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 CHANDOS 129 and h. of Sir Giles Brydges, of Wilton Castle, arsd., Bart, (so cr. 1627), who was s. of Charles B. of the same, 3rd but 2nd surv. s. of John, ist Baron Chandos of Sudeley. He was b. Sep. 1 642, and sue. his father as 3rd Bart., 21 Feb. 165 1/2. Matric. at Oxford (St. John's Coll.) 15 June 1657; Sheriff of co. Hereford 1667-68. He toolc his seat in the House of Lords 15 Feb. 1676/7, where he acted with the Tories. Ambassador of the Turkey Co. to Constantinople Apr. 1680 to i686.(^) He w., before 1673, ElizabethjC") ist da. and coh. of Sir Henry Barnard, of London and of Bridgnorth, Salop, Turkey merchant, by Emma, da. of Robert Charlton, of Whitton Court, Salop. He d. 16 Oct. 17 14, aged 72, and was bur. at Aconbury, afsd.('') Will pr. Dec. 17 14. His widow d. 26 May, and was bur. 5 June 1719, at Aconbury. Her will "near the age of 75," dat. 8 Dec. 17 17/8 [sic], pr. 9 July I7i9.('^) IX. 1714- 9 and I. James (Brydges), Baron Chandos of Sudeley, s. and h..,b. 6 and bap. 12 Jan. 1673/4, at Dewsall, DUKEDOM. CO. Hereford. F.R.S. 30 Nov. 1694. M.P.(«) for y Hereford, 1698-17 14; one of the Council to the Lord ' "■ High Adm. (Prince George of Denmark) 1703-05; and Paymaster Gen. of the Forces abroad, May 1705 to 1713.(0 On 19 Oct. 1714 he was cr. VISCOUNT WILTON co. (^) His successor was appointed in 1685, but J. H. Round has (1913) a copy of Dugdale's Baronage with Chandos's autograph and the date "Pera of Constantinople ye 23 Sept. 1686." V.G. C*) " Hearing Miss Barnard was engaged with a party to a fashionable con- juror, who showed the ladies their future husbands in a glass, he by a proper application to the cunning man, beforehand, and by a proper position at the time, was exhibited in the glass to Miss Barnard: clapping her hands, she cried, 'Then Mr. Brydges is my destination, and such he shall be."' V.G. ("=) Bishop Burnet's character of the 8th Lord and his son, with Dean Swift's comments thereon in italics, is that he " was warm against King William's reign, and doth not make any great figure in this [i.e. that of Queen Anne], but his son Mr. Bridges [afterwards, 1719, Duke of Chandos] does, being a member of the House of Com- mons, one of the Councellors to the Prince and a very worthy gentleman. But a great compiler with every Court." ('^) " I die, my dear children and grandchildren, in very poor circumstances, but you have a good brother." She had no less than 22 children, of whom 15 only were baptised, and but 8 of these (3 sons and 5 daughters) survived infancy. In her will she mentions two of her sons, viz. " the Earl of Carnarvon " and " the Rev. Dr. Brydges," giving to each son and each daughter a ring. (") He was a Tory under Anne till the last year of her reign, and a Whig under the two first Georges, regulating his political convictions more judiciously than some of his other affairs. During the Walpole period he steadily supported that Minister, while his son was an adherent of the Prince of Wales and keen in opposition. V.G. (^) He spent part of the wealth acquired by this most lucrative office in build- ing a palace at Canons, in Little Stanmore, Midx., at an expense of;^200,ooo. Here Handel spent two years composing anthems for the chapel thereof, and writing his first English Oratorio " Esther." J. H. Round quotes from J journey through England 17