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In 1755, Joseph Brittain received a land grant of more than one thousand acres between the Eno River and the Little River, from John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville. [1] [2] A two-story house was built on the property in 1775. [2] The land was later transferred from Brittain to William Cain. It passed down through the family to Edward Davis and ...
Quartered arms of John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, KG. John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, 7th Seigneur of Sark (/ k ɑːr t ə ˈ r ɛ t /; 22 April 1690 – 2 January 1763), commonly known by his earlier title Lord Carteret, was a British statesman and Lord President of the Council from 1751 to 1763 and worked closely with the Prime Minister of the country, Spencer Compton, Earl of ...
William A. V. Cecil was the younger son of Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt (1900–1976) and English-born aristocrat John Francis Amherst Cecil (1890–1954). He was the grandson of George Washington Vanderbilt II and Lord William Cecil, the great-grandson of William Henry Vanderbilt and William Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Exeter.
The Carteret estates were passed on to the late Earl's first cousin, the Hon. Henry Frederick Thynne, second son of Thomas Thynne, 2nd Viscount Weymouth, and his wife Lady Louisa Carteret, daughter of the second Earl Granville.
Arms of Watson, of Rockingham Castle: Argent, on a chevron engrailed azure between three martlets sable as many crescents.. Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham (13 May 1730 – 1 July 1782), styled The Honourable Charles Watson-Wentworth before 1739, Viscount Higham between 1739 and 1746, Earl of Malton between 1746 and 1750, and the Marquess of Rockingham from 1750, was a ...
Francis North, 4th Earl of Guilford (25 December 1761–1817) Lady Anne North (8 January 1764 – 18 January 1832), who married the 1st Earl of Sheffield on 20 January 1798 and had two children; Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford (7 February 1766–1827) Lady Charlotte North (December 1770–25 October 1849), who married Lt. Col.
George John Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer, portrait in oil by Joshua Reynolds, 1774 - 1776. Lord Spencer was born at Wimbledon Park House, London, the son of John Spencer, 1st Earl Spencer, and his wife Margaret Georgiana Poyntz, daughter of Stephen Poyntz, and was baptised there on 16 October 1758.
Cecil was born at Biltmore House in Asheville, North Carolina. He died in October 2020 at the age of 95. He died in October 2020 at the age of 95. His wife Nancy predeceased him.