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 298 CLIFFORD XIX. 1734 19. Margaret, Baroness Lovel, 3rd da. and one of to the 5 coheirs of Thomas (Tufton), 6th Earl of Thanet, 1775. Lord Clifford, ^c, abovenamed, by Catherine, da. and coh. of Henry (Cavendish), Duke of Newcastle, being, in right of her said father, one of the coheirs of his Barony, the abeyance thereof was terminated in her favour, and she was declared BARONESS DE CLIFFORD, by patent 3 Aug. i734.(*) She was b. 16 June 1700; ^•i 3 J'^ly (settlement 2 July) 171 8, Thomas Coke, of Holkham, Norfolk, who was nom. K.B., 27 May 1725; and who was cr. Baron LovEL of Minster Lovel, 28 May 1728, and, on 9 May 1744, Viscount Coke of Holkham and Earl of Leicester. He d. s.p.s., 20 Apr. 1759, when his honours became extinct. See fuller account of him under that Earldom. His widow, the Dowager Countess of Leicester, suo jure Baroness de Clifford, d. s.p.s., 28 Feb. 1775, aged 74, at Holkham afsd. On her death the Barony, for the third time, fell into abeyance. Will pr. Mar. 1775. XX. 1776. 20. Edward Southwell, only s. and h. of Edward S., of Kings Weston, co. Gloucester, Principal Sec. of State [I.], by Catherine, sister and h. of Thomas (Watson), 3rd Earl of Rockingham, da. of Lewis Watson, j/jy/^d' Viscount Sondes, by Catherine, 1st da. and coh. of Thomas (Tufton), 6th Earl of Thanet, Lord Clifford, fcfc., abovenamed, being, as the representative of his said maternal grandmother, one of the coheirs of his great-grandfather's Barony, the abeyance thereof was terminated (") in his favour, and he was sum. therein 17 Apr. 1776, by writ directed Edward Clifford, Chevalier, as LORD CLIFFORD, taking his seat on the 24th inst. He was b. 6, and bap. 1 7 June 1738, at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields; sue. his father 16 Mar. 1755; M.P. (Tory) for Bridgwater, 1761-63; for co. Gloucester 1763-76. He m., 29 Aug. 1765, by spec, lie, at St. Geo., Han. Sq., Sophia, 3rd da. of Samuel Campbell, of Mount Campbell, co. Leitrim. He d. at Auveny, near Nice, in France, i, and was bur. 24 Nov. 1777, at Henbury, co. Gloucester, aged 39. Will dat. 27 Sep. 1777, signed as " Clifford," pr. 12 Feb. 1778. His widow, who was Governess to the Princess Charlotte of Wales, d. in South Audley Str., Midx. 3, and was bur. 14 Aug. 1828, at Henbury, aged 85. C") Will dat. 6 Mar. 1824 to 3 May 1825 (in which she is styled " Baroness de Clifford," widow of" Edward, late Baron de Clifford "), signed "Sophia de Chfford," pr. 30 Oct. 1828. and passed from the Viponts, with their heiress, to the Cliffords, and from them, with their heiress, to the Tuftons, but it seems, unlike the Great Chamberlainship, to have been alienable [i.e. to the heir male). V.G. (*) See tabular pedigree on p. 300. C") Lady Charlotte Bury describes her as " a goodnatured commonplace person." V.G.