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 68 GRAFTON. the Nort.1i, .Tuly 176S, under the Rockingham administration, but resigned in May 1766 ; P.O., 1/65 ; First Lord of thk Treasury (Prime Minuter), Aug. 17GG to Jan. 1770,1") when he resigned ; taking office, however, as Privy Skal, 1771, in Lord North's administration, hut resigning in 1775, tho' again holding that office for some months (March to Dec), in 1782 ; Chancellor of the Univ. of Cambridge, 176S, being installed, July 1769, at the expense of some £2,000 ; el. K.G., 20 Sep. 1760, inst. 25 July 1771. Since 17S3, he quitted public life, devoting much of his time to his pack of hounds, at Wliittlebury, to the races at Newmarket, and, finally, to the Unitarian religion. He m. firstly, 29 Jan. 1750, at St. James', Westm. Anne (then aged 18,i, da. and h. of Henry (Liddf.ll), Baron Ryvenswoktii, by Anne, da. of Sir Peter Delme. They were separated 11 Jan. 1765, and the marriage was dissolved by act of pari., 28 March 1769.( b ) His Grace m. secondly (3 months later) 21 June 1769, at Woburn Abbey, Beds, Elizabeth, 2d da. of the Sir Richard Wrottesley, 7th Bart., Deau of Worcester, by Mary, da. of John (Leveson-Gower), 1st Earl Gower. He d. 14 March 1811, aged 75. Will pr. 1811. His widow, who was 4. 1 Nov. 1715, d. 25 May 1822. Will pr. 1822. TV. 1811. J t. George Henry (Fitz Roy), Duke of Grafton, &c, 1st s. aucl h., by first wife ; 4. 11 and bap. 27 Jan. 1760, at St. Geo. Han. sq. ; sti/lcd EaRI. of Euston till 1811 ; ed. at Harrow school and at Trin. Coll., Cambridge, M.A., 1799 ; M.P. for Thetford, 17S2-84, aud for Cambridge Univ., 1784—1811 ; Col. of the West Suffolk Militia, 1780— 1S30 ; Lord Lieut, of co. Sulfolk, 1790—181 1 : Col. in the Army (during service) 1791 ; Hanger of Hyde Park and St. James Park, 1791 — 1807, sue. to the peerage, 1811. Bearer of St. Ednard's crown at the coronation (1831), of King William IV. K.G, 20 Pec. 1834 ; ci: LL.D. of Cambridge, 0 July 1835. He in. 16 Nov. 1784, Charlotte Maria, 2d da. and coheir of James (Waldeorave), 2d Earl Waldegraye, by Maria, illegit. da. of the Hon. Sir Edward Walvolf, KB. She, who was 4. 11 Oct. 1761, d. 1 Feb. 1808. He d. 28 Sep. 1844, aged 81, at Eustou Hall afsd.(°) Will pr. Nov. 1844. Y. 1S14. 5. Henry (Fitz-Roy), Duke of Grafton, &c, 1st s. and h.i 4. 10 Feb. 1790, generally known as Viscount Ipswich till 1811, when, till 1841, he was styled Earl of Boston ; sometime (1809-10) an officer in the 7th Light Dragoons ; ed. at Trin. Coll., Cambridge ; M.A., 1S14 ; M.P. for Bury St. Edmunds, 1818-20 and 1826-31 ; for Thetford, 1S34-42 ; Col. of the East Suffolk Militia, 1823-30, and of the West Suffolk Militia, 1830-45 ; sue. to the peerage, 1844. He m., 12 June 1812, Mary Caroline, 3d da. of Admiral the Hon. Sir George Craufteld Berkeley, G.C.B., by Emily Charlotte, da. of Lord George Lennox. He d. 26 March 1S63, in his 76th year, at Wakefield Lodge, Wliittlebury forest, co. Northampton.( d ) His widow, who was 4. 18 June 1795, d. 10 Sep. 1S73, aged 78, at Eustou Hall. (a) The letters of " Junius " on him and his conduct, the troubles with America and tho expulsion of the notorious Wilkes from the House of Commons, render his administration notable. He was doubtless, as pronounced by Lord Chatham, unequal " to the government of a great nation," and his pursuit of pleasure rendered him justly open to the observation of Horaco Walpole that (in his Grace's view), " the world should be. postponed to a whore [Nancy Parsons alias Mrs. Horton] aud a horse race." See Stephen's " iVa<. Biogr." (b) The lady, however, had in the interim, given birth, 23 Aug. 1768, to a son, whose father. John ( Fitzpatrick), 2d Earl of Upper Ossory [I.], she m. 26 March 1769, and d. 24 Feb. 1804. (o) " The portrait of the 4th Duke, as he stands (with an umbrella under his arm which Mrs. Oamp might have envied), clad in a bright coloured frock coat, with enormous black velvet collar, and in tightly-strapped trousers, would doubtless cause no slight merriment to-day at Newmarket, were it u living presentment of his grand- son the 7th Duke. The famous Grafton scarlet lias been unknown in connection with Euston Hall upon the classic Heath since 1844 " [Sporting Times, June 1888.] (<1) The redemption of most of the sinecure places and perpetual pensions conferred by Charles II. on the 1st Duke was finished about this period. They appear to have been (more or less) as under, vi:. (1) the prisage and butleruge of wine imported into