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 404 BUCKINGHAMSHIRE May to June, 1812. Joint Postmaster Gen. 1806-07; Pres. of the Board of Control 18 12 till his death. He m., istly, 4 Jan. 1792, Margaretta, widow of Thomas Adderley, of Innishannon, co. Cork (who d. about May 1 79 1, being then M.P. for Cloghnikelty), da. and coh. of Edmund BouRKE, of Urrey. She ^. at the Govt. Garden House, Madras, 7, and was bur. 8 Aug. 1796, at Fort St. George. He m., 2ndly, i June 1799, at Lambeth Palace, Surrey, Eleanor Agnes, ist da. of William (Eden), ist Baron Auckland, by Eleanor, da. of Sir Gilbert Elliot, Bart., of Minto. He d. s.p.m., 4 Feb. 18 16, aged 55, in Hamilton Place, through a fall from his horse, and was bur. at Nocton afsd., M.I. Will pr. 1816. His widow, who was b. 9 July i']']'], a. s.p., 15 Oct. 1851, at Eastcombe. Will pr. Nov. i85i.(") XVIII. 1 8 16. 5. George Robert (HoBART, afterwards Hampden), Earl of Buckinghamshire, i^c, nephew and h. male, being s. and h. of the Hon. George Vere Hobart, sometime Lieut. Gov. of Grenada, by his ist wife, Jane, da. of Horace Cataneo, of Leeds, co. York, which George was 2nd s. of the 3rd Earl. He was b. i May 1789, and ed. at Westm. school; M.P. (Tory) for St. Michael's, i8i2-i3.() On 5 Oct. 1824, (having sue. to the estates of the Hampden family at Great Hampden, <yc., Bucks,() by the death of John (Trevor-Hampden), 3rd and last Viscount Hampden), he took by Royal lie. the name of Hampden only. He m.^ 3 May 18 19, at St. Giles's-in-the-Fields, Ann Glover, of Keppel Str., Midx., Spinster, illegit. da. of Sir Arthur Piggott, Attorney Gen. in the Ministry of "All the Talents." He d. s.p., i Feb. 1849, ^g^'i 60. Will pr. June 1849. ^^^ widow tn., 14 Sep. 1854, David Wilson, of Welbeck Str., Marylebone, where she ^.23 May 1878. XIX. 1849. ^- Augustus Edward (Hobart, afterwards Hobart- Hampden), Earl of Buckinghamshire, i^c., br. and h., b. I Nov. 1793, at Ripon; ed. at Westm. school; matric. at Oxford (Brase- ('■') She appears to have been a beautiful and attractive woman; there was at one time a warm mutual attachment between her and William Pitt, but the statesman (who does not shine in the affair), whether on account of his broken health and finances, or for other reasons, finally informed her father that " the objections [to marriage] are decisive and insuperable." V.G. C') As a peer he voted with the Whigs till after the Reform Bill, when he became a Conservative, but changed, with Peel, on the question of the Corn Laws. V.G. (^) This was under the will of John Hampden, of Great Hampden, Bucks, M.P. for Wendover, who d. unm. 4 Feb. 1754, aged 58, and who devised his estates to the Hon. Robert Trevor, afterwards 4th Baron Trevor and 1st Viscount Hampden, descended from Ruth, da. of his ancestor, John Hampden (called the "Patriot"), with rem., in default of her issue male, to the Hobart family, who descended from Mary, 6th da. of the said John Hampden. This Mary m., about 1655, Sir John Hobart, Bart., and was mother of Sir Henry Hobart, Bart., the father of John, 1st Earl of Buckinghamshire.