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 no CATHERLOUGH i.e. "Catherlough," Marquessate of [I.] {fVharton), cr. 15 Feb. 1714/5, with the Marquessate of Wharton and Malmesbury, which see; extinct i73i.(*) BARONY [I.] John Fane, yr. s. of Vere (Fane), Earl of Westmor-, LAND, by Rachael, da. of John Bence, being Col. of the '■^■^ 1st troop of Horse Guards, and having distinguished f- himself in divers battles under the Dulce of Marlborough, ^7*^2- was cr., 4 Oct. 1733, BARON CATHERLOUGH, co. Catherlough [I.]. On 4 June 1736, he sue. his br. as Earl of Westmorland, Qc. He d. s.p., 26 Aug. 1762, when the Irish Barony, which had been conferred on him, as above, became extinct. See fuller account under "Westmorland," Earldom of, cr. 1624, under the 7th Earl. EARLDOM [I.] Robert Knight, s. and h. of Robert K., of Barrells, , -• CO. Warwick, Cashier to the South Sea Company C') ' ^ {d. Nov. 1744), by ( — ), his ist wife, was b. 17 Dec. 1702. M.P. (Whig) for Great Grimsby 1734-47, for ''"' Castle Rising 1747-54, for Grimsby again 1762-68, and for Milborne Port 1770 till his death. On 8 Aug. 1745 he was cr. BARON LUXBOROUGH OF SHANNON [I.], and subsequently, 14 May 1763, VISCOUNT BARRELLS, co. Catherlough, and EARL OF CATHERLOUGH [I.]. Recorder of Great Grimsby. Inv. K.B. 18 May 1770, but never installed. He w., istly, 10 June 1727, Henrietta,('^) sister of the half blood of Henry, the celebrated Viscount Bolingbroke, da. of Henry (St. John), Viscount St. John, by his 2nd wife, Angelica Magdalen, da. of George Pellisary. She, who was b. 15 July 1699, d. 16 Mar. 1756, and was bur. (as Baroness Luxborough) at Ullenhall, co. Warwick. He ;w., 2ndly, 18 June 1756, at St. Geo., Han. Sq., "Mary, Lady le Quesne, widow," of Bruton Str. He d. s.p.m.s.y 30 Mar. 1772, and was bur. at Ullenhall afsd.,('^) aged 69, when all his honours became extinct.^") M.I. Will dat. 1 1 and 24 Feb. 1 772, pr. 10 Apr. (^) An outlawry for high treason, 3 Apr. 1729 (under which it was generally con- sidered that these honours were forfeited), was pronounced by the House of Lords, 28 July 1845, to have been irregular and informal. ('') He absconded to Paris when the party enquiry was instituted into the affairs of the Company, and is spoken of as "a transport " in a letter of Horace Walpole. V.G. ('^) " A high coloured, lusty, black woman, who was parted from her husband upon a gallantry she had with Parson Dalton . . . She retired into the country, and consoled herself, it is said, like Ariadne with Bacchus." (H. Walpole). She was the patroness of Shenstone and other small poets. V.G. {^) The original burial place of the Knights was a chapel at the back of Wootton- Wawen Church, co. Warwick, where several of their monuments still exist. Lord Catherlough transferred the remains to a mausoleum he built in the Park at Barrells. The mausoleum having been broken into, the remains were removed for burial to Ullenhall, and the mausoleum pulled down. V.G. (*) " In Ireland . . . that RifF Raff with titles resembling our own desires to be