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cliefter, efquire • and by her had iflue fix Tons and feven 
daughters: Robert, eldeft fon, created lord Clive, in 
confcquence of his gallant behaviour in the taking of 
Pondicherry, and other territorial acquifitions in Hin- 
dpoftan. His lordlhip married, March 15, 1751, Mar¬ 
garet, daughter of Edmund Mafkelyne, efq. and by her 
had ilfue, E'dward, the prefent earl, born March 7,1754; 
Richard, born March 7, 1755, died young; Robert, alfo 
died young ; Jane, died an infant; Rebecca, born Octo¬ 
ber 1760 ;°marr>ied John Robinfon, efq. and died in 
December 1795; Charlotte, (to whom her majefty (food 
fponfor,') died OCfober 20, 1795; Margaret, born Ali¬ 
gn ft i 5 , 1763; married Lambert-TheodoreWalpole, efq. 
nephew to the earl of Orford ; and who; in June 1798, 
was killed by the rebels in Ireland, leaving iflue by her, 
Frances-Margaretta, and Charlotte-Louifa; Elizabeth, 
died young; Robert, a lieutenant-colonel in the army, 
born Auguft 30, 1769. His lordlhip, dying November 
21, 1774, was (Pcceeded by liis fon, Edward, who has 
been lince created baron Clive, of Walcot, and earl of 
Powis. 
Creations.— Baron Clive, of Plalfey, in Ireland, 
March 1762 ; Baron Clive, of Walcot, in Shropfhire, 
Auguft 1794; and, May 12, 1804, Baron Powis of Powis 
Calfle, Baron Herbert of Cherbury, Vifcount Clive of 
Ludlow, and Earl ot Powis. 
Residences. —Powis Caftle, in Montgomerylhire ; 
and Walcot Hall, in the county of Salop.—Town-houfe, 
Berkeley-fquare. 
Armorial Bearincs. —See the annexed Engraving. 
Motto .—Audatteretfncere .—“ Bold, but fincere.” 
NELSON, EARL NELSON. 
WILLIAM NELSON, Earl NELSON, Vifcount 
Merton and Trafalgar, Baron Nelfon of the Nile, and 
Hilborough in Norfolk, Duke of Bronte in Sicily, D.D. 
Prebendary of Canterbury; born April 20, 1757; luc- 
ceeded his brother, Horatio vifcount Nelfon, in the 
barony, OClober 21, 1805; and obtained.his majefty’s 
authority to ufe the honourable augmentations to his 
armorial enfigns which had been granted to his late bro¬ 
ther, Horatio vifcount Nellon, deceafed ; and in July 
following, the earl was permitted to bear a further aug¬ 
mentation to his arms, viz. “ a fefs wavy, thereon in- 
fcribed the word Trafalgar .” His lordlhip married, No¬ 
vember 9, 1786, Sarah, daughter of the reverend Henry 
Yonge, vicar of Great Torrington, in the county of De¬ 
von, and coulin to the late right reverend Philip Yonge, 
D.D. lord bilhop of Norwich, by whom he had ilfue, 
Horatio, vifcount Trafalgar, knight of St. Ferdinand, 
and of Merit, born October 26, 1788 ; died January 17, 
1808; and Charlotte-Mary, born September 20, 1787. 
The family of Nelfon has long been refident in the 
county of Norfolk: his lordlhip’s grandfather was reftor 
of Hilborough in that county, of which living the Nel- 
fons for many years have been the patrons. His lord- 
ftiip is related to the noble families of Walpole and 
Cholmondeley, his mother being the grand-daughter of 
fir Charles Turner, bart. of Warham, in the county of 
Norfolk, who married Mary, daughter of Robert Wal¬ 
pole, of Houghton, efquire, lifter to fir Robert Walpole, 
firft earl of Orford, and to Horatio, firft lord Walpole, 
father of the prefent earl of Orford. Her next filler, Do¬ 
rothy, was the fecond wife of Charles vifcount Townf- 
hend, grandfather of the prefent marquis. 
Horatio, late vifcount and baron Nelfon, was born 
September 29,1758 ; married, at Nevis, March 22, 1787, 
Frances-Herbert-Woodward, reliCt of Jofiah Nilbet,M.D. 
by whom he had no ilfue. His lbrdlhip, after a feries 
of heroic and tranfcendent fervices, fell in the moment 
of victory over the combined fleets of France and Spain, 
olf Cape Trafalgar, on October 21, 1805, and was ho¬ 
noured with a fumptuous funeral at the public expence, 
being buried in the cathedral church of St, Paul, Lon- 
jsion, January 9, 1806. 
