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GODOLPHIN — GOLDILANDS. 49 1716; Groom of the Stole, 1723-27, and again (to the new King) 1727-35 ; P.O., 1723; one of the Justices of the Real the King's absence, 1723, 1726 and 1727. Having no surv. male issue, he was or. 23 Jan. 1734/5, BARON GODOLPHIN OF HELSTON, co. Cornwall, with a spec, rem., failing heirs male of his body, to those of his uncle, Henry Godolphiu. From May 1735 to April, 1740, he was Lord Privy Seal. He m. (Lie. from Fac. office, 23 April, 1698), Lady Henrietta Churchill, afterwards, 1722, suo jure Duchess of Marlborough. See fuller par- ticulars of her under that dignity, a: 1702. Her Grace d. 24 Oct. and was bur. 9 Nov. 1733, in Westm. Abbey, in her 53d year. The Earl d. s.p.ni.s.,(a) 17 Jan. 1766, aged 87, and was bur. 25 in Kensington Church. M.I. At his death the Earldom of Godolphin and the T'iseounley of Riolton (cr. 1706) as also the Barony of Godolphin of Mi«lltm (cr. 1684) became extinct. Will pr. 1766. [William Godolphin styled Viscount Rialton, 1712 to 1722, and MARQUESS OF BLANDFORD from 1722 till his death, only s. and h. He d. s.p. in the lifetime of both his parents 24 Aug. 1731. See fuller particulars of him under " Marlborough " Dukedom, cr. 1702.] II. 177G, 2. Francis (Go-dolphin), Baron Godolphin of to Helstcn, cousin and h. male, sue, 17 Jan. 1766, to the Barony (a: 1785. 1735) under the spec. icm. in the creation thereof . He was only s and h. of Henry UoDOLPHIN, D.D., Dean of St. Paul's (1707-26), by Mavy, only da. and h. of Sidney GoDOLrms, Gov. of the Scilly Islands, which Henry, was yst. br. of Sidney, 1st Earl ok GoDOLrniN abovenamed. He matric. at Oxford (Queen's Coll.), 12 July 1723, being then aged 16 ; cr. D.C.L., 11 July 1733 ; M.P. for Helston, 1741-66 ; Gov. of the Scilly Islands, 1766; Recorder of Helston, &c. He m. firstly, 18 Feb. 1733/4, at St. James' Westm., Barbara, yst. da. of William (Uentikck), 1st Earl op Portland, by his Becond wife, Jane, da. of Sir John Temple. She d. 15 April 1736, at Whitehall, and was bur. at Wexham, Bucks. He 7ii. secondly, 28 May 1747 (also) at St. James' Westm., Anne, 1st da. of John (Fitzwilliam), 2d Earl Fitzwilliam [I.], by Anne, da. and h. of John Stringer. He d. s.p., 25 May 1785, when the Barony of Godolphin of Helston became extinct- ive was 5ur, at Wexham, Bucks. Will pr. 8 June 1785. His widow who was 6. 22 Aug. 1722, rf. 1805. Will pr. 1S05. GODOLPHIN OF FARNHAM ROYAL. Barony. J. Lord Francis-Godolphin Osborne, 2.1 s. of Francis I 183° Godolphin (Osbornk), 5th Duke of Leeds, by his fust wife, Amelia, suojurc Baroness Conyers, was 4. 18 Oct. 1777 ; niatrie. at Oxford (Ch. Ch.), 18 April 1795 ; cr. M.A., £S June 1797 ; was M.P. for Helston, 1799-1S02 ; for Lewes, 1S02-06, and for Cambridgeshire in six Paris., 1810-31, and was en, 14 May 1832, BARON GODOLPHIN OF FARNHAM ROYAL, co. Buckingham. High Steward of Cambridge, 1836. He m., 31 March 1S00, Elizabeth Charlotte, 3d da. of William (Eden), 1st Baron Auckland, by Eleanor, da. of Sir Gilbert Eliot, Bart. She, who was 4. 21 March 1780, d, 17 April 1847, aged 67, at Gogmagog Hills, co. Cambridge. Admon. July 1847- He d. there 15 Feb. 1850, aged 72. Will pr. May 1850. II. 1850. 2. George Godolphin (Osborne), Baron Godolphin of Farnham Royal, 1st s. and h., 4. 16 July 1802. He sue. to the 15 Feb. 1S50, and sue. his cousin, nine years later, 4 May 1859, as Duke of &c. See that dignity cr. 1694. GOLDILANDS. i.e., " Goldilands," Barony [S.] (Scott), cr. 1706 with the Earldom of Deloraine [S.], which see ; ex. 18»7. (") Of their children only one had issue, wis., Mary, who m. in 1740 Thomas (Osborne), 4th Duke of Leeds, and conveyed to that family the representation of the Godolphin family and the senior coheirsbip to John (Churchill) the famous Duke of Marlborough. E