204 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. becoming manager for that gentleman. He afterwards purchased BoliAna from Sir Charles Robei'ts, which station consists of 100,000 acres. Hineage. The family of Irby is of great antiquity. Anthony Iebt, Esq. of Gosberton, co. Lincoln, living temp. Henet VIII, was grandfather of Anthony Ieby, Esq., M.P. for Boston in the reigns of Elizabeth and James I, an eminent lawyer, a bencher of, and autumn reader to, the society of Lincoln's Inn, which did him the honour of having his arms painted on the third window of Lincoln's Inn Chapel. Mr. Irby was appointed one of the masters in Chancery, temp. James I. He m. Alice, davighter of Thomas Welbye, Esq. of Moulton, and widow of Mr. Tash, and was s. at his decease by his eldest surviving son, SiE Anthony Iebt, Knt., M.P., and high sheriff of co. Lincoln in the reign of Charles I ; who m. Elizabetli. daughter of Sir John Peyton, Bart., of Isleham, co. Cam- bridge, and dying in 1632, was s. by his eldest son, SiE Anthony Ieby, Knt., M.P. for, and recorder of, the borougli of Boston, and high sheriff of co. Lincoln in 1637. This gentleman in. 1st, Frances, daughter of Sir William Wray, Bart., of Glent worth, co. Lincoln, and had an only daughter, Elizabeth, who m. in 1645, the Hon. C+eorge Montague, of Horton, eldest son, by his third wife, of Henry, 1st Earl of Manchester, and was mother of George Montague, the celebrated Eakl of Halifax, so distin- guished as a statesman and a poet (see Burke's Extinct Peeraije) . Sir Anthony m. secondly, Margaret, daughter of Sir Eichard Smyth, Bart., of Osterlianger, CO. Kent ; and thirdly, Margaret, daughter of Sir Edward Barkham, Knt., but by those ladies had no issue. He m. fourthly, Cathe- I'ine, daugliter of William, Lord Paget, and had, with five daughters, an only son, his successor, in 1670, Anthony Ieby, Esq. This gentleman m. Mary, daughter and heiress of John Stringer, Esq. of Ashford, co. Kent, and was s. by his elder son, Edwaed Ieby-, Esq., M.P. for Boston, who was created a baronet, 13th April, 1704. Sir Edward m. Dorothy, daughter of the Hon. Henry Paget, and granddaughter of Lord Paget, and dying in 1718, was s. by his only son, SiE William, b. 8th March, 1707, who was elevated to the peerage as Baeon Boston, 10th April, 1761. This nobleman tilled several high otEces about the Court during the reigns of Geoege I and Geoege II ; and, while a commoner, sat in Parliament for Launceston and Bodmin, j He TO. Albinia, daughter of Henry Selwyn, | Esq., by Kuth, his wife, daughter of Anthony i Compton, Esq. of Gainslaw, co. Northumber- land, and had, with a daughter, Augusta, m. to Lord Walsingham, two sons, Feedeeick, his successor. William Henry, h. in 1750; m. in 1781, Mary, youngest daughter and co-heir of Rowland Blackman, Esq. of Antigua, and left issue at his decease in 1830, William Henry Kowland, b. 13th March, 1784; d. in 1812. Augusta, m. to Sir W^illiam Lang- ham, Bart., who d. 1812. His lordship d. 30th March, 1775, and was *. by his elder son, Feedeeick, 2nd baron, F.A.S. and D.C.L., b. 9th June, 1749; who to. 15th May, 1775, Christiana, only daughter of Paul Methuen, Esq. of Corsham House, Wilts, and by her (who d. 9th May, 1832) had issue, I. George, 3rd baron, D.C.L., b. 24th December, 1777 ; who w. 17th October, 1801, Eachel Ives, eldest daughter and co-heir of William Drake, Esq. of Amersham (descended from the Drakes of Shai-deloes and the Garneys of Boy land Hall), and by her (who d. 6th April, 1830) he had issue. George Ives, 4th baron, b. 14th September, 1802; m. first, 25th January, 183t', Fanny Elizabeth, eldest daughter of W. E. Hop- kins-Northey, Esq. of Oving House, Bucks, and by her (^iho d. 14th April, 1860) had issue, Florance George Henry, 5th baron, b. 9th March, 1837; m. 17th October, 1859, Hon. Augusta Caroline, second daughter of John St. Vincent, 3rd Lord de Saumarez, ard by her (who m. 2ndly, 16th April, 1883, Sir Henry Percy Anderson, K.C.M.G., M.A., of Tannheim, Bournemouth, Hants, and of 76, Eaton- place, London, a senior clerk in the Foreign OiEce, son of the late Eev. E. Anderson) had issue, George Florarce (Sir), 6th and present Baron Bos- ton, of Boston, CO. Lin- coln, and a baronet, of Hedsor Lodge, Maiden- head, Bucks, and of the Carlton, Junior Carlton, and Bachelors' Clubs, London, M.A. Oxon., D.L. for CO. Anglesea, a magistrate for Bucks, and a lord -in -waiting to tlie Queen, 1885 to 1886, b. 6th September, I860;
