John married Joan "Joana" Kingswell on 02 Feb 1685/86 in All Saints, Godshill, Isle of Wight, Hampshire. Joan died before 20 Apr 1724; was buried on 20 Apr 1724 in St. Laurence Church, Cowley, Middlesex. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In November 1746, John Hamilton wrote to Harriot Eliot to say that he was trying to visit Mrs. Booth in London. She was out every time he visited nursing her sister and advised him to come in the morning. This must be the sister, as Hester Booth was a witness to the will.

--- Transcription of Her Will:
In the Name of God Amen. I Henrietta Santlow of Southampton Street in the Parish of St. George Bloomsbury in the County of Middlesex Spinster being in good health and of sound and disposing memory and understanding considering the uncertainty of human life do make this my last will and testament as followeth. I commend my Soul to Almighty God hoping for the remission of all my Sins through the merits of Jesus Christ my Redeemer. My body I commit to the Earth to be buried at the discretion of my Executor herinafter named. All my Worldy estate goods chattells Rights credits and Effects of what nature or kind soever the same shall consist at the time of my death after payment of my just Debts and funeral expeces, I give and devise to James Wallis of Grays Inn in the County of Middlesex, Esqr. for his own use and benefit. And I do hereby nominate and appoint the said James Wallis full and sole executor of this my last will and Testament thereby revoking all former and other wills by me at any time heretofore made. In Witness whereof I have to this my last Will and Testament set my hand and seal this ninth day of June in the year of our Lord Christ one thousand seven hundred and thirty eight and in the eleventh year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second by the Grace of God of Great Britain Fance and Ireland King Defender of the faith and forth. Henrietta Santlow. Signed Sealed Published and Declared by the said Testatrix to be her last will and Testament in the presence of us who subscribed our Names as Witnesses thereunto in her presence. Hester Booth. George Pinckard.

This Will was proved at London the twenty ninth day of January in the year of our Lod and thousand seven hundred and forty six.

Other Events:

• Residence: 1734, West Side of Charles Street, London
• Will: 02 Feb 1769
• Probate: 03 Mar 1773

Notes:

--- "The Public Advertiser" 24 Sep 1772, page 3:
We are informed that Mrs. Booth, who has lately erected a Monument to the Memory of her Husband, Barton Booth, Esq; the celebrated Player, is now upwards of ninety-two Years of Age. She was formerly the famous Miss Santlow, so much admired as an Actress and Dancer.

--- "Weekly Magazine or Edinburgh Amusement" Volumes 19-20, 1773, page 160:
[Jan.1773]15. At London, Mrs Booth, relict of Barton Booth, Esq; who died in 1733, to whose memory she had erected an elegant monument in Westminster-abbey, which she had compleated just before her death.

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-- "The Streets of London" by W.H. Davenport Adams, 1890, page 153:
Mrs. Barton Booth -- Gay's "Santlow, famed for dance" -- died here in 1773. Miss Hester Santlow's charms brought to her feet some of the most eminent men of the time, including "the hero of Blenheim." In 1709 [sic] she married Barton Booth the great actor, bringing with her an ample dowry. After her marriage she abandoned the ballet, and made her appearance as Dorcas Zeal, in Shadwell's Fair Quaker of Deal, with genuine success. "The gentle softness of her voice," says Cibber, "the composed innocence of her aspect, the modesty of her dress, the reserved decency of her gesture, and the simplicity of the sentiments that naturally fell from her, made her seem the amiable maid she represented." She survived her husband forty years.

--- "Some Account of the English Stage" Vol. 3 by John Genest, 1832, page 375:
Mrs. Hester Booth in all probability did not act after this season -- she seems to have been a pleasing actress with no great powers -- Theophilus Cibber speaking of her as Mrs. Santlow says -- "She was a beautiful woman, lovely in her countenance, delicate in her form, a pleasing actress, and a most admirable dancer; generally allowed, in the last mentioned part of her profession, to have been superiour to all who had been seen before her, and perhaps she has not been since excelled."

