The Dukes of Buckingham and Chandos
Percy Grace
Born about 1789 or 1790, Percy Grace was a naval officer, and relative and friend of the first Duchess (Anna Eliza) and the first Duke (Richard Temple). He died in 1859.
Obituary: 11 May 1859 Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke. Published 1860, Rivingtons In Green-st., Grosvenor-sq., aged 70, Vice-Admiral Percy Grace. This gallant officer was midshipman of the Ganges, and served in the fleet under Lord Nelson at the battle of Copenhagen, in 1801, and of the Greyhound at the capture of the Pallas frigate, near Java, in 1806. He was acting lieutenant of the Piedmontaise, and was severely wounded while in action with the Malays in 1809; and assisted at the destruction of a brig of 16 guns and 136 men, under the batteries of Royan, in the boats of the Semiramis, of which ship he was lieutenant. Admiral Grace was named in the Gazette in 1806, and twice in 1811, for his valuable services. FamilyIt seems that Percy did not marry. Anna Eliza, the first Duchess, thought he should marry Charlotte Gamon (HEH STG Correspondence Box 4 (08)) and Richard Chandos teased Percy that Charlotte was in love with him: I saw Sir Richard [Gamon] when I was in Town and Charlotte who is deeply in love with you... I hope you write love letters to her. (HEH STG Correspondence Box 5 (13); 11 August 1818) His brother was Sheffield Grace, the antiquarian. A sister is mentioned in one letter "I thought your Sister being at Cheltenham would have induced you to have made a longer stay there" (Anna Eliza Brydges to Percy Grace; 30 November 1827; HEH STG Correspondence Box 4 (20)). Gentlemans Magazine 1822 Richard Grace, Esq. M. P. the very accomplished subject of the foregoing lines, was eldest son of William Grace (by Mary daughter and heir of Richard Harford of Marshfield near Dublin), who was third son of Michael Grace of Gracefield, the son and heir of Olive, race, Esq. who died 1708. He died at Southville on the 9th of January 1801, leaving issue by Jane, daughter of the Honourable John Evans, son of George Lord Carbery, three sons; viz. Sir William Grace, Bart.; Sheffield Grace of Lincoln's Inn, F.S.A.; Capt. Percy Grace of H. M. ship Cyrenè. Sir William Grace succeeded in 1818 to the baronetage of his kinsman Sir Richard G. Gamon, M.P. for Winchester, who left no male issue by his wife Lady Amelia, daughter of John Murray, 3d Duke of Athol, K.T. Sir Richard's only sister, Anna Eliza, married James Brydges, the last Duke of Chandos, and had a daughter, Lady Anna-Eliza, married to Richard Grenville, Duke of Buckingham and Chandos. It may be added, that Clara-Louisa, the only sister of Richard Grace, married William Middleton of Stockeld Park, whose eldest son Peter married the Hon. Juliana Stourton, daughter of Charles Philip 16th Lord Stourton. Ireland: its scenery and character, &c. Mr & Mrs S.C. Hall. London. 1842 North-west of Kilkenny, and almost on the borders of the county, is the small village of Tullaroan, which now consists of a few poor cabins. In ancient times, however, it was a place of great importance; being in the centre of the once extensive cantred [a district of one hundred villages] of the "Grace's Country". The ancestors of the family held it is said, in this and the adjoining counties, a tract of land of about 80,000 Irish acres, extending between eleven and twelve miles in length, and between four and six in breadth, of which a small proportion is still the property of Captain Percy Grace R.N., the representative of "the ancient and heroic race." […]* * A work of much interest, and manifesting great research, was a few years ago privately printed by Sheffield Grace, Esq. F.S.A., the younger brother of Captain Percy Grace. It is entitled, "Memoirs of the Grace Family". See also |
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