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 204 CHOLMONDELEY Hampton Court Palace, in her 67th year, 3, and was bur. 14 Sep. 1794, at Malpas. Will dated 26 June, pr. 19 Nov. 1794.] EARLDOM IV. VISCOUNTCY [1.] VI. BARONY. V. 4, 5, 4, and I. George James (Chol- mondeley), Earl of Cholmondeley, &"€., also Viscount Cholmondeley of Kells, i^c. [I.], grandson and h., being only s. and h. ■ 1770. of George Cholmondeley, ^^ry/ed' Viscount Malpas, by Hester, his wife abovenamed. He was b. 11 May 1749, at Hardingstone, Northants. Lord Lieut, of Cheshire, 1770- 83; Chamberlain of Cheshire, 1770 till his death; Col. in the Army, during service, MARQUESSATE. ' 779 ; Envoy to Berlin June to Sep^ 1782; Capt. or the Yeomen or the Guard, Apr. to I. 1815. Dec. 1783; P.C. 14 Apr. 1783; Cham- berlain to the Prince of Wales, 1 795-1 800; Lord Steward of the Household, 18 12-21. On 22 Nov. 18 15 he was cr. EARL OF ROCKSAVAGE, co. Chester,^ and MARQUESS OF CHOLMONDELEY. G.C.H. (Civil), 18 19; K.G. 22 July 1822. He m.y 25 Apr. 1791, in Berkeley Sq., Georgiana Charlotte, 2nd and yst. da. of Peregrine (Bertie), 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, by his 2nd wife, Mary, da. of Thomas Panton, which Georgiana was sister, and coh. as to the Barony of Willoughby (of Eresby) and the office of Great Chamberlain OF EnglanDjC") of Robert, 4th Duke, who d. unm., 8 July 1779. This latter office, by decision of the House of Lords in 178 1, was held to be vested in tr jointly with her elder sister. He d. 10 Apr. 1827, at his house in Piccadilly, Midx., aged nearly 78, and was bur. at Malpas.('=) Will pr. June 1827. His widow, who was b. 7 Aug. 1764, d. 23 June 1838, at Carlton House Terrace, Midx., aged nearly 74. Will pr. July 1838. (^) "Rock Savage" was the name given by Sir John Savage, of Clifton, near Frodsham, co. Chester (who d. 1597), to "a magnificent mansion" (dilapidated before 1800), which he built near the old Hall. On the extinction of his issue male in 1728, by the death of John (Savage), 5th and last Earl Rivers, the property passed (not long afterwards) to the Hon. James Cholmondeley (and s. of the 2nd Earl Cholmondeley), in right of his wife Penelope, da. of James (Barry), 4th Earl of Barrymore [I.], and only child of her mother, the Earl's second wife, Elizabeth, da. and h. of Richard (Savage), 4th Earl Rivers. The Lady Penelope Cholmondeley was divorced in 1736, and her husband d. s.p. legit., 13 Oct. 1775, in his 68th year, when the estate, which in his wife's right he had acquired, passed to his own great-nephew, George James, 4th Earl of Cholmondeley. This same Earl, in 1797, became, in right of his mother, the heir, also, to Houghton, Norfolk, and the vast estates of his maternal grandfather, the celebrated Robert (Walpole), ist Earl of Orford. (*•) See as to this high office, vol. ii. Appendix D. ("=) He appears, with a woman, in 1777, as "The Whimsical Lover and Miss D. . le," in the notorious tete-a-tete portraits in Town and Country Mag., vol. ix, p. 625. See Appendix B in the last vol. of this work. In The Royal Register, vol. iv, p. 49