Page:The Complete Peerage Ed 2 Vol 4.djvu/578

 56o DURHAM aged 48, at Cowes, Isle of Wight, and was bur. at Chester-le-Street-C) Will pr. Oct. 1840, under ;/^250,ooo, leaving everything to his widow. She, who was b. 7 Apr. 1 797, and was Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Victoria 1837-38, d. at Genoa, of ulcerated sore throat, 26 Nov., and was bur. 28 Dec. 1 841, at Chester-le-Street. Will pr. May 1842. II. 1840. 2. George Frederick D'Arcy (Lambton), Earl OF Durham, ^jfc, 2nd() and yst. but only surv. s. and h. by 2nd wife, b. at Copse Hill, Surrey, 5, and bap. there 29 Sep. 1828; styled Viscount Lambton, 1833-40; Lord Lieut, of co. Durham, 1854-79. A Liberal. He m., 23 May 1854, at St. Geo., Han. Sq., Beatrix Frances, 2nd da. of James (Hamilton), ist Duke of Abercorn [I.], by Louisa Jane, da. of John (Russell), 6th Duke of Bedford. She, who was b. 21 July 1835, at Carlton Terrace, d. 21 Jan. 1871, at Lambton Castle. C') He d. 27 Nov. 1879, aged 51, at 39 Hill Str., Mayfair, Midx.() III. 1879. 3. John George (Lambton), Earl of Durham [1833], Viscount Lambton [1833], and Baron Durham OF THE City of Durham and of Lambton Castle [1828], s. and h., b. 19 June 1855, at 122 Park Str., Grosvenor Sq., Midx.; styled Viscount Lambton till 1879; ed. at Eton 1868-73; sometime, 1874-79, an officer in (=) He did excellent work in the Russian embassy, and his report on Canadian affairs is masterly. Sir Spencer Walpole writes of him: " His undoubted abilities were rendered useless by a want of tact and judgment." He was known by the nicknames of " Radical Jack " and " The Dissenting Minister." Guizot writes: "He would have interested me much if I had not perceived in his haughty melancholy a strong imprint of egotism and vanity." Of his famous "Report on the affairs of British North America " it was said (with perhaps greater sarcasm than accuracy) by Lord Brougham, in 1838, that "The matter came from a Felon [Edward Gibbon Wake- field] the style from a coxcomb [Charles Buller] while the Dictator furnished only six letters, D . U . R . H . A . M." The Times in a long obituary notice recognises his integrity and straightforwardness, generous nature and kind heart, suggests that he was more defective in temper than principle, being arrogant and irritable though not vindictive. It calls him a flashy politician, ambitious and without ballast, declares that he was weakly complaisant to the Czar when Russian ambassador, and concludes with the following severe reflection on his action in Canada: "His autocracy was vain- glorious, perverse, and reckless of national consequences — beginning in buoyant self- conceit and ending in feeble-minded petulance and mortification." V.G. C") His elder br., the Hon. Charles William Lambton, h. 16 Jan. 1818, d. v.p., 24 Dec. 1831, is well known from the beautiful portrait of him (as "Master Lamb- ton") by Sir Thomas Lawrence, and the famous mezzotint therefrom by Cousins. (') A few months after her marriage Lord Malmesbury writes of her as charm- ing, pretty, and unaffected, and high-spirited and gay. V.G. C^) Augustus Hare described him in 1862 as having "a morose look, which does him great injustice." V.G.