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 392 COMPTON aged 46), and had consequently inherited that dignity. She m., 19 Dec. 1751, in Audley Chapel, as his ist wife, George Townshend, who, on 12 Mar. 1764, sue. his father as 4th Viscount Townshend of Raynham, and who, after her death, was, 31 Oct. 1787, cr. Marquess Townshend of Raynham (see that dignity), and d. 14 Sep. 1807. The suo jure Baroness (Viscountess Townshend) d. at Leixlip Castle, co. Kildare, 14 Sep., and was bur. I Oct. 1770, at Raynham, Norfolk.(^) VIII. 1770. 8. George (Townshend), Lord Ferrers and Lord Compton, s. and h., b. 18 Apr. 1753, who, 25 Apr. 1774, being sum. by writ in his mother's Barony as George Townshend de Ferrers, took his seat in the House on the 28th as LORD FERRERS, " next above the Lord Dacre " [1321]. On 1 8 May 1784 he was, v. p., cr. EARL OF THE COUNTY OF LEICESTER-C") On 1 4 Sep. 1 807 he sue. his father as 2nd Marquess Townshend of Raynham. He d. 27 July 181 1. IX. 181 1 9. George Ferrers (Townshend), Marquess to Townshend of Raynham [1787], Earl of 1855. Leicester [1784], Viscount Townshend of Raynham [1682], Lord Ferrers [1299], Lord Compton [1572], and Baron Townshend of Lynn Regis [1661], s. and h., b. 13 Dec. 1778. He d. s.p., 31 Dec. 1855, when the Earldom of Leicester became extinct; the three peerages of Towns- hend devolved on his cousin and h. male, while the 2 Baronies in fee (Ferrers and Compton) fell into abeyance between his sisters or their descendants.(') C/1 n n •^ C n 2 1 p ») '^ J2 r* c

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COMPTON OF COMPTON i.e. "Compton of Compton, co. Warwick," Earldom (Compton), cr. 1 8 12, with "Northampton," Marquessate of, which see. (^) The descent of Charlotte Compton, Baroness Ferrers de Chartley, Baroness Compton, with a portrait of her from a picture at Balls Park, was pub. in 1892 by Isabella G. C. Clifford. Her arms are shown, Compton quartering Clifford. V.G. (•>) Being styled in that patent "Baron de Ferrers of Chartley, Baron Bourchier, Lovaine, Basset, and Compton," as to which designations of Bourchier, Lovaine, and Basset, see vol. ii, p. 3, note " f." ("=) The coheirs were (i) his nephew, Marmion Edward Ferrers, of Baddesley Clinton, CO. Warwick, s. and h. of Edward F. of the same, by Harriet Anne (who d. I June 1845), 1st surv. sister of the deceased. (2) Elizabeth Margaret, yr. of the 2 sisters of deceased, who m., 5 Aug. 1815, Joseph Moore Boultbee, of Springfield Park, CO. Warwick, and d. 24 May i860, leaving issue.