Thomas Ashburnham, 6th Earl of Ashburnham
Thomas Ashburnham, 6th Earl of Ashburnham( 8 April 1855 – 12 May 1924) was a British peer.
He was the last Earl of Ashburnham.
Caroline Graham, Duchess of Montrose
Caroline Graham, Duchess of Montrose( 10 August 1770 – 24 March 1847), formerly Lady Caroline Maria Montagu, was the second wife of James Graham, 3rd Duke of Montrose.
She was the daughter of George Montagu, 4th Duke of Manchester, and his wife, the former Elizabeth Dashwood.
She married Montrose on 24 July 1790, at Kensington Palace.
He was fifteen years her senior, and had previously been married to Lady Jemima Elizabeth, daughter of John Ashburnham, 2nd Earl of Ashburnham; their only child had died in infancy.
The duke and duchess had six children:
The duke, prior to his second marriage, had been a lover of the notorious Seymour Fleming, Lady Worsley, who, in February 1782, was the subject of a criminal conversation case for £ 20,000( 2015: £), brought by her husband against Bisset.
Lady Worsley retaliated with scandalous revelations, and her doctor, William Osborn, testified that she had suffered from a venereal disease which she had contracted from the Marquess of Graham.
The duchess was allegedly one of the titled ladies who hissed at Queen Victoria in the royal enclosure at Ascot Racecourse in 1839, following the scandal over the queen's treatment of Lady Flora Hastings.
The duke died in 1836.
The duchess died, aged 76, at Petersham, Surrey.
Jean Armand Charlemagne
Jean Armand Charlemagne( born Bourget( Seine) 30 November 1753 – died Paris 6 March 1838) was a French dramatic author.
Originally intended for the church, he turned first to being a lawyers clerk and then a soldier.
He served in the American War of Independence, and on returning to France( 1783) began to employ his pen on economic subjects, and later in writing for the stage.
He became the author of a large number of plays, poems and romances, among which may be mentioned the comedies" M. de Crac à Paris"( 1793)," Le Souper des Jacobins"( 1795) and" L' Agioteur"( 1796), and" Observations de quelques patriotes sur la nécessité de conserver les monuments de la littérature et des arts"( 1794), an essay written in collaboration with MM.
Chardin and Renouard, which induced the Convention to protect books adorned with the coats of arms of their former owners and other treasures from destruction at the hands of the revolutionists.
William Lindsay, 18th Earl of Crawford
William Lindsay, 18th Earl of Crawford and 2nd Earl of Lindsay( April 1644 – 6 March 1698) was a Scottish noble and politician.
Lindsay was the eldest son of John Lindsay, 10th Lord Lindsay of the Byres, 17th Earl of Crawford, and 1st Earl of Lindsay, by his wife, Lady Christian Hamilton, daughter of the Earl of Haddington.
William succeeded to the earldoms in 1678.
He was a zealous Presbyterian, president of the Convention parliament in 1689, a commissioner of the treasury in 1690, and one of the commissioners for settling the government of the Church of Scotland.
He married firstly Lady Mary Johnstone, daughter of 1st Earl of Annandale and Hartfell, in 1670.
They had one son:
He married secondly Lady Henrietta Fleming, daughter of Charles Seton, 2nd Earl of Dunfermline and widow of 5th Earl of Wigtown, and had further issue.
Bertram Ashburnham, 4th Earl of Ashburnham
Bertram Ashburnham, 4th Earl of Ashburnham( 23 November 1797 – 22 June 1878) was a British peer.
He was the fourth son of George Ashburnham, 3rd Earl of Ashburnham.
As the eldest son still living when his father died in 1830, he succeeded as Earl of Ashburnham, Viscount St. Asaph and Baron of Ashburnham.
He married Katherine Charlotte Baillie in 1840.
They had four daughters and seven sons, including Bertram, the 5th Earl of Ashburnham, who succeeded his father in 1878, and Thomas, the 6th Earl, who succeeded his brother in 1913 when the latter died without a son.
John Ashburnham, 1st Earl of Ashburnham
John Ashburnham, 1st Earl of Ashburnham (13 March 1687 – 10 March 1737) was a British Army officer and politician who sat in the House of commons briefly in 1710 when he unexpectedly succeeded to the peerage and sat in the House of Lords.
John Ashburnham, 1st Baron Ashburnham
John Ashburnham, 1st Baron Ashburnham( 15 January 1656 – 21 January 1710) was an English landowner and politician.
