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 SOMERSET. 179 Chancellor of the Univ. of Cambridge, 1689-1748 ; Speaker of the House of Lorcta 1690; one of the Lord Justices (Regents) of England, (a) July to Not. 1701; L. President of the Council and a Lord of Trade, Jan. to July 1702. To Queen Anne, Geo. I., ami Goo. If., he was P.C., being Master of the Horse, 1702-12, and again, 1711-15. He was cr. D.C.L of Oxford, 27 Aug. 1702, and was a Commissr. for ..the Union [S.], 1706. At the Council of 30 July 1714, he (tho' not a member thereof and not then holding any office) boldly presented himself, together with the Duke of Argyll [S.], without having been Plimmoned, anil, by so doing, in a great measure contributed to tiie undisputed successi on of the House of Hanover. He was, consequently, added to that Council [ h j by the new King, and soon afterwards restored to his office of Master ot the Horse, which, however, he resigned in 1715, after Twhich date he held no post of any importance. He m. firstly, 30 May 1082, at Montagu House, Elizabeth, sti/lcd Countess of Ooi-E, who, tho' then only in her IGth'year, was the childless widow of Thomas Thynnk, of Longleat, Wilts (murdered 12 Feb. lb'81/2 and formerly of Henry Cavendish, afterwards Percy, styled Earl of Ogle (rf. v.p. 1 Nov. 16S0 in his 18th year), being da. and h. of Joceliue (Percy), 5th (xiith) Raul ok Northumberland, by Elizabeth, da. and coheir of Thomas (Wriothesley), Pari, of SOUTHAMPTON. She, who, on the death of her father in May 1670, had become the heiress of the vast estates of the family of Percy, and who was one of the beauties at the Court of Charles If., walked as chief mourner at the funeral of Mary It. in 1694. She d. 23 Nov. 1722, aged about 55. He m. secondly 4 Feb. 1725/6, Charlotte, 3 da. of Daniel (Finch), Earl of Winchilsea, and (2d) Earl of Notting- ham, being his 2d da. by his second wife, Ann, da. of Christopher (HaTTOn), 1st YlscorST Hatton of Gretton. The Duke d. at his seat at Petworth, Sussex, 2, and was bur. 26 Dec. 1748, at Salisbury cathedral, in his 87th year.( c ) Will pr. 1748. His widow (/. s.p.m. 21, ami was bur. 30 Jan. 1773 at Chisiviek, co. Midx., having resided at Sutton Court in that parish. Will pr. March 1773. Xlf. 1748. ~. Algernon (Seymour), Duke of Somerset [1547], Eaul of Hertford [1559], Baron Seymour [1547], Baron Beau- champ [1559], Baron Seymour of Trowbridge [1641], and Lord Percy [1722], 1st b. and h. by lirst wife ; b. 1 1 Nov. 16S4, beiug styled Earl of Hertford, till he sue. to ihe Dukedom in 1718. He was M.P. for Marlborough, 1705-08, and for Northumberland from 170S till raised to the peerage in 1722 ; L. Lieut- of Sussex, 1706-54. From 1708 to 1713 he served in the wars in Flanders, with considerable distinction, beiug Col. of the 15th Foot, 1709-15 ; Capt. and Col. of the 2d troop of. Horse Guards, 1/15; Col. of the Horse Guards, 1740-50; becoming finally, 1747, General of the Horse. He was a Lord of the Bedchamber to the Prince of Wales, 1714-15. On the death of his mother, 22 Nov. 1722, and under the erroneous('') impression that the ancient Barony of Percy [cr. 1299] had been vested in her, and that he, in consequence, had sue. thereto, he was sum. to Pari, as LORD PERCY, and took his seat 21 Jan. 1722 3, being wrongly placed according the old precedence ; F.S.A., 1724, beiug many yearB President of that Society ; Gov. of Minorca, 1737-42 ; Gov. of Guernsey, 1742-50 ; sue. his father as Duke of Somerset, 2 Dec. 1748, shortly after which, he, having no surv. male issue, was, in honour of his maternal descent, cr. 2 Oct 1749, HA.R0N WARKWORTH of Warkworth Castle, co. Northumberland, and EAUL OF NORTHUMBERLAND, with a spec, rem., failing heirs male of his body, in favour of his son-in-law, Sir Hugh Smithson, Bart., and Elizabeth, wife of the said Hugh, only surv. child 0 f the grantee, being also cr. on the uext dav, 3 Oct. 1749, BARON COCKERMOUTH and EARL OF EGREMONT, both co.' Cumberland, with a spec, rem., in the like contingency, to his nephews, children of his sister, Lady Katharine (*) See list of these in vol. iii, p. 115, note " c," sub " Devonshire." ( h ) See vol. iii, p. 116, note " b," sub " Devonshire," for a list of these officers. ( c ) Mack; describes him [1702] wheu about 42 as "of a middle stature, well shaped, a very black complexion, a lover of music and poetry, of good judgement [as tu which Swift interpolates " not a grain, hardly common sense "], but by reason of a great hesitation in his speech, wants expression." He does not mention his over- weening pride, which appears to be his chief title to fame. See p. 17S, note "b." His portrait in a f-tU-bottomed wig, and with the chain of the Order of the Garter after SirG. Kneller," is engraved in " Doyle:' l") See vol. vi, p, 94, note " b," sub " Northumberland." N 2