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 ALVERSTONE COMPLETE PEERAGE 119 P.C. 1788. He m., 9 Sep. 1784, at Hornsey, Midx., Anne Dorothea, sister of Edward, ist Lord Skelmersdale, da. of Richard Wilbraham (afterwards Wilbraham-Bootle), by Mary, da. and h. of Robert Bootle, of Lathom House, co. Lancaster. He d. at Frognal, Hampstead, or according to the Annual Reg. in Great George Str., Westm., 1 9, and was bur. 26 Mar. 1804, aged 59, in the Rolls Chapel, London. (") Will pr. Apr. 1804. His widow d. 17 Jan. 1825, at the British Hotel, Edinburgh, IL 1804. 2. William (Arden), Baron Alvanley, 2nd, but ist surv. s. and h., b. 8 Jan. and bap. 20 Feb. 1789, at the Rolls House, Chancery Lane, in St. Dunstan's-in-the-West, London. Sometime an officer in the Coldstream Guards, and afterwards Capt. 50th Reg. of Foot. He was well known as a wit and a spendthrift. (^) In May 1835 he fought a duel with Morgan John O'Connell, whose father (the well known " agitator ") he asserted to have been " purchased " by Lord Melbourne on his accession to office, and who had called him " a bloated buffiDon. " ¥Lc d. unm., 16 Nov. 1849. Admon. Dec. 1849. in. 1849 3. Richard Pepper (Arden), Baron Alvanley, br. to and h., b. 8 Dec. 1792, and bap. i Feb. 1793, at the Rolls 1857. House afsd. Lieut. Col. in the army. He w., 25 Apr. 1 83 1, at St. James's, Westm., Arabella, 5th and yst. da. of William Harry (Vane), ist Duke of Cleveland, by his ist wife, Catherine, da. and coh. of Harry (Paulett), 6th and last Duke of Bolton. He d. s.p.^ 24 June 1857, in Bruton Str., when the title became extinct. Will pr. Aug. 1857. His widow, who was b. 2 June 1801, d. 26 Nov. 1864, at Thorpe Perrow, co. York. ALVERSTONE BARONY. I. Richard Everard Webster, of Winterfold, Surrey, I, 1900. 2nd s. of Thomas W., Q.C., of Beachfield, Sandown, Isle of Wight {d. 3 June 1875), by his ist wife, Elizabeth C) He is stated, in The Rolliad, to have once blundered into a joke, which was " that some resolutions passed between 6 and 7 a.m. were entitled no respect as the House was then at sixes and sevens. " " He was not a man of great oratorical powers, but possessed the qualities of intelligence, readiness and wit.... It would be vain to claim any great distinction for Lord Alvanley. He was a learned lawyer and a successful politician... the few productions that remain from his pen evince refinement, taste, and facility of expression. " {Diet, of Nat. Biog.) V.G. C') Charles Greville in his Memoirs, 23 Jan. 1850, writes of him: — " His constant spirits and good humour, together with his marvellous wit and drollery, made him the delight and ornament of Society. He was naturally of a kind and affectionate disposition, good natured, obliging, and inclined to be generous ; but he was to the last degree reckless and profligate about money ; he cared not what debts he incurred .... For the last four years of his life he was afflicted with painful diseases, and his sufferings were incessant, and intense. He bore them all with fortitude, and a cheerfulness which excited universal sympathy and admiration. " Dighton's clever caricature of him is still (1909) in White's Club, St. James's Str. V.G.