FOLEY. 387 FOLEY OF KIDDERMINSTER. Barony. Jt Thomas F 0IJSY) (a) o[ Witley Courtj CQ -Worcester, I. 1712. lst s - an< 1 of Thomas F. of the same, by Elizabeth, da. of Edward Ashe, of Heytesbury, Wilis; sue. his father after 1CS3 ; was M.P. „,„ m , f «r Stafford, 1695 to 1712, when, on 1 Jan. 1711/2,( b ) he was W. BARON FOLEY OF KIDDERMINSTER, 60. Worcester, (<=) He m. Mary, da. and I I. of Thomas Strode, Serjeant at Law. He d. 22 Jan. 1732/3, and was bur. at Witley M. I. Will pr . 19 March 1732/3. His widow d. Oct. 1735 and was bur. there. Will dat. 6 June 1735, pr. 14 Jan. 1735/6. II. 1733, 2. Thomas (Foley), Baron Foley op Kidderminster, to 1st s. and h. mat. at Oxford (Ch. Ch.), 4 Nov. 1720, aged 17 ; cr. 17CG. D.C.L., 11 July 1733. He d. num. 8 Jan. 1766, in his 63d year and was bur. at Witley, when the tide became extinct. Will pr. 1766. III. 1776. 1. Thomas Foley, of Witley Court, co. Worcester and of Stoke Edith, co. Hereford, s. and'h. of Thoma3 F.,( d ) of Stoke Edith afs.l, by his first wife, Hester, da. and h. of Thomas Andrews, of St. Mary-at- Hill, London, was 6. S and bap. 10 Aug. 1716. M.P. for Droitwich, 1741-47 and 1754-68 ; for Herefordshire, 1768-78. Having sue. in 1766, by the death of his cousin abovenamed. to the family estates in Worcestershire, he was cr. 20 May 1776, BARON FOLEY OF KIDDERMINSTER, co. Worcester. He m. 28 March 1740, in Audley chapel, St. Geo. Han. so,., Grace, 3d da. and coheir of George (Granville), Baron Lansdowne of Bidekoup, by Mary, da, of Edward (Yilliers), 1st Earl op Jersey. She d. at Witley, 1 Nov. 1769, and was bur. there. He d. 18 Nov. 1777, and was bur. there. Will pr. 1778. IV. 1777. 2. Thomas (Foley). Baron Foley of Kidderminster, 1st s. and h., b. 21 June and bap. 7 July 1742, at St. Geo. Han. sq. ; mat. at Oxford (Mag. Coll.), 2 May 1759; M.P. for Herefordshire, 1767-74 ; for Droitwich, 1774-77 ; Joint Postmaster Gen., 17S3. He m. at her father's house, in St. Martins in the fields, 20 March 1776, Harriett, 4th da. of William (Stanhope^, 2d Earl of Harrington, by Caroline, da. of Charles (Fitzrot), 2d Ddke of Grafton. She, who was 6. 26 Oct. 1750, d. in childbed 2 Jan. 1781, and was bur. at Witley. He d. 2 July 1793, aged 51, and was bur. there. Admon. July 1794. V. 1793. S. Thomas (Foley), Baron Foley of Kidderminster, 3d but only surv. s. and h., b. 22 Dee. 1780, and bap. 19 May 17S1, at Marylebone ; mat. at Oxford (Ch. Ch.), 7 May 1798 ; cr. M.A., 25 June 1800. He was P.C. and was Lord Lieut, of co. Worcester. He ?n. 18 Aug. 1806 at (the house of Barones3 de Bos) Boyle Farm. Kingston-on-Thames, Cecilia Olivia Geraldino, 5th da. of Eobert (Fitzgerald), 2d Dike of Leinster [I.], by Emilia Olivia, da. and h, of St. George Usher (St. Geoiice), Baron St. George of Hatley St. Georob fX] He d. 16 April 1833, aged 52, and was bur. at Witley. Admon. Aug. 1834. His widow, who was b. 3 March 1786, d. 27 July 1863, in her 7Sth year, at 12 Great Stanhope street, Midx. ( il ) An interesting account of the Foley family, " by H. Sydney Grazebrook," is in Marshall's "Genealogist," vol. vi. pp. 117—122. The grandfather of the first Lord (Thomas Foley d. 1 Oct- 1677, aged 60), was the purchaser of Witley Court and numerous other estates. (l>) "Uord UrtiA post meridiem." See vol. i, p. 269, note "d, ' IttO "Bathurst," for an account of this proceeding, relating to the elevation of a dozen commoners (at the same time) to the Peerage to secure a majority in the House of Lords. (») His sister, Elizabeth, was the first wife of the celebrated Robert Harley, after- wards (1711), Earl of^Oxford and was mother of the 2d Earl. (?) This Thomas was s. and h. of another Thomas Foley (d. 1737, aged 67), who was s. and h. of Paul Foley (sometime, 1695, Speaker of the House of Commons, who d 1699), all of Stoke Edith afsd., which Paul was yr. br. to Thomas, the father of Thomas, the lst Baron Foley of the creation of 1712. 2b 2
