Other Events:

• Administration: 4 June 1720
• Administration: 10 July 1728

Notes:

She was "A lady of sweet temper, strict virtue, exemplary piety, goodness and condescension." (Hearne's Collections, volume viii, page 111). V.G.

Mary married William (Greville), 7th Baron Brooke of Beauchamps Court on 8 Nov. 1716 in Leweston chapel, Leweston, Dorset, England. William (son of Hon. Francis Greville and Lady Anne Wilmot) was born circa 1694; died on 28 July 1727 in Poland Street, London, Middlesex, England; was buried in St. Mary's, Warwick, Warwickshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
He is said to have died aged 22 weeks and 6 days, which would mean that he died 1 April 1719, the day on which he stated to have been baptized.

Other Events:

• Occupation: Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (F.S.A.)
• Hereditary Title: From 28 July 1727 to 6 July 1773; 8th Baron Brooke of Beauchamps Court, co. Warwick [E., 1621]
• Office: From 1741 to 6 July 1773; Recorder of Warwick
• Hereditary Title: From 7 July 1746 to 6 July 1773; 1st Earl Brooke of Warwick Castle [G.B., 1746]
• Decoration: 29 March 1753; Knight of the Order of the Thistle (K.T.)
• Hereditary Title: From 13 Nov. 1759 to 6 July 1773; 1st Earl of Warwick [G.B., 1759]
• Probate: July 1773

Notes:

In the reign of George III, he acted with the Tories in the House of Lords.

Hereditary Title:
On 2 April 1760 he had a grant of "the crest anciently used by the Earls of Warwick," for himself "and his lawful descendants, being Earls of Warwick"—viz. a bear erect Argent, muzzled Gules, supporting a ragged staff of the first. His motto (not inappropriate for one who by Royal grant and not by descent from the old Earls of Warwick enjoyed not only their lands but their cognizance) was "Vix ea nostra voco." J. Horace Round remarks that the grant is based on the precedent of a similar one to the Dudley Earls of Warwick, by whom the well known Bear and Ragged Staff was borne as a crest; and calls attention to the fact that the "Bear and Ragged Staff was not the Crest of the Beauchamp Earls of Warwick (which was entirely different) but their Badge and the Supporter of their coat of Arms." With respect, however, to Ambrose (Dudley), Earl of Warwick, the case seems very different, as he was not only a descendant, but the senior representative of Richard (Beauchamp), Earl of Warwick, and was actually in remainder to the Earldom of Warwick, granted, in 1450, to (Richard Nevill) the said Earl Richard's son-in-law. It is to be observed that the crest of Beauchamp (viz. the demi swan, issuing out of a crest coronet) was early adopted, in lieu of that of Greville, by the Lords Brooke.

On 3 February 1767 he presented a petition to the House of Lords that he and his heirs should be enabled to use the title of Earl of Warwick only, with the rank of the patent of 7 July 1746, viz. that which conferred the Earldom of Brooke of Warwick Castle. (See Lords' Journals. No further proceedings appear to have been taken in the matter of this (not unreasonable) petition, though the granting thereof would remedy the anomaly of the family styling themselves "Earls of Warwick" (only) whilst taking precedence as "Earls Brooke.")