--- "The Lives and Characters of the Most Eminent Actors and Actresses of Great Britain and Ireland" Part 1, by Theophilus Cibber, page 33:
In the year 1719 Mr. Booth married the celebrated Mrs. Hester Santlow: --- She was a beautiful Woman, lovely in her Countenance, delicate in her form, a pleasing Actress, and a most admirable Dancer; generally allowed, in the last-mentioned part of her profession, to have been superior to all who had been seen before her, and perhaps she has not been since excelled: -- But, to do her Justice, she was more than all this, -- she was an excellent good wife; -- which he has frequently, in my hearing, talked of in such a Manner, as nothing but a sincere heart-felt gratitude could express; and I was often an eyewitness (our families being intimate) of their conjugal felicity. Her tender careful attendance on him, during his tedious illness, will not soon be forgot by his friends.

--- "The Dancing Master" Translated from French by J. Essex, 1728:
We have had a great many women attempt to be Theatrical Dancers, but none ever arrived to that height and pitch of applause as the incomparable Mrs. Booth, in whom art and nature are so beautifully wove together, that the whole web is of a piece so exquisitely formed to length and breadth, that the produce of the many different characters she represents is the wonder and admiration of the present age, and will scarce be credited by the succeeding. I shall beg leave to mention the Chaconne, Saraband, Menuet, in all which she appears with that grace, softness, and address none can look on but with attention, pleasure and surprise. She far excels all that went before her, and must be the just subject of imitation to all that dare attempt to copy after her. Besides all these, the Harlequin is beyond description, and the Hussar another opposite character in which she has no rival. All which show how many extensive as well as extraordinary qualifications must concentre in one person to form so bright a genius: A subject becoming the most elevated wit to describe, and the politest taste to contemplate.

--- "The Cornhill Magazine" Vol. 16 - 20, 1867, page 477:
Wilks looked at this "hash," and did not object to it. He was to play Orlando himself, he said, and he did, having for the first Rosalind on record as played by a woman, Mrs. Booth, the "Santlow, famed for dance," of Gay. Wonderful woman she was, with her dash of aristocratic beauty, and her all-conquering ways, and her supreme love for her husband; in token of which, and to indicate her enduring sorrow thirty years after his death, this first of our Rosalinds erected the tablet to his memory in Westminster Abbey, which still exists, but which, through dust, damp, and darkness, can now be deciphered only with difficulty.
. . . A handsomer pair than the Orlando and Rosalind who presented themselves on the stage of Drury Lane, on the 9th of January, 1723, the stage could not then supply. How they acted is nowhere on record; but Wilks's Orlando must have lacked no grace the part demanded; and Mrs. Booth's Rosalind was, in all probability, marked by more sauciness than passionate feeling in sentiment or expression. One thing is certain, that the public did not take to the piece kindly, and that they manifested a desire to have Shakspeare's original play, and not Johnson's mangling of three or four, to make an imperfect medley out of one perfect whole.
Whence came this English Rosalind no biography can tell. She first took the town by storm as a dancer. Terpsichore herself seemed to have visited the earth in the person of Hester Santlow, one of whose great points in the ballet was to let her clustered auburn hair suddenly loose over a pair of lustrous shoulders that carried the hearts of the whole house upon them. She was so full of fascination that even Marlborough would have given her gold for a smile; and Craggs, a cold Secretary of STate, did give her a house, where he was master and she was mistress. The daughter of that equivocal household married (successively) into the families of Hamilton and Eliot, whereby the present Marquis of Abercorn and Earl of St. German's are representatives or descendants of the earliest of our English Rosalinds, who left the ballet for comedy, but who was hardly equal to the exigencies of Shakspearean dramas. Yet her gifts were many; she had a soft, sweet voice, a refined aspect, and much intelligence, but she who originated, with such marked success the part of Dorcas Zeal left no mark in Rosalind.

