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the title of lord Strange of Knockyn;. i. Edward, who 
was priori; .illy inftrumental in gaining the victory for 
theEnglifh.it the battle of Flodden Field, September?, 
1515 ; arid as a reward for his feryices, was, by Henry 
VJJI. created a baron by the title of lord Monteagle. 
William, the fourth in defcent from Edward, was the 
lord Monteagle to whom the letter was addreded in 
1603, in confequence of which the confpiracy of gun. 
powder treafon was difcovered. The title became ex¬ 
tinct in 16 96. Lord Stanley married, fecondly, Mar¬ 
garet, daughter and heir of John Beaufort duke of 
Someifet, and relict of Edmund Tudor earl of Rich¬ 
mond, mother to Henry VII. and foundrefs of Chrift’s 
College, and Saint John’s College, in rlie univerlity of 
Cambridge. Lord Stanley, by the connection which 
he had thus formed, was fufpeCted by king Richard 
to favour fhe pretenfions of Henry VII. and was obli¬ 
ged to deliver into his cuftody George lord Strange, 
his foil, as a hoftage of his fidelity. Richard had given 
orders that lord Strange fhould be beheaded previous¬ 
ly to the battle of Boiworth ; but was induced by foine 
of his counfellprs to defer the execution till the event 
o;f 'the engagement fhould be known. It was lord Stan-, 
ley who placed the crown on the head of Henry after 
the battle ; and he was in the fame year raifed to the 
dignity of an earl, by the title of earl of Derby. He 
died in 1504. 
Edwant, third earl of Derby, his great grandfon, 
was filcceifively in favour with Henry VIII. Edward VI. 
queen Mary, and queen Elizabeth; and is highly cele¬ 
brated by our hiltorians for his extenfive beneficence 
and hofpitality, particularly to literary men. 
James, feventh earl of Derby, his great grandfon, 
diftinguilhed himfelf by his loyalty to Charles 1. and II. 
and in 1649 he rejected with.indignation the overtures 
of Olivei Cromwell, offering him his own terms, if he 
would deliver up the ifie of Man, of which he was go¬ 
vernor. In an encounter near-Wigan in Lancafhire, 
Auguft 26, 1631, where with fix hundred horfe he 
maintained a fight of two hours againfl three thoufand 
horfe and foot of the enemy, he received feven mufquet- 
fliots on his breaft-plate, thirteen blows of afword upon 
his helmet, and five or fix wounds, and had alfo two 
horfes killed under him. He was taken prifoner at the 
battle of Worcefter, September 3, 1651 ; and, being 
condemned by a council of war, was beheaded at 
Bolton in Lancafhire, October 15, in the fame year. 
He married Charlotte, daughter to Claude de la Tre- 
mouilleduke of Thouars, and a peer of France; which 
lady diftinguilhed herfelf by her defence of Latham 
Houfe in 1644, and of the ifle of Man, which was the 
lalt place that lurrendered to Cromwell, in 1651. From 
that time fhe was detained in prifon with her young 
children in extreme indigence till the reftoration. She 
died March 21, 1663. 
Charles, eighth earl of Derby, the iffue of this mar¬ 
riage, enlifted fome forces for Charles II. at the time 
of the rifmg of fir George Booth in Chefhire, Auguft 
1659, and was taken priloner before the end of the 
month. He died December 21, 1672. James, tenth 
earl of Derby, bis Ion, lerved feveral campaigns in 
Flanders under William III. and was conftituted by 
queen Anne, June 10, 1706, chancellor of the duchy 
of Lancafter, which office he refigned upon the change 
of miniftry in 1710. He was farther appointed by 
George I. September 23, 1715, captain of the yeomen 
of the guards; and died February 3, 1736. Upon his 
deceale the title delcended to Hr Edward Stanley, ba¬ 
ronet, the fourth in defcent from Edward Stanley of 
Bickerftatf in the county of Lancafter, efquire, who 
was great grandfon of George lord Strange, in the reign 
of Richard III. and was created a baronet by Charles I. 
June 26, 1627. At the fame time the barony of Strange 
and tne lordiinp of the ifle of Man devolved upon James, 
fecond duke of Athol of the kingdom of Scotland, great 
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grandfon in the female line of James, feventh earl of 
Derby, who had been beheaded by Oliver Cromwell. 
