CONINGSBY 397 EARLDOM. EARL OF CONINGSBY.co. Lincoln, with a similar spec. J rem., failing which (in this last case) with rem. to his elder "■ d^.ysuojure Viscountess Coningsby. See fuller account of him above, under "Coningsby of Clanbrassil." He d. I May 1729 when the Barony of Coningsby (cr. 1716) became exiina, but the Earldom devolved as under. 11. 1729 2 and I. Margaret, suo Jure, Countess of to Coningsby [1719], Viscountess Coningsby of Hamp- 1761. ton Court and Baroness of Hampton Court [1717], elder da. (by the 2nd wife) and h. to the Earldom accord- VISCOUNTCY '"^ '■^ ^^^ ^f^'^" ^^^' ^^^ ^^^ ^' ^^°^^ 1709J and ■ had been, v.p., a: 26 Jan. 171 6/7, BARONESS L 1717 OF HAMPTON COURT, co. Hereford, and to VISCOUNTESS CONINGSBY OF HAMPTON 1 761. COURT afsd., with rem. of those dignities to the heirs male of her body. She m., 14 Apr. 1730, at St. Anne's, Soho, Sir Michael Newton, 4th Bart., of Barr's Court, co. Gloucester, and of Culverthorpe in Haydor, co. Lincoln, K.B., who t/. s.p.s., in London, 6, and was i>ur. 21 Apr. 1743, at Haydor afsd., when the Baronetcy became extinct. Admon. 9 May 1743. She ^/. in Hill Str., Midx., s.p.s., 12, and was htr. 24 June 1761, at Haydor, aged 52, when all her honours became extinct.(^) M.I. Will pr. 3 July 1761. [John Newton, styki^ Viscount Coningsby, only s. and h. ap., i. 16 Oct. 1732; d. v.m.y in infancy, in London, 4, and was I>ur. 8 Jan. 1732/3, at HaydonC") M.I.] CONNAUGHTC) i.e. "Connaught," Earldom of [I.], cr. 1764, with "Gloucester AND Edinburgh," Dukedom of, which see; extinct 1834. (*) Hampton Court, with the Coningsby estate, thereupon devolved upon her younger sister, Frances, wife of Sir Charles Hanbury-Williams, whose grandson, George, 5th Earl of Essex, on succeeding her in 1781, took the additional name and arms of Coningsby, but left no issue. By him Hampton Court was sold in 1 809 to Sir Richard Arkwright, whose descendant J. S. Arkwright sold it in June 191 2. Leland wrote of this " goodly mansion place " that it was " sumptuously erected by one Sir Lenthall," who " was at Agincourt and took many prisoners there, by which prey he beganne the new building at Hampton Court." {ex infirm. J. H. Round). V.G. P") He is said to have been dropped by his nurse, who was frightened at the sight of an ape. ('=) For some account of the earlier holders of this ancient honour, see vol. xi. Appendix A. V.G.
