DELORAIN 169 his 55th year, and was bur. at Lidwell, in Sandford St. Martin, Oxon.(') Will pr. 4 Feb. i 730/1. His widow «;., Apr. 1734, William Wyndham, of Ersham, Nortolk. She, who was b. 1700, at Winchester, was Governess to the Princesses Mary and Louisa, and d. in London, 12 Nov. 1744, and was bur. at Windsor, aged 44.() Will, signed " Mary de Loraine," dat. 6 and pr. 19 Nov. 1744. n. 1730. 2. Francis (Scott), Earl OF Delorain, yc. [S.], 1st s. and h., by ist wife, b. 5 Oct., and bctp. 3 Nov. 17 10, at St. James's, Westm.; ^/j/tf^/ Viscount Hermitage 1710-30; sometime a Cornet of Horse. He ;«., istly, 29 Oct. 1732, Mary, widow of Thomas Heardson, of Claythorpe, da. of Matthew Lister, of Burwell, co. Lincoln, by Sarah, his wife. She, who was bap. 4 Nov. 1704, at Burwell, d. i 6 June 1737, aged 32, and was bur. in Lincoln Cathedral. M.L He w., 2ndly, 6 July 1737, at Cockerington, Mary, ist da. of Gervase Scrope, of Cockerington, co. Lincoln, by Elizabeth, da. of Richard Creswell, of Sudbury, Salop. He d. s.p.., at Bath, 1 1 May 1739, in his 29th year, and was bur. at Lincoln. M.L Will pr. 1739. His widow, who was b. 15 June 1713,^. Thomas Vivian, of Lincoln, who (/. 2 Aug. 1770. She ^/. 11 Mar. 1767, at Lincoln, and was bur. at St. Mary Magd. there, aged ^"i^. in. 1739. 3. Henry (Scott), Earl of Delorain, «yc. [S.], br. of the whole blood and h., b. 11 Feb. 1712; Capt. R.N.; was in command of " the Seaforth " in the Mediterranean, 1739. He m. Elizabeth, da. of John Fenwick.. He d. (in his carriage) at Acton, Midx., 31 Jan. 1739/40, of consumption, in his 28th year. Will pr. 1740. His widow survived him 54 years, and d. 5 June 1794, in Upper Brook Str., Midx. Will pr. June 1794. (^) His manners were so good, that Dr. Young (author of J<!ight Thoughts) thus refers to them, '■'■Stanhope in wit, in breeding Delorain.'" G.E.C. In politics he was a Whig, but a personal friend of the Prince of Wales (George II), and during the latter's quarrel with his father he for a time voted with the Tories against the Government. He came back to the Court, and was rewarded with a Colonelcy and the Order of the Bath. V.G. C") In Lord Hervey's Memoirs (vol. ii, p. 36) she is called "very handsome," and it is added that Walpole said of her, " very dangerous, a weak head, a pretty face, a lying tongue, and a false heart, making always sad work." In the Dulce of Manchester's Court and Society, vol. ii, p. 330, the Countess of Delorain is baldly called "the King's [George II] concubine," and a story is told of her being said to have poisoned one Mary McKenzie from jealousy. This must be the Lady Delorain referred to, as she is the only one who was about the Court. John Lord Hervey writes: " For your card play at nights we too shall remain With 'virtuous and solier and uuise Delorain," the italics obviously implying the absence of those good qualities. A note in IValpole (ed. Cunningham, vol. i, p. 207), where these lines are quoted, states that the reference is to this lady. V.G.
