Grand Masters of the United Grand Lodge of England [ugle] and of Scotland

CREATION. Baron Byron of Rochdale in the county palatine of Lancaster 24 October 1643.

CHIEF SEATS. Newsted Abbey and Bulwel Park in the county of Nottingham.

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Dr. Manningham, his Deputy

Father John Proby d. 1760

Mother Jane Leveson-Gower b. before 1704, d. 10 June 1726

     Sir John Proby, 1st Baron Carysfort was born on 25 November 1720. He was the son of John Proby and Jane Leveson-Gower. He married Hon. Elizabeth Allen on 27 August 1750. He died in 1792.

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   Child John Joshua Proby, 1st Earl of Carysfort+ b. 12 Aug 1751, d. 7 Apr 1828
   

Glenart Castle Co. Wicklow

A historic castle estate set amid 63 acres of ground and woodland. Glenart Castle was originally built around 1750 and was formerly the Irish Residence of the Earl of Carysfort. Around 2 km from Arkiow on the road to Woodenbridge in the picturesque Avoca Valley just 44 miles from Dublin & 1.5 hours drive from Dublin Airport.
Glenart Estate goes back to the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland which began in 1169. Between 1177 and 1185 large quantities of land were granted by Prince John acting on behalf of his father King Henry II to Theobald Walter from whom were descended the Butler Family and the Earls of Ormonde. The Butlers held their possession in this area for the next 500 years.
In April 1714 James, Duke of Ormonde, granted the fee-farm to John Allen of Stillorgan, Co. Dublin for £1,140.00 containing 8528 acres which had been demised on the 2nd March, 1713 for lives renewable forever, at a rent of £380.00 and two fat beevers or £3.00.
The first Allen Family to settle in Ireland was John Allen who came over from Holland near the end of the 17th Century. He was made Baron Allen of Kildare and Viscount Allen of StiIlorgan. He was succeeded by his son John who was a member of the Irish Parliament for 25 years representing in succession Counties Dublin, Carlow and Wicklow His second son, Robert became M.P. for the Borough of Carysfort in Co. Wicklow. John died unmarried in 1745 and he also had three sisters.
In 1750, the eldest sister Elizabeth Allen was married to John Proby who was raised to the peerage in 1752 as Baron Carysfort of Co. Wicklow. Through this marriage John Proby came into possession of Glenart Castle and this Arkiow Estate. He died in 1772 and was succeeded by his only son John Joshua who was created the 1st Earl of Carysfort in 1789, and also a Peer in the UK in 1801 under the title of Baron Carysfort of the Norman Cross. John Joshua died in 1828 and succeeded by his second son John who was born in 1780.

John Proby, 2nd Earl of Carysfort joined the British Army and reached the rank of a General. He died in 1855 unmarried. Succeeded by his brother Granville Levenson Proby, who became the 3rd Earl of Carysfort.

Mother Hon. Elizabeth Allen b. before 1734, d. 18 March 1783

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   Child Admiral Granville Leveson Proby, 3rd Earl of Carysfort+ b. 12 Nov 1782, d. 3 Nov 1868
   

Sir James Brydges, 3rd Duke of Chandos was born on 27 December 1731. He was the son of Sir Henry Brydges, 2nd Duke of Chandos and Lady Mary Bruce. He was baptised on 14 January 1731/32 in St. James' Church, Westminster, London, England. He married, firstly, Margaret Nicol, daughter of John Nicol and Margaret Poole, on 22 March 1753 in St. George's Church, St. George Street, Hanover Square, London, England, with a fortune of £150,000. He married, secondly, Anne Eliza Gamon, daughter of Richard Gamon and Elizabeth Grace, on 21 June 1777 in St. George's Church, St. George Street, Hanover Square, London. He died on 29 September 1789 at age 57 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, without male issue. He was buried on 10 October 1789 in Whitchurch, Middlesex, England.

Ranger of Enfield Chase in 1753.

Grand Master of Freemasons between 1754 and 1757.

Member of Parliament (M.P.) (Whig) for Winchester between 1754 and 1761.

Lord of the Bedchamber between 1760 and 1764.

Member of Parliament (M.P.) (Whig) for Radnorshire between 1761 and 1768.

Lord-Lieutenant of Hampshire from 1763 to 1764.

Lord-Lieutenant of Hampshire between 1771 and 1780.

Lord Steward of the Household between 1783 and 1789.
He succeeded to the titles of:

6th Baronet Brydges, of Wilton, co. Hereford [E., 1627] on 28 November 1771.

11th Baron Chandos of Sudeley, co. Gloucester [E., 1554] on 28 November 1771.

3rd Viscount Wilton, co. Hereford [G.B., 1714] on 28 November 1771.

3rd Marquess of Carnarvon [G.B., 1719] on 28 November 1771.

3rd Duke of Chandos [G.B., 1719] on 28 November 1771.

