52 THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book I. 



England, December 5, 1682, by the title of Baron Alington 

 of Wymondley, in the county of Herts. By his third wife, 

 Diana, daughter of William Russell, ist Duke of Bedford, he 

 had one surviving son, Giles, and two daughters, Diana and 

 Catherine ; the former married Sir George Warburton, Bart, of 

 Arley, Cheshire, and died in 1705, leaving an only daughter, 

 Diana, who married Sir Richard Grosvenor, Bart., of Eaton, 

 Cheshire, but had no issue. Sir Richard, who had acquired a 

 third part of the Alington estates in Hertfordshire with his 

 wife, purchased the remainder, and thus became possessed of 

 the entire manor of Wymondley, which entitled him to present 

 the first cup of silver filled with wine at the coronations of 

 George H. and George HI.* the said cups being retained by 

 him as his fee. His lordship died in 1684, and was succeeded 

 by his son, 



Giles Alington, 3rd Baron of the Irish creation and 

 2nd of the English ; but, dying in 1691, the English peerage 

 expired, while that of Ireland reverted to his uncle, the Hon. 

 Hildebrand Alington, son of the ist Lord, as 4th Baron, who 

 died, s. />., in 1722, when the Irish barony of Alington of 

 Killard became extinct. 



The Hon. Catherine Alington, sister and co-heiress of Giles, 

 3rd Lord Alington, married Sir Nathaniel Napier, Bart, of 

 More Crichel, M.P. for Dorsetshire, temp. William HI. and 

 Anne, and after her death, her daughter Diana became 

 eventually sole heiress of the Napiers and Alingtons. She 

 married Humphrey Sturt, Esq., of Horton, county Dorset, 

 whose descendant, Henry Gerard Sturt, Esq., M.P., was 

 raised to the peerage as Baron Alington of Crichel, county 

 Dorset, January 15, 1876. 



An inquisition took place in New^market in the 



* " At the coronation of George IV., the late William Wiltshire, Esq., 

 uncle to the present lord of the manor, claimed and was allowed the right 

 of presenting the first cup, and afterwards retaining it for his fee. At the 

 coronation of William IV., and of her present Majesty, the ancient 

 ceremonies of the State Banquet were dispensed with ; hence the lord of 

 the manor has been deprived of two handsome silver-gilt cups." — Cussans, 

 Hist. Herts, vol. ii., p. 51, note. 



