lington of Horseheath in the county of Cambridge, and of Killard in Ireland, by his wife Juliana, daughter of Baptift Noel, Viscount Cambden, and departing this life at Langar 26 January 1712, was there buried, having iffue by her, who died 10 September 1747, Emanuel-Scrope, his fucceffor, and three daughters. Mary, appointed in 1720 maid of honour to Caroline, Princess of Wales, and 14 June 1725 became the third wife of Thomas, Earl of Pembroke, by whom he had no iffue; in October 1735 fhe re-married with John Mordaunt, Efq. brother to Charles, Earl of Peterborough, and died 12 September 1749. Judith, married to Thomas Page of Battlefdon in Bedfordshire, Efq. fecond fon of Sir Gregory Page of Greenwich in Kent, who was created a Baronet by K. George I. and had no iffue, fhe died his widow in 1780. Anne, married 8 May 1728 to Colonel Charles Mordaunt. (1) (2) (3) Sir Emanuel Scrope, 2 Sir Emanuel-Scrope, the fecond Viscount, in 1730 fucceeded Sir Richard Grubham How in the title of Baronet ; was member for the county of Nottingham in the reigns of K. George I. and II. and in May 1732 being appointed Vifcount. governor of Barbadoes, died there 29 March 1735, and his corpfe being brought to England 30 September following, was depofited in the family vault at Langar.-On 8 April 1719 his Lordship married Mary-Sophia-Charlotte, eldest daughter to the Baron Kielmanfegge, made a Count of the Empire in O&tober 1751 *; fhe was a lady of the bedchamber to the Princess of Wales, and dying 13 June 1782 was buried at Langar: by this Lady his Lordihip had iffue fix fons and four daughters, viz. Scrope, who died an infant. Sir George-Auguftus, who fucceeded to the honour. G3 (1) (2) Sir *He was mafter of the horfe to K. George I. as Elector of Hanover, and died 15 November 1717; and his Lady was Sophia-Charlotte, daughter to Count Platen of the Empire, who was made a free denizen of Ireland 9 September 1721, two days after created by patent (purfuant to a privy feal, bearing date at Kenfington 14 Auguft) Countefs of Leinfter, and 10 April 1722 Baronefs of Brentford, and Countefs of Darlington in England, being alfo Countess of Platen and Baronefs Kielmanfegge in Germany; and fhe died 20 April 1725.-Lady How brought a confiderable eftate to the family; and 15 April 1719 the King granted to her and his Lordship for life, the yearly penfion of 7551. from Christmas preceding, which was renewed to her daughter Juliana 30 April 1778 for life. (Lodge and Penfion Lift.) ི�་ (3) (4) (5) (6) (1) 。 (2) (3) (4) Sir Sir Richard the present Viscount. John, who died 1 September 1769. William, Knight of the Bath, Colonel of the Nineteenth regiment of dragoons, Lieutenant-Governor of the Ifle of Wight, made a Lieutenant-General 25 May 1772; and a member of the British privy council; being appointed Commander in Chief of his Majefty's forces in North-America, he landed in that capacity at Boston 25 May 1775, which ftation he continued to fill till 1778, when he obtained letters of recall. He married Frances, fourth daughter of the Right Hon. William Conolly of Castletown in the county of Kildare, but has no iffue. Thomas, who died unmarried 14 November 1771, aged 41. Daughter Caroline, married to John How of Hanslop in the county of Bucks, and is deceased. Charlotte, 12 August 1752 to Robert Fettiplace of Swinbrook in the county of Oxford, and died in July 1787. Juliana, now living; and Mary, married to William-Auguftus Pitt of Heckfield in the county of Hants, brother to George, Lord Rivers, Colonel of the tenth regiment of dragoons, a Lieutenantgeneral, Commander in Chief of the forces in Ireland, and a member of the privy council in this kingdom. Sir George-Auguftus, the third Viscount, in May 1747, George- was returned to the parliament of England for the town of 'Auguftus, Nottingham, and entering into the army, obtained a comViscount. pany in the first regiment of foot-guards 1 May 1749: 3 Sir 4 he was promoted to a regiment of foot 28 September 1757, and afterwards commanded as a Brigadier-General under General Abercrombie in North-America, where he was killed in a skirmish with a party of French on the march towards Ticonderoga 5 July; he fell much lamented, and dying a bachelor was fucceeded in the honour by his brother Sir Richard, the fourth and prefent Viscount How, who Richard, at an early period manifefted a predilection for the naval Viscount. life, and in that profeffion he has added new glory to the British empire. He commanded the fquadron which failed from Portsmouth 1 June 1758, with the troops destined to make a defcent upon the coaft of France under the command of the late Duke of Marlborough, when they deftroyed above 100 fail under the cannon of St. Maloes, and took and deftroyed Cherbourg. In 1759 he commanded the Magnanime, and shared in the laurels of 20 November that year. In 1765 he he was appointed Treasurer of the Navy, which office he refigned in 1770. In 1776 he had the command of the fleet in North-America, and arrived at Hallifax with his fquadron 14 July that year. In 1782 he relieved Gibraltar in the face of 50 fail of the line, and afterwards repulfed the combined fleets of France and Spain.