3rd Earl of Carnarvon [G.B., 1714] on 28 November 1771.

He was invested as a Privy Counsellor (P.C.) on 12 May 1775. He held the office of High Steward of Winchester.²

     On his death, all of his honours and titles became extinct, except for the Lordship of Kinross.
m1. Anne Eliza Gamon d. 20 January 1813

Child Lady Anne Elizabeth Brydes+ d. 15 May 1836

m2. Margaret Nicol b. circa 1736, d. 14 August 1768
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James and Caroline Brydges were scions of one of the most powerful dynasties of the earlier eighteenth century. They were the children of Henry, Marquis of Carnarvon, later 2nd Duke of Chandos (1708-1771), and Lady Mary Bruce, daughter of the 3rd Earl of Ailesbury, who descended on her mother’s side from Henry VIII’s sister Mary, Duchess of Suffolk. Their grandfather was James, 1st Duke of Chandos (1673-1744) - Pope’s ‘princely Chandos’ - who built the great house at Cannons near Stanmore and employed Handel as one of his thirty in-house musicians. Charming and canny, Chandos rose on the coat-tails of the Duke of Marlborough and in eight years as paymaster-general of British forces abroad garnered £600,000 for himself, making him one of the richest men in England. James and Caroline spent much time with their grandfather at Cannons after their mother died in 1738, but their father was heavily in debt and Cannons was sold by auction for its materials in 1747.

The Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of England (the 'Moderns') in 1738 was the Marquess of Carnaervon who became the Second Duke of Chandos and resided at West Lodge, Cockfosters. His son, the Third Duke, was also Grand Master of the 'Moderns' between 1754-1756 and lived at Minchenden House on Southgate Green.

Minchendon House was in Enfield, near (and now within) London. 

The house was built around 1747 by John Nichol. His widow, Margaret, married James Brydges, 3rd Duke of Chandos, father of the first Duchess. His second wife, the Duchess Dowager of Chandos, lived at Michenden during her insanity. Mary Buchanan also lived there for a short while, as did Richard Gamon until his death. It was also home to the Misses Williamson. 

On the death of the Duchess in January 1813, the house passed to the Buckinghams. From 1822, they unsuccessfully tried to the let the property. By 1827, the house and grounds were decaying:

In 1828, interest was expressed in renting the house:

Lady Nugent did not rent the house and in October and November 1828, the house was advertised for rent. 

I have again advertised Minchenden House to be let in the Morning Chronicle & Courier Newspapers. (Thomas Crawfurd to Anna Eliza Brydges. HEH STG Correspondence Box 363 (55); 1828/11/03)

The house was not let. In 1832, Sir Edward East was intending to spend the summer there; he noted that the House cost £3,000 a year to run and suggested it as a home for the first Duchess (HEH STG Correspondence Box 6 (22); 1832/04/26). The house and grounds had improved when Richard Temple visited in 1833:

I returned last night from my [?] Holidays. Minchenden looked very nice. The opening of the great Cedar by throwing down the Wall is a great improvement. The Yew Hedge remains untouched. [More on the Garden…] (Temple to Anna Eliza Brydges. HEH STG Correspondence Box 7 (30); undated. 1833?)

Before the end of 1836, Minchenden House was sold Isaac Walter for £13,800 (Beckett, page 197). A painting of Minchenden was sold at the 1848 sale, the catalogue entry giving the date of sale as 1829.

View of Minchenden House ca 1800 at Southgate in Enfield, residence of the Duchess of Chandos.

(16 December 1731 to 29 September 1789)

1760-04: Lord of the Bedchamber

1761-68: MP for Radnorshire

1783: Lord Steward of the Household

1771-80: Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire

He lived at Avington and married twice:

Pious resignation through her lingering illness... religious without enthusiasm; just without severity; charitable without ostentation; generous without profusion; she was blessed with beauty, rank and fortune... (Extract from the Whitchurch memorial, which may be identical to the Avington memorial)

James Brydges died in 1789 (obituary).

When Nugent Buckingham meets the 3rd Duke of Chandos in 1786, he writes about the meeting to his brother, William Wyndham Grenville (HMC Fortescue I, 259). In this letter, he spells the name "Chandois" suggesting a French pronunciation. Without reviewing the original Fortescue document, however, this spelling cannot be confirmed. If the spelling is correct, the pronunciation is most likely "Chandois" as Buckingham was a scholarly man, well versed in French and not prone to trivial mistakes in spelling.

Hope Plantation, Jamaica

From Maria Nugent's Journal

The first Duchess, Anna Eliza, inherited the Hope Estate from her mother, Anne Eliza widow of Roger Hope Elletson, who was Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica from 1766–68. Presumably the estate is named after Roger Hope.

It was sold after the collapse of the families fortunes and in 1881, two hundred acres of the Hope Estate was purchased by the Government to establish an experimental garden. This more recently was a pleasure garden but is now under threat from housing.