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Montague, Earl of Halifax, and dying 10 March, 1736, left issue by her a dau., ELIZABETH, who m. 1st, Lord Augustus Fitzroy, second son of Charles, second Duke of Grafton,* and 2ndly, James Jefferys. She dying 21 Dec. 1788, left by her first husband a son, AUGUSTUS-CHARLES FITZROY, third Duke of Grafton, who m. 29 Jan. 1756, Anne Liddell, dau. and sole heir of Henry, Lord Ravenscroft, by whom he had issue, i.
GEORGE-HENRY, fourth Duke of Grafton, who m. Charlotte, dau. of James, third. Earl of Waldegrave, by whom he had a son, Henry Fitzroy, Earl of Euston, the present Duke of Grafton. IX Charles, a general in the army, and colonel of the 48th Regiment of Foot, m. 20 June, 1795, Frances, dau. of Edward Millar Munday, †of Shepley, co. Derby, the issue of which marriage was a son,
Sir Charles-Augustus Fitzroy, K.H., the present commander-inchief of the Leeward Islands, born 10 June, 1796, m. Lady Mary Lennox, dau. of Charles, fourth Duke of Richmond, by which marriage he has issue.
No. 18. GENEALOGY OF THE WILLOUGHBY FAMILY. THE Willoughby family trace from a long line of noble ancestors, the first of whom known in England was SIR JOHN DE WILLOUGHBY, one of the followers of William, Duke of Normandy, who, on the conquest of England, gave to him the lordship
* Henry, the father of this Charles, was the first Duke of Grafton, so created 11 Sept. 1 675. He was mortally wounded by a shot, that broke two of his ribs while heading a party in an assault upon the city of Cork, 21 Sept. 1090, and of which he died, 9 Oct. following. Hs son, Charles, (the second Duke of Grafton,) had two sons, who dying in his lifetime, (the erdest, George, Earl of Euston, s. p.,) he was succeeded in his title by his grandson, the son of Lord Augustus Fitzroy, by his wife, Elizabeth Crosby, of whose marriage mention is made in Oldmixon's " History of the British Empire," vol. i. p. 260 : — " Judge Morris makes mention of Lord Augustus Fitzroy being at New York, where was then a man of-war, on board of which that lord had a command, and while he was in this city, he took to wife a dau. of the governor, (Brigadier-General Crosby,) an agreeable young lady." We need hardly repeat, this lady was the greatgrandmother of the present commander-in-chief, Sir C. A. Fitzroy. t W illiam Munday, of Marktnton, co. Derby, Esq., another member of this family, m. Harriott-Geor giana, dau. of James Frampton, of Moreton, co. Doiset, Esq., and grauddau. of Fhillis Byam, an heiress of the island of Antigua.