Biography of Francis Greville 1st Earl Brooke Warwick Castle 1st Earl Warwick 1719-1773

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On 8th November 1716 [his father] William Greville 7th Baron Brooke [aged 21] and [his mother] Mary Thynne Baroness Brooke [aged 14] were married. She by marriage Baroness Brooke of Beauchamps Court in Warwickshire.

On 10th October 1719 Francis Greville 1st Earl Brooke Warwick Castle 1st Earl Warwick was born to [his father] William Greville 7th Baron Brooke [aged 24] and [his mother] Mary Thynne Baroness Brooke [aged 17].

In 1720 [his mother] Mary Thynne Baroness Brooke [aged 18] died.

On 28th July 1727 [his father] William Greville 7th Baron Brooke [aged 32] died at Poland Street Soho. He was buried at St Mary's Church, Warwick [Map]. His son Francis [aged 7] succeeded 8th Baron Brooke of Beauchamps Court in Warwickshire.

On 15th May 1742 Francis Greville 1st Earl Brooke Warwick Castle 1st Earl Warwick [aged 22] and Elizabeth Hamilton Countess Brooke Warwick Castle and Warwick [aged 22] were married. She by marriage Baroness Brooke of Beauchamps Court in Warwickshire.

On 14th April 1743 [his daughter] Louisa Augusta Greville was born to Francis Greville 1st Earl Brooke Warwick Castle 1st Earl Warwick [aged 23] and [his wife] Elizabeth Hamilton Countess Brooke Warwick Castle and Warwick [aged 23].

On 11th May 1744 [his daughter] Frances Elizabeth Greville Lady Harpur was born to Francis Greville 1st Earl Brooke Warwick Castle 1st Earl Warwick [aged 24] and [his wife] Elizabeth Hamilton Countess Brooke Warwick Castle and Warwick [aged 24]. She married 1762 Henry Harpur 6th Baronet, son of Henry Harpur 5th Baronet and Caroline Manners Lady Harpur and Burdett, and had issue.

Around 1745 [his daughter] Charlotte Mary Greville was born to Francis Greville 1st Earl Brooke Warwick Castle 1st Earl Warwick [aged 25] and [his wife] Elizabeth Hamilton Countess Brooke Warwick Castle and Warwick [aged 25]. She married 14th August 1762 her half fifth cousin once removed John Stewart 7th Earl Galloway, son of Alexander Stewart 6th Earl Galloway and Catherine Cochrane Countess Galloway.

On 7th July 1746 Francis Greville 1st Earl Brooke Warwick Castle 1st Earl Warwick [aged 26] was created 1st Earl Brooke Warwick Castle. [his wife] Elizabeth Hamilton Countess Brooke Warwick Castle and Warwick [aged 26] by marriage Countess Brooke Warwick Castle.

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On 16th September 1746 [his son] George Greville 2nd Earl Warwick and Brooke was born to Francis Greville 1st Earl Brooke Warwick Castle 1st Earl Warwick [aged 26] and [his wife] Elizabeth Hamilton Countess Brooke Warwick Castle and Warwick [aged 26]. He married (1) 1st April 1771 his fifth cousin once removed Georgiana Peachey, daughter of James Peachey 1st Baron Selsey and Georgiana Caroline Scott Baroness Selsey, and had issue (2) 14th July 1776 his fourth cousin once removed Henrietta Vernon Countess Warwick and Brooke, daughter of Richard Vernon and Evelyn Leveson-Gower Countess Upper Ossory, and had issue.

In 1749 Francis Greville 1st Earl Brooke Warwick Castle 1st Earl Warwick [aged 29] was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Warwickshire.

On 12th May 1749 [his son] Charles Francis Greville was born to Francis Greville 1st Earl Brooke Warwick Castle 1st Earl Warwick [aged 29] and [his wife] Elizabeth Hamilton Countess Brooke Warwick Castle and Warwick [aged 29].

On 3rd February 1751 [his son] Robert Fulke Greville was born to Francis Greville 1st Earl Brooke Warwick Castle 1st Earl Warwick [aged 31] and [his wife] Elizabeth Hamilton Countess Brooke Warwick Castle and Warwick [aged 31]. He married 19th October 1777 his half first cousin Louisa Cathcart 2nd Countess Mansfield and had issue.

