Earl of Lovelace
Earldom of Lovelace | |
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Subsidiary titles | Viscount Ockham Baron King |
Status | Extinct |
Extinction date | 31 January 2018 |
Motto | LABOR IPSE VOLUPTAS (Labour itself is a pleasure) |
Earl of Lovelace was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1838 for William King-Noel, 8th Baron King, a title created in 1725.
History
The King or Locke King family stems from the son of Jerome King, a grocer, of
He was succeeded by his eldest son (the second Baron) who represented
In 1835, the eighth Baron married as his first wife the Hon.
At his death in 1893, the 1st Earl of Lovelace was succeeded by his second son Ralph (1839–1906), who was then already the 13th Baron Wentworth. In 1861, Ralph had assumed by Royal licence the surname of Milbanke in lieu of Noel.
The 2nd Earl of Lovelace had no sons and was succeeded in the barony of Wentworth by his only child,
In 1895, the 3rd Earl of Lovelace had received for himself only Royal licence to use the additional surname and arms of Noel, but resumed by Royal licence, in 1908, the surname and arms of King only for himself and his children. He served in the
The titles were finally held by his grandson, the 5th Earl (1951–2018), who succeeded his father in 1964 and died in 2018.[5] As there were no heirs to the earldom of Lovelace, to the viscountcy of Ockham and to the barony of King of Ockham, these all became extinct at his death.[6]
Family seats
The family seat following its purchase by the 1st Lord King was Ockham Park, Ockham, Surrey until the fine Jacobean house was reduced to outbuildings in a fire in 1948. The family then moved its main home to Torridon House, near Torridon in Ross-shire.
After the
The traditional burial place of the Earls of Lovelace was at Martin's Church, East Horsley. The 1st Earl is buried in a mausoleum in a corner of the churchyard, the 2nd Earl was cremated at Woking Crematorium (his ashes are buried in the King Chapel of All Saints' Church, Ockham), while the 3rd Earl and his wife Edith († 1932), the 4th Earl and his wife Doris († 1940) as well as the Lovelace daughters Lady Diana de Hosszu († 1955) and Lady Penelope Allen († 1947) rest in the churchyard of Martin's, where the "Lovelace Plot" was set apart for “myself, my heirs and (...) the exclusive right in perpetuity of burial and placing monuments and gravestones” by the 3rd Earl in 1909.[8]
Barons King (1725) (of Ockham)[n 4]
- Peter King, 1st Baron King (1669–1734)
- John King, 2nd Baron King (1706–1740)
- Peter King, 3rd Baron King (1709–1754)
- William King, 4th Baron King (1711–1767)
- Thomas King, 5th Baron King (1712–1779)
- Peter King, 6th Baron King (1736–1793)
- Peter King, 7th Baron King (1776–1833)
- William King, 8th Baron King (1805–1893) (created Earl of Lovelace in 1838)
Earls of Lovelace (1838)
- William King-Noel, 1st Earl of Lovelace (1805–1893)
- Byron King-Noel, Viscount Ockham (1836–1862), his eldest son; also 12th Baron Wentworth
- his only daughter
- MajorLionel King, 3rd Earl of Lovelace (1865–1929), his younger half-brother
- Peter King, 4th Earl of Lovelace (1905–1964), his only son
- Peter King, 5th Earl of Lovelace (1951–2018), his only child
Notable family members
Notable wives
Notable younger sons and their sons
The Hon. Peter King, second son of the seventh Lord King (and brother of the first Earl of Lovelace), was a long-serving progressive politician who bought Brooklands and the father of Hugh F. Locke King, the entrepreneur who transformed it into a pioneering racetrack and aviation centre from the year 1906 onwards.
The family had no male heirs.[6] Hugh died without children in 1926 and his elder brother Peter died in middle age in 1885 in Aston without sons.
Descendants of the 1st Earl of Lovelace
- Ada Augusta Byronnée Noel (1815–1852) (1) ∞ Jane Crawford Jenkins (2)
- Byron King-Noel, Viscount Ockham (1836–1862), also 12th Baron Wentworth (1860–1862), deserted Royal Navy
- Wilfred Scawen Blunt, poet
- Neville Stephen Bulwer-Lytton, 3rd Earl of Lytton (1879–1951), see Earl of Lyttonfor her title's current vesting into Earldom
- Noel Anthony Scawen Lytton, 4th Earl of Lytton and 17th Baron Wentworth (1900–1985) ∞ Clarissa Palmer
- Lady Caroline Mary Noel Lytton (1947–2017)
- John Peter Michael Scawen Lytton, 5th Earl of Lytton and 18th Baron Wentworth (b. 1950) ∞ Ursula Alexandra Komoly
- Hon. (Thomas) Roland Cyril Lawrence Lytton (b. 1954)
- Lady Lucy Mary Frances Lytton (b. 1957)
- Lady Sarah Teresa Mary Lytton (b. 1959)
- Lady Anne Lytton (1901–1979)
- Lady Winifred Lytton (b.1904–1985) ∞ Claude Tryon
- Noel Anthony Scawen Lytton, 4th Earl of Lytton and 17th Baron Wentworth (1900–1985) ∞ Clarissa Palmer
- Ralph Gordon Noel King, 2nd Earl of Lovelace, 13th Baron Wentworth - extended Noel King name twice (1839–1906) ∞ Fannie Heriot d. 1878 (1) ∞ Mary Caroline Stuart-Wortley (2)
- Lady Ada Mary King-Milbanke, 14th Baroness Wentworth(1871–1917)
- Lady
- Major Lionel Fortescue King, 3rd Earl of Lovelace (1865–1929) DSO(son by second marriage) ∞ Lady Edith Anson
- Peter Malcolm King, 4th Earl of Lovelace (1905–1964) ∞ Doris Evison (1) died 1940 ∞ Lis Manon Transö (2)
- Lady Evelyn Catherine King (1896–1974) ∞ Maj.-Gen. Sir Miles Graham, divorced 1930 (1) ∞ Mark Patrick (2) and had issue
- Lady Phyllis Edith King (1897–1947) ∞ William Allen, divorced 1932 and had issue
- Lady Rosemary Diana King (1902–1955) ∞ Lt.-Col. Alistair Gibb, divorced 1940 (1) ∞ Martin de Hosszu (2)[12]
Notes
- ^ Her father was Peter Locke.
- ^ a widow
- ^ With its wide remainder, the 14th Baroness was succeeded by her aunt Anne Blunt, 15th Baroness Wentworth, daughter of the first Earl; see the Baron Wentworth for later history of this title
- life peerages.
References
- ^ "No. 6377". The London Gazette. 1 June 1725. p. 1.
- ^ "No. 19629". The London Gazette. 26 June 1838. p. 1445.
- ^ St Martin's Church
- ^ Exploring Surrey's Past
- ^ "Earl of Lovelace dies at Highland home, aged 66". The Press and Journal. 5 February 2018.
- ^ a b Lovelace, Earl of (UK, 1838) – website Cracroft's Peerage
- ^ See All Saints' Church, Ockham, Surrey
- ^ Keith Michel: The Lovelace Story – A Short History, January 2019 (online)
- .
- ^ "Ada Lovelace honoured by Google doodle", The Guardian, 10 December 2012, retrieved 10 December 2012.
- ^ Burke's Peerage, 107th Ed., 2003, London, vol. 2 page 2417
Sources
- Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages [better source needed]