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TUCHET, BARON AUDLEY. 



, GEORGE THICKNESSE TUCHET, Baron Audley, of Heleigh Castle, 

 in the county of Stafford ; born Feb. 4, 1758, and succeeded his uncle 

 John, the last Earl of Castlehaven, as Baron Audley, April 28, 

 1777. His Lordship, April 3, 1784, assumed the name of Tuchet, 

 by permission of his Majesty ; married, 1st, May 19, 1781, Eliza- 

 beth, co-heiress of John late Lord Delaval, by whom, (who d. July 

 11, 1785, he had issue, Elizabeth Susannah, b. April 3, J782; m. 

 in Nov. 1805,) John Coffin, Esq. ; George John, b. in March 1783. 

 His Lordship m. 2dly, May 2, 1792, Mrs. Moorhouse, relict of 

 Colonel Moorhouse. 



This family is of great antiquity, William Tuchet having sum- 

 mons to Parliament among the Barons from 1295 to 1307. Thomas, 

 his son, was beheaded, being concerned in the insurrection of 

 Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, in 1321. Sir John Tuchet m. Joan, 

 daughter of James, and sister-co-heir of Nicholas Audley, Baron 

 Audley, of Heleigh, and had issue, Sir John, who was, in 1391, 

 found to be heir to Joan, his grandmother, and assumed the title, 

 and was possessed of many lordships and inheritances. He d. Dec. 

 19, 1409. He left issue, James, the second Baron Audley, who dis- 

 tinguished himself in the wars of France in 1418; but, in 1428, 

 being sent by Queen Margaret to oppose Richard Neville Earl of 

 Salisbury, then in arms in favour of the House of York, he. was de- 

 feated and killed at Blore-heath, co. Stafford, with 2400 of his com- 

 panions. He m. Margaret, daughter of William Lord Roos, of 

 Hamlake, (ancestor of Charlotte, the present Baroness de Roos,) 

 leaving issue, John third Baron ; and Anne, m. Sir Thomas But- 

 ton, of Button, co. Chester, whose 5th daughter, Eleanor, m. 

 Richard Cholmondeley, Esq. ancestor of the Earls of Chol- 

 mondeley. 



James, third Earl of Castlehaven in Ireland, and twelfth Baron 



Audley, m. Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir of Bard, Esq. by 



Anne, daughter of Charles Villiers, Earl of Anglesea, and widow of 

 Thomas Ratcliffe, Earl of Sussex, and by her had James, fourth Earl 

 of Castlehaven, and Baron Orrier in Ireland, and Baron Audley in 

 England. James, fourth Earl of Castlehaven, m. Elizabeth, only 

 daughter of Henry, fifth Lord Arundel of Wardour, and by her, who 

 d. 1743, had issue, 1st, John, his successor j 2d, Mary, m. Nov. 20, 



