for those of Lecale, in the County Down. This Lord Cromwell married Frances, daughter of William Rugge, of Filmington, in the County of Norfolk, and died in 1607; his eldest son Thomas was afterwards advanced in the Irish peerage, by the titles of Viscount Lecale and Earl of Ardglas. Lord Edward Cromwell also left by his said wife a daughter, Anne, who intermarried with Sir Edward Wingfield, of Powerscourt, Knight, and had issue by him, Lewis Wingfield, Esq., their third son, but whose line, on the failure of the elder, inherited the estates of Powerscourt by survivorship. Anne died in 1636, as did her husband in two years afterwards; Lewis intermarried with Sidney, daughter of Sir Paul Gore, of Manor Gore, County Donegal, Baronet, by whom he had Edward, his son and heir, who married Eleanor, daughter of Sir Arthur Gore, of Newtown-Gore, County Mayo, and died at Powerscourt House in William-street, Dublin, in 1728; his eldest daughter, Isabella, was the lady whose marriage with Sir Henry King necessitated the last paragraph. Her brother, Richard Wingfield, was thereupon introduced to the representation of Boyle, while Sir Henry King sat as one of the members for the County Roscommon. This Richard was afterwards elevated to the peerage as Viscount Powerscourt. It but remains to say, in reference to this portion of the maternal pedigree of the present noble representatives of the family of King, that it has been solemnly proved at the Heralds' Office, London, and was so officially certified.

Sir Robert King, the fourth Baronet, and eldest son of the above marriage, born in 1724, succeeded his father in his honours and estates; and, after the example of his grandfather and namesake, devoted himself in early life to foreign travel, on his return from which he was, in 1745, chosen the representative in Parliament of the Borough of Boyle; and in 1748 was created Baron of Kingsborough, with remainder to the heirs male of his body, by which title he took his seat in Parliament in 1749. The preamble of his patent commences: "Whereas our trusty and wellbeloved Sir Robert King, of Rockingham, in the County Roscommon, is descended from an ancient and illustrious family, always

approved for their loyalty and courage, for the many eminent services by which they have, from time to time, remarkably contributed, not only to the reducing of several rebellions in our kingdom of Ireland, but also to the reformation of our subjects there to a state of civility and order; many of whom have been, heretofore, for their public merit, distinguished by our royal progenitors, by grants of honours and also of lands and possessions of ample and large extent: and whereas the said Sir Robert King has now, in his early youth, already discovered extraordinary endowments of mind, together with a most disinterested zeal for our honour, and the welfare of his country, We," &c., &c. He was afterwards appointed Custos Rotulorum of the County of Roscommon, but dying unmarried in 1755, his peerage became extinct, while the estates devolved upon his next brother.

Sir Edward King, the fifth baronet, born in 1726, represented the County of Roscommon in the Parliaments of 1749 and 1761; and by patent of 1764, reciting the extinction of the former peerages of Kingston and Kingsborough, His Majesty, “deeming the said Sir Edward King worthy to have the nobility of his family renewed in his person, and being well assured of his zeal and attachment to the Crown and Government," advanced him to the peerage, by the title of Baron Kingston, of Rockingham, with limitation to the heirs male of his body. In 1766 he was created Viscount Kingsborough, and in 1768 yet further advanced in the peerage to the dignity of Earl of Kingston. He married, in 1732, Jane, daughter of Thomas Caulfield, of Donamon, County Roscommon, Esq., died in 1797(a), and was buried in Boyle

(a) At this time flourished Sir Richard King, a distinguished naval commander. Born in 1730, he, when but eight years old, accompanied his maternal uncle, Commodore Barnett, Commander in Chief in the Mediteranean, and afterwards in the East Indies. On the commencement of hostilities with Spain, Lord Anson particularly recommended him (being then Captain King), as an officer on whom he could depend, to convey the earliest intelligence of that event to the East Indies; and he had the good fortune to

church, beside his wife, who had died in 1784. Their issue was three sons and four daughters:

1. Robert, his heir, hereafter mentioned.

2. Henry, died in 1735, without issue.

3. William, died in 1762, also without issue.

Of the daughters, Lady Jane, the eldest, married, in 1772, Sir Laurence Parsons, the distinguished author of the "Defence of Irish History," afterwards created, in 1795, Viscount Oxmantown, and in 1806, Earl of Rosse; the only issue of that marriage was Lady Frances, who, in 1799, intermarried, as hereafter mentioned, with Viscount Lorton. The second daughter of Earl Edward was Lady Eleanor Elizabeth, who died in 1822, unmarried; the third, Lady Isabella Letitia; and the youngest, Lady Frances, who, in 1803, intermarried with Thomas Tenison, of Castle Tenison, County Roscommon, Esq., of whose family a notice will be found in a subsequent section of this work.