Letters of Horace Walpole. 27th July 1752. There are great civil wars in the neighbourhood of Strawberry Hill: Princess Emily [aged 41], who succeeded my brother in the rangership of Richmond Park, has imitated her brother William's [aged 31] unpopularity, and disobliged the whole country, by refusal of tickets and liberties, that had always been allowed. They are at law with her, and have printed in the Evening Post a strong Memorial, which she had refused to receive-.³²² The High Sheriff of Surrey, to whom she had denied a ticket, but on better thought had sent one, refused it, and said he had taken his part. Lord Brooke [aged 32]³²³ who had applied for one, was told he could not have one-and to add to the affront, it was signified. that the Princess had refused one to my Lord Chancellor-your old nobility don't understand such comparisons! But the most remarkable event happened to her about three weeks ago. One Mr. Bird, a rich gentleman near the park, was applied to by the late Queen for a piece of ground that lay convenient for a walk she was making: he replied, it was not proper for him to pretend to make a Queen a present; but if she would do what she pleased with the ground, he would be content with the acknowledgment of a key and two bucks a-year. This was religiously observed till the era of her Royal Highness's reign; the bucks were denied, and he himself once shut out, on pretence it was fence-month (the breeding-time, when tickets used to be excluded, keys never.) The Princess soon after was going through his grounds to town; she found a padlock on his gate; she ordered it to be broke open: Mr. Shaw, her deputy, begged a respite, till he could go for the key. He found Mr. Bird at home-"Lord, Sir! here is a strange mistake; the Princess is at the gate, and it is padlocked!" "Mistake! no mistake at all - I made the road: the ground is my own property: her Royal Highness has thought fit to break the agreement which her Royal Mother made with me: nobody goes through my grounds but those I choose should. Translate this to your Florentinese; try if you can make them conceive how pleasant it is to treat blood royal thus!

There are dissensions of more consequence in the same neighbourhood. The tutorhood at Kew is split into factions: the Bishop of Norwich [aged 50] and Lord Harcourt [aged 38] openly at war with Stone [aged 49] and Scott, who are supported by Cresset [aged 38], and countenanced by the Princess and Murray-so my Lord Bolinbroke dead, will govern, which he never could living! It is believed that the Bishop will be banished into the rich bishopric of Durham, which is just vacant-how pleasant to be punished, after teaching the boys a year, with as much as he could have got if he had taught them twenty! Will they ever expect a peaceable prelate, if untractableness is thus punished?

Note 322. The memorial will be found in the Gentleman's Magazine for this year. In December the park was opened by the King's order.-E.

Note 323. Francis Greville, Earl Brooke.

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In 1759 Francis Greville 1st Earl Brooke Warwick Castle 1st Earl Warwick [aged 39] was created 1st Earl Warwick. [his wife] Elizabeth Hamilton Countess Brooke Warwick Castle and Warwick [aged 39] by marriage Countess Warwick.

In 1760 [his daughter] Anne Greville was born to Francis Greville 1st Earl Brooke Warwick Castle 1st Earl Warwick [aged 40] and [his wife] Elizabeth Hamilton Countess Brooke Warwick Castle and Warwick [aged 40].

In 1762 [his son-in-law] Henry Harpur 6th Baronet [aged 23] and Frances Elizabeth Greville Lady Harpur [aged 17] were married. She the daughter of Francis Greville 1st Earl Brooke Warwick Castle 1st Earl Warwick [aged 42] and Elizabeth Hamilton Countess Brooke Warwick Castle and Warwick [aged 42].

On 14th August 1762 [his son-in-law] John Stewart 7th Earl Galloway [aged 26] and Charlotte Mary Greville [aged 17] were married. She the daughter of Francis Greville 1st Earl Brooke Warwick Castle 1st Earl Warwick [aged 42] and Elizabeth Hamilton Countess Brooke Warwick Castle and Warwick [aged 42]. He the son of Alexander Stewart 6th Earl Galloway [aged 68] and Catherine Cochrane Countess Galloway [aged 53]. They were half fifth cousin once removed.

On 31st May 1763 [his daughter] Charlotte Mary Greville [aged 18] died.

On 1st April 1771 George Greville 2nd Earl Warwick and Brooke [aged 24] and Georgiana Peachey were married at St George's Church, Hanover Square. He the son of Francis Greville 1st Earl Brooke Warwick Castle 1st Earl Warwick [aged 51] and Elizabeth Hamilton Countess Brooke Warwick Castle and Warwick [aged 51]. They were fifth cousin once removed. She a great x 2 granddaughter of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.

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On 8th July 1773 Francis Greville 1st Earl Brooke Warwick Castle 1st Earl Warwick [aged 53] died. His son George [aged 26] succeeded 2nd Earl Warwick, 2nd Earl Brooke Warwick Castle, 9th Baron Brooke of Beauchamps Court in Warwickshire.

On 24th February 1800 [his former wife] Elizabeth Hamilton Countess Brooke Warwick Castle and Warwick [aged 80] died.

