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 WARWICK. 69 Bliaabetii, nrter of Henry, 1st Vnoouirr lEvnni [8.], dc. of Sir Arihur Inoram, of Temple Neweom, co. York, by his first wife, Rlisalwth, da. of Sir Henry SuifOSBT, Bart She was hur. (as Countess of Holland), 17 Sep. 1661, at Kensington. He si. secondly, his first cousin once removed, Anne, 2d da. of Edward (Mohtaou), 3d Earl or Makchxster, by his §econd wife, Anne, da. of Uobert (Rich), 2d Earl or Warwiok. He was hwr, 16 April 1675, at Kensington, aged about 55. Will pr. 1675. His widow was hur, there July 1689. rilRNRT Ricir, styled Ix>iin Kknsinoton, Ist s. and li. ap, by first wife, ft. aV>ut 1642 ; d. v.p. and a.p.. beinir />«r. at Kensington, 22 April 1669, leaving a widow. See fuller particulars of him in vol. iv, p. 241, aub ** Holland.*'] XXVII. 1 67 5. 6. Edward (High), Eari. of Warwick, Earl Holland, ftc, 2d but 1st Rurv. s. and h., being Ist s. by second wife ; ft. 1673; styled Lord Rich, till he aue. to the peerage, as above, in April 1675 ; taking his leat, 20 Nov. 1694. He was convicted of manBlaughter,(*) 28 March 1699. He m. between 15 and 18 Feb. 1696/7 (Lie Fuc), Charlotte ("worth £20.000") only da. and and h. of Sir Thomas Middlrton, 2d Bart, of Chirke Ca«tle, by his second wife, Charlotte, da. of Sir Orlando Briikirman, sometime (1667) Lord Keeper. He d. 31 July, and was bur, 6 Aug. 1701, at Kenmngton, aged 28.(^) Will pr. Sep. 1701. His widow m. 9 (not 2) Aug. 1716, at St Edmund the King, Iiondon, the Kt Hon. Joseph Addison, tlie well knoivn nnthor, who d. at Holland House, Kensington, 17, and was hur, 26 June 1719, in Westm. Abbey, aged 47. The Countess d, 7, and was bur. 12 July 1731, at Kensington.(*') Will dat 29 May 1728, pr. 1781. XXVIII. ^1701. 7, Edward Hknrt (Rich), Earl of Warwick, Earl Holland, Ac., only s. and h. ; ft. Jan. 1698 ; ttjfled Lord Rich, till he tue. to the pearuge, as above, 81 July 1701 ; ed. at Weatm. School ; took his Mat, 21 Jan. 1719 ; was a Lord of the Bedchamber to the Prince of Walea, 1718, and to the King in 1719. He d. num. of a fever, in A11>enmrle street, having '* killed himself with his debauchery ,'*(*') 16 and was ftur. 21 Aug. 1/21, at Kensington, in his 24th year. KI. Admon. 20 Aug. 1721, 12 June 1786, snd 15 June 1748. XIX. 1721, 8, Edward (llicii). Earl ok Warwick [1618], Earl to Holland [1624], Baron Rioh [1547], and Baron Kbnbinoton 1759. [1623], 1st cousin once removed and h. male, being s. and h. of the Hon. Cope Rich by (— ), da. of (— ), which Cope [bap. 8 May 1684, at Kensington], was yr. br. of Robert, the 5th Karl. He was ft. 1695 ; was Comet ill Newton*s reg. of Dragoons, 1715 ; Oent. Usher to the Prince of Wales, after 1716 ; $ur., to ike peerage, 16 Aug. 1721 ; a Commisir. fur emiuirv into fees, 1734 ; a Got. of the Foundling Hospital, 1789. He m., in or shortly before 1712, Mary, da. of Samuel Stanton, of Lynn Regis, Norfolk. (<>) He cf. s.p.m.(') 7 and was ftur. 15 Sep. (a) He wss tried before the House of Loixls, 28 March 1699, for the murder of Richard Coote, and unanimously acquitted of that offenoe, but found guilty of man- slaughter ; he had, apparently, been engaged in a duel on the same side as Coote, and in his support [See HtaU Trialt, vol. xiii, |i. 939.] (^) He died " on Wensday night last last, very iieniteut," sajs Lu^ll in his Diarg of 3 Aug. 1701. His portrait *' after W. Wessing," is engraved in « DojfU,** (0) By her second husband she had one da., Charlotte, ft. 30 Jan. 1719, who waa, anparently, of somewhat defective intellect {Gent. Mag., March 1797, and May 1798.) She inherited the estate of Bilton, co. Warwick (which her father had bought^ about 1710, for £10,000), snd d, there, 1797, num. (<>) Harley's " Memoranda on the Peerage " [/V. <0 Q, 2<1 a, vol. i. p. 826]. The Kensingtim estate at his death devolved on his heir at law, his sunt, Lady JSlisabeth Edwardee, ancestress of the Barons Kensington. (*) " The present Earl of Warwick has none of the estate of the family, the fierson he married was a milliner ; there is one da., Lady Charlotte Rich,, who was promised to be a Lady of the Bedchamber.*' [Harley's *' Memoranda,** as in note " d,*' above]. From their ages, as on the M.I., it appears that his wife wss soven years his senior, and the age of his da. ahews that he was under age when he married. (0 Charlotte, the only child, d, unm.,'in Queen Anne street^ 12 April, 1791, sged 78, and was ftiir. with her parents. M.I.