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 I30 CHANDOS Hereford and EARL OF CARNARVON, O with a spec, rem., failing the heirs male of his body, to those of his late father, being the next month made Reversionary Clerk of the Hanaper, together with his two sons, John and Henry. Gov. of the Turkey Company 1718-36. On 29 Apr. 1 71 9 he was cr. MARQUESS OF CARNARVON and DUKE OF CHANDOS. P.C. 1 1 Nov. 1721 ; Gov. of the Charterhouse; Lord Lieut, of cos. Hereford and Radnor (being reappointed thereto by George II) 1721-42; Chancellor of the Univ. of St. Andrew's 1724 till his death; Ranger of Enfield Chase; a Gov. of the Foundling Hospital, 1739. He m., istly, 27 Feb. 1695/6, at Westm. Abbey, Mary, da. and eventually sole h. of Sir Thomas Lake, of Canons in Whitchurch, Midx., by Rebecca, da. of Sir John Langham, Bart. She, who was bap. 18 July 1668, at Whitchurch, d. at Canons, 15, and was bur. 23 Dec. 17 12, at Whit- church. He ;«., 2ndly, 4 Aug. 17 13, at Chelsea Coll. Chapel, Midx., his 2nd cousin, CassandrajC") sister of Thomas, ist Baron Middleton, da. of Francis Willoughby (the natural philosopher), of WoUaton, Notts, by Emma, da. and coh. of Sir Francis Barnard, of Bridgnorth and London, Turkey merchant. She d. of apoplexy, s.p., 16, and was bur. 26 July 1735, at Whitchurch. He m., 3rdly, 18 Apr. 1736, Lydia Catherine ("=) (" worth ;^40,ooo "), widow of Sir Thomas Davall, of Ramsey, Essex, da. of John van Hatten, by Lydia, da. of Thomas Davall, merchant. The "Princely Chandos " d. aged 70, at Canons, 9, and was bur. 23 Aug. 1744, at Whitchurch (otherwise Little Stanmore). M.I. at that church, (1724), "The chapel . . . hath a choir of vocal and instrumental musick, as the Royal chapel, and when his Grace goes, he is attended by his Swiss Guards ranged as the Yeomen of the Guard, few German Sovereign Princes live with that magnificence." According to Diet. Nat. Biog. the statue of George I "which helped till 1873 to make Leicester Square hideous " was among the contents of Canons. Canons is doubtless the "Timon's villa" described (in his "Epistle to Lord Burlington") by Pope (i 731), who himself (1732) was caricatured by Hogarth as bespattering the Duke's coach. Owing to extravagance and speculative investments (" all he got by fraud is lost by stocks " says Dean Swift), Canons was sold for its materials, directly the Duke died, and a villa (very different from "Timon's") was built on its site, which, after passing through several owners, was sold, for ;£55,ooo, in July 181 1, to Sir Thomas Plumer, Master of the Rolls, 1818-24. In 1 910 it was bought by A. P. Du Cros, M.P. The fate of this over-sumptuous palace is foretold by Pope — "Another age shall see the golden ear, Imbrown the slope and nod on the parterre; Deep harvests bury all his pride had plann'd, And laughing Ceres re-assume the land." (^) This was one of the 14 peerages conferred at the Coronation of George I, for a list of which see vol. ii. Appendix F. C>) She compiled a history of the Willoughbys of Wollaton. A volume is preserved at Wollaton. V.G. {") Mrs. Pendarves, writing to Dean Swift, 22 Apr. 1736, says, "The Duke of Chandos' marriage has made a great noise; and the poor Duchess is often reproached with her being bred up in Burr Street, Wapping." V.G.