Worcestershire in the Nineteenth Century: A Complete Digest of Facts Occuring in the County since the Commencement of the year 1800Turberville, T. C.
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Worcestershire in the Nineteenth Century: A Complete Digest of Facts Occuring in the County since the Commencement of the year 1800
Turberville, T. C.
Worcester (England) -- History
LYTTELTON, Lord, Baron of Frankley, county of Worcester—Seat, Hagley
Park. William Henry, Governor of Carolina county, Jamaica, &c., was
created Baron, in Great Britain, 1794, the title having expired with his
nephew, Thomas, the second Lord Lyttelton (the probable author of the
_Letters of Junius_), who died November, 1779. William Henry, Lord
Lyttelton, died 14 September, 1808, and was succeeded by his eldest son,
George Fulke; at whose decease, unmarried, 12 November, 1828, the title
devolved on his brother by a second marriage, William Henry, third Baron.
He married, 4 March, 1813, Lady Sarah Spencer, eldest daughter of the
second Earl Spencer. His lordship died 30 April, 1827. He represented
the county in Parliament from 1807 to 1820, during which time he was the
consistent supporter of Liberal measures, and to him we are indebted for
the extinction of state lotteries. He was a fluent and argumentative
speaker. He was the warm friend of literary and educational institutions
in the county. His lordship was succeeded by his eldest son, GEORGE
WILLIAM, the present peer. The present Lord Lyttelton was born 31 March,
1817; he married, 25 July, 1839, Mary, daughter of the late Sir Stephen
Glynne, Bart. Is patron of three livings.
FOLEY, Baron, of Kidderminster; created, 1776. Thomas Foley, Esq., M.P.
for the county of Worcester, was elevated to the peerage 1711, but his
son died unmarried, and the barony then expired. Thomas Foley, Esq., of
Witley Court, his cousin, was made Baron Foley, 20 May, 1776. Thomas,
the third Baron, married, 18 August, 1806, Lady Cecilia Fitzgerald, fifth
daughter of the second Duke of Leinster, and had issue four sons and four
daughters. He was Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the county of
Worcester, and extremely popular with all classes of the inhabitants. He
died 16 April, 1833, and was succeeded by his son, THOMAS HENRY, the
present peer, who was born 11 December, 1808, and married, 1849, the
eldest daughter of the thirteenth Duke of Norfolk—has been Captain of the
corps of the Gentlemen Pensioners-at-arms, is Lord High Steward of
Kidderminster, and is patron of one living. His lordship sat in
Parliament, for the county of Worcester, from 1830 to 1833.
SANDYS, Baron, of Ombersley—Seat, Ombersley Court; created, 1802. Samuel
Sandys of Ombersley, Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1741, was elevated to
the peerage, as Baron Sandys, in 1743. The title, however, became
extinct in 1801, when the second Baron died without issue. The
Marchioness of Downshire, to whom his estates fell, was created Baroness
Sandys of Ombersley, 15 June, 1802, with remainder to her four younger
sons by the Marquess of Downshire, and their male issue. Her ladyship
died in 1836, and was succeeded by her second son, ARTHUR MOYSES WILLIAM
HILL. His lordship is a major general in the army. Is patron of the
living of Ombersley.
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