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 CLARENDON 269 I738.('') On 22 or 23 Jan. 1 750/1, he was sum. v.p.^ to the House of Lords, in his father's Barony as LORD HYDE OF HINDON-^) He is said to have m., 9 Nov. I737,(°) Frances, da. of George Henry (Lee), 2nd Earl of Lichfield, by Frances, da. of Sir John Hales, Bart. He d. s.p., six months before his father, at Paris, from a fall from his horse, 26 Apr., and was bur. 12 June 1753, in Westm. Abbey, aged 42, when his Barony reverted to his father.('') Will dat. 10 and 1 1 Aug. 1 751, as "Lord Hyde" (making no mention of any wife, and leaving the writings and papers of his great-grandfather, the ist Earl of Clarendon, to the Bodleian library, Oxford, and the bulk of his property to his niece, Lady Charlotte Capel, afterwards Villiers, and her issue in tail male), pr. 2 May 1753.] V. 1776. I. Thomas Villiers, 2nd s. of William, 2nd Earl OF Jersey, by Judith, da. and h. of Frederick Herne, of Lon- don, was b. 1709; ed. at St. John's Coll. Cambridge; was Envoy to Friedrich August, King of Poland, and Elector of Saxony ('') 1740-47; to Vienna 1742-43; and to Berlin 1746-48; M.P. (Whig) for Tamworth, 1 747-56 ;(*) (*) Gent. Mag. is the only authority for this statement, which is of doubtful accuracy. V.G. C") For a list of heirs ap. of peers sum. v.p. in one ot their father's baronies, see vol. i, Appendix G. (■=) He is said {London Mag., vol. vi, p. 645, and Burke, Extinct Peerage, sub Lichfield) to have m. as in text, but it does not appear to be true. In Collins (edit. 1741, vol. ii, pp. 306, 391) neither he nor Lady Frances Lee is given as married. This Frances professed in the convent of the Blue Nuns in Paris, 12 Nov. 1744, became Abbess 6 Apr. 1757, and d. 29 Jan. 1761. Possibly she was engaged to be m. to him in 1737. The Political State of Great Britain, for Nov. 1737, gives his marriage to the Hon. Miss Lee, da. of the Earl of Lichfield, without mentioning any Christian name. A Frances of the same parentage was b. Nov. and bap. at Enstone 16 Dec. 1721, but d. in 1723. The Frances of the text, b. 21 Jan. 1721 [r-ectius 1725], d. unm. according to Dr. Lee {Her. i^ Gen., vol. iii, p. 483). V.G. ("') Mrs. Delany writes, May 1753, "I had a great regard for him .... of all the young men of quality with whom I have been acquainted, he was the prime." Lady Mary Wortley Montagu speaks of his "very good heart," and adds, "I have often thought it a great pity it was not under the direction of a better head " (23 July 1753). "On Lord Hyde's return from his travels, his brother-in-law, the Lord Essex, told him with a great deal of pleasure, that he had got a pension for him. It was a very handsome one, and quite equal to his rank. All Lord Hyde's answer was my price so exactly?' It was on this account that Mr. Pope comphments him with that passage — 'disdain what[ever] Cornbury disdains.'" (Spence, p. 221). Thom- son in The Seasons, "Summer," writes of him as "polished Cornbury." V.G. (*) He was alternately at Warsaw and Dresden, being only temporarily appointed to Vienna. V.G. (') He took office under Newcastle, and again under George Grenville, and after the latter's death, joined North's administration in 1 771, and supported him to the end, after he had coalesced with the Whigs in 1783. He obtained his barony from
 * How could you tell, my Lord, that I was to be sold ? or at least how could you know