DORCHESTER. 141 iv pension of .£5,000 a year (continued to her in 1703), &c. She m. in or shortly after Aug. 1090, Sir David Colyear, 2d Bart. [S.], afterwards (1099) Lord Portmokk [S.], and finally (170:i) Earl OF Portmork [S.J, woo d. 2 Jany. 1730, leaving issue by her. See that title. The Countess d. at Bath 20 Oct. 1717, when her life Peerage became extinct.^) Will pt. Sep. 1 720. Marquessate. /, EvBLTN (Pierrepont), Earl of Kingston- T II. 1 700. on-Hull, great-nephew of Henry, Marquess of Dorchester and E.vut. OF Kingston-o>-Hull aboveuamed, was cr. 2:5 Dec. 1708, MARQUESS OF DORCHESTER, oo. Dorset., with a spec, rem, failing the heirs male <if his body, to his uncle, Gervase Pierrepont, after- wards (1714) Baron Pierrepont of Hanslape. He was cr., 10 Aug. 1715, Duke of Kincston-on-Hcll, co. York. He d. 5 March 1726. [William Pierrepont, styled Marquess op Dorchester, s. and i h. ap., b. 21 Oct 1092 ; d. v.p. 1 July 1713.] 2'- III. 172G, ,? Evelyn (Pierrepont), Duke of Kingston- tci on-Hull, Marquess of Dorchester, &c, grandson and h., 1773. heing s. and h. of William Pierrepont, styled Marquess of Dorchester abovenamed, He was himself tilled .Marquess of Dorchester, 1713-20 ; 6. 1711 ; d. s.p. 23 Sep. 1773, when all ku honours became extinct.
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IS.. » . in sag 03 Earldom. f. Joseph Dameh, of Came, co. Dorset, s. and h. of II 1792 Joseph D. of the same, by Mary, da. of John Churchill, of Henbury in the said co., b. 12 March 1717/8, at Dorchester. Dorset, sue. his Father, 1 March 1736/7; HP. for Weymouth, 1741-47 ; for Bramher, 1717-5 J; and for Dorchester, 1751-02; was cr. 3 June 1753, BARON MILTON OF SHKONEHILL, co. Tipperary [I.], taking his seat as such, 9 Oct. following. P.C. [[.]. 1773. He was cr. 10 May 1702, BARON MILTON OF MILTON ABBEY, co. L)oreet, and, finally, IS May 1792, VISCOUNT MILTON OF MILTON ABBEY, co. Dorset, and EARL OF DORCHESTER, co. Dorset ; High Steward of Dorchester, &c. He m. 27 July 1742, at Knole, co. Kent, Caroline, da. of Lionel (Sackville), 1st Duke of Dorset, by Elizabeth, da. of Lieut. Gun. Walter.Philip Colyear. She, who was b. 0 March, and bap. 4 April 171S, at St. Martins in the fields, d. (as Baroness Milton) 24 March 1775, and was bur. at Milton Abbey af.-d. The Earl d. 12 Jany. 1798. Will pr. Feb. 179S. III. 1798, 2. George (Damer), Earl of Dorchester [1792] to Viscount Milton of Milton Abbey [1792], Baron Milton of Milton 180S. Abbey [1762], also Baron Milton of Shronehill [1.1753]; 2d but 1st surv. s. and h., b. 28 March 1740, and bap. at St. James, Westm. ; ed. at Tim Coll., Cambridge ; M.A., 3 July 1769 ; M.P. for Cricklade, 1708-74 ; for St. Andrews, Cupar and Crail, 1777-80; for Dorchester, 1780-90; for (") Little is known of her but her want of beauty and her possession of a low kind of wit, which " shocked by its indelicacy ; " e.g., as, when meeting the Duchess of Portsmouth and the Countess of Orkney at a Drawing Room of George I, she said, " Who would have thought that we three w * * * * s should have met here ! " Her life Mas "a long career of undeserved prosperity," pnd there is nothing in it to show that the well-known allusion to her, in Dr. Johnson's magnificent poem of "The Vanity of Human Wishes," was in fact in any, the least, degree appropriate — " Yet Vane could tell what ills from beauty spring, And Sedley cursed the charms which pleased a King." See Jesse's " Memoirs of the Stuarts," vol. iv, pp. 491-497. Her father, a notorious libertine, who d. 20 Aug. 1 701 aged 01, being also a wit and having taken part against James II, gave (as a bun mot) his reason for so doing that,' " that King having made my da. a Countess, it is fit I should make his da. a Queen."
