CARLETON 27 chequer, 1701-08 ; Lord Treasurer [I.], 1704-10. Lord Lieut, of the West Riding 1704-15; one of the Commissioners for the Union [S.], 1706; Princ. Sec. of State for the North, 1708-10. App. P.C. [I.] 30 Sep. 17 14, but never sworn. On 19 Oct. 1714,0 he was cr. BARON CARLETON of Carleton, co. York. Hon. D.C.L., Oxford, 6 July 1720. Lord President of the Council, 25 June 1721, till his death. He d. unm., at Carleton House, Pall Mall, Midx., 14, and was bur. 31 Mar. 1725, when his Peerage became extinct.(^) "Will pr. 1725. n. 1786. I. Richard (Boyle), Earl OF Shannon, &'c. [L], who had sue. his father in that Peerage in 1764, was, on 6 Aug. 1786, cr. BARON CARLETON of Carleton, co. York. See "Shannon^" Earldom of [I.], cr. 1756, under the 2nd Earl. CARLETON OF IMBERCOURT BARONY. I. Sir "Dudley Carleton, Knt., Vice-Chamberlain of the Household and one of the Privy Council" was, on L 1626 22 May 1626, fr. BARON CARLETON OF IMBER- to COURT,Surrey. On 25 July i628,hewasfr.VISCOUNT 1632. DORCHESTER, co. Oxford. He d. s.p., 15 Feb. 1 63 1/2, when all his honours became extinct. See fuller account under "Dorchester," Viscountcy, cr. 1628; extinct 1632. CARLILE see CARLYLE CARLINGFORD VISCOUNTCY [L] i. Barnham Swift, s. of Sir Robert S., of Rotherham, co. York (who d. 14 Mar. 1625), by !• 1628 his 2nd wife, Ursula, da. of Stephen, and sister and to coh. of Martin Barnham, of Lewes, Sussex, was 1635. b. at Mr. Barnham's house at Denne, and bap. 7 Dec. 1 606, at Horsham, Sussex. He became (by the death of his eldest br.) h. to his father, and was shortly afterwards, 2 1 Mar. 1627/8, cr. VISCOUNT CARLINGFORD, CO. Louth [I.]. In June 1634 he was excused from attendance in Pari. [I.]. He w., Aug. 161 8, Mary, da. of William (Crichton), ist Earl of Dumfries [S.], by his ist wife. (^) This was one of the 14 peerages cr. at the Coronation of George I, for a hst of which see vol. ii, Appendix F. (*>) Bishop Burnet's character of him, when Chancellor of the Exchequer [i 70 1 -08] and "turned 30," with Dean Swift's comments thereon in italics, is as follows: — "Is a good companion in conversation; agreeable among the ladies; serves the Queen very assiduously in council; makes a considerable figure in the House of Commons; by his prudent administration obliges everybody in the Exchequer, and, m time, may prove a great man. Had some very scurvy qualities, particularly avarice.
