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HERALDRY. 
2. William. 3. Mary-Anne. 4. Frances. 5. Charlotte, of fir Frederic Hamilton, bart..and has iffue, Atigufttis- 
6. Harriet. George, borp Auguft 13, 1801; Francis-Harcourt, bora 
The vifcount’s father, Anthony Addington, of Tri- April 2, 1802; Mary-Anne, born January 28, 1803 ; 
nity College, Oxford, M.D. born December 13, 1713; Frances-Elizabeth, died an infant. 3. Charles, in holy- 
married, September 22, 1745, Mary, daughter of Havi- orders, archdeacon of Carlifle, born Auguft 20, 177P. 
land-John Hiley, clerk, and by her, who died November 4. William, born Auguft 13, 1772, a colonel in the army. 
7, 1778, he had iffue, 1. Henry, the prefent vifcount Sid- 5. Henry, in holy orders, born December 19, 1773- 6. Ed- 
mouth. 2. John-Hiley, married, October 25, 1785, w ird, born April 25, 1775, a captain in the Staffordlhiie 
Mary, daughter of . - • Unwin, efq. and lias iffue, militia. 7. Sambrook, born February 18, 1779, a cap- 
Haviland-John, Henry-Unwin, and Mary. 3. Anne, tain in the army. 8. Frederic, born March 23, 1779, in 
married, June 2, 1770, to William Goodenough, ot Ox- holy orders, married, in May 1807, the only daughter of 
ford, M.D. and died June 12, 1806. 4. Eleanor, mar- the late reverend Richard Levett, of Milford, in the 
ried, Auguft 1, 1771,'to James Sutton, of New Park, 
near Devizes, efquire. 5. Elizabeth, married William 
Holkins, of South Perrot, in the county of Somerfet, 
efquire. 6 . Charlotte, married, Auguft j, 1788, Charles 
Braggs, of Lydney Park, in the county of Glouceller, 
efquire, who obtained his majefty’s authority, May 11, 
1S04, that he and his ilfue may alfume and take the fur- 
name and bear the coat armorial of Bathurft only. 
Creation. —Vifcount Sidmouth, January 12, 1805. 
Residence. —Richmond, Surrey. 
Armorial Bearings. —See the annexed Engraving. 
Motto.— Libertas fub rege pio .—“ Liberty under a 
pious king.” 
ANSON, VISCOUNT ANSON. 
THOMAS ANSON, Viscount ANSON, of Shug- 
borough, and Orgrave, in the county of Stafford, and 
Baron Soberton, of Soberton, in the county of South¬ 
ampton, D.C.L. born February 17, 1767 j married, Sep¬ 
tember 15, 1794, Anne-Margaret, daughter of Thomas- 
William Coke, of Holkham, in the county of Norfolk, 
efquire, and has ilfue, 1. Thomas-WilUam, heir appa¬ 
rent, born O&ober 20, 1795. ?• George, born October 
J 3» 1797. 3- Charles-Littleton. 4. William, born Fe¬ 
bruary 26, 1801. 5. Henry, born May 15, 1804. 6. Ed¬ 
ward, died an infant. 7. Anne-Margaret, born October 
3, 1796. 8. Georgiana, died an infant. 9, A daughter, 
born January 1807. ro, 11. Twin foils, one ftill-born, 
Auguft 1808. 
Admiral Anfon, afterwards lord Anfon, married lady 
Elizabeth Yorke, daughter of Philip earl of Hardwicke, 
lord high chancellor of Great Britain; but by her, who 
died in June 1760, he had no iffue. A biographical 
fketch of his life, his voyage round the world, and other 
diftinguifhed fervices rendered to hi?country, are recited 
under Anson, vol. i. p. 745. His majefty, George II. 
