Louis de Ligonnier, Sieur de Monteuquet.
Abel, remained in France.
John Louis, Earl Ligonier, in the Peerage of England
Francis Augustus, Colonel of Dragoons.
Anthony, Major, 15th Foot.
Edward, Earl Ligonier, in the peerage of England.
Frances Colonel Thomas Balfour of Elwick.
Captain William Balfour, R.N., who married, and is still represented in Orkney.
Mary, wife of Alexander Brunton, D.D.
(i.) Colonel Francis Ligonier (pp. 192, 193) is first mentioned because of his early death. He served as Lieut. -Colonel of the 8th Light Dragoons at Dettingen, and as Colonel in Scotland in 1745-6. He died at Linlithgow on 25th January 1746; he has a monument in Westminster Abbey.
(2.) Field-Marshal, the Earl Ligonier, a Privy Councillor, and Knight of the Bath (pp. 193-199), bore the Christian names of John Louis. He came to England in 1697, and entered our army in 1702. He was a soldier of prodigious bravery, and rose to be a Field-Marshal. He was for a long time the Master-General of the Ordnance and Commander-in-chief of the army. He was M.P. for Bath from 1748 to 1763, when he was called to the House of Lords as Lord Ligonier (he had previously received two patents as Viscount Ligonier in the Irish peerage). In 1766, on retiring from the command of the army, he was elevated to a British earldom as Earl Ligonier. and received a pension of £1500 per annum. All his titles died with him, except one Irish viscounty. He has a monument in Westminster Abbey. Born 16S0. Died 1770.
(3.) Edward, Earl Ligonier, K.B. (pp. 199-201), first comes into notice as Captain Ligonier, an aide-de-camp at the Battle of Minden, and afterwards as a witness against Lord George Sackville. He rose at an early age to the rank of Lieutenant-General. He succeeded his uncle as Viscount Ligonier of Clonmel in 1770. He married, 1st, in 1766, Penelope, daughter of George Pitt, afterwards Lord Rivers, whom he divorced in 1771. This was the Viscountess Ligonier, celebrated through Gainsborough’s fine portrait. He married, 2dly, in 1773, Lady Mary Henley, daughter of the Earl of Northington. In 1776 he was created Earl Ligonier of Clonmel. He had no issue. Born, 1740. Died, 1782.
NOTES.
Louise Boileau, sister of a noble refugee, was born 7th Nov. 1683, and was brought up in France. She became the wife of Noble Abel Ligonier, Seigneur de Moncuquet et de Castre, and died at Castre, 9th Oct. 1748. (I copy this from an old Boileau pedigree; I follow its spelling of the Ligonier titles.)
Before going to Flanders in 1746, at the request of Dunk, Earl of Halifax, “Sir John Legonier” interceded with King George II. for the pardon of a military deserter who was under sentence of death. This man had been brought up in Northampton under the pastorate of Dr Doddridge, on whose representation Lord Halifax had interested himself in the case, and had communicated with Ligonier. The Rev. Philip Doddridge, D.D., was a grandson of a German refugee clergyman who fled from the Palatinate soon after the exiled royal family and old Schomberg. Doddridge had as a heirloom his grandfather’s German Bible (Luther’s version), printed at Strasburg in 1626, bound in black morocco in 2 vols 12mo, the binding deeply indented with gilt ornaments. On the fly-leaf of the first volume the grandson made this memorandum:—
