Page:The Complete Peerage Ed 1 Vol 1.djvu/108

 86 ANGLESEY. of Richard Donovan, sometime a merchant of Wexford, by ( — ), 8a. of ( — ) Nixox of the same eo. This marriage, both the witnesses being dead, was acknowledged to have taken place as above, and wits again celebrated in the same place, 8 Oct. 1752. The Karl (/. at Cornelia Hade, 14 Feb. 1701. Will dat. 7 April 1 757. Mis widow m . (as his first wife) Mathew Talbot of Castle Talbot, eo. Wexford, and d. at Bath, co. Somerset, 20 Nov. 1776. Xotc— On the death of the Earl (11 Feb. 1701), Arthur Annksi.ev, his s. by the said Juliana (//. 7 Aug. 1744), though opposed by the next heir, was held in Ireland t« have sue. to the Irish Honours, and took his seat in the House [I.] as Viscoitxt Vai.entia, 6 Dec. 1785 and 7 Nov. 1771. ( a ) On his petitioning, however, for a writ of summons to the Pari, of Great Britain as E.uti. ok Anglesey, &c, the House of Lords for that kingdom (to whom it had bci u referred) decided, 22 April 1771. that "the claimant hail no right to the titles, honours and dignities claimed by his petition."( b j According, therefore, to the=e decisions the English titles of EARL OF ANGLESEY and BARON AXNESLEY had become ex. on 14 Feb. 1761, the Irish titles continuing. The said Arthur, Viscount Valcntia[L], was, on 3 Dec. 1793, cr. E.vni. of Monro- noRRIs [I-l- He d. 5 July 1816, and was tut. by his s. George, 2nd Karl of Mountnorris, So). [I.]. This gentleman's claim as a Peer of Ireland was, on li March 1817, admitted (by the House ot Lords of the United Kingdom) not only as an Karl, but as a Viscount, and the holder of two Baronies [L], which last three peerages he could only possess in rbjht of inheritance from his grandfather, Richard (viii) 6th Earl of Anglesey abovenamed.(') On the ground of this admission of his father's lawful birth he petitioned, 30 Jan. 1S19, for his writ as "Eari, of Anglesey," Sec., which petition was referred to the committee for privileges, but no further steps appear to have been taken in the matter. He d. s.p.m.s., 23 July 1844, when the issue malt of the 1st EARL OF ANGLESEY and BARON ANNESLEY (to whom alone those honours were limited) liecame ex., granting (as was held by the Irish House of Lords) that the son of the 6th Earl (who mm*, him in his Irish, but not in his English, honours) was 6. in wedlock. The title of Anglesey, however, was (in accordance with the English decision of 1771, whereby it was held to have been ex. in 1761) made use of again, as a Peerage title some thirty years before such extinction of issue hail occurred. Marquesses. 1. Henry "William (Paget), Earl ok Uxbridge and I 1815 LoRD Pac1et . was, on 4 July 1815, cr. MARQUESS OF ANGLESEY. He was s. and h. of Henry, Loud Paget, 1st Earl of L'xhridge, by Jane, 1st da. of Arthur Champagne, Dean of Clonmacnoise [I.], was b. 17 May 1768, and bap. 12 June at St. Geo,, Han. Sep Kd. at WYstm School and at Ch. Ch., Oxford. M.P. for the Carnarvon boroughs, 1790-96, and for Uilborne Port, 1796-1S04 aud 1806-12. In 1790 he raised a regiment (the 80th Foot or Staffordshire Volunteers) from his father's tenantry, of which he was subsequently Lieut.-Cel. In 1794 he was Lieut.-Col. of the 16th Light Dragoons, and in 1797 of the 7th Light of the marriage was again conlirmcd by the Irish House (1 June 1772), and then- decision appears (from the evidence produced) to have been in all probability the right one. Both the Earl and Countess testified to the marriage of 1741 on their death beds. As to the Earl (though we are told that he was " a man very regular in devotion, and using frequent prayers in his family, at which he constantly assisted with great appearance of fervour "), his devotion to the fair sex, certainly equalled if it did not surpass his spiritual devotion, for we hear of another illegit. son of his (by yet auother woman, named Salkeld), one Richard Annesley, who claimed thclittejn 1770. The Lon- don Evening Post, 4 April 1 722, states this Richard to be the legit, s. of Bar] Richard "by Anne, 2nd da. of William Salkeld of the city of London, Merchant." The possibility of swell a marriage is doubtful, as the Earl's first marriage (or marriages') was (or were) in 1715, soon after he was of age, aud the subsequent marriage (the first of the two marriages with Juliana, who smvived him) was within a month of the death of one of these wives, probably the first and lawful wife. See N. & Q., "2nd s., x, 27 and 156," as also several notices in " 2nd s., xi." ( a ) See page 77, under " Ai.tiiam." ( b ) On 10 May 1767 he married at St. James' Westm., as " Earl of Anglesey," aud signed the entry (curiously enough) as " Altham-Anglesey ; " though " Mtltum" was but a Baron,, [I.], while " Valenlia " (to which he was unquestionably equally entitled) was a Viscountcy [I.], iU id one of much older creation.