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raise him to the dignity of the peerage ; for which purpose the 

 King signed a warrant on May 24th of that year, hut Sir Dudley 

 dying the next day, before the patent was completed, it did not 

 take effect. He married Anne, daughter of Nathaniel Newnham, of 

 Streatham in Surrey, Esq. and by her, who d. May 9th, 1774, left 

 one son, 



Nathaniel, first Lord Harrowby, who represented the borough of 

 Tiverton in 1768 and 1774, till his Majesty was pleased to advance 

 him to the dignity of a Peer of Great Britain, by the style and 

 title of Baron Harrowby, of Harrowby, in Lincolnshire (with the 

 like dignity to the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten) by 

 letters patent, bearing date May 20th, 1776. His Lordship m. in 

 January 1762, Elizabeth, daughter of the Right Reverend Richard 

 Terrick, D. D. Lord Bishop of London, by whom (who d. August 

 24th, 1804), he had issue, Dudley, the present Peer; Henry, d. 

 young; the Right Hon. Richard Ryder, b. July 5th, 1766, late 

 Judge Martial and Advocate General to the Army, and First Jus- 

 tice of Cardigan, Pembroke, and Carmarthenshires ; m. August 1, 

 1799, Frederica Skymer, daughter of Sir John Skymer, Knight, 

 and has issue, of which Frederica- Anna, the eldest, d. December 

 12, 1808. Elizabeth, b. November 22, 1777; Nathaniel, d. young; 

 Nathaniel, b. June 7, 1775, d. young; Henry, M. A. Vicar of Lut- 

 terworth, in Leicestershire, m. in December 1802, Sophia, daughter 

 of Thomas March Phillips, Esq. ; Anne, b. Dec. 1, 1779, d. June 

 26, 1801. His Lordship dying June 20, 1803, was succeeded by 

 his eldest son, 



Dudley, second Baron, and first Earl of Harrowby, who was b. 

 Dec. 22, 1762, and was educated at St. John's College, Cam- 

 bridge. While a Commoner he sat in Parliament for Tiverton. 

 In 1790, he was Under Secretary of State to the Duke of Leeds. 

 He then became Comptroller of the Household ; and, in 1791, 

 was Joint Paymaster of the Forces, in which office his brother 

 Richard was his deputy. In 1801 he was appointed Treasurer of 

 the Navy, and a Member of the Board of Controul ; and in 1804, 

 held for a short time the place of Secretary of State for the Fo- 

 reign Department. In 1805 his Lordship was appointed Ambas- 

 sador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Court of Berlin, 

 when the plans of our government were suddenly defeated by the 

 battle of Austerlitz. His Lordship was elevated to an Earldom 

 on the 18th of July 1809, by the titles of Viscount Sandon of 

 Sandon, in Staffordshire, and Earl of Harrowby. 



