- 890 
issued May 27, the same year *, he 
was again re-elected, And on his 
majesty’s being present in council 
at Kensington, the 23d of July fol- 
- lowing, he was, by his command, 
sworn of his most honourable privy 
council +, and took his place at the 
board accordingly. In the parlia- 
ment, which first sat on business 
Noy. 12, 1747, he was again chosen 
one of the members for Windsor ; 
also in the parliament which first 
met on May 31, 1754. In De- 
cember following, he was sum- 
moned to be of the cabinet council 
to his majesty ; and on + 26 April, 
1755, the sovereign declaring his 
intention of leaving the kingdom, 
appointed him one of the lords 
justices for the administration of the 
government, till his return, distin- 
guishing his integrity and fidelity, 
by conferring those eminent trusts 
on him, which no secretary at war 
ever before held. Nov. 14, 1755, 
he was appointed one of the secre- 
taries of state, which office he held 
until 1756, when he was succeeded 
by the right honourable William 
Pitt, earl of Chatham. On July 5, 
1757, he was appointed pay-master 
of the forces, in which office he was 
continued by his present majesty, on 
his accession, but soon after re- 
signed. His lordship was afterwards 
a lord of the privy council, and 
clerk of the Pells in Ireland, granted 
him for his own life and that of his 
two sons. April 16, 1763, he was 
raised to the peerage by the style 
and title of lord Holland, baron of 
Foxley, in the county of Wilts, to 
him and his heirs male. 
He married, May 2, 1744, lady 
Georgina Carolina, éldest daughter 
of his grace Charles Jate duke of 
* Briush Parl. Regist. No, 4. 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1806. 
+ Gazette, No. 8556. 
> 
Richmond, Lenox, and Aubigny, 
(created baroness Holland, May 
1762, 2d Geo. III.) by whom he had 
issue, the honourable Stephen Fox, 
“(the late lord Holland) born Feb. 
20, O. S. 1744-5, and married 
April 20, 1766, to lady Mary Fitz- 
. patrick, daughter of John, earl of 
Upper Ossory, in the kingdom of 
Ireland, by whom he had issue a 
daughter, born Nov. 3, 1767; 
Henry, born Oct. 8, 1746, who 
died in the January following ; 
Charles James, born Jan. 13, 0.8. 
1748-9; and Henry Edward, born > 
March 4, 1755. 
His lordship died July 1, 1774, 
and was succeeded by his son Ste- 
phen, who succeeded also as baron 
of Holland, in Lincolnshire, on the 
death of his mother, July 24, 1774, 
who dying Dec. 26, 1774, was 
succeeded by Henry Richard, the 
present earl of Holland. 
Lord Holland early planned a 
system of education, which, if the 
accounts given of it be true, was of 
a very extraordinary kind, and. 
tended to give full scope to the na- 
tural character and warm feelings, 
as well as the genius and talents of 
his son, 
He, however, early perceived the 
genius of this his favourite son, and 
placed him first at Hackney, at a 
school keptby Dr. Newcomb, whence 
he removed him to Eton, under 
Dr. Bernard, for his private tutor. 
His progress was rapid, and of every 
class in which he entered he was 
soon the head; while, on every oc 
casion that offered, his juvenile 
compeers with one accord appointed 
him their leader, 
Among his contemporaries, with 
many others who have subsequently 
distinguished 
} Ibid, No. 9474. 
