Accordingly he obtained a pension of £ 3000 a year and his wife, Lady Hester Grenville was created Baroness Chatham in her own right-although Pitt refused to accept a title himself.

Pitt married Lady Hester Grenville ( bef.

* Hester Stanhope, Viscountess Mahon ( 19 October 1755-20 July 1780 ), who married Viscount Mahon, later the 3rd Earl Stanhope, on 19 December 1774 ; three children, including the traveler and Arabist Lady Hester Stanhope.

* Chapman, Hester: Two Tudor Portraits: Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey and Lady Katherine Grey Jonathan Cape 1960

* Chapman, Hester ( 1962 ): Lady Jane Grey.

* Chapman, Hester ( 1962 ): Lady Jane Grey Jonathan Cape

He remained conscious, and composed, throughout the several hours of his dying, amongst his final words being " Remember me to your sister, Stanhope ", referring to his friend, the intrepid Near East Asia traveler Lady Hester Stanhope.

He wrote to Lady Hester to say he felt humiliated that Addington was a minister " and I am – nothing.

Resident Wardens included William Pitt the Younger ( whose niece Lady Hester Stanhope initiated the castle's gardens, using labour from the local militia ), the Duke of Wellington ( who died here ), Sir Winston Churchill and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother.

Famous Lords Warden have included Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, Sir Winston Churchill, William Pitt the Younger ( whose niece Lady Hester Stanhope first created the gardens ), and the Duke of Wellington ( of the Battle of Waterloo fame ).

He was the father of the great traveller and Arabist Lady Hester Stanhope and brother-in-law of William Pitt the Younger.

During the sessions of 1783 and 1784 he supported William Pitt the Younger, whose sister, Lady Hester Pitt, he married on 19 December 1774.

He married Lady Hester Pitt ( 19 October 1755 — 20 July 1780 ), daughter of Pitt the Elder, Prime Minister and 1st Earl of Chatham on 19 December 1774.

* Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope ( 1776 – 1839 ) traveller and Arabist.

Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope ( 12 March 1776 – 23 June 1839 ) was a British socialite, adventurer and traveler.

Hester Lucy Stanhope was the eldest child of Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope by his first wife Lady Hester Pitt.

Lady Hester sat at the head of his table and assisted in welcoming his guests ; she became known for her beauty and conversational skills.

Lady Hester settled near Sidon, a town on the Mediterranean coast in what is now Lebanon, about halfway between Tyre and Beirut.

When Meryon left for England, Lady Hester moved to a remote abandoned monastery at Joun, a village eight miles from Sidon, where she lived until her death.

In 1846, some years after her death, Dr Meryon published three volumes of Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope as related by herself in Conversations with her Physician, and these were followed in the succeeding year by three volumes of Travels of Lady Hester Stanhope, forming the Completion of her Memoirs narrated by her Physician.

The couple had two daughters: Grisell, who married Sir Alexander Murray of Stanhope ; and Lady Rachel Binning.

A great deal is known about George and Grisell Baillie's marriage and family thanks to the biography written by their daughter, Lady Grisell Murray of Stanhope.

Katherine, Lady Stanhope, widow of Henry Stanhope, Lord Stanhope, eldest son of the first Earl of Chesterfield and father of the second Earl, was created Countess of Chesterfield for life in 1660.

* Lady Griselda Stanhope ( 1778 – 1851 ) ( married John Tickell ).

* Lady Lucy Rachel Stanhope ( 1780 – 1814 ) who eloped with Thomas Taylor of Sevenoaks, the family apothecary, and her father refused to be reconciled to her ; but Pitt made her husband Controller-General of Customs and his son was one of the Earl of Chatham's executors.

* Kirsten Ellis-Star of the Morning, The Extraordinary Life of Lady Hester Stanhope ( 2008 )

The complete Spanish name was Rio de Nuestra Señora de los Dolores ( River of our Lady of Sorrows ), as reported by Father Silvestre Vélez de Escalante in 1776.

* Lady Louisa FitzGerald ( 1772 – 1776 ).

Edward Cornwallis ( 5 Mar 1713 – 14 Jan 1776 ), son of Charles Cornwallis, 4th Baron Cornwallis of Eye and Lady Charlotte Butler, in 1763

** 12th daughter ( 14 November 1717-30 April 1776 ), personal name unknown, born to Lady Qi, granted the title of a junzhu ( 郡主 ).

Lady Morgan ( Sidney Owenson ) ( 1776 (?

* Lady Susan Maria Howard ( 1776 – 1783 )

** Daughter ( 24 June 1708-11 January 1776 ), personal name unknown, born to Lady Mao, married Sun Wufu ( 孫五福 ) in 1724.

Painting titled " Sir Francis and Lady Dashwood at West Wycombe Park ", painted in 1776, with the newly completed house behind the couple.

Franklin was attacked during the night of May 19, 1776 in the company of Lady Washington ( a small privateer schooner with a crew of 7 commanded by Joseph Cunningham ) by British boarders claiming to be friends from Boston ; Captain Mugford was killed in action.

After he escaped to Canada in May 1776 at the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War, Lady Johnson was detained that year by the Whigs of New York as a hostage for the good conduct of her husband.

The town of Glasgow ( c. 1776 ) set up a pair of beacons on Lady Isle to indicate the position of the anchorage, which was situated to the east or inshore, for the benefit of ships serving its merchants.

He married, secondly, Lady Charlotte Percy ( 3 June 1776 – 26 November 1862 ) on 25 July 1795.

Lady Louisa Conolly, by George Romney, 1776.

* Lady Georgiana Beauclerk ( 1776 – 17 October 1791 ), died unmarried at age 15.

* Lady Henrietta Godolphin ( d. 1776 ), married the 1st Duke of Newcastle, no issue