80 Viscountcy [I.] II. 1770. Earldom [I.] I. 1776, to 1782 LIGONIER-LILFORD.
2 and 1. EDWARD (LIGONIER), VISCOUNT LIGONIER OF CLONMELL [I], illegit. son of Francis Augustus LIGONIER,(a)<r1> Col. of the 13th Dragoons (br. of Join, EARL LIGONIER, above name, by Anne FREEMAN, widow, da. of (-) MURRAY. He was b. 1740; served, under Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick, in the seven years war during five campaigns, and bore the dispatch announcing the victory of Minden, 1 Aug. 1759, becoming, on the 15th, Capt. in the 1st Foot Guards (Lieut. Col. in the Army), was Aide-de-Camp to the King, 1763, becoming finally in 1777 Lient. Gen. in the Army, and in 1771 Col of the 9th Foot. He suc. to the peerage [1] as Viscount, on the death, 28 April 1770. of his unele, Earl Ligonier [G.B] above named, and was cr., 19 July 1776, EARL LIGONIER OF CLONMELL [I] He was invested at St. James, 17 Dec 1781. as K B., Imt d. before installation. He m. firstly, 16 Dec. 1766, at the British Embassy at Paris Penelope, da of George (PITT). 1st BARON RIVERS, by Penel.que, da. of Sir Henry ATKINS, Bart.. of Clapham, She, who was b. 23 Feb 1749 was dirored by act of Park, 7 Nov. 1771 (b) He m. secondly, 14 Dec. 1778. Mary, 3d da, of Robert (HESLEY, 1-t EARL OF NORTHINGTON, by Jane, da of Sir John HUBAND. He d ... 14 June 1782, aged 42. when all his honours became extinct. Will pr. July 1782. His widow m., 2 Feb. 1788 (by spee. fie. in South Audley square) at St. Gen. Han. sq. Thomas (N. Et.. 2 VISCOUNT WENT- WORTH, who d. 17 April 1815, aged 69. She d. sp. 29 June 1s1. Barony. I. 1797. LILFORD, 1. THOMAS Powys, of Lilford, co, Northampton, s. and h. of Thomas Powys, of the same, by Henrietta, da. of Thomas SPENCE, Serjeant of the House of ↑ ominions, was b. 4 May 1743, anc. his father, 2 April 1767; was M.P. for Northamptonshire, 1774 97, distinguishing himself for his numerous and apposite speeches, and was, 26 Oct 1797, cr. BARON LILFORD of Lilford, co. Northampton. He m., 31 March 1772. Mary, sister of Sir Horace Maxx, 2d Bart., da, of Gdfridus Maxx, of Boughton Malherbe, Kent, by Sarah, da, of John Gregory, of London. He d. 26 Jan. 1800, in Albemarle street, aged 56. Will pr. April 1800. His widow d. Jan. 1823. Will pr. 1823. II. 1800. 2. THOMAS (POWYS), BARON LILFORD, s. and h., b. (Powys), 8 April 1775 ed. at St. John's Coll, Cambridge; B.A.. 1797; M.A., 1802. He sur. to the peerage, 25 Jan. 1800. Hem, ec. 1797, Anna Maria, 1st da. and coheir of Robert Vernon ATHERTON, of Atherton Hall, co. Lancaster, by Henrietta Maria, da and coheir of Peter LIGH. of Lyne, co. Chester. She d. 11 Aug. 1820, in Grosvenor place. He d. there 4 July 1825, aged 50. Will pr. Dec. 1825, (a) He came to England in 1710 and entered the Army, distinguishing himself greatly when Lient. Col. of the Sth Light Dragoons, at Dettingen; was Col. of the 48th Foot in April 1745 and of the 13th Light Dragons in Sep following, at the head of both of which he fought at Falkirk, 17 Jan. 1746, but d. 25th following. M.I. in Westm. Abbey (b) The cause was her adultery in May 1771 with Vittorio Amadeo, the well known Conut Alfieri, with whom the Viscount accordingly fought a duel in the Green Park. The date of May (not Dec.) 1766 is assigned to their marriage in the act of Parl of 1771. A beautiful portrait of her by Gainsborough is in the Nat Portrait Gallery, the catalogue of which calls her erroneously "Countess" instead of "Viscountess." She subsequently resided at Lightcliffe, in Yorkshire, and m. in 1784 (when Altieri's attentious to her had ceased) a Capt. Smith by whom she had issue. ab (c) Sir N. Wraxall (“Memoirs," vol. ii, p. 217, lit. 1884), writes of him under 8 March 1782 (when his speech, imputing "want of foresight and ability" to the Ministry, was calculated to produce the deepest impression" that he was indeed a man of great Parliamentary talents and of distinguished integrity, tho' by no means unaccompanied with deep ambition. From 1782 till 1797, during 15 years, he seems under successive Administrations, never for an instant to have lost sight of the Peerage to which he ultimately attained."