Family/Spouse: James Craggs. James (son of James Craggs and Elizabeth Richards) was born on 09 Apr 1686 in Westminster, London; died on 16 Feb 1720/21; was buried on 01 Mar 1720/21 in Henry VII's Chapel (N. Aisle), Westminster Abbey, London. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hester married Barton Booth on 03 Aug 1719 in Chipping Ongar, Essex. Barton was born in 1681; died on 10 May 1733; was buried on 14 May 1733 in St. Laurence Church, Cowley, Middlesex. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Harriot married Richard Eliot on 10 Mar 1725/26 in Lincoln's Inn Chapel, London. Richard (son of William Eliot and Ann Williams) was born on 06 Sep 1694 in Cuddenbeak Manor, St. Germans, Cornwall; was christened on 28 Oct 1694 in St. German's, St. Germans, Cornwall; died on 19 Nov 1748 in London; was buried on 03 Dec 1748 in St. German's Church, St. Germans, Cornwall,. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Harriot married John Hamilton on 20 Nov 1749 in Holy Trinity, Cookham, Berkshire. John (son of James Hamilton and Anne Plumer) was born on 02 Mar 1713/14; died on 18 Dec 1755 in Drowned Near Portsmouth Harbor. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Education: Bef 1742, Liskeard School, Cornwall
• Education: 05 Apr 1742, Entered St. Mary Hall, Oxford (aged 15)
• Education: 1746 - 1748, Grand Tour
• Elected: 1750, Mayor of Liskeard
• Elected: 1753, Mayor of Liskeard
• Elected: 1760, Mayor of Liskeard
• Elected: 1767, Mayor of Liskeard
• Elected: 12 Dec 1748 - 1768, M.P. for St. Germans
• Elected: 1769, Mayor of Liskeard
• Elected: 1773, Mayor of Liskeard
• Elected: 1768 - 1774, M.P. for Liskeard
• Elected: 1774 - Nov 1775, M.P. for St. Germans
• Occupation: 1759 - 1776, Lord of Trade
• Elected: 1777, Mayor of Liskeard
• Friendship: Mar 1781, First Met James Boswell
• Elected: 1783, Mayor of Liskeard
• Elected: 15 Nov 1775 - 13 Jan 1784, M.P. for Cornwall
• Title (Facts Pg): 30 Jan 1784, Created "Baron Eliot", 1st Baron Eliot
• Occupation: 02 Feb 1784, Takes Seat in House of Lords
• Title (Facts Pg): 15 Apr 1789, Added "Craggs" to his Surname
• Residence: 1791, Spring-garden Terrace, London
• Subscription: 1798, 'Sermons of the Late Rev. William Woollcombe' (6 copies)
• Resignation: 1800, Recorder of Liskeard
• Occupation: 13 May 1749 - 17 Feb 1804, Receiver General of the Duchy of Cornwall
• Probate: 10 Apr 1804, London, England

Notes:

"History of the Borough of Liskeard", John Allen, 1856:

1782: "as a testimony of our gratitude to the family of Eliot, for rebuilding the guild hall, and making the market place in every respect so commodious, we the grand jury take this public method of returning our most hearty thanks for the same, that it may be entered in the records of this borough."

1801: "We present an alienation of a fee-farm rent, issuing out of the lands in the borough of Liskeard, from the Hon. D. Barrington, R. Cocks Esq., and Sir C. Cocks, to the Rev. T. Williams and E. Gibbon Esq., in trust for the Right Hon. Lord Eliot and Catherine his wife."

"Surveys for a canal from Liskeard to Looe, and also for one from Liskeard to St Germans, were made about the year 1800, by Bentley and Bolton of Birmingham; but the difficulties and costs were considered insurmountable, and though patronized by Lord Eliot, both schemes were then abandoned."

1804: "We present the death of the Right Hon. Lord Eliot, a capital burgess and free tenant of this borough."

