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created Vifcount Hereford by Edward VE. 
February 2, 1549. The grandfon of Walterre. 
ceived a patent as Earl of Effex and Eu, from 
Elizabeth, May 4, 1572, whofe fon Robert, the 
third vifcount and iecond earl, was for fome 
years her great favourite ; but fuch was_the ca- 
price of that renowned pr:ncefs, that he after- 
wards perifhed, by an order under her own fign 
‘manual, on a {caffold in the Tower of London, 
Robert, the fourth vifcount; dying without if- 
fue, the earldoms of Effex and Eu became ex- 
rin@tj and the barony of Ferrars of Chartley de- 
feended to the iamily of Shiriey, while the utle 
of Vifcount Hereford, feli to Sir Walter Deve- 
reux, a grandion of Walter the firft vifcount. 
His mele iffue having become extin& allo, ta 
£700, the utle defcended to the tamily-of h's 
brother, Sir George Devereux, which fucceeded 
to. the honours, in the perfon of Edward; the 
tenth Vifccunt Hereford, April 3, 3750; as 
did alfo his fon Edward. the eleventh, Auguit 
2t, 1760. The Iflon George Devereux, the 
late. vifcoun', and fecond fen ot the former, was 
born April 25, 1744. He entered early,in life 
into the army, as an officer in a regiment of-the 
Kine, but never rofe higher than acaptaio, At 
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the age of twenty-four he married his own cou- 
fin, Marianna, only daughter of the late George 
Devereux, efg. of Brecknockfhire, who had 
practifed the Jaw, and at whofe death he ob- 
tzined a fmall eftate called Fregoyd. Having 
fucceeded his elder brother, Auguit 3, 17835 
who had no iffue by Mifs Keck, (one of the two 
dowager Lady Hereiord’s now living, and who 
was formerly a maid of honour to her prefent 
Majefty,) he came in as heir at law to the fa- 
taily eftates; but as that nobleman had been 
expenfive, and they were then in the hands of 
the truftees for the benefit of his creditors, his 
lordfhip reaped but little benefit from them, for 
feverai years. Having a large family, which at 
Jaft amounted to nine children, the vifcount 
applied to Government,and obtained a provifion 
for his eideft fon and daughter, the former of 
whom is no more. On the 2gth of May, 1800, 
his Majefty was pleafed by an order uncer hs 
own fign manual, dated as above, alfo to confer 
*¢ on Lord and Lady Hereford, and the iurvivor 
of them,”’ a perfion of gcool. per annum. The 
late vifcount had been accuftomed for many 
years to come to town during the winter, and 
refide in the fummer at Fregoyd’; but of late he 
has lived entirely at the ancieat paternal man- 
fion of Nantcribba in Montgomeryfhire. His 
lordfhip never attended parliament but on great 
occafions, 2nd, we believe, never once {poke in 
the houfe of peers. His life was harmicis and 
incffenfive; and he might be faid to poffefs two 
qual:fications, both of which were rather fiu- 
gular in a man ef rank, In the firft place, in- 
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Marriazes and Deaths 
Stead of affecting to write an unintelligible hand - 
which no body could read, he rather excelied 1 
enmarfhip, and may without exaggeration be 
faid to heve written better than any other lord 
in Ciiriitehdem.. In the next place he attained 
great proficiency, in refpeét to a very difi- . 
cult inftrument, the German fiute, ia the mu- 
fic of which he had acquired uncommen {kill 
and grace; but he had been advifed-to negiect 
_this accomplifhment for fome years -paft, trom 
‘an 2pprehenfion of a pulmonary complain. Of 
in and near London. [ Feb. t, 
late his lordfhip applied himfelf to the fafhionas 
ble purfuit of agriculture, and was accuftomed, 
doubtlefs by way of fhewing a good example, 
occafionally to hold the plough himfelf. He 
died at his houfe at Nantcribba, January 1, 
1805, in the 61ft yearof his age, in confequence 
of the burfting of a blood veffel; and is fucceed= 
ed by his only fon, Henry, who was originally 
Intended for the church, His other furviving 
children are: 1. Lady Cockburre, the wife of 
the baronet of thatname. 2- The Hon. Mifs 
Devereux. 3.Juliana Marianna. And, 4. Em- 
ma Marianna, His eldeft fon, the Hon. George 
Devereux, died in 1797- : 
Sir Cecil Wray, Bart.—The late Sir Cecil 
Wray, was defcended from one of the oldeft 
¢queftrian families in this kingdom, the patent 
of baroneiage having been granted November, 
26, 1612, and there being only thirteen of an 
earlier date now in exiftence; all of whick 
commencing with Sir Edmund Bacon, of Red- 
grave, in the county of Suffolk, were only 
creaied in the preceding year, t6r¥. The 
Wrays were originally feated in the bifhopric of 
Durham, aod afterwards poffeffed eftates in the 
counties of York and Lincoln. One of the 
females, according to Haited’s Kent,. {voi. ii. 
P» 9,) married into a Kentifh family, (that of 
Sir William Monins, of Wadlerfhare,) whofe 
defcendants refided at Sidbury. One of the 
male line, Sir Chriftopher Wiay, ferved in 
par iament for Boroughbridge, in Yorkthire, 
and was fpeaker of the houle of commons, a 
judge in the common pleas, and chief jultice of 
the queen’s bench, in fucceflion, during the 
reigns of Mary and Elizabeth. His eldeft fon, 
W ilkiain, reprefented Grimfby, and was knight- 
ed by the fair hand of the maiden queen; he 
was aflerward elected knight of the fhire for 
the county of Lincoln, and laftly creafed a 
baronet. Sir Cecil, the tenth baronet, was 
born in 1734- After receiving a plam good 
education, he fettled early in lite, and marred 
-Mifs Either Summers. Being the eldeft fon, 
on the death of his father, Sir John, he iuc. 
ceeded to a large eftate, January 26, 13¢7 ; 
his fifer Mary alfo was left a coufiderable 
fortune, on the. part of her mother’s family, the, 
Norcliffe’s ; and having become the wife of a 
jery ancient Scotch baronet, Sir James Innes, 
of Innes, he cn that occafion affumed~ ihe 
4 = omen 5 ; a 
addendum of Norcliffe, in memorial thereoi, 
Sir Cecil was returned, we believe, for the ficit - 
time to-parliament, in i774, for the borough ef 
Eait Retiord. In 1775, we find him eppofing 
the meaiures then purfued againft America, 
and (on March 27,1775) he maintained ‘* that 
the’ parliament of Great-Britain had no right to 
tax thofe it did not reprefent ; that reprelenta 
- tioa had originally been for the fole purpofe of 
taxation, and that it was only by chance that. 
the reprefeniatives had acquired the right of 
lesiflaun.’? He added, ‘* that even if parha~ 
ment poilefied the right of taxing Amenica, 
he fhould be againft ufing it, as in that cafe 
juftice would demand that we fhould give to 
America an equal power of paying taxes, which 
could only be dene by opening the trade of the. 
whole world to her, in common with Britain, 
a meafure no one would with to fee adopted, as 
it would then be at the expence of the ba 
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