BLESINGTON 193 age dignities became ^a://«67.() Will pr. May 1830. His widow, who was b. at Knockbrit, near Clonmel, co. Tipperary, i Sep. 1789, d. s.p., 4 June 1849, from apoplexy, in the Rue du Circle, Champs Elys6es, Paris, whither she had retired the 14 Apr. previous, to avoid arrest for debt-C*) She was bur. at Chambourcy, near St. Germain-en-Laye. Admon. Aug. 1849 and Dec. 1850. [Luke Wellington Gardiner, j/j/^^ Viscount Mountjoy, only s. and h. ap. by ist wife, b. 11 Sep. 1813, d. unm., 26 Mar. 1823, in Dublin.] BLETCHLEY, intended Barony of, altered to that of " Whaddon,"
- ,£., "Baron of Whaddon and Viscount Villiers," cr. 27 Aug. 16 16.
See full account under "Buckingham," Earldom of, cr. 161 7; extinct 1687. BLETSHO or BLETSOE See "Beauchamp" [of Bletsoe], Barony by writ, cr. 1363. See "St. John of Bletsho," Barony, cr. 1559. BLICKLING i.e. "Hobart of Blickling, Norfolk," Barony (Hobart), cr. 28 May 1728. See "Buckinghamshire," Earldom of, a. 1746. BLOOMFIELD BARONY [I.] I. Benjamin Bloomfield, only s. and h. of John B., T J^ of Newport, CO. Tipperary, by Anne, sister of Sir Robert ^' Waller, Bart. [I.], and da. of Samuel Waller, Barrister at Law, b. 13 Apr. 1762; ed. at Woolwich; 2nd Lieut. R.A., 1781; served in Newfoundland, at Gibraltar, and at Vinegar Hill during the Irish rebel- (^) The extinction was one of those used according to the Act of Union for the creation of the Barony of Talbot [I.], 28 May 1 83 1. (^) She was well known as an authoress, a wit, a beauty, and a leader of fashion, both at her husband's house, 1 1 St. James's Sq., 1818-22, at her own house in Seamore Place (1831-35), and at Gore House, Kensington (1836-49). Among her more successful works are The Idler in Italy, 3 vols., 1 8 39-40 ; The Idler in France, 1 84 1; Confessions of an Elderly Gentleman, 1 836, fafc. She edited an annual called The Keepsake, and is said to have earned an income of between ^^ 2,000 and ^3,000 a year for nearly twenty years, but this and her jointure of j^2,000 a year, were not equal to her expenditure. The auction of her eflFects at Gore House, i o May 1 849, less than a month before her death, realised some ^T 1 2,000 toward the paymentof her debts. As to her portrait, see N. i^Q., yth Ser., vol. vii, p. 47. 26
