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 368 BUCCLEUCH (but not to the Dukedom of Monmouth), (^) and took his seat the next day. He was cr. D.C.L. of Oxford i8 Apr. 1745. He ;«., istly, 5 Apr. 1720, at the house of the Earl of Rochester, Privy Gardens, Whitehall, JeanjC") 2nd da. of James (Douglas), 2nd Duke of Queensberry [S.] and 1st Duke of Dover, by Mary, da. of Charles (Boyle), Lord Clifford. She ^.31 Aug. 1729, at Langley, and was bur. at Dalkeith. He wz., 2ndly, 4 Sep. 1744, at St. George's Chapel, Mayfair, Midx., Alice, da. of James Powell, spinster, said to have been a washerwoman at Windsor. He d. 22, and was bur. 26 Apr. 1751, "very meanly"('=) at Eton Coll. Chapel, Bucks, in his 57th year.('') Will, as of Hall Place, Berks, dat. 25 Mar. 1751. His widow d. 5, and was bur. 13 Dec. 1765, at the Huguenot Cemetery of Mount Nod, Wandsworth, Surrey, aged 68. M.I. Will dat. 4 Dec. 1762, pr. 16 Dec. 1765. [Francis Scott, styled Karl of Dalkeith, s. and h. ap. by ist wife, b. 19 Feh.jZndbap. 18 Mar. 1720/1, at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields; matric. at Oxford (Ch. Ch.) 27 Oct. 1739; M.A. 26 Jan. 1741. M.P. (Whig) for Boroughbridge, 1746-50. He m., 2 Oct. 1742, at her father's house in Bruton Str., Midx., Caroline, ist of the 4 daughters and coheirs of John (Campbell), 2nd Duke of Argyll [S.] and ist Duke of Greenwich. He d. I Apr. 1750, of the small-pox, in his 30th year, at Adderbury, Oxon, and was bur. at Dalkeith. (*=) His widow, who was b. 17 Nov. 1 717, at Sud- brooke, Surrey, m. (lie. at Fac. Off.), 18 Sep. 1755, at Adderbury, afsd., the Rt. Hon. Charles Townshend, and was cr. 28 Aug. 1767, Baroness Green- wich. She d. 1 1 Jan. 1794, at Sudbrooke, aged 74, and was bur. in Westm. Abbey, when that title became extinct. See " Greenwich " Barony, cr. 1767.] [John Scott, usually spoken of as Lord Whitchester, or Lord Scott OF Whitchester, being s. and h. ap. of Francis Scott (by courtesy) stykd (*) The reason of the title of Monmouth having been (alone) withheld was doubtless that on 9 Apr. 1689, Charles (Mordaunt), Viscount Mordaunt, had been cr. Earl of Monmouth. This Earldom, which, in 1697, had become united with that of Peterborough, continued toexist till 1814, when both Earldoms became extinct. The same reasons which in 1743 induced the restoration of the Earldom of Doncaster, would, by analogy, after 18 14, apply to the restoration of the Dukedom of Mon- mouth. See vol. i, Appendix E. C^) He had been engaged to another Lady Jane Douglas, who afterwards was the heroine of " the Douglas Cause." V.G. {") Coll. Top. et Gen., vol. iv, sub " Burnham." C^) Lady Louisa Stuart calls him "a man of mean understanding and meaner habits," and adds that after his ist wife's death "he plunged into such low amours, and lived so entirely with the lowest company, that his person was scarcely known to his equals, and his character fell into utter contempt." V.G. (^) " A gentleman far from handsome, not of brilliant parts, but essentially good, amiable and worthy." (Lady Louisa Stuart). V.G.