Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct, Or Dormant, Հատոր 8George Edward Cokayne G. Bell & sons, 1898 |
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1st EARL 1st surv 23 April 26 June Abbey add at St add Will pr Admon afsd aged Anne April Bart became extinct Castle Charles coheir Coll conclude corrigenda Countess death Dublin Duke Dukedom EARL OF WARWICK Earldom Edward Elizabeth estates Eton Family Estates.-These father firstly France George Grosvenor heirs male Henry honours House House of Lords insert Ireland J. H. Round James July June Kent King knighted Lady last line Lieut line 11 line 20 line 9 London LORD WILLOUGHBY March Margaret margin MARQUESS Mary Midx Nevill Oxford Park Parl peerage peerage of Ireland Prerog read Barony Richard Robert second wife secondly Sir John Sir Thomas sister Somerset street styled LORD styled VISCOUNT sub vol suo jure VIII Viscountcy Wentworth Westm Windsor writ York ZOUCHE
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Էջ 128 - Ireland, by the force of a wonderful constitution, has some years passed his grand climacteric, without any visible effects of old age, either on his body or his mind; and in spite of a continual prostitution to those vices, which usually wear out both. His behaviour is in all the forms of a young man at five-and-twenty.
Էջ 532 - I grew so rich that I was sent By a pocket borough into Parliament. I always voted at my party's call, And I never thought of thinking for myself at all. I thought so little, they rewarded me, By making me the Ruler of the Queen's Navee ! Chorus: He thought so little, etc.
Էջ 67 - He was a man of a pleasant and companionable wit and conversation ; of an universal jollity; and such a license in his words, and in his actions, that a man of less virtue could not be found...
Էջ 94 - Privileges have reported that "neither the said Letters Patent, nor the said Letters Patent with the usual Writ of Summons issued in pursuance thereof, can enable the Grantee to sit and vote in Parliament.
Էջ 51 - The Lord Delamere whom he had used ill had treated him with much more regard than the other two Lords to whom he had been kind, and from whom he might better have expected it.
Էջ 159 - That now both parties shun him. See yon old, dull, important Lord, Who at the long'd-for money-board Sits first, but does not lead : His younger brethren all things make ; So that the Treasury's like a snake, And the tail moves the head.
Էջ 104 - He dismissed Hell with costs, And took away from orthodox members of the Church of England Their last hope of everlasting damnation.
Էջ 44 - ... abusive on all who connected with his brother's enemies, — nobody so ready to connect with them for the least flattery, which he loved next to money, indeed he never entirely forgave Lord Bath for being richer. His mind was a strange mixture of sense, allayed by absurdity, wit by mimicry, knowledge by buffoonery, bravery by meanness, honesty by selfishness, impertinence by nothing."1 In 1753, describing, on some occasion, the different manners of speaking ill...
Էջ 220 - Tall, with immense embonpoint, and not proportionately strong legs ; he holds himself in such a way that one is always afraid he will tumble over backwards ; very bald, and not a very intelligent face : one can see that eating, drinking, and sensual pleasure, are everything to him.