Gilbert, his eldest son, succeeded his Lordship in honour and estate. William, the youngest son, was of a generous, candid, and engaging temper, joined with an inviolable attachment to our constitution and civil liberties; and zealously affected to our present happy establishment. He served for the county of Durham, in the parliament that sat first on business, November 18th, 1708; and afterwards for Steyning, in Sussex. And our late Sovereign was pleased, by privy-seal, dated at St. James's, June 12th, 1720, and by patent, dated at Dublin, on October 13th following, to create him a Viscount and Baron of the Kingdom of Ireland, by the title of Viscount Vane, and Baron of Duncannon, in the county of Tyrone. He married Lucy, daughter and coheiress of William Jolliffe, Esq. of Caverswall Castle, in Staffordshire; and dying in 1734, left issue by her, who died March 27th, 1742, William, second Viscount Vane, well known for his eccentricities, and for the imprudence with which he squandered away a large fortune; till a life begun in wasteful affluence, closed in 1789, under the sufferings of long pecuniary embarrassment, without issue by his wife, the daughter of Mr. Hawes, a South Sea Director, and the widow of Lord William Hamilton: a Lady, whose name in the annals of gallantry was long too conspicuous. GILBERT, SECOND LORD BERNARD, the eldest son, baptized in London on April 17th; 1678, married Mary, daughter to Morgan Randle, of Chilworth, in the county of Surrey, Esq. by whom he had issue six sons, and three daughters. 1. Henry. succeeded him in honour and estate, and was created Earl of Darlington. 2. Morgan, in 1729, arrived at St. James's, from Mr. Stanhope (late Earl of Harrington), Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Court of Spain, with the treaty concluded and signed by that court on November 9th, N. S. In 1732, he was made Comptroller of the Stamp-office; in which year, on January 23d, he was married to Margaret, daughter of Robert Knight, Esq. late cashier of the South-Sea Company; and sh 9 He had a large fortune out of the Newcastle estates, and had the seat at Fairlawn from his father: which his son devised in 1789 to David Papillon, Esq. who sold it to Mr. Simpson. r British Parl. Regist. No. 70, and 194. • Her Memoirs, said to be written by herself, may be found in a well known novel of Smollet. 1 dying at Bath, in May, 1739, left a son, Morgan Vane, who was Comptroller of the Stamp duties, and who died at Harrowgate, November, 1779; having married on July 4th, 1760, Miss Upton, and by her had a daughter, who died 1778. He, secondly, married Mary, daughter of -Fowler, of Feltham, in Middlesex, Esq. but by her, who died at Bilby, in Nottinghamshire, July 11th, 1771, had no issue. Thomas, third son, seated at Straindrop-Hall, in com. Pal. Durham, died unmarried, on February 19th, 1758. Gilbert, fourth son, in February 1732, was made an Ensign in the first regiment of foot-guards, and after Lieutenant in the same; and, in the rebellion in 1745, was Lieutenant-Colonel to the Earl of Berkeley's new-raised regiment of foot. He was Deputy-Treasurer of Chelsea-College, and died October 28th; 1772. Randle, fifth son, died in the twenty-first year of his age. Charles, sixth son, was settled in the county of Norfolk. He was married, February 15th, 1776, to eldest daughter of Richard Wood, Esq. His three daughters were, Anne, who died at the Bath, unmarried, on March 11th, 1735-6; Elizabeth, wedded to Sir William Humble, of Thorpe-underwood, in Northamptonshire, Bart, and died February 22d, 1770, aged fifty-seven; and Jane, to Thomas Staunton, of Stock-Grove, in the county of Bucks, Esq. Lady Barnard, their mother, died on August 4th, 1728, in the forty-seventh year of her age: and his Lordship deceasing on April 27th, 1753, aged seventy-five, was succeeded by his eldest son. HENRY, FIRST EARL OF DARLINGTON, whilst he was a Commoner, was first elected, on a vacancy, May 27th, 1726, a Member for Launceston, in that parliament summoned to meet on May 10th, 1722; and for St. Maws, in the two succeeding. To the parliament summoned to meet on June 25th, 1741, he was chosen for Rippon; and in the next for the county of Durham. In 1742, he was appointed Vice-Treasurer, Receiver-General, and Paymaster-General of all his Majesty's revenues in Ireland; and was made one of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, in 1749. In 1753, he succeeded his father in his honour and estate: and his Majesty was pleased to create him a Viscount and Earl of this kingdom, by the styles and titles of Viscount Barnard, ‚t Coffin-plate. EARL OF DARLINGTON, by letters-patents, April 3d, 1754. On March 6th, 1758, his Lordship departed this life, being then Lord Lieutenant and Vice-Admiral of the county of Durham, and joint paymaster of the forces. In 1725, he married Lady Grace Fitz. roy, third daughter of Charles Duke of Cleveland; and by her Ladyship, who survived him till September, 1763, he had three sons, and three daughters. 