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 4., de jure, , s. and h. made proof of his age (1339-41), 14 Ed. III., when he did homage for his father's land; was knighted before (1353-54), 27 Ed. III., but was never sum. to Parl. He d. a-p.m., probably about 1360, when the Barony fell into abeyance.(a)

PRESTON.

1., Bart., of Esk, and of Netherby, co. Cumberland, s. and h. of Sir George Graham, 21 Bart. of the same, by Mary, da. of James, 1st [S], was b. 24 Sep. 1648 at Netherby; suc. his father in the Baronetcy (cr. 29 March 1639) in 1657; was ed. at Westminster, and at Ch. Ch., Oxford; mat., 20 June 1664, aged 15; M.A., 4 Feb. 1666/7; Student of the Inner Temple, 1664; M.P. for Cockermouth, 1675-81, and for co. Cumberland, 1685-87, having been meanwhile cr. 21 May 1681, VISCOUNT PRESTON and LORD GRAHAM OF ESK [S]. Ambassador to France, 1682; Sec. of State, and Master of the Wardrobe 1688-89. He was cr. an English Peer by James II. about the time of his dethronement(b) as Baron of Esk, or Baron Preston of Esk, co. Cumberland, and consequently claimed his writ, 11 Nov. 1689, but the House of Lords declared the patent void, and ordered him to prison for his presumption. He was taken prisoner 30 Dec. 1689, when about to join James II. in France, and was on 17 Jan. 1689/90 sentenced to death, having been found guilty of high treason, under the designation of a Baronet(c), when his English estates and his Baronetcy [E.] were forfeited, but "the attainder could not affect his Scottish Peerage as no act of forfeiture passed again him in Scotland."(d) He was, however, subsequently, pardoned.(e) He m. 2 Aug. 1670, Anne, 2d da. of Charles, 1st , by Anne, da. of Edward (Howard),. He d. 22 Nov. 1695, and was bur. at Nunnington, co. York, aged 47.(f)

2., &c. [S.], 1st surv. s. and h., (g) b. about 1678; ''suc. to the peerage'' [S.], 22 Nov. 1695; mat. at Oxford (Univ. Coll.) 24 Nov. 1693. He m. 5 Jan. 1702/3, at York minster,