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--- "Kentish Gazette" 24 Oct 1788, page 2:
LORD NUGENT
The late Lord Nugent was born in the year 1702, and was descended from an ancient family in Ireland, nearly related to the Earls of Weitmeath.
His fortune on the outset was about 1,500 pounds a year; and being a man of parts, a poet, and an agreeable companion, he ingratiated himself to the favour of Miss Craggs, only sister and heiress [sic] of Secretary Craggs, by whom he got a seat in Parliament, and above 100,000 pounds in money and estates.
He afterwards married Lady Berkley, the relict of the late Earl of Berkley, by whom he likewise got a considerable fortune, and who brought him one daughter, the present Marchioness of Buckingham. Lady Berkely is still living, but had been in a state of separation for several years before his Lordship's death. His Lordship dying without any mail issue, his title and estates go to his son-in-law, the Marquis of Buckingham, the present Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
Of his political character, if we decut the few years that he was in the suite of Frederick Prince of Wales, it has been uniformly in favour of Administration. On the breaking up of Walpole's Ministry, he went over to the Pelhams; and since that time, till a few years before his death, he has been in several importrant offices, such as First Lord of Trade, one of the Vice Treasurers of Ireland, &c. &c. &c.
In 1766, his Lordship, who was then but the Right Hon. Lord Nugent, was called up to the House of Peers in Ireland, by the title of Baron Nugent of Carlanston, in the county of Westmeath, and Viscount Clare, and, in 1776, created Earl Nugent, with remainder to his son-in-law, George Grenville, now Marquis of Buckingham.
His estates in England and Ireland amounted to about 12,000 pounds per annum.
--- "Manchester Mercury" 28 Oct 1788, page 1:
On Wednesday Night died in Dublin, the Right Hon. Robert Craggs Nugent, Viscount Clare, and Earl Nugent of Ireland, Father to the present Marchioness of Buckingham. His Lordship was in the 87th Year of his Age, being born in 1701.
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