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 CLARENDON 271 for the Northern parts thereof 1786-1825; M.P. (Tor)-) for Old Sarum, i784-90;(^) for Dartmouth, 1 790-1 802; for Wick Boroughs, 1802-05; and for Queenborough, 1807-12 and 1820-24; Comptroller of the Royal Household, 1787-90; P.C. 19 Feb. 1787; Ch. Justice in Eyre, North of Trent, 1 790 till his death; Prothonotary of the county of Lancaster, i 804 till his death; Envoy to Portugal, 1807-10; cr. LL.D., Cambridge, 30 Apr. 1833. H^ '"-J 5 J^"- I79i> ^'^ her father's house in Savile Row, St. James's, Westm., his ist cousin, Maria Eleanor, yr. of the twin daughters and coheirs of Admiral the Hon. John Forbes (2nd s. of George, 3rd Earl of Granard [I.]), by Mary, da. of William (Capel), 3rd Earl of Essex abovenamed. He J. s.p.s. suddenly, at Walmer Terrace, Deal, 22, and was bur. 29 Dec. 1838, at Watford, aged 8i.('') Will pr. Feb. 1839 and Feb. 1857. His widow d. 18 Mar. 1844, at Clarendon House, North Audley Str., Midx., aged 85. Will pr. Mar. 1844, Mar. 1847, ^nd Feb. 1857. VIII. 1838. 4. George William Frederick. (Villiers), Earl of Clarendon, &c., nephew and h., being s. and h. of the Hon. George V. (who d. 21 Mar. 1827, aged 67), by Theresa, sister of John, 1st Earl of Morley, da. of John (Parker), ist Baron Boring- don, which George was 3rd s. of the ist Earl. He was b. 26 Jan. 1800, in London; ed. at St. John's Coll. Cambridge, M.A., 1820; Attache at St. Petersburg, 1820-23; Commissioner of the Customs, 1824-33; Envoy to Madrid, 1833-39; G.C.B. 19 Oct. 1837; P.C. 3 Jan. 1840; Privy Seal (Liberal), Jan. 1840 to Sep. 1841; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1840-41, and, again, 1864-65; Pres. of the Board of Trade, 1846-47; Lord Lieut, of Ireland, May 1847 to Mar. 1852. K.G. 23 Mar. 1849; Chancellor of the Queen's Univ. of Ireland, 1 8 5 1 till his death ; Sec. of State for foreign affairs, 1853-58, 1865-66, and again 1868 till his death; Am- bassador to the Congress of Paris, Feb. to Apr. 1856, and to Berlin for the Coronation of King William I of Prussia, Oct. i 861 ; cr. D.C.L. of Oxford, 4 June 1856. He w;., 4 June 1839, at Gorhambury, Herts, CatherinejC) widow of John Foster Barham, ist da. of James Walter (Grimston), ist Earl of Verulam, by Charlotte, da. of Charles (Jenkinson), ist E.arl of Liverpool. He d. at i Grosvenor Crescent, Midx., 27 June, and was bur. If) In the Rclliad he is spoken of as " Villiers, comely, with the flaxen hair." Though generally supporting the Tories as a commoner, he voted with the Whigs when a peer. V.G. C') "Lord Clarendon has settled place, money, everything on Lady Clarendon, and on her death to Lady Maryborough — ruin to the present George were it not that, as I am assured .... Lady F. Barham and her large fortune are to be his; that Mrs. Villiers had arranged it all with the consent of both parties." (Harriet, Countess Granville, Dec. 1838) ex inform. Bright Brown. V.G. i^) "She is plain, but seems the best, most sensible, inoffensive wife that can be." (Harriet, Countess Granville). V.G.