Vol. IX. No. 606. 
.DRY. 
Creations, —Baron Nelfon 6f the Nile, and of Hil* 
borough in Norfolk, Auguft 4, 1801; Vifcount Merton» 
and Earl Nelfon, of Trafalgar, and of Merton in the 
county of Surrey, November 20, 1805 ; Duke of Bronte 
in Sicily, November 7, 1806. 
Residence. —Hilborough Place, in the county of 
Norfolk. ' 
Armorial Bearings. —Seethe annexed Engraving. 
The armorial bearings of the late Horatio lord vifcount 
Nelfon, ereCted and regiftered in the college of arms, by 
the fpecial command of his majefty George III. being 
eminently illuftrative of modern heraldry, as well as 
1110ft honourable to the profeflion of gentlemen in the 
Britifli navy, we deem it of national importance to ex¬ 
plain them in this place; viz. Or, a crofs flory fable, 
furmounted of a bend gules, furmounted of another 
bend engrailed or, charged with three bombs fable ex¬ 
ploding proper; on a chief undulated argent, the wave* 
of the lea, from which a palm-tree is ifluant, between a 
difabled (hip on the dexter, and a ruined battery on the 
finifter, all proper; over thele, (added on the creation 
of the prefent earl,) the memorable word Trafalgar, 
Crefts.—On a naval crown or, the chelengk, or plume 
of triumph, prelenled to lord Nelfon by the Grand 
Seignior. The creft firft granted was the forecaftle 
view of a (hip flotant on the waves proper, inferibed 
under her gallery, San in the capture of which, 
(hip lord Nelfon perfonaily led thofe who boarded her; 
over it is now put the motto “ Faith and Works.” 
Supporters.—Dexter, a failor fuftaining with his ex¬ 
terior hand.a (hip’s pennant; and with his interior a 
palm-branch, all proper. Sinifter, a lion rampant re¬ 
gardant, crulhing with his teeth the tri-coloured flag 
of the French republic ; and holding in his interior paw 
a palm-branch, all proper. 
Motto.-M»i qui meruit ferat. — “ Let him who 
merits it bear the palm.*’ 
The order of the great crofs was conferred upon lord 
Nelfon by Ferdinand IV. king of the two Sicilies; and 
the order of the crefcent was prefented to him by the 
emperor of Auftria.-—For particulars of the numerous 
aCtions in which this invincible hero was engaged, and 
other events of his ufeful life, fee the article Nelson. 
And for his victory over the French and Spanilh fleets 
offTrafalgar, fee the article Great Britain, vol. viii. 
p. 818-820. 
PIERREPONT, EARL MANVERS. 
CHARLES PIERREPONT, Earl MANVERS, 
Vifcount Newark, and Baron Pierrepont, LL.D. born 
November 14, 1737; married, March 14, 1774, to Anne 
Orton, daughter of William Mills, of Richmond, in the 
county of Surrey, efquire, by whom he had ilfoe, Eve- 
lyn-Henry-Frederic, born January 18, 1775, died Octo¬ 
ber 22, 1801 ; Charles-Herbert, vifcount Newark, born 
Auguft 11, 1778, heir apparent ; married, Auguft 21, 
1804, Mifs Eyre, daughter of Anthony-Hardolph Eyre, 
efq. Henry-Manvers, born March 18, 1780; FranceS- 
Augulta-Kliza, born June 19, 1781 ; married to captain 
William Bentinck, of the royal navy, and has iflue a 
fon, born July 17, 1803 ; Philip-Sydney, born June 13, 
1786. 
The family of Pierrepont came into England with 
William the Conqueror, and poffelfed eftates in Suffolk. 
Sir Simon Pierrepont had fummons to parliament in the 
9th of Edward II. Robert, who was defoended from 
the before-named Simon, was by Charles I. created 
baron Pierrepont, vifcount Newark, and earl of'Kingfton. 
Henry, bis fon, was created marquis of Dorchefter, in 
1645; but, dying without ilfue, the marquifate became 
extinCt, and the earldom defoended to Robert, who 
died alfo without iflue, as well as his brother William, 
his fuccelfor, in 1690, when Evelyn, the younger bro¬ 
ther, fucceeded. In 1706, he was created marquis of 
Dorchefter, and July 20, 1715, advanced to the duke- 
