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 424 CORK 21 Nov. 1742, at Marston. Ed. at Westm. school. Page of Honour to the Prince of Wales, 1759; Gent. Usher to Charlotte, the Queen Consort, 1761-63; matric. at Oxford (Ch. Ch.), 2 Apr. 1763. A Whig. He m., istly, 31 Aug. 1764, at the Earl of Sandwich's house in Whitehall, Anne, sister and coh. of Capt. Charles Kelland Courtenay, yr. da. of Kelland CouRTENAY, of Painsford, Devon, and Trethurfe, Cornwall, by Elizabeth, sister of John, 4th Earl of Sandwich, da. of Edward Richard Montagu, styled Viscount Hinchinbroke. This marriage was dissolved 1782. She d. 1 1 Dec. 1785, of paralysis, aged 43, in Queen Str., Mayfair, Midx., and was bur. at St. John's, Frome. He m., 2ndly, 17 June 1786, at the house of her mother in Charles Str., St. Geo., Han. Sq., Mary, only surv. da. and yst. child of John (Monckton), ist Viscount Galway [I.], by his 2nd wife, Jane, da. of Henry Westenra. He d. 6 Oct. 1798, at Bath, and was iur. at St. John's, Frome, aged SS-{^) Will pr. Dec. 1798. His widow, who was l>. 2 1 May 1 748, d. s.p. 30 May 1 840, aged 92, in New Burlington Str., and was bur. in the Monckton vault at Brewood, co. Stafford, or (as otherwise stated) at Fineshade, Northants. Will pr. June i840.() [John Richard Boyle, styled Viscount Dungarvan, ist s. and h. ap. by 1st wife, b. 27 May 1765. He d. in infancy, v.p., 8 Mar. 1768, and was bur. at St. John's, Frome] IX. 1798. 8. Edmund (Boyle), Earl of Cork.,() Earl of Orrery, ^c. [I.], also Baron Boyle of Marston, 2nd but 1st surv. s. and h., b. 21 Oct. 1767; entered the Army, 1785; serving in Flanders, 1791; Major 87th Foot, 1793, and, subsequently, Lieut. Col. thereof; taken prisoner at the capitulation of Bergen-op-Zoom ; Lieut. Col. Coldstream Guards, 1797; Brevet Col. and A.D.C. to the King, 1798- 1805; served in Holland, 1799, and in Egypt, 1801. Major Gen. 1805; (^) " Devoted to the most wretched voluptuousness." {The Abbey of Kilkhampton, by Sir Herbert Croft, 1780). He and a Miss Greenhill appear in 1783, as "The Suspicious Husband and Gr . . h . . 11," in the notorious tete-a-tete portraits in Town and Country ^cg-y vol. xv, p. 121. See Appendix B in the last volume of this work. C') Her picture by Reynolds is well known from Jacobe's print thereof, in 1779, as "the Hon. Miss Monckton." The description of her, by Miss Burney, in 1782, as " very short, very fat, but handsome, splendidly and fantastically dressed, rouged not unbecomingly, fsfc," ends with the sarcastic remark that "her rage of seeing anything curious may be satisfied, if she pleases, by looking in a mirror." She was noted for her eccentricities, and as a leader of fashion. G.E.C. Lord Broughton in his Diary writes of her in 1824 as "a very singular personage. She is 76 years of age and has all the vivacity of 16. Her memory seems very accurate." Again, on 10 July 1830, he says: — "I dined with Lady Cork, Dr. Johnson's dunce. She seemed physically to be rather breaking, . . . intellectually she is as strong as ever." V.G. (') He was the first Earl of his line who signed himself "Cork," instead of " Corke." See ante, p. 420, note "a."