The journal of Elizabeth Lady Holland (1791-1811) Volume 2 (of 2)Holland, Elizabeth Vassall Fox, Lady
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The journal of Elizabeth Lady Holland (1791-1811) Volume 2 (of 2)
Holland, Elizabeth Vassall Fox, Lady
Holland, Elizabeth Vassall Fox, Lady, 1770-1845 -- Diaries
[82] This picture, as well as that of his brother, Robert, Earl of
Warwick, now belongs to the Hon. Mrs. Baillie Hamilton, a granddaughter
of the first Marquess of Breadalbane, at Langton, Duns. Lady Mary
Rich, daughter of Lord Holland, married, in 1657, Sir John Campbell,
of Glenorchy, who was created Earl of Breadalbane and Holland in 1681.
Lady Holland is, however, mistaken in her description of the picture.
Lord Warwick is in court dress, while Lord Holland wears the leather
doublet and steel breast-plate of the period.
[83] These passages are not from Clarendon. They both are quoted in
Faulkner’s _History of Kensington_, published in 1820. The latter
of them is there said to be taken from a journal of the time, the
_Perfect Diurnal_.
[84] Henry, Earl of Holland’s elder brother, Robert, became second Earl
of Warwick in 1618. On his death in 1658 the title passed in succession
to his sons Robert and Charles. The latter died in 1673, and leaving
no male issue the earldom passed to his cousin Robert, second Earl
of Holland, who had succeeded his father in 1649. He died two years
later, and both titles passed to his son Edward, who married Charlotte,
daughter of Sir Thomas Middleton (afterwards wife of Addison), while
his daughter married Francis Edwardes of Haverfordwest. Edward, Earl
of Holland and Warwick, died in 1701, and was succeeded by his only
son Edward Henry, above mentioned. On his death, unmarried, in 1721,
the properties passed to William Edwardes, his first cousin, who was
created Baron Kensington in 1776, while the earldoms reverted to a
distant cousin, at whose death the titles became extinct.
[85] Horace Walpole, in a letter to George Montagu (May 16, 1759),
writes, ‘Unluckily, he died of brandy.’
[86] ‘In 1749 it was let on lease, at a rent of 182_l._
16_s._ 9_d._, to Henry Fox, first Lord Holland, who bought it
in 1767’ (Princess Liechtenstein’s _Holland House_).
[87] Lady Georgina Caroline Fox, created Baroness Holland in 1762, was
Charles, second Duke of Richmond’s eldest daughter. She died in 1774,
twenty-three days after her husband’s death.
[88] Sister of Sir Lionel Copley and of Lord Abercorn’s first wife,
who died in 1791. Her second brother, Joseph, who succeeded to the
baronetcy on Sir Lionel’s death in 1806, ran away with and married Lord
Abercorn’s second wife.
[89] Lady Ann’s brother, who succeeded his father in 1809 as third Earl
of Arran (1761–1837).
[90] Lord Archibald Hamilton’s sister, and eldest daughter of
Archibald, ninth Duke of Hamilton. The marriage took place on June 24.
She died in 1827. Her youngest sister, Susan, married, in 1803, George,
fifth Earl of Dunmore.
[91] Lord Auckland was Chief Secretary in Ireland under Lord Carlisle,
but was included in Lord Shelburne’s Government of 1783, and went out
of office with Pitt, to whom he attached himself.
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