Edward married Catherine Elliston on 22 Sep 1756 in St. James, Westminster, London. Catherine (daughter of Edward Elliston and Catherine Gibbon) was born on 04 Aug 1735 in Charterhouse Yard, Parish of St. Sepulchre, Holburn, London; was christened on 15 Sep 1735 in Parish of St. Sepulchre, Holburn, London; died on 23 Feb 1804 in Port Eliot, St. Germans, Cornwall; was buried on 01 Mar 1804 in Eliot Family Vault, Old Cemetery, St. Germans, Cornwall. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Subscription: 1768, The Christiad: A Poem in Six Books; Mrs. Bonfoy, London
• Subscription: 1784, Theodora & Didymus: Or the Exemplification of Pure Love and Vital Religion
• Subscription: 1791, Galatea, tr. by An Officer; Mrs. Bonfoy, Ely-place
• Subscription: 1798, Sermons of the Late Rev. William Woollcombe
• Subscription: 1798, A Journal of Occurrences at the Temple During the Confinement of Louis XVI

Notes:

Anne married Captain Hugh Bonfoy on 29 Nov 1751 in Godalming, Surrey, England. Hugh (son of Nicholas Bonfoy and Elizabeth Hale) was born before 21 Feb 1714/15; was christened on 21 Feb 1714/15 in Radwell, Hertfordshire; died on 12 Mar 1762 in Stephen's Green, Dublin, Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Harriot married Pendock Neale on 03 Apr 1753 in St. George's Chapel, New Windsor, Berkshire. Pendock was born on 10 Jun 1728 in Tollerton, Nottinghamshire; was christened on 09 Jul 1728 in Tollerton, Nottinghamshire; died in 1772 in Ince Castle, Cornwall; was buried on 18 Jan 1773 in St. Peter's, Tollerton, Nottinghamshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Royal Navy Service: Between 06 Nov and Dec 1746, Promoted to Rank of Midshipman
• Portrait: Between 1743 and 1744, By Sir Joshua Reynolds (One of his earliest works.)
• Royal Navy Service: Between 1744 and 1745, Captain's Servant on HMS Augusta (Capt. J. Hamilton)
• Royal Navy Service: Between 04 Feb 1744/45 and 14 Feb 1744/45, Leaves for HMS Augusta with Capt. Hamilton
• Portrait: 1746, By Sir Joshua Reynolds (Eliot Family Portrait)

Notes:

Notes:

--- "GM of Eliot and Craggs" (Memoranda on Fly-Leaves of an Old Bible in the Prot Eliot Library) Page 7:
Hester Eliot Born ye 11th of March 1734 between seven and eight o'clock at night. Baptized ye 12 of the same month. She died the 12th of April 1736 aged 13 months.

--- The St. German's register records the date of Hester's burial as the 21st day of April. This appears to be a mistake (with the number merely transposed), since it is unlikely that her burial would have taken place nine days after her death.

Notes:

Transcription of the St. German's Church Baptism Record gives her birth date as 03 June 1741.

According to "GM of Eliot and Craggs" (Memoranda on Fly-Leaves of an Old Bible in the Port Eliot Library) Page 7:
Augusta Eliot Born ye 10th of June 1737 between three and four o'clock in the morning. Baptized ye 16th of August following. The Princess Augusta of Wales Godmother. She died the 25th of November following aged five months and fifteen days.

Notes:

