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 AiLESBURY COMPLETE PEERAGE 63 Hon. Henry Seymour-Conway, who d. 9 July 1795, ^%^^ 75> ^^ P^rk Place, in Remenham, Berks. (") She d. 1 7 Jan. 1 803, aged 82, (") in Upper Brook Str.j St. Geo., Han. Sq. ; will pr. Jan. 1803. IV. 1776. I. Thomas Bruce (Bruce-Brudenell), afterwards^ Brudenell-Bruce), Baron Bruce of Tottenham, nephew, by the sister, being 4th and yst. s. of George (Brudenell), 3rd Earl of Cardigan, by Elizabeth, sister of the whole blood to (the last Lord) Charles, 3rd Earl of Ailesburv, ^c, and ist Lord Bruce of Tottenham. He was b. 30 Apr., and bap. 13 May 1729, at St. James's, Westm. Ed. 1737-46 at Winchester. On the death of his maternal uncle, 10 Feb. 1747, (whose vast estates in cos. Wilts and York, he inherited to the exclusion of his said uncle's daughters), he sue. to the BARONY OF BRUCE OF TOTTENHAM, under the spec. rem. above-mentioned. By royal licence, 29 Dec. 1767, he took the name of Bruce. He was Lord of the Bedchamber to George in. In May 1776 C) he was made Governor to the Prince of Wales and Prince Frederick, but soon retired, being succeeded by his elder br., the Duke of Montagu. On 10 June 1776 he was cr. EARL OF AILESBURY, Bucks. Lord Lieut, of Wilts, 1780. K.T. 29 Nov. 1786. He w., istly, 17 Feb. 1761, at the chapel in Tottenham Park, Wilts (registered at Great Bedwyn), Susanna, widow of Charles (Boyle), styled Viscount Dungarvan, da. and coh. of Henry Hoare, of Stourhead, Wilts, and of London, banker, by his 2nd wife, Susan, da. and h. of Stephen Colt. She, who was b. 15 Apr. 1732, d. 4 Feb. 1783, and was bur. at Maulden, Beds. He ;«., 2ndly, 14 Feb. 1788, by spec, lie, in St. James's, Westm., Anne, 3rd da. of John (Rawdon), I St Earl of Moira [I.], by his 3rd wife, Elizabeth, suo jure Baroness Hastings. She, who was b. 16 May 1753, d. s.p. in Seamore Place, Mayfair, 8, and was bur. 16 Jan. 18 13, at Maulden. He d'. 19 Apr. 1 8 14, in Seamore Place, afsd., aged 85, and was bur. at Maulden. Will pr. May 18 14. [George Bruce-Brudenell, styled, after 1776, Lord Bruce, ist s. and h. ap., b. 23 Mar. 1762, d. unm. and v.p. 28 Mar. 1783.] C) This "well-known seat" (for a short time the residence of Frederick, Prince of Wales), was sold by his widow, the said Lady Ailesbury, to Lord Mahnesbury. (") " She had been extremely handsome. She was mild, gentle had read much, was fond of music, and had a wonderful genius for needlework. . . . She lived in the happiest union with her husband _i.e. Gen. Conway]. " — Horace VVal- pole, Sep. 1774. She had been married young, against her will, to the Earl. V.G. C^) " A formal, dull, man, totally ignorant of and unversed in the world, and a Tory ; very unexceptionable in character. " [Horace Walpole, Journal, 28 May 1776.] The same writer speaks of his 1st wife, as at that date "living at Bath, mad. " V.G.