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Persoonlijke gegevens Robert DARCY 

• Hij is geboren op 17 mei 1718 in London, Middlesex.
• Titel: 4th Earl of Holderness, Lord Darcy and Conyers
• Hij is overleden op 16 mei 1778 in Syon Hill, Middlesex, hij was toen 59 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Robert DARCY en Frederica Susanna von SCHOMBERG

Gezin van Robert DARCY

Hij is getrouwd met Mary DOUBLET.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 29 oktober 1743, hij was toen 25 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Amelia DARCY  1754-1784 

Notities over Robert DARCY

Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness PC (17 May 1718 - 16 May 1778), known before 1721 as Lord Darcy and Conyers, was a British diplomat and politician.

In 1741 he collaborated with G.F. Handel in the production of Deidamia. From 1744 to 1746 he was ambassador at Venice and from 1749 to 1751 he represented his country at The Hague. In 1751 he became Secretary of State for the Southern Department, transferring in 1754 to the Northern Department, and he remained in office until March 1761, when he was dismissed by King George III in favour of Lord Bute, although he had largely been a cipher in that position to the stronger personalities of his colleagues, successively the Duke of Newcastle, Thomas Robinson, Henry Fox, and William Pitt the Elder. From 1771 to 1776 he acted as governor to two of the King's sons, a solemn phantom as Horace Walpole calls him. He left no sons who survived childhood, and all his titles became extinct except the Baronies of Darcy (de Knayth) and Conyers, which were Baronies by Writ, and the Portuguese countship of Mértola. In those peerages he was succeeded by his daughter, Amelia Osborne, Marchioness of Carmarthen.

David Hume wrote, "It is remarkable that this family of d'Arcy seems to be the only male descendant of any of the Conqueror's barons now remaining among the Peers. Lord Holdernessae is the heir of that family".

Family
On 29 October 1743, Darcy married Mary Doublet, daughter of Francis Doublet and Constantia Van-der-Beck. The couple had three children, only one of whom survived childhood:

George Darcy, Lord Darcy and Conyers (September 1745 - 27 September 1747)
Thomas Darcy, Lord Darcy and Conyers (born and died 1750), buried 29th of July 1750 in the Great or St. James Church in The Hague, the Netherlands
Lady Amelia Darcy (12 October 1754 - 27 January 1784); married firstly Francis Osborne, Marquess of Carmarthen, and had issue. They couple divorced in 1779. She married secondly John "Mad Jack" Byron, father of Lord Byron, and had one daughter, Augusta Leigh.
SOURCE: Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Darcy,_4th_Earl_of_Holderness

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