-His Lordship is an Admiral of the White Flag, and being appointed first Lord of the Admiralty, refigned that office in July 178820 April 1782 his Majefty was pleafed to create him Vifcount How of Langar in the county of Nottingham, England; and in 1788 he was further advanced to the dignity of an Earl of Great-Britain, by the title of Earl How. He married 10 March 1758 Mary, daughter of Chiverton Hartopp of Welby in the county of Leicester, Efq. and has iffue three daughters, Sophia-Charlotte, born 19 February 1762, and married 21 May 1787 to John Earl of Altamont; Mary-Juliana, born 17 April 1765, married in August 1787 to Penn Afhton Curfon of Gofall in the county of Leicester, Efq.; and Louisa-Catharine, born 9 December 1767 1. TITLES.] Sir Richard How, Earl and Viscount How, Baron of Clenawly, and Baronet. CREATIONS.] Baronet 22 September 1660, 12 Car. II. V. How, and B. of Clenawly in the county of Fermanagh 16 May 1701, 13 Will. III. V. How of Langar in the county of Nottingham, 20 April 1782, 22 Geo. III, and E. How in 1788, 28 fame King. ARMS.] Topaz, a fefs between three wolves heads couped, diamond, CREST.] In a ducal coronet, topaz, a plume of five feathers, faphire. SUPPORTERS,] Two Cornish choughs, proper, beaked and membered, ruby. MOTTO.] UTCUNQUE PLACUERET DEO. SEAT.] Langar-Caftle in the county of Nottingham 90 miles from London. Supp, to Collins, Lodge and Collections, HAMILTON, HAMILTON, VISCOUNT STRABANE. * 21 Bernard. THIS illuftrious and far fpreading family may vye with, if not excel any other in Europe, for antiquity and dignity. The name was originally affumed from the manor of Hambleden, otherwife Hamilton in the hundred of Eaft Gofcote, the parish of Barkby and county of Leicester, the inheritance of the old Earls of Leicester, from whose grant the Hamiltons poffeffed thofe lands, and in gratitude to their benefactor, bore for their coat-armour, gules, three cinquefoils ermine, the fingle cinquefoil being the paternal coat of the Earls of Meullant (or, Meilent) in Normandy; and they are both placed together in St. Mary's church, Leicester, which city had alfo the arms it bears from the family of Leicester. 3 The descent is authentically deduced from Bernard, near kinfman to Rollo, the first Duke of Normandy, who, upon the decease of that Duke, was appointed Governor to his fon Duke William, furnamed De Longue Efpee (LongSword) who at baptifm changed his name to Robert, and governed the Dutchy during his minority.-In the Year 912 he married a Lady named Sphreta de Burgundia, by Turfus. whom he had a fon Turfus, (or Turlofus) a noble Dane, who gave name to the city of Turville in Normandy, and in 955 married Emerberga de Brigenberg, Lady of PontTurloff. Audemar, and was father of Turloff (or Turolfe) Lord of Pont-Audemar, in his mother's right; who took to wife Wevia, daughter of Harfuft, a Danish nobleman, sister to Herfaftus, and to Gunilda (or Gunnora) fecond wife to Richard, the firft of that name, Duke of Normandy, great-grandfather to K. William the Conqueror. By her he *This family history has been corrected by Douglas's Peerage of Scotland under the titles of Hamilton and Abercorn, from which many additions have been made, as alfo from the Author's Collections. Bellamont he had Humfrey, furnamed De Vetulis, Lord of Pont- Humfrey. Audemar, who by Albreda De la Haie-Auberie, had Roger Roger De de Bellamont (commonly called Beaumont) Lord of PontAudemar, who gave name to the town of Beaumont Le Roger in Normandy.-He was one of the council that perfuaded the Norman Duke to invade England, in which expedition he accompanied him, with his two fons, and was afterwards a commander in the army, fent firft against Gofpatric, Earl of Northumberland, and then against Malcolm III. K. of Scotland, who was forced to fubmit and do homage to the Conqueror.He finished and plentifully endowed the abbey of Preaux in Normandy (the foundation being laid by his father) and afterwards taking a farewell of the world, became a monk therein, chufing it for his place of fepulture. He married Adelina, daughter of Walleranus, Earl of Mellent, fifter and heir to Hugh, Earl of Mellent, and had two fons, Robert his fucceffor, created Earl of Leicefter; and Henry, furnamed de Newburgh, a pious and learned man, who rebuilt and fortified the castle of Warwick, of which he had the custody, and was created Earl of Warwick in 1076. He married Margaret, fifter to Roderic, and daughter of Arnulph de Hefden, both Earls of Perche, and dying in 1123 (23 Hen. I.) left five fons, of whom Roger the eldest was ancestor to the Earls of Warwick of that furname, who ceafed in Thomas de Newburgh, the fixth Earl, in 1242 (26 Hen. III.), who died without iffue by his wife Ella, fecond daughter of William Longue-Efpee, Earl of Salisbury, natural fon of K. Henry II. by Rofamond Clifford. Robert, the eldest fon of Roger de Bellamont, Lord of Robert, Pont-Audemar and Earl of Mellent, obtained that caftle I and honour after the decease of his uncle Hugh, from the Earl of King of France, for a sum of money; and in the decifive Leiçefter. battle of Haftings commanding the right wing of the Duke of Normandy's army, he valiantly broke in upon the enemy; and (as Gul. Pictavienfis writes) Prælium illo die priz mum experiens, egit quod æternandum effet Laude cum Legione, quam in dextro Cornu duxit, viruen ac flernens magna cum Audacia.No wonder then, that for this great fervice (befides his inheritance in Normandy) he obtained large poffeffions in England when K. William shared the realm among his followers, and gave to Robert no less than 91 Lordships and Manors in the counties of Warwick, Leicelter, Wilts, Northampton, and Gloucefter.-He faithfully adhered |