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 STRANG FORD 277 Now York in America, Marie Elisabeth, 1st da, of Frederick PHlI.urSE, ill Phillipsn- burg, in that province. He si. 1 Oct. 1801, aged 48. His widow d. 5 April 1838, in her 82nd year, .it Clifton, near Bristol. Will pr. July 1838. VI. 1801. (>■ Fercy(*) Clinton Sydney (Smytiie), Viscocsi StiunokiiKD [I.], s. and b., h. : Aug; 17*0, in Queen street, May fair; ed. at Triii. Coll., Dublin, obtaining the gold medal in I 800 j *«e. to the peerage £JJ, ] Oct. 1801 : Sec. of Location, 180.3, fetid Minister, 1S0U, at Lisbon ; a Grandee of Portugal and Knight of the Tower ami the Sword of that Kingdom : Minister to Brazil, 18081'') ; I'.C, 1808 : G,C.B., 1808: Minister at Stockholm. 1817: Ambas- sador to Constantinople, 1820-25 ; was cr. 20 Jan. 1825, BAHON PENSHUliST,^ of Peushurst, 06. Kent : G.C.H, 1825; was on a spec, embassy to Brasdl, 182o-2-0; D.C.L. (Oxford >, 14 Jnne lS:j| : F.K.S. ; F.S.A. He repurchased the estate of Ottenhanger (Weatenbauger) which had been alienated by the 2nd Viscount ; was author of 11 J'oems from tlic ■Portuuutst of Caniacns." ^) He obtained a pension of X'2,300 a year. He in 17 July 1817 (spec, lie. 1, Kllen. Widow of Nicholas Biiow.vk, 5th and y.-t da. of Sir Thomas UlKKK, 1st Bart [I.], of Marble Hill, co. C.ilway, by Christian, da. of James Hhowxk, of Limerick. She, who was 4. in 17S8, d. at St. Petersburgh, 2ti May '.S2o, aged 37. He d. 29 May 1855, iu bis 75th year, at OS Harley street, Mary lebonc. Will pr, July 1S55. VII. ISO"). 7. Geotmjb Acucstu.s Frederick PEncr(*) Sydney (S.mytheI, Viscount StiiaNUKurd [I.], and Bauon PkNSHURST, also a Grandee of Portugal, 1st s. and b., 6. 16 April ISIS, at Stockholm : ed. at Eton and at St. John's Coll., Cambridge ; M.A., 1840s, He was M.P. for Canterbury, 1840-52 ; Under Sec. for Foreign Affairs. Jan. to July 1846; Author of " Historic Eaneies.' v ) He tut. to the peerage, (I. and L'.K.] -J.fi Jan. 1855. He m. 9 Nov. 1857 (12 days before his death), at (the seat of the Karl of Stamford) Bradgate Park, co. Leicester, Margaret Cuninghamc, 1st da. and coheir of John Lennox K incai r>- Lennox, of Wood- head and Kincaid, co. Stil ling. He if. s.p. 28 Nov. 1857, in his 40th year at Bradgate Park afsd. His widow, who, by royal lie, IS June 185fl, re-assumed her paternal surname of KincaJD-Lknnox, in lien of that of S.mvthe, mi. (as his first wife) 17 Oct. 1881,0 " St. Mary's, Bryanston square, Marylebonc, the Hon. Charles Spencer (') The christian name " Percy," appears to commemorate the match of Lady Dorothy Percy with Robert (Sydney), 2d Karl of Leicester. Their da. in. the 2d Viscount Strangf.ird, but ueither this Percy, nor indeed any of these Viscounts descended from that alliance. ( u ) According to his own account, he was greatly instrumental, Nov. 1S07, in effecting the emigration of the Boyal Family of Portugal to Brazil. As to this and other points in bis career see a remarkable article in " The Times " of 7 Aug. 1828, quoted in Carpenter's " Peerage for the People " (1S-19), where is a most unfavourable (the' interesting) character of him, more especially dealing with his utter want of truth. Sir W. Gregory in bis "Autobiography" (pub. 1894), describes him as "small and dine,y " in appearance, and " selfish and heartless " in character. ( c ) Tins title waa doubtless taken to commemorate his descent from the Sydney family, Barons Sydney of Penshurat, long seated at Penshurst, whom, however, he in no way represented, and whose estate of Penhurst was never in possession of the Sniythe family. P) He is the " Hibernian Straugford " whose "plaintive strain" is thus noticed l>y Byron in his " English Bards and Scotch Reviewers "— " Let MOOKE still sing— let Stkaxrkord steal from Moore, And swear that Camoons sang such uotes of yore." (°) Of this work, says the Annual Register of 1S57, "Some portions attracted attention by their very high-flown aristocratic development. He [i.e., their author] had also some reputation as a political journalist, but was perhaps better known to fame in his early parliamentary career for his connection with what was called the Young England party." The character of " Conuingsby," in Disraeli's novel of that uauie, is indeed sometimes said to have been intended to represent him. See vol. v, 1'. 307, note "a," suit " Mexborough." C) On her re-marriage she discontinued the title she had acquired from her first bus- hand, and had legally forfeited when she ceased to be his widow ; a rare instance of a Dowager peeress so acting. See vol. vi, p. 376, note "b," sill " Rivers," for a similar one