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 16 LANGLEY — LANSDOAYN. Meath, Georgiua Mary, 6th da. of Sir Richard SoTTON, 4th Bart., by his second wife, Harriet Anne, da. of William Fitzwilliam Burton, of Burton Hall, eo. Carlow. Family Estates. — These, in 1S83, consisted of 3,855 acres in co. Limerick, 3,659 in co. Dublin, and 2,231 in co. Meath. Total 9,715 acres, worth £9,281 a year. Principal Residence. Summerhill House, co. Meath. LANGLEY. i.e., " Rapclyffe aks Laxgi.ey, co. CuBiberknd," Viscounty (Hadch/fc). cr. 1GSS, with the Kahldom ok Dekwentwateh, which see; attainted 1716. " LAXGPORT. ■i.e., " Botetourt ok Lancpoiit, co. Somerset," Barony (Berkeley), Or. 1664, with the Earldom of Falmouth, which see ; ex. 1665. LAX11YDKOCK. See " Eobartes of Laxiiydrock akd of Tnuno, co. Cornwall," Barony (Rnbartcs). cr. 1869. LANSDOVtf.(") i.e., "Guaxviixe of Laxsdown," Viseounlcy (Gntnville), cr. 1GG1, with the Earldom ok Bath, which see ; ex. 1711. LANSDOYYN OF BIDDEFORD. Barony. George Ciuaxviixe, 2d (but in 1706, 1st surv.) s. of I 171° Bernard Granville, Groom <,f the Bedchamber, by Anne, da. and h. of Cuthbert Mohlky, of Hornby, oo. York (which Bernard was yr. br. to i r:>r>. to John, Emu. ok Bath, Viscount Granville of Dansdown, &e.}, was b. 1667 : ed. in France and at Trin. Cull., Cambridge : M.A., 1679 ; was Capt. .if a Shi]) and Gov. of Deal Castle ; was MP. for Fmvey, 1702, and for Cornwall, 1710; Sec. of War. Sen. 1710, ami wager. 1 Jan. mi/2,0») BARON LANSDOWN OF B1DDF.FORI), co. Devon; P.O., and Comp- troller of the Household, 1712 ;(«) Treasurer <if the Household, 1713, to 11 Oct. 17M, when he was removed therefrom and imprisoned .is a suspected person, in the Tower of Londuii, 26 Sep. 1715, to 8 Feb. 1717. He was restored to his seat in Pari., but sunn afterwards went abroad for many years. He appears to have been in 1721 tr. a Duke [DUKE OK LANSDOWN !| by "the titular King James lll.( a ) He m. 1711. Mary, widow of Thomas Tiiynnk, da. of Ivlward (Vili.iliis), 1st Karl of Jersey, by Barbara, da. of William Chikkincti. She d. 17 Jan. 1734/5. He d. s.p.m. (two weeks later) 30 Jan. 1734/5, in Hanover square, when the peerage became. extinct.:, 0 ) Botli are bur. at St. Clement Danes. His admon. 6 May 1737, is full of genealogical information. ( a ) At Lansdoun, near Bath, the parliamentary army under Sir William Waller, was defeated by the gallant Sir Bevill Granville (who was there slain) 5 July 1043, the place-name of his victory being accordingly selected as a title of peerage" by his descendants. ( b ) ■' lima prima past meridiem." See vol. 1, p. 269, note "d," sub. " Bathurst," as to the twelve Peers (of whom this grantee was one) cr. in 5 days to secure a majority in the House of Lords. C) Of him when " turned of 40 years," it is thus said in Maeky's " Characters." " He is a Gentleman of tolerable good sense, with an undaunted assurance ; very hot for his party and partial ; jolly, and of a fair complexion, middle stature, inclining to fat." ( d ) See vol. i, p. 59, note " b," sub "Albemarle," for a list of the Jacouite Peerages conferred 1689 to 1760. (°) He was a poet and the author of several plays as also of other works. He is the " Meander " of the " Autobiography of Mrs. Delany," who was his niece.