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WESTPORT — WBYMOUTH. 121 WESTPORT. t.«., " MoNTBAOLS OP Wbstport, CO. Majo," Barony [I.] (Braumejf or, 1760 ; flee '* Altamort *' Earldom [I.], er, 1771. f .«., " MoNTBAtiLK or Wbstpobt, CO. Mayo," Barony [U.K.] (Browne) cr, 1806 ; tee "Suoo " Harqueeute [LI cr. 1800. WESTWOOD. Sec " HAHFfON OF Hampton Lovstt and of Wkotwood, ca Worcester, Barony (PaHngion), cr. 1874. WEXFORD or WEYSFORD. This title is attributed as an Fjarldom [I.] to John (TALDor), 1st Eakl or SHRiwsBtJRT 10 the patent, 17 July 1446, wherein, under the deeignation of " Comet Salop et de Weift/ord" he was cr.{*) Earl OP Watbr- FONO [I.]. He, however, tho' be held the ffreat Lordship of Weiford, appears, in reiility, to have had no peenige title of that name. See toI. vii, p. 186, note " e," tub " Shrewsbury."(»>) WEYMOUTH. Viscoimtoy. 1, Sir Thomas Thynnb, Bart., of Longleat, oo. Wilts, I 1682. ^'^ '* ^'^^ ^' ^' ^"' Benry Frederick Tbtiini, Bart (lo er, 15 July 1641), of Kempeford, co. Qlouopster, by Mary, da. of Thomas (Ck)VRMTRT), 1st Barob Cotbbtrt OF Atlbsbobouob. b, about 1640 ; ed. at Winchester and at Oxford (Ch. Ch.), where he matric. 21 April 1657, having the famous Dr. John Fell for his tutor ;(<») F.R.S., 28 Nov. 1664 ; was M.P. for the Univ. of Oxford, 1674-79 and for Tam worth, 1679-81 ; me, his father as 2d Baronet 6 March 1680 ; was High Steward of Ttemworth, 1681 ; fiM. his oousb Thomas Thynne (well known as "Tom of ten thousand") 12 Feb. 1681/2, in the extensive family estates at Longleat, &c., and was, shortly aftervrords, cr., 11 Dec 1682, BAUON THYNNE OF WARMINSTER, co. Wilts, and VISCOUNT WEY- MOUTH, 00. Dorset, with A spec. rem. faiUns heirs male of his body to his two brothers, James Thynne and Henry Frederick Thynne, in like manner. He took his seat 19 May 1685 ; P.O., 1702 and 1711 ; Pres. of the Board of Trade and Foreign Plantations, 1702-07 ; Keeper of the deer and woods in the forest of Dean, 1712. He m. Frances, 1st da. of Heneage (Finob), Earl of WiR0Bn.8iA, by his seoond wife, (•) " Zyndk," p. 180. (b) The Earldom of Wexford, under the name of " Washford," (its orthography '* Washford, Weisford, Weysford," or " Wexford " seems to have been of the loosest) is also set out by Shakespeare {t/en, VI,) under other titles (rightly or wrongly) attributed to . . . . " the great Alcides of the field, Valiant Lord Talbot, Earl op Shrbwsburt, Great k'arl of Wnthfordj Waterford and Valence, Lord Talbot of Qoodrig and Urchinfield, Lord Strange of Blackmere, Lord Verdun of Alton, Ix>rd Cromwell of Wingfield, Lord Fumival of Sheffield, The thrice victorious I^rd of Falconbridge." («) He appears, however, never to have received any degree from that Univ., which considering that he represented it in Pari., is somewhat strange.