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 164 HARDLNGE— HARDWICKE. resigned 10 weeks before his death ; Field Marshal, 2 Oct. 1855. Ho m., 10 Dec. 1821, Emily Jane, widow of John James, da. of Robert (Stewart), 1st Marquess op Londonderry [1.], by his second wife, Frances, da. of Charles (Pratt), 1st Karl Camden. He d. 24 Sep. 1S56, at South Park, Kent, aged 71, and was Jar. in the church of Fordcombe. Will pr. 1856. nis widow, who was 6. 29 March 1789, if. at the house of her sou (Sir Walter-Charles James, 2d Bart.), Botteshanger, Kent, 18 Oct. 1865. II. 1856. 2. Charles Stewart (IIart>in t ge), Viscount Hardinge ok Lahore and King's Newton, s. and h., 4. 12 Sep. 1822 ; ed. at Eton and at Ch. Ch, Oxford; mat., 3 June IS 10; B.A., IS 14; M.P. for Down- patrick, 1851-56; sue. to the peerage, 24 Sop. 1856 ; Under Sec. for War, 1858-59 | Lieut. Col. 1st Kent Rifle Volunteers, I860 ; Volunteer Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, 1SS1. He m., 10 April 1856, Lavinia, lid da. of George Charles (Bingham), 3d Haul of Lucan [I.], by Anne, da. of Robert (Brddbnell), 6th Earl ok Cardigan. She, who was b. 2 May 1S35, d. 15 Sep. 1861, at South Park afsd. Family Estates.— These, in 1885, appear not to have amounted to 2,000 acres. Principal Residence. South Park, near Penshurst, Kent. HARD WICK. See " Cavendise of IIardwick, co. Derby," Barony {Cavendish), er. 1605. HARDWICKE. Barony. /, PniLir Yorke, only s. of Philip Yorke, nf Dover, T 1733 co ' Kent, solicitor, by Elizabeth (relict of Edward OinnoN), only da. ' of Richard Oibbon, of Dover afsd., 6. at Dover 1 Deo. 1690 ; ed. at Earldom. Mr. Morland's school at Bethnal Green, Midx, ; Student (Mid. T Temple), 1708; Barrister, 1715; Recorder of Dover; M.P. for l. ItOi. Lewes, 1719-22 ; for Seaford, 1722-33 ; Solicitor Gen., 1720-24, being Inir/htcd 11 June 1720 ; Attorney Gen.. 1721-33 ; P.O., 1733; Ch. Justice of the King's Bench, 1733-37, was er., 23 Nov. 1733, BARON HARDWICKE of Hardwicke,( a ) co. Gloucester. He was Speaker of the House of Lords, Fob. 1731, and again Feb. 1736 ; he was, Feb. 1737, Lomn Chancki.i.or(>'j (holding that office, for four months, together with the Chief Justiceship) and continuing to bo Chancellor (for nearly 20 years) till Nov. 1 756. ( u ) During that time he was one of the Lords Justices (Regents) of the Realm, May to Oct. 1710, April to Nov. 1743, May to Aug. 1715, May to Nov. 1718, April to Oct. 1750, March to Nov. 1752, and April to Sep. 1755. He also presided as Lord High STEWARD at the trial of the Earls of Cromartie and Kilmarnock and Lord Bahnerino [S.] July to Aug. 1746^*; and at that of Lord Lovat (") He had purchased in 1725 the manor and estate of Hardwicke, co. Gloucester, for about £24,000. ( b ) From pecuniary motives " he hesitated to accept the precarious honour," but this difficulty was overcome by giving him an equivalent in a grant in reversion to his eldest son of a tellership in the Exchequer. Foss's " Judges." (°) Only three holders of the great seal, viz., two previous (Sir Nicholas Bacon for 20 years, 1558-78, and Sir Thomas Egerton for Dearly 21 years, 1596 — 1617), and one subsequent (Lord Eldon for 25 years, 1801 to 1S06, and 1807 to 1827) exceeded the length of his tenure of the office. ( d ) Horace Walpole says of him on this occasion that " tho' a most comely personage with a fine voice, his behaviour was mean, curiously searching for occasion to bow to the Minister [Henry Pelham] that is no Peer and applying to the other Ministers, in a manner, for their orders. To the prisoners ho was peevish — he crossed them and .almost scolded at any offer they made towards defence. " Letter to H. Mann, 1 Aug. 1746. Foss (in his " Judges ") however says " That he seems to have excited the animosity of no one except Horace Walpole " and adds that " his reputation as a Lawyer and a Judge was not exceeded by any previous holder of the great seal," stating also that only three of his decisions (during his 20 years Chancellorship) were ever appealed from and that not one has been ever reversed.