raifed him to the honour of the peerage, by the ftyle 
and title of Lord Anfon, baron of Soberton, in the county 
Southampton, by letters patent, bearing date June 13, 
1747. His lordfhip died luddenly at his feat of Moot- 
Park, in Hertfordfhire, June 6, 1762, juft at the moment 
that a patent was making out to create him a vifcount, 
with remainder to his filter’s fon, the father of the pre¬ 
fent vifcount, who, in confideration of the meritorious 
conduct of his illuftrious anceftor, has been advanced, 
by his majefty, George III. to the dignity of a peer of 
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, by 
the ftyle and titles of Thomas Anfon, baron Soberton, 
of Soberton, in the county of Hants; and vifcount An¬ 
fon, of Shugborough and Orgrave, in the county of 
Stafford, by letters patent, dated February 17, 1806; 
whofe pedigree is as follows: George Adams, father of 
vifcount Anfon, of Orgrave, in Staffordlhire, only fur- 
viving child, and heir alfo to his maternal uncle, Tho¬ 
mas Anfon, efq. in purfuance of whofe will, he and his 
iffue were authorifed to take the name and arms of An- 
Ic^n, by. royal fign manual, dated April 30, 1773; mar¬ 
ried, January 5,1763, Mary Vernon, daughter of George 
Venables firft lord Vernon, by Mary, fecond daughter 
and co-heir of Thomas Howard fixth lord Effingham ; 
and had iffue, 1. Thomas, the prefent vifcount Anfon. 
2. George, a colonel in the army, married, May 27, 
1800, Frances, grand-daughter of hr Robert, and filter 
Vox. IX. No. 607. 
county of Stafford. 9. Mqry, born December 8, 1763, 
married to fir Francis‘Ford, bart. of Ember Court, in 
Surrey. 10. Anne, born February 22, 1768, married 
Bell Lloyd, efq. fecond fon of Bell Lloyd, of Bodfach, 
in the county of Montgomery, and brotherof fir Edward 
Price-Lloyd, bart. 11. Catharine-Juliana, born Decem¬ 
ber 27, 1780. 
Creations. —Vifcount Anfon, and Baron Soberton, 
February 17, 1806. 
Residence. —Shugborough-place, in the county of 
Stafford. 
Armorial Be A rings. —See the annexed Engraving. 
The armorial bearings of lord vifcount Anfon denote 
the profeflion in which his illuftrious progenitor fo nobly 
ftgnalized himfelf in the fervice of his country. They 
are, Argent, three bends, engrailed gules ; a crefcent, 
for the dirtinftion of his lioufe. 
Creft.—Out of a ducal coronet or, a fpear ereft 
proper. 
Supporters.—Dexter, a fea-horfe, argent. Sinifter, a 
fea-lion, of a dim moufe-colour ; each gorged with two 
bars gemelles or.—Thefe are allufive to his memorable 
voyage round tfie world ; in which perilous undertaking 
he had more than once occafion to refort to that admo¬ 
nition of Tencei"^ which he afterwards chofe for his 
motto, Nil defperandum , cc Let us never defpair.”—The 
juftnefs of which was verified in his important conqueft 
of the Acapulco regifter-ftffp, in 1743, of fuch iminenfe 
value; and in his fubfequent victory over the French 
fleet commanded by M. Jonquire, off Cape Finifterre, 
in 1747; on which occalion he captured fix French 
fhips of the line, and four rich Eaft Indiamen, under 
their convoy. 
LAKE, VISCOUNT LAKE. 
FRANCIS-GERARD LAKE, Baron LAKE, of 
Delhi, and Lafwary, in Hindooftan, and Vifcount Lake, 
of Alliton-Clinton, in the county of Bucks; a Colonel in 
the army, and a Captain in the Firlt Regiment of Foot 
Guards; born March 31, 1772; married, in January 
1800, Prifcilla, relief of fir Bellingham Graham, bart. 
fucceeded his father, the late vifcount, February 20, 
1808. 
His lord'lhip’s grand-father, Launcelot-Charles Lake, 
efq. great grandlon of fir Thomas Lake, of Canons, in 
the county of Middlefex, knight, lecretary of ftate to 
James I. was born June 12, 1711, and married Letitia, 
daughter and co-heir of John Gumley, of Ifleworth, in 
the county of Middlefex, efquire, commiflary-general 
to the army ; by which lady he had iffue, two fons; 
Gerard, the late vifcount, and Warwick, one of the 
commilfioners of the ftamp-office. 
The late vifcount, his lordlhip’s father, was a general 
in the army, colonel of the 80th regiment of foot, and 
governor of Plymouth; born July 27, 1744; and was 
advanced to the peerage, for his invincible intrepidity 
during the Mahratta war in Hindooftan ; for which he 
received, May 3, 1804, the unanimous thanks of both 
.houfes of parliament. His lordfhip married, July 3, 
1770, Elizabeth, only daughter of Edward Barker, efq. 
of St. Julian’s, in the county of Herts, by which lady, 
who died July 20, 1788, he had iffue, three fons and 
five daughters,, viz. 1. Frapcis-Gerard, his fucceffbr. 
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