and was farther advanced to be VISCOUNT HOWICK, and EARL GREY, April 11th, 1806. He died November 14th, 1807, aged seventy-eight, being then Governor of Guernsey

His Lordship married at Southwick, co. Durham, in 1762, Elizabeth, daughter of George Grey, of Southwick' aforesaid, Esq. By this Lady, who still survives, he had a numerous family; viz.

1. Henry, born in 1763, died an infant.

2. Charles, the present Earl.

3. Henry-George, born October 25th, 1766; a Major-general in the army, Lieutenant-governor and commander of the forces at the Cape of Good Hope, and Lieutenant-colonel of the 17th regiment dragoons.

4. George, born October 10th, 1767, Captain of the Royal Charlotte yacht, in the royal navy, resident Commissioner at Portsmouth dock-yard; married, July 1795, Mary, sister to Samuel Whitbread, Esq. by whom he has issue Mary, born April 3d, 1796; Elizabeth, born December 1800; and George, May 11th, 1799.

5. Thomas, born 1770; died 1797, unmarried.

6. William, born October 20th, 1777, a Lieutenant-colonel in the army, Lieutenant-colonel of the sixth veteran battalion, and Lieutenant-governor of Chester, married, 1805, Maria, daughter of the late Lieutenant-general William Shirreff, and has a daughter, Elizabeth, born 1806.

7. Edward, born March 25th, 1782, in Holy Orders, Rector of Reasmere, Wilts, married, March 21st, 1809, Miss C. Croftes, daughter of J. Croftes, Esq. of Greenham, Berks.

Lady Elizabeth, born April 7th, 1765; married, January 18th, 1789, Samuel Whitbread, Esq. M. P. for Bedford, and has issue, Elizabeth, born December 21st, 1791; William, born January 4th, 1795; Samuel-Charles, born February 16th, 1796; and EmmaLaura, born January 19th, 1798.

9 Her mother was an Ogle, aunt to Sir Chaloner Ogle, and was living within these few years at a very great age.

He was descended from George Grey, of Southwick, Esq. who, in 1647, married Frances, daughter of Thomas Robinson, Esq. of Rokeby, in Yorkshire, sister to Sir Leonard Robinson, ancestor to the present Lord Rokeby. From this match also descended Dr. Zachary Grey, the editor of Hudibras, who died November 25th, 1766. They were of a different family from the Greys of Howick; and bore the bars for their arms (like the house of Stamford, &c.), and not the lion. Lady Grey had a brother, who died at Gibraltar, Lieutenant-colonel of the 59th foot, and left only two daughters.

Lady Hannah, born April 24th, 1785; married, August 24th, 1807, Captain Bettesworth, of the Tartar frigate, who was killed in action May 25th, 1808. She remarried the Rev. Mr. Ellice.

CHARLES, second but eldest surviving son, succeeded as SECOND EARL GREY. He was born March 13th, 1764, was educated at Cambridge; and on the vacancy occasioned by the accession to the Peerage of the present Earl of Beverley, on June 2d, 1786, was elected M. P. for the county of Northumberland. The House of Commons immediately afforded a field for his talents and oratory, by which he rose at once into distinction; and having ranged himself on the side of Opposition to Mr. Pitt, he became one of the most powerful supporters of his party, of which he continued among the principal leaders during the whole one and twenty years that he sat in that house. At the election of 1807, he, for the first time, declined to become a candidate for the county of Northumberland, and was returned for Appleby.

On the accession of the Grenville Administration, in 1806, he was appointed first Lord of THE ADMIRALTY; which, on the death of Mr. Fox, in September following, he exchanged for that of SECRETARY OF STATE for the Foreign Department. He retired with the rest of that Ministry, in the following year; and in November 1807, succeeded his father as EARL GREY.

His Lordship married, November 18th, 1794, Mary-Elizabeth, daughter of William Brabazon Ponsonby, afterwards created Lord Ponsonby, by Louisa Molesworth, daughter of Richard, third Viscount Molesworth. By her his Lordship has issue,

1. Henry, Viscount Howick, born December 27th, 1802. 2. Charles, born March 15th, 1804.

3. Frederick-William-Grey, born 1805.

4. Lady Louisa-Elizabeth, born April 7th, 1797.

5. Lady Elizabeth, born July 10th, 1798.

6. Lady Caroline, born 1799.

7. Lady Georgina, born February 17th, 1801.

8. Lady Mary, born May 2d, 1807.

9. A son, born May 13th, 1808.

Titles. Charles Grey, Farl Grey, Viscount Howick, Baron Grey, of Howick, and Baronet.

