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HERA 
yon, the late lord, April 5,180a; married, January 1803. 
Margaret, daughter of fir Thomas Hanmer, bart. of 
Bettesfield, in the county of Flint ; and has iffue, a 
daughter, born June 1807. 
The family of Kenyon is defcended from Adam de 
Lowton, who lived in the reign of Henry II. and whofe 
grandfon, Jordan; aflimed the furname of Kenyon. Ro¬ 
ger, tenth in defcent from Jordan, had iffue, 1. George. 
2. Thomas. 3. Edward, who was governor of Fort St. 
George in the Eaft Indies, and died in 1701. George, 
the eldeft fon, had iffue, George, who married, October 
21, 1731, Peregrina, daughter of Robert Eddowes, of 
Eagle Hall, in the county palatine of Chefter, efquire; 
by which lady he had iffue, 1. Anne, born October 27, 
1732. 2. Geoige, born December 28, 1734; who mar¬ 
ried, firft, February 25, 1759, Margaret, daughter of 
Thomas Banks, of Wigan, in the county palatine of 
Lancafter, efquire ; by which lady he had iffue, Mar¬ 
garet, born December 10, 1759, and married to iir Tho¬ 
mas Hanmer, of Hanmer, in the county of Flint, baronet. 
He married, fecondlv, Ellen, daughter of William 
Curghey, efq. by which lady he had iffue, Elizabeth, 
Peregrina, and Jane. 3. Peregrina, born Auguft 10,1736. 
4. Mary, born July 10, 1741, and married to Lloyd lord 
Kenyon. 5. Robert, who married, July 25, 1771, Sarah, 
daughter of Otho Cooke, efq. and died May 6, 1787. 
6. Alice, born in Auguft 1744. George, the father, died 
December 29, 1780. 
Thomas, fecond fon of Roger, had iffue, Lloyd, who 
married Jane, daughter of Robert Eddowes, of Eagle Hall, 
in the county palatine of Chefter, efquire; by which lady, 
who died Auguft 25, 1771, he had iffue, Thomas, born 
in September 1731, and died in May 1750; Lloyd, the 
firft lord, born October 5, 1732; married his coufin Mary, 
third daughter of George Kenyon, of Peele, efq. by 
whom (who furvived him, and died in Auguft 1808) 
he had three fons, viz. Lloyd, died September 15, 
1800; George, the prefent baron; and Thomas, born 
September 27, 1780; married, in 1803, Charlotte, fifter 
to William Lloyd, efq. of Afton, and has a fon, born in 
June 1804. Richard, who died October 29,1751. Roger, 
married to Mary, only daughter of Edward Lloyd, efq. 
of Penylan, in Denbighlhire, and had iffue by her three 
fons and two daughters, viz. Edward-Lloyd, George, and 
Thomas; Jane, and Anna-Maria. His lordfhip’s fupe- 
rior abilities in the law, occafioned his being appointed 
to the office of attorney-general in 1782, and chief juftice 
of Chefter; in 1784, matter of the rolls; and, in 1788, 
lord chief juftice of the court of King’s Bench. His 
lbrdfliip, dying April 5, 1802, was fucceeded by his 
eldeft fon, George, the prefent.lord.—The prefumptive 
heir is Thomas, his lordthip’s brother. 
Creation. —Baron Kenyon, of Gredington, June 7, 
1788- 
Residences. — Gredington Hall, in the county of 
Flint; and Marthgate, in Surrey.—Town-houfe, in Lin- 
coln’s-inn-fields. 
Armorial Bearings. —See the annexed Engraving. 
Motto. — Magnanimiter crucem fujtine .—“ Bear afflic¬ 
tions with magnanimity.” 
GRIFFIN, BARON BRAYBROOKE. 
RICHARD-ALDWORTH-NEVILLE GRIFFIN, 
Lord 3RAYBROOKE, Baron of Braybrooke, in the 
county of Northampton; Provoft Marthal of Jamaica, 
Lord Lieutenant, Vice Admiral, and Cuftos Rotulorum, 
of the county of Effex, Recorder of Saffron Walden, 
High Steward of Wokingham, and Hereditary Vifitor of 
Magdalen College, Cambridge; F.S.A. fucceeded to 
this barony on the death of John lord Howard de Wal¬ 
den, May 25, 1797. His lordlhip was born July 3, 1750; 
married, June 9, 1780, Catharine Grenville, youngeft 
daughter of the late right honourable George Grenville, 
arid lifter to George marquis of Buckingham; by which 
LD.RY, 
lady, who died November 6,1796, he had iffue, Catharine, 
born February 23, 1782; Richard, heir apparent, born 
September 26, 1783 ; Francis, died May 8, 1786; Mary, 
married in April rSo6, fir Stephen-Richard Glynne, of 
Hawarden Caftle, in Flintfhire, baronet; Henry, born 
March 1, 1788; George, born Auguft 17, 1789; Caro r 
line, born October 6, 1792; and William, who died in 
April 1803. 
