SIR WILLIAM WYNDHAM, THIRTY-FOURTH MASTER. 233 



Dublin, and Viscount Chetwynd of Berehaven, county Cork. 

 In 1720 Lord Chetwynd and Lord Londonderry* obtained 

 from George I. a grant of the island of Providence, in America, 

 on condition of fortifying and planting it with English subjects. 

 On July 2, 1722, Lord Chetwynd sold his house " adjoining to 

 St. James's Palace " to the King. On the accession of George IL 

 Lord Chetwynd was very harshly deprived of his Eangership 

 and office of " Keeper of the Mall " ; probably the " sale " of 

 his residence in St. James's was only a courtesy term for 

 " eviction." He was not a favourite with the Court or the 

 Ministers ; and from this time his name is rarely mentioned 

 in connection with political and social transactions, beyond the 

 circumstance that he and his family were notable members of 

 the Charlton Club, and consequently mighty fox-hunters. His 

 lordship died, without heirs, on February 21, 1735, when his 

 estates and dignities went to a collateral branch of the family. 

 Sir William Wyndham, thirty-fourth Master of the Royal 

 Buckhounds, was appointed to the office on June 8, 171 l,t and 

 sworn in by the Lord Chamberlain the same day.| The warrant 

 of his appointment is word for word similar to the document 

 above cited in the case of his predecessor, except, of course, in 

 the names and dates. His allowance was on the reduced scale 

 of 1,100Z. per annum, out of which he had to defray the ordinary 

 expenses of the pack as then established. As he only held this 

 appointment for little more than a year very few incidents of 

 his Mastership have transpired. However, he had to continue 

 the superintendence, which appears to have been carried on 

 from the Queen's accession, of making the forest rides, and 

 improving the going on those rustic roads for the Royal hunt- 

 ing calash. Thus, on June 29, 1711, the Lord Treasurer 

 informed Mr. Chetwynd that it was Her Majesty's pleasure 

 that " he was to pay over to Sir William Wyndham, Master 



* His eldest son, and successor, Thomas, second Earl of Londonderry, broke 

 his neck \Yhilst hunting with the Royal Buckhounds near Richmond, on Satur- 

 day, August 24, 1734. 



t Hnme Office Records, Warrant Booh, vol. xi., pp. 244-5. 



X Lord Chamherlain's Records, Warrants for Servants, p. 267. 



