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BY JAMES
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VI. 1735 to 1738 Sir Thomas Stradling, Bart. [1611], of St. Donats aforesaid, 2d but only surv. s. and h.; b. 24 July 1710; suc. to the Baronetcy, 5 April 1735. He d. unm., at Montpelier, in the south of France, 27 Sep. 1738, aged 37,([1]) when the Baronetcy became extinct.([2]) Will dat. 4 March 1735; pr. 15 Dec. 1738.
LEKE, or LEAKE:
cr. 22 May 1611,
sometime, 1625-45, Baron Deincourt,
and subsequently, 1645—1736, Earls of Scarsdale;
I. 1611. "Francis Leake [or Leke] of Sutton. co. Derby, Knt.," s. and h. of Sir Francis Leke, of Sutton in Scarsdale aforesaid, by his first wife, Frances, da. and coheir of Robert Swift, of Bayton, co. York, was b. before 1581; M.P. for Derbyshire, 1601; Sheriff thereof, 1604-05; Knighted 14 March 1603/4, and was cr. a Bart, as above, at the institution of that Order, 22 May 1611. He m. 16 Sep, 1607, at Great Berkhampstead, Herts, Anne, sister of Henry, 1st Viscount Falkland [S.], 6th da. of Sir Edward Carey, of Aldenham, Herts. She was living when he was cr. 26 Oct. 1624, BARON DEINCOURT OF SUTTON, co. Derby, and subsequently, 11 Nov. 1645, EARL OF SCARSDALE. In that peerage this Baronetcy then merged, and so continued till on the death, 17 July 1736, of the 4th Earl, Baron, and Baronet, it and all other his honours became extinct. See Peerage.
PELHAM
cr. 22 May 1611,
sometime, 1706-14, Barons Pelham of Laughton,
afterwards, 1714-15, Earl of Clare,
and, 1715-68, Duke of Newcastle,
subsequently, 1768—1801, Baron Pelham of Stanmer,
and finally, since 1801, Earls of Chichester.
I. 1611. "Thomas Pelham, of Lawghton, co. Sussex, Esq.," 2d son of of Sir Nicholas Pelham, of Halland in Laughton aforesaid (whose will, dat. 6 Feb. 1559/60, was pr. 31 March 1561), by Anne, da. of John Sackville, of Chiddingleigh, in that county, was b. about 1540; suc. his nephew, Oliver Pelham, 19 Jan. 1584, in the family estates; was M.P. for Lewes, 1584-85, and for Sussex, 1586-90; Sheriff of that county 1589, and was cr. a Bart., as above, at the institution
- ↑ "The estate of St. Donats Castle was bequeathed to the Drakes of Shardeloes, now [1838] possessed by Thomas Tyrwhitt Drake, Esq. Merthymawr and Monknash passed to Hugh Bowen, Esq., and Penlline Lampey and Cwm Hawey to Bussey Mansel, Esq." [Burke's Extinct Baronetcies.] Jane, the great aunt of the last Baronet (da. of the 3d Bart.), had m. George Bowen, of Kettlehill, co. Glamorgan, and Dame Catharine Mansel, widow of the 3d Bart., had m. Bussey Mansel. The disposition of the property in the will gave rise to a Chancery suit, which lasted sixty years from 1738, at the close of which, the valuable library, furniture, etc., of St. Donats Castle were sold. [N. & Q., 3d S., xi, 153.]
- ↑ In Walford's County Families (2d edit. 1864), under "Nicholl-Carne, of Nash Manor, co. Glamorgan," the following very extraordinary statement appears. The dormant Baronetage of Stradling of St. Donats is centred in and claimed by this family. The writer of an article, signed "N.O." [Herald and Genealogist, vol. iv, p. 234], justly ridicules "the notion of claiming a Baronetcy by virtue of female descent in the case of a dignity in which "all the male heirs of the grantee included in the remainder are well known to be exhausted."