Ashburnham was the son of William Ashburnham and the grandson of John Ashburnham.
His mother was the Honourable Elizabeth, daughter of John Poulett, 1st Baron Poulett.
He sat as Member of Parliament for Hastings from 1679 to 1681 and again from 1685 to 1689.
As a baron of the Cinque Ports he was one of the holders of the canopy at the coronation of James II in 1685 and coronation of William and Mary in 1688.
He is thought to have become disillusioned with James and to have welcomed the accession of William and Mary.
In 1689 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Ashburnham, of Ashburnham in the County of Sussex.
He later served as Custos Rotulorum of Breconshire from 1702 to 1710.
Lord Ashburnham married Bridget, daughter and heiress of Sir Charles Vaughan of Porthammel House, Breconshire, at Westminster Abbey in 1677, from which substantial estates in Wales came into the family.
They had several children.
He died at Southampton Street, Bloomsbury, London, in January 1710, aged 54, and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son, William.
William was in his turn succeeded by his younger brother, John, who was created Earl of Ashburnham in 1730.
Lady Ashburnham died in May 1719.
George Ashburnham, 3rd Earl of Ashburnham
George Ashburnham, 3rd Earl of Ashburnham, KG, GCH, FSA( 25 December 1760 – 27 October 1830) was a British peer.
He was the son of the 2nd Earl of Ashburnham and the former Elizabeth Crowley, being styled Viscount St Asaph from birth, and was baptised on 29 January 1761 at St George's, Hanover Square, London, with King George III, the Duke of Newcastle and the Dowager Princess of Wales as his godparents.
In 1780, Lord St Asaph graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, with a Master of Arts degree.
He married, firstly, the Hon. Sophia Thynne( 19 December 1763 – 9 April 1791), daughter of the 3rd Viscount Weymouth( later the 1st Marquess of Bath), on 28 August 1784.
They had four children:
He married, secondly, Lady Charlotte Percy( 3 June 1776 – 26 November 1862) on 25 July 1795.
She was a daughter of the 1st Earl of Beverley, and a sister of George Percy, 5th Duke of Northumberland.
They had 13 children: Lord St Asaph was summoned to the House of Lords by writ in acceleration as 5th Baron Ashburnham in 1804.
He held the office of Trustee of the British Museum between 1810 and 1830.
In 1812 he succeeded his father as 3rd Earl of Ashburnham.
On his death he was survived by his fourth( but eldest surviving) son, Bertram, Viscount St. Asaph.
His main family home was at Ashburnham Place in Sussex, which belonged to the family from the late 11th century until 1953.
The Ashburnham archive is held by the East Sussex Record Office.
John Ashburnham, 2nd Earl of Ashburnham
John Ashburnham, 2nd Earl of Ashburnham, PC( 30 October 1724 – 8 April 1812), styled Viscount St Asaph from 1730 to 1737, was a British peer and courtier.
Ashburnham was the only son of John Ashburnham, 1st Earl of Ashburnham, by his third wife, Jemima Grey, the daughter of the courtier Duke of Kent.
In 1737, he inherited his father's titles and became a Lord of the Bedchamber in 1748.
On 25 June 1756, Ashburnham married Elizabeth Crowley( 1727 – 1781), a daughter and co-heiress of Alderman John Crowley, of Barking, Suffolk, a wealthy London merchant, and a son of Sir Ambrose Crowley.
Her dowry was £ 200,000.
Elizabeth's mother was Theodosia, daughter of Revd. Joseph Gascoygne.
They had six children: From 1753 to 1762, Ashburnham was Keeper of Hyde Park and St. James's Park and Lord Lieutenant of Sussex from 1754 to 1757.
In 1765, he was appointed Master of the Great Wardrobe, and Groom of the Stole in 1775.
Thomas Bruce, 2nd Earl of Ailesbury
Thomas Bruce, 2nd Earl of Ailesbury( later styled Aylesbury) and 3rd Earl of Elgin( 1656 – 16 December 1741) was an English politician and memoirist.
He was the son of Robert Bruce, 2nd Earl of Elgin, and Lady Diana Grey.
His maternal grandparents were Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford, and Lady Anne Cecil, daughter of William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Exeter.
His" Memoirs", which were not published until long after his death, are a valuable source for English history in the last quarter of the seventeenth century.

Question: Who lived longer, Jean Armand Charlemagne or John Ashburnham, 2Nd Earl Of Ashburnham?
Answer: John Ashburnham, 2Nd Earl Of Ashburnham