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AMHERST, WILLIAM PITT, 2ND EARL AMHERST, son of William Pitt Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst (qv) and his first wife; b. 3 Sep 1805; adm. 1 Apr 1818 (Packharness'); KS 1820; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1824, matr. 28 May 1824, Westminster Student; BA 1828; styled Viscount Holmesdale 1826-57; MP East Grinstead Feb 1829-32; succ. his father as 2nd Earl Amherst 13 Mar 1857; Busby Trustee 18 May 1869; DL JP Kent; m. 12 Jul 1834 Gertrude, sixth dau. of Hon. and Right Rev. Hugh Percy DD, Bishop of Carlisle; d. 26 Mar 1886.

BAYNTUN, SAMUEL ADLAM, eldest son of Rev. Henry Bayntun, Rector of Bromham, Wilts., and Lucy ---; b. 15 Mar 1804; adm. 18 Sep 1817 (Packharness'); left Christmas 1817; Pembroke Coll. Oxford, matr. 15 Jan 1821; BA 1824; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 5 Nov 1825; Cornet, 1st Dragoon Guards, 20 Jul 1826; Cornet and Sub-Lieut., 1st Life Guards, 27 Jul 1828; Lieut., unattached, 7 Jun 1831; 1st Life Guards, 5 Jul 1831; retd. 23 Mar 1832; MP York from 1830; d. 28 Sep 1833.

CURTEIS, EDWARD BARRETT, second son of Edward Jeremiah Curteis (qv); b. 25 Jul 1804; adm. 3 Feb 1815 (Packharness'); shot snipe in osier beds close to the Willow Walk, in the Long Meadow, and in the osiers of the Chelsea Waterworks at Battersea; master of a pack of beagles, kept in the kitchen of 1 Vincent Square, which hunted in Battersea Fields (Elizabethan ii, 130); left 1821; Ensign, 33rd Foot 5 Dec 1822; Lieut., 1st Royal Dragoons 4 Aug 1825; Capt., 7th Dragoon Guards 12 Apr 1827; Maj., 17 Oct 1834; sold out 8 Jul 1836; MP Rye 1832-7; author, Exposure of the corrupt system of elections at Rye, 1853; m. 1st, 9 Mar 1837 Charlotte Lydia, youngest dau. of Thomas Law Hodges MP, Hempstead Park, Kent; m. 2nd, 15 Sep 1841 Frances, eldest dau. of William Kenrick MP, Broome Park, Surrey; d. 14 Dec 1879.

DOWDESWELL, WILLIAM, elder son of John Edmund Dowdeswell (qv); b. 8 Oct 1804; adm. 12 Jun 1816 (Packharness'); left 1822; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 22 Oct 1822; BA 1826; MA 1829; of Pull Court, Worcestershire; MP (Cons) Tewkesbury 1835-47; DL Worcestershire, JP 1831, High Sheriff 1855; JP Gloucestershire; m. 19 Mar 1839 Amelia Letitia, youngest dau. of Robert Graham, Cossington House, Somerset; d. 6 Feb 1887.

DUNN-GARDNER, JOHN, eldest surviving son of John Margetts, St. Ives, Hunts., brewer, and Sarah, wife of George Ferrers Townshend, 3rd Marquis Townshend, and dau. of William Dunn Gardner, Chatteris, Isle of Ely; b. 20 Jul 1811; adm. 16 Jun 1819 (Packharness'); left Nov 1828; assumed surname of Townshend in lieu of Margetts 1823, and known for some years as Lord John Townshend; subsequently assumed courtesy title of Earl of Leicester, but was declared by an Act of Parliament passed in 1843 to have no right to that title; assumed surname of Dunn-Gardner in lieu of Townshend 10 Aug 1843; MP (Cons) Bodmin 1841-7; DL Cambridgeshire, High Sheriff Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire 1859; JP Isle of Ely; a collector of early English and foreign silver (sold Christies Apr 1902 for £39, 020); m. 1st, 9 Dec 1847 Mary, sister of Richard Lawson (qv); m. 2nd, 15 Mar 1853 Ada, dau. of William Pigott, Dullingham House, Newmarket, Cambs.; d. 11 Jan 1903.

