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 288 CLIFDEN missioner of Excise [I.], 1776-85. He was on 27 July I776,(*) cr. LORD CLIFDEN, BARON OF GOWRAN, co. Kilkenny [I.], being introduced to the House of Peers, 14 Oct. 1777; and was, 12 Jan. 178 1, cr. VISCOUNT CLIFDEN OF GOWRAN, co. Kilkenny [I.], taking his seat 9 Oct. 1781; P.C. [I.] 16 Oct. 1784; Joint Postmaster Gen. [I.] 1784-89. He m., 20 Mar. 1760, Lucia, widow of the Hon. Henry Boyle- Walsingham, ist da. of John Martin, of Dublin, Col. in the Army. He d. i Jan. 1789, in Ireland, and was bur. at Gowran, aged 54. Will pr. 1789. His widow d. at Lady Mendip's House, Twickenham, Midx., 26, and was bur. 29 July 1802, at Twickenham, aged 70. M.I. Willpr. 1802. VISCOUNTCY 2. Henry Welbore (Agar, afterwards Ellis), AND Viscount Clifden of Gowran, fsPc. [I.], s. and h., b. BARONY [I.] 22 Jan. 1761. Clerk of the Privy Council [I.] 1785 till the abolition of that office in 18 17; M.P. for co. II. 1789. Kilkenny [I.], 1783-89; for Heytesbury, 1 793-1 802. ('') He took his seat in the House of Lords [I.] 13 Feb. 1789. By the death, 2 Feb. 1802, of his great uncle, Welbore (Ellis), Baron Mendip of Mendip, Somerset, abovenamed, he inherited that peerage [G.B.] under the spec. rem. in its creation (13 Aug. 1794), and by royal lie, 4 Feb. 1804, took the surname of Ellis only. F.S.A. 8 Dec. 1803. He wz., 10 Mar. 1792, at Sion House, Isleworth, Midx., by spec, lie, Caroline, 1st da. of George (Spencer), Duke of Marlborough, by Caroline, da. of John (Russell), 4th Duke of Bedford. She, who was b. 27 Oct., and bap. 23 Nov. 1763, at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, d. at Blenheim, 23, and was bur.the.Tt 29 Nov. 18 13. Admon. Dec. 18 13. He d. in Han. Sq., 13, and was bur. 31 July 1836, aged 75, at Twickenham, Midx. Will pr. Sep. 1836. III. 1836. 3. Henry (Agar-Ellis), Viscount Clifden of Gowran, &'c. [I.], also Baron Mendip [G.B.] and Baron Dover [U.K.], grandson and h., being s. and h. of George James Welbore (Agar-Ellis), Baron Dover, of Dover, Kent (so cr., v.p., 20 June 1 831), by Georgiana, da. of George (Howard), 6th Earl of Carlisle, which Lord Dover was only s. and h. ap. of the last Viscount Clifden. He was b. 25 Feb. 1825; ed. at Eton, and at Ch. Ch. Oxford, B.A. 1845; sue. his father as Baron Dover, 10 July 1833; a Gent, of the Bedchamber to the Prince Consort 1846-52, being a Liberal in politics. He w., 23 Feb. 1861, Eliza Horatia Frederica,('') da. of Frederick Charles (") For the profuse creations in the Irish Peerage at this date, see Appendix H to this volume. C") In politics he was in the English House of Commons a supporter of Pitt, but after Pitt's death in 1806, reverted to the Whigs, whom he had supported in the Irish House of Commons before the outbreak of the French Revolution. V.G. if) Described by Henry Greville as " lovely to behold, full of grace and gracious- ness of demeanour." V.G.