Elizabeth married Charles Cocks on 08 Aug 1759 in St. George, Hanover Square, London. Charles (son of John Cocks and Mary Cocks) was born on 29 Jun 1725 in Castleditch, Eastnor, Herefordshire; was christened on 03 Jul 1725 in Eastnor; died on 30 Jan 1806 in His House on Cavendish-square, London; was buried on 11 Feb 1806 in St. John the Baptist Church, Eastnor, Herefordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Royal Navy Service: Between 12 Jan and 17 Feb 1761, Captain of HMS Unicorn
• Royal Navy Service: Between 13 Oct and 03 Dec 1760, Captain of HMS Coventry
• Royal Navy Service: Between Jun and Dec 1756, Action in the Bay of Biscay and off Cape Finisterre
• Royal Navy Service: Between Mar and May 1756, 'Vanguard' sails off Ushant (Capt. John Byron)
• Royal Navy Service: 18 Feb 1751/52, Signs as Midshipman on 'Penzance' at Portsmouth (Capt. Chas. Saunders)
• Royal Navy Service: 12 Jun 1752, Promoted to Able-Bodied Seaman
• Royal Navy Service: 19 Mar 1753, Discharged at Woolwich (at His Own Request)
• Royal Navy Service: 12 May 1753, Rejoins 'Penzance' as Midshipman, Volunteer (under Capt. Hugh Bonfoy)
• Royal Navy Service: 08 Jul 1754, Discharged at Plymouth from 'Penzance'
• Royal Navy Service: 10 Nov 1754, Listed as Midshipman on 'Vanguard'
• Royal Navy Service: 29 Jan 1757, 'Vanguard' Returns to Plymouth
• Royal Navy Service: 09 Feb 1757, Disch. from 'Vanguard' by Preferment
• Royal Navy Service: 14 Feb 1757, Midshipman on 'Marlborough' (Capt. Robert Faulknor)
• Royal Navy Service: 17 May 1757, Anchored at Port Royal, Jamaica
• Royal Navy Service: Oct 1757, Transferred to 'Augusta' as Third Lieutenant (Capt. Arthur Forrest)
• Royal Navy Service: 31 Jul 1758, Transfers as Lieutenant on 'Viper' (Capt. Housman Broadley)
• Royal Navy Service: 30 Jan 1759, Receives Temporary Command of 'Viper' on the Death of Capt. Broadley
• Royal Navy Service: 01 Feb 1759, Resumes Lieutenancy of 'Viper' under Capt. Arthur Ussher
• Royal Navy Service: 05 Apr 1759, Appointed Lieutenant on 'Hornet' (Capt. Chas. Napier)
• Royal Navy Service: 04 Sep 1759, Commisioned as Commander of 'Hawke'
• Royal Navy Service: 09 Dec 1759, 'Hawke' Captured by the French (Eliot becomes a POW)
• Royal Navy Service: 21 Feb 1760, Exchanged for a French POW
• Military Service: 25 Apr 1760, Made a Post Captain
• Royal Navy Service: May 1760, Begins Baltic Convoy Duty as Capt. of 'Gosport'
• Royal Navy Service: Between 21 Nov 1760 and 11 Mar 1766, Captain of 'Thames'
• Royal Navy Service: 24 Oct 1766, Commisioned as Captain of guardship 'Firm'
• Appointment: 16 Mar 1767, Governor of West Florida
• Royal Navy Service: 11 Jun 1767, Command and Naval Service Ended
• Royal Navy Service: 06 Jan 1769, Set Sail for W. FLA aboard 'Tryal'
• Royal Navy Service: 07 Apr 1769, Arrived at Pensacola as Governor of W. FLA
• Probate: 24 Jul 1769, Administration of the Goods Chattels and Credits -- to Brother, Edward Eliot

Notes:

Family/Spouse: Mary Wyatt. Mary died before 08 Jun 1771; was buried on 08 Jun 1771 in St. Andrew's, Plymouth, Devon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Subscription: 1798, 'Sermons of the Late Rev. William Woollcombe'

Notes:

Notes:

