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.
George Fermor, 2nd Earl of Pomfret
George Fermor, 2nd Earl of Pomfret (1722-1785) of Easton Neston house, Northamptonshire was Earl of Pomfret in the Peerage of Great Britain.
He was the eldest son of Thomas Fermor, 1st Earl of Pomfret and Henrietta Louisa Jeffreys.
He succeeded to the title on his father's death in 1753, but lived so extravagantly that he had to sell the furnishings of his seat at Easton Neston, including his sculptures, previously part of the Arundel marbles and later bought by George's grandfather Baron Leominster.
George's mother bought the sculptures from him and presented them to the University of Oxford.
In 1763, he became Gentleman of the Bedchamber and in 1771 he was made a privy counsellor.
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.
Thomas Fermor, 1st Earl of Pomfret
Thomas Fermor, 1st Earl of Pomfret (1698–8 July 1753) was an English nobleman.
He was the only son of William Fermor, 1st Baron Leominster by his third wife Lady Sophia Osborne.
He succeeded to his father's barony on his death in 1711 as 2nd Baron Leominster.
The Earldom of Pomfret was created for him on 27 December 1721, named after Pontefract in Yorkshire.
In September 1727 he was appointed master of the horse to Caroline, queen consort to the newly-acceded George II - Fermor's wife was also made one of the ladies of Caroline's bedchamber.
Caroline died in November 1737 and in September 1738
Thomas and his wife took a three years' tour in France and Italy, visiting Florence, Bologna, Venice, Augsburg, Frankfurt and Brussels.
Sir Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, 5th Baronet
Sir Thomas George Fermor- Hesketh, 5th Baronet( 11 January 1825 – 20 August 1872) was an English Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1862 to 1872.
Hesketh was the only son of Sir Thomas Hesketh, 4th Baronet and his wife Annette Maria Bomford daughter of Robert Bomford of Rakinstown, co. Meath.
In 1843 he inherited the baronetcy on the death of his father.
He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford.
He was a Deputy Lieutenant and J.P. for Lancashire and Northamptonshire and in 1848 was High Sheriff of Lancashire.
He was lieutenant- colonel of the 6th Administrative Battalion of Lancashire Rifle Volunteers and colonel of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia.
In 1862 Hesketh was elected Member of Parliament for Preston.
He held the seat until his death at the age of 47 in 1872.
In 1868 he assumed by royal licence the additional name of Fermor for himself and his second son following the death of his brother- in- law, the last Earl of Pomfret.
Hesketh married Lady Arabella Fermor sister and heiress of George Fermor, 5th Earl of Pomfret in 1846.
Elizabeth Stanhope, Countess of Chesterfield (d. 1677)
Elizabeth Stanhope, Countess of Chesterfield( 1658 – 24 October 1677) was the daughter of Charles Dormer, 2nd Earl of Carnarvon, and the third wife of Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Chesterfield.
She was born in Wing, Buckinghamshire.
She had two sons by the Earl of Chesterfield: Philip Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Chesterfield, and Charles Stanhope.
George Fermor, 3rd Earl of Pomfret
George Fermor, 3rd Earl of Pomfret (6 January 1768 – 7 April 1830) was the third holder of the title of Earl of Pomfret in the Peerage of Great Britain.
He was the eldest son of George Fermor, 2nd Earl of Pomfret and succeeded to the title on his father's death in 1785, inheriting the family seat of Easton Neston house, Northamptonshire.
On 29 August 1793 he married Mary Browne (c.1769-1839), daughter and heiress of Thomas Trollope Browne, a wine merchant.
However, they separated soon afterwards and had no issue, meaning that on his death in 1830
the earldom and estate passed to his younger brother Thomas.
He was laid to rest in St Mary's church on the Easton Neston estate, where he is commemorated by a white marble funerary monument of a lifesize male figure seated by an urn.
William Feilding, 3rd Earl of Denbigh
William Feilding, 3rd Earl of Denbigh, 2nd Earl of Desmond( 29 December 1640 – 23 August 1685) was an aristocrat in the Peerage of England.
He was the son of George Feilding, 1st Earl of Desmond, and his wife, the former Bridget Stanhope, daughter of Sir Michael Stanhope.
Feilding inherited the title of Earl of Denbigh from his paternal uncle Basil Feilding, 2nd Earl of Denbigh, who died without heirs in 1675.
He married, firstly, Mary King( died 1669), daughter of Sir Robert King and Frances Folliott.
Secondly, he married Lady Mary Carey, daughter of Henry Carey, 2nd Earl of Monmouth.
He died on 23 August 1685 at age 44.
By his first wife, Mary King, Feilding had the following children:
There were no children from the earl's second marriage.
Peter Denys
Peter Denys( 1760- 1816) was a British drawing master, later patron of the arts and landowner.
He was the son of the language teacher Peter Denys( sometimes Denyss), who was himself the son of a Swiss emigrant.
Denys was High Sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1812.
Denys married his pupil, Lady Charlotte Fermor( 1766 – 1835), daughter of George Fermor, 2nd Earl of Pomfret.
With her income of £ 4,000 a year, he bought Sloane Place in London, and Fremington, Yorkshire.
Their son was the politician, Sir George Denys, 1st Baronet( 1788- 1857).
Anthony Grey, 9th Earl of Kent
Rev. Anthony Grey (1557 – 9 November 1643) was Earl of Kent from 1639 to his death.
He was a son of George Gray by Margery, daughter of Gerard Salvaine of Croxdale.
George was the apparently only son of Anthony Gray of Brancepeth, a son of George Grey, 2nd Earl of Kent, by his second wife Katherine (or Katharine or Catherine), daughter of William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke.
In 1639, Gray succeeded his childless second cousin once removed Henry Grey, 8th Earl of Kent.
Henry was a great-grandson of Henry Grey, 4th Earl of Kent, another son of the 2nd Earl.
A priest in the Church of England, Gray was rector at Aston Flamville and later Burbage.

Question: What is the date of death of George Fermor, 2Nd Earl Of Pomfret's father?
Answer: 8 July 1753