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94 GREVILLE— GREY. patronymic of Grcville and was er.. 15 Dec. 1809, BARON OHEVILLE OF CLONYN, co. Westmeath ; Lord Lieut, of co. Westmeath, 1871. His wife, who was I. May 1814, d. 17 Jan. 1SS3, aged 68, at Eoulogne-sur-ruer. He d., a few days later, at Clonyn Castle, 26 Jan. 1S83, aged 61. Will pr. 15 May 1883 above £04,000. II. 1883. 2. Algernon William Fulke (Greville-Ntigent, afttrvmrdt Greviixe), Babon Grkyille of Clouts, s. and h., 6. 11 Feb. 1811, in London ; sometime Capt. Is*, Life Guards ; M.I', for co. Westmeath, 1865-74 ; Groom in Waiting, 1808-73 ; a Lord of the Treasury, 1873-71 ; sue. to the peerage, 18S3. He, by Koyal lie, 10 March 1S83, resumed the name of Onrille only.(a) He m., lfi Pec. 1S03, Beatrice Violet, 2d da. of James (GhaHaM), 4th Duke ok Montuose [S.J. by Caroline Agnes, da. of John (BbbeSFORd), 2d Babon Decies [I.] She was b. 13 Feb. 1842. Family Estates.— These, in 18S3, consisted of 9,873 acres in co. Westmeath ; 3,990 in co. Roscommon ; 1,970 in eo. C'avau ; 1,236 in on. Longford and 451 in co. Cork, besides 1,178 in Kent (valued at £2,081 a year.) Total 1S.00S acres, valued at £18,194 a year. Principal liesidenrc. Clonyu Castle, near Delvin, co. Westmeath. GREV.( b ) M arquessate. jf. HenHY (C! ii ey DtjKK OF KbkT [171G], MARQUESS I 1~40 nK ^ Btra [1708], Eaiil OF Kent [1405], Earl ok Harold and Viscount GODKBICB [1700], and Babon Lucas ok CiU'DWell [1063], was, 19 May 1710 (having mi male issue then surviving), cr. MARQUESS GBEY,f c ) with a spce. rem. of that dignity, failing heirs male of his body, to his giandaughter. Jemima Cami-uell [Spinster], and the heirs male of her body. He d. s.p.m.s., 5 Juue 1740, a few weeks after such creation, when all his honours, save the Barony of Lucas and this Manpiessate, became extinct. See fuller account under "Kent" Dukedom of, er. 1710; ex. 1710. II. 1740, ,'. J emi.ua, quo jure, Marchioness Grey and Baroness to Lucas, giandaughter and eldest coheir, inherited the above peerages 1797. under the spec. Urn. in the respective creations thereof. She was 1st. da. of Johu (Ca.mhiell), 3d Eahl ok Bhkaualbane being his only surv. child by his 1st wife, Amabella, eldest of the four daughters and coheirs of Henry (Gkev), DDKR ok Kent, M a hquess GbeT, &c, abovenamed. She was b. 9 Oct. 1722; m. 22 May 1710, Philip (Yohke), 2d Kabl ok Hardwicke, who sue. to that Earldom, 0 May 1704. and who (/. 16 May 1790, in his 70th year. The Marchioness, his widow </. s.p.ni., 10 Jan. 1797, in ht. James' square. Midx., when the Martjuessatc of Grey became extinct, the Barony of Lucas of Crudwell, devolving on her eldest da. and coheir.^) Her will pr. Jan. 1797. See "DE GREY OF WREST, co. Bedford," Earldom {Hume- Campbell), cr. 1816. (a) As every acre of property he possessed was apparently derived from his maternal family of Nugent this appears a somewhat ungracious proceeding. ( b ) See p. 96, note " a," sub " Grey de Codnor," as to the peerages enjoyed by this wide-spreading family. (e) See vol. iii, p. 37, note "b," sub " De Grey," as to form of " Grey " or " De Grey." (<») This was Amabella (wife of A. Hume- Campbell, styled Viscount Polwarth) who in 1816, was cr. Countess de Grey of Wrest, with a spec. rem. of that dignity. See under " De Grey."