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 4o8 DORCHESTER for Dorchester 1754-62. He was cr., 3 July 1753, BARON MILTON OF SHRONEHILL, co. Tipperary [I.], taking his seat as such, 9 Oct. follow- ing. P.C. [I.] 6 Oct. 1753. He was cr., 10 or 11 May 1762, BARON MILTON OF MILTON ABBEY, co. Dorset, and, finally, 18 May 1792, VISCOUNT MILTON OF MILTON ABBEY, co. Dorset, and EARL OF DORCHESTER, co. Dorset; High Steward of Dorchester, ^c. He m., 27 July 1742, at Knole, Kent, Caroline, da. of Lionel (Sackville), ist Duke of Dorset, by Elizabeth, da. and coh. of Lieut. Gen. Walter Philip CoLYEAR. She, who was b. 6 Mar., and bap. 4 Apr. 171 8, at St. Martin's- in-the-Fields, .s". 24 Mar. 1775, and was bur. at Milton Abbey afsd., aged 57. He </. 12 Jan. 1798, in Mayfair, aged 79. "Will pr. Feb. 1798. III. 1798 2. George (Damer), Earl of Dorchester [1792], to Viscount Milton of Milton Abbey [1792], Baron 1808. Milton of Milton Abbey [1762], also Baron Milton of Shronehill [I. 1753]; 2nd(*) but ist surv. s. and h., b. 28 Mar. 1746, and bap. at St. James's, Westm.; ed. at Eton, admitted 1762 Trin.Coll.Cambridge, M.A. 3 July 1 769 ; M.P.(Whig) for Cricklade 1 768-74; for Crail boroughs 1 778-80; for Dorchester 1780-91; for Malton 1792-98; and for Naas [I.] 1795-97; being styled Viscount Milton, 1792-98. Major 87th Foot, 1779, and Lieut. Col. in the West Indies, 1782; Ch. Sec. to the Lord Lieut. [I.], 1794-95; P.C. [E.] 17 Dec. 1794; P.C. [I.] 4 Jan. 1795; Lord Lieut, of co. Dorset, 1803-08. He d. unm., 7 Mar. 1808, at Dorchester House, Park Lane, Midx., aged 62, when all his honours became exiinct.Q') Admon. May 1808. DORCHESTER (co. Oxford) VISCOUNTCY. Dudley Carleton, 2nd s. of Anthony C, of Baldwin Brightwell, Oxon, by his 2nd wife, Joyce, da. of John I. 1628 Goodwin, of Winchington, Bucks, was b. 10, and bap. to 21 Mar. 1573/4, at Baldwin Brightwell afsd.; ed. at 1632. Westm., and at Ch. Ch. Oxford, B.A. 1595, M.A. 12 July 1600; M.P. for St. Mawes 1604-11; and for Hastings 1626; admitted Gray's Inn 21 Feb. 1604/5; knighted 25 June('=) (*) The 1st s., John, m., 1767, Anne, da. of Gen. Henry Seymour Conway, by- Caroline, Countess of Ailesbury. He d. s.p. and v.p.., having committed suicide 15 Aug. 1776. After the death of this worthless man, she devoted herself to sculp- ture, and her portrait busts were much admired. Her cousin and friend, Horace Walpole, left her Strawberry Hill and its contents. She i. 28 May 1828. Her life, by Percy Noble, was pub. in 1909. V.G. C*) His sister, Lady Caroline Damer, h. 4 May 1752, inherited Milton Abbey, Dorset, and the estates for her life. She d. unm., in 1829, when the property passed tothechildrenof John (Dawson), 1st Earl of Portarlington [I.], s. and h. of the ist Vis- count Carlow [I.], by Mary, eldest sister of Joseph (Damer), 1st Earl of Dorchester abovenamed. Of these children, two took the name of Damer after that of Dawson. (<=) The dates of 2 July and 9 Aug. 16 10 are elsewhere given for his Knight- hood. V.G.