GM, GL of Scotland – 1743]
George MacKenzie, 3rd Earl of Cromartie, was reprieved and ultimately pardoned. [GM, GL of Scotland – 1737-38]
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Lady Jemima [nee Campbell], the wife of Philip Yorke, writes on Monday, 8 May [1749]:
But now I think of it I forgot in my last to mention a great & extraordinary Event, one of those unexpected fortunate Events which may happen perhaps once in a whole Life, & which help'd among other new & surprizing Things to make the last Thanks-giving Week so memorable. Guess it if you can? Nothing less I assure you than the Hearing St.-Germain Play.
This Party was made (I can't imagine how) at Ld. Morton's: an Invitation from him to the Family at Powis-House (brought about accidentally in Conversation) & to Us here, to dine with him & hear Monsr. le Comte [Saint-Germain].
James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton (1702-68), lived at no.29 Upper Brook Street (the site now occupied by Brook House on the corner of Upper Brook Street and Park Lane). His first wife, Agatha, had died the previous year. Lord Morton had taken a grand tour to Italy in the late 172Os and had spent time there in the company of fellow antiquary Daniel Wray who was part of the Grey-Yorke family circle.13 Powis House was in Great Ormond Street and was the London home of Jemima's father-in-law, the Lord Chancellor.14
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26. Apr 1742-43 John Ward, 7th lord Ward; 2nd Viscount Dudley and Ward
Lord Ward continued two years at the head of the fraternity.
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