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92 CASTLEMAINE VISCOUNTCY [1.] I. Richard Child, yst. s. of Sir Josiah C, . Bart., of Wanstead,(^) Essex (so cr. i8 July '7^ • 1678), Chairman of the East India Company, by TT A D T r»nA/t n i ^'^ 3'"'^ wife, Emma, widow of Francis Willough- l^AKLUUM [l.J ^y^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^j^ ^jT gjj. Yi^^ry Barnard, of Lon- 1. 1731. don, Turkey Merchant, was bap. 5 Feb. 1679/80, at Wanstead, and, on 20 Jan. 1703/4, sue. his brother. Sir Josiah Child, 2nd Bart., in the Baronetcy and family estates. M.P.() for Maldon 1708-10, for Essex 1710-22, and 1727-34. On 24 Apr. 1718, he was cr. BARON NEWTOWN, co. Donegal and VIS- COUNT CASTLEMAINE, co. Kerry [I.], and subsequently, 1 1 June 1 73 1, EARL TYLNEY OF CASTLEMAINE, co. Kerry [1.]. By Act of Pari. 24 Mar. 1734, he and his sons took the name of Tylney, in con- sequence of his wife inheriting the large estates of that family on the death of Anne, Baroness Craven, da. of Frederick Tylney, of Rotherwick. He »?., 22 Apr. 1703, at Wanstead (lie. from Bishop of London, each aged 21, Bach, and Spr.), Dorothy, only surv. da. and h. of John Glynne, of Henley Park, Surrey, and of Bicester, Oxon, by Dorothy, da. of Francis Tylney, of Rotherwick, Hants. She d. 23 Feb., and was bur. 3 Mar. 1743/4, at Wanstead. He d. at Aix, in Provence, Mar. 1 749/50, and was bur. 29 May 1750, at Wanstead, aged 70. Will pr. 1750. [Richard Child, rt/Ztfrrortri/j Tylney, ^/j/f^ Viscount Castlemaine, ist s. and h. ap. He d. unm. and v.p.y 19 Feb. 1733/4. Admon. 9 Apr. 1734.] EARLDOM AND 2. John (Tylney /orwfr/y Child), Earl Tyl- VT«;rnTTNTrY n T ^^^ °^ Castlemaine [1731], Viscount Castle-

  • - ■-' MAINE and Baron Newtown [1718], in the peer-

.. age of Ireland, also a Baronet [1678], 2nd but ist '7^° surv. s. and h. He was bap. 22 Oct. 1712, at ° Wanstead. F.R.S. 11 Dec. 1746. He d. unm., ' "*■■ 17 Sep., and was bur. 16 Dec. 1784, at Wanstead, aged 72, when all his honours became extinct. Will pr. i784.() (*) This was purchased by his father in 1673, who went to "a prodigious cost in planting walnut trees and making fish ponds, many miles in circuit." (*>) He was a Tory till 1715, but thereafter supported the Whigs, and was duly rewarded with a peerage for "ratting." V.G. (") Sir James Long, Bart., of Draycot, Wilts, s. and h. of his only married sister Emma, was his heir. He (also) took the additional name of Tylney and d. 28 Nov. 1794. His only s. and h. d. unm. 14 Sep. 1805, while of his three daughters, two d. unm., and the other, Catherine, m., 14 Mar. 1812, the Hon. William PoleTylney- Long-Wellesley, afterwards (1845) 4th Earl of Mornington [I.], and d. 12 Sep. 1825, aged 35. Her husband, who survived till i July 1857, puHed down the stately man- sions at Wanstead and Rotherwick, and dilapidated generally the vast estates of the families of Child and Tylney.