DYOTT, RICHARD, elder son of Gen. William Dyott, Freeford Hall, near Lichfield, Staffs., and Eleanor, dau. of Samuel Thompson, Green Mount, co. Antrim; b. 26 May 1808; adm. 16 Jun 1819 (Packharness'); left Jun 1826; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 25 Jun 1824, matr. 1826; Ensign, 63rd Foot 11 Oct 1827; 70th Foot 17 Sep 1829; Lieut., half-pay, unattached, 14 Jun 1831; 53rd Foot, 21 Jun 1831; Capt., 31 Aug 1838, half-pay 1 Jul 1842; 36th Foot 25 Feb 1848, retired same day; DL Staffordshire, JP 1842, High Sheriff 1856; MP (Cons) Lichfield 1865-80; m. 6 Dec 1849 Ellen Catherine, only dau. of Charles Smith Forster MP, Lysways Hall, Staffs.; d. 13 Feb 1891.

GOOCH, SIR EDWARD SHERLOCK, BART., eldest son of Sir Thomas Sherlock Gooch, Bart. (qv); b. 6 Jun 1802; adm. 10 Jan 1815 (Packharness'); left Bartholomewtide 1817; Cornet, 14th Light Dragoons 27 May 1819; Lieut., 12 Oct 1820; Capt., 30 Dec 1824; retd. 19 Apr 1827; MP (Cons) East Suffolk from Feb. 1846; Provincial Grand Master of Freemasons from 1851; succ. father as 6th baronet 18 Dec 1851; m. 1st, 23 Jan 1828 Louisa Anna Maria, second dau. of Sir George Beeston Prescott, Bart.; m. 2nd, 1 Mar 1839 Harriet, third dau. of James Hope-Vere, Craigie Hall, Linlithgowshire; d. 9 Nov 1856.

MORGAN, CHARLES OCTAVIUS SWINNERTON, fourth son of Sir Charles Morgan, Bart. (adm. 1771, qv); b. 15 Sep 1803; adm. 19 Jun 1816 (Packharness', later Stelfox's, head of house 1821); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 26 Jun 1822; BA 1825; MA 1832; MP (Conservative) Monmouthshire Feb 1841-74; FSA 1830, Vice-Pres.; FRS 2 Feb 1832; a well-known antiquary and collector of gold and silver plate; DL Monmouthshire, JP Monmouthshire 1830; d. unm. 5 Aug 1888. DNB.

MURRAY, WILLIAM DAVID, 3RD EARL OF MANSFIELD (cr. 1776) and 4TH EARL OF MANSFIELD (cr. 1792), eldest son of David William Murray, 3rd Earl of Mansfield (qv); b. 21 Feb 1806; styled Viscount Stormont 1806-40; adm. 19 Sep 1816 (Packharness'); left Christmas 1822; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 14 Apr 1823; MP (Cons) Aldborough 1830-1 New Woodstock 1831-2 Norwich 1832-7 Perthshire 1837 – 18 Feb 1840; a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury 1834-5; succ. father as 4th Earl of Mansfield (cr. 1792) 18 Feb 1840, and grandmother as 3rd Earl of Mansfield (cr. 1776) 11 Jul 1843; took Conservative whip, House of Lords; Lord High Commissioner to General Assembly, Church of Scotland 1852, 1858-9; Lord Lieut., Clackmannanshire, from 1852; KT 13 Jun 1843; “father” of the House of Lords; m. 8 Apr 1829 Louisa, dau. of Cuthbert Ellison MP, Hepburn Hall, co. Durham; d. 2 Aug 1898.

WELD-FORESTER, GEORGE CECIL, 3rd BARON FORESTER, second son of Cecil Weld-Forester, 1st Baron Forester (qv); b. 10 May 1807; adm. 20 May 1818 (Packharness'); left Bartholomewtide 1822; Cornet, Royal Horse Guards 27 May 1824; Lieut., 1 Aug 1826; Capt., 6 Jul 1832; Maj., 9 Nov 1846; Lieut. -Col., 19 Sep 1848; Col., 25 Nov 1854; Major-Gen., 29 Jan 1863; Lieut. -Gen., 25 Oct 1871; Gen. (retd. ) 1 Oct 1877; MP (Conservative ) Wenlock 17 Jun 1828 - 10 Oct 1874; “father” of the House of Commons 1873-4; Groom of the Bedchamber Feb 1830 – c. Feb 1831; Comptroller of the Household Mar – Dec 1852, Feb 1858 – Jul 1859; Privy Councillor 27 Feb 1852; succ. brother as 3rd Baron Forester 10 Oct 1874; for many years a well-known figure in London society; m. 8 Nov 1862 Hon. Mary Ann Ricketts, widow of Col. David Ochterlony Dyce-Sombré MP, and third dau. of Edward Jervis Ricketts, 2nd Viscount St. Vincent; d. 14 Feb 1886.