[171] Lord Duncannon, eldest son of the Earl of Besborough, who was created an English Baron, was one of the Lords of the Admiralty. [172] So Sir Robert Walpole called him. [173] The above sarcastic remarks may be ascribed to a recent family quarrel, in which the Duke of Devonshire and Lord Hartington had sided with Horace Walpole, the uncle, against the nephew, the author of these Memoirs. The injustice of them is sufficiently proved by the estimation in which both these noblemen (especially Lord Hartington) appear to have been held by their contemporaries, and by the conduct of the latter even in delicate and difficult times, as related by the author himself.--E. [174] Robert Darcy, Earl of Holderness, Lord of the Bedchamber, had been Embassador at Venice and the Hague, where he married the Greffier Fagel’s niece. His mother was a daughter of Duke Schomberg, and married a second time to the Earl of Fitzwalter. [175] George Montagu, third Earl of Halifax, of that house, and First Lord of Trade. He had set out in Opposition with Lord Sandwich, and came into place at the same time. [176] Monday, June 10, 1771.--On Saturday morning, at four o’clock, died George Montagu Dunk, Earl of Halifax, Viscount Sunbury, Secretary of State for the northern department, Ranger and Warden of Salcey Forest and Bushy Park, Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of Northamptonshire, and one of his Majesty’s Most Hon. Privy Council, Knight of the Garter, a Governor of the Charter-house, and ranked as Lieutenant-General of his Majesty’s Forces. His Lordship was born October 5, 1716, succeeded George, his father, the preceding Earl, May 9, 1739, and married in 1741, Miss Anne Dunk, daughter and heir of ---- Dunk, of Hawkhurst, in Kent, Esq., which lady dying in 1753, left three daughters,--viz., Lady Anne, who died in 1761; Lady Frances, who died in 1764; and Lady Elizabeth, married on March 1, 1766, to Lord Viscount Hinchinbroke, son and heir of the Earl of Sandwich. His Lordship, on the breaking out of the Rebellion in 1745, raised a regiment of Foot for his late Majesty. On March 20, 1761, his Lordship was nominated Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and his administration of the government of that kingdom did him great honour.--(Public Journals.) [177] Paul Whitehead, author, among other satiric writings, of the State Dunces, and Manners; for the last of which he was ordered by the House of Lords to be taken into custody. He was a man of most infamous character. [178] She was christened Caroline Matilda. [179] Sir Thomas Lyttelton had been a Lord of the Admiralty, but retired with a pension on his son’s going so warmly into Opposition. [180] Vienna. [181] He came over very privately during the war, and negotiated the first overtures of peace.--Vide Lord Chesterfield’s Apology. [182] Vide Appendix, F. G. and H. [183] The title of it was, “The Conquered Duchess.” [It has been frequently printed, and is probably familiar to the reader.]--E.