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 156 CHAWORTH Grace, 2nd da. of John (Manners), 8th Earl of Rutland, by Frances, da. of Edward (Montagu), Baron Montagu of Boughton. He d. s.p.m. legit., in June 1693, aged 58, and is said to have been bur. at Annesley, Notts, when his Peerage became extinct.(^) Will, in which he desires to be bur. at Annesley, dat. 30 Apr. 1693, pr. 24 Apr. 1694, at York. His widow, who was b. at Haddon, co. Derby, 1632, m., as his ist wife, Sir William Langhorne, Bart, (so cr. 1668), who d. 26 Feb. 1714/5. She d. i5,and was/J«r. 24 Feb. 1699/1700, at Charlton, Kent, in her 69th year. M.I. CHAWORTH OF EATON HALL BARONY. I. John Chambre (Brabazon), Earl of Meath, ^c. [I.], was, 10 Sep. 1 83 1, cr. BARON CHAWORTH I. 1 83 1. OF EATON HALL, co. Hereford. He was great- grandson of Chambre (Brabazon), 5th Earl of Meath [I.], who m. Juliana, aged 7 years in i662,('') da. and sole h. of Patrick (Chaworth), 3rd and last Viscount Chaworth of Armagh [I.] abovenamed. See Meath, Earldom of [I.], cr. iGi'], under the loth Earl. CHEDWORTH BARONY. I. John Howe, s. and h. of the Right Hon. John H., of Stowell, CO. Gloucester,('=) Paymaster Gen. {d. 1 72 1), I. 1 741. by Mary, da. and h. of Humphrey Baskerville, of Pentrylios, co. Hereford, on the death of his cousin. Sir Richard Howe, Bart.j^*) 3 July 1730, sue. to his estates at Compton, CO. Gloucester, and Wishford in Wilts. He was M.P. (Whig) for Gloucester, Feb. to July 1 7 2 7, and for Wilts 1 7 2 9 ; (') Recorder of Warwick 1737-41. On 12 May 1741, he was cr. LORD CHEDWORTH, (*) Elizabeth, his sister, bap. 19 Dec. 1632, at Southwell, m. William (Byron), 3rd Lord Byron, and was ancestor of the Poet, whose early attachment to his cousin, Mary Anne Chaworth, is commemorated in his lines "To a Lady," beginning "Oh, had my fate been join'd with thine;" and again in a "Fragment," which begins " Hills of Annesley, bleak and barren." This lady, "the solitary scion left of a time honoured race," was the sole da. and h. of George Chaworth of Annesley, the last h. male of that line. See ante, p. 154, note "c." She m., in 1805, John Musters, of Colwiclc Hall, Notts, and d. at Wiverton Hall (the ancestral home of the Chaworths), Feb. 1832, aged 46, being some 2 or 3 years older than her said cousin. C") Visit, of Notts, 1662. ("=) The Jack Howe so well known to readers of Macaulay's History of England. V.G. i^) The h. male, who sue. to the Baronetcy, was his cousin, Scrope (Howe), 2nd Viscount Howe [L], all of whose honours became extinct, on the death s.p. of William, the 5th Viscount, in 18 14. (') Up to 1734 he acted with the Tories and dissentient Whigs, voting against the Excise scheme, and for the repeal of the Septennial Act, but in the next parliament supported Walpole, and received a peerage on his recommendation. Even at that time " ratting " was one of the short roads to a Peerage, though traversed less frequently than in these degenerate days. V.G.