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 202 CHOLMONDELEY similar spec. rem. to that of the Barony of 1689. Comptroller of the Household (Whig), May to Oct. 1708; Treasurer of the Household 1708- 13, and again 1714-25. He d. unm., 18, and was bur. 30 Jan. 1724/5, at Malpas.(^) "Will pr. Feb. 1724/5. EARLDOM. II. VISCOUNTCY [I.] IV. BARONY. III. 1725. 2, 3, and 2. George (Cholmondeley), Earl Cholmondeley, Viscount Malpas, Baron Cholmondeley of Namptwich, and Baron Newburgh; also Viscount Chol- mondeley of Kells and Baron Newborough [I.], next surv. br. and h., who sue. to his father's Viscountcy [I.], as also, under the spec, rem., to the Earldom, Viscountcy, and Barony [E.], conferred on his brother above- named. He was h. about 1666; was ed. at Westm. school; matric. at Oxford (Ch. Ch.), 2 Sep. 1680; adm. to the Inner Temple 1680. Like his brother he espoused the cause of the Prince of Orange, joining in 1688 the northern rebels, having been (1686) Capt. of the Queen Consort's regt. of Horse. Lieut. Col. ist troop of Horse Guards, 1689, being in command at the battle of the Boyne, and distin- guishing himself (1692) at Steinkirk. Groom of the Bedchamber, 1691-1702. M.P. (Tory), for Newton, 1 690-95. C') Col. ist troop of Horse Gren. Guards 1693-17 15. D.C.L., Oxford, 9 Nov. 1695. Brig. Gen. 1697; Major Gen., and Gov. of the forts of Tilbury and Gravesend 1702-25, and in 1704, Lieut. Gen. Col. of the 3rd troop of Horse Guards, 171 5 till his death; Gen. of the Horse 1727. P.C. 21 May 1706. F.R.S. 9 June 17 1 5. On 12 Apr. 171 5, he was cr. BARON NEWBOROUGH OF NEWBOROUGH.C) co. Wexford [I.], and (within 15 months) was cr., 10 July 1716, BARON NEWBURGH in the Isle of Anglesey [G.B.]. After his succession to his brother's peerages he was made Lord Lieut, and Vice Admiral of Cheshire, and Lord Lieut, of North Wales, 1725-33. Gov. of Hull 1725-32; Gov. of Guernsey Oct. 1732 till his death. He »/., about 1 701, Elisabeth, da. of ( — ) van Ruytenburg, Governor of Sas van Ghent, by Anna Elisabeth, 5th and yst. da. of Louis de Nassau, Herr van der Leck. and Beverwaerde. She, who was b. at the Hague, and naturalised by Act of Parliament, 21 Jan. 1703/4, d. at Whitehall, 16, and was bur. 27 Jan. 172 1/2, at Malpas. Admon. as (^) Bishop Burnet's character of him (1704) with Dean Swift's remarks thereon, in italics, is, "This Lord is a great lover of country sports; is handsome in his person. Good for nothing, as far as ever I know" (*■) This was a Tory borough, and he sat with a Tory colleague, but he must have changed his politics in Anne's reign to have got a peerage from George I, and in the H. of Lords he acted with the Whigs, though strongly opposed to Walpole. V.G. (') This was the first Irish peerage conferred by George I. The preamble is given in Lodge, vol. v, p. 68.