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 BROOKE 337 M.P. (Tory) for Warwick, 1768-73; a Lord of Trade, 1770-74; Recorder of Warwick 1 773 till his death. Lord Lieut, of co. Warwick, 1795 till his death ; Col. of the Warwickshire Fencibles, 1795. He tn., istly, i Apr. 1 771, at St. Geo., Han. Sq. (being then styled Lord Greville), Georgiana,('') da. of Sir James Peachey, Bart, (afterwards cr. Baron Selsey), by Georgiana Caroline, da. of Henry (Scott), ist Earl of Delorain. She, who was ^.11 Aug. 1752, and bap. at St. George's afsd., d. i Apr. 1772, in childbed, and was bur. at St. Mary's, Warwick. He m., 2ndly, at the house of Earl Gower, Whitehall, St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, 14 July 1776, Henrietta, da. of Richard Vernon, of Hilton, co. Stafford, by Evelyn, Dowager Countess of Upper Ossory [I.], da. of John (Leveson-Gower), ist Earl Gower. He d. 2 May 18 16, aged 69, suddenly, in Green Str., Park Lane. Will pr. i8i6.('') His widow, who was b. Aug. 1760, d. 22 Apr. 1838, at Brighton, aged 78. Admon. May 1838 and Aug. 1857. [George Greville, j/)!/^^ sometime Lord Greville, but, afterwards, Lord Brooke, s. and h. ap. by ist wife, b. in St. James's Sq., 25 Mar., and bap. 10 Apr. 1772, at St. Geo., Han. Sq. Ed. at Winchester. He d. unm. and v.p., 2 May 1786, at Winkton, near Christchurch, aged 14.] EARLDOM in. BARONY. X. 3 and 10. Henry Richard (Greville), Earl Brooke of Warwick Castle, Earl of War- 18 16. wick, (^c, 2nd, but ist surv. s. and h., being ist s. by 2nd wife, b. 29 Mar. 1779. Ed. at Win- chester. M.P. (Tory) (") for Warwick (town) 1802-16; Recorder of Warwick, 1816-35; Lord Lieut, of CO. Warwick, 1822 till his death; K.T., 10 May 1827; Lord of the Bedchamber, 1828 to Nov. 1830; cr. D.C.L. of Oxford, 10 June 1834; Lord in Waiting, 1841-46. He w., 21 Oct. 18 16, at St. James's, Westm., Sarah Elizabeth, ('') widow of John George (Monson), Baron Monson of (^) A J-Iength portrait of her by Romney was sold at Christie's in Feb. 1906 for 800 guineas. V.G. C') He bought the Tachbrook estate, 2,500 acres, adjoining the park of Warwick Castle. Hunting and planting were his chief pursuits. He appears to have been extravagant and speculative, and to have completely ruined himself, though fortunately for his descendants the estates were entailed. " The latter part of the Earl's life was spent in penury, mortification and wretchedness." {Lives of Celebrated Persons, 1822, vol. i, p. 427). "This peer has evinced a predominant taste for chymistry, and if we mistake not greatly, a patent for a soap for the navy that will not curdle in salt water was taken out in his name." [Biographical Index to the House of Lords, 1 808). V.G. (^) He followed Wellington when he changed his views on the Catholic question in 1829. V.G. (f) " La maitresse de la maison [Warwick Castle] est la moindre convenable pos- sible pour le lieu qu'elle habite. Elle a ete jolie sans etre belle . . . elle a un tour d'esprit drole et nullement pose, ses habitudes de corps sont nonchalantes, et cette petite femme grasse, paresseuse, oisive, ne parait nullement appelee a gouverner cette vaste serieuse et presque formidable demeure." (Duchesse de Dino, Chronique, 10 Feb. 1834). V.G. 44