--- "Oxford Journal" 22 July 1758, page 4:
In a Pamphlet lately published by Mr. Sexton, are insterted several Cases of Cures performed by these Powders, the first of which is the following:
The third of March 1755, I was applied to by the Hon. John Hamilton, to accompany him to his Country Seat at Bearhill, in Berkshire, near Henly upon Thames. His Daughter, a young Lady about four Years old, had been inoculated for the Small-pox, and was dangerously ill, the Pock very small, sunk away, and much discoloured; she was convulsed, breather short, and was delirious; and attended with Hiccoughs; (Symptoms prestaging Death;) she had been attended by a Phusician, who gave but little Hopes of her Recovery. I immediately gave her half a Paper of my Powder, and continued them every four Hours for the first Night; in the Morning following she appeared something better, the Confulsions were abated, and her Breath not so depressed: I continued the Powders as before the succeeding twelve Hours; after which Time the Alteration was so great, as to give the most chearful Hopes of a happy Event: The Pock was now fully thrown out, the Delirium and Convulsions entirely gone off, and a few Days perfected her Recovery. She had no Secondary Fever at all, nor was any other Medicine used to asist besides my Powders. The surprising Success of this Case was not greateer that the Joy it gave to the most fond Parents, who had the Happiness of seeing an only Child restored, which before was feared to have been a lost one. The thorough Conviction and Satisfaction, both Mr. Hamilton and the Physician had of the specific Virtues of this Medicine, induced the former to purchase a large Quantity of it, (from his benevolent Disposition) to give to the Poor who should be likewise afflicted, and by his own Inspection, without any other Assistance, performed several Cures that he transmitted me an Account of; and by his Approbation I was permitted to relate this Case.

--- "The Scots Magazine" 1 Oct 1764, page 56:
Nov. 4. At Highgate, Miss Anne Hamilton, daughter of the Hon. Mrs. Hamilton of that place, and niece of the Earl of Abercorn.

--- "Caledonian Mercury" 10 Nov 1764, page 2:
Yesterday died, at Highgate, Miss Anne Hamilton, daughter of the Hon. Mrs. Hamilton, of the said place, and niece to the Right Hon. Lord Abercorn.

--- "London, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812" (Camden, St Michael, Highgate, 1753-1790, 147):
Burial Record reads: "November 9. Miss Ann Hamilton Daughter of the Honble Mrs Hamilton Widow was buried."

Other Events:

• Education: 1776, Graduated M.A. from Pembroke College, Cambridge
• Elected: Nov 1783, M.P. for East Looe, Cornwall
• Elected: 1784, M.P. for St. Germans
• Title (Facts Pg): 1789, Succeeded to Title of 'Viscount Hamilton' in Great Britain
• Title (Facts Pg): 1789, Succeeded to Title of 'Viscount of Strabane' in Ireland
• Title (Facts Pg): 1789, Succeeded to Title of 'Earl of Abercon' in Scotland
• Elected: 19 Jul 1790, Took His Oaths and His Seat in the House of Lords in Ireland
• Title (Facts Pg): 15 Oct 1790, Created Marquess of Abercorn
• Elected: 7 Feb 1794, Sworn of the Privy Council in Ireland
• Title (Facts Pg): 17 Jan 1805, Nominated a Knight of the Garter
• Title (Facts Pg): 23 Apr 1805, Installed at Windsor on St. George's Day (Knight of the Garter)
• Will: 18 Mar 1809, With Four Subsequent Codicils
• Probate: 09 May 1818, London, England

Notes:

--- "Abercorn: The Hamiltons of Barons Court" by William J Roulston, 2014, page 90-1
There was no member of the family quite like the 1st Marquess before him, nor has there been one since. Anthony Malcomson, in the only recent essay that considers him in any detail, believed him to be "perhaps a fitter subject for fiction than biography". Elsewhere he has described him as "that truly proud northern leviathan". The Marquess' great-grandson, Lord Ernest Hamilton, who devoted a chapter to him in his book "Old Days and News", wrote that while he "could not, strictly speaking, lay claim to be reckoned, on all points, an exemplary character, he was, beyond question, an interesting one". A contemporary, the novelist Lady Morgan, wrote, "He was so organised to be the man he was that no education or example could have made him otherwise. Had he occupied the throne of his ancestors, he would have been the justest despot that ever reigned." The society hostess Lady Holland observed, "He is haughty and capricious, with enough of vanity to make him do a generous action, and with a dash of madness to make him do a lively one." Many of those who have commented on him have focused on his eccentricities or behaviour arising from his undoubted pride --- stories that he insisted his maidservants wore white gloves when changing the bed sheets or that he wore his Garter while out shooting. . . . His friend Sir Walter Scott called him "much misrepresented". The Marquess conduct at times may well have earned him the epithet "Don Magnifico" . . .

