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	Viscount Grandison - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Viscount Grandison of Limerick is a title in the Peerage of Ireland.
		Moreover, St John's nephew Sir John St John, 1st Baronet, of Lydiard Tregoze, was the ancestor of the Viscounts Bolingbroke and the Viscounts St John.
		In 1746 Elizabeth Mason, daughter of John Villiers, 1st Earl Grandison, was created Viscountess Grandison, and in 1767 she was made Viscountess Villiers and Countess Grandison.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Viscount_Grandison (414 words)

	GENUKI: English Peerage 1790: Viscounts 1
		THOMAS THYNNE, viscount Weymouth, baron Thynne of Warminster, and a baronet; knight of the garter, one of his majesty's most honourable privy council; groom of the stole to his majesty, high steward of Tamworth in the county of Stafford, one of the elder brethren of the Trinity House, and a governor of the Charter House.
		and viscount Weymouth of Weymouth in the county of Dorset 11 December 1682.
		This nobleman was born 6 March 1761, and elected 1780 to represent the borough of Cricklade in the county of Wilts.
	www.genuki.org.uk /big/eng/History/Barons/viscounts1.html (5845 words)

	The Jersey Cup
		At Acre, Otto de Grandison, a Swiss follower of Prince Edward of England, later Edward 1, commanded the French in the defence of a section of the fortifications.
		The second son (the 3rd Viscount) had no children, but the third son who became4th Viscount Grandison was succeeded by his grandson, his son having died before him.
		This grandson therefore became the 5th Viscount, and when he died without male heirs, the title reverted to the descendant of Edward, the youngest of the four brothers, who then, 1766, was William, 3rd Earl of Jersey.
	thejerseycup.co.uk /history.html (6297 words)

	villstu.htm
		It was only as a result of subsequent deaths in the Grandison family, notably the death in 1746 of Lord Grandison's second and last surviving son, Viscount Villiers, that she became sole heiress-apparent to her father, and accordingly was created Viscountess, later Countess, Grandison in her own right with remainder to her heirs male.
		After the death of their son, the 1st Earl Grandison, in 1766, there followed the next female interregnum at Dromana; and during these years, the Earl of Tyrone of the day obtained for himself the county governorship and came to dominate the county representation.
		These are: 10 letters, 1 708-1710, 1754 and 1758, between members of the Grandison and members of the Pitt family, deriving from the marriage of Harriet, daughter of Katherine Fitzgerald Villiers, Viscountess Grandison, to Robert Pitt, son of Governor Thomas Pitt, in 1709; and 17 letters, 1754 and 1761, between Lord Grandison and the Hon.
	www.proni.gov.uk /records/private/villstu.htm (9012 words)

	Howe William Howe 5th Viscount: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
		James Bryce: Viscount Bryce of Dechmont, O.M - Vol.
		...deposition of the herald William Ryley in the British...John, afterwards Viscount Bolingbroke, whose...brawl, killed Sir William Estcourt, Bart...John, the future Viscount Bolingbroke, was...Virgil to King William, and it is well...descended from the Viscount Grandison of the...
		HOWE, WILLIAM HOWE, 5TH VISCOUNT 1729 1814, English general in the American Revolution; younger...brothers death in 1799, Howe succeeded to the Irish title, becoming 5th Viscount Howe.
	questia.com /library/encyclopedia/howe_william_howe_5th_viscount.jsp (941 words)

	Chrysostom, Saint John, Paraensis, or admonition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Translated by the Lord Viscount Grandison prisoner in the Tower.
		This translation is dedicated to Sir Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Cleveland, a prominent royalist general who was captured by Cromwell's forces in 1650; he narrowly escaped the death penalty, apparently on a technicality, and was instead imprisoned in the Tower until his release in 1656.
		The translator Viscount Grandison was a fellow prisoner, and presumably a supporter of Charles I as well.
	www.polybiblio.com /ximenes/B5034.html (360 words)

	thePeerage.com - Blanche Mary Arundell and others
		He was the son of George Villiers, 4th Viscount Grandison of Limerick and Lady Mary Leigh.
		She married Brig.-Gen. Edward Villiers, son of George Villiers, 4th Viscount Grandison of Limerick and Lady Mary Leigh, in March 1676/77.
		She married John FitzGerald, Earl Grandison, son of Brig.-Gen. Edward Villiers and Catherine FitzGerald, in February 1704/5.
	www.thepeerage.com /p2633.htm (482 words)

	thePeerage.com - Sir Edward Villiers and others
		William Villiers, 2nd Viscount Grandison of Limerick+ b.
		John Villiers, 3rd Viscount Grandison of Limerick b.
		George Villiers, 4th Viscount Grandison of Limerick+ b.
	www.thepeerage.com /p10562.htm (1223 words)

	Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		1670: Charles Montagu, Viscount Mandeville; succeeded as 4th Earl of Manchester 16 March 1683
		29 December 1834: Henry Fleming Lea Devereux, 14th Viscount Hereford
		24 July 1846: Lucius Bentinck Cary, 10th Viscount Falkland
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Captain_of_the_Yeomen_of_the_Guard (780 words)

	Portrait of William Villiers Viscount Grandison, ascribed to Anthony van Dyck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Portrait of William Villiers Viscount Grandison, ascribed to Anthony van Dyck.
		Portrait of William Villiers Viscount Grandison, ascribed to Anthony van Dyck (1599 - 1641).
		The images within these pages are Copyright but reproduction is permitted for private and educational purposes.
	isd.canberra.edu.au /special/art/details/vandyck1.html (90 words)

	Definition of index.php?search=Earl\|Battey&limit=20&offset=140
		3: The subsidiary titles of the Earl are: ''[[Viscount GrandisonViscount Grandison of...
		The Earl bears the subsidiary titles of ''Viscount Polling...
		The Earl holds the subsidiary titles of ''Viscount Jocelyn...
	www.wordiq.com /knowledge/index.php?search=Earl\|Battey&limit=20&offset=140 (936 words)

	Precedence
		So it would make sense that a mere Lady Sarah would be outranked by her younger brother, the viscount.
		The 4th Viscount Grandison, George Villiers (uncle of Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland, Charles II's mistress), was predeceased by his son and heir apparent, Edward, who died in 1693.
		Edward's widow, Catherine, received a royal warrant dated 6 January 1699/1700, of the title and precedence of the Viscountcy, as if her husband had survived his father and had become Viscount.
	www.chinet.com /~laura/html/titles07.html (1742 words)

	Memoirs of Count de Grammont - Notes and Illustrations 2
		He was created Baron Berkley of Rathdown, and Viscount Fitzharding of Ireland, and Baron Bottetort and Earl of Falmouth in England, 17th March, 1664.
		It was suspected of this princess to have had a similar engagement with the Duke of Buckingham as the queen with Jermyn, and that was the cause she would not see the duke on his second voyage to Holland, in the year 1652.
		This lady who made so distinguished a figure in the annals of infamy, was Barbara, daughter and heir of William Villiers, Lord Viscount Grandison, of the kingdom of Ireland, who died in 1642, in consequence of wounds received at the battle of Edge-hill.
	www.pseudopodium.org /repress/grammont/notes02.html (9287 words)

	The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Curious Case of Lady Purbeck - A Scandal of the XVIIth Century by Thomas Longueville
		His name was Francis Bacon, afterwards Lord Chancellor, Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and the author of the Novum Organum as well of a host of other works, including essays on almost every conceivable subject.
		In May, 1619, Lady Elizabeth was informed that, if she would give that isle, no longer an island, the Isle of Purbeck, which was her property, to her son-in-law, she should be made Countess of Purbeck and he Viscount Purbeck; but she refused to exchange good land for an empty name.
		The Viscount Purbecke followed the court a good while in very goode temper, and there [pg 76] was speech of making him a marquis that he might go before his younger brother but I heare of late he is fallen backe to his old craise and worse....
	www.gutenberg.org /files/15257/15257-h/15257-h.htm (12640 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Nicholas was a British tenant on Lord Viscount Grandison's Plantation in Armagh, IRL.
		There are two Nicholas Wray's listed in 1630/31 as working the lands of Lord Grandison, both owning a Snaphance, a firelock handgun.
		The second Nicholas might be an error of duplication or two generations of Nicholas.
	www.ancestrees.com /pedigree/776.htm (169 words)

	House of Lords Journal Volume 16: 1 February 1700 \| British History Online
		It is ORDERED, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, That the Thanks of this House be, and are hereby, given to his Grace the Lord Archbishop of York, for his Sermon preached before this House the Thirtieth of January last; and he is desired to print and publish the same.
		Upon reading the Petition of Katherine Viscountess Grandison, and John Viscount Grandison, Son and Heir of the said Viscountess; praying Leave to bring in a Bill for settling of their Estate, and paying off Incumbrances charged thereon; all Parties consenting thereunto:
		It is ORDERED, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, That the Petitioners have hereby Leave given them for bringing in a Bill, as desired.
	www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=13767 (368 words)

