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 SYDLAW — SYDNEY. 353 G.C.B., IS Aug. 1841. He <1. unm. at Alwington House, near Kingston, in Canada 19, (of lockjaw from injuries by a fall on the 4th from his horse) and was bur. 23 Sep. 1841, nt Kingston, afsd., aged 42, when the peerage became extinct. (*) Will tlat. 18 Sep. 1S41, |>r. March 1S42. under £25,000. SYDLAW. i.e., "GlamIS, TaNNUOTCE, Svdlaw, ami STn. icTiE." Barony [S.J (lyenj, titles substituted, 1077, for the Pubony at Quints rs.]. See "Stbathhobk" Earldom [S.] substitued, 1677, for the Eaiildom ok KlNtnioiiN [S.] SYDNEY OF CIIISLEHURST, SYDNF.Y OF ST. LEONARDS, and SYDNEY OF SCADBURY. Barony. 1. Tun Rt. Hon. Thomas Townshend, 1st s. and h. of I 1783 W" n - ' ' w * ToWNSHEND (who rf. May 1780, aged 78, being 2d a. ' of Charles, 2d VlscotNT Townshend ok RatnIIam), by Alhinia, da. Viscountcy (whose issue became coheir) of John Shawn, of Matsou, eo. Gloucester . ,,- ,o "f Chislehurst, co. Kent, was b. 24 Keb. 1732/3 ; M.P. for Whit- 1. 1 K J. ,.i,„ rt .|i. Hants, 1754-88 ; Clerk of the Household to George. Prince of Wales: Clerk of the I'oard of Green cloth, 1760-62 : a Lord of the Treasury, 1 705-07 ; P.C., 1767 : Paymaster Gen. of the forces. 1767-68 ; Sec. at War, 1782 ; Home See., July l|Si to April 1783, and again Dec. 1 783 to June 17S9, being nr. 6 March 1788, HA RON SYDNEYC) OF CH 1. ST, K HURST, co. Kent, and 11 June 1789, VISCOUNT SYDNRY( b ) OF ST. LEONARDS, eo. Gloucester ; Ch. Justice in Eyre, South of Trent, 17S9. He »i. 19 May 1760, at St. Geo., Han. sq.. Elizabeth, 1st da and coheir of Richard Powvs, of Hint.lesham, co. Suffolk, by Mary, da. of George (Bbudrnei.l), 3d KARl. OF Caiidioan. He if. suddenly of apoplexy at liis Reat, at Frognal in Chislehurst, 13 June 1S00, and was bur. at Chislehurst, aged 77. Will pr. July 1800. His widow d. in Chapel street, Mavfair, 1 aud was bur. 9 May 1826, at Chislchurst, aged 90. Will pr. May 1S26. D. 1800. 2. Jons Thomas (Townshend), Viscount Sydney op St. Leon a it as, Szc 1st s. and h. ; b. 21 Feb. 1764 ; ed. at Kton and at Clare Hall. Cambiidge ; M.A. 17S1 : Under Home Sec. 17S3-S9; M.P. for Newport (Isle of Wight), 1786-90, and for Whitchurch, 1790-1S00; a Lord of the Admiralty, 1789-93 : sue. to (lie pctrugc 13 June 1800 ; a Lord of the Bedchamber, 1800-10 Ranger of Hyde park and St. James' park, 1807 ; High Steward of Great ( a ) "As a cabinet minister, Mr. Thomson's efforts were chiefly directed to amend- ment of the Custom laws and the extension of our foreign trade by a more liberal policy" [Ann. Keg. 1811]. " Of first-rate capacity, with great ability, discrimination, judgment, firmness, and dexterity ** [QriViHt Mrinnirs]. ( b ) See vol. ii, p. 102. note " a," sub " Cadogan," for instances of titles taken from the surname of a family from whom the grantee was descended. In this case the grantee's paternal grandmother, Elizabeth, Viscountess Townshend, was 1st da. (tho' neither herself nor her issue was coheir) of Thomas (Pelham), 1st Baron Pelham of Laughton, who was s. and h. of Sir John Pelham. 3d Bart, by Lucy, 2d da (tho' neither herself nor her issue was coheir) of Robert (Sydney) 2d Earl of Leicester. In "Cellini" (vol. v. p, 517, sub "Chichester") is this note. " It was on account of thiB marriage [of Townshend] with the da. of Lord Pelham, whose mother was Lady Lucy Syiney, that the present [1811] Marquis Townshend when sr. an Earl [in 17S4] chose the title of Leicester, and that the late Mr. Thomas Townshend, when made a Peer, chose that of Sydney." ( c ) He is thus referred to in " The RoUiad."— " Oh, had by nature but proportioned been His ttreiigth of genius to his length of chin, His mighty mind, with some prodigious plan, At once, with ease, had reached to Hindostau." His portrait ,: after G. Stuart" (in which, however, no very great length of chin appears) is engraved in " Doyle."