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 io6 COMPLETE PEERAGE alington ALFORD i.e., " Alford, CO. Lincoln, " Barony {D' Auverquerque), cr. 1698 with the Earldom of Grantham, which see ; extinct 1745. i.e., "Alford, co. Lincohi, " Viscountcy (Cusi), cr. 1815 with th« Earldom of Brownlow, which see. ALFORD TITULAR I. John Gr^me, ists. and h. of James Gr/eme (Sol. EARLDOM. Gen. for Scotland 1688), by Elizabeth, da. of Robert L 1760. Moray of Abercairney, was cr. a Bart. 6 Sep. 1726 by James III, in reward for his services at the Court of Vienna, Chief Sec. of State, Apr. 1727. On 20 Jan. 1760 he was cr. Lord and Peer of Pari, as LORD NEWTON, VISCOUNT OF FALKIRK, and EARL OF ALFORD [I.]. He d. s.p., 3 Jan. 1773, in the Scots College, Paris, when, apparently, his titles became extinct. (") ALINGTON OF KILLARD AND ALINGTON OF WYMONDLEYO BARONY [L] I. William Alington, of Horseheath, co. Cambridge, 1. 1642. and of Great Wymondley, Herts, C^) 4th s. and 9th child, but only surv. s. and h. of Sir Giles A. of the same, by (") For a list of Jacobite Peerages, see Appendix F. at the end of this vol. C") His br. David G. in Scotland was his heir. V.G. C^) Much help in rewriting this article has been given by G.W. Watson. V.G. C) The Lord of the manor of Great Wymondley is entitled to the office of Chief Cupbearer at the Coronation, it having been granted (at least so it is said) on this tenure, by Will. I to Gxy, filius Teconis, whose da. and h. brought it in mar- riage, temp. Stephen, to John de Argentine. However this may be, it is certain that Richard d'Argentine held Great Wymondley, temp. John, by the serjeantry of serving with a silver cup at the King's Coronation {Red Book of the Exchequer, p. 507). Richard d'Argentine, and Giles, his s. and h., subsequently held the same by a like service (Ch. Inq. p. m., 31 Hen. Ill, file 5, no. 12, and 11 Edw. I, file 33, no. 16). Wymondley passed by an heiress, temp. Hen. VI, to the family of Alington. The service was performed by William, the 3rd Lord [I.] at the coronation of Charles II, and by Hildebrand A. (afterwards the 5th Lord), on behalf of his nephew Giles, the 4th Lord [I.], at the coronation of James II. The manor (and office) continued (save for a space of some 20 years or so after 1691) in the family of Alington till the death of the last Lord in 1722/3, when it passed to his 3 nieces and coheirs, th6 sisters of his nephew, the preceding Lord. Sir Richard Grosvenor, Bart., husband of Diana, da. and h. of Sir George Warburton, Bart., by Diana, one of