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 448 DOVER BARONY. Joseph Yorke, 3rd s. of Philip, ist Earl of Hard- WICK.E (Lord Chancellor, 1737-56), by Margaret, da. of 1788 to Charles Cocks; b, 24 June 1724; Lieut. Col. ist regt. of Foot Guards, and A.D.C. to the Duke of Cumberland at '^^^' the battle of Fontenoy, 11 May 1745; A.D.C. to the King 1749-58; Col. of the 9th Foot, 1755-59, of the 8th Dragoons 1759-60, of the 5th Dragoons 1760-87, of the nth Light Dragoons 1787-89, and of the ist regt. of Life Guards 1789-92; Major Gen. 1758, Lieut. Gen. 1760, Gen. 1777; Sec. to the Embassy, Paris, 1749-51; Minister at the Hague 175 1-6 1, and in 1761 Ambassador there, which office he resigned in 1780; M.P. (Whig) for East Grinstead 1751-61, for Dover 1761-74, and for Grampound 1774-80; LL.D. Glasgow 1752; nom. K.B. 23 Mar., inv. 11 Apr. and inst. 26 May 1761; P.C. 29 June 1768. On 18 Sep. 1788, hewasfn LORD DOVER, Baron of the town and port of Dover, co. Kent. He m., 23 June 1783, at Antwerp, Christiana Charlotte Margaret, Baroness de StOcken, da. of Johan Henrilc, Baron de StOcken, of Denmark, Counsellor of State, by Anna Catherina DE Boetzelaer. He d. s.p., 2 Dec. 1792, in Hill Str., Midx., aged 68, when his Peerage became extinct.{f) Will pr. Dec. 1792. His widow d. 2 Mar. 1793, at the house of her brother-in-law, the Bishop of Ely, aged nearly 80. Admon. dat. Apr. 1793. in. 1 83 1. I. George James Welbore Agar Ellis, only s. and h. ap. of Henry (Ellis), 2nd Viscount Clifden of GowRAN, 6fc. [L], and Baron Mendip, by Caroline, ist da. of George (Spencer), Duke of Marlborough, was b. 17 Jan. 1797; ed. for a short time at Westm. school; matric. at Oxford (Ch. Ch.) 27 Jan. 18 14, B.A. 1 8 16, M.A. 1 8 19; M.P. (Whig) for Heytesbury, 1818-20; for Seaford, 1820-26; for Ludgershall, 1826-30, and for Okehampton 1830-31. F.R.S. and F.S.A., both 7 Nov. 18 16, when aged but 19; Harleian Trustee Brit. Museum 1829 till his death; P.C. 22 Nov. 1830. On 20 June 1831, he The 2nd and more important resolution was at once evaded by the creation of heirs of Scottish nobles as British peers, i.g., 1 7 1 1 the eldest s. of Earl of Kinnoul cr. Lord Hay 1722 „ „ Duke of Montrose „ Earl Graham 1722 „ „ „ „ Roxburghe „ „ Kerr 1766 „ „ „ „ Argyll „ Lord Sundridge 1776 eldest surv. „ Earl of Marchmont „ „ Hume of Berwick 1776 eldest „ Earl of Bute „ „ Cardiff The House of Lords did not venture to go the length of refusing admission to peers of Great Britain because of their inheriting a Scottish peerage. V.G. (*) He supported Pitt's Regency Bill. James Boswell wrote of him at the Hague about 1763/4, as "so anxious lest people should forget that he was an ambassador, that he held his head as high and spoke as little as possible." He appears in 1779, "The Experienced Ambassador and Mad* Vanb . . . n," in the notorious tke-a-the portraits in Town and Country Mag., vol. xi, p. 457, for an account of which see Appendix B in the last vol. of this work. V.G.