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    reward of merity having been bestowed on him when a child . He was one of the sons of Charles the Second . His mother was Mrs * Palmer , whom Charles is said to

    have seduced immediately on his arrival in London , while the outwitted Presbyterians were blessing themselves for having restored a praying kingy whom the Episcopalians were preparing , in their

    liturgy , to call most religious . This profligate monarch solaced the dishonour of the husband by the grant of an earldom , -and created the wife Duchess of Cleveland * She was , according to

    Burnett , " a woman of great beau - tyy but most enormously vicious and ravenous ; foolish , but

    imperious ; very uneasy to the king , and always carrying on intrigues with other men , while yet she pretended to be jealous of him . " O . T . FoK i . 94 .

    The first Duke of Grafton , however , appears to have acted . in political life , in a better manner than might have been expected from such an origin . The histo

    nan , just quoted , who was no flatterer , describes him as u a gallant but rough man , " and adds , that the desertion of " Lord Churchill and the Duke of Graf .

    ton" w ^ s * ' the last and most confounding stroke 9 f to . James . " The Kiag took notice of somewhat in the Duke ' s behaviour that looked factious : and he said he was sure

    he could not pretend to act upon principles of conscience ; for he had been so ill-bred , that as he knew little of religion so he

    regarded it less- But he answered the King that , though he had little Conscience yet he was of a party that had conscience" ( Id . i . 791 , ) . fkiB AObkrmaa was killed in 1690 ,

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    at the age of 27 , while fighting for the Revolution Government , at the siege of Cork . The second Duke of Grafton is represented to have supported

    Whig principles , but makes no an . pearance in the political history of his time , except that he was one of the Viceroys of Ireland , Augustus Henry Fitzroy , the third Duke , was born in 1735 .

    He was first educated at Clapton School , then under the care of the Rev . Dr . Newcomhe . From thence he removed to St . Peter ' s College Cambridge , where he completed u very liberal education , though

    he does not appear to have taken any degree . In 1756 , he was appointed Lord of the Bedchamber to the present King / then Prince of Wales . The same year , he married his first Duchess , who thus became a sacrifice to an ambition not singular in high life , if

    the story be true that she was pie * viously attached to the nobleinan whom she married immediately after the Duke ' s divorce . In 1757 , the subject of this Obituary succeeded to the Dukedom on the

    death of Ijis grandfather . In 1765 , he became principal Secretary of State , and from 1766 to 1770 First Lord of the Treasury and Prime Minister , in which character he incurred the severe

    animadversions of the able , but still unknown , Junius . During the Duke ' s Premiershi p , in 1768 , he was chosen Chancel , lor of the University of Cambridge , and took an early opportunity of without

    paying a tribute to Genius , a statenian ' s usual regard to P * " tical considerations . 4 i The Duk « of Grafton , " says Mr . Wakefield , ( Gray , p . 165 , ) " with a disinterestedness aud roagnaniflHty * ^

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    54 * Obituary . *—Duice of Grafton .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1811, page 246, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2415/page/54/