[his daughter] Isabella Greville was born to Francis Greville 1st Earl Brooke Warwick Castle 1st Earl Warwick and Elizabeth Hamilton Countess Brooke Warwick Castle and Warwick.

Ancestors of Francis Greville 1st Earl Brooke Warwick Castle 1st Earl Warwick 1719-1773

Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Greville 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Fulk Greville 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Blanche Whitney

Great x 2 Grandfather: Robert Greville 2nd Baron Brooke 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Mary Copley

Great x 1 Grandfather: Fulke Greville 5th Baron Brooke 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: William Russell 1st Baron Russell 9 x Great Grand Son of King John of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Francis Russell 4th Earl Bedford 10 x Great Grand Son of King John of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Long Baroness Russel Thornhaugh

Great x 2 Grandmother: Catherine Russell Baroness Brooke 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Giles Brydges 3rd Baron Chandos 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Catherine Brydges Countess Bedford 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Clinton 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

GrandFather: Francis Greville 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Samuel Dashwood

Great x 2 Grandfather: Francis Dashwood

Great x 1 Grandmother: Sarah Dashwood Baroness Brooke

Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard Sleigh

Great x 2 Grandmother: Alice Sleigh

Father: William Greville 7th Baron Brooke 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward Wilmot of Culham

Great x 3 Grandfather: Charles Wilmot 1st Viscount Wilmot

Great x 2 Grandfather: Henry Wilmot 1st Earl Rochester

Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Anderson

Great x 3 Grandmother: Sarah Anderson

Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Bowyer

Great x 1 Grandfather: John Wilmot 2nd Earl Rochester 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John St John 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: John St John 1st Baronet 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Lucy Hungerford 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Anne St John Countess Rochester 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Leighton

Great x 3 Grandmother: Anne Leighton

GrandMother: Anne Wilmot 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Malet

Great x 3 Grandfather: John Malet 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary Popham 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: John Malet 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Tracy 1st Viscount Tracy

Great x 3 Grandmother: Ann Tracy 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Shirley 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England

Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Malet Countess Rochester 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Hawley of Wiveliscombe

Great x 3 Grandfather: Francis Hawley 1st Baron Hawley 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Poulet 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Unton Hawley 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Ralph Gibbes

Great x 3 Grandmother: Jane Gibbes Baroness Hawley

Francis Greville 1st Earl Brooke Warwick Castle 1st Earl Warwick 8 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Thynne

Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Thynne

Great x 4 Grandmother: Joan Hayward

Great x 2 Grandfather: Henry Thynne 1st Baronet 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Charles Lyte aka Howard 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Catherine Howard 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 1 Grandfather: Thomas Thynne 1st Viscount Weymouth 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Coventry

Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Coventry 1st Baron Coventry

Great x 2 Grandmother: Mary Coventry Lady Thynne Kempsford

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Aldersley of Spurstow in Cheshire

Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Aldersley Baroness Coventry

GrandFather: Henry Thynne 6 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland

Great x 4 Grandfather: Moyle Finch 1st Baronet

Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Finch 2nd Earl Winchilsea 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Heneage 1st Countess Winchelsea 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: Heneage Finch 3rd Earl Winchilsea 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Wentworth 9 x Great Grand Son of King John of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Cecily Wentworth Countess Winchelsea 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Cicely Unton 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 1 Grandmother: Frances Finch Viscountess Weymouth 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland

Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward Seymour 2 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland

Great x 3 Grandfather: William Seymour 2nd Duke of Somerset 3 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland

Great x 4 Grandmother: Honora Rogers

Great x 2 Grandmother: Mary Seymour Countess Winchelsea 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland

Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Devereux 2nd Earl Essex 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Frances Devereux Duchess of Somerset 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Frances Walsingham Countess Essex 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Mother: Mary Thynne Baroness Brooke 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland

Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Strode 11 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: John Strode of Parnham 12 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Hody

Great x 2 Grandfather: John Strode of Parnham 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Gregory Cromwell 1st Baron Cromwell Oakham 14 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Katherine Cromwell 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Seymour Baroness Cromwell Oakham 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 1 Grandfather: George Strode 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Wyndham 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: John Wyndham of Orchard 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Florence Wadham

Great x 2 Grandmother: Anne Wyndham 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Portman

Great x 3 Grandmother: Joan Portman

GrandMother: Grace Strode 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Biography of Francis Greville 1st Earl Brooke Warwick Castle 1st Earl Warwick 1719-1773

Royal Ancestors of Francis Greville 1st Earl Brooke Warwick Castle 1st Earl Warwick 1719-1773

Ancestors of Francis Greville 1st Earl Brooke Warwick Castle 1st Earl Warwick 1719-1773