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 248 EGREMONT. da. and h. of Joceline (Percy), Uth Earl op Northumberland ; was 5. 11 Nov. 1684 being styled Earl op Hertfobd till he sue. (2 Dec. 1748), his father as Duke of Somerset, &e. He hail already been sum. to the house of Lords, as Lord Percy, 23 Nor. 1722, in the erroneous belief that the ancient Barony of Percy had been invested in his (deceased) mother. Having no male issue, ho was, 2 Oct. 1749, cr. Baron Warkworth and Earl of Northumberland, with a spec, rem., failing heirs male of his body, to his daughter's husband, Sir Hugh Smituson, Bart., their issue male, &c, and on the next day wa3 cr. Earl of Egremont, &c. (as abnvostated) with a spec, rem. in favour (not of his own issue, but) of the issue of his sister, Dame Katharine Wvndham. He rf. s.p.m., 7 Feb. 1750, and was sue. in the honours conferred 3 Oct. 1749, by his nephew, as under. See fuller particulars of him, sub " Somerset " Dukedom of, c>: 1517, under the 7th Duke. IT. 1750. Charles (Wynduam), Earl of Ecremont ami Baron of Cockermouth, nephew of the grantee, and his heir as to the above honours, according to the spec. rem. in their creation. He was s. and h. of the lit. Hon. Sir William Wyndham, 3d Bart., of Orchard Wyndham, Somerset, by his first wife Katherine, da. of Charles (Seymour), 0th Duke of Somerset ; was b. 19 Aug. 1710, and bap. 30, at St. Martin's in the fields ; matric. at Oxford (Ch. Ch.), 4 May 1725 ; sue. his father as 4th Baronet, 17 June 1740 ; M.P. for Bridgwater, 1734-41 j for Appleby, 1741-47 ; for Taunton, 1717-50, in which year (7 Feb. 1750), he sue. his maternal uncle in the peerage, as above stated, and in the Cockermouth and other Cumberland estates; Lord Lieut, of Cumberland, 1751-63 ; first Plenipo. to the intended congress at Augsburg, PC, and Sec. of State for the southern dep. in 1701: Lord Lieut, of Sussex, 1762-63. He m. 12 March 1750/1, at St. Geo. Han. Sij., Alicia Maria, sister of George, 1st Earl of Tyrconnel [1.], da. of George (Carpen- ter), 2d Baron Carpenteb op Killaghy [I.], by Elizabeth, da. of David Petty. He d. of apoplexy, at Egremont House (now, 1890, the Naval and Mil. Club), Piccadilly, Midx., 21 Aug. 1763, aged 53. Will pr. 1763. His widow, who, in 1761, wa3 one of the ladies of the Bedchamber, m. 6 June 1767, Count Brlhl, of Saxony, and d. 1, and was bur. 20 June 1791, at Harefield, Midx. Will pr. June 1794. III. 1763. S. George O'Brien (Wyndoah), Earl of Egremont, &c, s. and h., b. 18 Dec. 1751, and bap. 9 Jany. 1752, at St. Margaret's, Westm., King George II. being one of his sponsors ; styled Lord Cocker- mouth till 1763 ; ed. at Westm. and at Eton ; matric. at Oxford (Ch. Ch.), 30 June 1767 ; F.R.S., 1797 ; F.S.A., &c. ; Lord Lieut, of Sussex, 1819-35.( 1 ') He d. unm.( c ) 11 Nov. 1837, in his 86th year, at Petworth House (" Princely Pcticorth "), Sussex. Will pr. Jany. 1838. These Egremont- estates, her son, the Duke of Somerset, devised to his sister's son, Charles Wyndham (afterwards Earl of Egremont) instead of to his da. Lady Elizabeth Smithson, who and whose issue inherited the bulk of the Percy estates. See "Northumberland," Earldom of, cr. 1719. ( a ) See Vol. i, p 20, note "b," circa jincm, as to this summons. ( b ) He was many years in the fashionable world ; is called [1774] " a pretty man" by Mrs. Delaney ; "handsome " [1779] by Horace Walpole, and "that fine old fellow " [1834] by Charles Greville. As to his taste (1782) for " street riding " see vol i, p. 352, note " a," sub " Bessborough." He was a great patron of the fine arts and was most liberal in his charities which are said in the last 60 years of his life to have amounted to £1,200,000, i.e., about £20,000 yearly. (°) By the da. of the Rev. (— ) Hill" (of Westm. School) he had six illegit. children, viz., three daughters (Lady Burrell, the Countess of Monster, and Mrs. Kiug), and three sons viz. 0) George Wyndham, 4. 5 June 1787, inherited the Petworth and other estates, and was cr. Baron Leconfield, in 1859 ; see that dignity. (2) Gen. Sir Henry Wyndham, K.C B., 6. 12 May 1790, inherited the Cockermouth and Egremont estates in Cumberland, but d. s.p. 3 Aug. 1800, when they appear to have devolved on his elder brother's hue. See vol. ii, p. 51, note "a," sub "Buccleuch," among the list of possessors (under " Lcconfield") of above 100,000 acres (3) Col. Charles Wyndham, whose portion was funded property of above £220,000, who d. 18 Feb. I860, leaving