192 BLESINGTON male, Sir Annesley Stewart, 6th Bart. [I. 1623]. His widow d. i Oct. 1774, in Berkeley Sq., Midx., and was bur. at Silchester, aged 62. Will pr. II Oct. 1774, signed E. BIesinton.(*) [William Stewart, ist. s. and h. ap., j/j/e^ Viscount Mountjoy, b. 14 Mar. 1734/5, d. unm. and v.p., at Paris, of the small pox, 2, and was bur. 29 Feb. 1754, at Silchester afsd., aged nearly 19.] II. 1 8 16 I. Charles John Gardiner, 2nd, but only surv. s. to and h. of Luke, Viscount Mountjoy [I. 1795], by his ist 1829. wife, Elizabeth, ist da. of Sir William Montgomery, Bart. [S.], was b. 19 July 1782, and ed. at Eton. He sue. his father as Viscount Mountjoy, fe'c, 5 June I798;C') was Gov. of co. Tyrone; Rep. Peer [1.], 1809-29 (Whig). On 12 Jan. 18 16, he was <:r. EARL OF BLESINGTON.f) He m., istly, 11 July 18 12, at St. Geo., Han. Sq., Mary Campbell, widow of Major William Browne, and da. of Alexander McDougall, surgeon, by ( — ), da. of ( — ) Farquharson. She, who was b. 1786, d'.('^) at St. Germain, France, 19 Sep., and was bur. in Oct. 1814, at Mountjoy. He m., 2ndly, 16 Feb. 1818, at St. Mary's, Bryanston Sq., Marylebone, Margaret, widow of Maurice St. Leger Farmer, Capt. 47th Regt. (to whom she was m. 7 Mar. 1804 in her 15th year, and who d.^ fall- ing out of a window when drunk, 2 1 Oct. 1 8 1 7, in the King's Bench prison), 2nd da. of Edmund Power, of Curragheen and Clonea, co. Waterford, by Ellen, da. of Edmund Sheehy, CO. Tipperary.C") Hed. s.p.m., 25 May 1829, from apoplexy, at the Hotel Marechal-Ney, Paris, aged 46, when all his Peer- (*) Her husband had also adopted this spelling. C") "The present young nobleman possesses no great vigour of mind, or strength of genius; his language, when he speaks, is plain and simple, and his manner cold and in- sipid. He is the devoted servant of administration." [Sketches of Irish Political Charac- ter, 1799). V.G. (f) His grandfather, the Rt. Hon. Charles Gardiner, on the death, in 1769, of William (Stewart), 3rd Viscount Mountjoy and 1st Earl of Blesington [I.], inherited the estates of the Stewart family in right of his mother, Anne, only child of the Hon. Alexander Stewart, and s. of William, Ist Viscount Mountjoy [I.]. This, how- ever, did not involve any descent from any previous Peer of the name of Blesington, the only connexion of the Stewart family therewith having been through the ivife of William (Stewart), 2nd Viscount Mountjoy [I.]. {^) Harriet Anne Frances, the only surv. child of this marriage, Zi. 5 Aug. 1812, w., istly, at Naples(at theageof 15), I Dec. 1827, Alfred, Count D'Orsay,from whom, but a few months afterwards, she was separated. He, so well known as an amateur artist and man of fashion, cI. 4 Aug. 1852, in Paris, aged 54, and was bur. at Chambourcy, with his wife's stepmother. She m., andly, on I Sep. following, the Hon. Charles Spencer Cowper, and d. 17 Dec. 1869, s.p.s. ('^) The Blessingtons were intimate acquaintances at Genoa, in 1823, of Lord Byron, who wrote one of the last of his minor poems for the Countess.
