DECIES 113 See "Stuart-de-Decies OF Dromana, within the Decies, CO. Watcrford," Barony (J^illiers-Stuart), cr. 1839; extinct i874.() DE CLIFFORD See "Clifford," Barony, cr. by writ, 1299 {De Clifford). DE COURCY See under " Kinsale," Barony [I.] {De Courcy). DE DUNSTANVILLE OF TEHIDY BARONY. Francis Basset, ist s. and h. of Francis B., of Terley, . , Northants, afterwards ofTehidy, Cornwall {d. Nov. 1769), y by Margaret, da. of Sir John St. Aubyn, 3rd Bart. [1671], „ was b. at Walcot, 9 Aug., and bap. 7 Sep. 1757, at Charl- ^^' bury, Oxon; ed. at Harrow, and later at Eton; and at King's Coll. Cambridge, M.A. 1786. Having taken an active part in preparations for resisting the threatened attack on Plymouth by the French and Spanish fleets in 1779, he was cr. a Baronet 24 Nov. of that year. M.P. (Tory) for Penryn, 1 780-96 ;() Recorder of Penryn. On 17 June 1796, he was cr. BARON DE DUNSTANVILLE OF TEHlDy,() CO. Cornwall. In the following year, having no male issue, he was cr., 30 Nov. 1797, BARON BASSET OF STRATTON, co. Cornwall, with a spec. rem. of that Barony, failing the heirs male of his body, to his only da. and the heirs male of her body. F.R.S. 9 Apr. 1829. He
- «., istly, 16 Aug. 1780, at St. Marylebone, Frances Susanna, da. and
eventually coh. of John Hippisley Coxe, of Stoneaston, Somerset. She d. 14 June 1823, at Twickenham, Midx. He m., 2ndly, 13 July 1824, at the Chapel Royal, Whitehall, Harriet, 4th da. of Sir William Lemon, ist Bart., by Jane, da. of John Buller, of Morval, Cornwall. He d. s.p.w., of paralysis, in South Place, Kensington, 14, and was bur. 26 Feb. 1835, at Illogan, Cornwall, aged 77. M.I. there. Will pr. Apr. 1835. O" his death the Barony of De Dunstanville ofTehidy and the Baronetcy [1779] (^) The grantee was son of Lord Henry Stuart, by Gertrude Amelia, da. and h. of George (Mason-Villiers), Earl of Grandison, and Viscount Grandison of Dromana [I.], and was maternally, through the families of Mason, Villiers, and Fitzgerald, descended from (and the representative of) Gerald Fitzgerald of the Decies, the father of Maurice, cr. Viscount Decies [I.], in 1569, as above stated. C') He however supported the North-Fox Coalition in 1783, and remained in the Whig camp till 1793, when the war brought him over to Pitt, and he was there- after a Tory, opposing the Reform Bill, though in favour of Cath. Emancipation, and in company with Whig peers signing two protests against the acquittal of Lord Mel- ville. He was author of several tracts on political and agricultural matters, [ex inform. the Rev. A. B. Beaven). V.G. ("=) The estate of Tehidy was acquired by the Basset family, about 11 50 (by marriage), from the family of Dumtanville. 15
