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whom he had, 1st, Lady Anna Maria, b. Aug. 1, 1783, m. Jan. 1, 

 1801, Lieutenant-General Sir Stapleton Cotton, Bart, (now Lord 

 Combermere), and d. May 31, 1807; 2d, Henry Pelham, the pre- 

 sent Dul*e ; 3d, Thomas, b. Feb. 27, 1786, a Lieutenant in the 1st 

 regiment of Life Guards, d. of a malignant fever at Gibraltar, Oct. 

 8, 1804 ; 4th, Lady Charlotte, d. May 23, 1811. His Grace dying 

 May 17, 1795, was succeeded by his eldest son Henry Pelham, the 

 present and fourth Duke. 



Creations. Earl of Lincoln, May 4, 1572 ; and Duke of Newcastle -under- 

 Lyme by patent, Nov. 13, 1756. 



Heir Apparent. The Earl of Lincoln. 



Arms. Argent, six Crosslets fitchy, Sable, on a chief Azure, two mullets, 

 round pierced, Or. 



Crest In a ducal coronet Gules, five ostrich feathers, proper, banded Azure. 



Supporters. Two greyhounds Argent, plain collared and Gules. 



Motto Loyalte na honte (Loyalty is never ashamed). 



Chief Seat.- Clumber Park Lodge, co. Nottingham, formerly part of the 

 Holies estates. 



GOWER, MARQUIS OF STAFFORD. 



GEORGE GRANVILLE LEVESON GOWER, Marquis of Stafford, 

 Earl Gower, Viscount Trentham, Baron Gower of Sittenham, and a 

 Baronet, Knight of the Garter, Recorder of Stafford, and (jure ux- 

 oris), High Sheriff of the county of Sutherland, b. Jan. 9, 1758, suc- 

 ceeded his father the late Marquis Oct. 26, 1803. In 1790 he was 

 sent Ambassador Extraordinary to Paris, and recalled in 1792. 

 In 1798 he was called up to the House of Peers by the title of his 

 father's Barony, as Lord Gower. In Jan. 1803, on the death of his 

 uncle Francis, last Duke of Bridgewater, he became his heir-general, 

 and succeeded to that part of his immense property which consisted 

 in shares in those numerous and splendid inland Canals of which 

 his Grace was the illustrious founder, and by which he has immor- 

 talized his name. His Lordship m. Sept. 4, 1785, Elizabeth, 

 Countess of Sutherland and Baroness of Strathnaver, in Scotland, 

 in her own right, and has issue, 1st, George Granville, Earl Gower, 

 b. Aug. 8, 1786, one of the representatives in Parliament for this 

 county ; 2d, Lady Charlotte, b. June 8, 1788, m. Dec. 27, 1814, 

 Henry Howard, Esq. son of Bernard Edward Howard, Esq. (now 

 Duke of Norfolk) ; and has issue, Henry Granville, Lord Fitz 

 Alan, b. Nov. 7, 1815 ; 3d, Lord William, b. June 4, 1792, and d. in 



