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STRANGE.
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Barony by Writ.

I.(ter) 1628.

1. JAMES STANLEY who had been (erroneously styled LORD STRANGE, B. and h. ap. of William (STANLEY), 6th (XVth) EARL OF DERBY, was sum, to Parl. v.p. as LORD STRANGE by writs, 7 March (1627/8), 3 Car. I, to 3 Nov. (1639). 15 Car. I., directed "Jacoba Stanley de Strange, Chl'r," under the mistaken belief that the Barony of Strange de Knokin (cr. by writ, 1299), was vested in his father,[1] and was accordingly (in error) placed in the precedency of that ancient Barony.[2] On the death of his father, 29 Sep. 1642, he suc. as 7th (XVIth) EARL OF DERBY. He was beheaded for his fidelity to the Royal cause, 3 Sep. 1651, aged 46.

II. 1651.

2. CHARLES (STANLEY), EARL OF DERBY [1485], and LORD STRANGE [1628], s. and h., b. 19 Jan. 1628 styled LORD STRANGE till he suc. to the peerage, as above, 3 Sep. 1651. He d. 21 Dec. 1672, aged 44.

III. 1672, to 1702,

3. WILLIAM GEORGE RICHARD (STANLEY),

EARL OF DERBY [1485], and Lord STRANGE [1628], s. and h., b. about 1655; styled LORD STRANGE till he suc.to the peerage, as above, 21 Dec. 1672. He d. s.p.m.s, 5 Nov. 1702, aged about 47, when the Barony of Strange fell into aeryance.[3]

[JAMES STANLEY, styled LORD STRANGE, only s. and h. ap., b. 28 and bap. 29 June 1680, at Knowsley chapel; d. v.p. and unm. shortly before 17 Oct. 1699,[4] of small pox, at Naples or Venice, and was bur. 14 April 1700, at Ormskirk.]

IV. 1714.

See fuller particulars under "DERBY" Earldom, cr. 1485, sub the 7th, 8th, and 9th Earls.

4. HENRIETTA, BARONESS ASHBURNHAM, and, by inheri tance. BARONESS STRANGE, 1st da. and on the death of her only sister, 23 April 1714, sole heir of the said EARL OF DERBY, 4th LORD STRANGE, abovenamed, by Elizabeth, sister of James, 2d DUKE OF ORMOND, da. of Thomas BUTLER, styled EARL OF OSSORY. She was h, about 1688; m. 21 May 1706. John (ANNESLEY). 4th EARL OF ANGLESEY, who d. s.p.m.s., 18 Sep. 1710, and was bur, at Farnborough, co. Hauts, aged 31. She m. secondly 24 July 1714, at the Chapel Royal, Whitehall, as the second of his three wives, John (ASHBURNHAM, 3d BARON ASHBURNHAM, who, after her death, became (1730) 1st EARL OF ASHBURNHAM, and who d. 10 March 1736/7, in his 49th year, being bur, at Ashburnham, co., Sussex. She d. s.p.m. 26 June 1718, in her 31st year, and was bur. at Ashburnham.

V. 1718. 5. HENRIETTA BRIDGET, by inheritance BARONESS STRANGE, but usually styled LADY HENRIETTA BRIDGET ASHBURNHAM, 2d but

only surv. da.[5] and heir of her mother, being her only child by her second husband,

  1. ↑ (a) That Barony had vested in his cousins, the daughters and coheirs of his father's eldest br., Ferdinando (Stanley), 5th Earl of Derby, who had d. s.p.m., 16 April 194. See vol. iii, p. 72, note "f," under "Derby."
  2. ↑ (b) See vol. i, p. 20, note "b" (circa finem), for account of precedence erroneously allowed at certain periods to this and other Baronies (Clifford and Percy) cr. by writs issued in inadvertence. As to the place allowed to this Barony, the L. President declared, 7 June 1628, "that the Heralds have ranked the said James in the place of the ancient Barony of Strange. Accordingly, 20 Jan. (1628/9), Car. I., he was placed "proximus post sedem Domini Percie," but it was ordered that the said writ and rank was not to prejudice Aune, Countess of Castlehaven, or any claiming as heir of Ferdinando, late Earl of Derby.
  3. ↑ (c) The coheirs were his two daughters (1) Henrietta, the survivor, who in 1714 inherited the Barony (2) Elizabeth, d. umm., 23 April, and was bur. 1 May 1714, in Westm. Abbey, aged 17.
  4. ↑ (d) Luttrell's Diary" of that date.
  5. ↑ (e) Her elder sister, of the half-blood, was Lady Elizabeth Annesley, only child of
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