Creations. Earl Grey, and Viscount Howick, April 1st, 1806; Baron Grey, of Howick, June 23d, 1801; Baronet, January 11th, 1746.

Arms. Gules, a lion rampant Argent, within a bordure engrailed Argent.

Crest. A scaling ladder.

Supporters. On the dexter, a lion guardant, crowned with a ducal coronet; on the sinister a leopard guardant.

Motto. DE BON VOULOIR, SERVIR LE ROY.

Chief Seat. Howick, Northumberland.

THIS family is of great antiquity in the county of Westmoreland, and hath flourished at Lowther beyond any record, and produced many eminent persons, who have honoured their country by the most considerable services; and it has also produced one Lord Viscount, and four Baronets, that were all living at the same time, which are recited here, viz.

1. Sir Henry Lowther, of Lowther, Bart. first Lord Viscount Lonsdale.

2. Sir James Lowther, of Whitehaven, Bart:

3. Sir William Lowther, of Maske and Holker, Bart.

4. Sir William Lowther, of Swillington, Bart. which title becoming extinct, a fresh patent was granted to Sir William, of Swillington (father of the present Earl), August 17th, 1764.

The name is local, and according to the different apprehension of the writers, and the custom of the ancient times, has been variously written; as Lauder, Loader, Loder, Lother, Lothair, Lothayre, Louthre, Louther, Lauther.

Olaus Wormius, the Danish antiquary, being consulted by Sir Henry Spelman, at the instigation of Peter Osborn, about the derivation of this, among other English names, says, he finds it among the ancient Danish names of their kings; and tells us it is derived from the word Loth and er, which signifies fortune and honour; others look on it as a very honourable name, because they observe many of the Emperors and Princes of Germany to be called Lotharius; but since most of the English names, and that of the most noble families, are taken from the towns they were Lords of, it seems probable that of this family was so taken.

At Great Preston, in Yorkshire, the arms are there painted of the families the Lowthers have in succession matched into, transcribed by Mr. Thoresby, which are published in his Antiquities of Leeds, page 3. viz. Lowther cum Dayncourt, Bromflete, Rookesby, Quait, Moubray, Burnell, Lascells, Stapleton, Strickland, Vipont Lord of Westmoreland, Moulton Lord of Gillesland in Cumberland; after this we find,

Sir GERVASIUS de Lowther, who held a Knight's service of King Henry III. 1217. Vid. Dugd. Monast. Vol. III. p. 46. He married a daughter of Lord Ross de Kendal, grandson to Robert, Lord Ross, of Hamlake, and Isabella his wife, who was daughter of the King of Scots. His son and heir was

Sir HUGH de Louther, an officer to King Edward I. as appears by Dugdale's Baronage, Vol. I. p. 506. col. 1. He married the daughter of Linglish, or Lenglays de Cosyn, and was succeeded by

Sir HUGH de Louther, his only son, who, by a daughter of Moriceby, of Moriceby, in Cumberland, left issue

Sir HUGH de Louther, Attorney General 20 Edward I. He was returned one of the Knights for the county of Westmoreland 28th of the same reign, and 1 Edward II. It appears by inquisition, that he held the manor of Hereley the 12th of Edward I. and that Robert Burnell, Bishop of Bath and Wells, the 18th of the same reign, did by fine pass to him the manor of Newton Regny, in Cumberland, which he held by Knights service to attend the King with a horse and horseman. He was possessed of lands in the Hamlet of Whale, and in Thurnby, and of the manor of Lowther, in Westmoreland; where he held four messuages and eight bovates of land in the said town of Louther, of Lord Robert Clifford, the 10th of Edward II. and was also seised of the manor and town of Widehope, in Cumberland, the 18th of the same reign. He married a daughter of Sir Peter de Filiol, of Scaleby Castle, in Cumberland, by whom he had issue,

1. Sir Hugh.

2. Thomas de Louthre was made one of the justices of the King's Bench, 5 Edward III. with Richard Willoughby, 5th December, 1330, and left issue.

The said Sir HUGH de Louther, son and heir, had licence to make a park in his manor of Louther, the 11th of Edward III. and had free warren there, and in his manors of Hereley and Widehope; and in the 5th of the same reign he gave lands in Thurnby and Lowther to the priory and convent of Wotton. He