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CURZON 583 Dorothy, sister of Richard, ist Earl Grosvenor, 4th and yst. da. of Sir Robert Grosvenor, 6th Bart., by Jane, da. and h. of Thomas Warre. She «'. 25 Feb. 1774, and was bur. at Penn afsd. He m., 3rdly, 17 Apr. 1777, at St. Geo., Han. Sq., Anna Margaretta, widow of Barlow Trecothick' Alderman, and in 1770 Lord Mayor, of London, sister of Sir William' Meredith, Bart., da. of Amos Meredith, of Henbury, co. Chester. She d. 1 3 June 1 804, at Croombank, Kent. Will pr. June 1 804. He ^. 2 1 Mar. 1820, in his 92nd year, in Lower Brook Str. Will pr. 8 Apr. 1820, under

^ 1 20,000.

II- 1820. 2. Richard William Penn (Curzon, afterwards Curzon-Howe), Viscount Curzon of Penn and Baron Curzon of Penn, grandson and h., being 3rd and yst. but ist surv. s. and h. of the Hon. Penn Assheton Curzon, by Sophia, suojure. Baroness Howe OF Langar, which P. A. Curzon was ist s. and h. ap. of the ist Viscount by his ist wife, but d. v.p., 3 Sep. 1797, aged 40. He was b. II Dec. 1796, at Gopsall afsd., and was, on 15 July 1821, cr. EARL HOWE, having taken the surname of Howe, after that of Curzon, by Royal lie. 7 July 1 82 1, and succeeding his mother as Baron Howe of Langar, 3 Dec. 1835. See "Howe," Earldom, cr. 1821. CUTTS OF GOWRAN BARONY [I.] John Cutts, 2nd s. of Richard C, of Arkesden and Matching, Essex,(*)and subsequently (1670) ofChilderley, L 1 690 CO. Cambridge, by Joan, da. of Sir Richard Everard, Bart., to was b.'m 1661, probably at Arkesden; entered Cath. Hall, 1707. Cambridge, as Fellow Commoner, Feb. 1676, being cr. LL.D. of that Univ. {comitiis Regiis) 1690. Before that date he had sue. his elder br. Richard in the family estates, then worth

^2,ooo a year. He distinguished himself as a volunteer with the

Imperialists C') at the capture of Buda, July 1686, under the Duke of Lorraine, and in Mar. 1688 was Lieut. Col. of a regt. in Holland. He came over to England with William III as Lieut. Col. of an English foot regt., distinguished himself at the battle of the Boyne,(') and was wounded (*) A valuable paper on " The descent of the manor of Hocham and of the family of Cutts," with a pedigree by the late H. W. King, is in Essex Arch. Trans., 1st Ser., vol. iv. V.G. C") For a list of other English of note there present, see ante, vol. ii, p. 162, note "f," sub Berwick upon Tweed. («) "Macaulay states that, at the Boyne, Cutts was at the head of his regiment, since famous as the 5 th Fusileers. There is no proof that Cutts was ever in that regi- ment, and the regiment known then and after as Cutts' Foot was one of those afterwards disbanded." {Diet. Nat. Biog.)