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 232 STAMFORD. Good Hope, in 1854. He sue. to the prrrapr, 2 Jan. 1SS3, but never took bis sent, nor even returned to England, He m. firstly 30 Sep. 18-14, at Tiverton, co. Devon, Susan, da. of Richard Gaydon. of tli.it town. Prom lier he separated in 1 S :i 4 and she (/. s.p. in England and was bur. 24 Nov. 1S69. at Trinity Church, Barnstaple, Devon. He m. secondlv, 19 Dec. 1S72, at S. John's Church in Wynberg afsd., Annie M.u-na.maka, spinster, who d. a. p. and Was bur. there 12 Sep. 1871. (') He in. thirdly, C Dec. 1SS0, at the Parsonage of the Dutch reformed church, in Wynberg afsd., Martha Solomon, otherwise Simons, a Hottentot woman. He d. s.pm. legit., 19 June 1 s<>0. aged 78 and was bUSr. next day at St. John's Wynberg, Will dat. "at Claremoiit," 21 Nov. 1888, filed in the Court of the Colony of Good Hope 20 June and pr. 10 Oct. 1890 in London. (•') His widow in., in 1S92, Pieter Piktehsk, of Wellington, Cape of Good Hope and was living 189(5. IX. 1890. 9. William (Guey) Earl of Stamford [IG28] and Baiwn Grkt ok GhobTT [1003J. Bephew and h. male, being only s. and h. of the Rev. William Grky, M.A., Principal of Queen's Coll., St. John's, Newfoundland, by Harriet. ( c ) da. of Rev. Francis Henry White, which William (who A 1 Sep. 1872, "g^'l 52) was 3d. br. of the Sth Earl. I' 1 ) He was 6. 18 April and Sop. 1 May 1S50, at St. John's Newfoundland ; ed. at Bradfield College, and at Ex. Coll.. Oxford; Scholar 1869-78 ; B.A. 1S73 ; M.A. 187. r > ; sometime Professor of Classics and Philosophy at Codrington Coll., Baibadoes, and was admitted, by the Bishop of London, as diocesan reader, in 1891. He sue. to the peerage 19 June 1S90, his chum thereto beiuc allowed 3 May 1S92. He m. IS April 1895, at St. Geo. Han. Sq., Elizabeth 3d da. of the Rev. Charles Theobald, M.A., Rector of Lasham, Hants. Family Estates.— These, belonging to the 7th Karl.C) consisted, in 1883, of 9,012 acres in Leicestershire; S,012 in Cheshire; 7,339 in Staffordshire; 5,231 in Lancashire; 606 in Shropshire ; 93 in t he Went Riding of Yorkshire, and 09 in Worcestershire and Warwickshire. Total 30,962 acres, worth £58,393 a year. Principal Seats. Enville Hall, co. Stafford ; Bradgate Hall, co. Leicester, and Dunham Massey Park, co. Chester. (») The Editor is indebted to C. II. Athill, Richmoud Herald, for nearly all the information respecting this Earl and his successor. ( b ) In this he leaves nothing to his " present wife," but makes his son, " John Grey, born before marriage," and his two daughters, his residuary legatees Of these daughters, one, (Lady) Mary, b. 25 July ami bap. 4 Sep. 1881 at Wynberg was legitimate, but the other (like the son) was //. before marriage. (") They were m. 25 July 1849 at Abbots Anne, Hants, see note " a " above. ( ll ) John Grey, the intermediate br., d. s.p. 26 March 1868. aged 52. (•) He is, apparently, the only male descendant of the 1st Earl, as also of that EarPs grandfather, the 1st Baron Grey of Groby, who was nephew of the well known Duke of Suffolk (father of Lady Jane Grey, &c.) and grandson of Thomas (Grey) 2d Marquess of Dorset, which Marquessate (it. 14 75) the Earls of Stamford would have inherited, had it not been for the attainder, in 1554, of its third holder, the said Duke of Suffolk. (0 According to the newspapers (see especially the " Morning Tost" 10 Jan. 1S83) all the estates went to his widow for life, subject to an annual charge of i'8,000 for bis successor in the title, who, at her decease, is to have the Cheshire Estates, worth about £30,000 a year, in strict entail with the title, while the Leicestershire Estates (which include the historic site of Bradgate house) are to pass to Mrs. Arthur Duucombe, niece of the deed., and the Staffordshire Estates (which include Enville Hall), and the Lancashire Estates (subject to paying off the charges on all of the estates) are to pass to a grandniece of his wife [!], Catherine Sarah, wife of Sir Henry Foley Lambert 7tli Bart., da. of Rev. Henry Payne, Rector of Enville afsd. It is added that " the income of the estates is believed to be nearly £100,00(1 a year." That sum, however, is nearly double the sum (£58,393) given as their value, in the said year, 1883, in Bateman'a "Great Landowners," where also the Cheshire estates (8,612 acres) are estimated at £16,000, not £30,000, a year.