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 471 COVENTRY COUTTS See " BuRDETT-CouTTS," Barony {Burdett-Coutts), cr. 1871, extinct 1906. COVENTRY EARLDOM. I . " George (Villiers), Marquess of Buck- T . INGHAM, Baron Whaddon of Whaddon, Vis- ->' COUNT ViLLiERsand Earlof Buckingham, High Admiral of England," was, on 18 May 1623, cr. "EARL OF COVENTRY and DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM."(') He d. (by assassination) 23 Aug. 1628, aged ^6.(^) II 1628 to 1687. c en n <5 « r. n ON to 00 00 z c' o !=: X n > -^ 2 M J^ o - n O OS n C D- 3 O &. 3 fo 2. George (Villiers), Duk.e of Bucking- ham, Marquess of Buckingham, Earl of Coventry, &^c., s. and h. He d. s.p. legit., 16 Apr. 1687, when the Earldom of Coventry, together with the other peerages conferred on his father, became extinct. III. 1697. I. Thomas Coventry, 2nd and yst. s. of Thomas, 2nd Baron Coventry of Aylesborough, by Mary, da. ot Sir William Craven, was b. about 1629; was M. ?.(*=) for Droitwich, 1 660, for Camelford, 166 1-7 9, and for Warwick, 1 681, and i685-87;wasof Snitterfield, CO. Warwick, when he entered his pedigree at the Her. Visit, in 1682. He succeeded his nephew, 25 July 1687, as 5th Baron Coventry of Ayles- borough. High Steward of Worcester and of Evesham, and Custos Rot. of CO. Worcester, 1689. On 26 Apr. 1697, he was cr. VISCOUNT DEERHURST, of the hundred of Deerhurst, co. Gloucester, and EARL OF COVENTRY, C') with a spec, rem., failing the heirs male of his body, to Francis Coventry, of Mortlake, Surrey (yr. s. of Thomas, ist Baron Coventry of Aylesborough), and the heirs male of his body, rem. to William Coventry, Thomas Coventry, and Henry Coventry, and the heirs male of their bodies respectively, children of Walter Coventry, late of London, merchant, s. and h. of Walter C, a yr. br. of the said ist Baron. (') (•) See Creations, 1483-1646, in App., 47th Rep., D.K. Pub. Records. (*>) Charles Villiers, his ist s. and h. ap., b. 17 Nov. 1625, and bur. 17 Mar. 1626/7, '" Westm. Abbey, is styled in the register of his burial "Marquess of Buckingham and Earl of Coventry." («) There are no data for his politics, but he was certainly not a Jacobite, and his obtaining an Earldom with an extended remainder suggests that he was a Whig. V.G. C^) See vol. ii, p. 462, note "a," circa finem. {«) An extraordinarily extended limitation of an Earldom, comprising an uncle and three second cousins, granted by William III to a person whose merits were certainly not extraordinary.