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CAVENDISH-BENTINCK, GEORGE AUGUSTUS FREDERICK, only son of Lord Frederick Cavendish-Bentinck (qv); b. 8 Jul 1821; adm. 26 May 1834 (boarded with Mr Hodgson); Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 2 Mar 1839; MA 1844; Ensign and Lieut., 1st Foot Guards, 28 Jul 1840; retd. 21 May 1841; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 5 Apr 1842, called to bar 29 Jan 1846; equity draughtsman and conveyancer; MP (Cons) Taunton 1859-65, Whitehaven from 1865; Parliamentary Secretary, Board of Trade, 1874-5; Judge Advocate-General, 1875-80; Privy Councillor 27 Nov 1875; a well-known connoisseur; Trustee of the British Museum from 1871; Hon ARIBA 1878; his pictures and objets d’art were sold at Christies in 1891 (9 day sale); JP Cumberland, Dorset; author, Fact against Sensation : Speeches on Merchant Shipping Legislation, 1875; m. 14 Aug 1850 Prudence Penelope, fourth dau. of Charles Powell Leslie MP, Glasslough, co. Monaghan, Col. Monaghan Militia; d. 9 Apr 1891.

LOWTHER, HENRY, 3RD EARL OF LONSDALE, eldest son of Hon. Henry Cecil Lowther (qv); b. 27 Mar 1818; adm. 26 Apr 1830 (boarded with Mr Hodgson); Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 7 Jul 1834, fellow commoner 20 Oct 1835; MA 1838; Cornet, 1st Life Guards 24 Sep 1841; Lieut., 5 Sep 1843; Capt., 9 Mar 1849; sold out 1 Dec 1854; MP (Conservative) West Cumberland 1847 – 4 Mar 1872; DL Cumberland 1867, Lord Lieut. Cumberland and Westmorland from 14 Dec 1868; succ. uncle as 3rd Earl of Lonsdale 4 Mar 1872; member Jockey Club, Steward 1844-5; m. 31 Jul 1852 Emily Susan, eldest dau. of St. George Francis Caulfield, Donamon Castle, co. Roscommon; d. 15 Aug 1876.

GORDON-LENNOX, CHARLES HENRY, 6th DUKE OF RICHMOND AND LENNOX, and 1st DUKE OF GORDON, eldest son of Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond and Lennox (qv); b. 27 Feb 1818 (boarded with Mr Hodgson); styled Earl of March 1819-60; adm. 6 May 1830; Ch. Ch. Oxford, matr. 20 Oct 1836; BA 1839; DCL 1870; Cornet, Royal Horse Guards 24 May 1839; Lieut., 27 Sep 1842; Capt. on half-pay 27 Sep 1844; MP (Cons) West Sussex 1841 – 21 Oct 1860; President, Poor Law Board Mar – Jun 1859; Privy Councillor 3 Mar 1859; succ. father as 6th Duke of Richmond and Lennox 21 Oct 1860; KG 6 Feb 1867; President, Board of Trade 8 Mar 1867 – Dec 1868; Leader of Conservative Peers in House of Lords 1870-6; Lord President of the Council 21 Feb 1874 – Apr 1880; created Duke of Gordon 13 Jan 1876; President, Board of Trade 24 Jun – Aug 1885; Secretary of State for Scotland 17 Aug 1885 – Feb 1886; a recoognised authority on agricultural affairs, serving as Chairman, Royal Commission on Agriculture 1879; DL Banffshire 1846, Lord Lieut. from 25 Aug 1879; DL Aberdeenshire 1864; LLD Cambridge 1894; LLD Aberdeen 1895; Busby Trustee from 21 May 1867; m. 28 Nov 1843 Frances Harriet, eldest dau. of Algernon Frederick Greville, Bath King of Arms and private secretary to Duke of Wellington; d. 27 Sep 1903. DNB.

GORDON-LENNOX, LORD HENRY CHARLES GEORGE, third son of Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond and Lennox (qv); b. 2 Nov 1821; adm. 1 Jun 1836 (boarded with Mr Hodgson); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 21 Oct 1840; BA 1843; MA 1847; precis writer, Foreign Office Feb 1845 – Feb 1846; MP (Cons) Chichester Feb 1846 – 85; a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury Mar – Dec 1852, Mar 1858 – Mar 1859; Secretary to the Admiralty Jul 1866 – Dec 1868; First Commissioner of Works Feb 1874 – Jul 1876, when he was compelled to resign owing to involvement in a financial scandal; Privy Councillor 7 Jul 1874; m. 25 Jan 1883 Amelia Susannah, widow of Richard Archibald Brooman, Neville House, Twickenham, Middlesex, and subsequently of John White, Arddarroch, Dumbartonshire, chemical manufacturer, and dau. of --- Smith; d. 28 Aug 1886. DNB.

PAGET, HENRY WILLIAM GEORGE, 3rd MARQUIS OF ANGLESEY, only son of Henry Paget, 2nd Marquis of Anglesey (qv), and his first wife; b. 9 Dec 1821; adm. 7 Jun 1836 (boarded with Mr Hodgson); left Jul 1837; Ensign and Lieut., 1st Foot Guards 21 May 1841; retd. 23 May 1845; MP (Whig) South Staffordshire Feb 1854-7; styled Earl of Uxbridge 1854-69; succ. father as 3rd Marquis of Anglesey 6 Feb 1869; took Liberal whip, House of Lords; DL Staffordshire 1851; m. 7 Jun 1845 Sophia, dau. of James Eversfield, Denne Park, Sussex; d. 30 Jan 1880.

