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 STRAFFORD. 265 Ambassador Plenipotentiary to the Congress of Utrecht, 23 Dec. 1711. ( a ) First Lord of the Admiralty 1712-14 ; el. K G, 25 Oct. 1712 and inst. (by proxy) 4 Aug. 1713 ; Master of the Trinity House, 1713 : one of the Lords Justices (Keirents) of the Realm 1 Aug. to 18 Sep. 1714. C*) An attempt was made to impeach him of high treason f .r his share in the treaty of Utrecht. He waB, unquestionably at one time, in correspondence with the exiled Koyal House, and w;is cr. a Duke [DUKE OF STRAFFORD '] b« the titular King James III., in 1722 [*) He m, ti Sep. 1711( d ) Anne {" jWO.000 ") da. and h. of Sir Henry Johnson, of Hradenham, co. Bucks, and Toddiugtou, co. Beds, by his tirst wife.'") He </. of the stone at Wentworth Castle. 15 Nov. and was bur. 2 Dec. 1639 at Toddington. aged 67.(0 Will pr. 1739. His widow d. 19 Sep. 17f»4. Will dat. 20 Jan. 1739/10 to Aug. 1794, pr. 1754.1 IV. 1739. ~'. William ( Wbxtworth), Earl of Straffobd, tfec, only s. and h. ; b. shortly before 27 March 1722, and bop. on the Thursday week [allowing that date ; styled Viscount Wentworth, till he sue. to the peerage, as above, 1*5 Nov. 1739, taking his seat 21 March 174 3 : Farmer of the Post tines l"4li. He in. 28 April 1741, Anna, 2d da. and coheir of John (Campbell), 2d Duke of Argyll [S.] and Dcke of Greenwich, by his first wife, Mary, da. of Thomas Browse, afterward* Duncombf. She d. at Wentworth Castle 7 and was bur. 26 Feb. 17So at Toddington. aged 70. He d. there s.p. of the stone 10 and was 6ur. 26 March 1791 at Toddington afsd. aged 6D. K) Will pr. April 1791.( h ) V. 1791, 8. Frederick Thomas (Wentworth), Earl of Straf- to foiiu [17111, Viscount Wentworth of Wentworth Woobhovsk and 1799. of Stain-borough [1711], and Baron Rahy [1640 and 1641], also a Baronet [1611], cousin and h. male, being only surv. b. and h. of William Wentworth, Gent. Usher to the Dow. Princess of Wales, by Susanna, da. of (•■>) His pride in refusing to be joined with Matthew Prior in the peace negociatious with Holland is commented on (1711) by Pepys. ( h ) See vol. Hi, p. 116, note " b," tub " Devonshire for the names of these. (") See a list of these Jacobite Creations" in vol. ii, p. 59, note " b," sub " Albemarle." ( J ) Swift writes thus to Stella, 3 Sep. 1711, " Lord Raby, who is Earl of Strafford, is on Thursday to marry a namesake of Stella, the da. of Sir Henry Juhnson in the City ; he has threescore thousand pounds with her, ready money, besides the rest at the father's death." ( c ) The second wife of this Sir Henry (Lie. Vic. C!en. 6 March 1692/3, he about 32, widr.) was Martha, suo jure Baroness Wentworth. (•) Macky in his " Characters " speaks of him, when about 30, as " a young gentle- man lie bon naturel, handsome, of fine understanding [" very bad and cannot spell," remarks Swift] and, with application, may prove a man of business. He is of low stature [" he is tall " remarks Swift], well shaped with a good face, fair complexioned." A portrait of him " after Sir G. Kueller, 1714," in a full-bottomed wig, is engraved in " Doyle." Swift (in his " Journal " II, p. 499) describes him as having "some life and spirit, but is infinitely proud aud wholly illiterate." Lord Hervey [" Memoirs," vol. i, p. 481] calls him " a loquacious, rich, illiterate, cold, tedious constant haranguer, who neither spoke sense nor English .... in short, there was nothing so low as his dialect except his understanding, nor anything so tiresome as his public harangues except his private conversation." There is, however, au interesting letter from him in Hearne's " Collections," describing his visits to Charles XII, Augustus of Saxony and Stanislaus. An enormous quantity of his correspondence is at the British Museum, of which some portions were published, in 1883, by J. J. Cartwright under the title of " The Wentworth Papers." (*) His portrait after Sir J. Reynolds, 1762," is engraved in "Doyle." He was skilled in architecture and " vertu." Lady Mary Montagu writes of him (Jan. 1741) that " he behaves himself really very modestly and geuteely, aud has lost the pertness he acquired in his mother's assembly." (") The chief of his estates went to his three sisters and coheirs, of whom Anne, the eldest, m. 28 April 1783 at St. James' Westm. the Rt. Hon. William Conolly, P C. [I.] and had one son, Rt. Hon. Thomas Conolly, who d. s.p. 21 April 1883, and 5 daughters, of whom Anue, the eldest da. that left issue, m. George Byng, and was Mother of John, 1st Baron Strafford of Harmondsworth, cr. Earl of Strafford 1847.