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WILLIAM (third son of Sir William Mathew) was another distinguished officer in her Majesty's service, brigadier-general, and colonel in the Coldstream-guards, and served as second in command under Lord Peterborough, in the Peninsular wars. General Mathew acted as lieutgovernor of the Leeward Islands in 1730; and 13 Sept. 1752, was appointed captain-general, and commander-in-chief. He m. 1st, Anne, dau. of General Thomas Hill, Governor of Nevis, who died s. p. ; and 2ndly, , dau. of the Hon. Daniel Smith, President, and sometime governor of Nevis, a great heiress, possessing estates in St. Kitts, Nevis, and Antigua, by whom he had is;ue four sons,
William, died young. ii. Daniel, of Antigua, and Felix Hall, co. Essex, Esq., sometime highsheriff for that co. He m. at Antigua, 10 May, 1750, Mary, dau. of George Byam, and grandson of Governor Edward Byam, by whom he had issue,
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1. Daniel-Byam, of Felix Hall, and Antigua, m. Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Edward Deering, Bart., (by whom issue.) 2. George, m. Euphemia, dau. of John Hamilton, Esq., by whom he had issue a son, George, captain in the Coldstream-guards, and late M.P. for Shaftesbury, m. in 1835, the dau. and heir of the celebrated antiquary, Sir Richard-Colt Hoare, Bart., and has issue a son, born 5 March, 1839. 1. Mary, m. to James, Lord Gambier, K.C.B., admiral. 2. Jane, m. to Samuel Gambier, commissioner in the navy. 3. Elizabeth, m. in 1779, to Robert-Monckton Arundel, Viscount Galway, by whom, among other issue, she had William-George, the present viscount, born in 1782. in. Edward, major-general in the army, and governor of Grenada, and sometime equerry to the Queen's household, m. 31 March, 1743; Lady Jane Bertie, dau, of the third Duke of Ancaster,* and by her (who died 21 July, 1793) had issue, 1. Mathew, born 11 Sept. 1762, 2. Jane, m. 30 Aug. 1776, Thomas Maitland, of Herts, Esq. iv. Abednego, m. , and had issue two daus., the second of which, Mary-Buckly, m. Hugh, Viscount Carlton. * The three only daus. of this third Duke of Ancaster m. West Indians : Lady Mary Bertie, the eldest, was united to Samuel Greathead, Esq. of Guy's Cliff, and M.P. for Coventry, and died 13 May, 1774 ; Albemia, the second dau. of his Grace, m. Frances Beckford, Esq., and died 12 Feb. 1754 ; and Jane, (as already seen,) m. Major Gen. Edward Mathew, and had issue a son, Brownlow-Bertie Mathew, who assumed the name and arms of BERTIE, in accordance with the will of his maternal ancle, Brownlow, last Duke of Ancaster, and Marquess of Lindsey.