CLINTON 319 one of that party who opposed Walpole. On 5 July 1749 he was cr. BARON FORTESCUE OF CASTLE HILL, co. Devon (with a spec, rem.), and EARL CLINTON. He J. unm., 2 May 1751,0 when the Earldom of Clinton became extinct, the Barony of Fortescue devolving on his half-brother, Matthew Fortescue (see that dignity), and the Barony of Clinton falling again into abeyance, between his only sister of the whole blood, Margaret Fortescue, spinsterjC") and his cousin, Margaret, widow of Robert (Walpole), Earl of Orford. Will dat. 6 Apr. 1747 to 27 Apr. 1751, pr. 17 May 1751.
BARONY BY 15. Makgatltlt, suo jure BARONESS CLINTON, WRIT. who, on the death of her cousin, Margaret Fortescue, ^y /• spinster, abovenamed, 14 Mar. 1760, became entitled to ' ■ that dignity as sole h. to her great-grandfather, the 12th Lord, she being only da. and h. of Samuel Rolle, of Heanton Satchville, in Petroxstow, Devon (by Margaret, da. of Roger TucK.FiELD, of Raddon Court, in Thorverton, Devon), which Samuel (who d. 1719) was s. and h. of Robert Rolle, of the same, by Arabella, ist da. of Theophilus (Clinton), 5th Earl of Lincoln and 17th Lord Clinton abovenamed. She, who was b. 17, and bap. 27 Jan. 1709, at Petroxstow, m. there, istly, 26 Mar. 1724, Robert (Walpole), 2nd Earl of Orford [1746], who d. 31 Mar. 1751, aged 50. Within two months of his death, she w., 2ndly, 25 May 1751 (mar. reg. at Keith's Chapel, Mayfair, Midx.), the Hon. Sewallis Shirley, 4th s. of Robert, ist Earl Ferrers. He, who was Comptroller of the Household to Charlotte, the Queen Consort, d. 25 Oct., and was bw. 2 Nov. 1765, in Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley Str., in his 55th year. She d. 13 Jan. 1781, at Pisa, and was bur. at Leghorn, aged nearly 72. XVI, 1 78 1. 16. George (Walpole), Earl of Orford, Viscount Walpole, Lord Clinton, fffc, only child and h., b. 2 Apr. 1730. He d. unm., 5 Dec. 1791, when the Earldom of Orford, tfc, devolved on his uncle and h. male (see " Orford," Earldom of, cr. 1742, sub the 3rd Earl), but the Barony of Clinton devolved as under. (*) " Of mean aspect, and meaner capacity, but meanest of all in his inclina- tions." (Hervey's Memoirs, p. 207). V.G. C") This lady was generally, though erroneously, considered to have become sua jure Baroness Clinton on the death of her brother in 1 7 5 i , and is so styled in Edmondson's Baronagium. She was, however, only a coht'w to such Barony at that date, the determination thereof in 1721, in her brother's favour, extending only to the heirs of his body, on failure of which it fell (as before) into abeyance. She, however, d. unm., at Ebrington, co. Gloucester, 14 Mar. 1760, and at her death the abeyance of the Barony terminated, the issue of Lady Margaret Boscawen, born Clinton, being thereby extinct. Her will, dat. 29 Apr. 1746, before her brother's death, was proved as that of " Margaret, Lady Baroness Clinton, heretofore Margaret Fortescue," 26 Apr. 1760, by the Hon. Lucy Fortescue, widow, her stepmother and executrix.