His lordlhip is defcended from the ancient family of 
the Nevilles, of Billingbear, in the county of Berks, who 
have been feated there ever fince the original grant of 
Edward VI. to fir Henry Neville, one of the gentlemen 
of his privy chamber, who was fecond fon of lord Aber¬ 
gavenny. Purfuant to the will of the late lord Howard 
de Walden, and conformable to aft of parliament, lord 
Braybrooke changed his name, in 1798, from Neville to 
Griffin. 
Creation. —Baron Braybrooke, September 5, 1788. 
Residences —Audley Houfe, in the county of Effex; 
and Billingbear, near Wokingham, in Effex.—Town- 
houfe, in New Burlington-ftreet. 
Armorial Bearings.— Seethe annexed Engraving. 
Motto.— Ne vile veils. —“ Form no mean wilh.” 
AMHERST, BARON AMHERST. 
WI L L I A M-P ITT AMHERST, Lord AM¬ 
HERST, Baron Amherft, of Montreal, in Kent; a Lord 
of the King’s Bedchamber; born January 1773; fuc¬ 
ceeded his uncle, the late lord, Auguft 3, 1797 ^mar¬ 
ried July 24, 1800, Sarah countefs of Plymouth, relift 
of Other Hickman, fifth earl of Plymouth, and daugh¬ 
ter and co-heir of Andrew Archer, laft lord Archer ; 
and has iffue a daughter, born July 9, 1801 ; a fon, and 
heir apparent, born Auguft 29, 1802; William-Pitt, 
who died March 28, 1804; a fon, born November 24, 
1803 ; and a fon, born in February 1807. 
The family of Amherft is defbended from Harao, a 
Saxon baron, who was Iheriff of the county of Kent in 
the reign of William the Conqueror. Hamo, his defeen- 
dant, was lord bilhop of Rochefter; and Hamo, in the 
reign of Edward III. wrote himfelf Hamo de Hurft. 
The genealogy has been regularly traced from the reign 
of Richard II. 
Jeffery Amherft, in the reign of George I. was a 
bencher of the fociety of Gray’s Inn; and married Eli¬ 
zabeth, daughter of Thomas Kerril, of Hadlow, in the 
county of Kent, efquire; by which lady, who died May 
1, 1752, he had ift'ue, Sackville, born in 1715, and died 
in 1763; Jeffery,-born Jan. 29, 1717, commander-in-chief 
in North America, in the war againft the French, from 
1758 to 1764, was made a knight of the Bath in 1761; and 
was created baron Amherft by George III. in reward of 
his long and great fervices to his country ; for particulars 
of which, fee the article Amherst, vol. i. p. 473. He 
married, firft, Jane, daughter of Thomas Dalifon, efq. 
ot Hampton, in Kent, who died without iffue, January 
7, 1765: his lordlhip married, fecondlv, Elizabeth, 
eldeft daughter of the honourable general George Carey, 
fon of vifeount Falkland, by whom he had no iffue. 
His lordlhip was colonel of the fecond regiment of life¬ 
guards, colonel-in-chief of the 60th regiment of foot, 
governor of Guernfey, and a field-marlhal; and, dying 
Auguft 3, 1797, was fucceeded by his nephew, the pre¬ 
fent lord. John, who died, an admiral of the blue, Fe¬ 
bruary 12, 1778, married Anne, daughter of Thomas 
Lindzee, efq. by whom he had no iffue, and died Fe¬ 
bruary 14, 1778; Thomas, Sidney, and Charles, died 
in their infancy; William, born in 1732, aid-de-camp to 
his majefty, and colonel of the 32ft regiment of foot, 
lieutenant-governor of St. John’s in Newfoundland, aind 
a lieutenant-general in the army; died May 13, 1781, 
having married, March 31, 1766, Elizabeth, daughter 
of Thomas Patterfon, efq. and by her had iffue, 1. Wil¬ 
liam-Pitt, the prefent lord. 2. Elizabeth, born in Fe¬ 
bruary 
