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386 KILWAEDBN— K.EMBERLEY. ISOOf'), VISCOUNT KILWARDEN [I.]. He was murdered by rioters in Thames Street,, Dublin, 28 July 1S03, aged 63, and was our. at Oughterard, co. Kildare( b ). Will pr. 1803. Ilia widow, the Dow. Viscountess (suo jure Baroness Kilwarden of Kilteel [I.]) u. at Bath, 30 July 1S04. Admon. Sep. 1804. II. 1803, 2. John (Wolfe), Viscount Kilwarden and Baron to En warden ok Nkwlands [I.], s. and h., b. 11 Nov. 1769 ; Registrar 1S30. of Deeds in Ireland. He utc, on the death of his father, 23 July 1S03, to the parage [I.] aboveuamed, and sue., on the death of his mother, 30 July 1801, as Baron Kilwarden of Kilteel [I.]. He d. umn. 22 May 1830, age 60, in Dublin, when all his honours became extinct. KILWARLIN. i.e., " Kilwarlin, co. Down," Viscountcy [I.] {Hill), er. 1751 with the Earldom of Hillsborough |L]! see "Downshire " Marquessate [I.], er. 17S9. KILWINNING. A Charter of the Barony of Kilwinning [S.] was conferred on Michael (Balfour), 1st Lord Balfour of Burleigh [S.J " with the title of Lord of Kilwiuniug," to him and his heirs aud assigns whatever. See " Balfour of Burleigh," Barony [S.], cr. 1007. KILWORTH. i.e., "Kilwortii of Moore Park, co. Cork," Barony [I.] (Moore), cr. 1764 ; see " Mount Cashell," Viscountcy [I.], cr. 1766. KIMBERLEY. Barony. 1. Sir John Wodehouse, Bart., of Kiinljeriey, co. T . Norfolk, s. aud h. of Sir Airmyue Wodehouse, 5th Bart, of the same, L - UVl. by Letitia, 1st da. and coheir of Sir Edmund Bacon, 0th Bart., of Garboldisham, was b. 4 and bap. 25 April 1741, at St. James' Westm. ; mat. at Oxford (Ch. Ch.), 6 Feb. 1758 ; tuc his father, 31 May 1777, in the Saronetcu ler. 29 June 1011) ; Recorder of Falmouth ; M.P. for Norfolk, 1784 to 1797, when he was cr., 26 Oct. 1797, UAIiON WODEHOUSE OF KIMBEULEV, co. Norfolk. He to., 30 March 1769, at South Audley chapel, St. Geo. Han. sq., Sophia, da. and h. of the Hon. Charles Berkeley, of Bruton Abbey, Somerset, by Frances, da. of Col. John West. She, who was b. 0 Aug. 1747, aud who, in 1773, became heir to her uncle John, 5th and hist Baron Berkeley of Stratton, il. 16 April 1825, aged 78. He d. 29 May 1834, aged 93. Will pr. Sep. 1S34. II. 1834. 2. JonN (Wodehouse), Baron Wodehouse of Kimber- ley, s. and h., 11 Jim. 1770, and bap. 12 Feb. at St. Geo. Han. sq. • mat. at Oxford (Ch. Ch.), 14 Oct. 1787 ; M.P. for Great Bedwyn, 1796—1802, ■in'd'for Marlborough, 1818-26; sue. to the peerage, 29 May 1834 ; Col. of the East Norfolk Militia ; Lord Lieut, of co. Norfolk. He m., 18 Nov. 1796, at St. Maryle- (>) See vol. i., p- 208, note "o," for a list of the 18 Peerages [LJ, of which this was one, cr. on that day. (<>) He had rendered himseif obnoxious to the mob dunug the rebellion of 1798, from having to condemn so many of the insurgents to death, tho', as a judge, he was "fair candid aud gentle," and oven blamed for "a strenuous aud what some con- sidered an overstrained assertion of the liberty of the subject." See "Annual Register" for 1803. His great nephew, the Kev. Richard Straubenzie Wolfe, Rector of Kilbeggan U>. 7 Oct. 1779), shared his fate. They wero both dragged from their carriage and barbarously stabbed to death with pikes. A pension of ill ,000 a year was granted to his widow, and, on her death, among his children.