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 HA WARDEN — H A WKE, 195 m., 8 July 1811, Jane Crawfurd, yr. da. of Patrick Crawford Bruce, of Tnplow Lodge, Bucks. She d. at Calais 24 March 1852. He d. 12 Oct. 1850, aged 77, at St. James' Place, Westm. Will pr. Oct. 1856. IV. 185G. 4- Cornwall-is (Maude), Viscount Hawarden, and Baron db Montalt op Hawarden [I.], only s. and h., 6. 4 April 1817 i ed. at Etou ; Capt. 2d Life Guards, 1849-53 ; sue. to the peerage [I.], 12 Oct. 1856 ; one of the Lords in waiting, 1866-68, 1874-80, and 1885-86 ; el. Rep. Peer [I.], 1S62 ; Speaker in the House of Lords, 1S82 ; Lord Lieut, of co. Tipperary, 1885. He was er., 9 Sep. 1886, EAKL DE MONTALT OF DUNDRUM, ca. Tipperary [U.K.] He m., 21 March 1845, Clementina Elphinstone, eldest sister and coheir (1861) of John, 11th Lord ELruiNSTONF. [S.], da. of Admiral the Hon. Charles ELrniNSTONE-FLEEMiN'0, by Donna Catalina Paulina Ai.esandro, a Spanish lady.( a ) She d. (as Viscountess Hawarden) 19 Jan. 1865, at 5 Princes Gardens, South Kensington. (*>) Family Estates.— These, in 1883, consisted of 15,272 acre3 in co. Tipperary valued at £8,781 a year. Principal Residence. Dundrum, near Cashel, co. Tipperary. HA WKE OF TOWTON. Barony. 2. Edward Hawke, only s. of Edward Hawke, Barrister I. 1776 ** Law ' ^ Elizabeth, sister of Col. Martin Bladen, Comptroller of the Mint, da. of Nathaniel B. of ilemsworth, co. York, was 4. 21 Feb. 1710, in Lincolns Inn, London; entered the Navy in Feb. 1720; gained a victory, off Finisterre, over the French (being then Rear Admiral of the White) 14 Oct. 1747, capturing seven out of their nine ships of war ;( c ) installed K.B., 23 Juno 1749 ; M.P. for Portsmouth, 1747-76. In 1759, being in command of the western squadron, he held Brest from May to Nov. as a sealed fort and finally on 20 Nov. totally defeated the French fleet (under Conflans) in Quiberon bay off Bellisie. For this "the greatest victory at sea since the defeat of the Spanish Armada "( d ) he receives the thanks of Tarl. and a pension of £2,000 for two lives. Id 1 768 he was made Admiral and Commander-in-Chief of the Fleet, having been in Nov. 1766 appointed First Lord of the Admiraltv an office he held till 1771. (°) Five years after his retirement he was cr., 20 May 1776, BARON HAWKE OFTOWTON, co. York. He m. in 1737 at Somerset House chapel, Midx., Catharine, da. and h. of Walter Brooke, of Burton Hall, in Gateforth, co. York, by Catharine, da. and coheir of William Hammond. She d. 28 Oct. 1756, aged 36, and was bur. at North Stone- ham. Hants. He rf. at Sunbury, Midx., 17 Oct. 1781, aged 71, and was bur. at North Sloneham. M.I. Will pr. Jan. 1782. II. 1781. 2. Martin Bladen (Hawke), Baron Hawke of Tow- ton, s. and U., 6. 20 April 1744, at Lymingtou, Hants ; mat. at Oxford (Queen's Coll.), 11 July 176! ; D.C.L., 4 July 1777 ; M.P. for Saltaah, 1768- 74 ; sue. to the peerage, 17 Oct. 1781. He ro., 6 Feb. 1771, at St. Geo. Han. Bq. (») See vol. iii, p. 260, note "a," sub "Elphinstone." ( b ) The Hon. Cornwallis Maude, his only s. and h. ap., Capt. 58th Foot, d. s.p.m. and v.p., being killed in action on Majuba Hill, Transvaal (in the Boer campaign) 27 Feb. 1881, aged 28, in the attack on Sir George Colley's party. (?) " The action, by far the most important and most brilliant of the war, had the misfortune of coming after Anson's of 3 May [when the French fleet of 38 sail was taken] and the acknowledgements of the Admiralty, of which Anson was a member, were almost ungracious." [Nat. Biogr.] ( a ) "Nat. Biogr.'- where it is added that this " so far as England was concerned was the decisive action of the war " and that " for the time it completely destroyed the Naval power of France." (°) According to Wraxall (Memoirs, vol. i. p. 402, edit. 1S84), tho' "great on the element of the water whore he had nearly annihilated the French fleet in 1759 "he "made a very inefficient First Lord of the Admiralty." The career of Lord Hawke is most ably set forth in the life of him (1883) by Capt. Montagu Burrows, R.N., Chicheley Professor at Oxford. 2 o 1