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2i8 COMPLETE PEERAGE Armstrong purchased the estate of Euston, Suffolk, from the family of Fielding, and the plot of land lying west of St. James's Park, Midx. (whereon he built Arlington House), from Hugh Audley, Registrar of the Court of Wards, the well known miser. He w., soon after Mar. 1664/5, Isabella, da. of Louis DE Nassau, Baron of Leck and Beverwaet, in Holland, by Elisabeth, da. of Jean, Count of Hornes, Seigneur de Kessel. He d. s.p.m., 28 July 1685, aged 67, at Arlington House, afsd., and was bur. at Euston. His widow d. 18, and was bur. 25 Jan. ijijjS, in her 87th year, at Euston. Willpr. Feb. 17 17/8. II. 1685. 2. Isabella, Duchess OF Grafton, and j»oy«rtf Count- ess OF Arlington, fsfc, only da. and h., wife of Henry (Fitzroy), 1st Duke of Grafton, K.G., to whom (when he was aged 9 and she about 4 years) she was m., i Aug. 1672, and again 6 Nov. 1679. He d. 9 Oct. 1690, and was bur. at Euston, aged 27. She w., 2ndly, 1698, (Lie. Bp. of London, 14 Oct. 1698, to marry at Whitechapel, he aged about 24, and she about 25) Sir Thomas Hanmer, 3rd Bart. (^) He d. s.p., 5 May 1746. She d. 7 Feb. 1722/3, in her 56th year. III. 1723. 3. Charles (Fitzroy), Duke of Grafton, tfc, who had sue. his father as such in 1690, and who sue. his mother as Earl of Arlington, ^c, in 1722/3, only s. and h. See " Grafton," Dukedom of, er. 1675, (under the 2nd Duke), in which title the Earldom and the two Baronies of Arlington and the Viscountey of Thetford became merged. ARMAGH C) See " Chaworth of Armagh, " Viscountey [I.] (Chaworth)^ cr. 1627, extinet 1644. See "RoKEBYOF Armagh," Barony[I.] (Robinson), cr. ijyjyextinetiSi^- i.e. " Armagh " Earldom [I.] {H.R.H. Prince Ernest Augustus), cr. 1799 with the Dukedom of Cumberland, which see. ARMSTRONG OF CRAGSIDE BARONY. William George Armstrong, only s. of William . Q Armstrong, Alderman, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, by ^- '^^7 Anne, da. of William Potter, of W^albottle Hall, North- ° umber land, was b. at the Shieldfield in Newcastle, 26 Nov., ^^°' and /^a/. Dec. 18 10, at All Saints there. Ed. at Bishop (') He was Speaker of the House of Commons 17 13-15, and editor of Shakes- pear. V.G. C) Turlough Lynach O'Neill asked to be appointed President of Ulster, and to be cr. Earl of Armagh, and Baron of the Benburbe, 4 July 1579. A patent creating him Baron of Clogher, and Earl of Clanconnell, had passed the Seal 18 May 1578. He never assumed any of these titles, and in 1587 petitioned to be cr. Earl of Omagh for life. For fuller particulars see sub Clanconnell. V.G.