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 4o8 IX. 1778. CONYERS 9. Amelia, suo Jure Baroness Darcy [i344]('') a.nd suo Jure Baroness Conyers [1509], also de Jure Countess of Mertola [Portugal 1668], only surv. child and h. of Robert (Darcy), Earl of Holderness, Lord Darcy and Lord Conyers, fife, abovenamed, by Mary, da. of Francis Doublet, Member of the States of Holland, b. 12 Oct., and bap. 10 Nov. 1754, at St. Geo., Han. Sq. She w., 29 Nov. 1773, at Holderness House, Hertford Str., St. Geo., Han. Sq., Francis Godolphin-Osborne, styled Marquess of Carmarthen (then aged 22), afterwards (1789) Duke of Leeds. Having eloped, 13 Dec. 1778, from her husband, she was divorced by Act of Pari, in May 1779, and on 9 June 1779 ;«., also at St. Geo., Han. Sq., as ist wife, John Byron, ist s. of Admiral the Hon. John Byron. She d. in Upper Brook Str., of a " lingering disorder" 27 Jan., and was bur. 11 Feb. 1784, at Hornby, in her 30th year.('') Her 2nd husband d. 10 Apr. 1786, aged 63, being, by his 2nd wife, father of Lord Byron, the poet. X. 1784. 10. George William Frederick.(Osborne), Lord Darcy (^) and Lord Conyers, s. and h. by 1st husband, b. 21 July 1775; by judgment of the House of Lords, 27 Apr. 1798, was pronounced to have made out his claim to the Barony of Conyers.("=) From 23 Mar. 1789 to 31 Jan. 1799 he was styled Marquis of Carmarthen, becoming, on the latter date, on the death of his father, Duke of Leeds, &c. He d. 10 July 1838. XL 1838. II. Francis GoDOLPHiN D'Arcy (Osborne, afterwards, 1849, D'Arcy-Osborne), Duke of Leeds, Marquess of Carmarthen, Earl of Danby, Viscount Latimer, Lord Darcy C") and Lord Conyers, i^c., s. and h., b. 21 May 1798. He d. s.p., 4 May 1859, when the Dukedom of Leeds, ^c, devolved on his cousin and h. male, but the Baronies of Darcy and of Conyers devolved on the h. general as under. C n %■% 3  If -^ o =^ « c M ON 5- o o, = f-t- '-I n jj w S a o-- (^) According to the decision 29 Sep. 1903 as to that Barony. She never used this title, being unaware that she had any right thereto. V.G. C') A rather scurrilous account of her in The Abbey of Kilkhampton, 1780, pp. 59-60, by Sir Herbert Croft, states that she "Dared fly from the Arms of a Husband who treated her with Tenderness to the Embraces of a Profligate, who, from a spirit of Gallantry consented to an Union which neither his Honor or his Inclination prompted him to accept." V.G. (<=) The patent of 1641 (see ante, p. 405, note "b"), under which Conyers D'Arcy took his seat, was not to be found. It is remarkable that " the [previous] Attorney Gen., to whom the consideration of the petition by the mother of the claimant was referred, was of opinion that since the abeyance determined [1644] there had been no sitting in Pari, which could be referred to the original [1509] title" (see Cruise); ignoring, apparently, the precedency [of 1509] allowed to Conyers Darcy, when sum. {v.p.) as Lord Conyers in 1680 (see ante, p. 407, note "e"); or, perhaps, considering it as of no moment and liable to be abated, as in the case of Clifford [1628] in 1 737. See vol. i, Appendix D as to Precedency anomalously allowed.