474 DUBLIN "Dublin," Earldom of [I.] {H.R.H. Prince Edward), cr. 1799 with the Dukedom of Kent, which see; extinct i82o.(^) "Dublin," Earldom of (H.R.H. Albert Edward, Prince of Wales), cr. 17 Jan. 1850, "to hold to him and his heirs. Kings of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for ever." See Cornwall, Dukedom of, 1841. DUCIE [See "DowNE," Viscountcy [I.] (Ducie), cr. 1675; extinct 1679; it being possible that this creation was " Ducie of Downe."] DUCIE, DUCIE OF MORETON and DUCIE OF TORTWORTH(^) BARONY. I. Matthew Ducie Moreton, ist s. and h. of . ^ Edward M., of Moreton and Engleton, co. Stafford • il'^o. (admon. 1687), by Elizabeth, da. and h. of Robert Ducie,('=) of Little Aston, co. Stafford, niece of William (Ducie), Viscount Downe [I.] (from whom she inherited Tortworth, CO. Gloucester), served under William III in Flanders till the peace of Ryswick in 1697; High Sheriff of co. Stafford 1704-05, and of co. Gloucester 1705-06; M.P. (Whig) for Gloucestershire 1708-13 and 1715-20; Vice Treasurer [I.], 1717-20; P.C. [I.] 2 Sep. 1717. On 9 June 1720, he was cr. LORD DUCIE, BARON OF MORETON, co. Stafford. He m., II Jan. 1689/90, at St. James's, Duke's Place, London, Arabella, da. and coh. of Sir Thomas Prestwich, 2nd Bart. [1644], by Mary, da. of Edward Hunt, of Mortlake, Surrey. He d. in Jermyn Str., Midx., 2, and was bur. 6 May 1735, at Tortworth, co. Gloucester, aged 72. M.I. Will pr. 16 May 1735. His widow d. 14 Mar. 1749/50 (or May 1750), aged 90, at Woodchester Park, co. Gloucester, and was bur. at Tortworth. M.I. II. 1735. 2 and I. Matthew Ducie (Moreton), Lord Ducie, Baron of Moreton, ist s. and h., b. before 1700; M.P. BARONY. (Whig) for Cricklade, 1721-22; for Calne, 1723-27; for T ^ Gloucester,i727-28(doublereturn);forTregony,i729-34; ' ^' and for Lostwithiel, Mar. to May 1735; Constable of St. Briavels, Warden of the Forest of Dean and Lord Lieut, of (*) It was used in 1822 as one of the extinctions required under the Act of Union, for the creation of the Barony of Downe. () For the alleged humble origin of this and other peerage families, see note sub Craven. V.G. {^) Towards the end of the twelfth century Nele de Mortain {de Moritonio) married Maud, da. and h. of William de Ducey, lord of the honour of Ducey in the Avranchin [Observations on the Norman Exchequer Rolls, vol. i, p. 65). This is a curious anticipation of the Moreton-Ducie alliance in the 17th century. (G. W. Watson). V.G.