--- "The Scots Peerage" (Edinburgh, Scotland: David Douglas, 1904), volume I, page 66-8:
John James, ninth Earl of Abercorn, only son of the Hon. John Hamilton, was born after his father's death, July 1756. He was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he graduated M.A. in 1776, and was elected member of Parliament for East Looe, in Cornwall, on a vacancy in November 1783, and chosen for St. Germans at the general election 1784. He succeeded his uncle in 1789, as Earl of Abercorn in Scotland, viscount of Strabane in Ireland, and Viscount Hamilton in Great Britain. On 19 Jul 1790 he took the oaths and his seat in the House of Lords in Ireland. At the general election of the sixteen representatives of the Scots Peerage, 11 July 1790, the clerks refused to receive his signed list, as he had been created a peer of Great Britain since the Union. The question was carried to the House of Lords, where, 13 May 1793, in a committee for privileges, the point was decided in his favour. Meanwhile the Earl was created on 15 October 1790, Marquess of Abercorn; and was sworn of the Privy Council in Ireland 7 February 1794. He was nominated a Knight of the Garter 17 January 1805, and installed at Windsor on St. George's Day, 23 April following. A curious account of the almost royal progress of the Marquess and his family through Scotland on their way to Baron's Court in August 1813 is given by Sir Walter Scott.*

He married first, 20 June 1779, Catherine, daughter of Sir Joseph Copley, of Sprotborough, co. York, Baronet, by Mary, daughter of John Buller of Morval, Cornwall, and by her (who died at Stanmore Priory, Middlesex, 13 September 1791, and was buried 19 September, at Stanmore) had six children. . . .

The Marquess married, secondly, 4 March 1792, his cousin, Lady Cecil Hamilton, daughter of his uncle George already mentioned, and by her had a daughter. . . .

The Marquess married, thirdly, at her brother Viscount Sudley's house in Dover Street, Piccadilly, 3 April 1800, Lady Anne Jane, relict of Henry Hatton of Great Clonard, in the county of Wexford, member of Parliament for the borough of Donegal, to whom she was married October 1783. She was born April 1762, eldest daughter of Arthur Saunders, second Earl of Arran, in Ireland, by his first wife, the Hon. Catherine Annesley, only daughter of William, Viscount Glerawley. She died, without issue, at Naples 3 May 1827. The Marquess died 27 January 1818; his will, dated 18 March 1809, with four subsequent codicils, was proved in London 9 May 1818, and was succeeded by his grandson.

* "Life of Scott" iv. 95. Sir Walter was a frequent visitor to Stanmore Priory, and while there in April 1807 was correcting a proof of the Introduction to "Marmion", Canto 1., which contains the complimentary lines on Pitt and Fox. Lord Abercorn suggested that the tribute to Fox should be heightened, and it is said he himself penned several lines of eulogy. "Familiar Letters", i. 82. The "Lady of the Lake" was dedicated to the Marquess.

Family/Spouse: Frances Matilda Hawkins. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Catherine Copley on 20 Jun 1779. Catherine died on 13 Sep 1791 in Stanmore Priory, Middlesex; was buried on 19 Sep 1791 in St. John the Evangelist, Great Stanmore, Harrow, London. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Cecil Hamilton on 04 Mar 1792, and was divorced in Apr 1799 in By Act of Parliament. Cecil (daughter of George Hamilton) was born on 15 Mar 1770; died on 19 Jun 1819; was buried in St. George Hanover Square, London. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Anne Jane Gore on 03 Apr 1800. Anne died on 05 May 1827 in Naples, Italy; was buried on 14 Aug 1827 in St. John the Evangelist, Great Stanmore, Harrow, London. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]