BUCKINGHAM. 69 Dukedom. /. John (Sheffield), Marquess of Nohmanby, &c, mm, on 23 March 1702/3, dr. DUKE OF THE COUNTY OF BUCK- VI. 1703. IKUHAM ANDOFNORMANBY.(a) He was only*, and h. of Edmund, (Sheffield) 2d Earl of Mclquave by Elizabeth, do, of Lionel (CbaN- field), Eahl of Middlesex ; was b. S Sep. 1647, and bap. 12 April 1648 at St .Martin's- hi-tlio-fields. He sue. his Father as Earl of "Mulgrave, &e, 24 Aug. 165S ; served with the Fleet and was, in 1C72, at the battle of Solebay, being Cap*, of a ship, 1673 ; Gent, of the Bedchamber, 1673-82 ; and again to James II in 1685 ; Col. of a Reg. of Foot, 1673-S5, and in command of the Forces sent to Tangier ; el. K,G 23 Apr. and inst. 28 May 1674 ; Lord Lieut, of tbe East Riding, 1679*82 and 16S7-SS ; P.O. to James II. 1685 ; to Will. III. 1694, and to Anne, 1702 and 1710 ; Lord Chamberlain of the Household, 1685-88 ; Vice Admiral for Yorkshire, &c, 1687 ; on 10 May 1694 he was cr. MARQUESS OF NORMANBY, co. Lincoln ; Lord Piuvy Seal, 1702-05 ; Lord Lieut, of the North Riding, 1702-5 and 1711-14. On 9 March 1702/3 he was cr. Jhikc of Buckingham and Normanby as afsd. He was a Commissioner for the. Scotch Union, 1703 ; Lord Steward <>f the Household, 1710 I Lord President of the Council, 1711-14 ; Lord Lieut, of Mid*., 1711-14, and, finally, one of the Lords Justices of the Realm, Aug. to Sep. 1714 at the accession of thu House ot Hanover. He was also an author.^) He in. firstly 18 March 1686, Ursula, DOW. Countess of Conway, da. and coheir of George Stawkll Cbr. of Ralph, 1st Bards St awei.i.) by Ursula, da. of Sir Robert Austen, Bart. He in, secondly 12 March 1699, Katharine, Dow. Countess of Gainsborough, da. of Fulke (Ghbvili.e), 6th Loud Bkooke, by Sarah, da. of Francis Dasbwood. She, by whom ha had no issue, if. 7 ami was bur. 11 Feb. 1703/4 in Westm. Abbey. He m. thirdly 16 March 1705/8, at St. Martin's-in-tlie-fields (Lie. at Fac. off 15th March) Katharine, Dow. COUNTESS OF ANGLESEY, formerly the Lady Katharine Darnley, Spinster, being illegit da. of Jameu II. by Katharine (Skdlby) sun jure Countess of Dorchester. He </. at Buckingham House,( c ) St James Park, Westm. 24 Feb. and was bur. 25 March 1720/1 in his 73rd year (attended by no less than teu officers of Arms) in Westm. Abbey. MJ.{*) Will dat. 9 Aug. 1716 to 30 Dec. 1717, pr. 28 March 1721. His widow il. 14 March and was bui: 8 April 1743, at Westm. Abbey, aged 61. [Jonx Sheffield, fh/fal Maiiquess of NoRMANBY,( e ) 1st s. and h. ap. (by 3rd wife), b. 26 Sep. and bup. 3 Oct, 1710 ; d. an infant 16, bur. IS of same month at St. Margaret's, Westm. Removed to Westm. Abbey at the interment of his Father.] Catharine m. (as his 1st wife) John Lewis, Dean of Ossory, by whom she had a son Villiers William Lewis, who, in 1790, took the name of Yilliers, having inherited the manor of Aylsham Burgh, Norfolk, which had come into the Villiers family from his (undoubted) ancestress Frances, da. of Sir Edward Coke, wife of (his ancestor, or reputed ancestor) the 1st Visct. Purbeck and mother of Robert Danvers alias Villiers, his grandfather's grandfather. ( a ) It is probable that this title (Normanby) was here added in case of the Earldom of Buckingham being established to the Villiers family ; just as " Mortimer " was added to the Earldom of Oxford, conferred, in 1711, on Robert Harley. ( b ) Horace Walpole says of him " that he wrote in hopes of being confounded with his predecessor in the title ; but he would more easily have been mistaken with tbe other Buckingham, if he had never written at all." Bishop Burnet's character of him, with Dean Swift's comments thereon in italics, is, that he " Is a nobleman of learning, and good natural parts, but of no principle ; violent for the High Church, yet seldom goes to it : very proud, insolent, and covetous, and takes all advantages. T/u's character is the truest of any." It appears from " Macky " that, tho' he obtained a Marquessate from William III., he had opposed the Revolution and all the measures of that King ; but as to his Dukedom that was not unnaturally granted to him by Queen Anne ; to whom, when a girl, "his presumption[had] made him make love." (°) Built for him in 1703 faciug the Mall, and sold by his descendant Sir Charles Sheffield for ,£21,000 to George III., in 1761, and called "The Queen's House." Buckingham Palace was built on its site in 1825. ( 4 ) " Dubius sod non improbus vixi, Inccrtus morior uon perturbatus, &c. (") "The Rt, Hon. Juo. Sheffield, Lei. Man/, of Normanby, only sou of His Grace &c," Par. Reg. of Burials at St. Margaret's.
