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 164 DOVER. Chapel street, Westm. 10 Feb. 1CS7/S, and was bur. the IGth at Westm. Abbey Will dat. 26 Oct. 1685, pv. 23 March 1687/8 by Lacly Mary Heveninghamf,*), only da. and universal legatee. Barony. I. 1685. Earldom III 1G89, (0 1708. 1. Henry Jebmts, was cr. 13 May 1685, BARON DOVER of Dover, co. Kent.( b ) By royal warrant 2 July liiSO ho was cr. by James II, after his dethronement, EARL OF DOVER &c.( c ) On 1 April 1703 he sue. his br. as 3d BARON JERMYN OF ST. EDMUNDSBURY. He d., s.p., 6 April 1708, when all his honours became extinct See fuller account under " Jeumyn of Sr. Edmu.ndsbdry," Barony, cr. 1643 ; ex. 170S. Dukedom. 2. Jajies (Douglas) Duke of Queensberry, &c. US T [S-]> 6 - 18 Dec - 1672 ! suc - ^ &&er 2S March 1690, and OF BEVERLEY, both in co. York and DUKE OF DOVEB for life ( d ), with a spec. rem. to his 2d and younger sons successively in tail mail. He d. 6 July 1711. II, 1711, 2. Citarles (Douglas) Dike of Queensberry, to &c. [S.] also Dlke of Dover, Marquess or Beverley and 1778. Baron of Riiton, 2d. but 1st surv. s. and h., 6. 21 Nov. 1698; d. s.p.s, 22 Oct. 177S, when all hit English honours became extinct. - o p Barony. The Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Yorke, K.B., was, 18 Sep. TT 1788 1788, cr. LORD DOVER, Baron of the town and port of Dover co. ' TTonf TTn ifoa <M a #.f PI, ,1,', a 1 of Vaiit r.v T-T k nnwift.'U fT.nr.l to 1792. Kent. He was 3d s. of Philip, 1st Earl of Hardwickk (Lord Chancellor, 1787-56), by Margaret, da. of Cliarles Cocks; I. 24 June 1721 ; Lieut. -Col. 1st Reg. of Font Guards, and aide-de-camp to the Duke of Cumberland at the battle of Fontenoy, 11 May 1715 ; Col. of the 9th Foot, 1755, afterwards of the 5th Dragoons, and finally of the 1st Reg. of Life Guards, becoming, finally, Field Marshal; MP. for East Grinstead, 1751-61; for Dover, 1761-64 and for Grampouud 1774-80 ; el. K.B., 11 April and inst. 26 May 1761 ; P.C., 1768 ; having been Minister since 1751, and afterwards 1761, Ambassador (*) Sbe, the only child that survived infancy, was lap. 0 Oct. 1631. She m. (articles dat. 25 April 1655) William Heveningham, of Ketteringham, Norfolk, one of the Regicide Judges. He (/. 20 and was bur. 21 Feb. 1677 there. She d. in Jermyn street in St. James' Westm., 19 Jan. 1695/0 and was bur. with her husband. She inherited Conisbrough Castle, co. York. They left issue. ( b ) This was one of the 10 English Peerages cr. by James II. See a list of these p 78, note" a," sub " Derwentwater." ( c ) See "Jacobite Peerages," vol. i, p. 59 note "J" sub "Albemarle." ( d ) This was the first Peerage granted since the union with Scotland. It is to be observed that his Grace took his seat in Pari., 19 Nov. 1708, as an English Duke, without any protest, tho' a writ of summons, but 3 years afterwards, was refused to the Duke of Brandon (which title had in 1711 been conferred on the Scotch Duke of Hamil- ton) and, consequently, to Charles, second Duke of Dover (who claimed his writ in 1719) by a resolution 14 Jan. 1720. The remarkable resolution passed by the House of Lords, by a majority of 5 (57 against 52) in 1711, " that no patent of honour granted to any Peer of Great Britain, who was a Peer of Scotland at the time of the union, can entitle such Peer to sit and vote in Pari, or to sit upon the trial of Peers," was not rescinded till 1782, in which year, on 11 June, the Duke of Brandon (Duke of Hamilton in Scotland) was for the first time sum. in that Dukedom,
 * " was cr. 20 May 170S, BARON OF RIPPON, MARQUESS