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for the loss of the Commissionership by receiving the 

 appointment of Master of the Buckhounds, He held the 

 office from June nth, 1727, until 1732, in which year, on 

 September 9th, his death occurred at Swinley Lodge. 



1 733-1 737. — Charles Bennett, 2nd Earl of Tanker- 

 viLLE, was born in 1696, and succeeded his father, the first 

 Earl, in 1722. He was educated at Eton, and afterwards 

 served in the Army. He married Camilla, daughter of 

 Edward Colville, Esq., by whom he had two sons and one 

 daughter. Lord Tankerville was a Lord of the Bedchamber 

 to Frederick, Prince of Wales, from 1729 to 1733, and in 

 1737 held a similar position in the Court of George H. 

 He became Master of the Buckhounds in June, 1733, and 

 continued in that office until June, 1737. He was one of 

 those present on August ist, 1729, at the celebrated meeting 

 at Hackwood. It is worthy of remark that at the time of 

 Lord Tankerville's Mastership highwaymen, poachers, and 

 other disorderly persons had become so bold that special 

 means were provided for the protection of the Royal Family 

 and the ladies and gentlemen of the Court in their journey 

 from Hampton to the forest. Lord Tankerville died in 



1753- 



1737-1744 and 1746-1757. — Ralph JennisOx\, Esq., 

 was Master of the Buckhounds at two periods, his first 

 appointment dating from July 7th, 1737, to December 25th, 

 1744, and his second from July 2nd, 1746, to February 5th, 

 1757. Mr. Jennison's tenure of office is remarkable in 

 several ways. He occupied the Mastership for an unusually 

 long period, and his retirement was marked by the unpre- 

 cedented circumstance of the bestowal of a pension upon 

 him ; further, he was the last commoner upon whom the 



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