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 ancestor to the present Lord Somers; Anne, married to Sir Orlando Bridgeman of Castle Bromwich, County Warwick, Bart.; and Diana, married to Algernon Coote, Earl of Mountrath. Mary, Countess of Bradford, survived her husband many years, and lies buried by his side at Weston. Her loss was deeply mourned by all classes, especially by the poor, to whom her charity was unbounded.

No. 3.

RICHARD NEWPORT, SECOND EARL OF BRADFORD.

''Slashed dress of golden brown. White sleeves. Wig.''

BORN 1644, DIED 1723.

He was the eldest son of the first Earl of Bradford, by Lady Diana Russell. During his father's lifetime he represented Shropshire in Parliament for many years, and gained great popularity in his county by his strenuous support of the Bill of Exclusion, which obtained for him a complimentary address signed by every member of the grand jury, consisting of all the principal landholders of the neighbourhood. He was Privy Councillor in the reigns of Queen Anne and George the First, and Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum for the county of Montgomery. In 1681 he married the daughter and co-heir of Sir Thomas Wilbraham of Woodhey, and Weston-under-Lizard, Bart., by whom he had a numerous family. During his father's lifetime he resided chiefly at Eyton-upon-Severn, but in later days he took up his abode at Weston, his wife's inheritance in Staffordshire.