DENBIGH i8i after 1689; one of the Tellers of the Exchequer, 1713-15. He ;«., 22 June 1695 (lie. Fac. office, he aged 26 and she 18), Hester, 1st da. (whose issue in 1759 became h.) of Sir Basil Firebrace, ist Bart., wine merchant, by FJizabeth, da. of Thomas Hough, of London, milliner. He d'. 18 Mar. 17 16/7, aged about 48. Admon. 9 May I7i7.(*) His widow, who was b. 3 Jan. 1675/6, d. i Jan. 1725/6, in Cavendish Sq. Admon. 7 July 1726, to a creditor. V. 17 1 7. 5. William (Feilding), Earl of Denbigh, C^fc., also Earl of Desmond, ^c. [I.], s. and h., b. 26 Oct. 1697, j/v/c'^/ Viscount Feilding till 1717; matric. at Oxford (Ch. Ch.) 17 Dec. 1 71 5. A Tory.f) He w., about 17 18, Isabella, da. of Peter de Jonge, burgomaster of Utrecht. He d. 2 Aug. 1755, ^g^"^ 57- ^^'^^ l"""- '755- His widow d. 16 May 1769, in South Audley Str., and was bur. at Ted- dington, Midx., aged 76.(') M.I. Will pr. 1769. VI. 1755. 6. Basil (Feilding), Earl of Denbigh, ^c, also Earl of Desmond, i^'c. [I.], only s. and h., b. 3 Jan. 1719, stykd Viscount Feilding till 1755; Capt., under the Duke of Bedford, of a company of Foot, raised to serve against the Jacobites, 27 Sep. 1745; P.C. 9 Feb. 1760 to George II, and 17 Mar. 1761 to George III; Cupbearer at the Coronation, 22 Sep. 1761 ; IVlaster of the Royal Harriers 1761-82; a Lord of the Bedchamber Apr. 1 763-1 800. C^) He m., istly, 12 Apr. 1757, at Biggleswade, Beds, Mary (a fortune of ;(;30,ooo), 3rd da. and coh. of Sir John Cotton, 6th and last Bart., by Jane, da. of Sir Robert Burdett, Bart. She d. 14 Oct. 1782, at East Sheen, Surrey. He m., 2ndly, 21 July 1783 (spec, lie), at Wistow, co. Leicester, Sarah, widow of Sir Charles Halford, 7th and last Bart., yst. da. of Edward Farnham, of Quorndon House, co. Leicester. He ^. 14 July 1800, at Newnham Paddox, aged 81. Will pr. Sep. 1800. His widow, who was b. 2^ Oct. 1 741, d. s.p., 2 Oct. 1 8 14, aged nearly 73, at Brighton, and was bur. at Wistow, with her ist husband. Will pr. 18 15. (") His character, when over 40 years old, as given by Macky, is as under: — "Is a Gent, of good nature, but is one of the greatest drinkers in England; he is tail, fat, and very black." C*) He signed as many as 35 Protests on the Journals of the House of Lords, generally in conjunction with Tories and anti-Walpolean Whigs. V.G. (■=) Judging from letters printed in Hist. MSS. Com., Denbigh MSS., part v, she " must have been a very clever and lively person " though she never thoroughly mastered the English language. Bright Brown points out that Sir Alexander Dick of Prestonfield, in his Continental travels, found them living in 1737 "very elegantly in the middle of a fine vineyard three miles from Lyons." [Curiosities of a Scots Charta Chest). Her sister m. William Godolphin, styled Marquess of Blandford. '.G. C*) He was a Tory, and voted against Fox's India Bill in Dec. 1783, for which he is jeered at in the Rolliad. His name was not signed to any of the Lords' Protests. Horace Walpole, in 1773, calls him "the lowest and most officious of the Court tools." V.G.
