276 COMPLETE PEERAGE ashburton 27 Mar. 1782. Through the influence of Lord Shelburne, he was cr., on 8 Apr. 1782, BARON ASHBURTON (") of Ashburton, Devon. At the same time he was made Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, receiving some ;^4000 p. a., though always loud against pensions and sinecures. He m.y 31 Mar. 1780, at St. Leonard's, near Exeter, Devon, Elizabeth, da. of John Baring, of Larkbeare, near Exeter, merchant, by Elizabeth, da. of John Vowler, of Bellair, Devon. He d. 18 Aug. 1783, of para- lysis, at Exmouth, aged 52, "just as he had attained the fond object of his ambition, " () and was bur. at Ashburton. Will pr. Sep. 1783. His widow, who was b. 21 July 1744, at Larkbeare, d. 23 Feb. 1809, in Cadogan Place. Will pr. Mar. 1809. n. 1783 2. Richard Barr^ (Dunning), Baron Ashburton, to 2nd, but only surv. s. and h., b. 20 Sep. 1782. In politics 1823. he was a Whig. He m., 17 Sep. 1805, at Lainshaw, Anne Selby, 3rd da. of William Cunningham, of Lainshaw, by Margaret Nicholson, da. of the Hon. George Cranstoun. He d. s.p., 1 5 Feb. 1823, at Friar's Hall, co. Roxburgh, when the title became extinct. (") Will pr. May 1823. His widow, who is said to have possessed a fortune of ;^2oo,ooo, C) resided at Edinburgh. She »;., 30 June 1826, at Glenlee, N.B., the Chief of Clanranald. C) She d. 8 July 1835, i*^ Gt. Stanhope Str., and was bur. at Kensal Green. Will pr. July 1835, leaving her property and late husband's estates to her maternal cousin, Lord Cranstoun. The Chief, i.e. Ranald George Macdonald, titular 6th Baron Clanranald under the Jacobite creation of 1716, Q d. 11 Mar. 1873, ^ Clarendon Rd., Midx., and was bur. in Brompton Cemetery. IIL 1835. I. Alexander Baring, 2nd s. of Sir Francis B., ist Bart. [1793], by Harriet, da. of William Herring, of Dunning's club " to deliver it to the ugliest man at the card table — to him who most resembles the knave of spades. " See also, as to his appearance, Wraxall's Memoirs, 1884, vol. ii, p. 257, and ibid. p. 259 as to the remarkable way in which his peerage was obtained ; see also ibid. p. 39. A splendid portrait, by Reynolds, of him and his sister is (19 10) penes Sir Edgar Vincent, K.C.M.G. V.G. (°) The Lords Ashburton of the Dunning family bore arms of Bendy gold and vert of eight pieces sinisterwise with a lion sable over all. These arms, save for the ' sinisterwise ' colouring of the bendy field, are those allowed in the sixteenth century to a family of Donning at Rye and Chichester in Sussex, with whom the Devonshire family claims no kinship, {ex inform. Oswald Barron.) V.G. C") Brydges' Biographical Peerage. See a refutation of what in Campbell's life of Lord Chancellor Charles Yorke is (erroneously) called " one of the best specimens of Dunning's eloquence " in A'^. is Q., 2nd ser., vol. v, p. 12. f^) He was author of a valuable work entitled Genealogical Memoirs of the Royal House of France, with copious tabular pedigrees. London. 1825, large 4to., pp. 200. C) See N. & Q., 2nd ser., vol. vi, p. 151. (®) He is the hero of a recent novel by Maurice Hewlett, The Stooping Lady. V.G. (') For a list of Jacobite Peerages, see Appendix F in this volume.
