It dates from Lord Chesterfield's building of the State Apartments in the 1740s, and was intended for use as a supper room adjoining St. Patrick's Hall and as a personal dining room.

In April 1754 Townshend was transformed from the position of a member of the Board of Trade, which he had held from 1749, to that of a Lord of the Admiralty, but at the close of 1755 his passionate attack against the policy of the ministry, an attack which shared in popular estimation with the scathing denunciations of Pitt, the supreme success of Single-Speech Hamilton, and the hopeless failure of Lord Chesterfield's illegitimate son, caused his resignation.

In 1751, seconded by Lord Macclesfield, president of the Royal Society, and James Bradley, the eminent mathematician, he distinguished himself greatly in the debates on the calendar, and succeeded in making the new style a fact: the Act of Parliament is sometimes known as Chesterfield's Act.

Chesterfield's " respectable Hottentot ," now identified with George, Lord Lyttelton, was long supposed, though on slender grounds, to be a portrait of Johnson.

Furthermore, in 2002, Bligh's great-great-grandson Lord Clifton, the heir-apparent to the Earldom of Darnley, argued that the Ashes urn should not be returned to Australia because it belonged to his family and was given to the MCC only for safe keeping.

* Richard Wilberforce, Baron Wilberforce ( 1907 – 2003 ), great-great-grandson of William Wilberforce, famous Law Lord

# David Whitney Erskine Russell, 5th Baron Ampthill ( b. 1947 ), great-great-grandson of Odo William Leopold Russell, 1st Baron Ampthill, younger brother of the 9th Duke and third and youngest son of Maj .- Gen. Lord Sir George William Russell

# Alexander Charles Thomas Wriothesley Russell ( b. 1950 ), great-great-grandson of Lt .- Col. Lord Charles James Fox Russell, seventh son of the 6th Duke

* The Lord Yi Myeong-bok ( Jaehwang ) ( 李命福 이명복 Yi Myeong-bok ), second son of Prince Heungseon, a great-great-grandson of Yeongjo ( 1852 – 1863 )

* John Egerton, 6th Duke of Sutherland ( 1915 – 2000 ), already 5th Earl of Ellesmere, great-great-grandson of Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere ( previously Lord Francis Leveson-Gower ), third son of the 1st Duke, died without issue

His great-great-grandson, the fifth Baron, served as Lord Lieutenant of Kent.

His great-great-grandson, the fifth Lord, was an author and economist.

The thirteenth Lord, his son the fourteenth Lord, grandson the fifteenth Lord, great-grandson the sixteenth Lord, and great-great-grandson the seventeenth Lord, all sat in the House of Lords as Scottish Representative Peers.

His grandson, the ninth Lord, and great-great-grandson, the twelfth Lord, sat in the House of Lords as Scottish Representative Peers.

His great-great-grandson was Albert Kirby Fairfax, the twelfth Lord, who lived in Maryland in the United States.

His great-great-grandson, the fifth Lord, was a Brigadier-General in the Army and fought in North America during the Seven Years ' War.

the titles are held by the tenth Lord's great-great-grandson, the fourteenth Lord, who succeeded his father in 1997.

His great-great-grandson, the third Lord, was killed at the Battle of Pinkie in 1547 ( his father Alan Cathcart, Master of Cathcart, was one of many Scottish noblemen killed at the Battle of Flodden in 1513 ).

Lord Southampton was also the great-great-grandson ( through an illegitimate line ) of King Charles II by his mistress Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland.

Hungarian-born Huba Campbell ( born 1945 ), a third cousin once removed from the tenth Earl, has petitioned the Lord Lyon for recognition of his right to the Earldom of Breadalbane and Holland, together with the subsidiary titles, and to the undifferenced arms, this as the great-great-grandson of George Campbell, brother of George Andrew Campbell ( 1791 – 1852 ), brother of Charles William Campbell of Borland, grandfather of the ninth Earl.

In 1835 his great-great-grandson William King ( 1805-1893 ), married the only daughter of Lord Byron and was later created Earl of Lovelace.

In the 1920s the private papers of James Boswell were discovered in the castle, and sold to American collector Ralph H. Isham by Boswell's great-great-grandson Lord Talbot of Malahide.

This role was taken in the first two series by Lord Percy Percy, played by Tim McInnerny, with Hugh Laurie playing the role in the third and fourth series, as Prince George, Prince Regent, and Lieutenant George, respectively.

The work consists of four ‘ books ’, the first addressed to the Queen, the second to Leicester, the third to Lord Burghley, and the fourth to Oxford, Sir Christopher Hatton, and Leicester's nephew Philip Sidney, with whom he would famously quarrel.

The third earl was succeeded by his grandson, the fourth Earl, who was the eldest son of George Gordon, Lord Haddo.

The Lords of the Isles ruled the Inner Hebrides as well as part of the Western Highlands as subjects of the King of Scots until John MacDonald, fourth Lord of the Isles, squandered the family's powerful position.

The chief officer of the body is the Lord President of the Council, who is the fourth highest Great Officer of State, a member of the Cabinet, and normally, the Leader of either the House of Lords or the House of Commons.

* March 25 – The first settlers arrive in St. Mary's City, Maryland ( led by Lord Baltimore ), the fourth permanent settlement in British North America.

Salisbury's fourth son Sir Thomas Neville, and his son in law William, Lord Harington, also died in the battle.

An essay that was prepared as one of the appendices to The Lord of the Rings but became compressed contains a reference to currency of the South-kingdom: " In Gondor word tharni was used for a silver coin, the fourth part of the castar ( in the canath or fourth part of the mirian ).

His fourth son Sir Cyril, Baron Asquith of Bishopstone ( 1890 – 1954 ) became a Law Lord.

In the Tonalpohualli ( a 260 day sacred calendar used by many ancient Mesoamerican cultures ), Centeotl is the Lord of the Day for days with number seven and he is the fourth Lord of the Night.

In the 1730s, Streatham Park, a Georgian country mansion, was built by the brewer Ralph Thrale on land he bought from the Lord of the Manor-the fourth Duke of Bedford.

His mother was Lady Anne Grey, fourth daughter of Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent and his father was Lord Charles Cavendish, third son of William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire. The family traces its lineage across eight centuries to Norman times and was closely connected to many aristocratic families of Great Britain.

Lord John Cavendish, fourth son of the third Duke, was a politician and served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1782 and 1783.

Lord Richard Cavendish, second son of the fourth Duke, represented Lancaster and Derbyshire in the House of Commons.

Lord Edward Cavendish, fourth and youngest son of the seventh Duke, sat as Member of Parliament for several constituencies.

The three internal spiral staircases, based on Palladian precedent, were not intended to be accessed by Lord Burlington's guests, and were used only by the house servants ; a dumb waiter was installed in place of the fourth internal staircase.

In 1727, John Digges, an Irish nobleman of Prince George's County, Maryland, obtained a grant of of land where Hanover is now located from Charles Calvert, the fourth Lord Baltimore.

In 1810, upon the death of William Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry and 3rd Earl of March, he succeeded as fourth Earl of March, fourth Viscount of Peebles and fourth Lord Douglas of Neidpath, Lyne and Munard as the lineal heir male of the aforementioned Lady Anne Douglas, sister of the first Earl of March ( see below ).

In 1778 Lord March and Ruglen also succeeded his first cousin twice removed Charles Douglas, 3rd Duke of Queensberry, as fourth Duke of Queensberry.