[463] Catherine and Charlotte Shorter were daughters of John Shorter, of Bybrook in Kent. Catherine was first wife of Sir Robert Walpole, and mother of the author of these Memoirs. Charlotte was third wife of Francis Seymour, Lord Conway, and by him mother of Francis Earl of Hertford, and of General Henry Seymour Conway. [464] I have seen a letter from the King to George Grenville, in which his Majesty pressed him to turn out Conway. [465] John Fane, Earl of Westmoreland. [466] Sir Richard Temple, Lord Viscount Cobham. [467] This does not mean the vote of a single day, but all the votes on general warrants considered as one question. [468] General John Campbell, Groom of the Bedchamber to George the Second, and cousin and successor of John and Archibald Dukes of Argyle when an old man. [469] Caroline, daughter of the latter Duke John, third wife and widow of Charles Bruce, last Earl of Ailesbury, by whom she had an only child, Mary Duchess of Richmond. The Countess of Ailesbury married secondly General Henry Seymour Conway, only brother of Francis first Earl of Hertford of that branch. [470] John Campbell, Marquis of Lorn, married to the famous beauty Elizabeth Gunning, widow of James Duke of Hamilton. [471] Lord Frederick Campbell had been bred to the law, and succeeded well there, but quitted the profession on his father’s attaining the dukedom. [As he was brother in-law to General Conway, Mr. Walpole seems to have expected him to have followed Conway’s politics.--Mr. Croker’s note to the fourth volume of Walpole’s Letters, p. 369. Wraxall says of him, “Devoid of shining talents, he nevertheless wanted not either ability or eloquence in a certain degree, both which were under the control of reason and temper. His figure and deportment were remarkably graceful.” He married the Dowager Countess Ferrers, sister of Sir William Meredith, and died at an advanced age in 1816.--E.] [472] Lord Hertford could not reasonably be expected to court a share in the consequences of an act of which he disapproved: and he was of a temperament that too easily disposed him to shrink from any personal sacrifice. His political principles were very indefinite. His merit was of a different character. Lord Chesterfield was sincere when he said of him, in a letter not intended for publication, “I verily believe he will please as Viceroy, for he is one of the honestest and most religious men in the kingdom, and moreover very much of a gentleman in his behaviour to everybody.”--His administration of Ireland was respectable, and in general approved of, and it passed away in almost uniform tranquillity.--Hardy’s Life of Lord Charlemont, vol. i. p. 224. He filled many high offices, and was very prosperous throughout life. He was created Marquis in 1793, and died in the following year, leaving a large family.--E.