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 BROOKE. anciently vised by the Earls of Warwick,"^') for himself " and his lawful descendants, being Earls of Warwick." On 3 Feb. 1767 he presented a petition to the House of Lords that he and his heirs should be enabled to use the title of Earl of Warwick only, with the rank of the patent of 7 July 1746 viz. that which conferred the Earldom of Brooke of Warwick Castle. (, f ) He in. 15 May 1712, at Park Place, in Remingham, Berks, (spec. lie. at Fac. Off.) Elizabeth, da. of Lord Archibald Hamilton, by his 3rd wife, Jane, da. of James (Hamilton), Oth Earl of Abercorn [S.] He </. at Warwick Castle, 6 July 1773. Will pr. July 1773. His widow m. Gen. Robert Cleek, whose will, dat. 21 Dec. 1706, was proved 26 May 1 797. She d. 24 Feb. 1S00 in her SOth year and was bur. (5 March, at Westm. Abbey. Will dat. 6 Feb. and pr. 6 March 1800. Earldom, II. Barony, IX. 2. George (Greville), Eabl Brooke of War- wick Castle, Earl or Wahwick, &c, s. and h., b. in Warwick Castle, 16 Sep. 1746, and bap. 10 Oct. at St. Mary's, War- yii to. wick, the King, George II, being (by proxy) one of his Sponsors. Matric. at. Oxford (Ch. Ch.)21 Sep. 1761, and, subsequently, at Edinburgh. F.R.S., 1767 ; F.S.A., 1768 ; M.P. for Warwick, 1768-73 ; one of the Lords of Trade, 1771 ; Recorder of Warwick ; Lord Lieut, of co. Warwick, 1795; Lieut. Col. Com. of the Warwickshire Fencibles, 1794, Col. 1 705. How. firstly, 1 April 1771, at St. Geo. Han. sq. (being then styled Loitn Greville), Georgiaua, da. of Sir James Peachy, Bart, (afterwards cr. Baron Selsey), by Georgiaua Caroline, da. of Henry (Scott), 1st Earl ov Deloraink. She who was b. 11 Aug., 1752 and bap. at St. George's afsd., d. 1 April 1772 and was bur. at St. Mary'.-, Warwick. He ro. secondly, at the house of Earl Gower Whitehall, St. Martins in the Fields, 14 July 1776, Henrietta, da. of Richard Vernon of Hilton, co. Stafford, by Evelyn, Dow. Countess op Uitf.r Ossory [I.], da. of John (Leveson-Gowf.r), 1st Earl Gower. He d. 2 May 1810 aged 70. His widow who was b. Aug. 1760, d. 22 April 1838 at Brighton aged 78. Admon. May 1S3S and Aug. 1857. [George Greville, styled sometime Lord Greville, but, afterwards, Lord Brooke, s. and h. ap. by 1st wife, b. 25 March 1772 in St. James' square, and bap. 10 April at St. Geo. Han. sq. He d. unm. and a minor 2 May 1786 at Wiukton, near Christchureh, aged 14.] 3. Henry Richard (Greville), Earl Brooke ok Warwick Castle, Earl ok Warwick, &c, 2nd but 1st surv. s. and h., being 1st s. by 2nd wife, i.~29 March 1779 ; Col. of the Birmingham Volunteers, 1799 : M.P. for co. Warwick, 1S02-16; Col. Warwickshire Militia, 1803; Re- corder of Warwick, 1816-32 ; Lord Lieut, of co. Warwick, 1S22 ; K.T., 10 May 1827 ; Lord of the Bedchamber, July to Nov. 1830; cr. D.C.L. of Oxford 10 June 1834; Lord in Waiting, 1S41-46. He m. 21 Oct. 1816, at St. James' Westm., Sarah Elizabeth, Dow. Earldom, III. Barony, X. ( e ) Viz. "A Bear erect, arg., muzzled, gules, supporting a ragged staff, of the first." His motto (not unappropriate for one who by Royal grant and not by descent from the old Earls of Warwick enjoyed not only their lands but their cognizance), was " Vix ea nostra voco." Mr. J. Horace Round remarks that the grant is based on the precedent of a similar one to the Dudley Earls of Warwick by whom the well known Bear and Ragged Staff was borne as a crest ; and calls attention to the fact that the " Bear and Ragged Staff was not the Crest of the Beauchamp Earls of Warwick ( which was an entirely different one) but their Badge and the Supporter of their coat of Arms." With respect, however, to Ambrose (Dudley), Earl of Warwick, the case seems very different, as he was not only a descendant, but the senior representative of Richard (Beauchamp), Earl of Warwick, and was actually in rem. to the Earldmn of Warwick, granted, in 1450, to (Richard Nevill), the said Earl Richard's son in law. II is to be observed that the crest of Beauchamp (viz. the demi swan, issuing out of ■a ore3t coronet) was early adopted, in lieu of that of Greville, by the Lords Brooke. ( f ) See " Lords' Journals." No further proceedings appear to have been taken in the matter, which, inasmuch as the family call themselves " Earls of Warwick," (only) tho' they lake precedence as " Earls Brooke," would, if granted, remedy that anomaly.