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 358 KENT — KEN YON. 6 July 1701. IK. 16 May, 1736, as his third wife, John (Leveson-Gower), 1st Earl Gower, who rf. 25 Dec. 1754, aged CO. the rf. 12 Feb. 1765 at her Beat, Bill Hill, Berks., aged 83. Will pr. Feb. 1785.] [George Grey, styled Earl of Harold, 5th ami yst bill only surv. s. and h. up,, being only ton by the 2d wife, ft. 22 Aug. 1732, rf. v. p. an infant ] Dukedom. H.R.H. Edward, Pbikce of Great Ebitain and I 1799 In> land, also Duke of Brunswick- Lnneburg, 4th s. of King George to ' III, by Charlotte Sophia, da. of Charles Louis, Giiand Dl'KE of 1820. M EC K LKN lit ' n G- STR E I.1T Z, ft. in the Queen's l'tdace, St. James' Talk, 2 Nov. 1767 ; l/ap. tbere the COth and registered at St. .lames' chape! Hoynl: id. at the Cull, at Geneva ; el. K.P. (senior Founder) 5 Feb. and inst. 27 March 1783 ;(=) el. KG. (with three of his brothers) ( b ) 2 June 1786 (the ensigns being sent to Hanover) ami inst. (by disp.) 2S May 1801. At the age of 19 he was, in 1786, I'd in the Ainiy. distinguishing himself at the reduction of St. Lucia in the West Indies, 4 April 179-1, serving as Major Gen. and Lieut Gen. at Halifax, in North America, 1 794-98 ; Gen. in the Aimy, 1799 ; Coin, in Chief of the Forces in North America, 1799—1800; Col of the 1st Font, 1801 ; Gov. of Gibraltar, 1S02-20, presiding there in person, 1802-03 ; Field Mai-rhal. 5 Sep. 1805. He was cr., 21 April 1799. DOKE OF KENT AND OF STRATH F.AKN [GB] and HAUL OF DUBLIN [1.]; P.C., 1799; G.C.JB., 12 April 1835; G.C.H., 12 Aug. 1815. lie (It., 29 May 1818, at Coburg, and again 11 July following at Kew, co. Mids., Maria Louisa Victoria, widowfj of hmich Chailes, reigning 1'lUNCE tF Leinisgen (who rf. 4 July 1814), sister of Leopold I., Klo OF THE UkluiaNS, 4th da. of Francis Frederic Anthony, reigning Duke of Saxe-Cobuhg-Saalfeld, by his second wife, Augusta Caroline Sophia, da. of Henry, Coint Kit las d'EBERSDOBF. He rf. s.p.m.( a ) 23 Jan. 1S20 (but six days before the King, his father), at WoodLrook collage, Sidm,)Uth,( c ) aged 52. and was Dir. in St. Geoige's chapel, Windsor. M ill dat. 22 Jan. and pr. 21 March 1820, under .180.0110. His widow (the Queen s Mother) who was ft. 17 Aug. 1786, rf. 16 March Itfll, aged 74. at Frogmoie, near Windsor, and was Ivr. (as had been her husband) at St. Gorge's Chapel, whence she was on 1 Aug. following removed (he being left) to a " tuautoltum" newly constructed at Frogmore afsd. i.e., " KENT " Earldi m (H.H.U. Prim* Aljr&i) cr. 18G6, with the Earldom of Ulster and Dukedom of Edinburgh, which last see. KEN YON OF GREDINGTON. 1. Lloyd Kenyon('), 2d but 1st suvv. s. and h. of Barony. Lloyd Kisvon, of Gredington, in Hannier, co. Flint (rf. 30 Sep. I 1788 1773, aged 77) by Jane, 1st da. and coheir of liobert Eudo»es, of Eagle Hall, co. Chester (by Anne, da. and h. of the Rev. Richard (") See vol. i, p. 136, nib. " An an," for a list of these Knights. ( b ) See vol. ii, p. 122, no*e "a," tub. " Cambridge." ( c ) By her first husband she had two children, uterine brother and sister to Queen Victoria, viz., (1) Charles Frederic William Ernest (reigning) Prjnce of Leiningen, KG-, ft. 12 Sep. 18u4 ; rf. 13 Nov. 1856, leaving issue; (2) Anne Feodoronna Augusta Charlotte Wilhelmina, A. 7 Dee. 1807 ; vi. 18 Feb. 1828, L'rnest Christian Charles, Prince of Hohekloue-Langenbouro, G.C.B. (who rf. 12 April I860) and rf. 23 Sep. 1872, leaving issue. ( d ) Mis only da. and h., Alexandrine Victoria, A. at Kensington Palace, 24 May 1819 (known till 1837 as the Princess Alexandria of Kent) ; ascended the throne, 20 June 1837 under the name of Victoria ; whom God preserve. ('1 See "Annual ley." 1820, pp. C80— 697, for an interesting account of bim. His unexpected death, from inflammation of the lungs, was caused by delay in changing bis boots when soaked tbruugh with the wet. l f ) " The life of Lloyd, first Lord Kenyon, by [his grandson] the Hon. Georgo T. Kenyon, M.A.," wbb pub. 1873, to " enable the public to form an impartial opinion bb to his merits," and to refute the -condemnation" of his character by Lord Campbell in his « Lives of the Chief Justices."