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BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR

JOHN, MARQUIS OF GRANBY;

BY

JOHN MASON GOOD, ESQ. F.R.S.

WITH AN ENGRAVED PORTRAIT BY W. BOND, I'ROM.'A PICTURE BY

®rc 3Ioi8t)ua KepnolDS.

John, Marquis of Granby, eldest son of John, third Duke of Rutland, and
twenty-fourth in paternal descent from Sir Robert de Manners, the patriarch of
his family, was born January the 2d, ] 720-21. He was educated at Eton School,
and at Trinity College, Cambridge ; and on leaving the university, travelled
over Europe with Dr. Ewer, afterwards rector of Bottesford, and bishop of
LandafF. In Sept. 1750, he married Lady Frances Seymour, eldest daughter
of Charles, Duke of Somerset, by his second wife the Lady Charlotte Finch.
At an early period of life he evinced a warm attachment to the military service,
which he entered into on attaining sufficient age, and in which he soon distin-
guished himself by his patriotism, as well as by his love of arms. In the year
1745, Prince Charles, the son of "the Pretender," effected a landing on the
coast of Lockabar, in Scotland, and in a few weeks, having subdued the greater
part of Scotland, led the rebel army triumphantly as far as the town of Derby,
and threatened the English metropolis itself. At this time Lord Granby raised
a regiment of foot at his own expence, and disciplined it with the utmost
promptitude. He was then one of the representatives in the British senate

for the borough of Grantham, which he faithfully served in three successive

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