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 COMPTON — CONGLETON. VIII. 1770. <v. Geohoe (Towhshend), Loud de Febhebs and] <~ Loud Common, s. and h., b. 18 April 1755, who, 25 April 1774, being sum. by writ in his father's Barony as " George Tovmihend de Ferrers, took Ins seat in the House 00 the 2Sth as " Lord dc Ferrers," "next above the Lor<i Daere" [1321]. On 13 May 1784 he was, v.p., cr. Earl or the county ok 5 s Lkk kstkh. On 14 Sep. 1S07 he sue. his father as 2nd Marquess Towns- rend ok Rainham. He d. 27 July 1811. IX. 1811, 9. George Ferrers (TVvwnsiiend), Makquess ? to Townshknd ok Rainham (1787), Earl ok Leicester (1784), 18o.5. Vjscoi .vt TOWNSHKND OP HainHaSi (16'S2), Lord VK Fkkhkhs (12911 ?), Lord Comiton (1572), and Baron Townshknd ok Lynn Keois (1661), s. and h., 4. 13 Dec, 1778. He d. s.p. 31 Dec. 1K55, when the Faridom of Leicester became extinct ; the three peeiages of Toicnshcitd devolved on liis cousin and h. male, while the it Barimics injec (De Ferrers and Compton) fell into abeyance between his sisters or their descendants. (*') COMITON OF COMPTON. i.e. "C0.MPX0N oe CoxinoN, co. Warwick," Earldom {Compton), cr. 1312, with " NORTHAMPTON," Marquessate of, which see. p B i! I = CONGLETON. Barony. J. Sir Hkwbt Brook Para-ell, Bart. [I.], was, 18 t }o 41 Aug. 1841, cr. BAKON CONGLETON, of Congleton, co. Chester. He was 2nd s. of the Rt Hon. Sir John Parnell, 2nd Bart. [I.], of Rathleague, in Queen's county, sometime, 1785-91, Chancellor of the Exchequer [I.], by Letitia Charlotte, da. and coheir of Sir Arthur Bkooke, Bart [I.], of Colehrooke. He was b. 3 July 1776, and sue. to the family estates 011 the death of his father, B Dec. 1801, his elder br. (whom he subsequently, 30 July 1812, sue. in the Baronetcy) being passed over, as being dumb and a cripple, by Act of Pari, passed in 1789. He was M.P. for Maryborough in the last Irish Pari., 1798-1800 ; M.P. for Portarlingtou, July to Dec. 1802 ; M.P. for Queen's county, 1802-32 ; and for Dundee, 1833-41 : sitting in all in 14 Parliaments and taking an active part in favour of the corn law measure and the Catholic emancipation. Was a Lord of the Treasury [I.], 1806 ; Chairman of the Finance Committee, 1828 ; P.C., 1831 ; Sec. at War, 2831-32, and Paymaster Gen., 1835-41 ; when he was raised to the Peerage as abovenamed. He was author of several financial works. He in. 17 Feb. 1801, Caroline Elizabeth, 1st da. of John (Dawson), 1st Earl ok Poutaklinoton [I.], by Caroline, da. of John (Stuart), 3rd Earl ok Bute [S.] Within 10 months of his creation as a Peer he hung himself, in a fit of temporary insanity, at Cadogan Place, Chelsea, 8 June 1842, aged 65. Will p T. Aug. 1842. His widow, who was b. 21 March 1782, d. in Paris 16 Feb. 1861, aged 78. II. 1842. 2. James Vesey (Parnell), Baron Congleton, s. and h., 4. 16 June 1805, in Baker Street, Marylebone ; ed. in France and subsequently at Edinburgh Univ. He adopted the religion of the "Plymouth brethren," of whom he became, in 1831, a missionary to Bagdad. He m. firstly, in ( a ) Being styled in that patent " Baron de Ferrers of Chartley, Baron Bourchier, Lovainc, Basset, and Compton," as to which designation of Bourchier, Lovaine, and Basset, see Vol. i, p. 257, note " f " (circa Jmcm), sub. " Basset de Drayton." ( b ) The coheirs were (1) his nephew, Marmion Edward Ferrers, of Baddesley Clinton co. Warwick, s. and h. of Edward F. of the same, by Harriet Anne (who d. 1 Juno 1845), 1st BUTVi HBter of the deceased. (2) Elizabeth Margaret, yst. sister of deceased, who had m. 5 Aug. 1815, Joseph Moore Boultbce, of Springfield Park, co. Warwick, and who d. 24 May 1*00, leaving issue.