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ZOUCHE. 227 1660), 1. and h. of Sir Willhm Tati^*) (d. 1617) all foor being of DeUpre abbey, oo. Northampton, y Blicabeth (m. 1697) lit da., whoee VMue (in 1686) became ooheir to the lait named Lord. He waa h. 20 Dea 1768 ; me. hia father aa 9th Bart, (a dignity er. 24 Jnly 1620) and in the family catatea in Sep. 1779 ; waa M.P. for Shoreham, 1780-90 and 1796.1806 ; er. D.C.L. of Oxford, 6 July 1810 ; F.R.8. Having established hia daim, made 7 Feb. 1804, aa a repreaentative (thro* the families of Hedges, Tate and Zouche) of the Barony of Zouehe abovenamed, the abeyance of that Barony (which had existed nearly two centuriee) waa termiHated in his favour and be waaanm. to psri by writ, 27 Ang. 1816 as IX)RD ZOUCHE DE HA11TN0W0RTH.(I») He m., 27 July 1782, (spec, lie) in her father*a houae, at St. Martin's in the 6elds, Harriett Anne, da. and h. of William Southwell, of Frampton, oo. Glouceater, by hia aeoond wife, Annabella, da. of Henry Ptb of Farringdon, Berks. He d. 8.p.m.s.(«) at Parha m afsd., 11 Nov. 1828, aged 78, when the Barony fell >g>in into dbqfanee(^) while the Baronetcy (but not the family estate) devolved on his oouain and heir male.(«) Will pr. Deo. 1828. Hia widow d 10 Deo. 1889 at Hyde Park place weat, aged 79 and waa bur. at Parham. Will pr. Jan. 1840. • ••••• XIII. 1829. IS. Thb Hon. Harrist Aknb Curson, vife of the Hon. Robert CmuoH, 1st da. and oohehr, b, at Geneva, 7 Sep. 1787 ; m, 14 Oct. 1808 ; became, by the death of her father, 11 Nov. 1828, the elder ooheir (<.«., heir to a moiety) of thia Barony, as eatabliahed (1816) to her father. The Bubsequent tAeuanee thereof was, within a year, terminated in her favour, 9 Feb. 1829, and she thus became §uo jure BARONESS ZOUCHE DB HARTNGWORTH. Her aaid husband, who waa 6th but 2d surv. s. of Assheton (Gurxor), 1st VnoouHT CuRXON OP Psifii, was b. 1 June 1771 ; ed. at Ch. Ch., Oxford ; B.A., 1796. He waa M.P. for Clitheroe 1796—1881, and d 14 Mav 1868, at Parham Park, in hia 92d year. She d there 16 Nov. 1870, aged 88. Will pr. 8 Sep. 1870 under £4,000. XIY. 1 870. 14' RoBBRT (Curson), Lord Zouchb db Hartnoworth, 1st s. and h. ; & 16 March 1810, in Welbeck street, Marylebone; ed. at Charterhouae School and at Ch. Ch., Oxford, where he matria 19 Feb. 1828. He waa N.P. for Clitheroe, in the Conserv. interest, 1881-82, when he abandoned political life ; waa attacks at Conatantinople, and private sec to the ambassador there^ 1841 ; a oommisar. to settle the boundariea between Turkey and Persia at Erxeroum, in 1844; received the orders of the Lion and Sun of Persia, and of the Nlshan of Turkey. (0 He stie. to the peerage on the death of his mother, 16 Nov. 1870. He m. 27 Aug. 1860, at Croxhall Church, Catton, oo. Derby, Kmily Julia, 8d da. of the Rt. Hon. Sir Robert John Wilmot-Horton, formeriy Wiluot, 8d Bart, by Antte,(x) (■) An elaborate account of thia family of Tate with acme intersating notea illuatrative of that of Zouche ia in Burke'a *' Commonere," edit. 1887, voL ii, p. 489. (^) He repreaented a fvurtk of the Barony, in the event of the existence of iasne from the ystda. of the 11th Lord, but if such issue had then beoome extinct he (in thnt case) represented a moiety thereof. See vol. vi, p. 407, note " e,*' for a comparison of tills caae with that of De Roe. («) He had two aona, both of whom d v.p^ and B.p. before he obtained the peenge. He, (1) Cecil Biaahopp, Ijieut.-Col. lat Guarda, who waa killed in action at Bladk Rock in Upper Canada, 11 July 1818, aged 80 ; (2) Charlea Cecil Biaahopp, an officer R.N., who If. unm. 10 May 1808, of yellow fever, in Jamaica. {^) The coheirs were his two daughters (1) Harriet Anne, in whoae favour the abeyance waa terminated next year ; (2) Katharine Annabella, 6. 1 Dea 1701, and then unm. She m. 1 Aug. 1826, Vice-Admiral Sir George Richard Brooke-Peehelly 4th Bart., and d. 29 July 1871, leaving female iaaue. (*) Thia Baronetcy became subsequently, 27 Jan. 1S70, extinct. (0 In 1848, he pub. an account of his " Visits to the Monaateriea in the Levant,*' which obtained great aucceea. His "Memoir" (pub. by the Philobiblon Society) atatea that " The foundation of hia character waa aincerity, which, but for hia natural good breeding and deaire to avoid' inflicting pain, might have aometimea given offence. . . Hia natural talent, varied experience, oriainal conversation and lively wit will live bng in the memory of thoae who knew him. ' (I) She 18 oommemorated by Byron in his well-known poem, " She walks in beauty, like tiie night."