272 COMPLETE PEERAGE ashburnham He d. s.p., 1 6 June 1710, aged 31, at his seat in Sussex, and his widow d. II July following, aged 23 years, 10 months and 14 days. Both d. of small pox, and were bur. at Ashburnham. His will pr. July 17 10. The admon. of his widow granted, 26 July 17 10, to her mother Ursula Taylor, widow. III. 1710. sand I. John (Ashburnham), Baron Ashburnham, EARLDOM '^^" ^"^ ^■' ^^^' '^ '^^'^' '^^7> ^^ ^^- Margaret's, Westm. M.P. (Tory) for Hastings Feb. to June 17 10. Col. of I. 1730. the 1st troop of Horse Guards 1 7 13-15. FromDec. 1728 to June 1 73 1 he was Lord of the Bedchamber to the Prince of Wales. On 14 May 1730, he was cr. VISCOUNT ST. ASAPH of the Principality of Wales, and EARL OF ASHBURNHAM. Capt. of the Yeomen of the Guard 23 Nov. 1731 till death. (") He ;«., istly, 21 Oct. 1 7 10, Mary, da. of James (Butler), 2nd Duke of Ormonde, by his 2nd wife, Mary, da. of Henry (Somerset), ist Duke of Beaufort. She d. s.p., 2 Jan. 17 12/3, in childbed, (^) in her 23rd year, and was bur. at Ashburnham. He m., 2ndly, 24 July 17 14, at the Chapel Royal, Whitehall, Henrietta Maria, Dowager Countess of Anglesey, ist da. and coh. of William Richard George (Stanley), 9th Earl of Derby, by Elizabeth, da. of Thomas Butler, styled Earl of Ossory. She d. s.p.m., 26 June 1718, in her 31st year, and was i^«r. at Ashburnham. Admon. 26 July 1718 to her husband. He ;«., 3rdly, 14 Mar. 1723/4 (spec, lie), at St. James's, Westm., Jemima, 2nd da. and coh. of Henry (de Grey), 1st Duke of Kent, by his ist wife, Jemima, da. and coh. of Thomas (Crewe), 2nd Lord Crewe of Stene. She d. 7 July 173 1, in her 33rd year, and was bur. at Ashburnham. He d. 10 Mar. 1736/7, at his house in St. James's Sq., Westm., in his 49th year, and was bur. at Ashburnham. Will pr. Mar. 1737. 2 and 4. John (Ashburnham), Earl of Ashburnham, isc. only s. and h. by 3rd wife, ^.30 Oct. 1724. A Lord of the Bedchamber '^ 1748-62. LL.D. of Cambridge 3 July 1749 ; L. Lieut, of Sussex 1754-7. Keeper of Hyde Park and of St. James's Park, 1753-62. P.C. 12 July 1765, Master of the Great Wardrobe family of Ashburnham, by whom it is still held, the Manor House having long been used as a farm. The ped. of Taylor is recorded in the Visit, of Beds, 1634. (°) In 1730 he sold to the Crown the long lease of " Ashburnham House " in Little Dean's Yard, Westminster, which had been built for his ancestor by Inigo Jones, and which, as to internal structure, the graceful staircase, iyc, is reckoned one of the finest of his works. Part of the house was shortly afterwards (23 Oct. 1731) destroyed by fire, with nearly a fourth part of the celebrated Cottonian MSS. then deposited therein. (*) Swift writes at this time, — " She was my greatest favourite, and I am in excessive concern for her death, I hardly knew a more valuable person on all accounts. " V.G. EARLDOM. n. BARONY. IV.