Edward, eleventh earl of Derby, married Elizabeth, 
daughter and heir of Robert Hefketh of Rufford in the 
county of Lancafter, efquire; by which lady, who 
died February 21, 177-6, lie had iffue, r. James, lord 
Stanley, commonly called lord Strange, owing to the 
cir-cumftance of that barony’s having been for fome time 
in difpute between the duke of Athol and the earl of 
Derby. He was an able fpeaker in the fenate ; and De¬ 
cember 16, 1762, was conftituted chancellor of the du¬ 
chy of Lancafter. He married Lucy, daughter of Hugh 
Smith of Weald Hall in the county of Effex, efquire; 
in confequence of which marriage he added to his own 
the furname of Smith. By this lady lie had ift'ue, Eli¬ 
zabeth, born 1748, and married to Thomas Horton, 
efq. Lucy, born 1730, and married to Jeffery Hornby, 
of Prefton in the county of Lancafter, efquire ; Edward 
Smith Stanley, prefent and twelfth earl of Derby; and 
Harriet, born 1756, mairied to fir Watts Horton of 
Chaderton in the county of Leicefter, baronet. Lord 
Strange died June «, 1771. 2. Elizabeth, married to 
fir Peter Warburton of Harley Hall, in the county of 
Chefter, baronet. She died September 2, 1780. 3. 
Mary, born in January 1717. 4. jane, :.born in April, 
1726. 5. Charlotte, married to the late general Bur- 
goyne. She died June 9, 3776. Edward the eleventh 
earl, died February 22, 1776, and was fucceeded by 
his nephew, the twelfth and prefent ear!. 
Creations. —Baron Stanley of Latham in the coun¬ 
ty of Lancafter, January 20, 1456. Earl of Derby, 
Odlober 27, 1485. 
Residences. —Knowefley Park, and BickerftafF, in 
the county of Lancafter ; and the Oakes, in Surrey.— 
Town-ho'ufe, Grofvenor-fquare. 
Armorial Bearings. —Seethe annexed Engraving. 
Of bearings intended to record memorable circum- 
ftances, perhaps none can be offered more truly affect¬ 
ing, than the creft of the earl of Derby. It confifts of 
a chapeau gules, turned up ermine, an eagle, with 
wings expanded or, feeding an infant, in its neft, all 
proper. The origin of this creft is thus recorded : It 
was borne by the family of Latham, of Latham in Lan¬ 
cafhire, knights, now reprefented by the Stanleys, 
who married Ifabel, their heir, about the dole of the 
fourteenth century. It is faid to have been affumed on 
account of one of their anceftors having expofed an ille¬ 
gitimate infant fon in an eagle’s neft, in an oak tree, in 
the park of Latham, and the eagle’s nurturing and 
feeding him, inftead of deftroying him : from which 
extraordinary circumftance, lie was taken from the 
neft again by his father, and adopted as his heir. 
Motto.— Sans changer. —“ Without changing.” 
HERBERT, EARL OF PEMBROKE. 
GEORGE HERBERT, Earl of PEMBROKE 
and Montgomery, Baron Herbert of Cardiff, and Ba¬ 
ron Herbert of Shurland, Lord Lieutenant and Cuftos 
Rotulorum of the county of Wilts, a Lieutenant Gene¬ 
ral in the Army, Colonel of the 6th Regiment of Dra¬ 
goons, High Steward of Salisbury, Vififor of Jeftts 
College, Oxford, , and a Vice Prefident of the Welfh 
Charity and Veterinary College; born September 11, 
1759; fucceeded his father, Henry, January 26, 1794; 
married, April 8, 1787, his coulin, Elizabeth, fecond 
daughter of Topham Beauclerk, only fon of' Sidney 
Beauclerk, fifth Ion of Charles, firft duke of St. Al¬ 
ban’s, by whom he had ift'ue: George, born March 
26, 1788, and died July 5, 1793 ; Diana, born Febru¬ 
ary 5, 1790; Robert Henry, lord Herbert, heir appa. 
rent, born September 19, 1791; Charles Herbert, born 
March 9, 1793 ; and his lady died the 25th of the fame 
month. His lordlhip married, fecondly, in February 
I808 - , the Ruflian countefs Woronzow. 
The family of Pembroke lias its pedigree from Her- 
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