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 44 DE LA POLE — DELAVAL. III. 1464. 8. Joiin (De La Pole), Duke of Suffolk [144S], Marquess of Suffolk [1444], Earl of Suffolk [13S5 ami 1390], and Earl of Pembroke [1443], s. and h. of William, Duke of Suffolk,( : >) Sec-, who was br. and h. of Michael, Eaul OF Suffolk (whod.(>>) 1415) and 2d son of Michael, Earl of Suffolk, Lord De La Pole above named. In the Pari, of 4 Ed. IV (1464-65) the attainder of 1388 was reversed whereby the Earldom of Suffolk cr. 13S5 and the Barmy of De La Pule, cr. by the writ of 1366 were again restored to the right heirs thereof. He d. 1491. • IV. 1491, 4. Edmoxd 'De La Pole), Duke of Suffolk, to &c. and Lord De La Pole, a. and h. He surrendered the 1504. Dukedom of Suffolk, 26 Feb. 1493, and, being, ten years afterwards, attainted Jany. 1501 all his other honours became forfeited.?) He was beheaded i May 1513. 3 * ? "» - oo g I -a ' it B n s ■a o a Z r, a 5 OM i <u ■ - - DQi4H 22 DELAVAL OF REDFOKD, and DELAVAL OF SEATON DELAVAL. Barony [I.] 1. Sir Joiix Hussey Delaval, Bart., of Ford, co. I 17S3 Northumberland, 2d s. of Francis Blake D., by Rhoda, da. of Robert 1 ' ArREECE, of Washinglcy, co. Huntingdon, b. 1728, was cr. a Bart, as Barony. above, 1 July 1761. He was M.P. for Berwick in several Tarls. By j, 7C ,p the death, 7 Aug. 1771 (in his 4Sth year), of his eldest br. Sir Francis I, Kob, Blake Delaval, K.B., he sue. to the family estates. Having supported to "the coalition Ministry," he was, 17 Oct. 1783, cr. BARON DELAVAL 180S. OF BEDFORD,!' 1 ) co. Wicklow [I.], but, soon afterwards changing sides, he was by Pitfs Ministry, cr., 21 Aug. 1786, BARON DELAVAL OF SEATON DELAVAL,(°) co. Northumberland [G.B.] He m. firstly, 2 April 1750, at Duke Street Chapel, Westm., his first cousin, Susanna, widow of John POTTER, Under Sec. of State, da. of R Robinson, by Margaret, da. of Edward Delaval and sister of F. B. D. above named. She d. 1 and was WW. 11 Oct. 1783, in Westm. Abbey. He m. secondly, 5 Jany. 1803, at Earsdon, co. Northumberland, Susanna Elizabeth Knight, Spinster. He d. s.p.m.s.,( r ) at Seatou Delaval, 17 May and was (") This Duke was beheaded 2 May 1450, having been accused of treason by the Commons and banished by the King, but was never attainted. ( b ) This Earl had 3 daughters, all of whom, apparently, died unm. ; but see Banks' " Bar. Anrj. Cone." vol. i, p. 187, and see also the note " c " next following this. ( c ) See " Coll. Top. ct Gen." vol. v, p. 156, where it is held (by Francis Townsend, Windsor Herald) that the heirship to this Barony is in the issue of Thomas De La Pole, 3d and yst. s. of Michael, Earl of Suffolk, 1397-99. ( d ) "He was included by Fox among the Irish Peers of Sep. 1783 [i.e. the nine Baronies of Sheffield, Harbertou, Leitrim, Llandaff, Riversdale, Donoghmore ( Baroness), Delaval, Mnncaster and Penrhyn], whom his Majesty consented to raise to that dignity, tho' he refused to make any addition to the British Peerage." See Wraxall's "Memoirs," vol. iv, p. 422. ( c ) His double creation is thii3 alluded to in tho Jlolliad : — " One clay, to gain an Irish title glad, For Fcx he voted : — so the people bade — 'Mongst English Lords ambitious grown to sit, Next day the people bade him vote for Pitt." These " same wits " also, " composed a poem called The Delaval-iad parodied from Orlando's verses to Rosalind in As you like it, but Lord Delaval stood in no awo of Buch lampoons." His " person, at 70 years of age remained graceful and slender, his manners, elegant, gay and pleasing." ibid. O By his 1st wife (only), he had issue one son, John, who d. v.p, 1755, and four daughters, his coheirs, of whom Elizabeth was Baroness Audley, and Sarah, Countess of Tyrcounel [I.] To Lady Tyrcounel's only da. and h. Susanna, Marchioness of Waterford [I.], he devised (on the death of his widow) all his estates.