GRANDISON. 77 Tottenham Court, Midx. Eetl. n.p. probably about 1001, eerrtaiuly before 1605. ( a ) His widow was bur. 10 Jan. 1(383/4, at St. Martin's in the fields. Admon. 26 April 188-1. (>>) IV, 166H /,.. George(Viltj;ers), Viscount GranihsonofLisierick rjf.j br. and h. male ; Oapfc. of a troop of Horse in 1660 ; sue. to the peerage about 1651 ; received in 1671 (with his br. Edward) large grants of land in King's county. He m. firstly, before 1652, his cousin, Mary, da. and coheir of Francis (Lf.lGn), Earl of Ciikhester, by Audrey, da. of John (Boteleu), 1st Baron Boteler ok BrantFIELd, and Elizabeth, sister of George (Villiers), the well known Duke of Buckingham, aboveuientioued. She d. at Brantfield, Herts, 7 July 1671, and was bur. there. MX He m. secondly (lie. at Vie. Gen. office 11 Nov. 167-1, he about 50, widower, she, of St. Olave's Jury, London, about 46, widow), Mary, widow of Sir Samuel Sterling (Lord Mayor of London), da. of Richard GaRFORD, of the Minories, London, Tallow Chandler. He d. 16 Dee. 1699, aged about 82, aud was bur. at Brantfield afsd. Will pr. Jan. 1700. Admon. of his widow, 11 June 1700, to her sons Charles and George Villiers. [ — ] 1699. [ — ] Catharine, Viscountess Grandison op Limerick [I.l, widow of the Hon. Edward Fitz Gerald, alias Villiers, s. and h. ap. of the last Viscount by his first wife, received a royal warrant, 6 Jan. 1699/1700, of the title and precedence^') of the Viscountcy, as if her said husbauci had survived his said father. She was da and h. of Sir John Fitz Gerald, of Dromana, co. Waterford, by his first wife, Catharine, da. of John (Power), 4th Baron Power of Curraghmoiie [I.], and IB. on Easter Eve, March 1076/7, her said husband, who (in compliance with a deed dat. 16 Feb. 1662) thereupon assumed her name of Fitz Gerald, as coming into possession of her large estate. He d. v.p. 1693. Will dat. 0 June 1691, pr. in Dublin 15 Feb. 1093. The Viscountess m. secondly Lieut. Gen, the Kt. Hon. William Steuart, sometime (1711) Commander in Chief of the Army [I.] ; P.C. ; ALP. for co. Waterford, &c. She appears to have been insane for some time previous to her death, and d. 20 Dee. 1725, aged 63, and was bur. in great state in Westm. Abbey. Her husband (who m. a second wife about a month after her death) d. (about four months afterwards) 4 June 1726, aged 74, and was bur. the 10th at Westm. Abbey afsd. V. 1G99. 1 undo. John (Fitz Gerald, alias Villiers), Viscount t. ,j n -, Grandison [I.], grandson and being 8. and h. of the Hon. ■cttriuom li.j F(hv . m , P) aUas y _ by Catharine bis wife abovenamed. lie was b. I. 1 721. about 1692 ; sue. to the Peerage [1.], 1699, and took his seat, 1 July 1707. On 11 Sep. 1721, he was cr. EARL GRANDISON', co. Leitrim [1.], and on the 14th took his seat as such. P.C, 26 Oct. 1733. Governor of co. Waterford. He IB. Feb. 1705/0 Frances, sister of Lucius Henry, 6th Viscount Falkland [8.], da. of Edward Carve, of Caldicote, co. Monmouth, by Anne, da. and coheir of Charles (Lucas), Lord Lucas of Siiunkield. He d. s.p.m.s., 11 May 1706, at his house in Suffolk street, Midx., in his 85th year, and was bur. at Voughall, co. Cork, when the Earldom of Grandison [I.] became extinct. His widow d. 17 Jan. 1708, and was bur. at Youghal. (") See Visit, of Berks, 1065, siti " Clarke." ( b ) Granted to her sister, Helen, wife of John Tarbnck. ( c ) Such a warrant of precedence, tho' usual enough to the brothers and sisters of Peers, being children of one who would have (had he lived) inherited the Peerage is mas' unusual to tho widow of such a person. In the case of tho Earldom of Chesterfield, which in 1656, devolved on a grandson of the 1st Earl, the mother of the then young Earl was ereal'd Countess of Chesterfield, in 1660, while his sisters were granted the same precedence [that of 1623 J, as if their father had inherited the Earldom. (d) His sister Harriet IB, Robert Pitt, clerk of the Board of Green Cloth, and d. in Taris, 21 Oct. 1736, being mother of Thomas Pitt (father of the 1st Lord Camelford), and of William Pitt, the celebrated Earl of Chatham.