1. Henry, his successor. 2. The Honourable Frederick Vane, was born on June 26th, 1732, and at the general election, in 1761, was returned one of the Knights for the county of Durham to the twelfth parliament of Great Britain; married, first, Henrietta, sister to Sir William Meredith, Bart. by whom he had an only daughter, who mar、 Fied, February 22d, 1795, Captain Metcalf; and, secondly, Grace, second daughter of Arthur Lysaght, younger brother of John, Lord Lisle. And, 3. The Honourable Raby Vane, born on January 2d, 1736; and being bred to a maritime life, was Captain of one of his Majesty's ships of war. When his elder brother succeeded to the Peerage, he was elected, in his Lordship's room, Knight for the county of Durham; and was returned one of the citizens for Carlisle to the parliament which met first on business, November 3d, 1761. He married, at St. George's church, Hanover Square, 17th, April, 1768, to --, daughter of the late Bishop Eyre, and died in October, 1769. His Lordship's three daughters were, Lady Anne, married, in March, 1746, to the Honourable Charles Hope Weir, of CraigeHall, in Scotland, Esq. brother to the late Earl of Hopetoun, from whom being divorced, she, secondly, married the Honourable Brigadier-General George Monson, and died in the East-Indies in 1775; Lady Mary, wedded, in October, 1752, to Ralph Carr, of Cocken, in com. Pal. Durham, Esq. and died April 11th, 1781; and Lady Henrietta, who was born on December 26th, 1738, and died on January 20th, 1759, unmarried. HENRY, his Lordship's eldest son and successor, as aforesaid, SECOND EARL OF DARLINGTON, being present at Cambridge at the instalment of his Grace the Duke of Newcastle Chancellor of the University, was, on July 30th, 1749, admitted Master of Arts of that University. His Lordship was on a vacancy elected Member for Downton, in Wiltshire, to the tenth parlia ment of Great Britain, and sat for that borough till he vacated his seat by accepting the offices of Steward and Bailiff of the three Chiltern hundreds, of Stoke, Disborough, and Burnham, in Buckinghamshire, after his father's succession to the Peerage, as Lord Barnard, when he was chosen in his place one of the Knights for the county of Durham; which he continued afterwards to represent, until he became entitled to a seat in the House of Peers by the death of his father, on March 6th, 1758, as Earl of Darlington, &c. On June 3d that year, he was declared Lord Lieutenant, and Vice-Admiral, of the said county palatine of Durham, and continued in the same places by his present Majesty; who, moreover, on January 29th, 1763, constituted him Master of the Jewel-office, and Governor of Carlisle in August following. His Lordship was also an Alderman of the city of Durham, and Colonel of the Militia of the said county. Betaking himself to a military life in his youth, he rose gradually till he got the command of a company in the second (or Coldstream), regiment of foot-guards, with the rank of Colonel of foot; but resigned his commission in 1758. His Lordship, on March 10th, 1757, married Margaret, sister of Sir James Lowther, Bart. afterwards Earl of Lonsdale, and by her Ladyship had two daughters. Lady Grace, born December 3d, 1757, who died fourteen days old; and Lady Elizabeth, born April 28th, 1759, who died in July, 1765; and a son, William-Harry, Lord Barnard, his successor. His Lordship died September 8th, 1792, and was succeeded by his only son, WILLIAM-HARRY VANE, THIRD EARL OF DARLINGTON, born July 27th, 1766. His Lordship married, September 19th, 1787, Catharine, daughter of Harry, sixth and last Duke of Bolton, by whom (who died June 16th, 1807), he had Henry, Viscount Barnard, born August 16th, 1788. William-John-Frederick, born April 3d, 1792. Caroline-Mary, born February 8th, 1795, and died the 11th May following. Augusta-Henrietta, born December 26th, 1796. His Lordship is Lord Lieutenant and Vice-Admiral of the bishoprick of Durham. Titles. William-Harry Vane, Earl of Darlington, Viscount and Baron Barnard, of Barnard-Castle, in the bishoprick of Durham. Creations. Baron Barnard, of Barnard-Castle, in the bishoprick of Durham, by letters-patent, July 8th (1699) 10th William III.; Viscount Barnard, and Earl of Darlington, April 3d (1754) 27 George II. Arms. Azure, three gauntlets, Or. Crest. On a wreath a dexter hand in armour, couped at the wrist, Proper, holding a sword, Argent, hilt and pomel, Or. Supporters. On the dexter side a griphon, Argent; on the sinister, an antelope, Or; each gorged with a plain collar, Azure; the dexter charged with three left-hand gauntlets, as in the coat; the other with three Martlets, Or. Motto. NEC TEMERE NEC TIMIDE. Chief Seat. At Raby-Castle, in the bishoprick of Durham. |