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The titles became extinct in 1776 on the death of his son, the third Earl, without heirs. 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.
John Neville married Elizabeth Holland (c. 1388 – 1423), daughter of Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent, around 1394. They had three sons and one daughter: [9] Ralph Neville, 2nd Earl of Westmorland (4 April 1406 – 3 November 1484) [10] Margaret Neville (c. 1408 – between 5 May 1426 and 5 May 1434), who married Sir Thomas Lucy and left no ...
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 ...
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 ...
Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford (13 April 1732 – 5 August 1792), better known by his courtesy title Lord North, which he used from 1752 to 1790, was Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1770 to 1782.
Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (/ ˈ d ɛ v ə ˌ r uː /; 10 November 1565 – 25 February 1601) was an English nobleman and a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I. Politically ambitious, and a committed general, he was placed under house arrest following a poor campaign in Ireland during the Nine Years' War in 1599.
He was the eldest son of Sir John Neville (d.1420), and Elizabeth Holland (c. 1388–1423), daughter of Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent. [ 4 ] He had two brothers, John Neville, Baron Neville (c.1410–1461), who was killed at the Battle of Towton on 29 March 1461, [ 4 ] and Sir Thomas Neville (died 22 February 1458) [ 5 ] of Brancepeth , and ...
Eleanor Neville (c. 1398 –1472) was the second daughter of Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, by his second wife, Joan Beaufort, daughter of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, and Katherine Swynford. [1] Her second husband and four of her sons were all killed in battles during the Wars of the Roses.