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1778, aged 85, at Tottenham afsd. Will dat. 26 Oct. 1770, pr. 14 Mar. 1778, by her s., Alured Pincke of Sharsted Court afsd.[1]
XV. 1723.	15, 8, or 3. Edward (Nevill), Lord Bergavenny, or Abergavenny, br. and h. Ed. at Wadham Coll., Oxford. He m., 6 May 1724,[2] at the Fleet Chapel, London, Katharine, 2st da. of Lieut. Gen. William Tatton, of St. Margaret's, Westm., (who d. June 1736) by his 1st wife, who was dead before 1717. He d., also of the small pox, s.p. 9 Oct. 1724,[3] in his 19th year, at his father-in-law's house, at Cowley near Uxbridge. Admon. 27 Oct. 1724, to "Gideon Harvey, Esq., curator of Katharine, Baroness Dowager of Abergavenny"[4] till her age of 21. His widow m., 20 May 1725, his successor, William, Lord Abergavenny, as under.
XVI. 1724.	16, 9, or 4. William (Nevill), Lord Abergavenny,[5] cousin and h. male, being only s. and h. of Edward Nevill, Capt. R.N. (by Hannah, da. of Jervois Thorpe), who was br. to George, 13th Lord. He suc. his father 12 Sep. 1701, twenty three years before he suc. to the Peerage. He took his seat in the House of Lords on 12 Nov. 1724. In 1730 he built a residence at Kidbrook in East Grinstead, Sussex (an estate purchased by sale of outlying lands), and ceased to inhabit the old mansion of the family at Birling. Capt. of the Yeomen of the Guard 1737. Master of the Jewel Office 10 Feb. 1738/9. He m., 1stly, 20 May 1725, Katharine, Dowager Lady Abergavenny, (widow of the last Lord) abovenamed. She d. 4,[6] and was bur. 12 Dec. 1729, at Kensington.[7] Shortly after her death he recovered £10,000 damages in an action against "Richard Lyddel, Esq., her Lord's intimate friend," for crim. con. He m., 2ndly, 20 May 1732, Rebecca, da. of Thomas (Herbert), 8th Earl of Pembroke, by his 1st wife, Margaret, da. of Sir Robert Sawyer. He d. at Bath, 21, and was bur. 30 Sep. 1744, at East Grinstead, Sussex. Admon. 20 Nov. 1744 to his widow. She d. 20 Oct. 1758, at Gaddesden, Herts, and was bur. with her husband. Will dat. 1 Apr., pr. 7 Nov. 1758.

1. See Misc. Gen. et Her., 3rd Series, vol. ii. p. 191, for pedigree of Pincke.
2. Register, in J. S. Burn, Fleet Registers, 1834, p. 94.
3. On his death any Barony in fee possessed by his father (who sat in the House in 1695) would have vested in his sisters, viz., (1) Jane, b. 8 Mar. 1703, m. John Abel Walter, of Busbridge, Surrey, and d. 19 Mar. 1786, leaving numerous descendants; and (2) Ann, b. about 1715, who, like her mother (but unlike her brothers and sister, all of whom were her seniors), received no benefit under her father's will or codicil, and who d. unm. Mar. 1736/7, in her 22nd year.—See pedigree, p. 41.
4. Her father had m. (26 Feb. 1716/7, at St. Mary Aldermary, London) Ann, da. of Gideon Harvey, m.d., Physician to the Tower of London.
5. In Garter's Roll, 13 Jan. 1729/30, the title first appears as "Abergavenny," and continues ever afterwards as such. The death of George, Lord Bergavenny, on 15 Nov. 1723, is noted on a previous roll.
6. The Grub Street Journal has a poem on her death, attributed to the Duke of Dorset, beginning "Young, thoughtless, gay, unfortunately fair." V.G.
7. Her yst. child, Edward, b. shortly before her death 19 Nov., was bap. 3 Dec. 1729, at St. Anne's, Soho.