham, Kent. He wj., 2ndly, 9 Dec. 18 16, at Howick, Louisa Elizabeth, ist da. of Charles (Grey), 2nd Earl Grey, by Mary Elizabeth, da. of William Brabazon (PoNSONBv), 1st Baron Ponsonby OF Imokilly. He d. 28 July 1840, (») He was the most Radical of the aristocratic members of that party. ^G. () Together with Lord John Russell (afterwards Earl Russell), Sir James Graham, and Lord Duncannon (afterwards, 1844, 4th Earl of Bessborough), he "had entrusted to him the preparation of the Reform Bill, but his health, or temperament, would ap- pear to have been unequal to the cares and bustle of ministerial life." {/Inn. Rfg. for 1840). (■=) This Earldom must be considered as an Earldom of the city of Durham, not of the County palatine, the Lordship of the County palatine not being at the date of its creation vested even in the Crown itself. By Act 6 and 7 Will. IV cap. 19 (1835-36), "the whole of the Palatine Jurisdiction" formerly vested in the Bishopric of Durham was [vacante sede) taken away therefrom "and vested in the Crown as a separate fran- chise and royalty; the distinction of Durliam, as a County palatine, being thus, for most practical purposes, abolished." [Parliamentary Ga-z.eteer, 1845). (<*) The Annual Register for 1 81 2 refers to her as the " daughter of the celebrated Madam St. Alban." Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe writes of her as charming and handsome, outshining Lady Charlotte, her father's legitimate daughter, " which made Lady Cholmondeley very glad to get rid of her. She had always wretched health after she married Mr. Lambton." V.G.