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86 GRAVES— GRAY. victory of the 1st, Juno 1731, over the French fleet. He was in reward rr. 24 Oct. 179-1, LORD GRAVES, BARON OF GliAVESEND, co. Londonderry [I.], with a pension of £1,000 a year. He m., 22 June 1771, at Ottcry St. Mary, Devon, Elizabeth, da. and coheir of William Peero Williams, of Cad hay, Devon, by Elizabeth, da. and coheir of Peter Seicnoret. of Greenwich, and of Vevay in Switzerland. He d. 9 Feb. 1802, aged 76. Will pr. 1802. His widow d. in Cornwall, 1S27. Will pr. April 1827. II. 1S02. 2. TnoMAS North (Graves j Karon G raves of Graves- RSD fL], 1st s. and h., 6. 28 May 1775, at Tlianekes afsd. ; sue. to the peerage [I.], 1802; M.P. for Okehampton, 1812-18; for Windsor, 1819-20, and for Milborne Port, 1820-27 ; a Lord of the Bedchamber, 1813 ; a Commissioner ( f Excise, 1S27 ; Comptroller of the Household of //./?.//. the Duke of Sussex. He m., 27 June 1^03, at St. James' Westm., Mary, yst. da. of Henry (Paget), 1st EaBL OK Uxbiudge, by Jane. da. of the Very llev. Arthur Champagne. He </.. by his own hand,(») 7 Feb. 1830, aged 54, at his lodgings in Hanover street, Midx. Will pr, Nov. 1830. His widow, from whom he had been long separated, who was b. 9 April 1783, d, 29 April 1835, aged 52, in Clarges street, Piccadilly. Admon. Aug. 1835. III. 1830. 3. Thomas William (Graves), Baron Craves of Gravesend [I.J, 1st s. and h., 4. 18 April 1801, in Queen street, Mayfair, Midx. ; sometime Capt. 2d Foot Guards, and Aide-de-camp to the Lord Lieut, of Ireland ; sue. to the peerage [I.], in 1830. He >n. 11 Aug. 1829, Sophie Theresa, widow of Count Brijvere, da. of General Bfrthier. She d. s.p., of cholera, at Boulogne, 1 Aug. 1833, aged 29. He m. secondly (the date generally given being in the same year, 1833), Louise Adele MalIsNK. He (/. at Thauckes House, near Devonport, Devon, 20 March 1870, aged 65. His widow d. 27 Nov. 1 877, at Gravesend House, near Devonport. IV. 1870. J h Clarence Edward (Graves), Baron Graves of Giiavesend [I.], 2d and yst., but only surv. s. and h., by second wife ; b. 8 June 1817, at Gravesend House afsd. : ed. at Cheltenham College ; sometime, 1870-72, Lieut. R.N. He, presumably, sue. (.) the ■peerage [I.J, in 1870, but has not established his right thereto. He m. 8 June 1870. at St. Saviour's Pimlico, (Catherine Frederica, 1st da. of Sir Thomas William Clinton MURDOCH, K.C.M.G. Family Estates.— These, in 1883, were under 2,000 acres. GRAVESEND. See " Graves of Gravesend, co. Londonderry," Baiony [I.J, (Graves); cr. 1794. GRAY. Barony [S.] Sir Andrew Gray, of Broxmouth, co. Roxburgh, I 1445 1 a ' linc ^ k" °^ ^" A ntu ' ew Gray, of Broxmouth afsd., by his first wife, Janet, dn. and h. of Sir Roger Mortimer, of Foulis, co. Perth, was b. about 1390 ; was (v.p.), a hostage for King James I. fS.], in 1424, returning from England in 1427; was in 1436, one of the knights who accompanied Margaret of Scotland into France, on her marriage with Louis, afterwards Louis XI. of France; sue. his father about 1440, and was cr. a Lord of Pari. (LORD GRAY [S.]) about 1445,( b ) at some date before 5 July in that (») A full account thereof is given in the " Ann. Reg." for 1S30 and the possible causes which led thereto. See also " liaikes," vol. ii, p. 201. (b) Gray is placed as the sixth Barony [S.l, at the decreet of ranking in 1606 ; tho order being (1) Lindsay ; (2) Forbes ; (3) Glamis ; (4) Fleming ; (5) Saltoun ; and (6) Gray. The date of tho creation of Saltoun is 28 June 1445. The statement iu Wood's "Douglas" (vol. i, p. 666 and 675), that the creation of Gray "took place before 9 Oct, 1437," is corrected in vol. ii. of that work, p. 664.