Page:The Complete Peerage Ed 2 Vol 2.djvu/422

 4o6 BUCKINGHAMSHIRE St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, Georglana Wilhelmlna, only da. of the Hon. Hew Adam Dalrymple Hamilton Haldane-Duncan-Mercer-Henderson, of Fordell, co. Fife (2nd s. of the Earl of Camperdown), by Edith Isabella, yst. da. of Lieut. Gen. Mercer Henderson, C.B., of Fordell afsd. She was b. 15 Apr. 1867. [John Hampden Hobart-Hampden-Mercer-Henderson, ist s. and h. ap., b. 16 Apr. 1906.] Family Estates. — The ancient property of the family in Norfolk devolved on the female issue of the 2nd Earl.(^) The property consisted, in 1899, of the Hampden estates in Bucks and the Casey estates at Rathcannon, co. Limerick, the latter having been inherited (from his mother, Ann Casey) by Sir Cecil Wray, Bart., whose illegit. da. m. Lord Vere Bertie, the father- in-law of the 3rd Earl of Buckinghamshire. These, together, were, in 1883, 2,082 acres in co. Limerick, 3,113 in Bucks, and 8 (worth ;^i8i a year) in Devon. Total 5,203 acres, worth ^{^5,890 a year. Principal Residences. — Hampden House, near Great Missenden, Bucks; Richmond Lodge, Sidmouth, Devon. BUCKINGHAM (town of), and BUCKINGHAM AND CHANDOS MARQUESSATE. i. George (Grenville, afterwards Nugent- TEMPLE-GRENviLLE),was^. 1 7 June 1 753, in London, L 1784. being 2nd, but ist surv. s. of the Rt. Hon. George Grenville, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Prime Minister (1763-65), by Elizabeth, sister of Charles, Earl of Egremont, da. of Sir William Wyndham, Bart. When under 10 years old, 2 May 1763, he obtained C") the reversion of the lucrative post of Teller of the Exchequer, to which he sue. Mar. 1 764, holding it till his death. He matric. at Oxford (Ch. Ch.) 20 Apr. 1770. He sue. his father 13 Nov. 1770; was M.P. (Whig) for Bucks 1 774-79 ;(") sue. his uncle 11 Sep. (*) See ante., p. 402, note " b." (^) This was owing to the prompt and urgent insistence of his father with the King. Cobbett calculated, from returns to the H. of Commons, that he and his brothers, Thomas and William, had in half a century drawn about ^^900, 000 of public money. " Never indeed was family so well provided for during an entire century as the Temple-Grenvilles." (Lord Rosebery, Early Life of Chatham, pp. 133-4). V.G. (f) He was leader of the " Grenville " section of the party, was a strong opponent of Fox's India Bill, and a supporter of Pitt till 1801, after which date he was in alliance with the Whig opposition. It was he who got from George III written