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246 CHOLMONDELEY. April 1791, Georgiana Charlotte, 2nd and yat da. of Peregrine (Bertie), 3rd Duke OS Ancastkk and Kestevkn (by his 2nd wife, Mary, da. of Thomas PaNTON), sister and coheir, as to the Barony of Willoughby de Eresby, and the oflice of Great Chamberlain of Enqlemd,!*) of Biibert. 3rd Puke, who d. unm . 8 July 1770. This latter office, by decision of the House of Lords in 1781, was held to be vested in her jointly with her eldest sister. He d. 10 April 1827 at bis house in Piccadilly, Midx., and was bur. at Malpas. Will pr. June 1827. Hi* widow, who was 7 Aug. 1764, d. 23 June 183S, at Carlton House Terrace, Midx. Will pr. July 1833. Marquessate, "j II. Earldom V. Viscountcy [I.] >1827 Barony VL 1830, Susan Caroline, da. Cbarlotte Sophia, da. of He d. ftp. 8 May 1870, in was b. 10 April 1804, d. Her will pr. over £21,000. 2, 5 t 6, and 5. George Horatio (Cholmox- ijeley), Marquess of Cholmondeley, &c.,nlso Vtscircsi CHOLMONDELEY OF IvELLS, &C. [1.1, S. and b., b. Ill Jaliy. 17P2, at Paris, being then styled Viscount Malpas ; M.P. for Castle Rising, under the style of Karl of Kocksavngc, IS17-I8, and again, 1820-21. On 5 Jany. 1822 he was sum. to the House of Lords in his Father's Barony as LORD NEWBURGH, being introduced 5 Feb. following. P.C., 1830. By his mother's deatli in 1 838 he sue. in her right as Joint Great Chamberlain of England, having previously, as Iter deputy, officiated as Great Chamberlain at the coronation of William IV.( :l ) He m. firstly, 20 Oct. 1S12, Caroline, 2nd da.of Lieut.-Gen. Sir Colin Cami'- bell. She, who was b. 8 Jany. 1795, d. s.p. (as Vis- countess Malpas) 12 Oct. 1815, aged 20. He la. secondly (at her Father's house in Grosvenor Sq., Midx.) 11 May of Henry Charles (Somerset), 6th Di ke of Beaufort, by Granville (Levkson-Gowek), 1st Marquess of Stafford. his 79th year, at Cholmoudeley Castle. His widow, who 4 Feb. 18S6, at Thoruycroft House, Lcatherhead, Surrey. Marquessate, III. Earldom. VI. Viscountcy [I.] vnx BaroDy. vn. 8, 6, 7, and 0. William Henry Hugh (Cholmondeley), Marquess of Cholmondkley, &c., also Viscount Cholmondeley of Kklls, && [!•], br. and h., b. 31 March 1800, in Piccadilly, Midx. ; ed. at Eton ; matric. at Oxford (Ch. Ch.) 13 Nov. 1818 ; M.I', for Castle Rising, 1S22-32 ; and (after 20 years) for South Hampshire, 1852-57. He m. 28 Feb. 1825, at • 16/ 0. Cholmondeley House, London, Marcia Emma Georgiana, da. of the Rt. Hon. Charles Arbuthnot, sometime Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, who d. 18 Aug. 1850, aged 82. She, who was b. 10 Oct. 1804, d. 3 Nov. 1878, at No. 1, Hyde Park Street, Midx. He d. 16 Dec. 1884, aged 84, at his princely seat, Houghton Hall, Norfolk, and was bur. in the cemetery of Kensal Green, Midx.(") ( n ) See aB to this high office, Vol. i, p. 207, note " b," sub " Aveland." ( b ) " Like his elder brother he was a generous supporter of most of those religious societies which have, or used to have, their home at Exeter Hall ; and his name was frequently to be seen side by side with those of Lord Shaftesbury and Lord Chichester among the lists of patrons of good and charitable works, especially such as were indorsed by the Evangelical party." From the obituary in " the Times." Of his eight children (of whom two sons had married and had issue), but two survived him, viz., his eldest da., Charlotte Georgians, wife of the Rev. E. G. Arnold, and his second da., then unm.