204 HENKNOWLE — HENLEY. HENKNOWLE, Sec " Fauconberg of JSmmaWW in the Bishopric of Duvliata" Viscountey (BcUusyse), cr. 1643 ; ex. 1815. Barony. I. 1700. HENLEY OF GKAINGE. 1. The lit. Hon. Sir Robert Henley, Keeper of the Great Seal (1757) was n:, 27 March 1700, LORD HENLEY, BARON HENLEY of Grainge, co. Southamp- ton. From 1701 to 1700 lie ivu Lord Chancellor, being cr., 19 May 1704, KARL OK NORTIUNGTON, eo. Southampton. He d. 14 Jan. 1772, aged 64. II. 1772, 2. Robert (Henley), Earl of Nortiungton, to and Lord Henley, BabQM Henley of Ghainue, b. and !>., 1780. I>. 3 Jan. 1747 ; sti/lal Loud Henley from 1764 till he sua to the pecraye in 177'-. He d. uiini. 5 July 17S0, aged 39, when all hit honours became extinct. O (O la i s s 8 •,. P H CO 8 g i-i
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HENLEY OF CHARDSTOCK. Barony fl.] 1. Morton El:on, 8th but 5th surv. and jet, s. of Sir I 1799 Robert Eden, 3d tin: -., of West Auckland, DO, Durham, by Mary, yst. da. of William ) i avisos (being yr. br. of William, 1st Bakoh Auckland), was 6. 8 July 1752 ; mat. at Oxford (Ch. Ch.;, 13 July 1770; entered the Diplomatic Service at 24, being Minister to Havana and to the diet of Ratisbon, 1770 ; to Copenhagen, 1779-S2 ; to Dresden, 1782-91 ; first Commissioner)") for the investiture of the Duke of Saxe Gotha with the Order of the Garter which took place at Gotha 18 April 1791 ; Minister to Berlin, 1791-93 ; noin. K.B., 10 Jan. 1791, being invested as such at Berlin 1 Jan. 1792 (inst. 19 May 1S03), becoming, in Jan. 1815, G.C.B. ; Minister to Vienna, 1793-99. He appears also to have been Ambassador to Madrid on two occasions, viz., 17S7-S9 and 1794-95. P.C., 1794 ; K.R.S., &c. On his retirement from office he received a pension of £2,000 a year and was cr. (an Irish Peer as) BARON HENLEY OF CHARDSTOCK, co. Dor- set [I.J, he having m., 7 Aug. 1783, at Lambeth Palace, Elizabeth, coheir of her br. Robert (Henley), 2d Eaiil oe Noiitiiinqton, Bauon Henley of Guainge, 5th and yst. da. (being the only child who left issue) of Robert, the 1st Earl, by Jane, da. of Sir John Huband. She, who was 6. 10 June 1757, d. 20 Aug. 1821, at Hertford street, Mayfair, Midx., and was bur. at Watford, co. Northampton. He d. 0 Dec. 1830, aged 78, at Gumley Hall, co. Leicester, aud was bur. the 13th at. Watford. Will pr. Jan. 1831. II. 1830. 2. Robert Henley (Eden, uficvu't.wdt> Henley), ISaron Henley of Chabdstock [I.], 3d but 1st surv. s. and h., 6. 3 Sep. 1789, at Dresden ; mat. at Oxford (Ch. Ch.), 24 Oct. 1807 ; B.A., 1811 ; M.A., 1814 ; Barrister (Line. Inn), 1814 ; sometime a Commissioner in Bankruptcy; one of the Masters in Chancery, 1820. M.P. for Fowey, 1S20-30 ; sue. to the peerage [I.], 6 Dec. 1830 ; took by Royal lie., 31 March 1831, the name of Henley in lieu of that of Eden. He to., 11 March 1824, at Drayton Basset, co. Stafford, Harriet Eleanora, 3d da. of Sir Robert Peel, 1st Bart., by his first wife, Ellen, da. of William Yates. He d. 3 Feb. 1841, aged 51 (after a long illness) in Whitehall Place, Midx., aud was bur. the 10th at Watford afsd. Will pr. March 1841.00 His widow d. at Brighton 7 May 1S09, aged 66, and was bur. at Watford. (a) See vol. i, p. 192, note " a," sub "Cathcart," for a list of these Special Garter Missions. ( b ) In 1823 he published the decisions in Chancery of (his grandfather) Robert (Henley), Earl of Northington, the Lord Chancellor, and in 1S31 he published a memoir of that nobleman.