BANKES, GEORGE, third son of Henry Bankes (qv); b. 1 Dec 1787; in school lists 1795,1797,1801,1803; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm. pens. 29 Jun 1805, scholar, matr. Lent 1806; LLB 1812; Fellow of Trin. Hall 19 Feb 1814 -22; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 22 May 1810, called to bar 2 Jul 1813; Inner Temple 1815; Commissioner of Appeals of Excise 6 May 1815 – Feb 1816; a Commissioner of Bankrupts 1822 (occurs in annual lists 1823-8); MP Corfe Castle 13 Feb 1816 - Mar 1823, 23 Feb 1826-32, Dorset from 1841; Recorder of Weymouth from 1823; Cursitor Baron of the Exchequer from 16 Jul 1824; Secretary, Board of Control 1828 - Feb 1830; member, Board of Control Feb - Nov 1830; a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury Apr - Nov 1830; Judge Advocate-General 28 Feb - Dec 1852; Privy Councillor 27 Feb 1852; chairman, Dorset Quarter Sessions; a Conservative politician; author, The Story of Corfe Castle, 1853; m. 8 Jun 1822 Georgina Charlotte, only child of Adm. of the Fleet Sir Charles Edmund Nugent GCH MP; d. 6 Jul 1856. DNB.

DOWDESWELL, WILLIAM, son of William Dowdeswell (adm. 1730, qv); b. 27 Feb 1760; adm. 19 Jan 1770; in school lists 1775; adm. Inner Temple year 1779/80; Ensign, 1st Foot Guards 6 May 1780; Lieut. and Capt. 4 May 1785; Capt. and Lieut. -Col. , 8 Feb 1794; Col. (brevet) 25 Jun 1797; Lieut. -Col, 60th Foot 18 Jan 1798; 86th Foot, 24 Feb 1803; Major-Gen. , 25 Sep 1803; Lieut. -Gen. , 25 Jul 1810; Gen. , 19 Jul 1821; MP Tewkesbury 19 Mar 1792 - Nov 1797; served in Netherlands 1793; Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Bahama Islands 1797-1801; went out to Madras 1802 as private secretary to Lord William Cavendish-Bentinck (qv); served in Mahratta War 1804-5; Commander-in-Chief, India 1807, but soon afterwards compelled to return to England on health grounds; retired from active service 1811 on inheriting Pull Court estate; a famous collector of engravings and one of the first to make a speciality of grangerising; FSA 24 Dec 1795; d. unm. 1 Dec 1828. DNB.

DOWDESWELL, WILLIAM, elder son of William Dowdeswell MP, Pull Court, Bushley, Worcs., and his second wife Anne, sister of James Hammond (qv); stepson of Noel Broxholme (qv); b. 12 Mar 1721; adm. (aged 9) Mar 1730; left 1736; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 2 Apr 1737; Leyden Univ. 1745; Grand Tour 1746-7 (said to have travelled in Italy, Sicily and Greece)[but Greece seems a little unlikely : check]; of Pull Court, Worcestershire; MP Tewkesbury 1747-54, Worcestershire from 1761; one of the leaders of the Rockingham Whig party in the House of Commons; Chancellor of the Exchequer 13 Jul 1765 - Jul 1766; Privy Councillor 10 Jul 1765; declined to remain in office under Chatham; carried a motion for the reduction of the land tax against the government Jan 1767; a leading opposition politician until his health broke down in 1774; described by Burke as “a senator for twenty years, a minister for one, a virtuous citizen for his whole life”; Busby Trustee from 16 Mar 1769; m. 15 Nov 1747 Bridget, sister of Sir William Codrington, Bart. (qv); d. at Nice 6 Feb 1775. DNB.

SACKVILLE, CHARLES, 2ND DUKE OF DORSET, eldest son of Lionel Cranfield Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset (qv); b. 6 Feb 1710/1; adm. May 1720; took part of Cassius in play Julius Caesar, acted by the boys “at the Theatre over against the Opera House” Jan 1727/8 (Life and Correspondence of Mrs Delany, 1st series, i, 158); styled Earl of Middlesex 1720-65; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 27 Nov 1728; MA 1730; Grand Tour (Italy) 1731-3, 1736-8; member, Society of Dilettanti 1736; MP East Grinstead 1734-41, Sussex 14 Jan 1742-7, Old Sarum 17 Dec 1747-54, East Grinstead 1761 – 10 Oct 1765; a Lord of the Treasury 23 Dec 1743 – Jun 1747; Master of the Horse to Frederick, Prince of Wales 6 Oct 1747-51; succ. father as 2nd Duke of Dorset 10 Oct 1765; Lord Lieut., Kent, from 17 Dec 1765; Privy Councillor 10 Feb 1766; an extravagant man of fashion who spent large sums of money on the management of operas; played cricket for Kent in 1734 and 1735, and an enthusiastic supporter of the game; writer of verse, and author of A Treatise concerning the Militia, 1752; m. 30 Oct 1744 Hon. Grace Boyle, Mistress of the Robes to Augusta, Princess of Wales, dau. of Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon (I); d. 5 Jan 1769. DNB.

SACKVILLE, LORD JOHN PHILIP, son of Lionel Cranfield Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset (qv); b. 22 Jun 1713; adm. Sep 1721; in school list 1729; MP Tamworth 1734-47; Lieut. of Dover Castle Jul 1734; Equerry to Queen Caroline Sep 1736 [but not listed by Sainty]; Capt., 37th Foot 2 Apr 1734; Capt., 2nd Foot Guards 1 May 1740; “removed from the service” Sep 1746; Gentleman of the Bedchamber to Frederick, Prince of Wales Jan 1744/5-9 [but not listed by Sainty]; latterly a lunatic and sent to live abroad; m. 1 Jan 1743/4 Hon. Frances Leveson Gower, fifth dau. of John Leveson Gower, 1st Earl Gower (qv); d. 3 Dec 1765.