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 CLARE— CLARENDON. rem. , failing his TfuAtt, to Henry ( Clinton), Earl of Lincoln, husband to Catherine, 1st. (In. and coheir of Ins said br. Homy Pelbam, and, finally, on 4 May 176?. he was cr. BARON PELHAM OK STANMER, co. Sussex, with rem., failing his issue male, to his kinsman Thomas IVIham. Me (/. s|i. 17 Nov. 1768, when all hit honours, save these two last creations became extinct, the. Dukedom of Newcastle (1756) devolving on the family of Clinton (Kails of Lincoln) and the Baron;/ of Pclham (1762) on the family of IVlham. See under those dignities. See fuller account (of this well- known statesman) under " NewcaSTLE-UNDKR-Lyne," Dukedom of, cr. 1756. Dukedom. (») H.R.H. Prince WmaAM Henry, 3rd s. of King George y i.i) 17S0 "f- ,JV Charlotte Sophia, da. of Charles-Louis, Duke of Mecklem- . '» ' ' so it kg Strei.itz, was b. 21 Aug. and bap. 20 Sep. 1765 at St. James' 1 _ " Palace ; joined the Royal Navy in May 1779, becoming Post Captain, 1MU. i 7S) j. Rear. Admiral of the Blue, 1790; and in 1S05, Admiral of the Red. He was Admiral of the Fleet, 1811, and from May 182.7 to Sep. 1828 Lord High Admiral. At the age of five he was, 6 April 1770, elected K.T.,and, when 17. was el., 19 April 17S2. K.G., hist. 28 May 1801. On 20 May 1780 he was er. EAKL OF MCNSTER [I.], aud, in the same patent, DUKE OF OLARENGEf*) and ST. ANDREWS. 00 P.O., June 1789. Knight, of the St, Esprit of France, 24 April 1814 ; Knight of St. Andrew of Russia ; Knight of the Black Eagle of Prussia ; &.C.B., 12 April 1818 ; G.C.H., 12 Aug. 1815. D.C.L. of Oxford, by diploma, 18 Oct. 1816 ; General of Marines, 1823 ; Ranger of Bushey Park, Ranger of Greenwich Park, A-c. He m. 1 ! July 1818, at Kew palace, Survey (the same date and place as that of the marriage of his next br., the Duke of Kent) Adelaide Louisa Theresa Caroline Amelia, 1st da. of George Frederick Charles, Duke of Saxe Meiningen, by Louisa Eleanors, da. of Christian Albert, Prince of Hohenlohe-LaNgenbourg. She, who was*. 13 Aug.1792, was living when, on 26 June 1830, he ascended the throne as William IV. i.e. " CLARENCE " Earldom of, (II.R.H. Prince Leopold), cr. 1881, with the Dukedom of Albany, which see. CLARENDON. ( d ) Earldom. 1. Edward (Hyde), Babqn Hyde op Hlndos, Wilts, T i (5Qi Lord High Chancellor, was, 20 April 1661,(0) cr. VISCOUNT CORN- ' " BURY, co. Oxford, ami EARL OF CLARENDON.!') He was 3rd s. of Henry Hyde, of Purton and Dintou, Wilts, by Mary, da. and coheir of Edward Langford, a rich clothier of Trowbridge, being nephew of Sir Nicholas Hyde, Ch. Justice of the King's Bench, 1627-31. He was 6. 18 Feb. 160S/9, (*) For an account of the three previous Dukes of (Clare, or) Clarence, 1362 to 1473, Bee ante pp. 270-272. (°) Selected, presumably, out of compliment to Scotland, just as "York ami Albany ;" " Gloucester and Edinburgh ;" " Kent and Strut/team ;" " Cumberland and Tevioulale," See. ( c ) Clareniits dominium, anciently a Royal forest of about 4,300 acres (some three miles from Salisbury), in the palace whereof Henry II, in 1164, held the council which passed the laws, called therefrom " the constitutions of Clarendon." It was granted, by Charles II, to George (Monck), Duke of Albemarle, from whose successor it was inherited by the family of Granville (Earls of Bath), and, finally, in 1713, was pur- chased by the Batluiret family, who still possess it. ( d ) An account of this and other creations,' made a few days before the Coronation, is in Evelyn's ''Diary" asunder: 1661, April 22. "Was the splendid cavalcade of His Majesty from the Tower of London to Whitehall, when I saw him, in the liiinquetting House create six Earls and as many Barons, viz. : — [1] Edward, Lord Hyde, Lord Chancellor [cr.] Earl of Clauknoon, supported by the Earls of North- umberland avid Sussex ; the Etvvl of Bedford carried the cap and coronet ; the Earl of Warwick, the sword ; [and] the Earl of Newport, the mantle. Next was [2] Capel, cr. Eaul op Esses j [3] Brudeuell, cr. Earl of Cardigan ; [4, Viscount] Valeutia [1.] r