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 DYSART 563 II. 1654? 2. Elizabeth, 5«o _/«;•£• Countess ok Dvsart [S.], ist da. and coh., the h. of line.C) She resigned her Peerage and obtained a nev/ grant thereof, with the precedency of her father, by- patent dat. at Whitehall 5 Dec. 1670, with power of nomination C") to any of her descendants, failing which with rem. to her heirs, the eldest, if a female, to take without division. She »;., before 22 May i65i,('') probably in 1647, Sir Lionel Tollemache, otherwise Talmash, 3rd Bart., of Helmingham, Suffolk, who sue. his father 6 Sep. 1640, and was i>ur. 25 Mar. 1669 at Helmingham. She »z., 2ndly, being then about 44 (as his 2nd wife), 17 Mar. 1671/2, at Petersham, John (Maiti.and), ist Duke OF Lauderdale [S.], the well-known statesman, who J. s.p.n/., 24 Aug. 1682, aged 66, leaving no issue by her. See that dignity. She, who had eleven children by her ist husband, d. 5, and was i>ur. 16 June 1698, at Petersham. Will pr. 1698. in. 1698. 3. Lionel (Tollemache), Earl OF Dysart, iifc. [S.], 1st surv. s. and h.,('') L 30 Jan. 1648/9, at Helmingham; sty/ed Lord Huntingtower, 1651-98; matric. (Queens' Coll.) Cambridge 28 Mar. 1665; sue. his father as a Baronet Mar. 1669; was elected on a double return M.P. (Tory) for Suffolk 1673, but unseated 1674, for Orford 1685-87, and for Suffolk (again) 1 698-1 707, when, by the Act of Union [S.], he, as a Scottish peer, was no longer eligible; Lord Lieut, and Vice Admiral, Suffolk, 1703-05; Mayor of Orford, Suffolk, 1704; High Steward of Ipswich. He m., in 1680, shortly before i Nov. (antenuptial settl. 4 May 1680), Grace, 2nd da. and coh. of Sir Thomas Wilbraham, 3rd Bart., of Woodhey, co. Chester, by Elizabeth, da. and h. of Edward Mitton, of Weston-under-Lyzard, co. Stafford. He d. 23 Feb. 1726/7, in his 79th year, and was l?ur. at Helmingham. (") M.l. to have had the peculiarity that when he was drunk, "which was pretty often," he was more reserved than at other times. He is, liowever, called "that vile person" by a Committee of the House of Commons, when requesting the King to remove him from his Council, which appellation, probably, shows that he had some merit. (*) "A woman of gre.-it beauty but of far greater parts," says Bishop Burnet; "violent in everything she set about; a violent friend, but a much more violent enemy; ravenously covetous, and would have stuck at nothing by which she might compass her ends." According to Reresby, she was mistress to Oliver Cromwell, the Pro- tector. G.E.C. and V.G. (*") Reg. Mag. Sig. No nomination appears to have been made. See a list ol Peerages [S.] in which the grantees were authorised to nominate their successors in vol. ii, p. 291, note "c," !ul> Breadalbane. ('^) See note "c" on preceding page. ("*) His next br., Thomas, was a distinguished soldier, who served under .Iarl- borough and Ginkell. He was wounded in the expedition against Brest 8 June, and ,/. therefrom uiim., being ^ur. 30 June 1694 at Helmingham. Macaulay says: " Hi> death was due to the basest of all the hundred villanies of Marlborough." V.G. (') "A very sensible man, and with great prudence manageth all affairs that he puts his hands unto, only having come to an incumbered estate, that frugality and