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354 SYDNEY. Yarmouth, 181.1 : F.&A. Fie m. firstly, 13 April 1 790, at St. Geo. [Tan. aq., Sophia, 3d da. of Edward (SOOTHWEU.) Lout) EH ClJFFOBS, l>y Sophia, da. of Samuel Olarp. bell. She, wliu was b, 10 Juno and bap. 1 July 1771, at St. Martin's in the fields, d. s.p.m. 9 and was bur. Ill Nov- 1795 at Chislehntst. He m. secondly, 27 May 1 S '"'2, at her father's house in tirosvenor sq., Caroline, 2d da. of Robert (Clements), 1st Eabx of Leituim [I.], l>y Elizabeth, da. of Clotwortliy (Skei-tington', l«t EiBt OF Masskheknk [LJ She </. in childbed in Grnsveuor square, 9 Aug. 1S05. Admon. Sep. 1S03. lie rl. at Frognal afsd. -JO Jan. 1831, aud was bur. at Chislehurtt, aged -lo". Will pr. Feb. 1831. III. 1881. 3 ai»l 1. John Robert (Towsbhbkd), Yiscolnt Earldom Stbjwt i<f St. Lkon.uids [17SP] and Bamo.v Svdnkv OF Cm.si.s- HURST [17831 only s. and h., by seeond wife : D Aug. 1805, in I. 1874, i" Grosvenor square; ed. at Eton and at St. John's Coll., Caw- to bfidge; M.A. 1824 : was ILP. fur Whitchurch, 1828*31 ; Oroom 1S90 of the bedchamber, 1S2S-30 ; sue. In the fxeraye 20 Jan. 1831; ,i Lord of the bedchamber! .'an. to April 1S35 : a Lord in waiting, 1 841-46 ; Capt. of the Yeomen of the Guard, 1S52-5S ; l'.C. 1853 ; Col. Kent Artillery Militia, lSf>3 : L.-Lieut. of Kent, 1358-90; L. Chamberlain of the Household, 1 859-66, ami again 1868-74 ; G.C.B . 10 Marco 1S63 ; First plenipo.( R j on the spec, mission with the Garter to Leopold 11, King of the Belgians, who was invested therewith at Brussels, 1 'J Feb. 1S50 ; was cr.. 27 Feb. 1874, RARL SYDNEY OF SCADBURY, CO. Kent ; Capt. ol Deal Castle, 1879-90; L. Steward of the Household, 1880-85, and again Feb. t,. Ang. 1S86. He in. Aug. 1S32, at St. James' Westm , Emily Caroline, 8th da. of Henry William (PaoktJ, 1-t M.uiqiess ok Anglesey, being 1st <la. by his -2nd wife Charlotte, da. of Charles tCADOGAS), 1st Earl CaOOOAH. He d. e.p. 11 Pen, 1890, at Krognal afsd , and was bur. at Chislehnrst, aged 8-1, when ul! )iis honours became rxtincL Will Ms, it £67,484. His widow, who was 4. 1 March 1810, il. 9 March 1893, at Frognal, and was iar. at Chislehnrst afsd., aged 83. Will pr. at £43,974. Fa mill/ estates — These, in 1 S83 (all formerly the inheritance of the family of S.-hvyn consisted of 2,165 acres in Kent, and 947 in Gloucestershire. Total, :!, 112 acres, worth £0,615 a year. Principal scut. — Krognal, near Foots Cray, Co. Kent.', 1 ') SYDNF.Y ()F LEIX. Barony [l.] ] Di nr.F.Y-A i.exanhkii -Sydney Cosnv, of Stratllinlly 1 1708 Hall, in Queen's county, s. and b. of Pole ('ohiy, of tin- same [rf. to ' 20 May 1700) by Mary, da. and coheir of Henry DoDWKLL, of Manor Dodwell, eo. 1»> srominon, was b. abont 1730: was some- time Minister tn the Court of Denmark, and was cr. 14 Jaly 1708, LORD SYDNEY OK LEIX, BARON OP STRA DUALLY, in Queen's county [L|. He m. Dec. 1773 in Dublin, Isabella, 1st da. of Thomas (St. Lawrence), 1st Eahi. ok Howth [L], by Elii-abeto da. of Thomas (Lkhminoiia.m), Pari of Louth fl.l He d. B.p. (in the ensuing month) 17 Jan. 1774, at Stradbully Hall afsd., when the peerage became extnet. His widow, who was b. 30 Aug. 1751, i. at Bath, 28 Oct. 1830, aged 85. SYDNEY OF PENSIIURST. i.e., "Sydney of Penshuust, co. Kent," Barony (Sydney), cr. 1C03 ; see " Leicester" Earldom, cr. 1618 ; both becoming f.r(i)ic( 1743. (») See vol. ii, p. 192, note " a," sub " Cathcart " for a list of these special Garter missions. ( b ) After the death (1893) of the clow. Countess, the Frogna! estates in Kent, and those "at^Matson, CO. Gloucester, were inherited, under the will of the Earl, by l» s nephew, the Hon. Robert Marsham, afterwards Marsham-Townshertd, only son of hit siRter (of the half blood) Mary Elizabeth {bom Towuehend), 2d wife of Charles (Marshatn ), 2d Earl of Romney.