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 CLERMONT 279 1 847-74 ;(^) a Lord of the Treasury, 1854-55; Under Sec. of State for the Colonies, 1857-58 and 1859-65; took the name of Parkinson, before that of Fortescue 1863; P.C. 7 Apr. 1864, and [I.] 13 Jan. 1866; Ch. Sec. in Ireland, 1865-66 and 1868-71; President of the Board of Trade, 1871-74; Lord Lieut, of Essex, 1873-92. On 28 Feb. 1874 he was cr. BARON CARLINGFORD of Carlingford, co. Louth.^) Lord Privy Seal, May 1881 to Feb. i885;(') K.P., 11 Apr. 1882. Lord President of the Council, Mar. 1883 to June 1885. He nr., 20 Jan. 1863, at Trinity Church, Brompton, as her 4th husband,('') Frances Elizabeth Anne, some- time Countess WaldegravEjQ widow (at that time) of George Granville Vernon-Harcourt, da. of (the celebrated tenor singer) John Braham, by ( — ), da. of ( — ) Bolton, of Ardwick, near Manchester. She, who was b. in 182 1, d. in Carlton Gardens, Midx., 5 July 1879, and was bur. at Radstock, Somerset. He d. s.p., from influenza, at Marseilles, 30 Jan., and was bur. 5 Feb. 1898, at Chewton Mendip, aged 75. On his death the baronies of Clermont and of Carlingford became extinct. (^) Will pr. above ;^4,ooo net. Family Estates. — Those of himself, suojure, and of his br. (the late Lord) appear in 1883, to have been 21,823 acres in co. Louth ; 758 in co. Armagh, and 686 in co. Carlow. Total 23,265 acres, worth £ i 8,086 a year. Those, iureuxoris (i.e. the Waldegrave estates), consisted of 5,321 acres in Somerset; (*) He became a Unionist in 1886. V.G. ('') This was a Consolation Peerage for his defeat as Liberal candidate for co. Louth. For a list of these peerages see vol. v, Appendix B. V.G. (') For this and other great offices of State see vol. ii, Appendix D. {^) Her first husband was John James Henry Waldegrave, of Navestock, Essex (the eldest, though illegit. s. of the 6th Earl Waldegrave), who d. s.p., Apr. 1840, aged 38. She m., 2ndly (a few months afterwards), 28 Sep. 1840, George Edward (Waldegrave), 7th Earl Waldegrave, br. (by the same parents) of her last husband, but l>. in wedlock. He d. s.p., 28 Sep. 1846, aged 40. By these matches she acquired the whole of the estates of the Waldegrave family in Essex, Somerset, and elsewhere. She m., 3rdly (in about a year's time), 30 Sep. 1847, as his 2nd wife, George Granville Vernon-Harcourt, of Nuneham Park, Oxon, by whom, also, she had no issue. He d. s.p.m., 19 Dec. 1861, aged 77, and about 13 months later, she m. her 4th and last husband as above. To him she left, for his life, such of the Waldegrave estates as she then possessed, with rem. to Earl Waldegrave in tail male. (') She was for many years, as " Frances, Countess Waldegrave " one of the leading members of London Society, her reunions at Strawberry Hill (Twickenham), Cifc, being in many respects unique. It is believed that she was the first Dowager Peeress in modern times who [1846] adopted the method of using her christian name with the title {i.e. " Frances, Countess Waldegrave ") instead of the prefix of Dowager. In 1856, "Maria, Marchioness of Ailesbury " was so styled; in I 859, " Julia,Countess of Jersey;" in i860, "Minna, Duchess of Norfolk;" ^c. On succeeding to his brother's older Barony of Clermont [I.], he did not adopt that title, but continued to be known by the one [U.K.] in which he sat in the House of Lords. On the other hand, when Lord Stanley of Alderley [U.K. 1839] sue. in 1909 to the Barony of Sheffield [I. 1783], he used the latter title. V.G.