Robert, the second Earl of Kingston, married, in 1769, Caroline, only daughter of the Right Honourable Colonel Richard Fitz-Gerald, of Mount Ophaley, County Kildare, by Lady Margaret King, the only child and heiress of James, the fourth Baron Kingston, by whom (who died in 1823) he had issue six sons and five daughters. The sons were:

make a remarkably expeditious passage to India, which, if he had not effected, the expedition to Manilla must have failed, as the squadron arrived there only a few days before the changing of the monsoon. In 1779 he was sent second officer in command to the East Indies, and in the following year was promoted to the rank of Commodore, in which station he continued during the whole of the war, and was engaged in all the actions with the French squadron. In 1780 he was knighted; in 1784 promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral of the White; in 1790, appointed Commander in Chief in the Downs; in 1792 was created a baronet, with a succession of honours and yet higher promotions, until, in 1799, he became Admiral of the White, soon after which he died.

1st. George, late Earl of Kingston, who was taken prisoner at Wexford by the Irish rebels in 1798. In 1821, he obtained a patent of peerage as of the United Kingdom, and having, in 1794, married Helene, only daughter of Stephen, first Earl of Mountcashel, he had issue by her three sons: 1. Edward, Viscount Kingsborough, a nobleman distinguished for his literary acquirements, but who died in 1837, unmarried; 2. Robert, now Earl of Kingston; 3. James, barrister-at-law; and two daughters: Lady Helena Caroline (who in 1829 married Philip Davies Cooke, Esq., of Gwysaney, in Flintshire, and Owston Hall, Yorkshire, of the ancient line of the Very Reverend John Cooke, who was Dean of York in 1452), and Lady Adelaide Charlotte, who was married, in 1834, to Charles Tankerville Webber, Esq., barrister-at-law.

2nd. Robert Edward, second son of the second Earl of Kingston, was born in 1773. At the age of nineteen he entered the army in the 27th, or Enniskillen Regiment of Foot, obtained a majority in the course of two or three years, and soon after a Lieutenant Colonelcy in the 127th Regiment of Foot. In 1801 he was constituted full Colonel, Major-General in 1808, Lieutenant-General in 1813, and a full General in 1830; during which successive promotions (having distinguished himself as a military officer in the 1st battalion of Grenadiers, at the capture of Martinique, St. Lucia, and Guadaloupe, in the West Indies, especially during two campaigns in the latter island, and in covering the retreat from Point-a-Petre, in which action he was struck by a spent ball), he was, in 1800, created Baron Erris, of Boyle, and in 1806 Viscount Lorton. He is also Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the County Roscommon, having been the first appointed to that high office; but superior even to the exaltation that Royal honours, unsullied lineage, or military fame, could confer upon him, is the meed of praise that he has earned as a resident influential nobleman, in the centre of his own picturesque and cultivated manor, with a happy and peaceful tenantry around him. In 1799 his Lordship was married, as before suggested, to Lady Frances Parsons, only daughter and heiress of the first Earl of Rosse, who died in 1841, leaving behind her memorials of active

charity that will not be forgotten. Lord Lorton had issue by her:

Two sons-1. Robert (who in 1829 intermarried with Anne, sister of Sir Robert Gore Booth, by whom he has issue. 2. Laurence Harman King Harman (who in 1837 intermarried with Mary, daughter of the late R. Johnstone, Esq., of Alua, by whom he also has issue). And four daughters: 1. Jane, married to Anthony Lefroy, Esq., Member of Parliament for the County of Longford, and son of the Honourable Baron Lefroy. 2. Eleanor, who died young. 3. Caroline, married in 1827 to Sir Robert Gore Booth, died in 1828; and 4. Frances, married in 1834 to the Reverend Charles Leslie, son of the present Bishop of Kilmore (a cousin of the Duke of Wellington, and a descendant of the noble house of Balquhuir, in Aberdeenshire). This prelate's brother was the representative of the County of Monaghan in seven successive parliaments (as is his nephew in the present). Lady Frances died in the year after her marriage. 3rd. Edward King, the third son of Earl Robert, was one of the representatives for the County Roscommon, in the first Imperial Parliament of 1802. He embraced the naval profession, was a midshipman in the Invincible at the victory obtained by Lord Howe over the French fleet in 1794; afterwards, signalizing himself in many other engagements, rose to the rank of Post Captain, and died in the command of the Alexendria frigate at Barbadoes.

4th. Sir Henry King, the fourth son of Earl Robert, was born in 1776, received, at Eton and Harrow schools, the rudiments of an education which he perfected in Exeter College, Oxford, and entered the military service in 1794. In 1797 he distinguished himself in the active scenes that took place in St. Domingo, until the evacuation of the Mole; in 1799, he was severely wounded in action in Holland, and again in the unfortunate attack upon Buenos Ayres in 1806. In July, 1809, he landed at Lisbon in command of the 2nd battalion of the 5th, a corps afterwards so celebrated in the Peninsular War for its discipline and prowess; in the critical conflict on the heights of Busaco his vigi