Page:The Complete Peerage Ed 2 Vol 1.djvu/158

 io8 COMPLETE PEERAGE alington III. 1660. BARONY [E.] I. 1682. 3 and I. William (Alington), Baron Alington of KiLLARD [1.], br. and h., M.P. for Cambridge 28 Mar. 1664 to 28 Mar. 1681. He served the Emperor against the Turks in Hungary, i^c. Was made Col. of a regiment of foot, 13 June 1667. (') Major-Gen. of the Land Forces, i May 1678. Constable of the Tower of London, 23 Apr. 1679-85. Lord Lieut, of co. Cambridge, 9 Mar. 1 680/1-85. On 5 Dec. 1682 he was raised to the English Peerage, being cr. BARON ALINGTON OF WYMONDLEY, (") Herts. He m., istly, Catha- rine, da. and h. of Henry Stanhope, uyled Lord Stanhope (s. and h. ap. of Philip, 1st Earl of Chesterfield), by Catharine, suo jure Countess of Chesterfield. She d. s.p., in childbed, 19 Nov., and was bur. 4 Dec. 1662, at Horseheath. He m., 2ndly (Lie. Fac. Off. 30 July 1664, he about 30, she about 16), Juliana, da. of Baptist (Noel), 3rd Viscount Campden, by his 3rd wife, Hester, 2nd da. and coh. of Thomas (Wotton), 2nd Lord Wotton, and sister of Catharine, Countess of Chesterfield, abovenamed. She was bap. 4 Feb. 1645/6, at Kensington, Midx. ; d. s.p.m., 14 Sep. 1667, and was bur. at Horseheath. Admon. 2 Dec. 1667 to her husband. He m., 3rdly (Lie. Fac. Off. 5 July), 15 July 1675, (°) at Hackney, Midx., Diana, widow of Sir Greville Verney, da. of William (Russell), ist Duke of Bedford, by Anne, da. and h. of Robert (Carr), Earl of Somerset. He d., suddenly, of apoplexy, at the Tower of London, i, and was bur. 17 Feb. 1684/5, ^t Horseheath. Will dat. 16 May 1684, pr. 6 May 1685. His widow d. at her house in Kensington, 13, and was bur. 24 Dec. 1701, at Horseheath. Will. dat. 14 Feb. 1700/1, pr. 19 May 1702. BARONY [1.] IV. BARONY [E.] n. . 1685. 4 anci 2. Giles (Alington), Baron Aling- ton OF KiLLARD [L], and Baron Alington of Wymondley [E.], 2nd, but ist surv. s. and h., by 3rd wife, b. 4 and bup. 20 Oct. 1680, at Horseheath ; ('') Ed. at Eton, where he d.y young and unm., 18, and was bur. 22 Sep. 1691, at Horseheath, when the English Peerage, i.e. the Barony of Alington of Wymondley, cr. 1682, became extinct. Admon. 17 Oct. 1691 to his mother. BARONY [L] V. 1691 to 1723. 5. Hildebrand (Alington), Baron Alington of KiLLARD [I.], uncle and h. male, bap. 3 Aug. 1641, at Horseheath. Capt. in Lord Alington's Foot, 13 June 1667, and in Lord Huntingdon's, 20 June 1685. He d. unm, II, and was bur. 25 Feb. 1722/3, at Wethersfield, (") "A young, silly Lord," writes Pepys, 17 Mar. 1667. V.G. ('') The Lords Alington of Wymondley bore arms of Sable with a bend engrailed between six billets silver. [ex inform. Oswald Barron.) V.G. (") " Lady Diana Verney will not have Lord A., some think she will marry Lord Huckhurst. " (Letter of E. Cliolmeley to Lady Harley, 12 Apr. 1673.) V.G. C) His name appears as ' absent ' in a list of peers present in, and absent from, the Pari. [I.] of James II in May 1689, for which see vol. iii, Appendix D. V.G.