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 258 STOURTON — STOAVELL. 1865, at Skryne, co. Meafh, Mary Margaret, da. and h. of Matthew Elias Corbaliy, of Corbaltou Hall, iu that co, by Matilda, da, nf Jenico (Phkston), 12th Viscopxt GokmanstoN [I.] He </. (if influenza at the Hotel St, James, Paris, 18 and was bur. 26 April 1883, at the chapel in Allcrton Park afsd., aged 64. Will pr. 1393 at £27,971 gross, but £S,034 net. His widow living 1896. XXI. 1S9.1 81. Chaulics BotoLra(«) Joseph (Stourton), Lord Mowbray, Lord Skorave and Baron Stoi'rton, 1st s. an 1 h. ; 4. 23 May 1867 at 42, Portland place, Mnrylebune, ami bap. there J s«r:. to the perrage 18 April, taking his seat 19 June 1S93. 'lie in. 3fi July 1893, at St. Mary s ilium. Cath. church!, Chelsea, Mary, da. and h of Thomas Constable, of the Manor Home, Otley, co. York, by Elizabeth Duearel, da. of Henry Pierre, Count dk La i'A.sTi:itE.=f Family E/tales. — These in 18S3 consisted of .'',097 acres in the west riding <>i Yorkshire, valued at £9,347 a year. Principal Ihtidcnee, A Hel ton Park [Stourtoa Towers) near Knaresborough, co. York. STOWE. See " Temple of Ptowe, co. Buckingham," Earldom (JT«</en<-2Vmpfe- QrenvSlt) cr. 1822 with the Di'KKDOM DP BtfCKTKOHAS AND CllANDos, but with a spec, rem. which preserved it, ill 1S59, from extinction with that Dukedom, on failure of the heirs male of the body of the grantee. STOWELL OF STOWELL PARK. t. Tlie Rt. Htm. Sm YVii.uam Scott, eMeat bt. of ]go] John, 1st Karl ok Ei.don (the well-known Lord Chancellor) 1st s to 1836. of William Scott, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne M Hoastman '*(■) (who d. 6 Nov. 17761. by Jane [4. 18 July 1800, aged 92) da. of Henry Atkinson, of the same, merchant, was li. at Hewurth, ct>. Durham, 28 (Jet. and Lap. IS Nov. 1745 at All Saints, Newcastle; ed. at the Grammar school there; mat. at Oxford (Corpus Christ i Coll.) 3 March 1761 ; Scholar of Corpus afsd., 1761 ; B.A., 20 Nov. 1764 : Probationer Fellow of Univ. Coll., 13 Dec. 1764 and actual Fellow 14 June 1765, being tutor of that College, 1765 ; M..A. 17 June 1705 j B.O.L, 30 May 1772: Camden Professor of ancient history, 1773-1785; D.C.I* 23 June 1779, being admitted a Fellow of the Coll. of Advocates (Doctors' Commons;, 5 Nov. 1779. " Here he rose to the highest eminence with a rapidity almost unexampled, becoming King's Advocate General, 1787, being knii/lited 24 Sep, 1788 ; Jmlge of tin- Consistory Court of London, Viear Gen. of the province of Canterbury and Master of the Faculties 1788-1821 ; P.C. 1798 ; Judge of the High Court of Admiralty, 1799-1828. He was also I'.itn ister-at- law (1780) of the Middle Temple, being Bencher thereof 1794. He was M l', for Downton, 1790-1801 : for Oxford L'uiv. 1801-21, being or. 17 July 1S2H' 1 ) BARON STOWELL OF STOWELL PAKE, co. Gloucester, and retiring from office seven years later when in his 83rd year. He was also F.S.A. and F.R.S. He m. firstly, April 1782, Anna Maria, 1st da. ami b, of John Bacxali., of Early Court, near Heading, co Berks. She d. 4 Sep. 1809. He m. secondly, 10 April 1813, Louisi Catharine, Dow. Marchionbss of Si.iuo [T ]. yst. da. and coheir of Richard (How*, 1st Eahi, Howk, by Mary, da. and coheir of Chiverton Haiitoit. She, by whom he belonging) and shed bountifully upon " all manner " of claimants, men anil women, sometimes (as from March 1838 to May 1841) as fast its at the rate of one for every six months. See vol. i, p. 2S8, note " b," tub " Beaumont." (a) The pedigree of Stourton commences with a Botolph, who was "primus Dominus de Stourton post Conqucttum," the Lords of Stourton before that date being unrecorded. See. however, p. 252, note "d," as to the early position of the family. ( b ) i.e., a Broker between the Coal-owner and the ship-owner. ( c ) Ann. Reg. 1836, in his obituary notice. (•') This was one of the "coronation " peerages of Geo. IV., as was the Earldom, conferred at the same date, on his br. Lord Kldoii. Fur B list of these, see vol- U, p. 351, note " d," sub " Coiiyngham."
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