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4IO BUCKINGHAM Will pr. 13 Aug. 1861, under /^200.(') His widow, who was b. 10 July 1795, and who in 1850 had obtained a separation from her husband, d. 28 June 1862, at Stowe. Will pr. 22 Sep. 1862, under £-j,ooo, but resworn as under ;^ 10,000. DUKEDOM. III. MARQUESSATE. IV. 1861 to 1889. "1 3 and 4. Richard Plantagenet Camp- bell (Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos- Grenville), Duke of Buckingham and Chandos [1822], Marquess of Bucking- ham [1784], Marquess of Chandos [1822], Earl Temple [1749], Earl Temple of Stowe [i 822], Viscount Cobham and Baron Cobham [17 1 8]; also Earl Nugent C') [I. 1776]; also ("=) Lord Kinloss [S. 1602], only s. and h.() He was k 10 Sep. 1823, and bap. 15 June 1824, at Stowe. Ed. at Eton, and at Ch. Ch., Oxford; M.P. (Conserva- tive) for Buckingham, 1846-57; one of the Lords of the Treasury, Feb. to Dec. 1852; Privy Seal to the Prince of Wales, 1852-53; Chairman of the L. andN.W. Railway, 1852-61; D.C.L. Oxford, 7 June 1853; P.C. 6 July 1866; President OF the Council, July 1866 to Feb. i867;() Sec. of State for the Colonies, Mar. 1867-68; Lord Lieut, of Bucks, 1868 till his death. On 21 July 1868 he established his right to the Barony of Kinloss [S.], fr. 2 Feb. 1 60 1/2. Gov. of Madras, 1875-80; G.C.S.I., 28 June 1876. Chair- man of Committees in the House of Lords, 1886 till his death. He m., istly, 2 Oct. 1 851, at Langley, Bucks, Caroline, sister of Sir Robert Bateson Harvey, Bart., da. of Robert Harvey, of Langley afsd., by Jane Jemima, da. of John Raw Collins, of Hatch Court, Somerset. She d. 28 Feb. 1874. He m., 2ndly, 17 Feb. 1885, at St. Peter's, Eaton Sq., Midx., Alice Anne, ist da. of Sir Graham Graham-Montgomery, Bart., by Alice, da. of John James Hope-Johnstone, of Annandale. He d. s.p.m., 26 Mar. 1889, aged 6^, at Chandos House, Marylebone, and was bur. at Wotton. Will pr. at ^^79,942. At his death the Earldom of Temple of Stowe devolved on his nephew by the sister; the Viscountcy and Barony of Cobham on his cousin. Baron Lyttelton of Frankley; and the Barony of Kinloss on his ist da. and h. of line. His other honours became extinct. His widow m., 8 Aug. 1894, at the chapel in Lambeth Palace, as his 2nd C) He was the author of the Courts and Cabinets of George III, as also of Memoirs 01 the reigns of George IV, William IV, and Queen Victoria. He is the " Duke of Agincourt " and his wife " the Duchess," in Disraeli's Co«/«^j(!';'. G.E.C. "Few men will have passed away less honoured in their life or regretted in their death." (Greville's Diary, 4 Aug. 1 861). V.G. C") His claim as such was allowed in 1864. f) See note "a" on previous page. () For a list of Peers who, besides their Peerage of Pari., have possessed Peer- ages both in Scotland and Ireland, see ante, under " Abercorn," vol. i, p. 10, note " b." (') For the great offices of State see Appendix D to this volume.