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 196 SOUTHAMPTON. whom he had no issue, m. thirdly (as the third of his four wives) Conyers (Baiict), 2d KARL of Holdernessk, who d. 13 Dec. 1692. She was bur. 5 Jan. 1GS0/1, in Westin. Abbey. Admon. 11 Feb. lb'80/1. VI. 1670. 1. Barbara, Countess of Casti.emaine [[.],! £ wife cf Hoger (I'almkr', Kaiil OF Casti.e.maink [I.J, da. and h. of William (YjLLIEKS), lid VlSCOUNT UhaMHSon [I.], and Mistress to | Charles II., was a: 3 Aug. 1670, DUCHESS 01-" CLEVELAND, UOUN- H TESS OF SOUTHAMPTON, Ac., for life, with a spec. rein. She ,1. 9 Oct. 1709, aged about 68. Dukedom. I. 1 an.l :?. Charles Palmer, afterwards Fitzroy, 1675. Htafjt. 8 - °f l ' ,e above, by Charles II., bap. 18 June 1662; styled Loud Limerick (in right of his mother's I Earldom, husband) till 1670 and Eahl ok Southampton (in right of | VTT T7A0 ms niotherjv from 1670 to 1875, was ffr. 10 Sep. 1675,' 11 ) > YU. LiUJ. DUK) . : 0F SOL' T HAMPTON, EARL OF CH [CHESTER, | Ac. By the death of his mother, 9 Oct. 1709, lie became Duke of Cleveland, Earl of SOUTHAMPTON, fas., under the spec. rein, in the creatiou of those dignities 3 Aug. 1670. He d. 9 Sep. 1730, aged 68. 2 mid 3. William (Fitzroy), Duke of Cleveland [1670], DuKB op Southampton [1875], Kakl of Southampton [1670J, Eahl of Cbiohes- teu [16751 Baron Nonsuch [1670], and Baron Newbury [1675], R. mid h, d. ».p. 18 May 1774, aged 76, when all his honours became extinct. J SOUTHAMPTON [town of.] Barony. f, Charles Fitzroy, next yr. far. to Augustus Henry, I 1780 Duke °f Grafton (who sue. as such, 6 May 171"), was 3d ami yst. s. of Lord Augustus KlTZiioy, by Elizabeth, da. of Col. William Cnosnv, Governor of New York, which Augustus (who </. v. p. 24 May 1741, aged 24), was 2d s. of Charles, lid Duke of UiiaFton, s. and h, "f Henry, the 1st Duke of Grafton, who was illegit. yr. br. (by the Baine parents) of Charles, 1st Duke OF Southampton, aboveiiauied. He was b. 21 June, and bap. 25 July 1737, at St. Marylebone ; entered the army, becoming finally, 1793, Lieut. respects ... of a nature much inclined to melancholy ... of a great sharpness of judgment, a very quick apprehension, and readiness of expression upon any sudden debate ... as no man was more punctual in performing his own duty, so no man had more melancholy apprehensions of the issue of the war. He adda [Lijc iii, p. 785] " His person was of a small stature ; his courage, us all his other faculties, very great." He appears, however, " having an infirm body "to have been never active in arms." [Sir E. Walker, J/5. Ashmole, 1110, f. 170]. Sir Phflip Warwick [" Memoirs "] calls him "a steady person to the crown," and remarks that " all parties very much valued and confided in him." In later life Evelyn [" Diary" 7 Feb. 1664/5] calls him " a person of extraordinary parts but a valetudinare," while Pepys writes, 19 Nov. 1663, that " I find my L. Treasurer a very ready man, nud certainly a brave servant to the King; nothing displeased me in him but his long nails " and again, 9 Sep. 166.1, that " He minds his ease and lets things go how they will ; if he can have his £8.000 a year and a game at L'Ombre, he is well.'' He qgaiB writes, 16 and 19 May 1667, after his death, that "the slowness and remissness of this man, tho' he was of great integrity, have gone as far to undo the nation as anything else"— but he adds, he " is said" to die with the cleanest hands that ever any U Treasurer did." His portrait " after Sir P. Lely " is engraved in " Doyle." (»} See vol. ii, p. 284, note " a," as to the non-enrolment of this patent.