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 COVENTRY 473 at the Guildhall Chapel, London, Anne, da. of Sir Streynsham Master, of Codnor Castle, co. Derby, by Elizabeth, da. of Richard Legh, of Lyme, co. Chester. He d. s.p.m.,{f) i-j Oct. 1719, at Croome, when the Barony of Coventry of Aylesborough became extinct. Will dat. 27 Oct. 17 19, pr. 13 Feb. 1719/20. His widow m., in 1725, Edmund Pytts, of Kyre, co. Worcester, sometime Tory IVI.P. for that co., who d. 1753. She, who was b. 21, and bap. 23 Aug. 1691, at St. Andrew's, Holborn, d. 21 Mar. 1788, at Holt Castle, co. Worcester, aged 96. C") Will dat. 26 Aug. 1785 to 3 Feb. 1786, pr. 14 Apr. 1788. Vn. 1 7 19. 5- William (Coventry), Earl of Coventry and Viscount Deerhurst, cousin and h. male, who sue. to the above dignities under the spec. rem. in their creation, being ist s. and h. of Walter Coventry, of St. Peter-le-Poor, London, merchant, by Anne, da. of Humphrey Holcombe, also of London, merchant, which Walter was yr. s. of another Walter C, who was yr. br. of Thomas, ist Baron Coventry of Aylesborough, the grandfather of Thomas, ist Earl of Coventry, the grantee of 1697. He was b. before 1688; was M.P.^) for Bridport, 1708-19; Joint Clerk Comptroller of the Board of Green Cloth, 1 7 1 7-1 9, attending the King, as such, to Hanover in 171 9; P.C. 22 Mar. 1719/20; Lord Lieut, and Custos Rot. of co. Worcester, 1720 till his death; cr. D.C.L. Oxford, 14 May 1740. He OT. Elizabeth, da. of John Allen, of Westminster. She d. 23 Nov. 1738, of dropsy, in Grosvenor Sq. He d. 18 Mar. 1750/1. Will pr. Apr. 1751. [Thomas Henry Coventry, j/yZjd' Viscount Deerhurst, s. and h. ap., b. 27 Mar. 1721 ; ed. at Winchester College; matric. at Oxford (Univ. Coll.) 6 July 1737, cr. M.A., 20 Nov. 1739; M.P. (Tory) for Bridport, 1742-44. He d. unm. and v.p., 20 May 1744, aged 23. ('^)] Vin. 1 75 1. 6. George William (Coventry), Earl OF Coventry, i^c., 2nd, but 1st surv. s. and h., b. 26 Apr. 1722; ed. at Winchester College; matric. at Oxford (Univ. Coll.) 6 July 1737, cr. M.A., 20 Nov. 1 739; M.P. (Tory) for Bridport, 1 744-47 ; for co. Worcester, 1747- 5i;(') Lord Lieut, and Custos Rot. of co. Worcester, 1 751-1808; Lord of (") Anne, his da. and h. (by ist wife), /;:. Sir William Carew, Bart., of Antony, Cornwall, and d. before him, leaving one child, Sir Coventry Carew, who d. s.p., Apr. 1748, when her issue, as also the Baronetcy, became extinct. (*■) Not 98, as in Diet. Nat. Biog. V.G. (•=) A Whig in the Commons, but in the Lords he steadily opposed Walpole, and voted uniformly with the Tories, regularly signing opposition Protests. V.G. if) The London Evening Post speaks of his " regularity at Oxford, his modesty, sobriety, good sense, temper, humanity, and disinclination to satire." V.G. (') He belonged to a Tory family, and in his early days in the H. of C. voted with the " Country Party " (the Court party being Whig). In the last years of George II he seems to have been not an irreconcilable — there were hardly any Tories 60