	Worldroots.com
		Grandison, son of William Villiers, 2nd Earl of Jersey and
		Viscount and 1st Marquess Townshend and Anne Montgomery
		John Ponsonby, Viscount Ponsonby of Imokilly, son of
	worldroots.com /brigitte/famous/j/johnchurchilldesc1650.htm (959 words)

	FOURTEENTH GENERATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		James BEAUCLERK was born in 1671 in London.
		He was married to Barbara Villiers Palmer Duchess of CLEVELAND Lady Castlemaine (daughter of William VILLIERS 2nd Viscount Grandison and Mary of BAYNING) in (His mistress).
		Barbara Villiers Palmer Duchess of CLEVELAND Lady Castlemaine was born about 1641 in England -.
	home.att.net /~hamiltonclan/hamilton/gilbert/d4375.htm (522 words)

	villiers01
		Although various earlier family members have been identified, the first known to be ancestor of this family was...
		Barbara St. John (bur 16.09.1672, dau of Sir John St. John of Lidiard Tregoze, niece of Oliver St. John, 1st Viscount Grandison)
		There was a major scandal concerning the son born to Frances during her marriage to Viscount Purbeck.
	www.stirnet.com /HTML/genie/british/uv/villiers01.htm (1406 words)

	Churchyard/Orr Family Museum (Genealogy) -- Data (Mostly Negative) on the English Origins of Matthias St. John
		And, through female lines, descents can be shown from many of the noble families of Europe.
		The arms of the Viscounts of Bolingbroke are: argent, on a chief gules two mullets or; motto: Nec quaerere, nec spernere honorem.
		Sir OLIVER ST. JOHN Knt, Viscount Grandison and Lord Tregoze, dated 26 June 1630, proved 5 February 1630/1
	www.crossmyt.com /hc/gen/stjoneng.html (4190 words)

	Chapter 8 - The Business of Slavery
		Endnote3: The father of first Viscount Bayning, Alderman Paul Bayning (died 1616) of St. Olave's Hart Street, London, was a privateer, one of four Venice merchants who combined with the merger of the Grocers Company and Turkey Company into the Levant Company.
		The Bayning descendants and their linkages included Thomas Lennard (1654-1662) Baron15 Dacre, married to Elizabeth Bayning with progress to the Barons Teynham; the Viscounts Clare; and an exotic specimen in commercial life, a "customs farmer", Barbara Villiers (1641-1709), Duchess Cleveland, whose sons began the line of the Dukes of Grafton.
		Endnote4: On 20 March, 1602 was founded the Dutch East India Company (VOC).
	www.danbyrnes.com.au /business/business8.html (5325 words)

	The Curious Case of Lady Purbeck A Scandal of the XVIIth Century, by Thomas Longueville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Villiers, Brother to the person who now claims the Earldom of Buckingham, as his Brother assumed the Title, that the Lady Frances Viscountess Purbeck was tyed to the Bed-Poste and severely whipped into consent to marry with the Duke of Buckingham’s Brother, Sir John Villiers, A° 1617, who was 2 years after created Viscount Purbeck.”
		"... The Viscount Purbecke followed the court a good while in very goode temper, and there was speech of making him a marquis that he might go before his younger brother but I heare of late he is fallen backe to his old craise and worse....
		This shows that, if Purbeck was insane, his insanity was intermittent; and it could not have been chronic; for in later years we read that he was managing his own affairs and that he married again, some time after the death of Frances.
	www.sakoman.net /pg/html/15257.htm (4265 words)

	Find in a Library: A Chaleng sent from Prince Rupert and the Lord Grandison to Sir Wjlljam Belford at Windsor, Janvary ...
		by William Balfour, Sir; William Villiers Grandison, Viscount; Rupert, Prince Count Palatine
		Publisher: London : Printed for Thomas Green, 1643.
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	worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/99d54bcb4cc12e48a19afeb4da09e526.html (63 words)

	[No title]
		Sir Dudley North, K.B., became the 4th Lord North, on the death of his father in 1666.
		John Fiennes, third son of William, 1st Viscount Say and Sele, and one of Oliver's Lords.
		George, 13th Lord Berkeley, created Earl Berkeley 1679.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext02/pepys10.txt (19461 words)

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