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 CHOLMONDELEY 205 MARQUESSATE. II. EARLDOM. V. VISCOUNTCY [I.] VII. BARONY. VI. 2, 5, 6, and 5. George Horatio (Chol- mondeley), Marquess of Cholmondeley, &'c., also Viscount Cholmondeley of Kells, i^c. [I.], s. and h., 1^. 16 Jan. 1792, in Paris, being then siyled V iscovnt Malpas; M.P. (Tory) for Castle Rising, under the 1827. ^0"/^ of Earl of Rocksavage, 18 17-21. On 5 Jan. 1822 he was sum. to the House of Lords in his father's Barony as LORD NEWBURGH, being introduced 5 Feb. following.^) P.C. 19 July 1830. On his mother's death in 1838, he sue. in her right as Joint Great Chamberlain of England, having previously, as her deputy, officiated as Great Chamberlain at the Coronation of William IV. Constable of Castle Rising 1858 till his death. He m., istly, 20 Oct. 1812, at Gibraltar, Caroline, 2nd da. of Lieut. Gen. Sir Colin Campbell. She, who was i. 8 Jan. 1795, d. s.p. (as Viscountess Malpas), 12 Oct. 18 15, aged 20, at Cholmondeley House, Piccadilly, and was l?ur. at Malpas. He m., 2ndly, at her father's house in Grosvenor Sq., Midx., 11 May 1830, Susan Caroline, 4th da. of Henry Charles (Somerset), 6th Duke of Beaufort, by Charlotte Sophia, da. of Granville (Leveson-Gower), ist Marquess of Stafford. He d. s.p., 8 May 1870, after a long illness, in his 79th year, at Cholmondeley CastlcC") His widow, who was i>. 10 Apr. 1804, d. 4 Feb. 1886, at Thornycroft House, Leatherhead, Surrey. Will pr. 31 Mar. 1886, at ^12,096. (1780), he is described as "a man who has lost the sense of moral rectitude, and has no bounds for his sensual indulgences but those which are prescribed by the terrors of the law, or the more yielding pandects of modern honour," and on p. 47 as " pursuing such conduct as, to become a bye-word for insane vices, to be the burthen of every dirty song, the theme of every scandalous chronicle." A pretended epitaph in The Abbey of Kilkhampton, by Sir Herbert Croft, 1780, p. 21, states that he "indulged the Sallies of ungoverned Licentiousness, without the Interruption of Reflection or Regret." A very unfavourable picture of him is given also in a gossipy book called The TVhig Club, 1794. His success in seducing various women is detailed, and he is stated to have made considerable profits from a faro bank, and at one time to have kept a public gaming-table in Paris. He was "an agreeable and fascinating man . . . extremely fond of luxury and display." The faro bank referred to was set up at Brooks's. It is said to have ruined half the town, but to have yielded him enormous gains. He was a Whig till about 1811, when he went over to the Tories, apparently following the lead of the Prince of Wales. V.G. (^) For a list of eldest sons of peers sum. to Pari. v.p. in one of their father's peerages, see vol. i, Appendix G. {'■) "If all Englishmen," said the ist Lord Tollemache, "were like Lord Cholmondeley, they would be religious and delightful men, but the French would soon come and take London." {ex inform. Bright Brown). V.G.